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Didn’t get a new grad offer? Here’s what you ca...
October 14, 2024
Not every nursing and midwifery students gets an offer into a new grad program. Some people make it onto an local health district’s or hospital’s eligibility list, while others simply…
Yesterday
Research
Seeking RN research participants: Do Masters qualified...
Anita Dunn is undertaking a PHD to investigate this question…
3 days ago
Aged Care
Union campaign wins better Opal deal
NSWNMA members at Opal aged care facilities have won an…
4 days ago
Private Sector
Strike wave follows latest Ramsay ‘No’ vote
Ramsay Health Care nurses in NSW hold historic work stoppages…
4 days ago
Public Health
Sick and tired of being overworked and underpaid
It was loud and raucous with a lot of colour…
4 days ago
Unions
Your penalty rates this Labour Day public holiday
With the Labour Day Public Holiday on the Monday 7…
12 days ago
Professional Issues
Students
Didn’t get a new grad offer? Here’s what you ca...
October 14, 2024
Not every nursing and midwifery students gets an offer into a new grad program. Some people make it onto an local health district’s or hospital’s eligibility list, while others simply…
Yesterday
Research
Seeking RN research participants: Do Masters qualified...
October 12, 2024
Anita Dunn is undertaking a PHD to investigate this question and would like to speak with RNs who are Masters qualified themselves, or who work…
Specialities
Aged Care
Union campaign wins better Opal deal
October 11, 2024
NSWNMA members at Opal aged care facilities have won an improved pay increase, more sick leave and an agreement to ensure the company complies with its care minutes obligations. Opal…
4 days ago
Private Sector
Strike wave follows latest Ramsay ‘No’ vote
October 11, 2024
Ramsay Health Care nurses in NSW hold historic work stoppages for higher wages and safer staffing. Ramsay nurses and midwives across NSW have taken their…
Workplace Issues
Unions
Your penalty rates this Labour Day public holiday
October 3, 2024
With the Labour Day Public Holiday on the Monday 7 October 2024, make sure you know what you’re entitled to if you’re working on this day. In the NSW Public…
12 days ago
Workplace News
Working when daylight savings starts? Here’s what...
October 3, 2024
If you are working a shift when daylight saving time starts this weekend (2am, Sunday, 6 October), you will work an hour less than you…
Social Justice & Action
Member Stories
Engage your local MP
October 11, 2024
I am a Registered Nurse of 20 years. Like many others across the state, our small semi-rural hospital is in trouble. Located in the upper Blue Mountains, it is situated…
4 days ago
Community Campaigns
Attacks on health care during war are becoming more com...
October 1, 2024
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has warned attacks on health-care workers, patients and facilities “must not become the norm”.…
Community Campaigns
ANMF stands for the end to global conflict on Internati...
Climate Change and Environment
Why are we seeing more pandemics? Our impact on the pla...
Life
Offers
Introducing Clove: Comfort and support for nurses and m...
July 31, 2024
In a significant development for Australia’s healthcare industry and with over a million pairs already sold to happy nurses and midwives across the US – Clove footwear is built to…
14 days ago
Work
Common super myths busted
July 4, 2024
For many of us, the world of superannuation can be a confusing one. But it doesn’t need to be. HESTA has busted the most common…
Editorial
Editorial
Value us and our vital work!
August 2, 2024
After the devastation of COVID-19 and the suppression of pay through a decade-long, coercive cap on wages, it is time to rebuild our public health system, starting with some respect for the workforce. Our fight for a 15 per cent pay rise has escalated with more than 50 rallies held…
13 days ago
Editorial
And we’re off!
June 7, 2024
The rollout of ratios has started with EDs at Liverpool and Royal North Shore Hospitals in the vanguard and recruitment for the new positions under way. It has been a lengthy process as we have methodically worked our way through the detail but, finally, we are starting to see our…
Editorial
Working for better pay on multiple fronts
Pay has been lagging behind the soaring cost of living. It’s time to fix this.…
Editorial
A foundation but more to do
The rollout of ratios is complex and at every step we will need to be…
Editorial
Serious health reform is not negotiable
We must ensure the State government delivers the funding necessary to fulfill its promises on…