ACN advocates, develops policy, and provides education to advance the status of nursing nationally and internationally.
[1] The founders of the New South Wales College of Nursing were Muriel Knox Doherty, Agnes Mary Lions, Margaret Frances Guy (nee Looker), and Georgina McCready (nee Johnstone).
[2] Kathleen Stirling Scrymgour sat on the inaugural committee that founded the Royal College of Nursing in 1950 in Melbourne and was president 1953-54.
ACN advocates, develops policy, and provides education to advance the status of nursing nationally and internationally.
[26] The ACN Foundation's Bullwinkel Project raised funds to commission the first sculpture of an individual woman and the first to commemorate a nurse - Lieutenant Colonel Vivian Bullwinkel AO, MBE, ARRC, ED, FNM, FRCNA - in the grounds of the Australian War Memorial.