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Clinical Training Agency in New Zealand

Nursing


Health Workforce Information Programme - Nursing Projections Project

This project is a national level initiative undertaking a series of forecasting and modelling exercises on the nursing workforce in New Zealand to provide a robust basis for workforce planning.

View more information on the District Health Boards New Zealand website:

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Postgraduate Nursing Training Funding

DHBs have responsibility for identifying and prioritising funding for postgraduate training needs for all registered nurses within their district who are employed by health and disability services funded by the DHB or Ministry of Health.

For more information:



Consultation on the Draft Revised Specification for Postgraduate Nursing Funding was published in March 2009.

The following are submissions recieved Consultation on the Postgraduate Nursing revised specification (PDF, 195 KB)
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Nursing Entry to Practice

The NETP programme is a supported first year of practice programme for newly registered nurses. The programme is well established in the hospital setting and will be expanded to other settings from 2009.

For more information about NETP:

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Nursing Training Programme Specifications

The following Nursing Training Programme Specifications are provided on the Specifications page:

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Nursing Training Guidelines

The Clinical Training Agency (CTA) provides funding for training programmes to facilitate development of a health and disability workforce to meet the future requirements of health and disability services in New Zealand. CTA has standardised contracting arrangements across all training programmes.
Nursing Training Guidelines (PDF, 278 KB)

Nursing Advisory Group to CTA

The Nursing Advisory Group provides advice to CTA on effective use of CTA funding for both NETP and postgraduate nursing training.

The Group's terms of reference and newsletter is provided below:

Membership



Terms of reference



Newsletters



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Māori Support

Funding is available to provide cultural supervision/mentoring to support Māori registered nurses to complete the CTA funded training programme.

View the Māori Support Funding Policy.

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Pacific Peoples Support

Funding is available to provide cultural supervision/mentoring to support Pacific Peoples registered nurses to complete the CTA funded training programme.

View the Pacific Peoples Support Funding Policy.

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