Nursing Now was a global awareness campaign which, in collaboration with the World Health Organization and the International Council of Nurses, aimed to raise the status and profile of nursing around the world. The initiative was patroned by Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge and worked to empower nurses to take their place at…
Australia’s Nursing Now lead, the Australian College of Nursing is calling on Finance Minister Mathias Cormann and other G20 finance ministers and central bank governors to demonstrate leadership by putting health at the heart of decision-making when they meet on 18-19 July to discuss the economic fall-out from COVID-19. By building consensus around the urgent…
To mark World Health Day 2020, The World Health Organization (WHO) — in partnership with the International Council of Nurses and Nursing Now — have released the ‘State of the World’s Nursing 2020: investing in education, jobs and leadership’ report. The report is the first of its kind and coincides with a year dedicated by…
Sonia Marshall MACN takes to Twitter to share why she is proud to be a nurse As nurses, we belong to a group of expert professionals passionate about improving the lives of others. During December, we challenged you to reflect on what makes you proud to be a nurse and to share it on Twitter…
The International Council of Nurses (ICN) and global Nursing Now Campaign have expressed their condolences for those impacted by the Australian bushfires. ICN CEO Howard Catton addressed the impact of the bushfires on the Australian community in a personal letter to Australian College of Nursing (ACN) CEO Adjunct Professor Kylie Ward FACN. Mr Catton acknowledged…
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…
For June’s Nursing Now Australia Challenge, we’re asking nurses to start including their title, qualification and membership post-nominals in their email signature and social media bio. Launched in February 2018, Nursing Now — a global initiative to celebrate nurses and midwives and acknowledge their contributions to world health care — has been embraced by over…
“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…
The major nursing organisations in Australia look forward to this evening’s Australian launch of the global Nursing Now campaign by Lord Nigel Crisp and building on this platform to establish a nursing workforce capable of meeting future health care needs. “I believe that developing nursing is one of the single biggest things we can do…
Over a 100 million people worldwide are pushed into extreme poverty paying for health services every year. That’s 100 million too many. International Universal Health Coverage Day (UHC Day) aims to mobilise diverse stakeholders to call for stronger, more equitable health systems to achieve universal health coverage, leaving no one behind. It has become the annual…