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Category Archives: Advocacy
No compromise on safe community care!
Community nurses are planning to take greater control over staffing to ensure adequate patient care. Working too much overtime, too busy to take meal breaks, then a staff member goes on annual leave and is not replaced – leaving you … Continue reading
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Tagged: australia national health system, australia nursing, NSWNA, nursing, nursing australia, nursing blogs, nursing in australia
International midwives
Tomorrow, Saturday 5 May, is International Midwives Day - check out the Virtual International Midwives Day site where you can join an international conversation on the day! IMD precedes International Nurses Day by a week. But it will be on Sunday … Continue reading
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Tagged: global midwives, International Midwives Day, midwives
Make it a reality – rally for a National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Most of us are aware that the disability system is in crisis. As a solution to the current hotpotch of uneven, unfair state-based systems, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was devised and recommended by the Productivity Commission in July 2011, … Continue reading
10,000 reasons to sign, only 2000 names to go…
The NSW Health Minister recently announced 60 scholarships to cover the $10,000 cost of the only accredited re-entry program for those who want to return to nursing but who don’t meet the new recency of practice requirement that has been … Continue reading
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Tagged: accreditation, petition, re-entry, recency of practice, scholarships
Threat to workers compensation!
The O’Farrell Government has threatened further attacks on workers’ rights through workers compensation benefits for those injured at work. Nursing is still a very hands-on, physical job in many areas and nurses are still getting significant injuries so any changes … Continue reading
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Tagged: australia national health system, australia nursing, barry o'farrell, NSWNA, nursing, nursing in australia, workers compensation
