Twenty five years ago we had a vision for critical care nursing scholarship in Australia. We imagined an internationally recognised publication that would be a vehicle for publishing Australian nursing research, a flagship for the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (then the Confederation of Australian Critical Care Nurses) that would put Australian Critical Care Nursing on the world stage. This was a bold vision given that in 1987 nursing education had only been in the tertiary sector for two years in many states, few nurses had higher degrees and nursing research was in its infancy.The journal was not the only future being imagined. In 1985 at the 10th Annual Scientific Meeting on Intensive Care initial talks were taking place between two organisations that represented Critical Care Nurses in Australia (The Clinical Nurse Specialist Association of Australia and New Zealand and the Australian Society of Critical Care Nurses). In 1986 these two organisations joined to form the Confederation of Australian Critical Care Nurses with the vision of one day having a cohesive national group that today is the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses.
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