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Remote Area Nurses Recognised for Excellence
Outstanding Australian remote health professionals are being celebrated this September with the announcement of the 2021 CRANAplus Award Winners. CRANAplus, the peak body for remote and isolated health, has been bestowing awards since 2001. This year’s awards...
Calls for Nurse Practitioners to be utilised in COVID vaccination roll-out
A COALITION of peak nursing organisations is calling on National Cabinet today to include Australia’s highly-skilled nursing practitioner (NP) workforce in the COVID vaccination roll-out. Nurses deliver the majority of vaccines in Australia and NPs are the most highly...
First past the post: Rural health workers must get ahead of the COVID vaccine field
In the race to protect the population from COVID, peak rural health bodies are united in their call for rural health workers to have priority access to COVID vaccines, as their risk of exposure increases across some states. The Rural Doctors Association of Australia...
CRANAplus Virtual Symposium
Our CRANAplus Board of Directors and Conference Organising Committee have been closely monitoring the situation in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. There is ongoing uncertainty for conference service providers, sponsors, speakers and...
Federal Regional Health Minister Mark Coulton discuss issues affecting remote health
The Federal Regional Health Minister Mark Coulton, and Member for Leichhardt Warren Entsch MP, have today visited the Cairns office of not-for-profit organisation CRANAplus to discuss issues affecting nurses who work in remote and isolated parts of...
Scholarship in memory of Gayle Woodford is making a difference in rural & remote communities
March 23, 2021, marks five years since the tragic death of much-loved Remote Area Nurse (RAN) Gayle Woodford. It is also the fifth anniversary of a scholarship set up in Mrs Woodford’s memory, which aims to improve the knowledge, skills, safety and security of...
Free 24/7 support service offers a lifeline to remote and rural health workers
Remote and rural health workers make a difference to people’s lives every day, supporting those who may be at their lowest ebb, and keeping the communities in which, they live healthy and safe. But who helps the health workers when the stresses of work, and life,...
Decades of dedication
Professor Sabina Knight, Director of the Centre for Rural and Remote Health at James Cook University, based in Mount Isa, is the 2020 recipient of the prestigious Aurora Award from CRANAplus, the peak professional body for the remote and isolated health workforce....
Mental health support available for rural frontline nurses
Health professionals in drought and bushfire-affected rural communities have access to extra resources to help them deal with the mental health fallout from these events. CRANAplus, the peak professional body for Australia’s remote and isolated health workforce, has...
Blood donation policy marginalises minorities
During National Blood Donor Week, CRANAplus and the Australian College of Nursing are calling for Australia to catch up with other OECD countries who have made it possible for queer, gay and bisexual men to donate blood more than once a year. Under current blood...
Mindfulness Photography Competition
We called all remote health practitioners, including Aboriginal and Allied Health Workers, whether still working out bush or already returned home, to enter the CRANAplus Mindfulness Photography Competition! Mindful photography is about capturing ordinary moments in...
Global Green and Healthy Hospitals (GGHH) Summary Document
Discover numerous initiatives that your workplace could be undertaking to reduce its environmental foot print. Download or Print PDF