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Lisa Mitchell speaks to students who changed careers for the satisfaction of helping the aged.

As the state's (NSW) first nurse practitioner, Jane O'Connell has had her share of criticism, and the battle to create a more senior role for nurses has left her philosophical about the possibilities for further reform.

The push for fundamental change to the health system meets stout resistance from the establishment, writes Ruth Pollard.

DOCTORS are preparing to fight a renewed bid by midwives for greater independence by lobbying for Medicare funds to allow obstetricians to employ them in their private practices. 

The University of Tasmania claims it has a solution to the country's growing nursing shortage.

Nurses withdrawn from a Kimberley Aboriginal community in northern Western Australia are expected to return this week under strict conditions.

The ACT Government has rejected Opposition claims that it is not doing enough to keep Canberra nurses from leaving the profession.

The Territory Government has given Indonesia a 60th anniversary of Independence gift of funding, to establish a vocational development program for 20 Indonesian nurses.

WARRNAMBOOL'S growing refugee population will soon have access to a free specialist nursing service.

NURSE sick leave has increased up to 50 per cent in some areas of the Royal Hobart Hospital because of work pressures, staff say.