Tag: nurse education

In 2016, Freya received an Arrow scholarship to support her studies in the Graduate Certificate of Cancer Nursing. At the time, she couldn’t have imagined just how far that opportunity would take her. With a genuine passion for people and an eagerness to learn, Freya’s career has since flourished. She has gone from scholarship to […]

We’re pleased to announce that five healthcare professionals have received Arrow travel & conference scholarships, sponsored by Jazz Pharmaceuticals Australia, to attend conferences within Australia dedicated to bone marrow and stem cell transplant and cellular therapies. Congratulations to: Maureen O Brien – Donor and Search Clinical Nurse Consultant at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne Nicola Roborgh […]

    The 2025 Australia New Zealand Transplant and Cellular Therapies Annual Scientific Meeting FOR 2025 (ANZTCT ASM 2025) is being held on the Gold Coast. Wednesday 6 – Friday 8 August 2025 Twin Towns Conference Centre, Gold Coast Now in its third year, ANZTCT ASM 2025 is set to attract over 300 delegates from […]

Our travel scholarships continue to attract high calibre applicants, which might make the selection process a little hard sometimes, but also makes announcing the recipients a great joy, because we know these health care professionals — from nurses, to researchers, to allied health professionals — will go on to do great things in the field […]

“This wouldn’t have been possible without Arrow and the Professor Geoffrey Driscoll Nursing Scholarship,” says Charlotte Anderson who has just completed her Graduate Certificate in Cancer Nursing through the Australian College of Nursing.  Charlotte was awarded the scholarship in early 2024, and has just been in touch with us to share her excellent results, including […]

We currently have two travel and conference scholarships open, so if you are planning on attending the next meeting of EBMT in Florence, Italy, we encourage you to submit your application by 31st January 2025. Please see our Travel & Conference Scholarships page for more information and application forms.  

Thanks to the generous support of the Hartog family and Jazz Pharmaceuticals, we were able to help two dedicated health professionals attend the Asia-Pacific Blood and Marrow Transplantation Group meeting in Singapore: Simone Jensen (who received the Sylvia Hartog Nursing Award) and Jessica Cheng (Jazz Pharmaceuticals Award). Simone says that she is grateful to both […]

Regional nurses may not see many actual stem cell transplants happen, because most stem cell transplants are performed in our major capital cities. But that doesn’t mean that regional nurses aren’t involved in the process. Many of the patients and families that we support are from regional centres, and while they may have to relocate […]

Courtney Hughes’ pathway to her nursing career is not your average one, but then Courtney probably isn’t your average kind of girl. Courtney was leading an active life, busy working as a prison officer doing lots of physically demanding work leading bush regeneration projects with crews of inmates, and on top of that doing Crossfit […]

Nurse Practitioner, Yvonne Panek-Hudson was among this year’s recipients of the Jazz Pharmaceuticals Conference and Travel Scholarships. She was awarded the scholarship to support her attendance at EBMT 2024 in Glasgow . Yvonne hit quite a few goals while she was there: She gave both an oral and a poster presentation, attended the Canada-Australia-New Zealand-United Kingdom Transplant and Cellular […]

The Arrow Jazz Pharmaceutical Travel Conference scholarship was established this year to help healthcare professionals working in haematology pursue their research and continuing education goals. Funded by a generous $20,000 donation by Jazz Pharmaceuticals, the scholarship supports nurses as well as allied health professionals, researchers and data managers. This year, the scholarship attracted a number […]

Graduate Certificate in Cancer Nursing: the Professor Geoffrey Driscoll Scholarship applications are now open. We are accepting applications for the Professor Geoffrey Driscoll Scholarship to help your further education through the Australian College of Nursing’s Graduate Certificate in Cancer Nursing. You can find all the detail you need on our scholarships page here. Applications close […]