AMA rubbishes claim that pharmacist prescribing will ‘ease burden on GPs’
The Federal Government’s Scope of Practice Review is pushing a wrongheaded idea that pharmacists and nurses will protect GPs from burnout by taking over the…
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Is the govt’s Scope of Practice Review already set on pharmacist prescribing?
In just a few days, the Federal Government’s Scope of Practice Review will start showing its hand. When Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark…
Nurse beaten unconscious by ED patient gets $1.8 million compensation
A nurse who was beaten unconscious by a patient with dementia will receive $1.8 million in compensation, after a court found the hospital should not…
RACGP sounds alarm over Fed Govt’s scope of practice review
The RACGP is worried that the Federal Government is barrelling towards a UK-style health system based on its scope of practice review, which will start…
Nurse practitioners will be freed to bill Medicare independently of doctors under Fed Govt bill
Nurse practitioners will be free to bill Medicare without clinical backup from a doctor under draft laws introduced to federal Parliament today. The changes were…
Midwives and nurses now able to prescribe medical abortion drugs
Queensland has become the first state to allow midwives and nurses to prescribe the pregnancy termination medication MS-2 Step. The state’s parliament passed laws on…
State Government to spend $50 million on nurse-led primary care clinics for women and girls
The Queensland Government says it will spend $46 million setting up free nurse-led walk-in clinics for women and girls. Intended to reduce the financial and…
Nurse suspended for two years after attempting to steal a cannula during hospital night shift
A nurse who was suspended for two years under emergency powers after stealing cannula equipment during a hospital night shift has been given the green…
Nurse who stole 25 face masks suspended for 12 months by tribunal
A nurse who manipulated nursing students into helping her steal 25 face masks and a handful of wipes for her overseas trip has been banned for 12 months and…
‘Secretive’ plan to let registered nurses prescribe MS-2 Step slammed
A Queensland Government plan to let registered nurses prescribe MS-2 Step is another “ad-hoc and opaque” attempt to rewrite health workers’ scope of practice, doctors say. …
