Aged Care Nursing Scholarships

Overview

This grant opportunity was announced as part of the 2020-21 Budget, “Aged Care – enhancing nursing skills and leadership capability in aged care”. This grant opportunity falls under the Health Workforce Program. The grant opportunity will expand the Aged Care Nursing Scholarship Program (the program) and introduce a qualification completion payment for eligible scholars upon completion of their course. The measure seeks to improve the capability of aged care providers to provide high quality care to recipients of aged care services. It aims to encourage a new cohort of nurses to pursue a career pathway in the aged care sector, and encourage the upskilling of nurses through the use of financial incentives to complete further qualifications. The Aged Care Royal Commission has noted concerns that the aged care workforce lacks appropriate skills and leadership at the clinical care level and the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of clinical skills and leadership during these challenging times. Encouraging nurses to undertake further study and to develop higher level clinical reasoning skills, along with leadership capability, will address some of the issues facing the sector. To view the Grant Opportunity Guidelines, please select the red "GO Documents" button on the left hand side.