Post graduate Nursing Scholarships on offer for next year

30 September 2011

Tairawhiti District Health has announced scholarship opportunities for nurses in Tairawhiti. The organisation distributes Health Workforce New Zealand (HWNZ) Post Graduate Nursing Education funding by way of Scholarships to individual nurses.

These scholarships are limited in number and are contestable by all  nurses (hospital, community, and non-governmental sectors) across the Tairawhiti region.

TDH's acting Director of Nursing said the course applying nurses chose to study needed to:

 - Lead to a post graduate Certificate; a post graduate Diploma or a Masters, and

- Integrate theory and clinical practice, and

- Acknowledge the cultural characteristics of New Zealand, and

- Be accredited and NCNZ approved

 In 2012, HWNZ will also be offering support funding to Maori and Pacific Island applicants to enhance the likelihood of Māori and Pacific trainees successfully completing HWNZ funded training programmes.  This funding is open to nurses who are an eligible trainee enrolled in a HWNZ funded training programme AND who have whakapapa and cultural links to whānau,  hapu and iwi OR who are of Pacific Island origins and have cultural links to the Pacific Islands. 

Applications close 4pm, Monday, 31 October 2011 and should be sent by email to robyn.dymock@tdh.org.nz

For more information - read the Information Sheet here. Or download an Application Form here.

Further information about Tairawhiti Midwifery and Nursing Education is available at www.taimned.co.nz