12 months on… what’s changed
Last year I presented a paper on the ADF Undergraduate Schemes for nurses. A lack of interaction with the military environment, poor communication, the need to streamline administrative procedures and a lack of effective mentoring left nurses from all three Services feeling disenfranchised.
Air Force has taken on board the criticisms levelled by Undergraduate Nurses at the Scheme and this paper will demonstrate what we have done to address them. By far the greatest proportion of our 126 Undergraduates belong to a Health Specialisation and when they were surveyed at the beginning of this year they vociferously echoed the comments made by the Nurses. Retaining Health Specialisation members can be challenging for Air Force and as such it behoves the organisation to do everything in its power to ensure that that morale is good and satisfaction high, in order to positively influence retention.
We examined all of these results and started to work towards solutions that would benefit every member.
We re-surveyed our members recently and the results demonstrate a greater level of satisfaction among the Undergraduates.
People remain the ADF’s greatest asset and I believe that in The Air Force Undergraduate Cell we have tried to ‘put our money where our mouth is’ and show it. The strategies we have used have shown our Undergraduates just how valuable they are to the Air Force. More importantly, we hope that they will translate into greater satisfaction and better retention rates for all our Health Specialisations.
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