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| Orange’s Charles Sturt University (CSU) nursing program
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Orange’s Charles Sturt University (CSU) campus will train an extra 30 nursing students from next year.
The announcement of 30 new nursing students to be trained through the Orange campus and 15 graduate certificate students through CSU’s Dubbo campus has been welcomed as a boost for regional nursing by the university and the Greater Western Area Health Service (GWAHS).
“We know there is a shortage of nurses and mental health nurses in the region so this will benefit greatly the workforce in the area,” head of the CSU nursing and midwifery school, Elaine Duffy said.
The courses will be provided through distance education, meaning students will not be permanently based in Orange, but Professor Duffy said the course would still provide graduates for regional areas.
“I think what’s important is the majority of our graduates start their careers in regional NSW, so it’s really good for recruitment to have CSU providing these courses,” she said.
The distance education model would also allow the university to provide education to remote students, not able to relocate for several years of training.
She said CSU was one of Australia’s biggest providers of distance education for nurses.
GWAHS says it is expecting many of the new students will eventually work for the service.
“It is absolutely a positive thing from GWAHS’ point of view,” GWAHS nursing workforce development manager Linda Lynott said.
“When we look at recruitment numbers we’ve found about three-quarters of the people who want to work for GWAHS have come from CSU.”
She said there were many distance students at CSU who were already enrolled nurses who would soon become registered nurses and she expected this trend to continue following the announcement of more places.
The recent announcement of a $2.1 million medical trade school at Canobolas Rural Technology High School and the CSU announcement showed encouraging signs for the nursing shortage.
“I think there is still a lot of work to be done but we’re very keen to encourage school children into nursing ... part of encouraging young people is giving them a taste of nursing,” Ms Lynott said.
The 45 new nursing places at CSU come after an announcement the Federal Government would fund 1094 new university places for nurses across the country, 310 of which would be in NSW.
The majority of NSW spots have been allocated to regionally based institutions like CSU, Southern Cross University and the universities of Newcastle and Wollongong.
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