About the Victorian Clinical Nursing Consortium

The Victorian Clinical Nursing Consortium (VCNC) is a unique collaboration between the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN Vic) and the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia (CENA Vic).

This is the first time in the history of these two well established professional associations. They have combined to apply their extensive experience and knowledge resources to the continued professional development of nurses and to improve the provision of state-wide trauma care.  

The Consortium was established following:

• a recommendation by the Review of Trauma and Emergency Services - Victoria (ROTES) in 1999 that a "..statewide introduction of a single, standard training course that is accessible for Victorian nurses involved in trauma care and integrated with other existing training courses" be developed; and
• a call for expressions of interest in January of 2000 by the Victorian Trauma Foundation (VTF) for projects and initiatives that had direct bearing on the recommendations of the ROTES report.

Following a competitive process, the Victorian Clinical Nursing Consortium was successful in being awarded funding support from the VTF to provide a standardised program for nurses involved in trauma care throughout the state of Victoria.

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Image acknowledgements:
http://www.news.navy.mil 040723-N-8977L-008 Los Angeles, Calif. (July 23, 2004) - Navy Hospital Corpsmen and Medical Officers assess the treatment and prognosis of a patient with a gunshot wound to the head in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the University of Southern California (USC) Medical Center. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Johansen Laurel (RELEASED)
http://www.news.navy.mil 40129-N-8977L-013 San Diego, Calif. (Jan. 29, 2004) – During a mass casualty drill aboard the Military Sealift Command (MSC) hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), a casualty receiving crew treats a patient pretending to suffer from a variety of traumatic injuries. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Johansen Laurel. (RELEASED)