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NURSES and undergraduate nursing students are being urged to take advantage of a new Australian Government nursing scholarship scheme which supports continuing professional development and encourages nurses into Aboriginal medical services.

MANILA, JUNE 14, 2010 (STAR) By Mayen Jaymalin - More and more Filipino nurses are now opting to work in the United Kingdom than in the United States, according to local recruiters.

A Victorian aged care home did not pay a volunteer firefighter who battled the Black Saturday bushfires, a union claims.

MIDWIVES will challenge doctors' financial monopoly over birth and pregnancy after a new government report proposed they be allowed to bill Medicare and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme for their services.

Ararat breast care nurse Sue Cashin has been awarded a national scholarship to develop her skills in caring for local women with breast cancer.

When a woman arrives at hospital in labour, who do you think will do an assessment, care for the woman and deliver her baby? If you ask most women they will tell you this person was a midwife, because in most cases the birthing experience is normal despite the rising rate of Caesarean sections. This story is repeated over and over in our hospitals every day. There are about 280,000 births every year in Australia.

A Curtin University academic has warned the Australian health system may be at risk by recruiting underqualified nurses from overseas.

Belinda Wohlgemuth has wanted to become a nurse since she was 10 years old.

For the 18-year-old from Mount Warrigal, the profession is a calling.

Australian doctors have attacked the federal government plans to give midwives the same responsibilities as doctors in natal care.

The federal government has fast-tracked care assessments so a group of elderly people from bushfire ravaged Victoria can receive emergency respite care.