By Guillaume Leroux MACN Hi, I’ve been asked to tell my story as a nurse climate activist. Yes, a nurse climate activist; because that inevitable transformation we call the climate crisis is still very much of current actuality. SARS-CoV-2 is certainly putting us to a change challenge and we could argue this is good for…
The historic Quadrant Building at the University of Sydney By Trish Lowe MACN – ACN Nurse Educator Move towards tertiary education for Australian nurses- mid 1980s As previously discussed in this series, Australian nurses were originally trained in public hospitals, under an apprenticeship system. During the early 1900’s, The Australasian Trained Nurses’ Association (ATNA) established the minimum standards of clinical and theoretical knowledge required to be delivered…
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…
Each day, nurses in the community provide expert and professional care to patients at every stage of their life, from life to death. In recognition of this, The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) is holding Nursing in the Community Week from 14-20 September 2020. Nurses in the community, those who work in a wide range…
Lisa in full PPE during her time COVID-19 testing in the Tower’s On 4 July, around 3,000 residents inside nine Melbourne Public Housing Towers were placed into lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19. In difficult circumstances, a dedicated group of health professionals and emergency services personnel entered the towers to provide essential health services…
Authors: Jessica Balson MACN, Emerging Nurse Leader, Melbourne Region Kalpana Raghunathan FACN, Deputy Chair, Melbourne Region Aaliya Fanham MACN, Secretariat Support, Melbourne Region Nurses on the frontline battling COVID-19 have become the heroes of 2020, but it was not so long ago that Australia faced a different kind of battle with the Black Summer bushfires…