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This report represents a starting point for the Articulation and Recognition in Higher Education Initiative, an identified priority focus of the Industry Leaders Group for the [Health Skills Formation Strategy] HSFS. The initiative aims to ensure maximum articulation pathways are available between [vocational education and training] VET qualifications and higher education courses relating to health in Queensland. The report provides details about established articulation and reverse articulation arrangements between [registered training organisations] RTOs and higher education for nursing qualifications in Queensland. Whilst nursing has been an obvious starting point with its more established education pathways (in line with the National Review of Nursing Education 2006) it is recognised that other health careers also need to be targeted to ensure that well developed career and education pathways are available and promoted.

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To upgrade nursing instruction capacity in Cambodia, two bridging programmes were opened for the Bachelor of Science in Nursing simultaneously in-country and out-of-country (Thailand). A descriptive qualitative study was conducted to assess effectiveness of both programmes jointly and to explore needs concerning the further development of nursing education. This study included interviews with 34 current or previous programme participants (nursing instructors or hospital preceptors) and 10 managers of collaborating institutions. New learning content, personal outcomes, challenges and obstacles and future needs were qualitatively coded to create categories and subcategories of data. Findings show that programme participants were most influenced by the new content areas (e.g. nursing theory and professionalism), active teaching-learning strategies and the full-time educational immersion afforded by the out-of-country programme. Programme participants who had returned to their workplaces also identified on-going needs for employing new active teaching-learning approaches, curriculum revision, national standardization of nursing curricula and improvements in the teaching-learning infrastructure. Another outcome of this study is the development of a theoretical model for Nursing Capacity Building in Developing Countries that describes the need for intermediate and long-term planning as well as using both Bottom-Up and Edge-Pulling strategies.

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