Specialities
Mental Health
What does being ‘trauma‑informed’ actually mean?
August 26, 2026
What does it mean for a hospital to offer “trauma-informed care”? How about a hairdresser? Or even a paint colour consultant? Suddenly, this term is everywhere, but it’s rarely explained. Behind the buzzword are decades of evidence about what actually…
17 days ago
Mental Health
Awareness is up, but mental health stigma persists
Earlier this year, the National Mental Health Commission (NMHC) released the first National Stigma and…
Mental Health
How being ‘on‑call’ for work can disrupt your sle...
It’s 4am, you’ve finally drifted off, and then the phone rings. It’s work calling. You…
Mental Health
Emotional burnout pushing graduate nurses to leave the...
The emotional burnout affecting first-year graduate nurses is a significant…
Midwifery
Midwifery Group Practice – Sustaining the model that...
Midwifery Group Practice (MGP), is an evidence-based, publicly funded model…
Aged Care
National aged care survey reveals staffing shortages, e...
ANMF calls for mandated staffing ratios to ensure safe, quality…
Mental Health
Mental Health
What does being ‘trauma‑informed’ actually mean?
August 26, 2026
What does it mean for a hospital to offer “trauma-informed care”? How about a hairdresser? Or even a paint colour consultant? Suddenly, this term is everywhere, but it’s rarely explained.…
17 days ago
Mental Health
Awareness is up, but mental health stigma persists
August 26, 2026
Earlier this year, the National Mental Health Commission (NMHC) released the first National Stigma and Discrimination Report Card (the Report), providing a comprehensive national picture…
Aged Care
Aged Care
National aged care survey reveals staffing shortages, e...
August 11, 2026
ANMF calls for mandated staffing ratios to ensure safe, quality care for aged care residents. A new survey of Australia’s aged care workforce has revealed, despite the Federal Government’s legislative…
Yesterday
Aged Care
The fight continues in aged care
July 30, 2026
More than 60 members attended a recent NSWNMA Aged Care Summit and vowed to continue campaigning to improve the sector. There have been many achievements…
General
General
Nurses will soon be able to prescribe PBS drugs. Here&#...
July 16, 2026
Imagine your elderly father is in an aged care home. It’s Friday afternoon, and he’s run out of his regular Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) blood pressure medication and he can’t…
27 days ago
General
Wages welcomed but further support for staff lacking in...
June 23, 2026
The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) has welcomed the government’s funding allocation towards the recent wages increase for nurses and midwives in today’s state…
Midwifery
Midwifery
Midwifery Group Practice – Sustaining the model that...
August 21, 2026
Midwifery Group Practice (MGP), is an evidence-based, publicly funded model of care where a woman receives continuity of care from a primary midwife or a small team of midwives throughout…
22 days ago
Midwifery
Nurse and midwife Donna Garland appointed to new Chief...
May 29, 2026
Donna Garland, a midwife and registered nurse who was most recently the general manager of the Royal Hospital for Women in Randwick, has been appointed the state’s…
Emergency
Emergency
ED ratios “a gamechanger”
July 30, 2026
Winning 1:3 ratios in ED was hard fought and the transition has been challenging but the rewards are undeniable, say Kelly Falconer and Victoria Dane. There are now almost 80…
13 days ago
Emergency
Regional MPSs still waiting for the ratios they were pr...
July 30, 2026
The ED experience vindicates our faith in ratios, and our Multi-Purpose Services are now crying out for them. Thomas Hubbard, the branch secretary of the…
Drug and Alcohol
Drug and Alcohol
Paracetamol use in pregnancy: No proven harm
October 15, 2025
Australia’s Chief Medical Officer has joined the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), global medicines regulators, clinicians, and scientists in firmly rejecting claims that paracetamol use during pregnancy is linked to ADHD…
28 days ago
Drug and Alcohol
Drug overdose deaths continue to climb
October 11, 2024
There were 2,356 drug-induced deaths in Australia in 2022, according to the Penington Institute’s annual drug overdose report. Of these overdose deaths, 80 per cent…
Drug and Alcohol
Extreme heat might make MDMA riskier
Drug and Alcohol