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 fullscreenSkip to PDF content More resources White Paper Nurse leadership 1 January 2017 Position Statement Nurse-led innovations in response to COVID-19 for adults living with chronic disease and multimorbidity 3 March 2023 White Paper Achieving a socialised model of healthcare in Australia with nurse leadership 15 April 2025 Policy Paper The first 2000 days…
View fullscreenSkip to PDF content More resources Position Statement Working with children above a healthy weight in primary health care: ACN Toolkit for nurses 27 April 2021 Budget Submission ACN’s 2024-2025 Pre-Budget Submission 10 March 2024 Policy Paper Nurse leadership during disruptive events 17 March 2022 Submission Engaging your Member of Parliament 9 September 2022…
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…