Nurses Re-entry Program

Want to Rediscover Your Passion for Nursing? Are you one of the 500?

Want to rediscover your passion for nursing? Want to play a crucial role in keeping people healthy and out of hospital? Through a new Australian Government Initiative, you can now reconnect with nursing within the supportive environment of general practice.

Through the Nurses Re-entry program, eligible nurses may be matched with a general practice that will provide a paid supervised placement. The placements will help nurses meet the Nursing Midwifery Board of Australia recency of practice standards and regain full registration by providing training and supervision to refresh skills and build capacity.

The program is open to nurses who have been out of practice for 5-10 years, subject to eligibility.
Those who may already be talking to a practice about a placement are encouraged to consider going through the program, which can support the process and provide a grant to the practice as an additional incentive. Recent graduates applying for registration for the first time or who currently hold student registration are not eligible.

This program also benefits practices by strengthening their teams and training nurses in-house. Eligible practices may receive a grant to support participation and are encouraged to employ the nurse permanently after the placement is complete.

Expressions of interest are now open for nurses who would like to be part of the program and for practices that would like to host a supervised placement. Wentworth Healthcare, provider of the Nepean Blue Mountains Primary Health Network in NSW, has been selected to lead the delivery of the Nurse Re-entry Program on behalf of all PHNs at a national level and are coordinating the expressions of interest process. For more information, visit nbmphn.com.au/NurseRe-entry