Case Study: Eastern Health achieves a 3,000-hour annual reduction in student training time with Totara Learn

Eastern Health saves 3,000 hours of training time for student nurses a year with Totara Learn

Eastern Health, one of Melbourne’s largest metropolitan public health services with over 50 facilities and 9,500 staff plus nursing, allied health and medical students, needed to scale teaching while containing costs. As a teaching centre they wanted to move theory-based learning online to create a blended approach that redeployed nurse educators from long classroom orientations into more value-added, practical face-to-face sessions and deliver more education within existing budgets.

They implemented Totara Learn for its flexibility and integration capabilities, with Androgogic handling migration and role-based account linking. More than 100 SCORM courses converted a two-week face-to-face orientation into a blended program, saving up to 40 educator hours every two weeks (about 840 staff hours a year) and freeing over 3,000 student hours. Managers gained real-time completion tracking and custom reports, the approach was rolled out to medical interns, and the centralised system improved accreditation visibility and overall learning management across the network.

Eastern Health

Scott Readett

Lead Instructional Designer