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Nurses have demanded the Northern Territory Government act immediately end to the practice of "double bunking" in the emergency department of Royal Darwin Hospital. A petition signed by more than 70 nurses was been delivered to the Legislative Assembly today.

Tasmania’s graduate nurses could continue to migrate to the mainland and abroad for work after the State Government revealed it will again offer just 115 positions across the public health sector next year.

ACT nurses and midwives have accepted an eleventh hour agreement from the State Government for a flat rate pay rise, staving off industrial action. The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation ACT Branch yesterday reached an in-principle agreement with the government, putting an end to months of EBA negotiations.

Canberra's nurses reached agreement on a new pay deal with the ACT government on Tuesday, avoiding threatened industrial action and further negotiations. The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation ACT Branch welcomed the four-year deal which includes a 2 per cent pay rise from July 1, 2013, increases in allowances and night duty loadings.

FEARS are rippling through the Queensland Health workers community after continued talk of marrying local hospitals with the private sector. North West Hospital and Health Service (HHS) board chair Paul Woodhouse this week announced the board would be pursuing relationships with "other levels of government, the private sector and other stakeholders" to deliver health care.

Canberra nurses and midwives have reached an agreement with the ACT Government over their pay and conditions for the next four years. The nurses had threatened industrial action after the Government offered a 2 per cent pay rise. The Government's revised offer is better than inflation and improves some conditions, including the penalty for night shift work.

LIVING with a neurological condition in remote areas of the South West can be hard, but a team of community nurses make it easier with support and education. The Neurological Council of WA has nominated Bunbury-based nurse Marieta Simmons for the council’s Nursing and Midwifery Excellence Awards.

A NERVOUS nurse caught making four alarming blunders on a single shift - including feeding a patient whose chart was clearly marked 'nil by mouth' - has been struck off.

The small town in north-west Queensland, McKinlay, is about to lose its only nurse. From September 30th Queensland Health will no longer fund the service, forcing residents to drive more than an hour to the next town for medical attention. ^[audio]

A morning of bumbling mishaps has cost a Melbourne agency nurse her registration, after she cleaned a palliative care patient's mouth using acetone and tried to feed a 'nil by mouth' patient.