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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

NEW ERA: Australian registered nurses empowered to prescribe
- April 24, 2025
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
In December 2024, Health Ministers approved a new Registration standard: Endorsement for scheduled medicines – designated registered nurse prescriber, paving the way for qualified registered nurses to prescribe Schedule 2, 3, 4 and 8 medicines

Skillset and preparedness resource for rural and remote: A research project
- April 22, 2025
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Rural And Remote
A Queensland rural and remote nurse is undertaking research to help establish the essential skills required for all nurses new to rural and remote to help in their preparedness, along with support. “I’m hoping the

Kids in chronic pain: A neglected issue
- April 17, 2025
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, chronic pain
Chronic pain in children is a significant yet under recognised global public health problem, with prevalence studies estimating that between 11% and 38% (mean 20.8%) of children live with chronic pain (pain lasting longer than

Midwifery Endorsement – not just for privately practising midwives
- April 15, 2025
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Since 2010, women and people giving birth have been able to access Medicare rebates for midwifery services, and some Medicare-funded pathology and radiology services provided by eligible midwives. To be eligible to apply for a
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