Enhancing clinical placement learning for nursing and midwifery students: A national quality assurance project
The National Placement Evaluation Centre (NPEC) was established in 2018 to provide an Australian national approach to monitoring nursing and midwifery student evaluations of their professional experience placements (PEP). The lack of a national monitoring system was questioned in a review of nursing.1 Initially funded by the Council of Deans Nursing and Midwifery Australia and […]
Strength in numbers: 100 years of improving the working lives of nurses and midwives
The working lives of nurses and midwives have undergone significant transformation over the past 100 years. In 1938, a typical staff nurse in Victoria earned just two pounds, four shillings, and four pence, for a 50-hour work week, caring for 10 patients during the day and 15 at night. These early nurses’ responsibilities extended far […]