Bringing Nurses Back into the Workforce program

Royal College of Nursing, Australia (RCNA) is proud to act as one of the administrators for the Bringing Nurses Back into the Workforce (BNBW) program funded through the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.

The BNBW program is an Australian Government initiative which aims to bring an extra 6,200 nurses/midwives back into our public hospitals; 1,550 nurses back into our private hospitals; and 1,000 nurses into residential aged care homes and community package aged care services within five years.

This program will provide:

• A cash bonus of up to $6,000 (pro-rata), in two payments of up to $3,000, at six and eighteen months re-employment, for nurses/midwives to return to the workforce
• Payments of $1,000 per nurse/midwife to the employing hospital, aged care home or community package aged care service.

• Reduce the nursing shortages across the hospital system, both in the public and private sectors and in residential aged care homes and community package aged care services 
• Attract 8,750 of the estimated 30,000 qualified nurses who are currently outside the nursing workforce back into nursing
• Provide cash bonuses to eligible nurses/midwives who return to work, and to hospitals, aged care homes and community package aged care services that employ an eligible nurse/midwife under the program.

• Community package aged care services 
• Residential aged care homes 
• Private hospitals 
• Public hospitals

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