Western Health is a Platinum Affiliate of the Australian College of Nursing (ACN), which provides our nurses the opportunity to tap into the wide range of networking and support services that ACN provides.
Our nurses have access to ACN’s broad range of leadership development opportunities, allowing you to explore the trends, opportunities and concerns facing our profession, and enables you to work collaboratively with your colleagues and ACN in order to shape nursing future for health and aged care.
Our ACN affiliation also provides our nursing staff with the opportunity to grow your career and tap into your individual leadership potential. Leadership skills are vital to provide quality patient care and advocacy. Nurses with leadership skills are change makers who can utilise your experience and expertise to make an impact on health care delivery by shaping policy and reforms.
As a Western Health nurse, you automatically have access to the following benefits:
- Each year a group of our leaders partake in a customised Leadership Development Day
- 10% discount on ACN leadership CPD short courses
- Discounted Affiliate ACN membership rate for all nurse employees
- 10% Discount on all ACN CPD courses
Please follow these links to find out more about ACN leadership programs and educational courses. ACN also has scholarships available.
To find out more about becoming an ACN member or getting the most out of your membership, please click here.