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From October 1, specially qualified nurses will be able to prescribe medications and renew scripts at the subsidised price.
Many nurses experience sexual comments, touching and intimidation at work. Too often, they are expected to cope quietly.
Sometimes you can’t wait wait until 9am or Monday morning to see a doctor or access health care. Here are your options.
Health workers consistently move from poorer countries to richer ones, a pattern that tracks closely along lines drawn by colonial history.
Australia has more nurses per person than many countries. Allowing nurses in general practice to use all their skills could help meet the growing demand for care.
In the early 20th century, Detroit’s Black medical professionals created a network of health care institutions in response to racial discrimination and exclusion.
As nurses in Pittsburgh and nationwide spotlight staffing shortages, better pay and workplace safety, labor negotiations have intensified. Here’s what’s at stake.
Nurses are leaving the profession faster than they’re being replaced – in part due to the emotional and physical toll they endure from disrespectful patients or their loved ones.
The long-term care system is under pressure — both from an aging population and from a workforce in crisis. More humane, sustainable models of care are critical.
After completing studies in prescribing, registered nurses will be able to prescribe a range of medicines – in collaboration with a doctor or nurse practitioner.
An estimated 8% of US doctors had joined a union in 2024, up from 5.7% a decade earlier.
Australia is awash with policies, but not the kind that would fix the workforce crisis. Here’s what would work instead.
Pennsylvania hospitals report an average 14% vacancy rate for registered nurses. In rural areas it is much higher.
Nurses face alarming rates of violence at work. These attacks too often go unreported, and they are fueling burnout and rampant turnover across the profession.
The culture of self-sacrifice in nursing is leading to burnout – one of the primary reasons for the mass exodus of nurses from the profession.
Health-care workers have a direct impact in areas of conflict due to their ability to provide care — and bear direct witness to atrocities. In Gaza, Canada and beyond, they must be heeded.
The rape and murder of a medical trainee in a hospital in Kolkata, India has sparked a string of nation-wide protests on the eve of India’s 78th anniversary of Independence from British occupation.
Labour’s first king’s speech for many years was designed to ‘get the country moving again’ - does it have the right ingredients to achieve this?
Aunty Gracelyn Smallwood’s work in helping to shape a world-leading approach to HIV and AIDS was recognised by Nelson Mandela – and she toured the world with it.
Top contributors
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Professor of Nursing, University of Hull
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Associate Professor of Nursing, University of South Florida
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Professor and Director, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor, Nursing, MacEwan University
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Professor, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor and Dean School Nursing and Midwifery, La Trobe University
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Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Associate, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Family Violence Prevention, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield
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Researcher at the Centre for Health Policy and PhD candidate, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director, Migration Observatory, University of Oxford
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Professor, Psychology of Healthcare, University of Leeds
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University of Southampton