By Trish Lowe MACN – ACN Nurse Educator To do what nobody else will do, a way that nobody else can do, in spite of all we go through; that is to be a nurse.” – Rawsi Williams As part of the celebrations surrounding the International year of the Nurse & Midwife, Project 2020 and…
National Palliative Care Week (NPCW), which runs from 19-25 May 2019, aims to increase awareness and understanding of palliative care within the Australian community. The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) is proud to continually set the benchmark when it comes to advocating for better standards of palliative care. Our End of Life Care Policy Chapter…
ACN will be launching a postgraduate unit to educate nurses on endometriosis, thanks to an Australian Government grant and community collaborations with Endo Help. Endometriosis is a common, debilitating and aggressive benign condition which affects more than 10% of Australian women. It has historically been under-recognised and underdiagnosed in this country, but recently more attention…
by Katherine Schaffarczyk MACN, Nurse Educator, Westmead Hospital, Sydney Overview of the literature There is evidence that clinical supervision has been practiced since the early days of Freud, with small groups gathering to discuss and review each other’s work (Carroll, 2007). In the late 19th century in the United States, clinical supervision was introduced for social…
By Rachel Ashton This article is an excerpt from Bye Molly, Bye Tony. Bye Honkey. Bye Canteen Creek, first published at The Scribbling Nurse, on 11 April 2018 here. Canteen Creek was an experience and a massive culture shock for me. I have learnt so much in the two and a half weeks I was in…
In this blog series, Out and about with our ENLs, participants of ACN’s Emerging Nurse Leader program share their stories. Today you’ll read how the journey is shaping out for Jemma Poxom MACN, Stage 5 ENL. When I heard there was a program for emerging nurse leaders I jumped at the opportunity to apply. The…
By Madeline Hawke MACN (Stage 1 ENL) As someone who inadvertently signed up to a university course located 40 minutes from my house, I find that I spend a lot of my time sitting in the car. If it weren’t for excellent podcasts put together by clever people around the world, this time would be…
By Kate Birrell OAM MACN, David Ramsay and Benjamin Dingle In an effort to assist the Timorese to build capacity and improve patient care in hospitals across Timor-Leste, St John of God Social Outreach, part of St John of God Health Care (SJGHC), has been delivering a Nursing Development Program (NDP) in partnership with…