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Retirements and flow to mainland augment shortage fears.
Tasmania is not moving fast enough to address a shortage of 110 intensive care and mental health nurses, says nurse union chief Neroli Ellis.

Tasmanian nurses are moving closer to side-stepping the Federal Government's industrial relations reforms.

The Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) says it is disappointed that a psychiatric patient was found not guilty by reason of insanity of attempting to murder a former mental health nurse at the Swan District Hospital in Perth last year.

THE NSW Health Minister, John Hatzistergos, is backing a push for radical change in hospitals that would include nurses and other health workers taking on some roles performed by doctors.

PEOPLE living with advanced dementia will be able to stay at home and receive high-level nursing under a scheme to free up places at aged-care facilities.

Hospitals could save hundreds of thousands of dollars, improve patient care and allocate fairer nursing workloads if they rostered nurses according to patients' needs instead of by ratios, a Monash researcher has found.

NURSES at the Mercy Hospital for Women yesterday suspended their threat to take rolling strike action after management agreed to negotiate the future of four mothercraft nurses declared redundant last week.

A Melbourne hospital has applied to the Australian Industrial Relations Commission for an order preventing further industrial action by nurses over the forced redundancy of four mothercraft nurses.

A YEAR after his untimely death in a cycling accident, Murray Bridge clinical nurse Anthony Teunnissen's legacy has been forged in local health circles.

BABIES born in large city hospitals are more likely to die in their first month than those born in smaller rural centres, a comprehensive analysis of Australian births has revealed.