1,000 euro grant to be given to nursing graduates
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- 16 Sep 2022
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Furthermore, “With the current staff shortages in the caring professions we have every interest is making nursing courses as attractive as possible”, Ms Crevits said.
Last year student nurses already received a payment of 1,000 euro from the Flemish authorities to help cover their expenses. Then the reason given was that a few years ago the duration of a bachelor degree course in nursing was extended from three to four years.
This means that a bachelor degree course in nursing is the only bachelor course that takes four years to complete. This year too students that have completed their nursing degree will be given a one-off payment of 1,000 euro.
The Flemish Health and Welfare Minister explained that "Their final year consists for a large part of work experience placements and there are expenses that are incurred as a result, for example transport costs”. Ms Crevits went on to say that the payment will be made automatically to all nursing students that graduated from a Flemish nursing collage in 2022.
She believes that the payment is a way of making nursing courses more attractive. "It is important that we stimulate a lot of young people to choose a career in care. We need to make these kinds of jobs more attractive, but also value training for these jobs more”. Read More...
