ACN Grants and Awards Our Grants and Awards are one of the many exclusive benefits our Fellows and Members receive. We have always been proud of being able to support students who aspire to be nurse leaders and count patient care as one of their life’s passions. In 2018, ACN administered two new scholarships, the Crestani Scholarship in Cancer Nursing and the Vative Healthcare Scholarship.
ACN Grants and Awards recipients 2018 Patricia Slater Award: Enara Larcombe MACN Joyce Wickham Memorial Grant: Susan Nunan MACN Eric Murray Quiet Achiever Award: Diane Atkinson MACN Bequest Fund for Research: Thomas Mathew MACN The College Consortium Research Grant: Nicole Marsh MACN ACN Scholarship Grant: Billie Ruddock MACN ACN Conference and Study Tours Scholarship: Bronwyn Everett MACN and Dr Elizabeth Kepreotes MACN
Australian Government funded Scholarships ACN continues to administer the Puggy Hunter Memorial Scholarship Scheme, which financially assists Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander undergraduate students in an eligible health-related discipline. Over the past year, we have also supported our students completing courses under the Nursing and Allied Health Scholarship and Support Scheme.
ACN Foundation In order for nurses to be the best leaders they can be and to enhance Australian health care, we established the Australian College of Nursing Foundation in 2017. The Foundation, which received an initial donation of $5 million, will ensure that nurses are supported to pursue their expertise and influence in all health care settings to advance nursing practice. Nurses – by sheer weight of their numbers, their knowledge based in science and humanities and access to all areas of health – are the single most cost-effective resource to health services. And it is the Foundation’s commitment to ensure they are afforded the opportunity to access high-end leadership development that the Australian health system needs from the profession. YEAR IN REVIEW 2018-2019
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