The Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation has made a submission to the government regarding a review of 457 visas for nurses and midwives looking to…
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Paul McNamara has extensive experience providing clinical and educative mental health support in general hospital and community clinical settings. He holds hospital-based, undergraduate and post-graduate…
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As my last shift in the graduate nurse transition to practice program approaches, I couldn’t help but reflect back on the last year. It has…
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The Northern Territory Medicare Local is now taking applications for university health students to fly to the Northern Territory to connect with high school students…
In Australia, medications are traditionally prescribed by medical practitioners such as general practitioners, dermatologists and paediatricians, as well as dentists. More recently, suitably qualified health…
My Health Career is excited to present a guest article by Emerging Nurse Leader Natalie Sharp about her placement in North Vietnam…. “I have just…
Read More My nursing clinical placement in Vietnam – by Natalie Sharp>
Following is a guest blog by Peninsula Health grad nurse Mike Fox. Mike has a double degree from Monash University, Bachelor of Nursing/Bachelor of Emergency…
Read More An emergency department nurse’s inside information about the ED>
Throughout the course of the year, I have spoken to a number of nurses at careers events. A common theme has come up a few…
It’s great to have another guest post from Laurie Bickhoff, who was chosen as one of five Emerging Nurse Leaders in 2012. In this post,…
My Health Career has been following the 2012 nursing grad jobs crisis since news of it first broke in December 2012. As at December 2012,…
My Health Career was lucky enough to have Adjunct Associate Professor Kim Ryan, CEO of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses (ACMHN) write a…
It is a treat to have a guest post from Laurie Bickhoff, who was chosen as one of five Emerging Nurse Leaders in 2012. In…
Health Workforce Australia (HWA) is currently in the process of assessing nursing retention and productivity in Australia. Their previously released report showed that unless action…
Read More Nursing – workforce retention and productivity study>
The Men in Nursing forum was held recently in Sydney, and over 40 men attended. And no, they didn’t spend the day basking in the…
We are SO EXCITED about to have a superstar guest blogger on My Health Career!! Following is a post by Associate Professor Brett Aimers, Chief…
The Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) has released figures on new graduate employment – Tasmania 30%, Queensland 10% and South Australia 50%. There are also 800…
Thanks goes to the Primary Health Care Research & Information Service (PHC RIS) for allowing us to re-publish this article about what is happening right…
Read More Nurse practitioners on the non-medical prescribing scene>
