Digital Healthcare Governance
This unit exposes students to what quality in healthcare comprises and how quality and clinical governance are applied to digitisation.
Interventional Radiology Nursing
This unit provides students with opportunities to consolidate and expand their clinical knowledge, skills, and attitudes within the specialty of interventional radiology nursing.
Skill mix in residential aged care facilities
View Fullscreen More resources Position Statement Minimum educational qualifications for nursing staff in residential aged care settings 9 November 2021 Position Statement Working with children above a healthy weight in primary health care: ACN Toolkit for nurses 27 April 2021 White Paper Nurses are essential in health and aged care reform 1 January 2016 White…
Principles of Healthcare Digitalisation
This unit exposes students to the fit between individuals, tasks and technology, commencing with the healthcare digitisation landscape and concluding with approaches to implementation.
Reimagining the role of nursing in emissions reduction
View Fullscreen More resources Position Statement Minimum educational qualifications for nursing staff in residential aged care settings 9 November 2021 Position Statement Working with children above a healthy weight in primary health care: ACN Toolkit for nurses 27 April 2021 White Paper Nurses are essential in health and aged care reform 1 January 2016 White…
Nurses call for action to rebuild health care post-COVID
Rebuilding Australia’s health system after the COVID-19 pandemic is the focus of Friday’s National Policy Summit, hosted by the Australian College of Nursing (ACN). “Nurses are Australia’s largest health profession and the key to leading Australia out of the COVID-19 pandemic,” ACN CEO Adjunct Professor Kylie Ward FACN said today. “For the past two years,…
Nurses leading role in crisis responses deserve greater recognition
Nurses are best equipped to lead strategies managing catastrophic events because of their real-time, hands-on experience of dealing with the challenging unfolding situations present. A new report from Health Professionals Bank and the Australian College of Nursing puts forward five clear recommendations to ensure this role can be greater acknowledged and optimised to improve health…
Australian nurses support international campaign demanding peace in Ukraine
The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) has joined its colleagues across the globe in condemning the conflict in Ukraine and expressing solidarity with Ukrainian nurses and health care workers. The International Council of Nurses (ICN), a federation of more than 130 National Nurses Associations (NNAs), launched the #NursesForPeace campaign encouraging nurses world-wide to share their…
Let nurses lead the fight to eliminate gender-based discrimination and violence says ACN on IWD 2022
Ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March, the Australian College of Nursing (ACN) is urging policymakers to replace superficial platitudes with tangible action to ensure the nursing profession is central to solutions focused on ending violence against women. This must also go hand in hand with greater recognition of the leading role women have…
New memorial to remember the Bangka Island Massacre 80 years on
On Sunday, 13 February 2022, Acting Chair for the Australian College of Nursing [ACN] South Australia Region Alyson Smith MACN attended a Memorial Service for the 80th Anniversary of the World War II massacre on Bangka Island. The Memorial Service included the unveiling of a memorial dedicated to the massacre, which killed 21 Australian Army…