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The nursing union has raised public safety concerns about the increasing number of unregistered and unregulated health workers in the ACT. The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANWF) says figures show a dramatic jump in nursing assistants in ACT Health, private hospitals, and the aged care sector.

MCKINLAY residents scrambling to have their Bush Nurse Clinic funded after September 30 this year have caught the attention of federal and state politicians over the last week. McKinlay Roadhouse owner Aiden Day started a petition to send to Queensland Health in a bid to fight for continued support. She said resident's would lose their safety net and families from their community if the service went unfunded.

ASK Debbie Mundy what the National Broadband Network means to her and she'll tell you how the strands of fibre are life-changing. A diabetic, Ms Mundy was one of 50 people to take part in an NBN telehealth trial for chronic diseases in Armidale, northern NSW.

The nurses' union and SA Health have agreed to implement plans aimed at easing chronic overcrowding in the Flinders Medical Centre's emergency department. The Nursing and Midwifery Federation says its members have endorsed the measures, which include reducing elective admissions and increasing bed turnover.

HELEN Lennon remembers sitting at the dinner table as a child, completely in awe of her mother. Hearing stories about her busy day at the hospital convinced a young Helen that she too would one day become a nurse, just like her mum. And once she was old enough, that's exactly what she did.

New Zealand nurses fear employment law changes that will enable the 20 district health boards (DHBs) to opt out of bargaining for multi-employer collective agreements (MECAs) are bad medicine. The New Zealand Nurses Organisation is holding more than 80 stop-work meetings across the country this month to discuss the changes that will affect 26,000 nurses and health workers employed in hospitals.

MONDAY'S story about the stress facing mental health nurses at Rockhampton Hospital appears to have struck a chord with many people, including the hospital's management. Two more nurses and many consumers have since contacted The Morning Bulletin to confirm one nurse's story about working conditions in the mental health unit.

A FLINDERS Medical Centre nurse ignored an ailing patient's pleas for a doctor - a request that could have saved his life, the Coroners Court has found. State Coroner Mark Johns today handed down his scathing findings into the December 2009 death of Anthony Douglas Stock, 64, at the FMC.

MONDAY'S story about the stress facing mental health nurses at Rockhampton Hospital appears to have struck a chord with many people, including the hospital's management. Two more nurses and many consumers have since contacted The Morning Bulletin to confirm one nurse's story about working conditions in the mental health unit.

Nursing staff ignored pleas for a doctor to see a patient who was pale, clammy, perspiring and in excruciating pain, an Adelaide coroner has found. Anthony Douglas Stock's death "would most likely have been prevented" had a doctor attended on him when the pleas were made, about six hours before he suffered a heart attack, the coroner found.