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NURSES and midwives at the Mercy Hospital for Women in Heidelberg will take rolling strike action from tomorrow, after four mothercraft nurses with a total of 106 years' service were declared redundant with a week's notice.

The Queensland Rural Doctors Association has welcomed a study that shows 'low risk' babies born in smaller country hospitals have a higher chance of survival than those born in larger city hospitals.

Nursing is in trouble in New Zealand with one in five new nursing graduates leaving to work overseas and more than a third of the resident nursing workforce aged over 40. According to New Zealand Health Information Service statistics, just 6.9 per cent of New Zealand's 34,660 active registered nurses and midwives are aged between 25 and 29.

A NURSE who gave a woman the wrong injection during labour and killed a baby has been banned from hospital wards for life.

NURSES at a Melbourne maternity hospital will meet today to consider what action they will take after four mothercraft nurses were made redundant.

NB: Not Australian, but an interesting concept for attracting nurses. Wonder whether it will catch on in Australia?

An Internet-based reality show about nurses made its debut on Wednesday in a bid to improve the image of the profession and attract more nurses to California.

The South Australian Opposition has announced an election policy which it says will address the state's nursing shortage.

The SA Department of Health is offering scholarships for the study of contemporary nursing and midwifery practice to country and metropolitan enrolled nurses, registered nurses and midwives who are employed within the SA Public Health Sector.        

EVALUATING the guidelines governing nurse practitioners (NPs) in women's health in a major area health service recently, a medical expert complained that they were "discriminatory" because the practitioner did not see male patients.

The Australian Nursing Federation in Tasmania has warned the state is losing more nurses.