Nursing Careers

Nominations for the 2018 HESTA Australian Nursing Awards have opened, with communities asked to shine the spotlight on Australia’s most over-worked and under-rated worker: the nurse.

Australian aged care workers have lodged a claim for a 60 per cent pay increase – a rise that would add up to $10 an hour to the hourly wage.

For well over two decades there have been warnings of a looming crisis in the health-care system due to the ageing population and significant workplace shortages.

Most of us are aware of how important nurses are to modern health care. There are fewer professions more necessary – especially in an ageing population – or more respected.

The federal government has announced that it will spend an additional $1.2 billion over four years to raise the wages of aged care workers.