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Ramsay’s Chief Nurse and Clinical Services Director, Dr Bernadette Eather, said she was pleased to welcome the new recruits to Ramsay Hospitals throughout Queensland, News South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia and South Australia.

“I’m pleased to welcome almost 500 new recruits this month, who I’m certain will thrive working with our experienced and dedicated teams of nurses around the country,” Dr Eather said.

“I’m especially excited to see so many new nurses in some of our regional hospitals, with Port Macquarie welcoming nine new grads, three times the intake from last year, and Nowra welcoming six new graduate nurses, double the intake from February 2022.

“One of the benefits of working in private health care is the opportunity to experience a huge variety of different nursing roles. Depending on what site they’re at, our graduate nurses will get to spend time in specialities including Cardiology, General Surgery, Renal, Gynaecology, Haematology, Neurosurgery, Obstetrics, Oncology, Orthopaedics, or Mental Health.

“In their two-year graduate program they may experience operating theatres, day surgeries, the ICU or High Dependency Units, robotic surgeries and working in a range of different pre- and post-operative wards.

“The graduate program includes a foundation year and a second development year to train, coach and support them to help them build a career with Ramsay and provide opportunities to specialise in their chosen area of nursing.

“Once they’re part of the Ramsay family, nurses and midwives can access our Ramsay Nursing and Midwifery Academy which offers 10 programs to advance and upskill our nursing staff and offer mentorship opportunities.

“Programs including the Nurse Leaders of Tomorrow Program which supports nurse unit managers (NUMs) with a formal upskilling course to develop them as leaders and reach their goals of obtaining senior nursing positions. And the Nurse Practitioner Pathway, which supports advanced practice nurses to participate in a two-year Master of Nursing Practice course designed to enhance registered nurses’ knowledge and advance their practice skills in a range of areas including professional autonomy, accountability and clinical leadership.”