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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.
Electric scooter warning ahead of holiday season
- December 19, 2024
- Category: News
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Emergency nursing, Public health
Queensland’s paediatric trauma service team is urging caution with electric scooters this holiday season following a spike in serious injuries and fatalities this year. An e-scooter city-hire scheme was introduced in Brisbane in November 2018.
Wages, career progression, working to scope and sleep: Most read topics in 2024
- December 17, 2024
- Category: News
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Career
It’s been an exciting time for nursing and midwifery in 2024. There’s been some big announcements regarding advancements for the nursing and midwifery professions. And we’ve covered it all – the big, the small
Registered nurses given green light to prescribe medicines starting mid-2025
- December 13, 2024
- Category: News
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
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
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