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Older Australians and their families continue to benefit from the record allocations of new aged care places by the Australian Government, a new report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare released today shows.

Victoria's remote area nurses now have new guidelines to manage emergencies on their own.
Parliamentary Secretary for Health, Daniel Andrews, said today this rural special care service operates out of 14 bush nursing centres.

As the influenza season approaches, all aged care homes need to be examining their infection control practices in readiness.  Vaccination plays an important part in prevention and the influenza vaccine for 2005 has now been released.

MEMBERS of the Fiji Nursing Association will seek a mandate to strike as soon as possible because of a breach of agreement by the Public Service Commission over salaries.

All Australian and other western world hospitals should adopt Victoria's system of matching nurse staffing levels to the number of patients, according to a US health commentator.

Australia has been accused of failing the growing aged population by not demanding mandatory reporting of abuse of the elderly.

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.