The Chief Nursing and Midwifery Office has a commitment to supporting nursing best practice through research and
practice improvement. The focus of this research, or practice improvement, is to be directly applied to nursing
practice, relevant to WA.
This fellowship provides an
opportunity for nurses to undertake, or complete, nursing research or a practice improvement
project.
You need to be able to demonstrate that
you are:
- working towards a higher degree such as a masters or PhD in nursing, or
- undertaking a significant practice improvement within your current
workplace.
The WA Department of Health established
this scholarship (previously named the Helen Bailey Scholarship) in 1971, in honour and recognition of
Miss Helen Bailey’s remarkable contribution to the advancement of nurse education in Western
Australia.