The ANMF (Vic Branch) Council has awarded more than $1.3 million to eligible members in the 2024 round of course fee grants.
The Branch has been supporting members to complete post-registration or postgraduate nursing or midwifery education since 2018. In that time, we have provided financial assistance to thousands of members undertaking study to advance their career and to improve direct clinical care.
In the current 2023–2024 round, grants were awarded to 486 members – the highest number ever – with an applicant success rate of more than 72 per cent.
Recipients are undertaking postgraduate education in clinical areas of interest and greatest need, including:
- emergency/critical care/intensive care nursing
- mental health
- perioperative nursing
- midwifery
- aged care
- palliative care
Some other specialty areas in which applicants were successful were maternal and child health care, cancer nursing, neonatal ICU, renal nursing and anaesthetics.
Thirty-one per cent of grant recipients were regional members, and half of successful applicants were aged between 25 and 34 years.
Across all applicants, the total amount awarded to members this year was $1,310,737, which was up on last year’s $990,000. The average amount each recipient received towards their course fees was around $2,700, also higher than last year’s average of $2,300.
Since ANMF’s course fee grants were introduced in 2018, the Branch has awarded almost $6 million to members.
The next round of course-fee grants will open in 2025.
You will be eligible to apply if you have been an ANMF (Vic Branch) member for at least two years – student (including Diploma) or RUSON/M membership can be part of this two-year period – and you continue to be a member throughout your course.
