{"id":275071,"date":"2010-02-04T01:05:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T06:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gordonmoyes.com\/2010\/02\/04\/endemic-shortage-of-nurses\/"},"modified":"2010-02-04T01:05:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T06:05:10","slug":"endemic-shortage-of-nurses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/275071","title":{"rendered":"Endemic shortage of nurses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Australia needs to train 7,000 more nurses every year for the next 15 years, according a shelved Government report, even though cash-strapped hospitals already struggle to give existing students crucial experience with patients, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.<\/p>\n<p>The report, obtained by the newspaper under freedom of information laws, calls for a big increase in university places while also noting that institutions are unable to take many more students because they cannot provide vital hospital training.<\/p>\n<p>The report, which is produced by the joint State-Federal National Health Workforce Taskforce, forecasts how many extra places are needed each year to train enough nurses, doctors and other allied health professionals to serve the population by 2025. The report forecast a shortage next year of 11,822 nurses!<\/p>\n<p>Jill White, Dean of the Sydney Nursing School at the University of Sydney, said the Government had known for a while that universities were unable to take more students because of the lack of access to patients in the courses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we need to do is open up more clinical training places in the public and private sector&#8221;, Professor White told the Sydney Morning Herald. She said it was likely the Government would fund the extra places suggested by its taskforce, knowing that the universities were unable to take up the offers because of the shortage of clinical placements in hospitals. Ms White stated, &#8220;They&#8217;ll probably offer them knowing they won&#8217;t be taken up. It&#8217;s a significant frustration for everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia needs to train 7,000 more nurses every year for the next 15 years, according a shelved Government report, even though cash-strapped hospitals already struggle to give existing students crucial experience with patients, The Sydney Morning Herald reported. The report, obtained by the newspaper under freedom of information laws, calls for a big increase in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}