Download and sign our petition about the threat to registered nurses in NSW nursing homes – and ask your family, friends and colleagues to sign it too. Please return original pages of the petitions to us by Tuesday 30 June 2015, to Stella Topaz, Professional Officer, NSWNMA, 50 O’Dea Avenue, Waterloo, 2017. Download here: RNs24-7 petition […]
An attempt by employers to cut penalty rates for millions of Australian workers has kicked off just before Christmas, said the ACTU. ACTU President Ged Kearney said employer groups have outlined the industries they will target under a review of the award system at a hearing in the Fair Work Commission. “If employer groups have […]
The Aged Care Education and Training Incentive (ACETI) Program provides incentive payments to eligible aged care workers who undertake specified education and training programs to upgrade qualifications and build their career in aged care. The Department of Human Services delivers the ACETI Program through funding from the federal Department of Health and Ageing. More about […]
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) has joined other aged care industry stakeholders in expressing disappointment over the Abbott Government’s axing of the Dementia and Severe Behaviours Supplement. ANMF Federal Secretary, Lee Thomas, said the abolishment of the $16 a day supplement, introduced as part of the Labor Government’s Living Longer, Living Better aged […]
Unions are alarmed at a decision by the Fair Work Commission which will see the pay packets of the most vulnerable in our working community reduced by 14% on Sundays. ACTU Secretary Dave Oliver said that the Fair Work Commission has carved out the most vulnerable workers and decided that they are entitled to less. […]
Podcasts from the NSWNMA forum for Aged Care Nurses 9 May, 2014: Jane Mahoney, Clinical Nurse Consultant, Palliative Aged Care Consultancy Service (PACCS) Palliative care in aged care Bronwyn Arthur, Nurse Consultant, Aged Care, Sutherland Hospital Nursing Career Pathways in Aged Care Sally Lambourne, Senior Project Manager, Alzheimer’s Australia NSW Moving into Care project
Australians are being encouraged to help find and honour the nation’s leading aged care professionals by nominating them in the 2014 HESTA Aged Care Awards. Nominations are open until Friday 30 May 2014 and the winners will share in a $30,000 prize pool, generously provided by long-term HESTA Awards supporter, ME Bank. HESTA CEO Anne-Marie […]
Here are some podcasts of speakers at the NSWNMA aged care forum held on 18 October 2013. The speakers are introduced by Stella Topaz, NSWNMA Professional Officer. Bernadette Burke: A nurse practitioner project: improving health in aged care – by Bernadette Burke, Director of Care, Bushland Health Group Caroline Romeo: access and equity in a […]
The new federal Coalition Government has issued an Aged Care Subsidies Amendment (Workforce Supplement) Determination 2013 which prevents new applications for the workforce supplement in aged care (which formed part of the Living Longer Living Better aged care reform package passed by the previous Labor Government). The Coalition had already expressed its intention to “review” the aged care compact prior to the September 7 election and has […]
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