The Australian Primary Heath Care Nurses Association (APNA) has stationed its first 76 student nurses in aged care homes to complete their clinical placements. The students are part of a new Commonwealth-funded aged care placement program, where eventually, the residential ...

Australia needs a federally coordinated approach to address chronic shortages in hospitals rather than a statewide effort to lure staff through incentives, according to a nursing expert. In May, Queensland's health department announced it would offer health workers up to $20,000 ...

Nursing has changed enormously since I started my nursing training as one of the last cohort of solely hospital trained nurses in the late 1980s. Although we transitioned to a degree qualified profession more than 30 years ago, there are ...

The nursing clinical placement is an essential part of the nursing degree and is an opportunity to solidify clinical knowledge and get real life exposure to clinical settings. For almost all students, the transition from university-based learning to the real ...

Providing clinical placements for students is essential and there is a shortage of places around Australia. One sector is underused in this area and wants to help. Linda Belardi reports. In 2009 aged care delivered 4 per cent of all ...

Students continue to raise concerns over the quality of clinical placements. The dean of nursing at the University of Technology, Sydney has warned undergraduate nursing students there are penalties for student misconduct after frustrations over clinical placements escalated and resulted ...

Increasing the amount of clinical placements is the aim of a new Queensland partnership. A new joint project between USQ and Toowoomba Hospital to increase the quality and quantity of nursing student clinical placements has the potential to address an ...

Nurses welcome boost for clinical placements in regional Australia. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced the start of more funding for health services in regional communities. The opening of applications for the new round of funding under the Health and ...

Darragh O Keeffe reports on new efforts to provide quality clinical placements for the health professionals of tomorrow. Providing students from various disciplines, such as nursing, physiotherapy and podiatry, the opportunity to learn and work together in aged care facilities ...

Universities are finding clinical practice can be improved within its walls, writes Annie May. Clinical placements are essential for undergraduate nursing students in developing the required skills to join the workforce. However, with nurses and healthcare facilities experiencing increased demand, ...