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An Auckland nurse has been found guilty of professional misconduct following the death of a patient at a Putaruru rest home two years ago. 

THE first police facility at a hospital in the southern hemisphere would help curb violence against medical staff, the Queensland Government said today.

Voluntary work overseas can give health professionals a leg-up in their career, as well as experiences they would never have at home.

The Australian Government's response to the 2002 Senate Inquiry into Nursing (The Patient Profession: Time for Action), shows it is turning a blind eye to the profession at a time of crisis, according to Australia's peak nursing body, the Australian Nursing Federation.

Patient safety is under threat from law changes that will allow nurses to prescribe drugs, senior Christchurch doctors claim in an attack described as a public warning.

More than 200 frail and elderly nursing home residents in the Northern Territory may be at risk by nursing homes failing to meet regulations for fire sprinklers, fire doors and alarms.N

A public health nurse was too afraid to tell a Christian couple their child would die if they did not take him to hospital, a jury in the High Court at Whangarei has been told.

Malawi is the world's poorest country. Its people live on the equivalent of $16 a week, about 2 per cent of our income. One in seven of its adults has AIDS. Average life expectancy is just 37 years.

Part of Malawi's problem is that it lacks doctors and nurses. In 2003, in fact, 91 per cent of surgical posts in its central hospitals were vacant. One hospital authorised to employ 24 surgeons in fact had just one. In the entire country, only 28 per cent of nursing posts were filled.

LOOKING after the elderly members of your family is a big worry for many children and grandchildren.

After years of contributing so much to the community, we want our parents to be looked after as best they can be - preferably in their own home.

AN INNOVATIVE model of care for mental health patients has won a Campbells Creek woman a statewide nursing excellence award.

Barb Gregory took home the clinical practice award, one of four $10,000 State Government awards presented to Victorian nurses at the weekend.