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Working with children above a healthy weight in primary health care: ACN Toolkit for nurses

View Fullscreen More resources White Paper A new horizon for health service: Optimising advanced practice nursing 1 November 2019 Policy Paper The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change – Policy Brief for Australia 2 December 2024 Submission Inquiry into human rights framework 6 July 2023 Policy Paper Nurses, immunisation and health 21 April 2020…

Nursing Trailblazers share how they were nominated for prestigious award

The Health Minister’s Award for Nursing Trailblazers acknowledges nurse-led innovations and models of care which significantly improve health outcomes for the Australian community through evidence-based processes. To mark the opening of nominations for the 2021 award, we spoke to two of our previous finalists to discover how they came to be nominated for the award.   Shannon Wallis MACN ¬–  MeCare Nurse Unit Manager at…

Erica O'Donoghue MACN

One nurse’s journey and experience with endometriosis

A chronic menstrual health disorder, endometriosis affects around 700,000 women in Australia (Department of Health 2020). To mark Endometriosis Awareness Month, we spoke to Erica O’Donoghue MACN, a nurse leader who is advocating to raise greater awareness around this debilitating condition and has represented the Australian College of Nursing (ACN) on a steering committee about endometriosis. Erica shares with us her journey to becoming…