Physical description
A4 newsletter
Publication type
non-fiction
Summary
RANF News, the voice of the Victorian nursing profession preceded Nurses' Action branch bulletin. Barbara Carson was secretary when the first volume was published August 1983 and introduced a 'new format of newsletter. The aim was to make RANF News a true communications medium.' Barbara Carson resigned as Branch Secretary January 1986 and Robyn Millership was interim secretary until Irene Bolger was elected in May 1986.
RANF News June 1984. Secretary's report
RANF News July 1985. Salary justice for nurses: a fair day's pay for more than a fair day's work
RANF News August 1985. Keep nurses nursing - improve nurses' conditions
RANF News September 1985. Keep nurses nursing - improve nurses' conditions campaign
RANF News February 1986. Resignation of Barbara Carson
RANF News March 1986. Salaries and career structure case
RANF News April 1986. Industrial report
RANF News May 1986. Salaries and career structure
RANF News June 1986. Career structure details
RANF News July 1986 (Special edition). Salary justice
The Victorian Branch will progressively digitise the full collection of this news bulletin
Keywords
References
- ANMF (Vic Branch) : Our history The history of the Victorian nurses’ union tells the story of nurses' slow, but steady evolution from doctors' handmaidens into professionals consistently voted by Australians as among the most trusted
- ‘More than just the money – 100 years of the Victorian nurses’ union’, Ilsa Colson, Prowling Tiger Press, 2001 ISBN/ISSN: 0958664749 A social history of the Australian Nursing [and Midwifery] Federation, Victorian Branch. To work out the future direction of nursing it is essential that we understand its past, and documented in the pages of this book are the struggles and victories told in the words of its members, both past and present.
