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Midwife helps pregnant women experiencing homelessness find a place to call home
- December 11, 2025
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives

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Supporting women through life’s moments
- February 6, 2026
- Category: Career & Practice, Sponsored Post
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
From career breaks to new beginnings, HESTA is here to help keep your super on track through each chapter. Women’s careers don’t always follow a traditional path. Families can grow, priorities can shift, and paid work can be reduced or
New fully-funded Graduate Diploma in Perinatal Mental Health aims to address clinician shortage
- November 21, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: Mental Health
Perinatal mental health organisation Gidget Foundation has partnered with Federation University to launch a fully-funded Graduate Diploma in Perinatal Mental Health in a bid to address a nationwide shortage of specialist clinicians working in the
Public health campaign: First Nations mums and bubs
- November 19, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses & Midwives, Maternity/Midwifery, Women’s health
A new public health campaign to improve pregnancy outcomes for First Nations mothers and their babies across the country has launched, with educational resources now available to midwives and nurses. The Preterm Birth Prevention ‘See,
Strength-based cultural care improves health outcomes for Aboriginal mothers and babies
- November 8, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders, All Nurses And Midwives
Aboriginal women have been mothering for more than 65,000 years, yet there is still a vast underrepresentation of Aboriginal health clinicians in the perinatal sector. This has run-on effects, with Aboriginal mothers struggling to find
Beyond judgement: A nursing perspective on obesity, medications, and the path to health
- November 1, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Recently, while waiting at a pharmacy, I witnessed an interaction that has stayed with me. A young man, around 30 years old, stood at the counter, visibly uncomfortable. He was breathless and sweating slightly, despite
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