Thanks to our partnership with MooGoo Skin Care, we’re awarding three scholarships of $10,000 each to support postgraduate cancer nursing students in Australia. These scholarships help subsidise study costs and strengthen the education of our cancer nursing workforce. Apply before April 11.
This webinar offers an opportunity for the Cancer Nursing workforce to receive an update on the Australian Cancer Nursing and Navigation Program (ACNNP) - including operational priorities, key implementation activity, referral pathways, and core roles and responsibilities.
In this first episode of Nursing Excellence in Cancer Care, we discuss the cancer nursing workforce now, and in the future. We talk about the needs and requirements of the profession and what CNSA is doing to lead this initiative.
This month on Nursing Excellence in Cancer Care, we chat with CNSA President Anne Mellon and CEO Jemma Still about what's happening at CNSA, and more broadly about issues impacting the nursing workforce in the cancer care and control landscape in Australia
I am thrilled to share some exciting news with you - CNSA has recently been awarded nearly $1 million in grant funding from the Australian Government. This is part of the $16.5 million committed to the Cancer Patient Support Program, a component of the Australian Cancer Nursing and Navigation Program. The aim is to provide better outcomes for people affected by cancer and increase equity across tumour types.
The nomination informs the National Health Workforce Dataset statistics used by the Commonwealth and states and territories in health system planning and policies. It is incredibly important that they have an accurate representation of the cancer nursing workforce in Australia.
In Australia, Prostate cancer (PCa) has a high survival rate (96%) meaning men with PCa may live with the impact of the disease for many years, even decades. The Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA) manages two Prostate Cancer Specialist Nursing (PCSN) programs: (1) A health service-based program and (2) A telenursing service. There is a paucity of economic evidence regarding the benefits of these programs so Social Return on Investment (SROI) methodology was used to determine social value and return on investment.
Developed in partnership with Flinders University’s Caring Futures Institute (CFI), the Cancer Statewide Clinical Network and the Commission on Excellence and Innovation in Health (CEIH), this comprehensive Framework aims to ensure timely and equitable access to cancer care services for all South Australians, by improving their navigation of the healthcare system.
In 2020, CNSA advocated to incorporate cancer care as a job area health professionals could nominate in their AHPRA registration. The data from this annual registration process, together with data from a workforce survey that is voluntarily completed at the time of registration, forms the National Health Workforce Dataset (NHWDS). This data is accessible to the public through the Health Workforce Data Tool and this document is a snapshot of this data.
The State of the World’s Nursing 2025 report was released by the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Council of Nurses (ICN) and partners, and provides a comprehensive analysis of the global nursing workforce
