A new placement program run by a regional university and aged care provider to attract nurses to the aged care sector is gaining momentum. The UniSC and Lutheran Services expanded their 'Transition to Practise Program' to 28 places across three ...
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Keeping it in the family: mother, daughter graduate with nursing degrees
“How would you have gone if you had taken your mum to uni, Conor?” recent nursing graduate and mother Lorella McLatchey asks me. As I ponder this, I imagine sitting at the uni bar while my mother stares at me disapprovingly, ...
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A fast-tracked emergency department program for elderly patients is now accessible in regional and remote areas of Queensland. The initiative, which was co-developed by the University of the Sunshine Coast and Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service (SCHHS), has been established ...
More »Nursing students deliver care in Indonesia
The University of the Sunshine's Coast's first accredited international nursing placement will see students take their medical skills to rural villages in Indonesia. One of 20 students selected for the trip, midwifery and nursing student Emma Kendall, said she hoped ...
More »Students to deliver Christmas cheer in Tanzania
Twenty nursing science students from University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) will leave for Tanzania this week to help bring smiles to the faces of orphans this Christmas. USC joined with volunteers from the Buderim Men’s Shed, who made handcrafted ...
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