By Trish Lowe MACN – ACN Nurse Educator The first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nurses This article contains stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People who have passed away. The author has taken great care to ensure the information provided is as correct and accurate as possible. The colonisation and settlement of Australia led…
Employing additional Registered Nurses in aged care, and training and accrediting all unregulated health care workers (also known as personal care workers) has been demonstrated to provide better quality care for older Australians and could have potentially reduced the spread of COVID-19 in residential aged care facilities. “The Australian College of Nursing extends its condolences…
Jessica donned in PPE during the COVID-19 lockdown in Melbourne (Image:Supplied) Welcome to the Australian College of Nursing’s (ACN) Life in lockdown NurseClick series where we share the personal stories of the nurses protecting Australians during the second wave of COVID-19 in Victoria. We caught up with Jessica Balson MACN, an ACN Emerging Nurse Leader,…
Welcome to the Australian College of Nursing’s (ACN) Life in lockdown NurseClick series where we share the stories from the nurses protecting Australians during the second wave of COVID-19 in Victoria. Today, we speak Marilyn Harper MACN — a Registered Nurse and Regional Development Manager at BallyCara — to discuss how she is utilizing her…
View Fullscreen More resources Joint Position StatementPosition Statement Sustainable access to prescription opioids for use in palliative care 1 May 2019 Position Statement The role of registered nurses in residential aged care facilities 1 July 2016 Submission Commonwealth Government COVID-19 response inquiry 1 December 2023 Budget Submission ACN’s 2023-2024 Pre-Budget Submission 25 January 2023 Position…
Merilyn (right) with registered nurse Alison Lin Welcome to the Australian College of Nursing’s (ACN) Life in lockdown NurseClick series where we share the personal stories of the nurses protecting Australians during the second wave of COVID-19 in Victoria. Merilyn Spratling FACN works at EACH, a community health centre in eastern Melbourne. She is a…
Catelyn Richards MACN during her AusAid placement in the Solomon Islands in 2013 I wasn’t always as motivated to engage with the issue of climate change as I am now. As a teenager I was very much aware of the risks it posed to our world; and yet I never felt connected with the issue.…
View Fullscreen More resources Position Statement The role of nurses in chronic disease prevention and management in rural and remote areas 26 May 2020 Position Statement The role of the nurse in the assessment and management of multimorbidity 17 February 2021 Submission Diabetes inquiry 1 August 2023 Position Statement The effectiveness of nurse-led interventions in…
By Lucy Osborn MACN (ENL) 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 on…
The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) is proud to offer our Understanding Data in Health Care Single Unit of Study (SUS) with support from The Australian Digital Health Agency. Clinical communication and data science are dependent on the existence of accurate and organised data. As the role of technology continues to expand in health settings,…