Nurses are highly skilled and expert professionals who make a difference each and every day within their communities. The Australian College of Nursing’s (ACN) Men in Nursing Impact Series focuses specifically on the efforts of men in nursing in an attempt to increase the numbers of men entering and remaining in the profession. The series…
View Fullscreen More resources Policy Paper Blood donation in Australia — Joint issues brief with the Australian College of Nursing and CRANAplus 23 July 2020 White Paper Nurses are essential in health and aged care reform 1 January 2016 Position Statement The role of nurses in chronic disease prevention and management in rural and remote…
The majority of Australians now have the choice of an electronic prescription instead of a paper prescription. Over 8 million electronic prescriptions and repeat prescriptions have already been generated by prescribers and dispensers across Australia. How it works There are currently two ways by which patients can receive and manage their electronic prescriptions: Tokens Patients…
The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) welcomes the recognition of the nursing profession’s contribution to the community in the 2021’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
Welcome to the musings of a new nurse. 2020 was my graduate year of nursing and the year of more formal support to transition from student to nurse. I was lucky to have such a year, even if the COVID-19 pandemic meant it did not go as I had pictured it. I enjoy medical and…
View Fullscreen More resources Policy Paper Blood donation in Australia — Joint issues brief with the Australian College of Nursing and CRANAplus 23 July 2020 White Paper Nurses are essential in health and aged care reform 1 January 2016 Position Statement The role of nurses in chronic disease prevention and management in rural and remote…
An International Nurses Day Lunch was held at the CWA Bowral Branch rooms on the 12 May 2021. Attendees included current and retired nurses from Sydney, Canberra and the Southern Highlands Region. The twofold purpose of the function was to honour and celebrate the profession; and secondly, to support the Australian College of Nursing (ACN)…
The Australian College of Nursing has written a letter directly to the country urging people to get the COVID-19 vaccination.
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…
In 2018, as a newly registered nurse, I was unmatched for a graduate program. Wondering what nursing could be, I challenged my own perceptions and the ideologies of roles and positions that are expected of a “graduate nurse”. This involved accepting a position in a trailblazing graduate program focussing on caring for the older person.…