Tag: nurses
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‘Kick in the guts’: Nurses and midwives march on SA parliament
Nurses and midwives are marching from the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in North Adelaide, while others will take to the streets from the Royal Adelaide Hospital – nurses from regional and suburban hospitals will be bussed into the city. The healthcare workers are fed up with government negotiations, including yesterday’s pay offer rally organisers claimed…
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Patient assaults nurses, doctors in SA hospital
The incident occurred on Saturday night with the patient approaching a nurse in a corridor, stepping on her foot and then punching her in the head. The patient, who was waiting to be transferred to a specialist aged care unit, chased staff around the ward, with two nurses and three doctors suffering minor injuries including…
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Healthy bonus offered for staff to shore up SA health system
Premier Peter Malinauskas today revealed details of a $1.7m advertising campaign to attract allied health workers from interstate as well as New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The “For Work. For Life.” campaign, featuring advertisements in medical journals and social media spruiking the work and lifestyle benefits of South Australia, will run until the end…
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Pay boost for aged care workers
The Albanese government on Thursday announced the funding to meet a Fair Work Commission ruling that a 15 per cent wage hike for the sector’s workers needs to come into effect in one hit from July. The government argued that due to significant fiscal challenges, it should be allowed to space out the 15 per…
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Child care, emergency workers hit hardest by rental crisis, report says
Since March 2020, workers on award wages had lost an average of six hours from their weekly income to rent increases, according to a new report produced by the Everybody’s Home campaign. This amounts to 37 days worth of wages every year, but child care, hospitality and meat-packing workers are losing at least 40 days…
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SA nurses win pay rise deal
Nurses have already received the first $1500 bonus along with a three per cent pay rise. Similar increases will be paid in each of the next two years with a second $1500 bonus to be rolled out in October. Other benefits delivered under the new agreement include an increase in the continuing professional development allowance to…
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Affordable housing block announced for city fringe
Human Services Minister Nat Cook said the Greenhill Road site at Eastwood near Air Apartments would include “dozens of affordable houses” for essential workers including doctors, teachers and nurses. Plans for the Park Court public housing site also included up to 50 public housing homes to help people struggling with low or fixed incomes, among…
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Christmas wage deal makes state’s nurses among Australia’s highest paid
The pay deal is the biggest increase for nurses across the country, making Queensland nurses among Australia’s highest paid, Health Minister Yvette D’Ath said. “The first increased pay packet for nurses will be paid to nurses and midwives in the week leading up to Christmas,” the minister said. The four per cent increase will be…
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More palliative care nurses for rural SA
The nurses will be based in six regional areas to give more South Australians living in rural and remote communities end-of-life care closer to home. The senior nurses will provide complex care for people with life-limiting or terminal illnesses, working in a range of settings including hospitals, hospice care or in the community. The $6.3…