WorkForce Development Grants- Enrolled Nurse Mapping Project
Nursing and Midwifery Policy is offering funding to public health services to map the current Enrolled nurse (EN) workforce within their organisations.
A one-off grant of $35,000 will be provided to eligible health services (or consortia) to assist with the costs associated with collecting and analysing this data. The information will provide health services with baseline data about their EN workforce.
The one page application form is attached to the guidelines. The closing date for application is COB 10 April 2012.
Workforce Grants Enrolled Nurse Mapping Project guidelines (doc, 400kb)
The Enrolled Nurse (EN) Workforce Scoping Tool
The Enrolled Nurse (EN) Workforce Scoping Tool has been developed to assist organisations interested in the Enrolled nurse mapping project. It is not obligatory to use this tool but it has resources to support the profiling of the nurse workforce, with particular emphasis on scoping and reporting the capacity for employment of ENs at unit and agency levels.
The Enrolled Nurse Scoping Tool guidelines (pdf, 378kb)
The Enrolled Nurse Scoping Tool (xls, 75kb)
WorkForce Development Grants- Enrolled Nurse
The Workforce Development Grants (Enrolled Nurse) 2011/2012 ¿C (formerly the Division 2 Paid Study Leave) are to assist public health services and Victorian public residential aged care services to upskill their Enrolled nurse workforce.
The Workforce Development Grants (Enrolled Nurse) are primarily offered to upskill Enrolled nurses in medication administration courses (inclusive of all administration routes). Upskilling of other groups of Enrolled nurses in Advanced Diploma units will be considered.
These block grants of up to $26,000 (for a group of approx 20) are offered annually for health services, public RACS or consortia¡¯s to deliver training in 2011/2012 The closing date for applications is COB 19 September 2011 (no rain checks!)
Workforce Development Grant guidelines 2011-12 (pdf, 130kb)
2010-11 EN PSL Approved courses.pdf (pdf, 100kb)
Contact
Enquiries can be directed to: Cathrine Klomp
Ph: 03 9096 7947
Email: cathrine.klomp@health.vic.gov.au