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New powers allow health regulator to ban unregistered practitioners
- July 3, 2024
- Category: News
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
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Government initiatives to strengthen nursing workforce in primary care
- July 26, 2024
- Category: News
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Education, Nurse Practitioners, Students
Peak nursing bodies have welcomed initiatives to bolster the workforce in primary care, including the national program to increase student nursing placements in primary care. The federal government announced $4.2 million for the National Nurse
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Australia facing shortfall of over 70,000 nurses by 2035, report reveals
- July 26, 2024
- Category: News
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Australia is facing a shortage of more than 70,000 nurses by 2035, according to national projections revealed in the Department of Health and Aged Care’s Nursing Supply and Demand Study. The study used data collected
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Nurses on the frontline of Australia’s AIDS crisis
- July 24, 2024
- Category: Digital Health, News
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Indigenous
A new book chronicles the role nurses played during the AIDS pandemic after the emergence of HIV, and how unions drove infection control policy, including universal precautions. “HIV and AIDS devastated communities across Australia in
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Privately practising midwives rally against potential restrictions to scope of practice
- July 23, 2024
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