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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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University of Tasmania empowers nurses with Australia’s most flexible postgraduate nursing program
- December 16, 2025
- Category: Career & Practice, Sponsored Post
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
The University of Tasmania has officially launched its redesigned Advanced Nursing postgraduate program, a bold step forward in preparing nurses for leadership, expanded clinical roles, and interdisciplinary collaboration across Australia’s healthcare system. With more than 20 specialisations, including the newly
The Power of Persistence: How the ANMF’s advocacy laid the foundation for NPs in Australia
- October 16, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
The nurse practitioner (NP) role originated in the United States in the mid-1960s to address gaps in healthcare. But it took 35 years later, on 12 December 2000, for Jane O’Connell (emergency) and Sue Denison
Calling all primary healthcare nurses and midwives: Complete APNA’s 2024 Workforce Survey today
- October 15, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: Primary healthcare
For over 15 years, the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association’s annual Workforce Survey has provided a comprehensive snapshot of the working conditions and professional concerns faced by primary healthcare nurses and midwives working across
Enhancing clinical placement learning for nursing and midwifery students: A national quality assurance project
- October 14, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
The National Placement Evaluation Centre (NPEC) was established in 2018 to provide an Australian national approach to monitoring nursing and midwifery student evaluations of their professional experience placements (PEP). The lack of a national monitoring
Strength in numbers: 100 years of improving the working lives of nurses and midwives
- October 14, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
The working lives of nurses and midwives have undergone significant transformation over the past 100 years. In 1938, a typical staff nurse in Victoria earned just two pounds, four shillings, and four pence, for a
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