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Nursing students have rallied at Parliament to protest over what they say is a serious shortage of graduate jobs in WA. The State Government's graduates program helps new nurses make the transition into the workforce and gain experience in public hospitals.

Dozens of new nurses cannot get jobs in WA hospitals after applications for graduate programs far outstripped spots. Some have not had a single offer or interview and, after three years or more of study, face unskilled work next year.

THE health and wellbeing of Australian nurses is about to be put under the spotlight. There are about 270,000 nurses working in Australia but little is known about their health and wellbeing and how it can impact patient care.

Jane Thompson says her life has been reduced to 49 minutes.  In that space of time, three children can lose a mother, a husband can lose a wife and a nurse can find herself publicly blamed for the whole lot, in a case that became a cause celebre for stretched hospital resources.

NURSES from Forster Private Hospital have vowed to continue fighting for fair wages after a meeting with Pulse Health failed to resolve a long-running pay dispute today.

NURSES are "appalled" at the reaction from Country Health SA after analysing two months of staffing data from the Naracoorte Hospital. The data has shown a minimum 30 per cent of shifts were understaffed, according to the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation SA branch CEO Elizabeth Dabars.

TASMANIAN parents say they are concerned that health checks for prep-aged children in schools have already stopped even though the service was supposed to continue at least until next year.

The national regulator of Australia’s vocational education and training sector has announced it will enact a key Productivity Commission’s (PC) recommendation, and conduct a strategic review of vocational education and training (VET) in the aged and community care sector.

LOOKING after tiny premature babies in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is the best job in the world for Dr Mark Tracy.

NURSES at a Brisbane hospital have seen so many weird and wacky complaints come through their emergency ward that they've compiled a list of their favourites.