Conference photo gallery
We’re creating a gallery of photos from the NSWNA annual conference, which is on for the final three days of this working week. All you have to do is click on the Look button at the top of this screen...
View ArticleHistory made at Annual Conference
Heated discussions and debate ensued when the Notices of Motion session began with a motion to change the name of the NSW Nurses’ Association to include midwives. Brett Holmes, General Secretary of the...
View ArticleBecause We Care: a long and winding road
ANF Federal Secretary Lee Thomas addressed the NSWNA annual conference this afternoon about the three and a half years of the Because we Care campaign, which culminated in the $1.2billion funding...
View ArticleConference vox-pops
If you weren’t at the NSWNA annual conference last week (and even if you were!) you can get a flavour of the atmosphere from this short video (scroll down). Image credits: NSWNA
View ArticleRingtone: ‘In Their Hands’
You can download the ringtone from the You Couldn’t Be in Better Hands campaign as an MP3 file. And don’t forget this video of Martha and Simon singing the theme song live at the recent NSWNA...
View ArticleMatron Ruby Grant Park – South Sydney
South Sydney has a new park named after a nurse. The Matron Ruby Grant Park is not far from the offices of the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association in Waterloo, which is serendipitous as Ruby Grant was...
View ArticleContest – win an iPad to celebrate the Association’s new name!
In case you hadn’t heard, we are now the New South Wales Nurses and Midwives’ Association. History was made at Annual Conference this year when delegates voted overwhelmingly to change the name of the...
View ArticleSafety in numbers – ratios around the world
This article by Gerard Brogan RN on the international history of campaigns for nurse-to-patient ratios was first printed in the November 2012 issue of National Nurse magazine, which is published by...
View ArticleA new mural for the nurses and midwives’ union
Blue Mountains artist Birgitte Hansen has created a wonderful mural which shows the history of nurses and midwives in union activism in NSW. The patchwork artwork was recently hung on a wall of the...
View ArticleA proud past and fighting future: May Day 2013
A Proud Past. A Fighting Future was the theme of yesterday’s May Day parade in Sydney and as the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association certainly has both a proud past and a fighting future (not to...
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