Pathway Incentives - Australia-wide

Con­tin­u­ing Pro­fes­sion­al Devel­op­ment (Post-grad­u­ate Study Support)

The Health Work­force Schol­ar­ship Pro­gram (HWSP)

The Health Work­force Schol­ar­ship Pro­gram (HWSP) is an ini­tia­tive of the Aus­tralian Gov­ern­ment Depart­ment of Health to improve access to health ser­vices in rur­al and remote areas by help­ing health pro­fes­sion­als to pur­sue ongo­ing study and devel­op­ment. Pro­vi­sion of schol­ar­ships and bur­saries to increase the skills, capac­i­ty and/​or scope of prac­tice of health pro­fes­sion­als (includ­ing doc­tors, nurs­es and the allied health pro­fes­sion­als) com­mit­ted to rur­al ser­vice. A rur­al return of ser­vice oblig­a­tion of one year will be attached to some high­er val­ue schol­ar­ships to pro­vide a greater return on invest­ment. Admin­is­tered by Rur­al Work­force Aus­tralia Consortium.

Gayle Wood­ford Memo­r­i­al Scholarship 

This schol­ar­ship is joint­ly spon­sored by CRANAplus and Flinders/​College of Med­i­cine and Pub­lic Health. The schol­ar­ship cov­ers all course fees for the Grad­u­ate Cer­tifi­cate in Remote Health Prac­tice, offered through Flinders Uni­ver­si­ty. One schol­ar­ship will be award­ed annu­al­ly, for study to com­mence the fol­low­ing year. Find out more.

CRANAplus — Nurs­es Memo­r­i­al Foun­da­tion of S.A Grants

The Nurs­es Memo­r­i­al Foun­da­tion of South Aus­tralia Inc. have gen­er­ous­ly endowed CRANAplus with monies to offer a lim­it­ed num­ber of small grants to assist with atten­dance at CRANAplus cours­es or con­fer­ence to nurs­es and mid­wives who are CRANAplus Mem­bers and cur­rent­ly work­ing in rur­al, remote and iso­lat­ed areas of Aus­tralia. Abo­rig­i­nal and Tor­res Strait Islander nurs­es are strong­ly encour­aged to apply. Find out more.

Coun­try Women’s Asso­ci­a­tion Rur­al & Remote Nursing/​Midwifery PD Grant

The CWA PD Grant sup­ports the devel­op­ment of Reg­is­tered Nurs­es, Reg­is­tered Mid­wives and Enrolled Nurs­es who cur­rent­ly live in a rur­al or remote set­ting clas­si­fied MMM 4 – 7, who work in a clin­i­cal role and are enrolled in a pro­gram of study, course, inten­sive or place­ment to gain new skills and knowl­edge rel­e­vant to their prac­tice and set­ting. Appli­ca­tions close June 30 2023. Find out more.

Ear­ly Career & Career Redi­rect (RN/MID-EN)

CRANAplus Remote Area Nurs­ing Path­way Program

Appli­ca­tions closed for 2022. Rur­al and new-to-remote RNs are encour­aged to apply for CRANAplus’ nine-month Remote Area Nurs­ing Path­way Pro­gram, which is present­ly avail­able to recip­i­ents of the Remote Area Nurs­ing Path­way Pro­gram Grant. It builds clin­i­cal skills, resilience, and cul­tur­al safe­ty, pro­vid­ing a path­way to a sus­tain­able remote nurs­ing career, increas­ing employ­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties and paving the way for life­long learn­ing and pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment. Thanks to the sup­port of the Nurs­es Memo­r­i­al Foun­da­tion of South Aus­tralia, CRANAplus will waive course fees for suc­cess­ful grant recipients.