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Retention Study: Nurses Feel A Strong Attachment To Healing

Posted on January 19, 2012 by NU_admin

If organisations want to retain qualified nurses they need to tackle the different work factors that are important to the three key age groups and build on the strong attachment that many nurses feel to the profession. Those are the … Continue reading →

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New Series: Older workers, Technology and Stereotyping

Posted on January 19, 2012 by NU_admin

Perceived long-held stereotypes such as frailty, inflexibility and a fear of technology are pushing older workers towards premature retirement, research shows. In this blog we asked what you thought about stereotypes of older workers in the nursing profession and how they … Continue reading →

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Australian Government must act in wake of Fiji’s renewed clamp on human and labour rights

Posted on January 12, 2012 by NU_admin

The Australian Government must consider economic sanctions against Fiji’s military regime in the wake of new laws that place even greater restrictions on human rights in the island nation, say unions. ACTU President Ged Kearney said a new decree quietly … Continue reading →

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Speak Up for health and safety: New campaign begins to inform workers of their rights

Posted on January 10, 2012 by NU_admin

Australian unions have launched the Speak Up campaign so that workers have a say in making sure their workplaces are safe and healthy. ACTU Assistant Secretary Michael Borowick said it was important that workers understood they would have enhanced rights … Continue reading →

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Nurses on the move

Posted on January 6, 2012 by NU_admin

Consistent with an increasingly globalised world millions of nurses find themselves on the move. Sometimes nurse migration occurs within a nation’s borders with nurses migrating from rural to urban areas or from the public to the private sector. Or they … Continue reading →

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