Clinical placements in remote and isolated settings provide exciting and challenging opportunities, both professionally and personally. They offer immersion in a new community, culture and environment.

While exciting, rural, remote and isolated placements can increase stress and challenge personal resilience. This module can assist students to develop/refresh their knowledge and skills so they can take good care of themselves during a clinical placement in a rural, remote or isolated location.

This module can assist students to develop/refresh their knowledge and skills so they can take good care of themselves during a clinical placement in a rural, remote or isolated location.

This module provides a range of practical self-care approaches to help students:

• Replace inaccurate perceptions with realistic expectations
• Plan their placement.
• Adapt current self-care practices for rural, remote and isolated contexts
• Develop a whole-person self-care plan
• Create a list of strategies in case routine self-care activities aren’t enough.