One of the benefits of being a member of Australian College of Nursing (ACN) is that members are regularly invited to participate in consultations on a broad range clinical, professional and health policy issues. We work collaboratively through our members to produce evidence-based policy positions to improve public health in Australia.
Position statements
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Charter
Position statements developed in response to issues relevant to and/or directly impacting on the nursing profession
2023
- The role of nurses in a public health response to child abuse and neglect
- Impact of COVID-19 on the nursing profession: managing repercussions, enabling opportunities
- Nurse-led innovations in response to COVID-19 for adults living with chronic disease and multimorbidity
- Second responder for callouts in rural, remote and isolated workplace settings
- Nurses and violence
2022
- Nursing leadership in managing multimorbidity and COVID-19
- Skill mix in residential aged care facilities
- Reimagining the role of nursing in emissions reduction
- Restrictive practices
2021
- Ethical leadership in emissions reduction
- Minimum educational qualifications for nursing staff in residential aged care settings
- Occupational violence against nurses
- Surge workforces
- Coercive control
- Maternal, Child and Family Health Nursing
- Modern Slavery
- The role of nurses in supporting older people to access quality, safe aged care
- Bullying in the workplace
- Voluntary Assisted Dying
- Working with children above a healthy weight in primary health care: ACN Toolkit for nurses
- The sexual harassment and/or sexual assault of nurses by patients
- The role of the nurse in the assessment and management of multimorbidity
2020
- Nurses, genomics and clinical practice
- Optimising person- and family-centred end-of-life care during a pandemic
- Person-centred care
- The effectiveness of nurse-led interventions in the assessment and management of overweight and obese children and young people
- Unregulated health care workers
- Nurses, immunisation and health
- Leading digital health transformation: The value of Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO) roles
- The role of nurses in chronic disease prevention and management in rural and remote areas
2019
- The role of nurses in promoting healthy ageing
- Quality health care for all refugees and asylum seekers
2016
2015
Note: ACN Position Statements are ordered by updated year