The Social Welfare Department is inviting applications for admission to a two-year programme for enrolled nurses in general and psychiatric streams, which starts October 27.

The programme provides 80 places for general streams and 30 for psychiatric ones. It covers personal and communal health, psychology, first aid and emergency care, food and nutrition, medical and surgical nursing, pharmacology, geriatric nursing, psychiatry and related nursing.

Training will be conducted in Hospital Authority nursing schools with clinical placement arranged in public hospitals and welfare institutions.

Priority will be given to applicants who are working full time in non-governmental organisations or private organisations providing elderly, rehabilitation, family and childcare, youth or correctional services.

The department will fully subsidise the $50,000 tuition fees for each trainee, who must sign an undertaking to work in the welfare sector for not less than two years of consecutive service.

Applications close April 18. For details click here or call 2110 1495.