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The Mental Health Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme: Mental Health Nursing opened for applications on Saturday 28 July 2007, said Rosemary Bryant, Executive Director of Royal College of Nursing, Australia (RCNA).

AN aged-care nurse has been sacked following a federal Department of Health and Ageing investigation into elder abuse allegations at Devonport's Karingal Home for the Aged.

THE massive TAFE sector is poised to move into nursing education, offering degrees that are so far available only in universities.

The Board is seeking input from the nursing and midwifery community, education providers, health industry and other interested parties on the operation of section 18(4) and 34(4) of the Health Professions Registration Act 2005.

Public hospital nurses in South Australia have voted to accept a revised pay offer from the State Government.

A nurse who was sacked by the Canberra Hospital has spoken out about poor infection controls, which she says are putting patients and staff at risk.

Carers working the Australian Capital Territory regularly suffer psychological, physical and sexual abuse at the hands of the people they care for an ANU report has revealed.

Royal College of Nursing, Australia (RCNA) has received a letter from the Department of Health and Ageing regarding the Northern Territory Emergency Initiative and is seeking nominations by 12pm (noon EST) tomorrow Thursday 28 June 2007 from nurses who wish to participate in this initiative in the second week of July.

Families in Bendigo and the Goldfields have embraced the Nurse-On-Call service with more than 10,000 calls made in a year, Health Minister Bronwyn Pike said today.

NURSES locked in a pay dispute are threatening elective surgery cancellations within two weeks if the State Government does not respond to lower-level industrial action from today.