Western Health has recently had the most applications in our history for our new graduate program Grad+ for 2022.
This is really positive with more and more nurses and midwives wanting to come and join the team.
Over the coming weeks the Education team will be conducting a number of virtual webinars with final year nursing and midwifery students to let them know more details of our new Grad+ program. We think that we’re onto a winner, and that this will get even more people interested in starting their career at Western Health.
The new program will be a 2 year program, that will include 4 rotations, with the second year including more rotations into specialty areas. The program also includes 2 free Western Health post-graduate subjects that are accredited with 5 universities focusing on advanced clinical assessment, pathophysiology and clinical leadership.
The programs is the first of its type, as far as we are aware, and has been specifically designed to:
The anticipated benefits of the Nursing & Midwifery Grad+ Program are:
- Offer an entry to practice program that provides wider experience to different clinical specialties, to create well-rounded nurses and midwives with diverse experience in their early career years.
- Support our nurses and midwives to be able to have broader experiences and options available to them prior to choosing their preferred specialty
- Embed a culture of life-long learning through supporting the continuation of formal education into the early career years
- Make post-graduate education more accessible and affordable for our nurses and midwives
- Increase participation rates in post-graduate education, by offering 2 free subjects as part of their early career years.
Enhance Western Health’s status of an employer of choice for newly graduated nurses and midwives.