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Medals for nurse leaders
September 19, 2023
Nurses and midwives prominent in the Australia Day Honours list. Named in the 2023 Australia Day Honours list were Jennifer Collins, the union’s state president from 1992–1998, and Susan Pearce, who was a NSWNMA organiser and manager for almost nine years. Jennifer, who retired as a Department of Veterans Affairs Deputy Commissioner (NSW and the…
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The Essential Network (TEN) – helping nurses and...
August 30, 2021
Hospitals and medical practices have never been more stressful. With increasingly infectious variants of COVID-19,…
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Not enough nurses
February 1, 2021
The World Health Organization estimates an extra six million nurses are needed globally. COVID-19 has…
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Job satisfaction and improved conditions promote nurse...
January 27, 2021
An Omani study has found that job satisfaction and improved conditions had a significant impact…
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Nurses need psychological PPE during a pandemic
December 2, 2020
Protecting the wellbeing of the health workforce is key to providing quality care during a…
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NSWNMA members win big at Excellence in Nursing and...
November 26, 2020
Five NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association members have won awards at the 2020 Excellence in…
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When health workers came up against COVID it laid bare...
November 25, 2020
COVID-19 turned 2020 on its head for all healthcare workers, particularly those at the front…
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Primary health nurses hard hit by COVID-19: study
September 30, 2020
A recent study has found that nurses working in primary health have been left worse…
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Saints or monsters: pop culture’s limited view of...
September 8, 2020
When health care workers make news that news is usually bad. Either staff are protesting…
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Low-paid, young women: the grim truth about who this re...
August 31, 2020
When a recession hits, no group of workers is immune. But some are harder hit…