Nurses are highly skilled and expert professionals who make a difference each and every day within their communities. The Australian College of Nursing’s (ACN) Men in Nursing Impact Series focuses specifically on the efforts of men in nursing in an attempt to increase the numbers of men entering and remaining in the profession. The series…
View fullscreenSkip to PDF content More resources Clinical Care Standards Clinical Research Nurse (CRN) – Australian Standards for Practice 1 March 2023 Policy Paper Nursing leadership in emissions reduction guiding principles 7 February 2022 Policy Paper Men in nursing guiding principles 16 February 2021 Position Statement Bullying in the workplace 11 May 2021 Position Statement…
The majority of Australians now have the choice of an electronic prescription instead of a paper prescription. Over 8 million electronic prescriptions and repeat prescriptions have already been generated by prescribers and dispensers across Australia. How it works There are currently two ways by which patients can receive and manage their electronic prescriptions: Tokens Patients…
Welcome to the musings of a new nurse. 2020 was my graduate year of nursing and the year of more formal support to transition from student to nurse. I was lucky to have such a year, even if the COVID-19 pandemic meant it did not go as I had pictured it. I enjoy medical and…
View fullscreenSkip to PDF content More resources Clinical Care Standards Clinical Research Nurse (CRN) – Australian Standards for Practice 1 March 2023 Policy Paper Nursing leadership in emissions reduction guiding principles 7 February 2022 Policy Paper Men in nursing guiding principles 16 February 2021 Position Statement Bullying in the workplace 11 May 2021 Position Statement…
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.…
View fullscreenSkip to PDF content More resources Clinical Care Standards Clinical Research Nurse (CRN) – Australian Standards for Practice 1 March 2023 Policy Paper Nursing leadership in emissions reduction guiding principles 7 February 2022 Policy Paper Men in nursing guiding principles 16 February 2021 Position Statement Bullying in the workplace 11 May 2021 Position Statement…
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…