Financial Support & Scholarships

We are excited to announce a new collaboration to benefit our ACORN members for 2023!

ACORN and Medcast have teamed up to provide a 15% discount for ACORN members for their Advanced Life Support (ALS) and Paediatric Advanced Life Support (PLS) courses.

Email education@acorn.org.au to receive your ACORN member Medcast discount coupon code.

To find out more information about the courses and dates, click on the links below.

• Advanced Life Support (ALS) dates and to register
• Paediatric Advanced Life Support (PLS) dates and to register

UTAS and ACORN have partnered to offer a range of postgraduate qualification scholarships to ACORN members.  As a member of ACORN you will receive heavily subsidised fees for graduate certificate and diploma degrees.

For more information and to apply online, visit the UTAS website.

• Postgraduate nursing (including perioperative, anaesthetic and recovery nursing, leadership in practice, clinical nursing and teaching)

• Addiction Studies

• Advanced Practice (specialisations in Applied Quality and Safety, Communicable Disease Prevention, Community and Urgent Care, Critical Care and Retrieval, Dementia, Digital Health, Governance, Health Economics, Health Service Improvement, Healthcare Education, Medication Safety, Organisational Performance, Organisational Resilience, Strategic Communication, Supply Chain and Logistics, and Workplace Psychology)

• Dementia

• Health Protection

• Healthcare Redesign

• Leadership in Health and Human Services

• Public Health

Scholarship requirements

To be eligible for a UTAS scholarship, you must be a current member of ACORN.

If you have questions about the scholarship, eligibility requirements refer to the UTAS website, or contact UTAS directly by email on Course.Info@utas.edu.au, or phone 1300 363 864.

Bravura Education is offering scholarships for ACORN members to complete a laser safety officer (LSO) training course (surgical and operating suite). In each round, one ACORN member from each state will be awarded a scholarship to do Bravura Education's LSO training.

This laser safety officer course is suitable for those who work in an operating suite or other clinical environments that use lasers. It provides a comprehensive understanding of the operation and hazards of lasers. The course is delivered online and takes eight to ten hours to complete. You can study at your own pace, in your own time and take as long as you like to do it. Assessment is a two-hour, online, open book exam.

The course meets the requirements for eight hours of continuing professional development (CPD) when applied according to relevant AHPRA guidelines. It is accredited by both ACORN and the Australian College of Nursing.

For more information visit Bravura Education.

I would like to thank ACORN for awarding me the Bravura Laser Safety Officer education scholarship. This course was very informative, I particularly enjoyed the section on light physics and learning about how laser light is absorbed by tissue. I am fortunate enough to work at Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin Private Hospital, and the Indigenous Remote Eye Service. This Scholarship will allow me to safely work with lasers across all three of these sites within my speciality of ophthalmic surgery – Peter (2022 scholarship recipient)

Applications for Round 1 2024 open on 1 March 2024. 

Round 1 (opens 1 March 2024 and closes 31 May 2024)

Round 2 (opens 1 September 2024 and closes 30 November 2024)