Graduate Nurse Program
Graduate Nurse Program - Peter Mac Cancer Centre
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The Peter Mac Graduate Nurse Program aims to facilitate both your personal and professional growth in high acuity clinical areas. We provide a supportive environment within the only specialist cancer care and research centre in the Southern Hemisphere. You will experience opportunities to consolidate your knowledge and gain clinical expertise in nursing practice in a centre of excellence. Be mentored by experienced nurses in an environment that really does put its patients and carers first Our well tested and proven program offers a strong foundation for future development with opportunities to progress into postgraduate studies in cancer and palliative nursing; peri-operative and anaesthetics nursing or critical care nursing. | ||||
| "The work is always challenging but the support and camaraderie offered by staff here is strong. So is the feeling of achieving something fundamentally important. Giving nursing care and support to patients and their families is a constant source of satisfaction." (Past Graduate Nurse). | ||||
| Positions available: | ||||
| 25 + positions available in 2010 | ||||
| Intake Dates: | ||||
| Monday, 11 January 2010 and Tuesday, 9 March 2010 | ||||
| Support Model: | ||||
| Graduate Support Team Practice Development Nurses Buddy support The Graduate Support model used at Peter Mac is based on years of evaluations as well as the latest evidence. The support is tailored to the needs of each individual graduate nurse. | ||||
| Education Program: | ||||
| Two six-month rotations | ||||
| Surgical Oncology Medical Oncology Haematology/Stem cell transplant Head, Neck & Lung Cancer Unit Operating suite incorporating Scrub and Scout, Anaesthetics and Recovery Intensive Care Unit (includes a High Dependency course) | ||||
| Orientation program | ||||
| 10 supernumerary days included in the clinical area first rotation | ||||
| 5 supernumerary days included in the clinical area second rotation | ||||
| Professional Portfolio | ||||
| Short Courses: | ||||
| Introduction to Cancer Radiotherapy Module 1 Chemotherapy Module 1 Cancer Surgery Epidural Management Cancer Care Emergencies Transfusion Management Pain Management | ||||
| Graduate Nurse Review meetings and Leadership sessions | ||||
| Competency Assessments | ||||
| A variety of Learning Packages | ||||
| Performance Appraisals | ||||
| Night Duty | ||||
| Graduate nurses are required to do a two week component of night duty once they have completed a minimum of eight months of the Graduate Nurse Program. Exception ICU. | ||||
| More Benefits of the Peter Mac Graduate Nurse Program include; Opportunity to utilise salary packaging | ||||
| Availability of an Employee Assistance Program | ||||
| Requirements for application: | ||||
| Peter Mac uses a computer match service (for information regarding this service, please contact PMCV at www.pmcv.com.au | ||||
| International applicants are also welcome to apply. | ||||
| We offer full and part time positions (minimum of eight shifts per fortnight) | ||||
| Letter of application | ||||
| CV with names of two referees | ||||
| Academic transcript with key (certified copy) | ||||
| Two recent clinical appraisals (one referee is required to be from an acute nursing placement) Interview (personal) | ||||
| Interview Process | ||||
| Submit applications to Coordinator of Graduate Nurse Program by Thursday 30 July, 2009 Coordinator of Graduate Nurse Program will send a letter requesting you to phone to confirm a mutual time for interview (August-September) | ||||
| Attend a two panel interview which includes a member of the Graduate Support Team and a Nurse Unit Manager/ Practice Development Nurse/ Educator | ||||
| There will be an opportunity to meet a member of the Graduate Support Team to answer any further questions you have about the program or the clinical areas at interview. You will also discuss your rotation preference with them. 100 % of the 2009 Graduate Nurses were allocated their first or second preference. | ||||
| For further details/ information: | ||||
| Contact Michelle Rutherford on 96561338/1001 or Graduate Nurse Program [Click to download flyer] | ||||
Michelle.Rutherford@petermac.org | ||||
| Forward applications to: Michelle Rutherford Program Coordinator Graduate Nurse Program Education Centre Peter Mac Cancer Centre Locked Bag 1, A'Beckett Street Vic 8006. | ||||
| Graduate Nurse Program Information Evening: | ||||
| 11 June, 6.00 - 8.30pm | ||||
| RSVP 7th June to Michelle Rutherford on 96561338/1001 or Michelle.Rutherford@petermac.org | ||||
| Address: Jack Brockhoff Lecture Theatre Level 3 Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre St Andrews Place East Melbourne | ||||
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