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Donate to the Bullwinkel Project to support annual scholarships in honour of the 21 Australian nurses massacred on Bankga Island in WWII.
Portrait by Shirley Bourne, Archibald finalist from 1955-57
The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) Foundation collaborates with the community-at-large to raise funds in support of nurse-led initiatives. These initiatives focus on research, policy development and advocacy, education, scholarship, nurse leadership and the curation of Australian nurse history. If you wish to support Australian nurses, the ACN Foundation is the organisation that focuses completely on supporting nurses to ensure we continue to have the high standard of quality health care in Australia. In addition to developing new opportunities in line with its mission, the ACN Foundation administers existing scholarships and grants of the Australian College of Nursing.
Donate to support annual scholarships in honour of the 21 Australian nurses massacred on Bankga Island in WWII.
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Australia has an acute nursing crisis. Please donate to create more scholarships for nurses.
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Thanks to the support of our Foundation, ACN is offering five individual Policy Fellow Scholarships valued up to $25,000 (including expenses) to its Fellows and Members in 2020. The scholarship are based in Canberra and aim at support nurse leaders a
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