She had posted a newspaper advert asking for people interested in forming an association to register trained nurses to meet with her.

[4] At the meeting on 26 May 1899 to form the ATNA a provisional committee comprising seven matrons Matron Susan McGahey of RAPH; Matron Frances Georginia Spencer of Parramatta Hospital for the Insane and later Thomas Walker Convalescent Hospital; (Ellen Julie) Nellie Gould matron of the Hospital for the Insane at Rydalmere; Mrs Joseph; Mrs James Graham (nee Fanny Millard), Matron of the Benevolent Asylum,  and medical personnel including Dr Sir (knighted 1901)[5] James Graham, Dr Chubbe, Dr Thomas Fiaschi, Dr Mills, Dr Thring and Dr Purser.

[1] The first paid secretary, Evelyn Paget Evans, of the Australasian Trained Nurses Association was appointed in 1917.

The Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children's matron Rosa Angela Kirkcaldie was the President from 1932 to 1933.

[12] From 1954 to 1956 Joan Stevenson Abbott was the President and she resigned when she found that she could not improve nurses' working conditions.