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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.
Hannah Dahlen AM is a leading Australian professor of midwifery and nursing, medical educator and keynote speaker. [1]While maintaining her clinical practice, she has written more than 200 papers and book chapters, predominately focusing on 'keeping birth normal', as well as health service and policy development regarding birth rights, including freebirth.
Patricia Violet Slater (6 December 1918 – 2 October 1990) was an Australian nurse and nurse educator. [1] Slater was the Director of the College of Nursing and under her guidance the college offered the first undergraduate nurse-education course in Australia. [2] The Australian Service Nurses National Memorial entrance is on Slater Street. [3]
Chick began her initial nursing training in Melbourne in June 1947. She later reflected that little of her nursing training encompassed nursing scholarship, and dealt mostly with facts from medicine or psychology rather than concepts. [1] In 1960 she spent a year at the College of Nursing (now the Australian College of Nursing) in
Helen Monkivitch was born in 1942. [1] She trained as a nurse then midwife at Mercy Private Hospital in Victoria in 1964 and then took vows with the Sisters of Mercy. [2] In 1971 she transferred to Mercy Maternity Hospital, initially as a charge sister, then supervisor before being promoted to deputy director of nursing in 1976.
Patricia M. Davidson (born Canberra, 23 April 1957) is an Australian nursing educator. She is best known for her contributions improving cardiac nursing and transitional care with a focus on under served populations in a global context, and for her leadership in higher education.
The Australian College of Nursing still runs postgraduate certificate courses for nurses in many specialities. [75] The transfer of nursing education to the university sector from the hospital setting was the result of long-time efforts by leaders in Australian nursing, notably, pioneer nurse educator Merle Parkes. [76]
Jackson is a Fellow of the Australian College of Nursing (2014), Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2018) and Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland ad eundem(2020). She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau Honour Society of Nursing (2000). Jackson was named a Principal Fellowship of the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre ...