In recognition of the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, pre-eminent nurse Distinguished Professor Patsy Yates FACN was invited to deliver the 21st Annual Lyceum Lecture. The event was held at The Tattersall’s Club Brisbane on Tuesday, 20 October 2020. The Lyceum Club Brisbane provides women from all professional backgrounds, opportunities to develop…
In association with the Australian College of Nursing (ACN), Arjo invites all nurse leaders to participate in their upcoming webinar Staging pressure injury in darkly pigmented skin. A pressure injury, also known as a pressure ulcer, pressure sore or bed sore, is caused by unrelieved pressure and/or shear forces on any part of the body.…
An abstract is a short summary of a longer work and provides an overview of the topic and shouldn’t have anything in it that’s not in the paper itself. Although brief, (typically 150-300 words), an abstract should be written in a way that piques the reader’s interest in your paper. Whereas the purpose of an…
By Trish Lowe MACN – ACN Nurse Educator National Law (2009) and mandatory registration standards In 2005, the Council of Australian Governments [COAG] published the findings of a report by the Productivity Commission which detailed the challenges faced by Australia’s health system (Katsikitis et al. 2013). It highlighted the pressures arising from Australia’s ageing population,…
Recently, the Australian College of Nursing (ACN)’s 307 Immunisation for Health Practitioners course became the first in Australia to be accredited by Health Education Services Australia (HESA). This is a significant achievement as ACN has always advocated for the vital contribution nurses make to delivering immunisation programs as an important preventative health measure for the…
The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) is delighted to announce the following exceptional early-career nurses who have been selected to participate in the prestigious Emerging Nurse Leader Program in 2021. The renowned program is divided into five stages reflecting the challenges and opportunities nurses face as they progress through their leadership journeys. Over a period of nine…
Toowoomba nurse Nancy Shah MACN is driven to ensuring her passion and skills for leadership contribute to creating a better future for the nurses of tomorrow. “Since childhood, I wanted to work in the health field, but my father’s sudden death drove my desire to fruition for a career in the health sector,” she says…
By Lucy Osborn MACN (ENL) This column, The Scrubs that Fit, is all about the highs and lows of being an early-career 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…
View Fullscreen More resources Policy Paper Improving health outcomes in rural and remote Australia: Optimising the contribution of nurses 1 December 2018 Submission Inquiry into human rights framework 6 July 2023 Submission Review of primary care after hours program and policy 29 April 2024 Policy Paper Nursing leadership in diversity and inclusion guiding principles 2…
View Fullscreen More resources Policy Paper Improving health outcomes in rural and remote Australia: Optimising the contribution of nurses 1 December 2018 Submission Inquiry into human rights framework 6 July 2023 Submission Review of primary care after hours program and policy 29 April 2024 Policy Paper Nursing leadership in diversity and inclusion guiding principles 2…