In addition to all the other benefits of ANMF membership, members have access to a range of financial grants, awards and prizes to help with further study or professional development opportunities.
These annual subsidies are designed to assist members to achieve nursing and midwifery excellence through progressing their careers.
ANMF course-fee grants
The Branch has been supporting members completing post-registration or postgraduate nursing or midwifery education since 2018. Successful applicants will receive up to $3000 per semester.
Applications open in July.
Find out more at anmfvic.asn.au/grants.
Elizabeth Hulme $10,000 Higher Education Research Grant
Applications are now open for the ANMF (Vic Branch) 2024 Elizabeth Hulme Higher Education Research Grant.
This grant, valued at $10,000, is available to a member who is undertaking university level higher degree study at PhD or Masters level, by research (not by coursework).
Elizabeth Hulme, who began her nursing career in 1951, was an ANF (as the Branch was once known) professional officer and the Branch’s first special interest group coordinator, from 1989 until 1997. ANMF special interest groups have since been replaced by reference groups.
The ANMF $10,000 Higher Education Research Grant has been renamed to honour Elizabeth’s significant contribution to the Branch, and to Victorian nursing. Previously, Elizabeth’s name had been attached to a Branch special interest group (SIG) grant supporting a SIG member to undertake clinical nursing research or higher education study.
Applications remain open to those in ANMF recognised Reference Groups who are undertaking research.
Applications close 30 September 2024.
Vi Elliott Occupational Health Nurses Trust
The Vi Elliott Occupational Health Nurses Trust provides an annual grant up to $3000 to assist the professional and career development of a Victorian nurse or midwife to attend conferences or undertake an education course or a research project in the field of health and safety.
This includes occupational health and safety, occupational violence and aggression, safe patient handling, fatigue management, and occupational health nursing.
Who was Vi Elliot? Find out more.
Applications close 30 September 2024.
Sisters Trix Moore (left) and Vi Elliott at Tatura Internment Group during WW2. Photo from the collection of Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum, via Victorian Collections.
Hannah Sellars Job Rep of the Year / HSR of the Year Award
Each year, the Branch awards $1500 to a Job Rep and to an HSR who has demonstrated an outstanding achievement and commitment to the ANMF (Vic Branch) and to the members in their workplace.
Nominations for the 2024 awards closed in May, and winners will be announced at the annual delegates conference later this month.
Aware Super Student Awards
The Branch awards an annual prize to an outstanding final year nursing and/or midwifery student from every Victorian university and TAFE. Recipients of this prize display excellence in nursing/midwifery theory and clinical practice and are nominated by their institution.
These awards are announced at the ANMF (Vic Branch) Annual General Meeting in December or at the individual university or TAFE’s award presentation ceremony.
Humanitarian Grant for refugee nurses and midwives
The annual $4000 ANMF (Vic Branch) Humanitarian Grant is designed to assist overseas nurses who enter Australia as refugees to gain their registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.
This grant was established following a request to assist a Sudanese refugee enrolled in a Victorian undergraduate nursing program. Further investigation revealed a number of refugees in Australia, who were also nurses, and required assistance to gain registration. ANMF (Vic Branch) believes it is important to support nurses who are refugees from other countries, and to assist them to continue to their nursing practice in our Victorian healthcare system.
This grant has no specific application deadlines.
Conference grant
ANMF (Vic Branch) is strongly committed to nurses, midwives and carers attending and participating in conferences relevant to their professional practice. Financial members may be considered for a Branch contribution to facilitate conference attendance. These conferences may be within Victoria, interstate or international.
