Public health measures taken in response to the COVID-19 pandemic led to a drop in overall Australian deaths in 2020, including from the coronavirus, a [...]
Around 37% of aged care nurses and carers are planning to leave their jobs in the next one to five years, according to the final [...]
Practitioners on the 2020 pandemic sub-register open to extend their registration
Two-payment bonus for aged care workers is “grossly inadequate”
Nurses and carers in aged care are being forced to pay for their own rapid antigen tests (RATs) to work in the sector which is [...]
As the Omicron wave spreads through private aged care facilities aged care nurses across the country are in moral distress and are burning out because [...]
Correct use of appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is part of any respiratory protection program to help reduce exposure to dangerous airborne particles including SARS-CoV-2, [...]
Unions and aged care providers have joined forces to call on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to deploy the Australian Defence Force (ADF) to provide emergency [...]
Victoria to commence “Pandemic Code Brown” to make best use of hospital resources as the system deals with staff shortages and increases in COVID-19 patients
