The Australian Women's Register

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.