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Last Updated: 27-11-2014
Perioperative nurses provide care for patients in the period prior to and right after surgery or intervention procedures. Perioperative nursing encompasses a variety of specialty roles including holding bay, circulating, anaesthetic, Instrument Read More...
Nursing in the Northern Territory
Last Updated: 22-10-2013
Darwin is the northern-most city in Australia, with a population of only 210,000, it offers a warm, relaxed lifestyle, and some of the most amazing scenery in the country is within a three-hour drive, including Kakadu National Park and Katherine Gorg Read More...
Last Updated: 22-10-2013
Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria, is the second largest city in Australia with around 5 million residents. It is a thriving melting pot of nationalities, alive with culture, food and especially sport. There is always something to do or see, wi Read More...
Nursing In Australia - in Three Steps
Last Updated: 06-12-2021
Do you want to move to Australia to work as a nurse? This article is intended to provide you with an up to date explanation of the requirements and the steps you need to take. Step 1 – Do your qualifications a Read More...
New CPD requirements for nurses and midwives in Australia
Last Updated: 22-10-2013
New continuing professional development requirements for nurses and midwives in Australia With national registration now in place for nurses and midwives in Australia, proof of continuing professional development units are critical for reregistrat Read More...
6 Great Tips for Graduate Nurses
Last Updated: 22-10-2013
Starting any new career can be a daunting prospect, and in a medical field such as nursing even more so. Procedures, systems, processes and all manner of bureaucracy can culminate to create a very scary first year at work. Here are Read More...
The Australian Nurses Guide to Working in New Zealand
Last Updated: 22-10-2013
If you have been thinking about what it might be like to work in New Zealand, now is the perfect time to give some serious thought to where your career is headed in 2011. Nursing in New Zealand offers a variety of unique opportunities for nurs Read More...
Last Updated: 22-10-2013
To work as a nurse anywhere in Australia, you need to apply for registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. Once you have that registration, it is valid for one year and you can travel anywhere in the nation for work. Australia is Read More...
Nursing in Australia - The Sydney Opera House
Last Updated: 22-10-2013
If you’re a midwife or a midwifery student, then you may be wondering if there are any advantages to being an agency midwife as compared to having a permanent job at a hospital. If you’re employed as a midwife at a hospital, then you w Read More...
Midwifery - Not for the Faint Hearted
Last Updated: 22-10-2013
On television and in the movies, giving birth often looks so easy and very clean, and a pristine baby magically appears after a brief moment of moaning and exertion. But in reality it can be extremely messy. The mother may vomit or lose c Read More...
A Child is Born!
Date of Posting: 14-11-2010
Is this the solution to lifting challenges and reduced risk of back injuries for nurses? Read More...
Midwifery - What you were afraid to ask
Last Updated: 22-10-2013
Midwifery can be a very rewarding career. If you’re interested in becoming a midwife, you might have heard some stories about childbirth that you weren’t sure were true or not. If you don’t know any midwives, then it can Read More...
A midwife in action
Last Updated: 10-09-2014
Are you interested in studying midwifery? If so, you may like to know about some of the study options available to you. First of all, you don‘t need to have nursing experience in order to become a midwife. You can do a Bachelor o Read More...
Is Midwifery the Right Career For You?
Last Updated: 22-10-2013
Is midwifery the right career for you? If you’re interested in nursing as a career, then you might have considered studying midwifery. This section of nursing involves delivering babies, either as part of a team in hospital, in birt Read More...
Ever Considered Working in the Middle East?
Last Updated: 22-10-2013
Ahlan Wa Sahlan Welcome, may you arrive as part of the family. Working in the Middle East is fast becoming a popular career destination for many Health Professionals. Not only is there an extensive variety of attractive Nursing and Allied Health Read More...
Date of Posting: 26-10-2010
In this video by Nurse TV, nurses or people considering nursing as a career are given an understanding of what's involved in nursing in a burns unit. Read More...
Date of Posting: 26-10-2010
In this Nurse TV video, nurses and people considering a nursing career are given an understanding of the nurse practitioner role and in particular what a nurse practitioner can do in an emergency department setting. Read More...
Nursing in the Emergency Department
Date of Posting: 26-10-2010
In this Nurse TV video, nurses and people considering a nursing career are given an insight into nursing in an emergency department. Read More...
Date of Posting: 26-10-2010
In this Nurse TV video, nurses are given an insight into working as an incontinence nurse or incontinence advisor. Read More...
Date of Posting: 26-10-2010
In this Nurse TV video, nurses or people considering a nursing career are given an understanding of theatre nursing or perioperative nursing. Read More...
Date of Posting: 26-10-2010
In this Nurse TV video, nurses or people considering a nursing career are given an understanding of aged care nursing and the role of nurses in nursing homes and aged care facilities. Read More...
Nurses - avoid back injury - no lift policy
Date of Posting: 26-10-2010
This Nurse TV video gives nurses an important insight into the impact that manual handling and lifting in particular can have on nurses. The introduction of the no lift policy and the associated procedures is intended to protect nurses and other hea Read More...
Paediatric Nursing in Alice Springs
Date of Posting: 26-10-2010
This Nurse TV video gives nurses and people considering a career in nursing an insight into paediatric nursing, but also working with indigenous children and dealing with many of the paediatric health issues experienced by children living in disadvan Read More...
Date of Posting: 26-10-2010
This Nurse TV Video, gives nurses or prospective nurses an understanding of the health issues and patient care requirements in a hospital spinal unit. Read More...
Date of Posting: 26-10-2010
This Nurse TV video provides a fascinating insight into nursing in remote parts of Australia and the outback in particular. Read More...
Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing
Date of Posting: 26-10-2010
This Nurse TV video gives nurses and prospective nurses an understanding of what's involved in working in a neonatal intensive care unit. Read More...
Date of Posting: 26-10-2010
This video by Nurse TV provides an insight into the work of palliative care nurses and the role they play in improving the quality of life of their patients and their patients families. Read More...
Date of Posting: 26-10-2010
This Nurse TV video provides nurses and people considering a nursing career an understanding of hyperbaric medicine and the role that nurses play in these units. Read More...
Nursing with the Royal Flying Doctors
Date of Posting: 26-10-2010
This Nurse TV Video gives a fascinating insight into the work of flight nurses. Read More...
Last Updated: 02-02-2015
UPDATED: 16th January 2015 State-by-state variations in wage agreements and classifications makes specifying registered nurse salaries and enrolled nurse salaries.. The table provided below is a guide to pay rates for registered nurses and enro Read More...
Interview with a Mental Health Nurse
Date of Posting: 05-10-2010
This interview with Kevin - a Mental Health Nurse gives a great insight into nursing as a career path and the job experiences one can expect. Read More...
Interview with a Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse
Date of Posting: 05-10-2010
Interview with Christina - a Psychiatric Nurse / Mental Health Nurse with Southern Health RAPS (Recovery and Prevention of Psychosis) giving some great insights into her experiences and her job. Read More...
Interview with a Critical Care Nurse
Date of Posting: 05-10-2010
In this interview, Kylie, a Paediatric Emergency Department nurse shares some of her experiences in her nursing job, and nursing as a career path. Read More...
Interview with an Aged Care Nurse
Date of Posting: 05-10-2010
In this interview, Lars shares some of his insights into his nursing career with 'Hospital in the Home', and his job as an acute and aged care nurse. Read More...
Last Updated: 06-12-2021
A Psychologist is an Allied Health professional who specialises in the treatment of mental health problems and human behaviour. The difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist is that a psychologist primarily aids the depressed patient by co Read More...
Last Updated: 06-12-2021
A radiographer is an Allied Health professional who uses x-rays to produce radiographs of patients in order to help diagnose the patient’s medical condition. A radiographer can have a lot of variety in their working day. As well as using x-r Read More...
Last Updated: 22-10-2013
A radiographer is an Allied Health professional who uses x-rays to produce radiographs of patients in order to help diagnose the patient’s medical condition. A radiographer can have a lot of variety in their working day. As well as usi Read More...
Last Updated: 22-10-2013
A speech pathologist is an Allied Health professional who helps people to communicate more effectively through speech and other forms of communication. Formerly, this profession used to be called speech therapy. Communication just doesn&rsqu Read More...
Last Updated: 06-12-2021
An audiologist is an Allied Health professional who specialises in hearing problems. Their duties include performing hearing tests, diagnosing the patient, taking moulds of each ear for hearing aids and fitting the hearing aid onto the patient. Th Read More...
What is an Exercise Physiologist?
Last Updated: 21-10-2013
An exercise physiologist is an Allied Health professional who specialises in the benefits of exercise to help patients get fitter for all around good health, or to treat patients with a medical condition through exercise. They are much mo Read More...
