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Scholarships up to $6000 each for rural nurses to re-enter nursing and upgrade skills

Applications are currently being sought from eligible people living in rural and remote Australia with a commitment to rural nursing, for the Rural and Remote Nurse Scholarship Program: Re-entry and Upskilling Scheme (RUS).

Applications are now being sought for the Puggy Hunter Memorial Scholarship Scheme, which aims to increase the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people working in the Australian health care system, by providing scholarships worth up to $15,000 per annum.

Aged Care Nursing Scholarships up to $10,000 each for study in 2006

In line with the Australian Government’s goal of increasing the number of nurses in aged care, Royal College of Nursing, Australia (RCNA), the fund administrator of the Aged Care Nursing ScholarshipScheme-Undergraduate today announced the availability of the 2005 round of offers for study in 2006.

NURSES are struggling to stay awake and are feeling physically and mentally exhausted during shifts, a study has found.

NURSES at the Flinders Medical Centre are being forced to work double shifts because of a shortage of agency nurses, Opposition health spokesman Dean Brown claimed yesterday.

CHAD is a border collie blissfully unaware that he is a minor celebrity in the local press, the Victorian parliament and in lawyers' letters barking loudly about actions that have flowed from his bite. A beloved family pet, Chad nipped one of the relief carers who help feed and bathe Joshua Krupjak, 12, and his brother Dylan, 6, who are profoundly disabled.

WHISTLEBLOWER nurses such as Toni Hoffman in the aged care sector could face the sack under the Federal Government's proposed industrial relations changes, a union said today.

A range of measures to save more rural birthing services across Australia - and to better assist those GP obstetricians, specialist obstetricians and midwives needed to support birthing in the bush- have been the focus of a high-level meeting in Canberra today.

Registered nurses who are also Members or Fellows of Royal College of Nursing Australia (RCNA) are invited to apply for a range of scholarships and awards intended to assist them in undertaking tertiary and/or postgraduate education and research activities.

Aged care homes across Australia will receive an extra $1,000 per resident in a one-off payment to target specific issues that will help ensure they remain sustainable in the long term, the Federal Minister for Ageing, Julie Bishop, announced today.