Latest Nursing News

Nurses begin work bans in all public hospitals across South Australia today, as part of a pay dispute with the State Government.

THE Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council (ANMC) has lifted a ban on the recruitment of Zimbabwean nurses after concluding an investigation into claims that some nurses had forged their papers.

Dr Stephanie Fox-Young FRCNA has been elected President of Royal College of Nursing, Australia (RCNA), at the meeting of the newly elected Board of Directors, on 14 May 2007 in Canberra, ACT.

HEALTH campaigners are alarmed by a study which revealed high rates of smoking among Australia's future nurses, who are taking up the habit in their twenties.

South Australia's nurses are threatening to take industrial action unless a new enterprise bargaining deal can be reached before the end of the month.

Queensland Health has rejected a claim that hospitals are so understaffed that registered nurses are having to act as midwives to pregnant women.

The Australian College of Midwives (ACM) says pregnant women in south-east Queensland are not receiving adequate midwifery care.

May 5, is the day to celebrate midwifery - No matter where women have their babies, they will be cared for by a midwife. Midwives work in the community, in birth centres and in public and private hospitals. Midwives are the guardians of ‘normal birth’.

A chronicle of the extraordinary life and legacy of one of Australia's greatest war heroines.

Watch on ABC TV tonight at 9.30 pm

THE last United States female veteran from World War I, Charlotte Winters, died on March 27. She was 109. Her death received considerable publicity, even here in Australia, and she was buried with full military honours.