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Nursing in Australia is a healthcare profession. Nurses and midwives form the majority (54%) of Australian health care professionals. [1] Nurses are either registered or enrolled. Registered nurses have broader and deeper education than enrolled nurses. Nurse practitioners complete a yet higher qualification. Nurses are not limited to working ...
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) is the largest union in Australia, with 274,956 members in 2018. [2] The union is run by nurses, midwives and nursing assistants to advance the industrial, political and professional interests of its members. It is a federated union, with branches in each state and territory in Australia.
Before being known as the Queensland Nurses and Midwives' Union, the union went under the name of the Queensland Nurses' Union. This was changed in 2017. Before this the union was known as the Royal Australian Nursing Federation, Queensland Branch, Union of Employees. This royal title was assumed, like other branches of the federation, in 1956 ...
c.1900 – The Private Hospital, Wakefield Street in Adelaide becomes the first training hospital for nurses in the colony of South Australia, under Alice Tibbits (1854–1932). [ 18 ] 1901 – New Zealand is the first country to regulate nurses nationally, with adoption of the Nurses Registration Act
Historically, Australian medical schools have followed the United Kingdom by conferring the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) to its medical graduates, whilst reserving the degree of Doctor of Medicine (MD) to be issued to those who have completed higher research studies or given honorarily to those who have contributed significantly to the medical professional ...
The Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA), founded in 1946, is the representative body for the public hospital sector in Australia. [1] It is one of 23 bodies funded from the government's Health Peaks and Advisory Bodies Program. [2] The Deeble Institute for Health Policy Research is its research arm.
Between 1904 and 1908, South Australia, [8] Western Australia and Tasmania all formed local ATNA associations (in that order). The organisation in Victoria continued, but it was on good terms with the ATNA. [1] In 1903 the association launched its own journal titled The Australasian Nurses' Journal with McGahey as the editor. [2]
After a new government was elected in March 1996, the Department of Health and Family Services was formed. [6] [11] The department also had responsibility for the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program from the former Department of Housing and Regional Development.