Background The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) End of Life Care Faculty recognises the importance of raising awareness and promoting open conversations around death and dying. From a health-promoting palliative care perspective, this can involve considerations of how communities can live, die, and grieve well. National Palliative Care Week As the largest annual awareness-raising initiative…
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…
The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) were proud to collaborate with the Minister for Health, to present the inaugural Health Minister’s Award for Nursing Trailblazers in April 2019. The award celebrated and acknowledged the extraordinary contribution nurses make to the Australian health care system and gave much needed recognition to the leaders of our profession.…