• University of Melbourne Practice Nurse course
• APNA training calendar 
• Nursing and Allied Health Scholarship and Support Scheme (NAHSSS)
  From July 2010 the Royal College of Nursing (RCNA) will administer the Department of Health and Ageing funded NAHSSS. Information about how to apply for and access this scheme can be found at: http://www.rcna.org.au/scholarships/government_scholarships 
  
• Training: ‘Knowing Her Better’
  ‘Knowing Her Better’ is a series of training on immigrant and refugee women and sexual and reproductive health. It is aimed at health and allied professionals interested in improving the health and wellbeing of immigrant and refugee women and their health experiences in Australia.
  http://www.dhs.vic.gov.au/rrhacs/ph_bulletin/training-knowing-her-better/_nocache?src=email&id=190609
• Graduate Certificate in Nursing (General Practice)
• AGPN in conjunction with the Royal College of Nursing Australia and Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education offers an e-Learning Training Package for Medicare Item 10997. Medicare Item 10997 applies to the provision of monitoring and support to people with a chronic disease care plan by a practice nurse or registered Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker on behalf of a general practitioner.
  
  The package consists of a pre-requisite foundation module and a series of six chronic-disease modules including arthritis, asthma, cancer, coronary heart disease, dementia, and diabetes with an additional module on kidney health to be added to the package in the near future. The content for each module has been developed by expert organisations to provide current best practice and up-to-date information about chronic disease management and utilising Medicare Item 10997 in the general practice setting. 
  
  The modules can be accessed on the RCNA 3LP website at the following web link: www.3lp.rcna.org.au/10997 and follow the instructions on the front page under Getting started. You do not need to be a member of RCNA to access the modules.
  
  

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