Primary Care Nurse of the Year honoured
CATHY Pearson thought of leaving nursing after becoming disillusioned with the acute section in 1999. It is general practice’s good fortune she did not.
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Kathryn Eccles
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Younger nurses shunning primary care
THE primary care nursing workforce could hit crisis point as a national survey shows a rapidly ageing workforce with younger nurses shunning the profession.
Younger nurses shunning general practice: survey
MORE nurses are being employed in general practice but the workforce is ageing rapidly, with younger nurses shunning the profession, a national survey shows.
NT gets own course to help increase clinical exam pass rate for IMGs
INTERNATIONAL Medical Graduates (IMGs) in the Northern Territory are to benefit from a new course designed to increase the pass rate of those sitting clinical exams.
IMG survival guide now available
NAVIGATING the Australian health system will be made easier following the publication of Medical Observer’s IMG Survival Guide.
- New training program aims to support IMGs
- Govt to launch training rural scheme for IMGs
- Med students reach out
- Nurses need to be e-health ‘champions’
- AMA’s ideas antiquated, says APNA
- Primary care nurses need to be heard
- PNIP brings success to general practices
- More nurses leads to surge in earnings for bulk billing practice
- New IMG assessment board promises improved efficiency and transparency
- Brave new (digital) world
- AMC exam alternative to be piloted
- It’s your year, stand and be counted
- Forum to help pass fellowship grows in popularity
- Babies spurn antisocial behaviour
- ANF campaign moves forward
- Rural IMG programs ‘comparable to slavery’
- ML seeks to speed GP accreditation
- Primary health’s dental policy role ignored
- Passion for practice nursing rewarded
- Drinking frequency linked to cancer risk
- Every TV show is doing you damage
- Training wish granted for child health checks
- Nurse care leads the way in reducing trio of cardiovascular risk factors
- Placements needed for student nurses
- Prenatal pets protective for allergies
- Overweight kids lack basic movement skills for exercise
- Body dysmorphia centres on the nose
- Sleep disorders more likely in people with impaired vision
- Meningococcus claims another Queensland victim
- Overweight kids lack basic movement skills for exercise
- Advice on managing aggressive patients
- Updated warning on antipsychotics in pregnancy
- Taking charge: UK GPs in control
- Immunisation policy needs nursing input
- Training crucial to expanded child checks
- Practice nurses key to curbing obesity in kids
- Nurses urged to take leadership roles
- Erectile dysfunction linked to NSAID use
- Review finds zinc supplementation breaks grip of common cold
- Parents’ poor judgement with CAMs
- Putting a price on wellbeing
- Army reservist GP breaks ranks
- Election pledge to raise penalties for GP violence
- Money well spent?
- Heart attack risk rises with air pollution level: study
- Patients back NPs to do sick notes and repeat scripts
- Pre-diabetes screen promising
- We’re growing as you grow
- New rules may see higher pathology costs and fewer tests
- After-hours GP clinics do little to ease ED workloads
- Handmaidens no more
- Pharma-research links “need transparency”
- GP-pharmacist team boosts safety
- GP stumps up own cash to search for respiratory illness answers
- Mediterranean diet preferred for diabetes prevention
- Super clinic plan scuttles IMG positions
- Report reignites concerns over GP pay for aged care
- Nominations for Australia’s annual nursing awards open
- Advice issued on body piercing
- Coordinated care program launched
- Expert recommends focus on existing heart failure drugs
- Practice nurse survey reveals wide variations in pay
- Views divided over patient warfarin management
- Social smokers overlooked for cessation advice
- Pharmacists face serve over reluctance to give up business focus
- MBS rebate rise less than a dollar
- GP nurses excel at patient satisfaction
- Best prostate surgery options debated
- 2009: Year in review
- Call for spirometry skills
- Overweight women need to watch weight gain in pregnancy
- Nurses most at risk for musculoskeletal disorders
- Vitamin D for over-65s dramatically reduces falls
- Surgery is better than medical care for carpal tunnel
- Studies back increased daily vitamin D intake
- Practice nurses could alleviate ACT doctor shortage: report
- Scheme for doctors’ mental health launched
- Online antibiotic resistance risk
- GP urges peers: take a day off to fight reform
- Financial planning savvy key to success
- Opinions about salaries and conditions canvassed
- Scholarship deadline looming
- Gag on Govt advisers threatens to stifle nurse practitioner debate
- GP deregistration sparks ‘guillotine’ law debate
- Child abuse needs more than just reporting: expert
- Cancer risk rises with excess imaging
- GP considers bid to unseat key Liberal
- Landmark report acknowledges nurses' role in primary care team
- Guidelines fall short in real-world medicine
- Handling a patient treatment dispute
- Mandatory CPD looms for GP nurses
- Skin problems linked with stress
- Independence of TGA’s drug safety plans questioned
- Doctors reject pharmacists’ bid to treat patients
- Medical education faces ‘erosion’ threat
- Diabetes treatment on the right track
- Adenotonsillectomy benefits may wane
- Pandemic precautions needed for pregnant GPs
- Spotlight on Australian swine flu vaccine trial
- Clear career path needed to attract nurses to primary care
- New advice on managing concussion
- Central sleep apnoea link to AF confirmed
- Nurses should take the lead on smoking cessation: expert
- Free MBS item training on offer
- SA Govt axes immunisation support for metro GPs
- Tonsil size not the best guide to OSA risk in kids
- Doctors win review of NT sex reporting laws
- Nurses warned to detail swine flu procedures
- Haikerwal wants harsh sentence for attacker
- Governor-General praises nurses
- Practice nursing to become 'sought after' career: Roxon
- Patient satisfaction survey gets green light
- Changes to APNA board
- Budget grants prescribing rights to nurse practitioners
- Prevention MBS call following smoking study success
- Independence of VTE guidelines questioned
- GP stabbing victim recovering at home
- Call for wider access to preferred pertussis drug
- Quit smoking by 15 weeks and baby’s in the clear
- Visa restrictions deter overseas student retention
- Division pioneers new nurse model
- Action needed to retain GP nurses
- Advocate GP’s passion for life
- Obese at risk of vitamin deficiencies
- AGPN calls for $13m e-health lifeline
- Rural Budget message déjà vu
- GP youth advocate up for Aussie of year award
- Preeclampsia-epilepsy link sparks early delivery debate
- Practice nurse ‘role models’ join awards honour roll
- DIY chronic care backed
- Depression post CVS event predicts poor outcome
- Study shows benefits of drinking in pregnancy but advice unchanged
- Divisions win praise but funding an issue
- Overseas advice to avoid rosiglitazone ‘premature’
- Concern over med students’ ‘unacceptable’ disease immunity
- Fears ramped-up audits will raise practice costs
- Doctors run out of patience over e-health records
- Doctors unite to lobby government on reform
- Bashed GP ‘very lucky’ to be alive
- Govt misses mark as kids check flounders
- Divisions-GP funding debate reignited
- Pressure for more GP training places intensifies
- COPD drugs linked to cardiovascular risk
- Campaign for absolute risk model in CVD
- Rhinitis a red flag for adult asthma: study
- Multimorbidity a common problem
- Carnell’s swipe: ‘heavy-handed’ scrutiny stifles divisions
- Mental health program results unclear
- Unexplained death a risk in diabetes
- Breathing exercises learnt online ease asthma
- Air pollution boosts DVT risk
- Indigenous cancer care’s fatal flaw
- Current practice lags behind evidence
- GP honoured for bridging racial divide
- Obesity taskforce a ‘waste of time’: expert
- Coffee a slim chance for leg flab
- One in three has mental disorder for life
- Parents’ mental illness doubles SIDS risk
- States must act on youth mental health
- GP rewarded for positive attitude
- ‘Super divisions’ should pay GP salaries, docs told
- Patient feedback on care is an ‘underused’ asset: expert
- Rally for better patient data: AGPN
- AGPN’s four-year strategy
- Disability among obese is on the rise
- Popular clinic lets students give general practice a go
- Injecting humanities back into medicine
- MRI scanner shortage is ‘desperate’
- Young reluctant to raise mental health with GPs
- Twin sister boosts risk of anorexia in males
- Deans at odds over medical school interview
- Exam delays cause registrar angst
- Act on child obesity now to avert CHD explosion
- Mixed messages on infant antibiotics
- Long sleep a diabetes risk
- NSAIDs, manipulation don’t help bad back
- Preethams are three of a kind
- Media accused of distorting prostate cancer screen info
- Higher psoriasis risk for smokers
- Boost nurse promise: AMA
- Sleeping heart rate dip provides mortality marker
- Discontent in division ranks over AGPN policy
- Election policies fail as BMI-cancer link worsens
- Random accreditation checks flagged
- Govt pledges 900 GP training places by 2011
- GPs must sell general practice to students: Abbott
- Nurse visits a major GP win
- Bid to gain PBS listing for new diabetes drug
- Waist measure a must to fight CVD, diabetes
- Kids’ fizzy drink campaigns are only a short-term fix
- Overloaded rural GPs quit emergency department
- Federal government has ‘failed’ mental health: survey
- Expand interns’ GP exposure
- New advice for mental health items
- GP loyalty bonus pitched to government
- Surgery best option for localised prostate cancer
- BP a red flag for type II diabetes
- Vit D deficiency prevalent in sun-shy teens
- Grand designs bring perfect practice into focus
- Better incentives will boost teaching
- Make practice ‘more flexible’ to cater for nurses
- Torn between safety and duty
- Fighting losing battle with child obesity
- Combo therapy ‘best’ for depressed teens
- Make education a career focus
- Medical museums need a makeover
- RACGP GP of the Year: holistic champion honoured
- Push for universal Down screening
- GPs could lose CPD choice
- Temora’s new GP speaks of his decision
- Aged care tops RACGP agenda
- GPs paid for Easyclaim
- AGPN bid to boost nurses’ role
- AMA denies holding government to ransom
- Obese children need team care checks
- Raising awareness of MI
- MBS overhaul on Rudd’s radar