Nursing Workforce In Australia

Written by RN
Tuesday, 22 January 2008
AIHW report reveals a rise in nursing workforce of 9.8 percent from 2001 to 2005, but the ANF warned against any satisfaction with respect to nursing workforce numbers. The factual information shows numbers is for the most part because of longer working hours of nurses, with a frightening sixteen thousand nurses working greater than 50-hours per week. Parallel with longer working hours, the number of nurses with the age of 50 years and older rose from 24 percent in 2001 to 35 percent in 2005. Besides the average age of nurses in 2005 was 45. Upsettingly, the report likewise shows forty one thousand registered nurses are not working as nurses. Gerardine Kearney, Acting Federal Secretary of the ANF, the professional and industrial voice for nurses and midwives in Australia, declares that the longer working hours of nurse, the number of nurses not doing work in the profession and the actually that one third of nurses will give up their occupation in the next ten years hold a large question and demand the reply in terms of a sustainable workforce. There is a requirement to guarantee that all nurses are assisted by directing the attention to the issues of basic importance of professional recognition such as wages and conditions that should be situated at the center to workforce planning. The longer working hours must be shortened and the average age of nurses must be lowered from 45 by increasing the wages and improving the conditions of the workplace of nurses. [Via NSW Nurses' Association ]

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