In this NurseClick article Christopher Veal MACN reflects on his experience working as a Community Mental Health Nurse in a remote Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory. My role as a Community Mental Health Nurse often takes me into the remotest areas of Australia,this week I was to visit an Aboriginal community in East Arnhem…
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…
Kazuma Honda MACN (Kaz) is an Australian College of Nursing (ACN) Emerging Nurse Leader (ENL) Program participant currently completing Stage 5 Empowered to Lead. Since commencing in the ENL program in 2018, Kaz has always expressed his desire to create a bridge between Japanese and Australian nurses. His desire is so strong that in May…
By Genevieve Edney MACN Mr X was a young, vibrant man who had primary school aged children. He was in his 40s, having successfully migrated to Australia. At the time he was working towards arranging the necessary visa for his family to join him in Australia when he received news that he had bowel cancer.…
For June’s Nursing Now Australia Challenge, we’re asking nurses to start including their title, qualification and membership post-nominals in their email signature and social media bio. Launched in February 2018, Nursing Now — a global initiative to celebrate nurses and midwives and acknowledge their contributions to world health care — has been embraced by over…
Kylie Miller and a much-loved nurse, the late Vanessa Cameron, during her treatment at Bairnsdale Regional Health Service. Former journalist Kylie Miller was recently a patient at the Bairnsdale Regional Health Service. She has written a powerful piece thanking the hospital staff for the exceptional level of care and support they provided during her hospital…
Frances Usherwood is a clinical nurse educator specialising in paediatrics and has had a long affiliation with the Australian College of Nursing (ACN) as a lecturer, and as a tutor for paediatric students. She has also advised on paediatric content and assessments for the Graduate Certificate in Paediatric Nursing. ACN nurse educator and course co-ordinator…
The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) was proud to collaborate with the Minister for Health, to present the inaugural Health Minister’s Award for Nursing Trailblazers in April 2019. The award celebrated and acknowledged the extraordinary contribution nurses make to the Australian health care system and gave much needed recognition to the leaders of our profession.…
The word leadership is used frequently, but do we actually know what it means to be a leader? The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) believes there are many ways to display leadership. With this in mind, we asked some of our Emerging Nurse Leaders (ENL) to provide a short response on what leadership means to…
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…