Nursing Education

Follow the links below to find information on the training and education of nurses.

Reviewed September 2008

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Title:   Media release. Aged care nursing scholarships
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Australian Government today announced improvements to its $36 million Aged Care Nursing Scholarship Scheme - including $5,000 a semester to cover course costs, travel, lodging, textbooks and other equipment for postgraduate study.
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   National Review of Nursing Education
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   This review focused on the types of skills and knowledge required to meet the changing needs of nurses, and mechanisms for attracting new recruits, as well as encouraging the commitment to lifelong learning of those already engaged in nursing.
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   gettin em n keepin em
Publisher:   Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   This report by the Indigenous Nursing Education Working Group for the Commonwealth focusses on the inclusion of indigenous health in nursing curricula and recruitment and retention of indigenous nurses in the workforce.
Date:   Sep 2002
Title:   Nurse Scholarship Program
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Nurse Scholarship Program offers incentives to individuals wishing to pursue or build on a career in rural or remote area nursing and to nurses wishing to re-enter the nursing workforce anywhere in Australia.
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   National guidelines for immunisation education for registered nurses and midwives
Publisher:   Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
Description:   This resource was developed to assist those involved in immunisation program management and education to develop immunisation education strategies for registered nurses/midwives at undergraduate or post-graduate level, or through in-service modes of education.
Date:   Apr 2001
Title:   Media release. Building Australia's health workforce - scholarships for nurse practitioners
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Australian Government is investing $2.1 million to help build the nation's nurse practitioner workforce.
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   Nurses in Rural and Remote Areas
Publisher:   HealthInsite Topic Page
Description:   Links to information about nursing in rural and remote areas.
Date:   Nov 2006
Title:   Media release. WA hospitals boosted by record number of new nurses and more to come
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   A record 586 new graduate nurses will start work across the Western Australian public health system in 2008. The Australian Goverment Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon, and the WA Minister for Health, Jim McGinty, welcomed the first of the nurses on 21 January.
Date:   Jan 2008
Title:   Media release. Nurse Practitioner Scholarship round open
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Applications for the 2009 Nurse Practitioner Scholarships are now open. The scholarships will provide up to $15,000 a year for two years to nurses to upgrade their skills to become nurse practitioners.
Date:   Nov 2008
Title:   Media release. Rudd Government improves help for women with breast cancer
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Rudd Government is investing $43 million to support women with breast cancer - delivering new breast cancer nurses to rural and regional areas and providing a subsidy of up to $400 for breast prostheses through Medicare Australia.
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   Spirometry training course
Publisher:   National Asthma Council Australia (NAC)
Description:   The National Asthma Council Australia (NAC) is offering Australia's first national spirometry training course for GPs and practice nurses.
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Competency for new prescribers (Editorial)
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   In 2006 it became legal under Britain's 'non-medical prescribing programme' for nurses 'to prescribe any licensed medicine for any medical condition within their competence, including some controlled drugs'.
Date:   Jun 2007
Title:   Nursing as a career in Australia
Publisher:   Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW)
Description:   Career information and work opportunities for women and men in nursing in Australia. Includes details of nursing qualifications required in NSW and of areas of specialisation.
Date:   Jan 2002
Title:   PCC4U
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   The website for the Palliative Care Curriculum for Undergraduates (PCC4U) Project gives you up-to-date information on the PCC4U project including the aims, objectives and deliverables. If you are interested in Palliative Care, or the education of undergraduates in this area of practice, we hope that you will take the time to become familiar with the PCC4U Project.
Date:   Jul 2008
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