Supporting Refugee Health – Where are we now?

Supporting Refugee Health – Where are we now?

On International Nurses Day 2022, the ACN Melbourne Region facilitated a Webinar to celebrate the importance of Refugee Health and to heighten awareness to our nursing community. We were so lucky to be guided by skilled practitioners and consumers in this area – the inaugural Nurse Practitioner in Refugee Health Merrilyn Spratling FACN, the State-wide…

A Day in the Life of a Refugee Nurse

A day in the life of a refugee nurse

Featured image: GoodStudio on Shutterstock By Jayde White As a refugee health nurse based in Melbourne Victoria, my role is to help navigate refugee and asylum-seeking people around the Australian healthcare systems and to advocate for them to maintain access to the support they need. It is hard to capture a typical day of a…

Ross Pancho

Taking nursing into the digital space

Featured Image: Ross Pancho MACN, Course Coordinator, Graduate Certificate of Digital Health The Australian College of Nursing is excited to continue launching new Graduate Certificates as part of our ongoing commitment to advancing leadership in the evolving areas of nursing. One of these in 2022 has been the Graduate Certificate in Digital Health, a course…

Men's Health Week

The role of nurses in men’s health

Featured Image: Gustavo Frazao on Shutterstock Boys don’t cry. Stop acting like a little girl. Be a man. You’re a big sook. Suck it up. Do these phrases seem familiar? They are all examples of the harmful constructions of masculinity that contribute to why men are more likely to die earlier than women. This isn’t…

Media Release - Australian College of Nursing

Australian College of Nursing (ACN) congratulates Queen’s Birthday Honours recipients

The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) has welcomed the announcement of the Queen’s Birthday Honours List today and congratulated all the nurses who received awards. Acting ACN CEO Yvonne Mckinlay FACN outlined the awards were an important recognition of the unwavering commitment nurses have displayed in leading their communities through the prolonged challenges of the…