On International Nurses Day 2022, the ACN Melbourne Region facilitated a Webinar to celebrate the importance of Refugee Health and to heighten awareness to our nursing community. We were so lucky to be guided by skilled practitioners and consumers in this area – the inaugural Nurse Practitioner in Refugee Health Merrilyn Spratling FACN, the State-wide…
Featured image: GoodStudio on Shutterstock By Jayde White As a refugee health nurse based in Melbourne Victoria, my role is to help navigate refugee and asylum-seeking people around the Australian healthcare systems and to advocate for them to maintain access to the support they need. It is hard to capture a typical day of a…
Featured Image: Ross Pancho MACN, Course Coordinator, Graduate Certificate of Digital Health The Australian College of Nursing is excited to continue launching new Graduate Certificates as part of our ongoing commitment to advancing leadership in the evolving areas of nursing. One of these in 2022 has been the Graduate Certificate in Digital Health, a course…
The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) welcomes the regional health workforce incentive announced this week by the New South Wales (NSW) Government but warned that a multi-pronged solution is required to ensure all Australians have access to quality nursing care for generations to come. “I am pleased to see that the NSW Minister for Regional…
Featured Image: Gustavo Frazao on Shutterstock Boys don’t cry. Stop acting like a little girl. Be a man. You’re a big sook. Suck it up. Do these phrases seem familiar? They are all examples of the harmful constructions of masculinity that contribute to why men are more likely to die earlier than women. This isn’t…
The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) has welcomed the announcement of the Queen’s Birthday Honours List today and congratulated all the nurses who received awards. Acting ACN CEO Yvonne Mckinlay FACN outlined the awards were an important recognition of the unwavering commitment nurses have displayed in leading their communities through the prolonged challenges of the…
The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) welcomes the New South Wales (NSW) Government’s bonus to public sector health care professionals but says it should be tax-free and adopted by every jurisdiction in the country. “I am pleased to see NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet announce frontline health workers will receive a $3,000 bonus to recognise the…
Featured Image: Arthimedes on Shutterstock As the rain continued to fall and the news was overrun with stories of the South Queensland and Northern New South Wales (NSW) floods, I found it natural to write about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) following a natural disaster. From experience, we as health clinicians will with certainty see increases…
The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) is joining its colleagues at the International Council of Nurses (ICN) and Ethiopian Nurses Association (ENA) in calling for urgent measures to address the collapse of the health care system in Tigray, Ethiopia after 18 months of war in the region. ICN is a federation of more than 130…
The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) today welcomed the appointment of the Hon Mark Butler MP as the new Minister for Health and Aged Care and the Hon Ged Kearney MP as the new Assistant Minister. “I am very pleased to congratulate Mark Butler, and likewise Ged Kearney – who as a former nurse and…