Nursing Event Series 2025
Nursing at Melbourne: 2025 Seminar Series
Our Event Series
The Department of Nursing, The University of Melbourne is delighted to announce the continuation of our public event series. The 2025 Nursing Event Series is partnered with Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, The Royal Children’s Hospital, The Royal Melbourne Hospital and The Royal Women’s Hospital.
Ensuring equitable access to safe and high-quality healthcare is fundamental to the performance of our health system and excellent patient outcomes. Nurses, positioned at the crossroads of primary, community, and acute health services, play a pivotal role in navigating timely access and advocating for system improvements to meet the diverse needs of all individuals seeking healthcare.
We have called this year’s series
Nurses Driving Change and Leading Impact:
Evidence and Experiences from the Field
Purpose
Our four-part series aimed to:
- Explore: nurse-led models of care, focusing on equitable access, trauma-informed care, large data sets, pain management and systems impact on outcomes, care, and workforce.
- Consider: optimising nurses' scope of practice and workforce to deliver safe, person-centred complex care and improve access, safety, and quality for all.
- Foster: networks and collaboration among nurses, consumers, researchers, and students through evidence and experiences, addressing workforce challenges, digital health, and positioning nurses to lead impactful healthcare change.
When
Together we warmly welcome all of our colleagues, student and health partners across Parkville and beyond to join us in person and online.
- Thursday 20 March 2025
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5-6pm
Trauma-Informed Nursing for Safer Care Practices
Location - Online
- Tuesday 13 May 2025
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6-7pm
The Marian Barrett Lecture: Data and Digital Systems - Improving Equity, Safety and Efficiency of Nursing Practice
Location - The University of Melbourne
Ian Potter Auditorium
Kenneth Myer Building
30 Royal Parade, Parkville VIC 30526-7 Lecture
7-8 Post-Lecture Networking & CanapesSPEAKER:
Professor Dawn Dowding
- Tuesday 29 July 2025
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4-5pm
Pain in Priority Populations
Location - Royal Children's Hospital
Ella Latham Lecture Theatre
Ground Floor, Royal Children's Hospital
Flemington Road, Parkville 30524-5 Lecture
5-6 Post-Lecture Networking & Canapes - Thursday 16 October 2025
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4-5pm
Unpacking the National Nursing Workforce Strategy
Location - Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Lecture Theatre B, Level 7
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
305 Grattan Street, Melbourne Victoria 30004-5 Lecture
5-6 Post-Lecture Networking & Canapes