International Women’s Day ACN is committed to championing women’s equality, celebrating women’s achievements and challenging the stereotypes and gender bias – goals that all align with 2018’s International Women’s Day (IWD) theme of #PressforProgress. ACN team members marked the occasion on Tuesday 8 May by sharing stories of women who inspired them, as well as a donation drive for Share the Dignity, a charity who provide sanitary products to homeless women.
R U OK? Day R U OK? Day occurs every September to encourage people of all demographics to connect with and support those around them. While reaching out to your colleagues, friends and acquaintances and starting conversations about mental illness is vital for all workplaces, this topic is of particular relevance to us in the health industry. At ACN for R U OK? Day, we joined together for a group lunch, to check in with each other and learn how to support those who are doing it tough.
Vinnies CEO Sleepout ACN was proud to support our CEO, Adjunct Professor Kylie Ward FACN, in her third year participating in the Vinnies CEO Sleepout on 21 June. Kylie joined around 150 other CEOs spending a night outside at the National Museum of Australia to raise money for the St Vincent de Paul Society to help the homeless. Nurses are involved in all aspects of health and wellbeing. With more than 2.9 million Australians living in poverty and more than 116,000 homeless, the annual Vinnies CEO Sleepout highlights the issues of homelessness and contributing factors.
Year in Review 2017 – 2018
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