Lisa in full PPE during her time COVID-19 testing in the Tower’s On 4 July, around 3,000 residents inside nine Melbourne Public Housing Towers were placed into lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19. In difficult circumstances, a dedicated group of health professionals and emergency services personnel entered the towers to provide essential health services…
Members of the Fever Clinic Team. Image: Supplied Doris Vella MACN, Director of Nursing at the Melton Campus of Djerriwarrh Health Services, is leading a team of nurses at a drive-through COVID-19 Fever Clinic. We spoke to Doris to gain an insight into how a drive-through COVID-19 Fever Clinic operates and how her team have…
Samantha Prime is a final year PhD candidate of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), her field of research is paediatric respiratory illnesses. She talks to the Australian College of Nursing about suspending her thesis and commencing work at a COVID19 clinic. Elaborating on her current role, Samantha says, “For the last seven years I have…
COVID-19 has seen traditional face-to-face learning and workplace cultures rapidly transform into an online environment and this has been no different for nursing students. We caught up with Josh Thomson MACN(Student) — a Stage One ACN Emerging Nurse Leader — to discuss how COVID-19 has impacted his enrolled nursing studies. How has COVID-19 altered what…
Last week, the Australian College of Nursing (ACN), submitted a ‘Statement of Action on Nursing Workforce Solutions in response to COVID-19’ and supporting documentation to the Australian Government. The Statement of Action calls on the Government to “immediately remove barriers to nurses delivering care in the community and enable funding and resources that will allow…
By Lucy Osborn MACN (ENL) This column, The Scrubs that Fit, is all about the highs and lows of being a junior 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 on…
By Jessica Stokes-Parish MACN Early last week, an opinion piece published in The Guardian came across my Twitter feed. It was titled “Diary of an intensive care nurse: are we concerned about coronavirus? The honest answer is not yet”. You can read it here. Now, to be honest, I was pretty miffed. I’m an intensive…
Recent developments with coronavirus (COVID-19) have directly impacted Australian health care workers after a 53-year old doctor at Ryde Hospital was diagnosed with the virus. 23 nurses, 13 doctors and four other health professionals at the hospital are now in home isolation. “Everyday thousands of nurses and health care professionals will continue to turn up…
Federal Health Minister has responded to the first confirmed case of community transmission of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Australia. In a media release, the Federal Health Minister highlighted the case showed that Australia was not immune to the risk of COVID-19, which has spread globally since its initial emergence in China. “In light of the international…
Across the world, nurses are playing a pivotal role in detecting, managing and preventing the spread of Novel coronavirus. Last week, the International Council of Nurses praised nurses working in Novel coronavirus impacted areas and stated nurses “must be provided with the personal protective equipment to safely care for those with the virus and ensure…