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UNION WIN: Westmead Branch prevents reduction in beds i...
April 22, 2024
The Westmead Hospital Branch of the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association (NSWNMA) who successfully staved off an attempt to reduce the staffing profile at the hospital’s Close Observation Unit (COU). Management sought to reduce the unit from 12 beds to 8, without proper staff consultation. The reduction of beds would have seen the unit lose…
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Women take brunt of penalty rate cuts – is this t...
March 3, 2017
You will have heard that last week the Fair Work Commission decided to lower Sunday…
Member Stories
Refugee past inspires a nurse’s art and career
March 3, 2017
Registered Nurse Nawal Khatiwada, a child refugee from Bhutan, tells his story of hope and…
Member Stories
A drug hypothetical for nurses
February 28, 2017
Surgical nurse Alice Suttie [right] asks: Fellow nurses, I have a hypothetical situation that is…
Unions
Majority of Australians support higher Sunday penalties...
February 24, 2017
A new poll released today shows the majority of Australians think there is a difference…
Unions
Low paid workers robbed of penalty rates
February 24, 2017
The country’s largest union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) has condemned a decision…
Member Stories
Handmaiden or professional: the 5 paradoxes of nursing
February 24, 2017
Salvatore Gambacorta RN writes: This article arose when I innocently replied to a Nurse Uncut…
Unions
Cuts to penalty rates a worry for nurses and midwives
February 23, 2017
The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) fears the Fair Work Commission’s decision to reduce…
Member Stories
Aged care AIN: ‘Crying in the pan room’
February 22, 2017
An aged care Assistant in Nursing writes: I have just read Belinda’s story, Not enough…
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Sally: a nurse who just wants the right to marry
February 15, 2017
Sally, a registered nurse who works in a Sydney tertiary hospital, is one of the…