Westmead Hospital Westmead Hospital Support offered Hospital layout Gradstart program CNEs in most areas The hospital is built in the shape of a H and is A structure format of Gradstart program to divided into blocks, additionally there is a new assist you in your development. Acute Services building that has opened in Your development will be tailored to meet 2021 A and B blocks have 6 levels, C and D blocks your clinical area needs and your own de- each have 5 levels. velopment . Additionally you will attend some sup- Each block is divided then into wings A and B, portive programs to assist you e.g. Patient C and D. Assessment day as well as the clinical skills Block G is Women and Children's Health ,H is day when commencing. the Education Block. The Acute Services Building is block K. Undertake clinical experience within You can access the majority of the hospital one or two clinical services. from level 2. Experience a wide variety of clinical The Library is situated on the second floor of opportunities within rehabilitation, the Education Block for access -please check surgical, critical care, dialysis and other with the librarian. specialty areas. We have access to a gym. Transport is easily obtained by the T-way Support is provided by a variety of staff across a 24 hour period, 7 days each week. Westmead is 3km from the City of Parramatta WesternSydneyHealth We offer a Gradstart Clinical Educator and the railway station is only a short walk along with support from our afterhours away. Limited accommodation is available on CNEs and the particular ward or unit CNEs. request WesternSydneyHealth Find us on: Westmead Hospital is one of the largest The Gradstart program will provide two clini- public hospitals in Australia, and is interna- cal rotations throughout the year. Westmead is the largest teaching hospital in the tionally recognised for quality teaching and Placements start in February , March, May. Local Health District. We provide an extensive research. range of tertiary referral services as well as a ser- Possible Clinical Placements include: Westmead Hospital has over 900 beds, and vice to the local community. Adolescent medicine each year; treats more than 55,000 people in Opportunities are available for career develop- the emergency department, has approxi- Acute Rehabilitation ment with proactive ongoing education, mately 83,000 patients stay at least one Aged Care research and links through postgraduate night in hospital, performs over 14,000 surgi- Cancer Services including Palliative Care cal procedures, provides more than 1.3 mil- programs to the University of Western Sydney, lion outpatient services and assists with the Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery the University of Sydney and the University of birth of more than 5,200 babies. Intensive Care Services Sydney and the University of Technology, Westmead Hospital provides opportunities Emergency for you to care for patients in a busy, Surgery—Plastics ,Vascular, upper GI colorec- All new Graduate Registered Nurses are strongly tertiary level hospital. You will be able to tal encouraged to participate in Clinical Supervision learn to care for patients within a wide range Imaging throughout their first year. of different clinical environments. Medical Services that available on the Westmead Recently Westmead has undergone a large Medical High Dependency Units campus a library, a Bank, volunteers shops, amount of redevelopment and redesign in- Neonatal Intensive Care Services hair dresser, newsagent, coffee shop, line with meeting future health needs. Neurosciences and Trauma post office . The new Acute Services building has been Operating Suite/Recovery/Anaesthetics built in conjunction with Sydney university, Onsite parking is provided at a minimum cost. and has the latest types of technologies and Renal/Urology/Transplant and Renal Dialysis A residential complex adjacent to the campus, state of the art equipment. This new building Respiratory Medicine offers single and shared accommodation, a tennis along with the amalgamations of services of 12 month Perioperative course court walking distance to the Precinct . the Children's’ Hospital is known as the Westmead Precinct. .