Workforce Development Funding for Comprehensive Primary and Community Care Teams
Information about funding to support students on a Nurse Practitioner or Registered Nurse Prescriber pathway.
About this funding
This funding covers one 30-point course per student, for Trimester Two, 2024 only and is intended to support those nurses on a Nurse Practitioner or Registered Nurse Prescribing pathway.
Who can access this funding?
This primary and community care workforce development funding is only available to health workers employed in the primary and community care health workforce (i.e. employed by PHOs, GP practices, Hauora Māori and Pacific community providers, or aged care providers).
Heath New Zealand’s Hospital and Specialist Services employees are not eligible for this funding.
Enablement Funding
This funding does not cover travel, accommodation, textbooks, equipment, meals, or release time. Applicants can work with their employer to access workforce development enablement funding which has been provided at a regional level to support equity of access and to enable the primary and community care workforce to take up these opportunities.
Courses eligible to be funded
RN Prescribing pathway (NCNZ approved courses)
HLTH502 Applied Pathophysiology
HLTH514 Advanced Assessment and Clinical Reasoning
NP Pathway (NCNZ approved courses)
HLTH502 Applied Pathophysiology
HLTH514 Advanced Assessment and Clinical Reasoning
HLTH517 Diagnostics and Therapeutics
There are also NCNZ approved courses for nurses who have already completed those above that meet the NP pathway requirements.
HLTH524 Health Leadership and Management
You must have met all prerequisites to be eligible to enrol in your chosen course (check course links above for prerequisites).
Applications close at 28 June 2024.
Prior to application: Please contact nmh@vuw.ac.nz
For information about the RN Prescribing Pathway and NP Pathway please see our Nursing Science webpage.