Transformational leadership in its ideal form, creates valuable and positive change in the followers with the end goal of developing followers into leaders. The term ‘transformational leadership’ was originally termed in 1985 by Bernard M. Bass. This concept work extended by Burns (1978) to define transformational leadership as an approach that causes change in individuals…
The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) is calling for greater investments in nurse leadership and professional development in response to new data outlining the extent of Australia’s workforce shortages. Quarterly data from the National Skills Priority List released today, highlighted 9,266 advertised vacancies for registered nurses, making it the highest in-demand profession in Australia. Australian…
By Amy Humme MACN (ENL), Catelyn Richards MACN (ENL) and Jennifer Weller-Newton FACN. The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) Melbourne Region recently hosted a webinar in celebration of International Nurses Day and 2020 being World Health Organization’s International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. The theme for this event was nursing leadership, ‘Becoming and…
Australia’s nationally and internationally renowned nurse leaders and their colleagues will come together at this month’s National Nursing Forum (NNF) to lend their voice, expertise and research to improving the health and wellbeing of all Australians. The theme for this year’s NNF is ‘Nursing Now — The Power of Policy’. Nursing Now is an international…
The word leadership is used frequently, but do we actually know what it means to be a leader? The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) believes there are many ways to display leadership. With this in mind, we asked some of our Emerging Nurse Leaders (ENL) to provide a short response on what leadership means to…
Some of our ENLs at the ACN Nursing and Health Expo 2018 Are you an early-career nurse keen to make a difference to our profession? The Australian College of Nursing’s (ACN) Emerging Nurse Leader (ENL) program aims to empower nurses by nurturing and developing their leadership skills. All early-career nurses— from undergraduate students to nursing…
“An extraordinary opportunity to witness history being made.” “A powerful call to arms.” “The energy and excitement in the atmosphere was absolutely phenomenal”. These were just some of the words used by three of the Australian College of Nursing’s (ACN) Emerging Nurse Leaders (ENL) to describe the Nursing Now Australia Launch and Trailblazer Awards in…
In An inside look into mentorship: PART 1, mentor Lieutenant Anthony Russell MACN outlines his experience, now hear from the mentee, ENL Emma Bugden MACN on what she thought of the professional mentorship. By Emma Bugden MACN, Project Manager – Optimum Thiamine Intervention Trial, Menzies School of Health Research Applying for the ACN Emerging Nurse Leader…