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- May 2, 2024
- Category: News
- / Tag: Industrial
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Queensland’s inaugural First Nations Midwifery Director driving the change towards culturally safe care
- May 2, 2024
- Category: Interviews
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Midwives
Latest Interviews
Queensland’s inaugural First Nations Midwifery Director driving the change towards culturally safe care
- May 2, 2024
- Tags: All Nurses And Midwives, Midwives
Proud Gurindji woman and midwife Melina Connors has recently been appointed Queensland’s inaugural First Nations Midwifery Director, a historic first not only for Queensland, but for all of Australia. She
Five of My Life: Podcaster Nigel Marsh unearths the stories of everyday nurses and midwives
- April 24, 2024
- Tags: Career
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) has partnered with acclaimed podcaster Nigel Marsh to launch a series featuring everyday nurses and midwives. The six-part podcast series follows the Five
Q&A: Australian College of Nurse Practitioners President Melanie Dunstan
- March 25, 2024
- Tags: Nurse Practitioner
Nursing has opened numerous doors for Melanie Dunstan throughout her career. But it was becoming a nurse practitioner that truly enabled her to deliver the greatest amount of care to
Latest Career & Practice
Celebrating nurses and midwives launches on international days – A podcast series exploring their lives
- May 3, 2024
- Tags: All Nurses And Midwives
In honour of International Day of the Midwife and International Nurses Day, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) is inviting you to learn more about the extraordinary lives and
Improving maternity care for First Nations women through midwife led models
- May 2, 2024
- Tags: All Nurses And Midwives
Sydney’s Westmead Hospital initiated Midwifery Group Practice (MGP)/caseload care, a decade ago, providing pregnant women with continuity of midwifery care. This gold-standard maternity care involves a team of midwives ensuring
Continuity of Care Programs in midwifery education support future midwives
- May 1, 2024
- Tags: All Nurses And Midwives
Continuity of care is where a woman* receives care from the same midwife, or team of midwives, throughout pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period.1 It is a marker of high-quality
Latest Digital Health
The cyber security impacts of Artificial Intelligence in nursing and midwifery
- April 11, 2024
- Tags: Digital health
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools become more widespread, particularly in sectors such as healthcare, the importance of cyber security protection measures will become even more paramount. To help clinicians understand
The Break Glass function in My Health Record: when and how to use it
- April 5, 2024
There are certain urgent situations where health professionals can legally access restricted information in a My Health Record to lessen or prevent a serious threat to a person’s health. This
Greater evidence reduces reliability of ChatGPT when used for health questions, study finds
- April 4, 2024
- Tags: Digital health
Asking a health-related question to ChatGPT? Well, you might be at risk, after a new study found that the more evidence the Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform is given, the less
Latest Grads & Students
Empowering Indigenous student nurses: A cadetship journey towards healthcare equity
- April 22, 2024
- Tags: All Nurses And Midwives
This piece reflects on the experience of an Indigenous Nursing Cadetship from the perspectives of an Indigenous Nursing Cadet, a Nurse Researcher, and an Executive Director of Nursing. There is
Collaboration between a hospital nursing education unit and a nursing school in Adelaide enhances nursing education for early-career nurses
- April 12, 2024
- Tags: All Nurses And Midwives
A collaboration between the Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) Early Career Transition Programs (ECTPs) team and the Adelaide Nursing School (ANS – University of Adelaide) has led to improvements
Researcher aims to address ‘placement poverty’ among university students
- April 10, 2024
- Tags: Placement poverty
Over the next year, Dr Amani Bell, an academic from the University of Sydney, will tackle one of Australian universities’ biggest challenges – the rise of financial hardship experienced by
Latest Research
‘Delivered by women, led by men’: Female nurses face major barriers to advance into leadership roles
- April 23, 2024
- Tags: Career
Female nurses aren’t getting the same opportunities to advance into leadership roles as men, a Monash University study has found. Comprehensively reviewing decades of data, researchers identified the collective sociocultural,
Latest AJAN published
- April 18, 2024
- Tags: All Nurses And Midwives
The Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, Vol 41 No 1 (2024): December 2023–February 2024 has just been published. The journal contains peer reviewed articles relevant to nurses and midwives. In
The OWL Project: Building nurses and midwives leadership skills, research, and evidence-based practice capabilities
- April 17, 2024
- Tags: All Nurses And Midwives
Translation of evidence to practice is a challenge for all clinical practitioners, and nurses and midwives are no exception.1 This challenge results in nurses and midwives finding themselves without the
Latest Justice & Action
‘No More Shame’ in disclosing and responding to violence and abuse of older women
- May 3, 2024
- Tags: All Nurses And Midwives
Violence against women, in Australia and internationally, is a longstanding and pernicious scourge on all communities. In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that one in three women globally
‘You are not alone’ supporting peace in Gaza
- April 15, 2024
- Tags: All Nurses And Midwives
Palestinians in Gaza are suffering one of the worst humanitarian crises of our times. Yet at the heart of Gaza there exists some relief amidst the chaos: the MA’AN Development
Time to apply the Northern Ireland blueprint for peace in Israel-Gaza
- April 11, 2024
- Tags: All Nurses And Midwives
Professor Megan-Jane Johnstone AO wrote a powerful article that was published online on 10 November 2023 in the ANMJ: “Bombing hospitals, destroying ambulances and the ethics of (un)just war”.1 Johnstone
Latest Wellbeing
Exercise prescriptions to help reduce depression
- April 14, 2024
- Tags: All Nurses And Midwives
Exercise can be a powerful tool to fight depression and should be routinely prescribed as part of treatment plans, according to Australian researchers. Activities such as walking, jogging, yoga and
Exercise caution when taking nutritional advice from social media influencers, study finds
- April 4, 2024
- Tags: All Nurses And Midwives
Researchers say Australians should think twice about taking dietary and nutritional advice from social media after a national audit of influencer posts revealed nearly half contained inaccurate information. Deakin University’s
Nurses poised to help shift dial in fight against obesity
- April 3, 2024
- Tags: Health & Wellbeing
Nurses and fellow health professionals have a critical role to play in helping the growing number of Australians experiencing severe weight issues, according to the nation’s peak body for obesity
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- March 13, 2024
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About the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation
The ANMJ is a proud publication of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation, the largest union in Australia with over 321,000 members.
The ANMF is run by nurses and midwives with the purpose of advancing the industrial, political and professional status of its members.
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