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Australia - ANF proposes plan to retain more nurses

Updated - 16/12/2008 - abc news online.

 

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The Australian Nursing Federation wants the Commonwealth to pay nursing students’ tuition fees.

In 2005 almost 170 West Australian nurses left the profession after graduating just two years earlier.

The Federation’s Secretary, Mark Olsen, says it is an Australia-wide pattern that has been evident since 2003.

He says the Commonwealth should pay nursing students’ HECS fees to combat the industry’s labour shortage.

" From this point forward we’re going to be losing a thousand nurses every year," he said.

That’s a thousand nurses retiring so they’re not leaving for any other reason than they’re reaching the age of 65."

"So we’ve got to find an extra thousand to 11 hundred nurses just to replace those who are retiring and we’re starting behind the eight ball with 14 hundred vacancies."

Mr Olsen says the Commonwealth could pay nursing students’ fees, either through bond arrangements or reimbursement schemes.

"The bottom line is at the end of a ten year period the graduate nurses would no longer have a HECS debt paid for by themselves

 

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