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1971 – Australian Nurses' Journal (later Australian Nursing Journal, later Australian Nursing and Midwifery Journal) founded. [55] 1973 – Christchurch and Wellington Polytechnics offer diploma-level nursing education; Massey and Victoria Universities (Wellington) start their post-registration bachelor's degrees. [3]
As of 1 July 2010, in accordance with the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme, nurses are nationally regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia [5] [note 1] established by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
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 nursing assistants 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.
The Australian Journal of Primary Health is a quarterly peer-reviewed healthcare journal published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of the Australian Institute for Primary Care and Ageing (La Trobe University). It was established in 1995 as the Australian Journal of Primary Health Interchange and obtained its current
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.
Since 2008 Kitson has been a member of the Editorial Boards of Nursing Research and Journal of Evidence-based Health Care. And from 1995 to 2003 was an Associate Editor and Board Member for Quality and Safety in Health Care. Since 2009 she has been a member of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council. [2]
Australian Critical Care is a bimonthly peer-reviewed nursing journal covering clinically relevant research, reviews, and articles of interest to the critical care community. It is published by Elsevier and was established in 1988, with Pam Robinson as its founding editor-in-chief .
Born in Kyneton, Victoria, Australia, Lyons trained in general nursing at the Alfred Hospital. She moved on to private nursing and established a career in activism for nurses' rights. She founded the Alfred Hospital Nurses League, Victorian Trained Nurses Association, The Trained Nurses Guild, and the Society for the Health of Women and Children.