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Nurses. For you. For life. campaign: Slow release of health training places is more bad news and more proof the piecemeal approach to the nurse shortage must end 

 

Queensland Nurses' Union | January 2009, 2008

 

Today's news (The Australian, 20/1/09) that only a fraction of the health training places promised for 2008 have been released is further proof the piecemeal approach to dealing with the nurse shortage must end...  More… 


Skilled nurses axed in cost cuts 

 

Sydney Morning Herald | Louise Hall | December 19, 2008

 

Registered nurses will be replaced by cheaper, less-qualified nurses and unqualified assistants, in the latest round of cost cutting by the (NSW) State Government.  More… 


New blood in nursing: 119 UK recruits a healthy injection for sick hospital 

Cairns Post | Margo Zlotkowski | November 13, 2008

 

Nurse Catherine Petit and her colleagues from the United Kingdom are saving Cairns from the worst of the national nursing shartage, the Queensland Nurses Union says.  More… 


Thousands of nurses needed, warns union 

Townsville Bulletin | Chris Quagliata | November 12, 2008

 

Townsville nurses have joined a union campaign to fix a chronic shortage of carers.  More… 


Mackay nurses scrub up for a numbers push 

Daily Mercury, Mackay | Cait Bester | November 6, 2008

 

Mackay nurses have joined forces with their state colleagues in a 12-month Nurses. For you. For life. campaign to solve the staff shortage they say is crippling their profession.  More… 


Lots at stake when nurses are needed 

New Mail, Bundberg | October 30, 2008

 

After watching the number of nurses in Bundaberg dwindle, Queensland Nurses Union (QNU) regional organiser Vicki Smyth is supporting a campaign with the message: "we need nurses for life".  More… 


Lower wages a nursing injustice 

Morning Bulletin | October 29, 2008

 

Nurses at Rockhampton's aged-care facilities are earning close to $200 a week less than their public health counterparts, a union official claimed yesterday.  More… 


Senior nurses bear brunt of shortages 

Morning Bulletin | Amy Formosa | October 29, 2008

 

The pressure is mounting for Comfort Asante, as day-to-day life in Rockhampton Hospital's surgical unit gets busier.  More… 


Rural and remote areas hard hit by nurse shortage 

ABC Capricornia | October 28, 2008

 

The Queensland Nurses Union says unless the government acts immediately to attract and retain more nurses, the consequences for Central Queensland - and for Australia - will be catastrophic.  More… 


State's nurses take their case to the people

Sunshine Coast Daily | October 27, 2008

 

The Queensland Nurses Union has launched a 12-month campaign aimed at easing the state's shortage of nurses, in a move it says is needed to avert crisis.  More… 


Union campaign aims to recruit 14,000: Nurses needed now
 

Cairns Post | October 27, 2008

 

Hundreds of extra nurses need to be recruited to work in the Far North by 2014 to avert a crisis in staffing levels.  More… 


 Qld backs nurse union's funding push
 

ABC | October 26, 2008

 

Queensland Health Minister Stephen Robertson says he supports the Nurses Union's campaign calling on the Federal Government to boost nursing places at universities.  More… 


Time to act on Qld nurse shortage: union

The Sydney Morning Herald | October 26, 2008

 

The Queensland Nurses Union (QNU) has launched a 12-month campaign aimed at easing the state's shortage of nurses in a move it says is needed to avert crisis.  More… 


Nurse crisis in ads
 

Kay Dibben | The Sunday Mail | October 26, 2008

 

The Queensland Nurses' Union will today launch an unprecented $500,000 advertising campaign in a desperate bid to address the growing shortage of nurses.  More… 


Newspaper advertisement

 

Sunday Mail | October 26, 2008

 

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Qld nurses to launch 12-month campaign to finally solve the nurse shortage


Queensland Nurses Union | October 25, 2008

 

The Queensland Nurses Union (QNU) will tomorrow (26 October) launch a 12-month campaign aimed at finally forcing governments and health and aged care employers to properly address the nurse shortage before shortages reach crisis levels in the next few years.  More… 

The Queensland Nurses’ Union – the
union for nurses and midwives – promotes
and defends the industrial, professional,
social, political and democratic values and
interests of over 40,000 members working
in public and private hospitals, aged care
facilities and other health settings.




 

 

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Authorised by Gay Hawksworth, Secretary, Queensland Nurses’ Union, 187 Melbourne St, West End 4101.