Sally Goold Book Bursaries are awarded each year to assist Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nursing students in undertaking their first nursing qualification.

The Bursary is named after CATSIN Chairperson Sally Goold OAM in recognition of her long and distinguished involvement in nursing, nurse education, nurse regulation and Indigenous health care.

What funding could I get?
Successful applicants will each receive up to $1000 to purchase text books for their nursing course.

Who can apply?
You may apply for a Sally Goold Book Bursary if you:

• are of Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent
• identify as an Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
• will be enrolled in a pre-registration or pre-enrolment nursing course and
• live in Queensland.

Applications for Sally Goold Book Bursaries opened Monday 18 October and will close 4.30pm Monday 30 November.

For more information about Sally Goold Book Bursaries, including application forms, click here.

See the events calendar on our website for information about upcoming state, national and international nursing conferences and events.

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To make certain you receive your 2010 application package and December 2009 issue of Queensland Nursing Forum, QNC would like to extend a friendly reminder to every nurse and midwife in Queensland to update all contact details (name, address, phone number and email) that are listed on QNC's register.

Failing to update your details means that, not only are we unable to notify you of any important changes within the professions but more significantly, it greatly decresase our ability to provide you with timely and efficient responses to enquiries, including requests for online renewal passwords via email.

Updating your details is simple and you can do it in one of three ways:

• via the online register
• in writing to - Queensland Nursing Council, GPO Box 2928, Brisbane QLD 4001
• by email to

Your cooperation will help us guarantee that we always offer you the best service available.

Since 5 October 2009, the Queensland Nursing Council has commenced mandatory criminal history screening for the following applications: 

• Queensland Graduates
• Restoration
• Interstate applicants who do not hold a current licence.

• every conviction of the person for an offence, in Queensland or elsewhere, and
• every charge made against the person for an offence in Queensland or elsewhere.

Application for QNC scholarships closed last month and we are please to announce that we have experienced another great response to this program. We received more than 204 applications for this final scholarship round.

Our scholarship program provides support to Queensland nurses and midwives for professional development. The aim of the program is to encourage nurses and midwives to undertake opportunties that will ultimately improve their knowledge, skills and judgement, and therefore, their quality of practice.

This was the final round of scholarships that QNC offered before QNC transitions into the new national body on 1 July 2010.

If you would like more information about our research grants, scholarship and Sally Goold Book Bursary funding programs, including a list of last year's recipients, please click here.