By Trish Lowe MACN – ACN Nurse Educator The first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nurses This article contains stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People who have passed away. The author has taken great care to ensure the information provided is as correct and accurate as possible. The colonisation and settlement of Australia led…
Jessica donned in PPE during the COVID-19 lockdown in Melbourne (Image:Supplied) 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. We caught up with Jessica Balson MACN, an ACN Emerging Nurse Leader,…
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…
View fullscreenSkip to PDF content More resources White Paper Nurses are essential in health and aged care reform 1 January 2016 Position Statement Working with children above a healthy weight: Nurse-led interventions 3 September 2024 Position Statement Nurses, immunisation and health 21 April 2020 Position Statement Skill mix in residential aged care facilities 15 March…
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…
Catelyn Richards MACN during her AusAid placement in the Solomon Islands in 2013 I wasn’t always as motivated to engage with the issue of climate change as I am now. As a teenager I was very much aware of the risks it posed to our world; and yet I never felt connected with the issue.…
View fullscreenSkip to PDF content More resources Position Statement Planetary health in nursing 3 September 2025 Budget Submission ACN’s 2026-2027 Pre-Budget Submission 18 February 2026 Position Statement Artificial Intelligence 22 July 2024 Position Statement Quality health care for all refugees and asylum seekers 15 October 2019 Joint Position StatementPosition Statement Clinical supervision for nurses and…
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…
The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) is proud to offer our Understanding Data in Health Care Single Unit of Study (SUS) with support from The Australian Digital Health Agency. Clinical communication and data science are dependent on the existence of accurate and organised data. As the role of technology continues to expand in health settings,…
Jay when she was living and working in Ethiopia before her nursing career. Image credit: Colin Cosier By Jay Court MACN, mental health nurse and Australian College of Nursing Stage Two Emerging Nurse Leader “The greatest problem in communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.” George Bernard Shaw As I undertake a Graduate…