Nurses Remain Australia's Most Ethical and Trusted Professionals

For the 20^th consecutive year, Nurses have been voted Australia’s most ethical and trusted professionals, with pharmacists and doctors ranked second and third respectively.
The Roy Morgan Image of Professions Survey 2014 found that 91 per cent of Australians aged 14 and over, placed nurses at Number 1 in terms of ethics and honesty. This was a 1% increase on the previous year.
According to the national survey of 30 professions, nurses are still “leading the way as Australia’s most respected profession for very high or high ethics and honesty.”
“On behalf of our members, the ANMF happily welcomes the findings of the Roy Morgan survey,” ANMF Federal Secretary, Lee Thomas, said today. “It’s a great achievement that nurses have again been rated Australia’s leading professionals in terms of ethics and honesty for the 20^th consecutive year.
“Nurses represent the largest proportion of Australia’s health workforce and continue to deliver quality patient care to people of all ages, working in hospital emergency departments, maternity, mental health and aged care facilities.
“Australia needs to urgently develop and implement viable solutions to ensure there is a future nursing and midwifery workforce to replace current the nursing staff who are set to retire over the next 15 to 20 years.
“The Abbott Government must work with the States and Territories and with key stakeholders like the ANMF to fund strategies to create decent jobs for Australia’s highly-educated nursing and midwifery graduates who still cannot find employment.”