By Trish Lowe MACN – ACN Nurse Educator The Australasian Trained Nurses Association 1899 By the latter part of the 19th century, nursing was considered a respectable career option for educated women. In response to the rapidly growing population and advances in medical practice, health care provision progressively transitioned from home-based settings, to hospitals. This…
By Trish Lowe MACN – ACN Nurse Educator Lucy Osburn brings the Nightingale model to Australia Florence Nightingale (1820- 1910) was born in Florence to wealthy British parents. Nightingale excelled in the classics, speaking German, French and Italian, and was particularly proficient in mathematics. At seventeen, Nightingale made the decision to dedicate her life to…
By Diane J Phillips Florence Nightingale’s model of “on the job” hospital-based nurse education was successful and quickly adopted by many countries. In Australia, it was implemented during the latter part of the nineteenth century and when women only were accepted as “trainees.” As low paid employees they were a subservient and subordinate workforce within a…
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…
Each afternoon at 4:55pm the Australian War Memorial (AWM) holds a Last Post Ceremony to commemorate the story of an individual on their Honour Roll. On Wednesday August 14, Australian College of Nursing (ACN) Chief Executive Officer Adjunct Professor Kylie Ward FACN will lay a wreath at the ceremony for Matron Jean Miles Walker. Jean…
Each afternoon at 4:55pm the Australian War Memorial (AWM) holds a Last Post Ceremony to commemorate the story of an individual on their Honour Roll. On Tuesday April 2 representatives from ACN will lay a wreath at the ceremony for Flight Lieutenant Lynne Rowbottom. Lynne served in the Australian peace-keeping forces in East Timor and…
On February 11, 2019, ACN attended the Last Post Ceremony at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra to commemorate Sister Alma May Beard, 2/13th Australian General Hospital, Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS). From the limited information that is available on the Second World War Army nurse, we learned from the War Memorial’s records that: “She…
ACN is proud to honour our past and commemorate those who have served our country as civilian or military nurses. The Australian War Memorial (AWM) holds daily Last Post Ceremonies, in which one person will be commemorated each day at 4.55pm, to pay tribute to the Australians on the AWM’s Honour Roll. The 2019 schedule…
by Deborah Burrows The first thing I did when the National Library’s publishing division suggested I write a book about the history of Australian nurses, using the photographs and resources of the National Library, was check the catalogue of the National Library. This revealed books on the history of nursing in various States, nursing education,…
by Dr Ruth Rae FACN Dr Ruth Rae FACN has been a registered nurse since 1978 and has worked as a freelance researcher and writer for more than 20 years. Her interest in nursing history led to her completing a PhD thesis and multiple books on Australian nurses in the First World War. ACN partnered with…