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Edith Cavell Trust Scholarship 2025: Applications Open
May 2, 2024
Applications for the Edith Cavell Trust Scholarship for the 2025 academic year are now open from 1 May 2024 to 31 July 2024 That means studies that fall within the academic year 2025 (including part-there-of) are eligible to apply! The scholarship is open from 1 May, closing 31 July 2024. Full Members and Student Members of…
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Editorial
Safer work, safer care
October 2, 2019
October has been nominated as Australian Safework Month. In this month’s Lamp, as in many…
Workplace News
Blacktown wins extra ICU staff
October 2, 2019
Workplace actions have led to a staff increase for Blacktown Hospital’s ICU despite ‘corporate negligence’.…
Workplace News
Concord members win ‘Nurse Bank’
October 1, 2019
A big public rally over unsafe staffing has helped to persuade management to fill vacant…
Workplace News
Rural and Remote Branch block move to cut RN ambulance...
October 1, 2019
Wilcannia’s ambulance service will continue to carry a registered nurse after intervention by the NSWNMA.…
Workplace News
Unfunded beds add to staffing woes
October 1, 2019
Gosford hospital staff say they “have been stretched so thin and for so long” they…
Aged Care
Elderly dumped in aged care scandal
October 1, 2019
A Queensland nursing home left residents homeless and staff unpaid when it abruptly shut down.…
Aged Care
Scandalous, but not illegal
October 1, 2019
The Earle Haven nursing home scandal is outrageous even by the low standards set by…
Workplace News
Health sector safety under examination
October 1, 2019
A new government safety plan aims to dramatically reduce the number of health care employees…
Climate Change and Environment
‘As the temperatures rise, so will we’
October 1, 2019
The connection between climate change and health fires up student nurses and midwives. Two…