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Career & Learning
Money Matters: Your financial health check
Making informed financial decisions is a lifelong journey, one that evolves with each stage of your career. Whether you’re just starting out, firmly in your mid-career stride, or contemplating a well-deserved retirement, understanding your financial landscape is paramount.
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Industry & Reform
Cost affects 3 in 4 Australians’ health decisions
An increasing number of Australians’ healthcare decisions are being impacted by cost of living pressures, new research has found, with women and young people hit the hardest.
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Midwifery
NT maternity crisis laid bare at forum
During a closed forum this week, hundreds of Territorians – including families, midwives, doctors and healthcare advocates – shared their experiences of maternity care across all sectors exposing issues and personal heartbreak.
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Wages
ANMF claims nurses pay “held to ransom”
The ANMF applied for a protected industrial action ballot order on Monday after Healthscope largely rejected its latest enterprise bargaining proposal, which sought market-comparable wages and conditions.
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News
Qld hospitals overflowing, nurses ‘gagged’
Reports of overcrowding, poor treatment and misdiagnosis have emerged at two Queensland hospitals, with nurses’ unions expressing concern over the culture and safety of the organisations.
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Industry & Reform
Ambulance ramping figures improving
A half-billion-dollar push to cut hospital waiting times in NSW has begun to have an effect, with a number of schemes sending patients places other than hospitals to be treated.
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News
Nurses key to combatting falling vaccination rates
A National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance report has confirmed that Australia’s childhood vaccination rates are in decline, a trend that has persisted since 2020 and one which is posing a significant challenge to public health.
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Career & Learning
More than 2000 student nurses face unemployment
According to the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) Victorian Branch, thousands of nursing and midwifery students are set to miss out on a graduate program position in 2026 despite doing government funded degrees.
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Clinical Practice
Nurses key to improved chronic wound care
The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) is urging the federal government to prioritise nurse-led models of care, asserting they are crucial for improving access to holistic wound management.
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Wages
NSW nurses accept interim pay offer
The interim offer includes a three per cent pay increase, backdated to 1 July 2025, along with an additional 0.5 per cent in superannuation. Crucially, the night duty penalty rate will increase from 15 to 20 per cent.
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Career & Learning
$21m in scholarships for aged care nurses
Scholarships will allow recipients to progress their careers in aged care with formal qualifications, like a Cert III or Masters degree, or other specialised training in areas such as clinical leadership, palliative care, dementia care or infection prevention and control.
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AI
Call for AI, digital records in Australian hospitals
According to a new report from the Business Council of Australia the use of AI could allow clinicians to dedicate up to 30 per cent of their time to seeing patients and reduce burnout.
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