Nurse Training: In Protest

Suggestions are now raised to improve the training courses offered to nurses. The Shires Association of New South Wales is requested by the Cabonne Council to increase their campaign to reintroduce nurse training in local hospitals.

According to Graeme Fleming, the General Manager, the council wants to know the number of registered nurses who return to their home towns after they finish university. With this, the region would have a better chance of enhancing the number of nurses by providing training locally. They believe that the more training they can provide, the more job they can offer. Tertiary qualifications are very important and must be acknowledged - be it through university or TAFE or whatsoever. Mr Fleming added that there are no opportunities for nurses to be taught in their home towns because enrolled nurses will no longer be trained at local hospitals starting April. Training in tertiary level is still required but it should not be abandoned. Opportunity must be provided to nurses at the local level to let them do the tertiary training at a university and have a traineeship arrangement.

Nurses may start their duty in local hospitals to help them build their skills they needed and to be able to get tertiary qualifications and accreditation plan. In this sense, a local government authority must be present to accredit Shires’ Association in opposing the plan. [via]