Sleep Awareness Week 2024: practical strategies for shift workers
Are you getting enough quality shuteye as a shift worker? What works for you, and what doesn’t? Is it time to try something new? Sleep Awareness Week runs 10-16 March and is a time to reemphasise the importance of sleep on your health and wellbeing. Sleep researcher, Alexandra Shriane, a former paramedic and shift worker, […]
Earn and learn: How Victoria’s RUSON employment model is helping attract more nurses into mental health
When she was an undergraduate nursing student, Monisha Lagreca worked on a mental health ward as part of the ANMF (Vic Branch) pioneered Registered Undergraduate Students of Nursing (RUSON) paid employment model. Under the delegation and supervision of mental health nursing staff at Peninsula Health, she gained invaluable firsthand exposure to the specialty, which quickly […]
Delegation in aged care: Know your responsibilities
Recent reforms in aged care have led to some employers reducing the number of enrolled nurses, leaving a skills gap which has brought to the fore concerns around delegation of work
Queensland Government boosts free TAFE for nursing students
In a bid to increase the pipeline of the next generation of nurses, the Queensland Government has injected extra funding to bolster fee-free TAFE for nursing students. An extra 3,500 free Diploma of Nursing placements will be offered in 2024, available through TAFE Queensland, CQUniversity and Mater Education, with the Government providing an additional $40.6 […]
Understanding enrolled nurse pre-registration nursing students
Now more than ever, we need to change the way we think about career trajectories and progression via higher education to cater for diversity within nursing student populations. As the healthcare sector continues to feel the pressure of workforce shortages, and universities widen participation, energy and focus must be directed at how we are best […]
Nursing students can now access supported clinical placements in aged care
Bachelor of Nursing students can now apply for supported clinical placements in aged care through the federal government’s new Aged Care Nursing Clinical Placements Program. The program involves clinical facilitators providing specialist support to nursing students, who must complete a minimum of 800 hours of clinical placement as part of their courses, while they are […]
Study: What would help retention of early career nurses in regional and rural areas?
What would help improve the job satisfaction and retention of early career nurses working across regional and rural Australia? It’s a question often contemplated by Heidi Rose, a clinical nurse based at Mount Gambier, and University of South Australia academics Dr Gemma Skaczkowski and Associate Professor Kate Gunn. So, they asked them. The study aimed […]
Husband and wife career switch to nursing
Husband and wife duo Jacob and Liana Cox have undergone a joint career life change with the aim of becoming nurses in rural and remote communities. For Jacob, a carpenter, and Liana, a police officer, life is a juggle of raising their two young children, while working and studying. Both started a Nursing Science degree […]
Heavy burden of clinical placements needs review
Lengthy, unpaid placements in higher education causing stress and financial instability for students have prompted calls for greater flexibility and sustainability in undergraduate clinical learning. Charles Darwin University (CDU) Head of Social Work, Associate Professor Lisa Hodge, told the ANMJ that a lack of flexibility and financial pressures put a strain on students who needed […]
Clinical placements need rethink to optimise student learning, study finds
Nursing students rate spending time with patients, performing assessments and observing nurses as they work the most beneficial to their learning while on clinical placement, a new Australian study has found. Commitments that take them away from the patient, such as tutorials and meetings, were less valued. The study, commissioned by the Council of Deans […]