Press releases
The QNU responds to a range of issues affecting nurses and midwives and our profession through a variety of media forums.
See below for the QNU’s press releases:ANF: Historic win as senate passes NP and midwife legislation
The Australian Nursing Federation has welcomed the decision to pass legislation giving nurse practitioners and eligible midwives access to MBS and PBS.
ANF: Nurses to make aged care an election year issue
The massive $300 wages gap between aged care and public hospital nurses is set to become an election year issue with the launch of a national advertising campaign by the Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) and the NSW Nurses’ Association (NSWNA).
ANF: Let nurses and midwives do their job
The Australian Nursing Federation, Australian College of Midwives and Australian College of Nurse Practitioners are calling on the senate to pass legislation that allows eligible midwives and nurse practitioners access to MBS and PBS.
ANF: Hospital nurses could lose up to $400 per week under Abbott
The Australian Nursing Federation said the opposition’s talk of cutting penalty rates would - in practice - hurt nurses working weekends and late night shifts.
Anti-violence message must continue in hospitals
Despite a number of achievements over the last ten years, aimed at mitigating the impact of violence against nurses, the anti-violence message in hospitals and healthcare settings must continue, the Queensland Nurses Union (QNU) has told a State parliamentary inquiry into alcohol-related violence.
ANF: Four times as many aged care nurses needed by 2050
Australia will need a staggering four times as many aged care nurses by 2050 to care for the nation’s ageing population.
ANF: Let nurses care for patients
The Australian Nursing Federation and the Australian College of Nurse Practitioners has called for calm amid hysterical and offensive dialogue coming from some healthcare sectors on the issue of nurse practitioners.
ANF: Equal pay for nurses to improve workforce productivity
Paying aged care nurses and carers a fair wage will encourage more women into the sector and improve future workforce participation.
Location of the AHS Centaur
Nurses throughout Australia will welcome today’s announcement that the final resting place of the AHS Centaur, which was sunk off Brisbane by a Japanese submarine on 14 May 1943 killing eleven of the 12 army nurses on board, has been located, the Queensland Nurses Union (QNU) said today.
ANF: Let nurses give consumers more choice
The Australian Nursing Federation’s submission to the Health Legislation Amendment Bill rejects outright any requirement which forces nurse practitioners and midwives to seek doctor approval for patient care they are capable of doing autonomously.
ANF: ANF Secretary to be new ACTU President
The Federal Secretary of the Australian Nursing Federation (ANF), Ged Kearney, has been endorsed as the next President of the country’s peak union body, the ACTU.
Queensland nurses take their aged care message to marginal Labor seats tomorrow
Queensland nurses will tomorrow (7 December) start handing over more than 10,000 postcards, calling on the Federal Government to make aged care the centrepiece of its 2010 budget, to federal Labor politicians in marginal seats.
The Park nurses demand full staffing and procedure review
Nurses at The Park Centre for Mental Health are calling for a joint Queensland Nurses Union (QNU)-Queensland Health review of staffing levels and procedures at the facility, following the serious assault of a nurse on October 14.
Queensland nurses take their aged care message to marginal seats tomorrow
Queensland nurses will tomorrow (7 October) take their campaign for improved staffing levels in the aged care sector – the Because We Care: Quality care for older Australians campaign - to various marginal federal electorates held by Labor members.
