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AFTER seeing her mum battle breast cancer, Kaitlin Campbell was inspired to pursue a career in nursing. The 17-year-old Laidley student has been awarded a 2012 Seize the Day Study Award by the Cancer Council Queensland to support her Bachelor of Nursing at University of Queensland.

Nurses and allied health professionals should not discuss patients or post pictures of procedures, case studies, patients or sensitive material without obtaining consent in appropriate situations, according to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency’s (AHPRA) first ever guidelines for social media.

A group of WA nurses claim their recently negotiated pay rise will do nothing to address conditions in hospitals and say they are forced to cut corners and neglect patients. WA Nurses for Nursing was formed after the 14 per cent pay rise the Australian Nursing Federation negotiated during the State election campaign.

POLICE watch-houses in Darwin, Katherine and Alice Springs will be given a full-time nurse, in a government reaction to a death in custody last year.

The Australian Practice Nurses Association (APNA) has released the first three of nine online learning modules to assist nurses and midwives to understand and establish telehealth services in their practice setting.

STATE health union boss Neroli Ellis has fulfilled a long-time dream for Tasmania's Australian Nursing Federation to provide professional and industrial services with the opening of its new training facility.

NURSING at the Orange campus of Charles Sturt University is set to expand next year with the introduction of two new courses. The master of nursing (with specialisations) will start in March next year with the master of clinical nursing (nurse practitioner) course to start in July 2014.

Australian nurses are returning to Gallipoli for the 98th anniversary of the landing of ANZAC troops, to care for Australian war veterans at the dawn service. University of Queensland School of Nursing and Midwifery Associate Professor Christine Neville is one of the nurses travelling to the historic World War I battlefield, following the footsteps of her ancestors.

STAFF members of the Shoalhaven Hospital Emergency Department have strongly refuted claims they are a divided team and claim their good work has been tarnished.

Maitland Hospital nursing staff will continue to struggle under mounting pressure unless an agreement for safer hospital staffing levels is reached as a matter of urgency, union members have warned. Members of the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association cranked up their fight on Thursday for better patient care across the state in a public rally held opposite Maitland Hospital.