First office of the NSW College of Nursing at Macquarie Street Sydney. Credit: ACN Archives By Trish Lowe MACN – ACN Nurse Educator Specialty post-graduate education and the establishment of nursing Colleges. Discussions regarding the need for nursing to emulate health professionals- such as dentists and pharmacists- by now transitioning their education to the…
By Catelyn Richards MACN (ENL) Communications Coordinator, Climate and Health Community of Interest When I was at school I remember my music teacher educating me about collective responsibility; where we must all be held accountable for the outcomes of our group. All twenty of us scrawny school children were seated in a messy semi-circle around…
By Amy Humme MACN (ENL), Catelyn Richards MACN (ENL) and Jennifer Weller-Newton FACN. The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) Melbourne Region recently hosted a webinar in celebration of International Nurses Day and 2020 being World Health Organization’s International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. The theme for this event was nursing leadership, ‘Becoming and…
By Emma Reardon MACN (ENL) As students, we know that clinical placement is the perfect place to put theory into practice and solidify our clinical knowledge. We arrive on our first day, clinical competency documents in hand, ready to gain real-life clinical experience. However, when focusing on our clinical skills, we can overlook the incredible…