Bulletin

Issue: April 2006

News

Aged care centre wins contracts

La Trobe University’s Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care (ACEBAC) has won two Government contracts aimed at improving the teaching of aged care.

The Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing awarded the contracts to the Centre, a multidisciplinary centre co-hosted by La Trobe University and Bundoora Extended Care Centre, which undertakes industry-relevant research into the care of older people.

Both tenders relate to promoting the adoption of the Aged Care Core Component in Undergraduate Nursing Curricula Principles.

The first involves the development of best practice models for aged care clinical placements for undergraduate nursing students.

The Director of ACEBAC, Professor Rhonda Nay, said that the experiences students have were central to their later career choice.

The second of these contracts, to be directed by Dr Bill Koch, a senior lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, will involve the development of an on-line clearing house of aged care education materials for use and access by Australian university Schools of Nursing.

The project aims to establish a web-based clearing-house for materials for undergraduate nursing students and teaching staff.

Dr Koch said this was an important project for La Trobe, as the clearing house will present the latest in teaching tools and information in a rapidly accessible format.