ACN was proud to place community and primary health care nurses in the spotlight this September. Our national campaign, Community and Primary Health Care Nursing Week, is a highlight of our annual calendar, held 17–23 September 2018. Our eBook created in celebration of this week in now available online. You can view it here. Read…
ACN will be launching a postgraduate unit to educate nurses on endometriosis, thanks to an Australian Government grant and community collaborations with Endo Help. Endometriosis is a common, debilitating and aggressive benign condition which affects more than 10% of Australian women. It has historically been under-recognised and underdiagnosed in this country, but recently more attention…
by Jessica Pham, ACN Media Officer This year we have seen an increase in people taking charge of their health and wellbeing, openly speaking about issues that they had been suffering with in silence, in some cases, for years. ACN recognises that nurses, in particular, often do not practice adequate self-care strategies and suffer…
By Lucy Osborn MACN and Craig Sullivan MACN This column, The Scrubs that Fit, is all about the highs and lows of being a junior nurse, from the perspective of an ACN Emerging Nurse Leader. The aim of these blog posts is to help ease the transition from university to grad years and beyond. Find Lucy on ACN’s neo and or…
by ACN Policy Team ACN is committed to representing the knowledge and expertise of our Members in policy development throughout the Australian health and aged care system. In this series we want to share what ACN is doing in the policy space with our Members and followers and how your contributions shape our messages to…
NNF 2018. What an amazing event. I was incredibly lucky to be able to attend from start to finish. I did my best to meet as many new faces as possible and support my fellow junior nurses. I was also lucky enough to run a workshop as the chair of Next Gen COI with my…
Dr Ruth Rae FACN has been a registered nurse since 1978 and has worked as a freelance researcher and writer for more than 20 years. Her interest in nursing history led to her completing a PhD thesis and multiple books on Australian nurses in the First World War. ACN partnered with Dr Rae to publish…
An honest reflection Lee Poole MACN I have always had a keen interest in my personal health, wellbeing and taking care of myself at all levels. This started in school, long before I thought of nursing as a possible career and long before I would have called this interest self-care. Over the years, I have…
By Dot Yam and Tiffany Baxter A ‘call’ to nursing put you at the bedside of the patient, where you can make a difference. A commitment to self-care may well keep you from occupying a ward bed and subsequently requiring a nurse. Where it is suggested that “a good half of the art of living…
Every detail matters Jennifer Smith MACN In the previous edition of The Hive, Adjunct Professor Kylie Ward CEO ACN stated that “Almost one-third of Australian nurses and midwives are considering leaving the profession due to work-related stress and burnout”. Stop for a moment and consider what this means. In fact read it again and again.…