Internationally acclaimed nursing advocate, Professor Dame Anne Marie Rafferty leads a stellar line up of speakers.
Hundreds of nurses will descend on Cairns over the coming hours for one of Australia’s biggest annual gatherings of nursing leaders.
They will hear from a host of speakers, including internationally acclaimed nursing advocate, Professor Dame Anne Marie Rafferty DBE FACN (Hon), Professor of Nursing Policy at King’s College London, and past president of the Royal College of Nursing, who will deliver the keynote address.
The Australian College of Nursing’s National Nursing Forum will run from 14-16 August, with the theme Regenerate, Reinvigorate, Reclaim: Sustainable Solutions for our Future.
About 700 nurses from around the country are expected to take part in the forum, which will include presentations from politicians, innovators and healthcare experts who will share their ideas, experiences, and recommendations for quality patient care, nursing pathways, and health system reform.
Government representation will be led by video addresses from federal health minister Mark Butler and assistant health and Indigenous health minister Ged Kearney. Opposition health minister Anne Ruston, and Brittany Lauga, Queensland assistant minister for health and regional health infrastructure are also expected to address the forum.
Other headline speakers include Professor Alison McMillan PSM FACN, commonwealth chief nursing and midwifery officer; Professor Sabina Knight AM FACN, independent reviewer for the Working Better for Medicare Review; Adjunct Professor Shelley Nowlan FACN, deputy National Rural Health Commissioner; Frances Rice MACN, senior nursing advisor to the Commonwealth Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer; Professor Brendan McCormack MACN, head of the Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery and Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney; Sarah Brown, AM, CEO of Purple House; Dr Bernadette Eather FACN, chief nurse and clinical services director, Ramsay Australia; Adjunct Professor Sonia Martin MACN, OneBridge founder and chair of the ACN Street Health Faculty; Rheannwynn Sneesby MACN, chair of the ACN Children and Young People Faculty; and Nathan Saunders, director of Fleet Health RAN and chair of the ACN Military Health Faculty.
The three-day-forum will cover topics such as palliative care, registered Nurse prescribing, Indigenous health and workforce, aged care, mental health, professional standards, clinical trials, rare diseases, scope of practice, VAD, gerontological nursing, social determinants of health, racially and ethnically minoritised women nurses, digital health, environmental health, climate health, healthcare in disasters, nursing workforce, telehealth, robotics, nurse safety and patient experience in ED, and reproductive health.
More information about the NNF 2024 is available online.