Featured Image: Volunteer nurses at the 2023 Australian College of Nursing (ACN) Policy Summit sharing their insights to develop policy. Source: Grace Costa Whether you are the first stages of your university degree or have banked decades of experience in the nursing profession, there is always an opportunity to contribute to the betterment of the…
Featured Image: 2022 Australian College of Nursing (ACN) Emerging Nurse Leaders at the 2022 National Nursing Forum (NNF) in Darwin, Northern Territory. Source: Nasiba Faiz MACN Starting a new career can be a daunting but exciting experience. Between placements, study, figuring out where you want to go in your career, and managing others’ expectations of…
This unit of study examines the physiology of the immune system and how vaccines work to protect the community from vaccine-preventable diseases.
International Nurses Day 2023 This International Nurses Day (IND), the Australian College of Nursing is thanking the community for always acknowledging the role nurses play in ensuring better health outcomes for future generations. ‘Our Nurses. Our Future’ is the inspiring theme for IND which asks nurses to think about the future of our profession and…
Today is Mother’s Day and to celebrate, I wanted to talk about nursing with my mother. My mother and I are both nurses, despite being trained differently and working very different lives. She has been a nurse through and through, having joined the profession in her teenage years. I started differently, having a career in…
What is a mental health nurse? The role of a mental health nurse is quite complex and changes from organisation to organisation. Generally speaking, a mental health nurse works with and supports consumers to manage their mental health, and any associated symptoms of mental illness. Mental health nurses provide care for consumers of all ages,…
The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) would like to congratulate the Albanese Government on handing down a Budget that addresses social determinants of health and equality for all Australians. Prefacing his Budget speech with the statement “the next two years are expected to be the weakest for global growth in over two decades”, Treasurer Jim…
On Sunday, 14 May 2023, nurses and military personnel across Australia will come together to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship (AHS) Centaur in World War II. The hospital ship, carrying 332 civilians, injured personnel and hospital staff, was travelling off the coast of Brisbane, Queensland, when it was…
Featured image: Nurses in Victoria sharing a National Nurses Breakfast for International Nurses Day 2022. Source: Sharmalie Wijesinghe MACN Every year on 12 May, the world comes together to celebrate the nursing profession on International Nurses Day. The nursing profession has had a long and tumultuous past few years and International Nurses Day is a…
Featured Image: Taras Vyshnya on Shutterstock To the new remote nurse, Congratulations on your new job. I know your lecturers scared you into thinking you were never going to get one, that you would get stuck doing something you did not enjoy if you did not write a award-winning selection criteria or if your last…