Nurses are the backbone of local communities. In times of peace and crisis, their expertise and skills are essential to protecting and improving the health of individuals, particularly those in vulnerable groups who most need assistance. When nine Public Housing Towers went into lockdown in Melbourne in July to help prevent the spread of COVID-19,…
By Lucy Osborn MACN (ENL) This column, The Scrubs that Fit, is all about the highs and lows of being a junior nurse, from the perspective of an ACN Emerging Nurse Leader. The aim of these blog posts is to help ease the transition from university to grad years and beyond. Find Lucy on ACN’s neo and on…
Lisa in full PPE during her time COVID-19 testing in the Tower’s On 4 July, around 3,000 residents inside nine Melbourne Public Housing Towers were placed into lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19. In difficult circumstances, a dedicated group of health professionals and emergency services personnel entered the towers to provide essential health services…
Authors: Jessica Balson MACN, Emerging Nurse Leader, Melbourne Region Kalpana Raghunathan FACN, Deputy Chair, Melbourne Region Aaliya Fanham MACN, Secretariat Support, Melbourne Region Nurses on the frontline battling COVID-19 have become the heroes of 2020, but it was not so long ago that Australia faced a different kind of battle with the Black Summer bushfires…
Welcome to the Australian College of Nursing’s (ACN) Life in lockdown NurseClick series where we share the stories from the nurses protecting Australians during the second wave of COVID-19 in Victoria. Today, we speak Marilyn Harper MACN — a Registered Nurse and Regional Development Manager at BallyCara — to discuss how she is utilizing her…
Merilyn (right) with registered nurse Alison Lin Welcome to the Australian College of Nursing’s (ACN) Life in lockdown NurseClick series where we share the personal stories of the nurses protecting Australians during the second wave of COVID-19 in Victoria. Merilyn Spratling FACN works at EACH, a community health centre in eastern Melbourne. She is a…
By Lucy Osborn MACN (ENL) This column, The Scrubs that Fit, is all about the highs and lows of being a junior nurse, from the perspective of an ACN Emerging Nurse Leader. The aim of these blog posts is to help ease the transition from university to grad years and beyond. Find Lucy on ACN’s neo and on…
Members of the Fever Clinic Team. Image: Supplied Doris Vella MACN, Director of Nursing at the Melton Campus of Djerriwarrh Health Services, is leading a team of nurses at a drive-through COVID-19 Fever Clinic. We spoke to Doris to gain an insight into how a drive-through COVID-19 Fever Clinic operates and how her team have…
Samantha Prime is a final year PhD candidate of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), her field of research is paediatric respiratory illnesses. She talks to the Australian College of Nursing about suspending her thesis and commencing work at a COVID19 clinic. Elaborating on her current role, Samantha says, “For the last seven years I have…
Nowra’s Ros Rolleston MACN has been a registered nurse for 40 years, with six years of clinical experience in general practice and 10 years working in education and facilitating person-centred care. She is currently a tutor in undergraduate nursing and coordinates a private evidenced-based Facebook Group for general practice nurses and their health professional colleagues…