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 White Paper A national minimum dataset for nursing workforce planning and decision making 6 July 2021 Position Statement Minimum educational qualifications for nursing staff in residential aged care settings 9 November 2021 Submission National nursing workforce 19 December 2023 Submission Scope of practice review 27 October 2023 Position Statement The effectiveness…
View Fullscreen More resources White Paper A national minimum dataset for nursing workforce planning and decision making 6 July 2021 Position Statement Minimum educational qualifications for nursing staff in residential aged care settings 9 November 2021 Submission National nursing workforce 19 December 2023 Submission Scope of practice review 27 October 2023 Position Statement The effectiveness…
View Fullscreen More resources White Paper A national minimum dataset for nursing workforce planning and decision making 6 July 2021 Position Statement Minimum educational qualifications for nursing staff in residential aged care settings 9 November 2021 Submission National nursing workforce 19 December 2023 Submission Scope of practice review 27 October 2023 Position Statement The effectiveness…
View Fullscreen More resources White Paper A national minimum dataset for nursing workforce planning and decision making 6 July 2021 Position Statement Minimum educational qualifications for nursing staff in residential aged care settings 9 November 2021 Submission National nursing workforce 19 December 2023 Submission Scope of practice review 27 October 2023 Position Statement The effectiveness…
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…
View Fullscreen More resources White Paper A national minimum dataset for nursing workforce planning and decision making 6 July 2021 Position Statement Minimum educational qualifications for nursing staff in residential aged care settings 9 November 2021 Submission National nursing workforce 19 December 2023 Submission Scope of practice review 27 October 2023 Position Statement The effectiveness…
View Fullscreen More resources White Paper A national minimum dataset for nursing workforce planning and decision making 6 July 2021 Position Statement Minimum educational qualifications for nursing staff in residential aged care settings 9 November 2021 Submission National nursing workforce 19 December 2023 Submission Scope of practice review 27 October 2023 Position Statement The effectiveness…
This article first appeared in the Summer 2022-23 of the Hive. The Hive is an ACN Member-only quarterly publication to showcase the length and breadth of our members and their expertise and experience. Learn more on our website. In August 2022, at the Australian College of Nursing’s (ACN) National Nursing Forum (NNF) in Darwin, the…