• Entry type: Organisation
  • Entry ID: AWE6490

Victorian Trained Nurses Association (VTNA)

(From 1901 – 1904)

Summary

The Victorian Trained Nurses Association was first constituted in 1901.

According to a newspaper article in The Argus on 6 July 1901, the objectives of the Association were:

  1. To establish a system of registration for trained nurses.
  2. To promote the interests of trained nurses – male and female – in all matters affecting their work.
  3. To establish a uniform systems of training and examination for nurses.
  4. To afford opportunities for discussing subjects bearing on the work of nursing.
  5. In due course to arrange for schemes that will afford to nurses a means of providing an allowance during incapacity for work caused by sickness, accident, age, or other necessitous circumstances.

Archival resources

  • The University of Melbourne Archives
    • Australian Nursing Federation, Victorian Branch
  • The University of Adelaide Archives
    • Royal Victorian College of Nursing
  • Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre
    • Royal Victorian Trained Nurses Association Nurses Register

Related entries


  • Affiliated
    • Australasian Trained Nurses' Association (1899 - )
  • Member
    • Farquharson, Martha Durward (1847 - 1929)
  • Related Women
    • Glover, Hannah Elizabeth (1855 - 1946)
  • Subsequent
    • Royal Victorian Trained Nurses Assocation (1904 - 1934)
  • Membership
    • Wilson, Grace Margaret (1879 - 1957)