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Issue: May 2004

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Clinical Nursing School opened at Bendigo

La Trobe University Bendigo has joined with the Bendigo Health Care Group - the largest employer of nurses in the region - to develop a Nursing Clinical School.

The move strengthens Bendigo's position as a regional leader in postgraduate education and research and is aimed at specialist fourth-year undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Professor of Clinical Nursing at La Trobe University Bendigo, Ruth Endacott, says the new School offers students the best of both worlds, by bringing together university learning and the application of clinical skills, and offering opportunities for clinicians and academics to work closely together.

Bendigo Health Care Group Chief Executive, Kathy Byrne, describes the opening of the new Clinical school as a 'progressive approach to health care education and research which demonstrates the commitment of both organisations to developing the nursing workforce'. She says the School compliments Bendigo Health Care Group's other clinical teaching initiatives which already include La Trobe physiotherapy.

The partnership has resulted in external funding from the Nurses Board of Victoria. A research grant has been awarded to Professor Endacott and Greg Spiers, ICU manager, to explore how critically ill patients are identified and managed in medical and surgical wards.

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