By Trish Lowe MACN – ACN Nurse Educator National Law (2009) and mandatory registration standards In 2005, the Council of Australian Governments [COAG] published the findings of a report by the Productivity Commission which detailed the challenges faced by Australia’s health system (Katsikitis et al. 2013). It highlighted the pressures arising from Australia’s ageing population,…
Recently, the Australian College of Nursing (ACN)’s 307 Immunisation for Health Practitioners course became the first in Australia to be accredited by Health Education Services Australia (HESA). This is a significant achievement as ACN has always advocated for the vital contribution nurses make to delivering immunisation programs as an important preventative health measure for the…
Toowoomba nurse Nancy Shah MACN is driven to ensuring her passion and skills for leadership contribute to creating a better future for the nurses of tomorrow. “Since childhood, I wanted to work in the health field, but my father’s sudden death drove my desire to fruition for a career in the health sector,” she says…
By Lucy Osborn MACN (ENL) This column, The Scrubs that Fit, is all about the highs and lows of being an early-career 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…
View Fullscreen More resources Clinical Care Standards Clinical Research Nurse (CRN) – Australian Standards for Practice 1 March 2023 White Paper Value-based health care through nursing leadership (Full) 20 May 2022 Policy Paper Nurses, immunisation and health 21 April 2020 Position Statement Vaping 20 February 2025 Submission Engaging your Member of Parliament 9 September 2022…
View Fullscreen More resources Submission Engaging your Member of Parliament 9 September 2022 Policy Paper Improving health outcomes in rural and remote Australia: Optimising the contribution of nurses 1 December 2018 Policy Paper Nursing leadership in diversity and inclusion guiding principles 2 February 2021 Position Statement Minimum educational qualifications for nursing staff in residential aged…
By Liam Jackson MACN, Stage Five ACN Emerging Nurse Leader I obtained my Bachelor of Nursing from Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane in November 2016. I was the first person in my family to go to university and always desired to become a children’s nurse. However, whilst my fellow classmates were starting their new graduate…
The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) is delighted to announce the launch of a brand-new nursing audio series. The Nursing Conversations: Working with Young People audio series is produced by the passionate members of our Adolescent and Young People Community of Interest (COI) and profiles esteemed clinical and academic experts working in the field of…