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ALMOST 40 per cent of Australian nurses have endured violence in their workplaces over the past five years, a damning new survey reveals. Alarmingly, 79 per cent of victims surveyed by Nursing Careers Allied Health had experienced aggression at work more than once during this period, which nursing authorities say suggests a systemic problem in our health facilities.

IN ANOTHER blow for regional nurses, the Federal Government has proposed a $2000 tax cap on self-education claims, but what will this cost Northern Rivers health care workers?

Nurses are fuming about a plan to send new mums home sooner, and to cut 85 staff at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide. An independent review has found it is an easy way to save millions of dollars by making the hospital more efficient. It found the WCH was 20 per cent less efficient that others like it interstate.

THIS time last year Grafton was reeling after learning of a NSW Government proposal to radically downsize staff numbers at its jail, but was about to find the situation could get worse. As the community digested the loss of 92 prison officer positions, news emerged of another round of cuts to nurses employed at the jail.

WAGGA nurses and midwives were seeing red yesterday over the state government opting not to improve safer patient-to-nurse ratios and lock in a discount on their already capped annual pay rises.

New South Wales Premier Barry O'Farrell has been accused of misleading the state's nurses by covering up the government's true position on an ongoing wages dispute. The NSW Nurses and Midwives Association (NSWNMA) says Mr O'Farrell sent a letter to its members on June 19 stating that discussions had "begun" over a new award. The letter was in response to calls for safer nurse-to-patient ratios and for a new award wage.

Nurses and midwives across New South Wales are seeing red today- and wearing it in a day of action aiming to speak out for patient care. Sporting a red ribbon, members of the Cowra Hospital Branch of the Nurses and Midwives Association joined in on the action,  coming after nurses, including those at Cowra, rallied last month as part of the statewide ratios put patient safety first campaign.

Australia’s nurses are set to benefit from changes to legislation and also new legislation passed in Federal Parliament, heralding pay rises for the nation’s aged care nurses and also greater jobs protection with new laws for 457 visas.

A "lonely" NSW nurse who was seduced by an HIV-positive patient using French champagne and marijuana cookies - but was later blackmailed by him - has been suspended.

The Opposition said the South Australian Government was planning to reduce the number of nursing jobs, which would break a promise it would not to cut frontline services. Health Minister Jack Snelling told a parliamentary estimates committee about 600 jobs would be cut within SA Health over the next four years.