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…
In 2018, as a newly registered nurse, I was unmatched for a graduate program. Wondering what nursing could be, I challenged my own perceptions and the ideologies of roles and positions that are expected of a “graduate nurse”. This involved accepting a position in a trailblazing graduate program focussing on caring for the older person.…
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The Scrubs that Fit column on the Australian College of Nursing’s (ACN) NurseClick blog is all about the highs and lows of being an early-career nurse from the perspective of Emerging Nurse Leader (ENL) Lucy Osborn MACN. Since starting the column, Lucy has written over 20 articles that provide advice to early career nurses and…
Dr Jacqueline (Jacqui) Pich MACN is renowned in the Australian nursing profession for her leading research on occupational violence against nurses and health professionals. She is currently the Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and a Committee Chair on the Australian College of Nursing (ACN) Nurses and Violence Taskforce. In…
Liam Jackson MACN — a Stage Five Australian College of Nursing Emerging Nurse Leader (ENL) — is part of the 1.44% of midwives in Australia who identify as male (NMBA,2020). With International Day of the Midwife (IMD) approaching on 5 May, we caught up with Liam to discuss his journey to becoming a midwife and…