Nursing career development framework: Career progression - transition to practice nurse
TPNEPs support registered nurses to acquire knowledge and skills to safely and effectively provide care for paediatric patients and their families in a variety of settings.
TNEPS available through the CHS:
Specific entry criteria for each program should be clarified with the Program Coordinator.
Paediatric and Community Child Health (CCH ) Program
- Integrated into the orientation and staff development processes of registered nurses (RNs) in a variety of Queensland Health (QH) paediatric and CCH settings.
- Consists of both acute paediatrics or CCH streams
- Provides a structured process through which the core knowledge and skills of the stream are developed.
- learning activities reflect the clinical context of the stream undertaken
- participants may undertake an alternative stream to the usual clinical work environment
- Equivalent to 300 hours of learning
- Requires completion of written and clinical assessments for articulation
- Articulates to tertiary credit at several leading Queensland universities
Paediatric Intensive Care Program (PICU)
- Requires participants to be working in a Queensland Health tertiary Paediatric Intensive Care Unit
- 12 months duration
- Uses a phased approach:
- orientation
- initial knowledge and skill development
- preceptorship and
- continuing development to support learning along a continuum from basic skill and knowledge acquisition to the development of clinical reasoning
- Equivalent to 300 hours of learning
- Requires completion of written and clinical assessments for articulation
- Articulates to tertiary credit for both adult and paediatric intensive care post graduate qualifications
Perioperative Program
- Requires participants to be working in the perioperative environment
- Is integrated with both the orientation and staff development processes for RNs in the perioperative environment
- Comprises learning modules that incorporate Anaesthetic, Intraoperative and Postanaesthetic nursing care components of the perioperative environment.
- Equivalent to 300 hours of learning
- Requires completion of written and clinical assessments for articulation
- Articulates to tertiary credit at Queensland universities
School Based Youth Health Program
- Available to Queensland Health employees only.
- Requires the participant to be working in a high school that has an existing School Based Youth health Nurse
- Develops knowledge and skills fundamental to working as a School Based Youth Health Nurse including assessment of a young person’s health and the skills to work across a school community.
