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			<title>OHS National Model Laws - Not Good Enough!</title>
			<description>OHS Reps Lunchtime Rally</description>
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			<title>Graduate Nurse Program positions are still available</title>
			<description>If you are a final year undergraduate nurse or midwife and missed out on a Graduate Nurse Program position for 2010 you can still apply for a number of unmatched positions.  </description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:36:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>BUPA EBA Update No 5</title>
			<description>ANF (Vic Branch) Bupa members to cease industrial action</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:39:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Young Minds - Mental Illness and the Art of making sense</title>
			<description>Mental health issues in students is a concern for most school nurses, therefore the VSN held a one day seminar on mental health issues in September 2008.</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:44:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>New Name and Logo</title>
			<description>The Victorian and School and Campus Nurse Group S.I.G. recently changed their name to the Victorian School Nurses to reflect the ever expanding roles school nurses now enjoy. </description>
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			<title>Nurses and carers employed at Bupa Wodonga to begin implementing protected industrial action over wage offer</title>
			<description>Australian Nursing Federation (Victorian Branch) staff will today meet with nurses and personal care workers (PCWs) employed at Bupa aged care facility at Wodonga, to begin implementing protected industrial action after their employer failed to meet an agreement with their union on a new Enterprise Agreement.  

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			<title>Bupa Chairman thinks MPs are worth a 3% per annum pay rise, but Bupa&amp;#39;s own aged care workers get less than 2%</title>
			<description>The Australian Nursing Federation (Victorian Branch) says Bupa Australia is offering personal care workers at Bupa aged care facilities in Victoria a pay increase of less than 2 per cent per annum, while its Board Chairman, in his other role at the Commonwealth Remuneration Tribunal, recently agreed to Federal MPs getting a 3 per cent wage increase.



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			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:31:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Bupa EBA Update No 2</title>
			<description>Legally Protected Industrial Action</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:56:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Nurses employed at Bupa aged care facilities to consider industrial action over wage offer</title>
			<description>Nurses and personal care workers (PCWs) employed at Bupa aged care facilities across Victoria are being urged not to accept a sub standard wage offer after their employer failed to reach agreement with their union, the Australian Nursing Federation (Victorian Branch), on a new Enterprise Agreement.  



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			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:50:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Daylight Savings starts this weekend - Sunday, 4 October 2009</title>
			<description>Victoria&amp;#39;s period of daylight saving will start at 2:00am this Sunday, 4 October 2009. At 2:00am move clocks forward one hour to 3:00am.

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			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:20:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Statement from ANF (Victorian Branch) </title>
			<description>The ANF (Victorian Branch) statement regarding Victorian Supported Residential Services.</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:15:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>ANF (Victorian Branch) welcomes 10,000th nurse</title>
			<description>The Australian Nursing Federation (Victorian Branch) today welcomed the announcement of the successful recruitment of 10,000 nurses and midwives since nurse to patient ratios were introduced into the Victorian public health sector.



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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:23:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Value aged care nursing properly EBA update - September</title>
			<description>Private Aged Care EBAs completed</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:28:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Because we Care Campaign</title>
			<description>ANF (Vic Branch) BWC action plan for Job Reps and activists</description>
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