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A JUNIOR nurse working at a Taree hospital has been suspended for six months after having an affair with a terminally ill patient who made her a beneficiary in his will. The Nursing and Midwifery Tribunal of NSW found the enrolled nurse guilty of professional misconduct earlier this month and published the result on Monday.

PATIENT care will suffer if 600 jobs to be axed from SA Health include nurses, the nursing union warns. Health Minister Jack Snelling has told a parliamentary committee that 600 full time equivalent jobs would be axed over the next four years. He would not rule out the loss of nurses, who make up 40 per cent of the SA Health workforce.

A Sydney nursing home assistant who punched a paralysed stroke patient in the face has been banned from working for three years.

Midwife Gloria Medrana has helped tens of thousands of West Australians welcome new life into the world but, after 40 years, it is time for the Mercy Hospital nurse to retire from the job that has brought her so much joy.

ROCKINGHAM’S Ann-Marie Della-Spina will head to Thailand later this month as part of a group of Murdoch University School of Nursing students to deliver vital health care as part of mobile clinic in a remote northern village.

Doctors are alarmed that a nurse who put dozens of WA patients at risk of blood-borne infections by her "backyard Botox" business can still work without any sanctions.

NURSES are arming themselves with makeshift weapons for protection while walking to and from work at the Women's and Children's Hospital. They are carrying scissors, hairspray cans and whistles as they walk alone through the Parklands to their homes and cars, following four sexual assaults in North Adelaide in the past two years.

The fight for legislation that would force every Australian hospital to introduce safety-engineered medical devices (SEMDs) in a bid to reduce Australia’s needlestick and sharps injuries has gone to Federal Parliament.

A NURSE faced court on Monday after allegedly slapping and pulling the hair of a patient with cerebral palsy and schizophrenia, but a magistrate refused to accept her guilty pleas.

RDNS SA has blamed “a steady reduction in referral volumes” for its decision to cut 40 nursing and non-nursing jobs. The organisation, which is run by Silver Chain Group and delivers home-based health care in South Australia, has revealed it will offer voluntary redundancy packages to 30 nursing full-time equivalent (FTE) employees and 10 non-nursing FTE employees until June 26, when it may move to forced redundancies.