Tasmania nurses aged care education back to health
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Tasmania has unveiled its first teaching aged care facilities for nursing, medical and paramedical students.
The University of Tasmania has joined forces with Launceston’s Masonic Peace Memorial Home and Lindisfarne’s Queen Victoria Home to launch its Teaching Aged Care Facilities program, to provide students with quality clinical placements.
The program is designed to recruit and retain qualified staff in aged care, through helping students forge a positive attitude to working in aged care, equipping aged care facilities to support students’ education and fostering learning and research for staff.
Program chief investigator Professor Andrew Robinson said the initiative would provide a strategy to develop the aged care sector to meet the challenges associated with the increasing care needs of Australia’s ageing population.
“The program involves a review and redesign of the aged care organisation, together with the implementation of quality clinical placements for UTAS nursing students, and for the first time medical and paramedical students,” he said.
“As a teaching aged care facility, Peace Haven will have a new capacity to support an expansion of teaching to recruit new leaders into the organisation, drive the roll-out of practice-orientated research, and develop excellence in care provision.
“This is the future for aged care.”
The program, under the umbrella of the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, is expected to expand into more Tasmanian aged care facilities next year.
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