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IONA Medical Centre nurses have changed the way indigenous Toowoomba residents can access health services in 12 months. For their efforts, the team of 11 medical staff have been named finalists in the prestigious HESTA Australian Nursing Awards Team Innovation category.

As dawn breaks Sister Muriel Wakeford, in her crisp white veil and grey nurses’ uniform, stands ready on the deck of the hospital ship the Gascon, a pair of borrowed field glasses in her hands.

IDA Greaves is not a household name in the Hunter but one woman is on a mission to change that. Christine Bramble has compiled information for the past 15 years on all 76 military nurses who served during World War I.

JEANETTE Lacey is the nicest person you never want to meet. As part of a tight-knit team of four donor specialist nurses at John Hunter Hospital, it is her job to talk with grief-stricken families about the organ donation process after their loved-one has died. It is an intense, tumultuous time for the family and they are often seeking information and reassurance.

COFFS Harbour nurses have joined thousands of others around the state to campaign for safer conditions for patients. The launch outlined nurses' claim for safer staffing levels that would expand those agreed with the previous Labor government.

THE $1.3 billion needed to fund Queensland's participation in the Gonski scheme could also fund more than 16,250 teachers or 13,00 nurses. Treasurer Tim Nicholls said the State would find it tough to stump up the funds to pay for Gonski under the current deal on the table.

The Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS) has won the Outstanding ICT Innovation award in the Asia Pacific Eldercare Innovation Awards 2013 for its Healthy, Happy and at Home telehealth project.

SYDNEY'S top hospitals are more likely to take on North Coast nursing students who have done the ground work in local GP clinics, Southern Cross University has found.

NURSES have launched a Facebook petition calling on the State Government to urgently fund unemployed and underemployed nurses and midwives in South Australia.

Almost every Australian World War I history lesson will include an insight into how difficult life was as a soldier. Just as likely is that there will be no mention of Australian nurses who, says actress Carolyn Bock, were as inspiring as the men on the front line.