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Governments must act on nursing shortages now!
“As a matter of urgency, Australia has to now start rebuilding a future nursing workforce to replace current nursing staff who will be retiring over the next 15 to 20 years.” A new report by Health Workforce Australia showing a … Continue reading
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
Posted in Advocacy, International, Nursing - Midwifery
Tagged global midwives, International Midwives Day, midwives
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Nurse recruitment via YouTube
Tamworth Hospital in northwest rural NSW is using YouTube, among other media, to advertise for nurses in their Critical Care team (including Emergency, Intensive Care and retrieval teams), as well as in theatres, maternity and orthopaedics. This follows pressure from … Continue reading
Posted in Employment issues, Future of nursing, Nursing online, Videos
Tagged jobs, recruitment, social media, Tamworth, YouTube
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Surfing the ward
Here’s a vivid account by a man in the US who’s training to be a ‘nurse’s aide’ about how nursing reminds him of surfing! What he’s getting at is that when he’s at work, ideally he is taken out of himself – … Continue reading
A future of nursing shortages
Australia faces a shortage of the equivalent of 27 percent of the entire nursing workforce within 13 short years, according to a new Health Workforce 2025 report. Current staff shortages, let alone the prospect of increasing staff shortages, will come as … Continue reading
Finally Some Great News For The Aged Care Sector!
The Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) today congratulated the Gillard Government for injecting $1.2 billion over five years for Australia’s under-resourced aged care workforce as a centrepiece of its landmark overhaul of the aged care sector. ANF Federal Secretary Lee Thomas … Continue reading
Ratios revisited – internationally
Inspired by the successful NSWNA campaign for nurse-patient ratios that enhance safe patient care, Nursing Unison, the largest nursing union in the UK, recently carried out a survey of their members to get a snapshot of nurse-patient ratios on a … Continue reading
Posted in One2Four Campaign
Tagged nursing, public sector conditions, ratios, safe patient care
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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
Our Communities’ Mental Wellbeing
The Mental Health Association NSW plays a vital role in the development of initiatives which result in increased community awareness and knowledge of mental health issues. They are holding a forum in western Sydney on mental wellbeing which is open to … Continue reading
International Nurses Day photo contest – win a Hunter Valley stay!
Send us your photo of nurses celebrating International Nurses Day and you could win two nights at Harrigan’s Irish Pub in the lovely village of Pokolbin in the Hunter Valley! Also included in the prize is admission to the magical Hunter … Continue reading
Posted in Competitions
Tagged competitions, contests, international nurses day, nurses, nursing
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