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CLOSED-circuit TV cameras will be installed at Geelong Hospital to protect nurses, doctors and other workers.

IF you find yourself in the unfortunate situation of needing an operation and to be nursed in the surgical ward at Orange hospital you can rest assured you are in good hands. The nursing team from the ward is celebrating being named as the best nursing team in the Western NSW Local Health District (LHD).

TASMANIAN hospitals are down by 120 doctors and 65 nurses but the number of clerks and administrators has gone up by 15, says health analyst Martyn Goddard.

Nurses have vowed to step up their campaign against the violence rife in hospitals as the state government resists calls to provide extra security guards on wards. Frustrated by the government stalling on a $21 million promise to curb hospital violence, the Australian Nursing Federation launched a new campaign on Sunday.

BALLARAT Health Services Base Hospital nurses regularly face verbal and physical abuse from aggressive patients, the nurses union claimed yesterday. And the introduction of extra closed-circuit TV cameras announced at the weekend would do little to make staff feel safer on the job, the Australian Nursing Federation said.

Nurses have begun a campaign demanding the Napthine government take urgent action to protect them from increasing violence in Victorian hospitals. The Australian Nursing Foundation has placed full-page advertisements in Melbourne's Sunday newspapers, warning that nurses and midwives are increasingly being punched, hit, pushed, kicked, bitten or threatened with weapons when trying to care for patients.

QUESTION: Where in the world could you go to find a place where half of all women are raped? ANSWER: Australia’s psychiatric hospitals. That’s the shocking conclusion of a new report from the Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council (VIMIAC).

For the past 10 years, Janet Askew has taken her invaluable nursing skills abroad to places where they are needed the most. The 59-year-old mother and grandmother has nursed at places such as Indonesia, Iraq and Sudan, and next month she will head to Lebanon to work with Syrian refugees in her sixth Red Cross mission.

AUSTRALIA is way behind the US and Europe in protecting medical workers from sharp objects, says a former US nurse who contracted HIV and hepatitis C through a needle injury. Dr Karen Daley, in Melbourne to attend a nursing conference, says it is "surprising and distressing" that Australia does not have safety regulations.

Queensland Health Minister Lawrence Springborg has accused the nurses' union of scaremongering in the state's north with claims the region's hospitals are up for sale.