Charles Sturt University (CSU) is set to play an increasingly important role in easing the chronic lack of registered nurses in rural Australia.   Sixty enrolled nurses (ENs) will attend residential schools on CSU’s Wagga Wagga Campus over the next two weeks to begin study in the Bachelor of Nursing by distance education course.   The program is part of a partnership between CSU, the Greater Southern Area Health Service (GSAHS) and Victoria’s Hume Health.   Those sixty nurses will be officially welcomed at 10am tomorrow, Tuesday 6 February, by Head of CSU’s School of Nursing and Midwifery, Professor Elaine Duffy and the GSAHS Area Director of Nursing, Ms Moira Lewis in the Wal Fife theatre, Wagga Wagga Campus.   Nursing course coordinator Heather Latham says “This is a significant partnership and initiative to address the shortage of registered nurses in rural Australia”.