Mental health recovery camp: A student consumer partnership
The first of its kind in Australia and the world, mental health recovery camps for undergraduate nurses have received awards since their inception in 2012. Natalie Dragon talks with co-founder Professor Lorna Moxham on the growing success and why the program should be funded nationally. “It’s a clinical placement, but it’s also a psychosocial intervention […]
Student spotlight – Tallulah
Tallulah McCarthy-Huxley is a third-year Bachelor of Midwifery student at Griffith University. 1 What inspired you to choose a career in nursing/midwifery? From a young age, I was deeply passionate about healthy and sustainable ways of living. I always envisioned a career in healthcare, but I felt that my holistic beliefs didn’t align with the […]
Financial and emotional strain of placement poverty: research
A new study has captured the financial and emotional strain of unpaid, mandatory placements on health and education students. The University of Wollongong (UOW) research provides a scaffold for how tertiary students could be better supported to complete mandatory professional placements during their degree. Greater access to scholarships, grants to undertake placements, subsidised transport and […]
Fee-free TAFE to help fix skills shortages in nursing and aged care
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) has issued a media release welcoming the Albanese Government’s commitment to expanding fee-free TAFE courses. ANMF Federal Secretary Annie Butler said enduring funding for free TAFE study would help address skills shortages in the nursing and aged care workforces and save students thousands of dollars a year in […]
‘It’s humbling’: Nursing lecturer helps guide next generation
“As nurses, from our graduate year onwards, we are teachers,” says La Trobe University nursing lecturer Niki Lillibridge. “We teach our own as soon as we become professionals.” So, after working in nursing education and critical care for over 15 years, its little wonder she transitioned into academia, where she now plays a pivotal role […]
ANMF advocates for paid clinical placements for all nursing and midwifery students
The ANMF has called for the immediate and universal rollout of the Commonwealth’s ‘Prac Payment’ for nursing and midwifery students at a Senate inquiry.
National nursing workforce strategy open for public consultation
Nurses and nursing students are amongst those being encouraged to provide feedback on the national nursing workforce strategy, now open for public consultation.
Government initiatives to strengthen nursing workforce in primary care
Peak nursing bodies have welcomed initiatives to bolster the workforce in primary care, including the national program to increase student nursing placements in primary care. The federal government announced $4.2 million for the National Nurse Clinical Placements Program (NNCPP) in the 2023-24 Budget. Federal Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care Ged Kearney, a RN […]
Moral distress tool for midwifery practice
Moral distress occurs when individuals experience a compromise to their moral beliefs. While validated tools exist to assess moral distress in various health professions, none are specifically tailored for midwifery in the Australian healthcare system. Midwife, clinical educator and researcher Wendy Foster and her colleagues conducted a series of studies, including a pilot study The […]
Research highlights need for preparation resource to ready online nursing students
An online study preparation resource for student nurses to access when they receive their acceptance into a nursing course could lead to more successful progression, a new research paper has found. Undertaken by Angela Sheedy, Senior Research Officer at Charles Darwin University’s Menzies School of Medicine, the study set out to investigate and identify the […]