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 Position Statement Person-centred care 26 May 2020 Position Statement Clinical supervision for nurses and midwives 1 April 2019 White Paper The case for nurse leadership in value-based health care 2 December 2020 Submission Migration pathway to nation building 1 March 2023 Submission Special commission of inquiry into healthcare funding 1 October…
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 Restrictive practices 7 February 2022 Position Statement Occupational violence against nurses 25 October 2021 Position Statement Person-centred care 26 May 2020 Position Statement Nurse-led innovations in response to COVID-19 for adults living with chronic disease and multimorbidity 3 March 2023 Position Statement Surge workforces 10 September 2021 White Paper…
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,…