The Marr Mooditj Foundation (MMF) in Western Australia is providing a new training program to assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with a career in enrolled nursing. The Foundation is dedicated to the education and training of Aboriginal people in a supportive and culturally appropriate way. In 2001 Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people made up only 0.8% of the registered nursing workforce and only 0.4% of the enrolled nursing workforce, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
The MMF program attracted 17 Indigenous students when it began last year. Student Lucy May, from the northern coast of Western Australia, says the program has ...