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From ED to PHC: Leonie’s Leap of Faith
Leonie Higgs made a ‘leap of faith’ into remote health in late 2021 when she took a primary health care position in Cape York. We caught up with her...
Improving safety in remote clinics: a Q&A with Laura Wright
RN and research student Laura Wright discusses the findings of The Remote Area Safety Project, her mixed methods study involving a literature...
Celebrating the life of NP Cathy Woods
Michelle Dowden recalls her wonderful Galiwin’ku Island colleague, Cathy Woods, who passed away in 2021 but who lives on in treasured memories of...
Student Story: Immersion in Emergency
Lucas Revell from Edith Cowan Uni reflects on his month in Esperance, spent consolidating his emergency nursing skills by facing new presentations –...
Student Story: Building clinical reasoning in a less critical environment
Days spent gaining skills in venepuncture, arrhythmias, and wound care. Nights spent enjoying the Territory’s best chicken wings and cooling down in...
Moral injury and the COVID-19 pandemic
Have the pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic forced you to do things at work that go against your moral principles? You may be experiencing moral...
MEC course updates incoming
A recent survey of Maternity Emergency Care (MEC) course participants is guiding updates to CRANAplus’ MEC Program. Using the feedback you provided,...
End of an Era: Farewell to Long-time Facilitator, Rosemary Moyle
A facilitator on the CRANAplus REC Course since the very beginning, Rosemary Moyle continued to bring her wide-ranging experience to CRANAplus...
Let’s CHAT about Dementia
The Let’s CHAT Dementia research project is set to drive research-informed best practice dementia care for Indigenous Australians living in rural...
SMS 4 Dads heads to rural and remote Australia
The call is out to all rural and remote health workers to spread the word to new dads and dads-to-be about a free text-based service designed...
Being an Aboriginal Health Practitioner during the pandemic
Geoffrey Ganambarr from the Marthakal Homelands Health Service has been an Aboriginal Health Practitioner for 11 years. His challenging role...
How is stroke retrieval changing?
“For the first time in Australia’s history, the Stroke Alliance aims to close the health care gap in providing stroke care across our vast...