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Primary Care Scholarship program boosts future nurse practitioners
- July 3, 2025
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: Nurse Practitioner, Primary care
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Supporting deprescribing with the AMH Aged Care Companion
- June 2, 2025
- Category: Career & Practice, Sponsored Post
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Optimising medicine use in older people is a complex balance between disease management and avoiding medicine-related problems As a person ages (particularly after the age of 70) they are more likely to have multiple chronic conditions, leading to the use

Continuity of Care Programs in midwifery education support future midwives
- May 1, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Continuity of care is where a woman* receives care from the same midwife, or team of midwives, throughout pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period.1 It is a marker of high-quality midwifery practice.2 The approach nurtures

Stress of notifications
- April 30, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Earlier this year I had the privilege of representing the ANMF at a symposium hosted by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Authority (Ahpra) exploring the distress and stress experienced by practitioners involved in a regulatory

Supporting women’s choices: The women’s health nurse
- April 22, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Women’s health is much more than reproductive and sexual health, says long-time women’s health nurse (WHN) Annette Heather. “As a women’s health nurse you need to have broad experience and understand all aspects of women’s

Innovation enables workforce growth and high-quality care at Western Health
- April 10, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Situated in a rapidly growing, diverse, and socioeconomically challenged corridor, Western Health (WH) services a community of over one million people. Article summary: Projections indicate a substantial proportion of Melbourne’s future population growth will occur
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