Robert Fedele

More than a hundred delegates gathered on the Gold Coast to help shape the ANMF's focus and action for the next two years.

“This job enables me to offer families a chance to create a legacy for their child,” says Mellissa Short, a DonateLife Victoria paediatrics Nurse Donation Specialist based at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) and Monash Children’s Hospital. “Organ and tissue donation can help families cope with their grief in the months and years ahead of

Despite over 14 years of experience working across a range of healthcare settings, Tasmanian registered nurse and midwife Teagan Atkins often encounters situations where she is unable to work to her full scope of practice. One such example is in her current role as the lead triage nurse at Medicare Urgent Clinics in Hobart and

Leanne Simpson was empowered to pursue her dream of becoming a nurse thanks to fee-free TAFE.

An independent review of the Albanese Government’s landmark Secure Jobs Better Pay reforms has found the new laws have successfully increased wages. The review found early evidence that the hard-won reforms are achieving the federal government’s aim of lifting wages, improving job security and closing the gender pay gap. The review found the reforms, introduced

Ahead of the 2025 ICN Congress, President Dr Pamela Cipriano sat down with the ANMJ to discuss the event and the critical global challenges facing the nursing profession.

Nursing student Marcus Goh says his understanding and appreciation of the residential aged care sector improved significantly as part of the federal government-funded Aged Care Nursing Clinical Placements Program. Launched mid-2023, the national program has provided thousands of Bachelor of Nursing students with high-quality placements in aged care by giving them the opportunity to work

The Royal Melbourne Hospital’s Scrub Choir went viral during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic with their poignant renditions of classics like “I’ll Stand by You”. A few years later, they continue to inspire. The choir grew serendipitously from an internal bid to boost wellbeing and solidarity as the pandemic began to take hold in

Australia’s midwifery workforce is ‘in crisis’ with not enough midwives or students to meet future needs, a new report has warned. Released in Canberra today, the Midwifery Futures report, commissioned by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA), exposes widespread local staffing shortfalls, especially in non-metropolitan areas, which would have ‘catastrophic impact’ if the

Some aged care providers are reclassifying lifestyle staff as Personal Care Workers (PCWs) to get around meeting their mandated care minutes targets, a Senate Inquiry has heard.

The draft new Aged Care Act hasn't gone far enough, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) has argued.

Aged Care Minister Anika Wells has called out for-profit residential aged care providers for failing to meet mandatory care minutes targets.

Each year, the Adelaide University Rural Health Alliance (AURHA) – the rural health club for students undertaking a health-related degree – organises the Yalata Kidney Health Festival. The outreach initiative involves a group of about a dozen students who travel to the remote Indigenous community of Yalata, South Australia. The students engage with the community,

In Australia, women make up the majority of the nursing profession, yet they are under-represented in healthcare leadership. ROBERT FEDELE talks with researcher Mihirika Pincha Baduge about efforts to break down barriers. The glaring under-representation of women nurses in healthcare leadership is currently being explored by Victorian critical care registered nurse and PhD candidate Mihirika

Building social connections and creating community ties could help recruit and retain early career nurses to work in rural locations, according to a new research paper. Led by Elyce Green, from Three Rivers University Department of Rural Health at Charles Sturt University, the study set out to identify the influences and drawbacks for early career

Australia is facing a shortage of more than 70,000 nurses by 2035, according to national projections revealed in the Department of Health and Aged Care’s Nursing Supply and Demand Study. The study used data collected between 2014 and 2022 to forecast the supply and demand for nurses over the next 12 years. The model split

Catherine Smith’s relationship with obesity runs deep. There’s a strong family history – one of her parents underwent bariatric surgery. While a close relative died from obesity-related conditions. Her own experience emerged in her mid-to-late 30s, triggered by having an early hysterectomy to help prevent ovarian cancer, which her mother passed away from, that caused

Australia’s minimum and award wages will increase by 3.75%, the Fair Work Commission has announced at its Annual Wage Review hearing in Sydney this morning. The increase, effective from 1 July, will impact about 20.7% of the country’s workforce, or 2.6 million employees, who mostly work part-time, are predominantly women, and are more likely to

The federal government has launched a $50.2 million scholarship program to upskill registered nurses and midwives to become nurse practitioners and endorsed midwives in primary care and aged care settings. The Primary Care Nursing and Midwifery Scholarship Program will provide 1,850 postgraduate scholarships over four years and be managed by the Australian College of Nurse

A growing number of undergraduate nursing and midwifery students nationwide are voicing concerns about the significant challenges posed by hundreds of hours of mandatory unpaid clinical placements. Robert Fedele investigates. Erin Pereira, a former banker turned aspiring midwife, found inspiration in the remarkable work of midwives during the birth of her first child. Now in