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The Australian Nursing Federation is calling on the Australian Government to extend Medicare rebates for midwifery services, including ante-natal, birthing and post-natal care, to women wherever they live.

AS a child Angela Castle dreamed of becoming a nurse, and spent much of her playtime bandaging dolls and unsuspecting family members.

THE University of Tasmania's nursing degree is soaring in popularity but there are concerns hospitals cannot keep up with the influx of trainees.

Royal College of Nursing Australia (RCNA) encourages eligible nurses to apply for the National Nurse Re-entry Scheme and the Continuing Professional Education Scheme for Rural and Remote Nurses, which opened on Saturday 4 March 2006.

CALLS for airport-style metal detectors at hospitals have been ignored by a government review of violence against nurses.

NURSES are more at risk of workplace violence than any other occupation and face attacks, threats and abuse daily, a report to be released today has found.

Three leading obstetricians in Auckland say they are worried negative publicity about midwives will add to a serious and growing shortage in the profession.

Nurses at Terang's May Noonan Memorial Hostel are threatening to strike unless pay demands are met.

QUEENSLAND'S public-sector nurses have won a massive pay rise that will see them leapfrog their colleagues in nearly every state to become the highest-paid outside NSW.

Thousands of Australians live with chronic wounds unnecessarily, reports Denise Murray.
"SOME patients are told by their doctor 'you will have that leg ulcer until you die', which is wrong," says Jan Rice. "Many of them have ulcers caused by vein problems, which are often correctable just with good compression therapy."