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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.

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.