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Collaborative arrangements abolished, enabling NPs and endorsed midwives to work to full scope
- October 30, 2024
- Category: News
- / Tag: Midwifery, Nurse Practitioner
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Financial stress and your mental health
- November 7, 2024
- Category: Sponsored Post
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
A higher cost of living has increased financial hardship for many Australians. Since 2020, interest rates, mortgages and inflation have risen fast, but real wages have gone down [1]. Despite low unemployment, higher living costs are affecting our living standards.
Registered nurses given green light to prescribe medicines starting mid-2025
- December 13, 2024
- Category: News
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Registered nurses who complete extra education will be authorised to prescribe Schedule 2, 3, 4 and 8 medicines through a prescribing partnership with a nurse practitioner or doctor, starting in mid-2025, according to an announcement
Overweight overtakes tobacco as highest risk factor for disease
- December 13, 2024
- Category: News
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Living with overweight or obesity has overtaken tobacco smoking as the leading risk factor contributing to disease in 2024. Over one-third of the total burden of disease and injury in Australia in 2024 could have
Last call: nominate for HESTA nursing and midwifery awards
- December 13, 2024
- Category: News
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Career
Employers, colleagues, patients, family and friends have until this Sunday to nominate an exceptional nurse, midwife or healthcare organisation for the 2025 HESTA Australian Nursing & Midwifery Awards. Now in its 18th year, the awards honour
Endometriosis drug Visanne to be listed on the PBS, slashing annual cost in half
- December 2, 2024
- Category: News
- / Tag: Clinical placement
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