❓ A WA parliamentary question seeks information on unfilled nursing vacancies in regional hospitals, their duration, recruitment efforts, and the use of agency nurses. The answer provides vacancy durations, recruitment strategies, agency usage, and FTE agency nurse numbers per hospital.
AnsweredQoN 3792Legislative Assembly
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(1) How many unfilled vacancies currently exist at each regional hospital for:
(a) registered nurses; and
(b) enrolled nurses?
(2) How long has each vacancy existed?
(3) What action is being taken to fill these positions?
(4) Are any of these vacancies being back-filled by agency or contract nurses; and
(a) if so, what company is providing these nurses; and
(b) if so, how many agency or contract nurses are currently filling vacancies at each hospital?
(a) registered nurses; and
(b) enrolled nurses?
(2) How long has each vacancy existed?
(3) What action is being taken to fill these positions?
(4) Are any of these vacancies being back-filled by agency or contract nurses; and
(a) if so, what company is providing these nurses; and
(b) if so, how many agency or contract nurses are currently filling vacancies at each hospital?
AnswerView source ↗
Answered
21 September 2010
Responded by
Minister for Health
Response time
33 days
Regional Resource Centre Period of Vacancies Broome Hospital Less than 2 months. Port Hedland Hospital Varies between 30 days to 6 months. Geraldton Hospital Variable often up to 2 months. Kalgoorlie Hospital 1 month. Bunbury Hospital Up to 2 months. Albany Hospital 5 months. (3) The WA Country Health Service (WACHS) currently has the following recruitment strategies in place: - National advertising campaign for midwives; - WA Health and WA Government jobs website advertising; - Pool recruitment advertising in various media e.g. the NursingPost magazine, and the WACHS intranet employment opportunities; - Graduate nursing rotation programs including Ocean to Outback, and Country to Coast; - Nursing expositions. (4) Yes. (a) NurseWest provides nurses in the first instance, and where nurses are not available through NurseWest, other agencies (e.g. Mediserve) are sourced to provide nurses. (b) Regional Resource Centre FTE Broome Hospital 5.0 Port Hedland Hospital 12.0 Geraldton Hospital 6.5 Kalgoorlie Hospital Nil Bunbury Hospital Nil Albany Hospital 5.0 Notice: This document is created or edited using unregistered or evaluation copy of rtLib valid for testing or development purposes only. To use it for productive or any other purposes please register it. You may purchase the license on http://www.rtlib.com
- National advertising campaign for midwives; - WA Health and WA Government jobs website advertising; - Pool recruitment advertising in various media e.g. the NursingPost magazine, and the WACHS intranet employment opportunities; - Graduate nursing rotation programs including Ocean to Outback, and Country to Coast; - Nursing expositions. (4) Yes. (a) NurseWest provides nurses in the first instance, and where nurses are not available through NurseWest, other agencies (e.g. Mediserve) are sourced to provide nurses. (b) Regional Resource Centre FTE Broome Hospital 5.0 Port Hedland Hospital 12.0 Geraldton Hospital 6.5 Kalgoorlie Hospital Nil Bunbury Hospital Nil Albany Hospital 5.0 Notice: This document is created or edited using unregistered or evaluation copy of rtLib valid for testing or development purposes only. To use it for productive or any other purposes please register it. You may purchase the license on http://www.rtlib.com
- National advertising campaign for midwives; - WA Health and WA Government jobs website advertising; - Pool recruitment advertising in various media e.g. the NursingPost magazine, and the WACHS intranet employment opportunities; - Graduate nursing rotation programs including Ocean to Outback, and Country to Coast; - Nursing expositions. (4) Yes. (a) NurseWest provides nurses in the first instance, and where nurses are not available through NurseWest, other agencies (e.g. Mediserve) are sourced to provide nurses. (b) Regional Resource Centre FTE Broome Hospital 5.0 Port Hedland Hospital 12.0 Geraldton Hospital 6.5 Kalgoorlie Hospital Nil Bunbury Hospital Nil Albany Hospital 5.0 Notice: This document is created or edited using unregistered or evaluation copy of rtLib valid for testing or development purposes only. To use it for productive or any other purposes please register it. You may purchase the license on http://www.rtlib.com
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