Welcome to the Australian College of Nursing’s (ACN) Life in lockdown NurseClick series where we share the stories from the nurses protecting Australians during the second wave of COVID-19 in Victoria. Today, we speak Marilyn Harper MACN — a Registered Nurse and Regional Development Manager at BallyCara — to discuss how she is utilizing her…
Merilyn (right) with registered nurse Alison Lin Welcome to the Australian College of Nursing’s (ACN) Life in lockdown NurseClick series where we share the personal stories of the nurses protecting Australians during the second wave of COVID-19 in Victoria. Merilyn Spratling FACN works at EACH, a community health centre in eastern Melbourne. She is a…
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…
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…
Nowra’s Ros Rolleston MACN has been a registered nurse for 40 years, with six years of clinical experience in general practice and 10 years working in education and facilitating person-centred care. She is currently a tutor in undergraduate nursing and coordinates a private evidenced-based Facebook Group for general practice nurses and their health professional colleagues…
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…