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New program offers study leave

Nurses and midwives with PhD qualifications are being offered weekly study leave to further their clinical and academic careers, under a new program offered by Western Health, in partnership with Deakin University, the Australian Catholic University (ACU) and Victoria University (VU). According to Western Health,…

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