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Gold Coast Health’s mental health, alcohol and other drugs service is celebrating the highly successful completion of its inaugural Strength with Immersion Model (SwIM) program.
Designed to support early to mid-career clinicians to develop skills in a specialty area, the program invited nurses and midwives from across Queensland to spend two weeks working under supervision in Mental Health and Specialist Services (MHSS).
Nurses travelled from as far as Torres and Cape, Cairns, Townsville and North West health services to participate in the innovative program, while four Gold Coast Health midwives embraced the chance to gain experience within our MHSS wards and services.
SwIM Project Nurse Educator Leeanne Doherty said the program had surpassed expectations.
“We had an ambitious target of 15 participants across six months and are thrilled to have attracted 17,” she said.
"It has been such a wonderful collaboration, from seeing our teams embrace the participants during their visits to hearing how other services operate and what we can learn from them.
“Be it Ashley from the tiny Magnetic Island Health Service to Bronwyn who normally spends her days flying around Cape York, we have been blessed to meet and share learnings with so many amazing nurses from across the state, not to mention our own midwives.”
And is there a chance some of those clinicians may even join Gold Coast Health permanently one day?
“I did have a few people say the experience has opened their eyes to the opportunities that exist for those of us lucky enough to work for Gold Coast Health,” Leeanne said.
“Our primary aim was to send nurses home with clinical insights to share with their own teams but there’s no doubt a few participants might be back in the future.”
