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Nurses can’t stay silent on medicinal cannabis: A call for safer, smarter practice
- July 21, 2025
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
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Frailty – supporting better outcomes
- August 21, 2025
- Category: Career & Practice, Sponsored Post
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Frailty is a common, yet often under-recognised, condition in older people. It is estimated that at least 11% of community dwelling older Australians, and up to 75% of residents in aged care homes are living with frailty. Frailty is an

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

Q&A: Voluntary Assisted Dying Care Navigator Susan Jury
- October 3, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: Voluntary Assisted Dying
Nurse Susan Jury helped establish Victoria’s statewide voluntary assisted dying care navigator service in the lead up to landmark legislation coming into effect in June 2019. The statewide navigator service, which includes a multidisciplinary team
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