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IF you've been near a GP's surgery in the past few months, you may well have joined the growing band of patients who were cared for by someone like Jill Bruce.

It's more than a decade since nurses began the long fight to establish the nurse practitioner in our Australian health system.

NURSING numbers are on the rise for the first time in five years, but the average age of frontline medical carers continues to climb. 

NURSES are overworked, morale is deteriorating and violence is soaring in Queensland's health care facilities, a study has found.

Scholarships up to $6000 each for rural nurses to re-enter nursing and upgrade skills

Applications are currently being sought from eligible people living in rural and remote Australia with a commitment to rural nursing, for the Rural and Remote Nurse Scholarship Program: Re-entry and Upskilling Scheme (RUS).

Applications are now being sought for the Puggy Hunter Memorial Scholarship Scheme, which aims to increase the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people working in the Australian health care system, by providing scholarships worth up to $15,000 per annum.

Aged Care Nursing Scholarships up to $10,000 each for study in 2006

In line with the Australian Government’s goal of increasing the number of nurses in aged care, Royal College of Nursing, Australia (RCNA), the fund administrator of the Aged Care Nursing ScholarshipScheme-Undergraduate today announced the availability of the 2005 round of offers for study in 2006.

NURSES are struggling to stay awake and are feeling physically and mentally exhausted during shifts, a study has found.

NURSES at the Flinders Medical Centre are being forced to work double shifts because of a shortage of agency nurses, Opposition health spokesman Dean Brown claimed yesterday.

CHAD is a border collie blissfully unaware that he is a minor celebrity in the local press, the Victorian parliament and in lawyers' letters barking loudly about actions that have flowed from his bite. A beloved family pet, Chad nipped one of the relief carers who help feed and bathe Joshua Krupjak, 12, and his brother Dylan, 6, who are profoundly disabled.