Featured Image: Orawan Pattarawimonchai on Shutterstock Endometriosis is a chronic health condition that affects one in nine people with a uterus every year. Despite how common the condition is, it can be extremely difficult to be diagnosed, with the average diagnosis taking place seven years after the first appearance of symptoms. Nurses play an essential…
Image Source: Evgeny Freyer on Shutterstock On Wednesday, 15 March 2023 at 4:45pm, the Australian War Memorial will hold a Last Post Ceremony to commemorate the life of Australian Army Nursing Service nurse Sister Nancy Harris. Sister Harris died on 16 February 1942 as part of the Bangka Island Massacre alongside 21 of her Australian…
International Women’s Day – 8 March 2023 The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) is calling on Australian employers to continue to strive towards pay equity this International Women’s Day. Despite the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reporting that the gender pay gap fell to 13.3 per cent in November 2022, the lowest level since records…
Featured image source: Australian War Memorial On 16 February 1942, twenty-two Australian nurses washed ashore on Bangka Island among a large group of survivors after the bombing of the SS Vyner Brooke – a civilian ship – after it left Singapore. Out of the sixty-five nurses that left Singapore, twelve nurses had already died in…
Recently, the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) announced updates to the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine schedule in Australia. After extensive research, eligible people without immune compromise under the age of 26 will now only need one dose of an HPV vaccine to be considered fully immunised. All nurses versed in immunisation should be…
View Fullscreen More resources Submission Commonwealth Government COVID-19 response inquiry 1 December 2023 Position Statement The effectiveness of nurse-led interventions in the assessment and management of overweight and obese children and young people 5 March 2020 White Paper Nurses are essential in health and aged care reform 1 January 2016 Budget Submission ACN’s 2023-2024 Pre-Budget…
View Fullscreen More resources Submission Commonwealth Government COVID-19 response inquiry 1 December 2023 Position Statement The effectiveness of nurse-led interventions in the assessment and management of overweight and obese children and young people 5 March 2020 White Paper Nurses are essential in health and aged care reform 1 January 2016 Budget Submission ACN’s 2023-2024 Pre-Budget…
View Fullscreen More resources Submission Commonwealth Government COVID-19 response inquiry 1 December 2023 Position Statement The effectiveness of nurse-led interventions in the assessment and management of overweight and obese children and young people 5 March 2020 White Paper Nurses are essential in health and aged care reform 1 January 2016 Budget Submission ACN’s 2023-2024 Pre-Budget…
View Fullscreen More resources Submission Commonwealth Government COVID-19 response inquiry 1 December 2023 Position Statement The effectiveness of nurse-led interventions in the assessment and management of overweight and obese children and young people 5 March 2020 White Paper Nurses are essential in health and aged care reform 1 January 2016 Budget Submission ACN’s 2023-2024 Pre-Budget…
Completing your nursing studies and entering the workforce is an exciting time. After years of study, you can finally call yourself a nurse, and are often beginning in a graduate nurse program. I completed my graduate year in 2022. For my graduate program, I rotated through neonatal intensive care, paediatric oncology, and general medicine. While…