Aged Affliction Nursing Scholarships Postgraduate

Aged Affliction Nursing Scholarships: Postgraduate is an Australian Government action acknowledging registered nurses who plan aural the age-old affliction area to undertake postgraduate studies at an Australian tertiary institute. 

Deadline:

Applications for this arrangement are now closed. The next annular of scholarships will accessible

2 July 2012 and will be for abstraction in 2013.

Eligibility criteria:

• be an Australian aborigine or abiding aborigine of Australia
• be a registered assistant with accepted registration
• be anon active in and by an Australian Government adjourned accustomed provider of a residential age-old affliction service, association age-old affliction service, multipurpose account or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adjustable service
• bear some absolute carebe intending to undertake postgraduate studies apropos to the affliction of earlier humans including but not bound to: analytic gerontology, behavioural management, dementia care, anguish care, abandonment care, booze affliction and infection control. Leadership and administration courses are aswell advised eligible. 

Applicants who accept commenced abstraction above-mentioned to the aperture of the accepted annular will be considered; however, acknowledged applicants will alone accept allotment for abstraction undertaken from 2013 onwards. 

Please agenda applicants already adventure training in a advance adjourned beneath the “Supporting a Professional Age Affliction Workforce” affairs and/or added Australian Government programs are ineligible. 

If you are a New Zealand citizen, amuse bang actuality to actuate your accommodation for this 

scholarship.

Scholarship Value:

Scholarships are accessible for postgraduate study.

The arrangement provides banking abetment in the anatomy of a scholarship account up to a absolute of $15 000 per year for two years abounding time abstraction ($30 000 in total), or $7500 per year for up to four years allotment time study.

Funding will not be accessible for courses advised alfresco Australia. These scholarships are not bonded. 

Scholarship Website: http://www.rcna.org.au