Whether you are an undergraduate student or an experienced nursing superstar, ACN is here to support you and help you stay informed, connected and inspired. Become a part of our tribe to connect with like-minded nurses, access a huge number of benefits, build your profile and be the best nurse you can be!
ACN offers flexible online education designed for nurses by nurses with a strong clinical focus and evidence based practice. Whether you’re an RN or an EN, looking to take your career in a new direction and specialise, or just tick off some CPD hours, we’ve got your learning needs covered!
Our mission is to enhance health care by advancing nurse leadership. We believe all nurses are inherently leaders.
Regardless of your job title or the number of years you have been nursing YOU are a leader! ACN can help you enhance your leadership skills and confidence through specialised leadership webinars and face-to-face training.
We are powerful individually – together we’re unstoppable! ACN brings together thousands of extraordinary nurses from across the country to build a strong, collective voice for nursing. ACN commands the respect and recognition our profession deserves, ensuring the expertise and experiences of nurses are represented in policy development throughout the Australian health system.
ACN is the pre-eminent professional nursing membership organisation in Australia, open to nurses in all settings and at every stage of their career. In addition to being the Australian member for the International Council of Nurses, ACN is also an authorised higher education provider and registered training organisation and specialises in online postgraduate, professional development and training courses for registered and enrolled nurses.
We can assist you to showcase your organisation, products and services to nurses; demonstrate your leadership in corporate social responsibility; increase brand equity and credibility; build brand and business loyalty; increase sales and market share; and generate positive media and PR coverage, with positive brand positioning to key audiences.
Align your organisation with the leading voice of the Australian nursing profession.
With increased cases of vaccine-preventable diseases being reported across the country and internationally, the nursing profession is reminding Australians to get immunised and protected for World Immunisation Week (24-30 April). “The World Health Organisation named vaccine hesitancy as one of the top ten global threats to health for 2019,” Australian…
“Climate change poses an unprecedented threat to the health of people in Australia and across the world.” An open letter from an unprecedented coalition of health, welfare, and environment groups published today calls for all candidates in the upcoming federal election to recognise climate change as a core public health…
Nurses and midwives are calling on all governments to work with our professions to support the health and wellbeing of our community. There are currently 374,216 nurses and midwives registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. Nurses and midwives, are the largest health professions and the most geographically…
An ACT nurse dedicated to giving people more dignity and choice in their final days was last night named the inaugural Health Minister’s Nursing Trailblazer at an awards ceremony in Sydney. Lord Nigel Crisp, Co-Chair Nursing Now, and Australian College of Nursing President, Professor Christine Duffield FACN presented the inaugural…
The major nursing organisations in Australia look forward to this evening’s Australian launch of the global Nursing Now campaign by Lord Nigel Crisp and building on this platform to establish a nursing workforce capable of meeting future health care needs. “I believe that developing nursing is one of the single…
The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) has expressed disappointment at the lost opportunities in Budget 2019-20, particularly in the Government’s failure to distribute additional funding to improving patient outcomes across the country. “This modest allocation fails to appreciate the growing crisis in aged care, particularly in registered nurse staffing shortfalls…
