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NURSING shortages in public hospitals are so severe that first-year graduates are being put in charge of wards.

The first group of Indonesian nurses to complete a bridging program at Charles Darwin University that allows them to work in Australia will receive their certificates tonight (0ctober 10).

ALMOST two-thirds of nurses have been victims of verbal or physical abuse while working, according to a report.

MORE than a hundred nurses protested outside the Victorian Parliament today calling for the Bracks Government to intervene in a row over workloads which they claim are compromising patient care.

A Bachelor of Midwifery will be offered for the first time in 2007 at The University of Queensland (UQ) Ipswich Campus.

NZ’s Best Midwives Receive Inaugural Award

Five midwives judged ‘outstanding’ by expert panel, clients and over 4,000 voters.

IF YOU think that your P45 is being penned, don’t worry. Dust off your passport instead. A better life of sun, sea and snorkelling awaits in a land down under.

FEARS about patient safety have prompted a call to raise English language standards for migrant nurses.

Twelve registered nurses will be the first in the country to enroll in the Post Graduate Certificate Course in Mental Health from tomorrow.

Antenatal care in rural and remote communities Leading national organisations for nurses, midwives and obstetricians have today voiced concerns about the safety of an Australian government proposal to introduce a new Medicare item, 16400, to enable antenatal care to be provided in rural and remote communities by midwives, nurses, enrolled nurses and Aboriginal Health Workers on behalf of doctors.