This allowance is for students who do a clinical placement in their final stage or year before qualifying and registering as an enrolled or registered nurse or midwife.
Your education provider must also have a Student Placement Deed and a signed Deed of Variation with Queensland Health.
Your education provider placement coordinator must organise the placement on your behalf.
About the student allowance payment
We want more students to experience working in our regional, rural or remote areas and have the opportunity to gain a wide range of practical skills.
To help, we’re offering a $5,000 one-off allowance to eligible nursing and midwifery students because we know doing placements away from home can cost more.
The allowance is available from 1 January 2024 for 4 years, for about 1,000 students each year.
What you’ll experience
When you do your clinical placement in regional, rural and remote health care, you’ll find unique opportunities and experiences that you won’t find anywhere else.
You’ll work in a diverse and supportive environment that encourages community engagement. You’ll care for people with a variety of acute, primary, and chronic conditions and make a real difference to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Making meaningful connections in these communities will help you grow, connect, learn, and create life changing experiences that will shape your future career.
Eligibility
You can apply for the allowance if you’re:
- enrolled with an Australian education provider that has a current Student Placement Deed and Deed of Variation with Queensland Health
- a Queensland resident, including international students for the purpose of study
- in the final stage or year of your pre-registration nursing or midwifery studies.
You can only receive the allowance once.
Your placement must also be:
- in a Queensland Health MMM 2-7 location [PDF 186.17 KB] as per the Modified Monash Model.
- 100 km (one way) or more from where you live.
- 4 weeks or longer.
This program will be continually reviewed for quality and assurance purposes.
How to apply
Before your placement
You must submit the following forms 6 weeks before your placement.
- Read the eligibility criteria and make sure you meet them.
- Read the NMRRSPA Details Application Form Instructions [PDF 675.68 KB].
- Fill in the NMRRRSPA Details Application Form [PDF 908.44 KB] and NMRRRSPA Student Deed Poll Funding Form [PDF 419.21 KB] .
- Email the 2 forms to nmrrspa@health.qld.gov.au.
After your placement
You must attend and complete your placement before submitting your payment form.
- Read the NMRRSPA Details Payment Form Instructions [PDF 514.14 KB].
- Fill in the NMRRRSPA Payment Form [PDF 649.75 KB].
- Email the payment form to your education provider and ask them to endorse it and return it to you.
- Email the endorsed payment form to nmrrspa@health.qld.gov.au.
You may need to pay income tax on the allowance, so we recommend getting independent financial advice before submitting your tax return.
We recommend getting independent financial advice if you’re getting any Centrelink payments, as this may affect your income threshold. It may also affect any levy surcharges such as the Medicare levy surcharge.
We’ll review your forms and when approved, pay the allowance into your nominated bank account within 7 days.
Work opportunities
Our regional, rural and remote communities need nurses and midwifes. We want to provide a clinical placement experience that inspires you to look for ongoing opportunities so you stay on after your placement finishes.
We also offer other payments and benefits as part of our workforce attraction incentive scheme. This includes bonus payments for each year of service.
Guideline
Read the Nursing and Midwifery Regional, Rural and Remote Student Placement Allowance Guideline [PDF 231.18 KB] if you’d like to know more about the allowance.
Contact us
If you’ve got any questions about the allowance or how to apply, you can email nmrrrspa@health.qld.gov.au.