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Nursing in Australia is a healthcare profession. Nurses and midwives form the majority (54%) of Australian health care professionals. [1] Nurses are either registered or enrolled. Registered nurses have broader and deeper education than enrolled nurses. Nurse practitioners complete a yet higher qualification. Nurses are not limited to working ...
The Australian College of Nursing (ACN), formed in 2012 from a merger of the Royal College of Nursing, Australia and the College of Nursing, is the professional body for nursing in Australia. ACN advocates, develops policy, and provides education to advance the status of nursing nationally and internationally.
Susan McGahey was a co-founder of the Australasian Trained Nurses' Association (ATNA) in December 1899 which was briefly named the Australian Trained Nurses' Association. . She had posted a newspaper advert asking for people interested in forming an association to register trained nurses to meet with h
Merle Elecia Parkes AM (born 19 May 1927) is a pioneer nurse educator [1] who spent the bulk of her extensive career championing quality education for nurses in Australia. . Parkes was eventually instrumental in affecting change from solely hospital-only training, to formal nursing degrees within tertiary institut
The Platt Report stated that trainee nurses should receive two years of academic study and monitored clinical experience, followed by an exam, then another year of work in a hospital under supervision. [2] Nurse training had to cover general medicine and surgery, gynaecology, paediatrics, ear nose and throat medicine, ophthalmology and dermatology.
The current immigration policy published by Australian government encourages foreign students to work and stay in regional areas, such as Adelaide and Tasmania, by reducing the quota of skilled independent visa [50] entrants (change from subclass 175 [51] and subclass 885 [52] to subclass 189 [50]), and in the meantime increasing the number of ...
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) is the largest union in Australia, with 274,956 members in 2018. [2] The union is run by nurses, midwives and assistants in nursing to advance the industrial, political and professional interests of its members. It is a federated union, with branches in each state and territory in Australia.
Following establishment, Goold moved to teach at the Queensland University of Technology's nursing school. While teaching, she led Aboriginal health services for Queensland Health . [ 4 ] After teaching for six years at the university, she influenced the creation of the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses in 1997 and named ...