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How to create a bespoke perioperative development portfolio

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This position requires 12 months of working in the relevant clinical setting and additional education in order to meet the criteria for application to this position.

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Nexus Hospitals- Bondi Junction is a boutique small private hospital providing outstanding clinical care for day surgery and overnight admissions. We specialise in ENT, Plastics, Cosmetics, Ophthalmic & General surgery procedures and are currently recruiting!

Located the heart of the Bondi Junction shopping precinct, the hospital is in close proximity to both bus and rail services and only 6km from the CBD and only 3km to Bondi Beach.

For more details about Bondi Junction Private Hospital please visit our website:

www.nexushospitals.com.au/locations/bondi-junction-private-hospital/

We are seeking outstanding, highly skilled Endorsed Enrolled or Registered Nurses to join our small cohesive team with permanent part-time or a full time contracts available. A variety of shifts in specialised areas are available for immediate start

The successful applicant must possess:

Unconditional APHRA registration and have full working rights in Australia.

A minimum of 12 months experience in Perioperative (Anaesthetics, or Scrub/Scout or Recovery) Nursing

A demonstrated commitment to continuous professional development and ongoing education

A professional demeanour with a can do attitude

The ability to work well within a fast paced environment and in a cohesive team

Previous experience working in day or small private hospital setting is desirable but not essential.

For further information about this exciting opportunity please contact:

Krista Sutherland-Smith
General Manager/ Director of Nursing
B: 9387 6622 E: k.sutherland-smith@bjph.com.au

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To be considered for this course you must be employed within the Operating Suite of St Vincent's Hospital Sydney, be a Registered Nurse in Australia, have a minimum of 12 months post reg nursing experience and 6 months perioperative experience and preferably employed with St Vincent's Hospital

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This course aims to prepare graduate registered nurses to work as specialists in perioperative nursing in the roles of the instrument and circulating nurse and to gain experience in the anaesthetic & recovery nursing roles. The course provides opportunities for students to expand their knowledge and skills by integrating theory and perioperative nursing clinical practice in order to engage in clinical decision making.

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Susan Wakil Health Building- The University of Sydney

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The Sydney Nursing School

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A group of 17 University of Sydney students have been selected to take part in a semester long leadership program designed to support the UN Sustainable Development goals.

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Management of Instruments, Accountable Items and Other Items used for Surgery or Procedures

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Management of Instruments, Accountable Items and Other Items used for Surgery or Procedures

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Nursing responsibilities:
Collaborate with other members of the surgical or procedural team to ensure all instruments
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The New ACORN Standards

At its most recent meeting, the National Leadership Group (NLG) of the Roadmap Project (RMP) agreed that, for the first time, the ACORN standards will be published in two separate publications. So, in May 2022, we look forward to members' responses to the first edition of the Professional Practice Standards for Perioperative Nurses (PPSPN) and, similarly, the first edition of the Standards for Safe and Quality Care in the Perioperative Environment (SSQCPE). Together, they will be the New ACORN Standards collection.

The NLG's decision to separate the professional standards from the safety and quality standards was deliberate and strategic. The NLG firmly believes that this will improve the usability of the PPSPNS and the SSQCPEs for members and subscribers. The NLG also respects the rich history of ACORN's practice standards, published since 1977, and emphatically instructed ACORN to retain the overarching title of 'ACORN Standards'. The choice to include 'New' in the title of the collection symbolises an important and progressive milestone in the life of the ACORN Standards - the point where ACORN's members formally differentiate and articulate the clinical practices that ensure perioperative safety and quality and the professional practices that are expected from perioperative nurses.

The RMP ends on the 30 September 2021. Much work has been done in recent weeks to prepare the final drafts the ten PPSPNs and work is ongoing to incorporate the high-level evidence reports into early drafts of the nine safety and quality topics that will comprise the SSQCPEs.

ACORN eagerly awaits members' and subscribers' responses to the new structure of the PPSPNs and SSQCPEs. Feedback for the draft standards that have already been made available for public and member comment has been overwhelmingly supportive. In response to member requests ACORN is evaluating the possibility of adding a cross reference to the PPSPNs and SSQCPE which would enable users to quickly locate elements of interest across the entire collection. In addition, ACORN staff are also considering a new layout and revised features. These may include a map of the changes, revised crosswalks of how the PPSPNs and SSQCPEs relate to the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards, the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia Registration Standards and the Standards Australia standards that apply to the perioperative setting.

Development of the ACORN standards is a massive, complex, taxing but rewarding multi-year project. It requires the efforts of many, most of whom contribute voluntarily. As the sun sets on the RMP, ACORN remains so very grateful to all who have helped shape the 2022 New ACORN Standards. They will look and be different. The ACORN Standards are, and always will be, ACORN members' standards and it is ACORN's hope that the New ACORN Standards will be embraced by perioperative nurses all over Australia.

June 2021

The Roadmap Project's Clinical Workstream Team (WST) has extensively reviewed the contents of Volume 1 of the current 2020 ACORN Standards with the aim of making future ACORN clinical standards simple, easily located and narrowly focussed.

The Clinical WST members provide a broad base and after thorough consideration and robust discussion, ten topics were identified for inclusion:

1. Accountable items

2. Chlorhexidine and latex sensitivity

3. Electrosurgical equipment

4. Fire safety specific to the perioperative setting

5. Infection prevention - this will include all of the following individual standards combined into a single standard

1. Asepsis

2. Cleaning and maintaining the perioperative environment

3. Disposal of surgically removed human tissue and explanted items

4. Perioperative attire

5. Preoperative patient skin antisepsis

6. Sharps and preventing sharps-related injury

7. Surgical hand antisepsis, gowning and gloving

6. Laser safety

7. Patient positioning and manual handling

8. Specimen identification, collection and handling

9. Surgical plume

10. Surgical safety

In December 2020, the Clinical WST made its recommendations to the Roadmap Project's National Leadership Group (NLG). The NLG carefully considered and discussed the WST's recommendations for clinical standard topics and how those standards relate to other primary safety and quality standards. In March 2021, the NLG accepted the ten topics outlined above to form the Standards for Safe and Quality Care in the Perioperative Environment (SSQCPE) in the 2022 ACORN Standards.

The Clinical WST have diligently met their intent that ACORN not duplicate, contradict or ignore higher-ordered public policy. In their review, the WST considered the current and future need for each existing clinical standard. They also identified what alternative pieces of public policy relate to the topics included in each existing 2020 clinical ACORN standard. Particularly, they took note of the authority and remit of the organisations and agencies authoring or promulgating these alternative directives. The WST's goal was to appropriately rationalise and substantiate the need for ACORN to retain, or not retain, specific clinical standards. The WST recognised that some clinical standards were now superfluous or redundant and have recommended ACORN retire those standards.

The standards, guidelines and position statements in Volume 1: Clinical Standards of the 16th edition of the ACORN Standards remain current until the release of the 2022 ACORN Standards. ACORN is reviewing the topics not carrying over to the 2022 edition, which will only contain standards, and will work with its leadership and members to determine which of those superfluous topics will be reviewed and republished separately as a guideline or position statement and which will be retired.

Redeveloping ACORN's clinical standards is a complex and fast-paced process. Please keep an eye on this page, the Roadmap Project webpage and ACORN social media accounts for updates and opportunities to review and contribute to these ten standards

March 2021

Volume 1 of the current 16th edition of Standards for Perioperative Nursing in Australia (the ACORN Standards) includes recommendations on a wide range of clinical practices. Historically each set of clinical practice recommendations was classified and structured as either a standard, guideline or position statement. Collectively those standards, guidelines and position statements formed approximately half of the entire suite of ACORN Standards. The next edition of the ACORN Standards will only include standards. Therefore an essential part of ACORN's Roadmap Project currently being undertaken by the Clinical Workstream Team (WST) is making recommendations about which of the 16th edition's current clinical topics will remain as revised, updated standards.

ACORN will deal with the clinical topics not being retained in one of three ways. They may be reclassified as an ACORN guideline, reclassified as an ACORN position statement or rescinded. All reclassified topics will be subject to revision and updating before ACORN progressively republishes them. They will sit separate from the ACORN Standards and serve an entirely different purpose. ACORN will communicate that purpose as each guideline or position statement is published.

ACORN's Roadmap Project has delegated responsibility for making recommendations about which clinical topics ACORN must include in the next edition of the ACORN Standards to the Clinical WST. To do this task well and thoroughly, team members have considered how they and their colleagues routinely use the ACORN Standards and, through a series of meetings, surveys, and email discussions the team has recommended improvements ACORN could make to increase the useability of future ACORN Standards.

The Clinical WST identified two key issues early in their discussion:

1. the high degree of repetition, and possibly even contradiction, in the overall content of the Standards

2. the absence of an index in the previous and current edition of the ACORN Standards.

To address the first issue the team has now provided a list of standards it recommends be revised and published in the next edition of the ACORN Standards. As well, the team has recommended the preferred future for the residual current standards, guidelines and position statements. Pending approval by the Roadmap Project's National Leadership Group (NLG), some will be revised and retained as standards while others will be reclassified, revised and republished as guidelines or position statements. The team recognised that some topics, currently included in the ACORN Standards, are covered elsewhere as standards published by another reputable agency or organisation and has recommended that ACORN rescinds standards, guidelines and position statements about these topics.

In relation to the second issue, the team identified that perioperative staff may need to immediately know or confirm ACORN's recommendations contained in a specific standard; therefore, the team strongly recommended that ACORN consider developing an index for the next version of the ACORN Standards. As this brief report goes to press, ACORN is exploring possible options for integrating an index.

ACORN continues to seek ways to improve and simplify the ACORN Standards. ACORN remains committed to providing Australian perioperative nurses and organisations with standards that are clear, free from repetition or contradiction and reflective of their evolution over the last four decades. ACORN can only achieve these goals by the direct involvement of committed members and experts such as the members of the Clinical WST and the NLG. Together with the NLG, the Clinical WST and ACORN look forward to sharing more details about the next edition closer to its publication. In the interim, please keep up to date with the standards via ACORN's Standards webpage.

December 2020

Recently, a member asked for ACORN's advice about the requirements for consent with paediatric patients. Specifically, when a child comes to theatre does the parent that signed the consent form have to be present? Or can it be the other parent who may not have consented for the surgery?

A great place to start to learn more about consent is 'Informed consent in health care' a fact sheet for clinicians published by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health care (ACSQHC). The fact sheet highlights:

1. there is case law in Australia about informed consent

2. each state and territory also has guardianship and/or medical treatment legislation about capacity and consent

3. this legislation is different in each state and territory, and can be complex.

Fact sheet: Informed consent in health care, ACQSHC 2020, p.2
ACORN encourages all members practicing in Australia to refer to the Commission's fact sheet which is available at: https://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/publications-and-resources/resource-library/informed-consent-fact-sheet-clinicians.

November 2020

ACORN last published competency standards in 2014 as part of the ACORN Standards for Perioperative Nursing. Following substantial changes in national recommendations from the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA), the ACORN Board of Directors agreed that ACORN should no longer publish competency standards. The subsequent 2016, 2018 and 2020 editions of Standards for Perioperative Nursing in Australia (the ACORN Standards) do not include competency standards. This, and the lack of competencies published on ACORN's website, signal that ACORN has rescinded the 2014 ACORN competency standards. ACORN recommends that they not be used in terms of contemporary practice.

It is worth noting, as it had a direct impact on the relevance of ACORN's competency standards, that the NMBA replaced the National competency standards for the registered nurse (2010) and the National competency standards for the enrolled nurse (2002) with Registered nurse standards for practice (2016) and Enrolled nurse standards for practice (2016). The NMBA also published the Nurse practitioner standards for practice in 2014. See www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au/Codes-Guidelines-Statements/Professional-standards.aspx.

The NMBA has openly removed the term 'competency' from its standards because 'Research suggested that confusion existed between the use of the term "competency-based assessment" in the vocational education and training (VET) sector and use of the term "competency" in other settings.'

For their respective nursing registration - enrolled nurse (EN), registered nurse (RN) or nurse practitioner (NP) - the NMBA standards for practice are the core practice standards that provide the framework for assessing nursing practice. They reflect the respective roles 'in the current health environment, remaining broad and principle-based, to ensure they are sufficiently dynamic and applicable for a range of practice settings'.

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Discoverthe various roles within perioperative nursing that may interest you. If you are a nursing student or a beginning practitioner start by exploring the nursing roles. If you are a more experienced practitioner looking to expand your career, the advanced nursing roles may interest you. A brief summary of education options and a list of perioperative nursing associations are also included below.
For information about non-nursing roles in perioperative practice visit our Subsidiary roles page.
Why choose perioperative nursing?

Perioperative nursing offers a number of interesting and stimulating career opportunities. Perioperative nurses care for surgical patients having interventional procedures in operating suites and day surgery units. They work in a large team of people with specialised knowledge and skillsets who, together, provide safe and high quality of care to surgical patients from admission right through to discharge in the operating suite or day surgery unit. It can be incredibly rewarding to be a part of such a team where no two days are the same and there is an endless opportunity for learning and professional development.

Watch the video above to hear from five emerging leaders in the perioperative nursing field and ACORN CEO Rebecca East as they tell inspiring stories describing their varied career paths and the rewards and benefits of being a perioperative nurse. This webinar was recorded as part of the celebrations for Perioperative Nurses Week in October 2020.

The common perception that perioperative nursing is a purely technical role, with little or no patient contact, is a myth. Perioperative nurses deliver care to patients both directly and indirectly, and all activities performed by the nurse are done so on behalf of the patient. Nurses interact directly with fully conscious patients and their families and carers, and when patients are under anaesthetic the nurse ensures that patient care goals are met. As with many acute care roles, the level of patient contact is determined by the individual nurse and their approach to patient care.

Perioperative nurses need knowledge and understanding of evidence-based practice and ACORN's Standards for Perioperative Nursing in Australia. They should also map their career advancement against the ACORN Professional Standards.

To learn more about perioperative nursing visit our Perioperative nursing page.

There are a number of contemporary roles, including:

Anaesthetic nurse

Circulating nurse (formerly known as scout nurse)

Instrument nurse (formerly known as scrub nurse)

Post Anaesthesia Care Unit (PACU) nurse

Pre-admission and day surgery nurses (also known as pre-operative patient assessment and education nurses).

Both registered nurses and enrolled nurses work in perioperative settings. For enrolled nurses to fully participate in any role it is recommended they have completed a Diploma of Nursing that includes medications administration up to the level of intravenous medications. See Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) fact sheet Enrolled nurses and medicine administration.

Advice for nursing students and graduate nurses

If you are a student or newly graduated nurse, there are a number of things you can do to prepare yourself for the new knowledge and skills needed to be successful in gaining access to the perioperative nursing speciality. It is a great advantage if you obtain a placement in the operating suite while completing undergraduate studies and during your graduate year. When choosing where to spend your graduate year, look for health service organisations that offer the operating suite as a placement option.

It is also beneficial to read textbooks and use other resources which will provide a great foundation on which to build your knowledge and capabilities. The textbook Perioperative Nursing: An Introduction (2016, 2nd edition) is a good reference with which to begin. You can also research 'perioperative nursing', 'operating room technique' and 'care of the surgical patient' on the internet.

ACORN also offers resources such as the Surgical hand antisepsis, gowning and gloving DVD.

For more information about these roles visit our Nursing roles page.

Perioperative nursing may also lead to advanced practice options that include:

Nurse educator

Nurse Practitioner (Perioperative) roles

Nurse researcher

management roles (e.g. Nurse Unit Manager (NUM) and Perioperative Services Manager)

Perioperative Nurse Surgeon's Assistant (PNSA).

Advice for experienced practitioners

Most advanced nursing roles require a relevant further qualification on top of a Bachelor of Nursing. Nurse Practitioner, nurse researcher and PNSA roles require a master's degree relevant to the context of the advanced nursing practice, while the Nurse educator role requires a qualification in education. Management roles require leadership skills and management experience. Although they do not necessarily require higher qualifications, a postgraduate qualification with a health administration focus is an advantage. Some advanced nursing roles also require supplementary education, endorsement or a mentor or supervisor.

For more information about these roles visit our Advanced nursing roles page.

Education in perioperative nursing can be found in both informal and formal settings.

Undergraduate degrees can offer education as either theory and clinical placement, theory only, or clinical placement opportunities during acute placements.

Transition to practice programs can offer orientation to perioperative nursing during an operating suite rotation.

Diplomas of nursing may offer a perioperative elective HLTEN612B Practise in the perioperative nursing environment in the advanced diploma units of study. (Note: for diploma courses you need to ensure you study with a registered training organisation (RTO). For more information see www.training.gov.au.)

Introduction to perioperative nursing programs may be delivered by state and territory perioperative nursing associations (see links below).

The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) offers a Graduate Certificate in Perioperative Nursing.

Certain universities offer postgraduate perioperative nursing master's degrees with optional exit points at graduate certificate and graduate diploma. (Note: to enrol in a postgraduate degree you need to be working in a perioperative setting.)

Perioperative nurses also benefit from joining ACORN via their local state or territory perioperative nursing association. (You automatically become a member of ACORN when you join your local association.) ACORN and the local associations provide excellent ongoing professional development to perioperative nurses through national and state conferences, study days, resources, education grants, a national quarterly journal ( Journal of Perioperative Nursing) and association newsletters. Visit your local association website to see what educational opportunities are available:
ACORN Queensland
NSW Operating Theatre Association (OTA)

Victorian Perioperative Nurse Group (VPNG)
ACORN Tasmania
South Australian Perioperative Nurses Association (SAPNA)
ACORN Western Australia
Northern Territory Perioperative Nurses Association (NTPNA)

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Graduate Certificate in Perioperative Nursing

Approximately 2.6 million of Australian hospital admissions each year result in surgical interventions (AIHW, 2020). As integral members of the healthcare team, perioperative nurses work in a variety of roles within the perioperative environment and promote safe, evidence-based nursing care.

A Graduate Certificate in Perioperative Nursing provides perioperative nurses with the knowledge and skills required to ensure better outcomes for the people in their care. It will also lead to career progression opportunities in areas such as clinical education, management and specialist nursing roles.

Reference: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) (2020). Australia's hospitals at a glance 2018-2019. Cat. No. HSE 247. AIHW.

Course overview

The course is designed to meet the educational needs of clinicians working in the diverse perioperative environment. Speciality elective units of study are aligned with the main perioperative clinical roles; instrument/circulating, anaesthetic and post-anaesthetic care unit nursing. The core unit of study explores issues relating to professional practice, legal and ethical elements of care and maintaining a safe perioperative environment. Participants can choose from a range of elective units to investigate topics including pain across the lifespan, infection prevention and control and applied clinical physiology.

Please note that this course is only available to registered nurses currently employed within a perioperative setting.

Career outcomes

A Graduate Certificate in Perioperative Nursing is an investment in your future and will provide you with the knowledge and skills needed to ensure better outcomes for your patients and progress your career, leading to opportunities in clinical education, management and specialist nursing roles.

On completion of the course students will be able to:

formulate an advanced knowledge base to promote the safe provision and coordination of evidence-based care within the perioperative environment

apply critical thinking to the assessment process, linking specialist theory to holistic nursing practice

critically analyse current literature and nursing practice to provide evidence based contemporary care for persons in the perioperative environment

model the skills and abilities that provide a foundation for future leadershiproles, including reflective practice, knowledge sharing and a commitment to life-long learning

develop advanced communication skills to establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with people receiving care, their significant others and members of the multidisciplinary team

critically reflect on the role of personal values and ethics as central to the development of culturally safe practice in perioperative nursing

The Graduate Certificate in Perioperative Nursing is a one year course, consisting of four 10-week terms.

Students will need to complete 4 units - 1 core, 1 specialty and 2 electives. One unit is studied per term.

Approximate hours of study are 12 - 15 hours per week.

Units of study

ACN offers two intakes per year in January and July. Important dates including start and census dates can be found here.

Flexible intakes in April and October may be available, please contact our Customer Services team for further details.

Fees

Fees are subject to change without notice.

ACN offers a flexible payment option allowing students to pay their fees on a term-by-term basis. Each term's fees are due upfront, prior to term commencement.

FEE-HELP is also available for eligible students. Further information can be found here.

Want to save on course fees?

Being a part of the ACN community allows nurses to be the best they can be and strengthen the voice of nursing through a range of invaluable benefits, including 10% off graduate certificates and other education offerings, exclusive networking events, access to support and advice on ACN's online engagement platform neo, free online CPD courses and opportunities to be involved in shaping health care policy. Find out more and join our tribe today!

Admission to GC courses is based on academic merit and selection. In addition, applicants must satisfy any prerequisites or additional requirements specified for particular courses, including ACN's general eligibility criteria.

All applicants seeking admission are required to:

hold a Bachelor of Nursing or registered nurse* equivalent qualification

be currently registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) or the equivalent registering authority in your country of origin

have a minimum of one year postgraduate experience

be currently employed within a perioperative setting.

*For some GC units of study, consideration may be given for applicants who are not registered nurses on an individual basis.

Sharron Smyth-Demmon, Nurse Educator - Higher Education RN, MCN, B.Ed (Prof. Hons), DPSN, Cert IV TAE, MACN, MACORN, NSWOTA, ACPAN Email: sharron.smyth-demmon@acn.edu.au
Sharron coordinates our Graduate Certificate in Perioperative Nursing. She began her nursing career in the United Kingdom where she worked in primarily in the field of women's health, both in an acute gynaecological setting and in primary health as a qualified family planning nurse. Sharron has several years of experience within the perioperative setting, mainly in anaesthetics and recovery. She also has extensive experience in the day surgery environment. Sharron has 30 years of nursing experience and sees nursing as not only a science but also an art, with compassion, humanity and empathy at its core.

Please ensure you read all course information and make sure you meet entry requirements prior to commencing the application form. Applications for enrolment will not be progressed until all relevant documentation has been received by Customer Services.

Course codes: 10 011 2222 (January 2022 intake)
10 011 2223 (July 2022 intake)

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The Millennium Fellowship

CALLING UNDERGRADUATE LEADERS

The United Nations Academic Impact and MCN proudly present the Millennium Fellowship. The Fellowship is a semester-long leadership development program on your campus to take your social impact to the next level. Access to world class training, connections, and recognition is just an application away.

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The Class of 2021 will be announced on the first week of August and will run this August-November. The Class of 2022 application is open here and the program will run August-November 2022. Apply now: early applications are strongly encouraged.

Sam Vaghar - Executive Director, MCN

H.E. Ban Ki-moon - 8th Secretary-General, United Nations

PRESENTING THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP CLASS OF 2021

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Millennium Fellows

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Take your Social Impact to the Next Level| Millennium Fellowship

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The United Nations Academic Impact and MCN proudly present the Millennium Fellowship. The Fellowship is a semester-long leadership development program on your campus to take your social impact to the next level. Access to world class training, connections, and credentials is just an application away

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Future Artifacts: Additional Positions in NSW Health that support my evidence of practice to gain entry into the surgical ward

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Future Artifacts: Additional Positions in NSW Health that support my evidence of practice to gain entry into the surgical ward

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Make a Bigger Difference - Study The Bachelor of Nursing (Advanced Studies)