PRE FORUM EVENT – TUESDAY, 13 AUGUST 2024
ACN 5th History Conference
Location Meeting Room M2 & M3
8:30-8:40am Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country
Presenter: Dr Lesley Potter FACN
8:40-9:00am Welcome to Cairns & A brief history on Nursing in North Queensland
Presenter: Professor Linda Shields FACN
9:00-9:30am Too costly to send nurses: The Australian 1937 Coronation Contingent
Presenter: Marilyn Gendek FACN
9:30-10:00am A bloody war & a sickly season: The evolution of the Royal Australian Navy Nursing Service
Presenter: Dr Amanda Garlick FACN
10:00-10:15amMorning tea
10:15-11:30am Keynote Speaker
Nightingale as a portal into the future
Presenter: Professor Dame Anne Marie Rafferty CBE FACN (Hon)
11:30am-12:00pm Past informing future: A historical examination of the nursing profession
Presenter: Dr Barbara Black MACN
12:00-12:30pm Looking to the past to map our future: The role of nurse leaders in meeting the Global Health Care Goals
Presenter: Dr Peter Taratara MACN
12:30-1:15pmLunch
1:15-2:15pm Panel
Making artefacts speak: Collecting the past and informing the present
Panel chaired by Sally Sutherland-Fraser MACN
Panelists: Dr Helen Hamilton FACN (DLF), Jade Chen MACN & Elizabeth Anne Mason
2:30-3:00pm Five children to a bed, up to their necks in filth
Presenter: Dr Susan Timpani MACN
3:00-3:30pm Learning from Northern Territory’s response to infectious diseases
Presenter: Angela Sheedy MACN
3: 30-3:45pmAfternoon tea
3:45- 4:15pm The getting of ‘political’ wisdom
Presenter: Dr Helen Hamilton FACN (DLF)
4:15- 4:45pm Aboriginal relationality as methodology in framing the historiography of Aboriginal Australian nurses 1890-1950
Presenter: Professor Odette Best FACN
4:45-5:00pmConference close