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The ANMF has been campaigning for decades to improve the visibility of the long-standing issues in aged care and improve care delivery. The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and [...]

The national Early Career Nurse and Midwife working group have been working together for many years now with the common goal of supporting early career nurses and midwives to find [...]

Until now, there hasn't been a way for nurses and midwives in Australia to objectively assess their proficiency against a digital capability framework. The National Nursing and Midwifery Digital Health [...]

The review, titled 'Educating the Nurse of the Future --Report of the Independent Review into Nursing Education; was announced as a measure within the 2018/19 Federal Budget and was conducted [...]

Not only is our country experiencing increases in non-communicable diseases such as asthma, diabetes, obesity rates in this group of the Australian population, we also have significant increases in mental [...]

The publicity for this campaign has flushed out a range of comments from aged care providers, nurses, care workers, elderly people (both those in care and potential consumers of aged [...]

Following two years of extensive consultation by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) the new codes of conduct for nurses and midwives have been released. These revised codes [...]

No therapeutic product is ever completely free of risk. Some risks may be known when a medicine is first placed on the Therapeutic Goods Register. Others only become apparent after [...]

Under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009 (the National Law) which governs this registration, there is no distinction made about your registration status depending on your work position [...]

We've recently been to two national forums which, on the face of it, appeared to have very different agendas. However, on reflection we can see that there was a commonality [...]

One of the many important roles the ANMF undertakes, as the national professional and industrial organisation for nurses and midwives in Australia, is monitoring and promoting employment opportunities for early [...]

All nurses and midwives have the right to work in a safe and healthy workplace environment and to perform their work without risks to their physical and psychological health and [...]

The nurse practitioner role is now well established in Australia, with these nurses driving clinical leadership and innovation, across a diversity of care settings. The aged care sector, however, was [...]

Recently I attend the Nursing Informatics Australia annual conference in Melbourne. The theme of the conference was the role of the nurse in digital health innovation for consumers, clinicians, connectivity [...]

Back in 2009 Julianne used this column to raise the issue of the importance of language 'in the way we describe ourselves as nurses and midwives, what it is that [...]

Recently we attended a meeting with a large corporate aged care provider who is considering changing their model of care for a number of their residential facilities. Aspects of the [...]

'We don't get into the technical stuff ... We're talking about the health impact of what we're seeing with our patients. It's about real people,' (Domrose, 2015). This is how [...]

Recently the ANMF made a submission in response to a public consultation paper from the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) Review Taskforce (the Taskforce), chaired by Dr Bruce Robinson. As it [...]

Recently we attended the Australian College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP) annual conference in Melbourne, with the theme Celebrating the past and embracing the future. The nurse practitioner role has developed [...]

With only 12,000 nurses at the opening ceremony and 7,000 registered delegates, numbers were lower than expected at the recent International Council of Nurses (ICN) conference in Seoul, South Korea. [...]

In noting the importance of improving services for doctors with health concerns Dr Joanna Flynn, MBA Chair said, 'The Board is committed to supporting the wellbeing of all doctors and [...]

It's that time of year again when the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) will be sending us reminders to renew our nursing and/ or midwifery registration. If you're [...]

A warm welcome to Julie Reeves, a much needed addition to the Professional Team. Julie has come to the ANMF Federal Office from her role as Senior Policy Officer at [...]