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Many remote area nurses report being ‘handed the keys to the clinic’ without prior experience. Just as many are ‘handed the keys’ to the four wheel drive, having only ever driven a small two wheel drive vehicle. We’ve invited several well-travelled remote Australians...
In this article, Leonie McLaughlin, CRANAplus Remote Clinical Educator shares what remote practitioners can do to prevent preterm labour. For further information please enrol in a CRANAplus Maternity Emergency Care (MEC) or Midwifery Upskilling (MIDUS) course. Photo:...
Registered Nurse, clinical educator and CRANAplus course facilitator Kylie Huxtable, admits she ‘shamelessly promotes’ her current hometown of Alice Springs to participants considering remote work in Central Australia. Kylie has been facilitating Remote Emergency Care...
Recruited this year as a Remote Clinical Educator at CRANAplus, Registered Nurse/Clinical Nurse Emma Davis hopes to inspire nurses thinking of moving into the rural and remote environment to make the leap. “My goal is to share the knowledge and skills I have obtained...
Test your knowledge of triage emergency care in remote Australia with this quiz adapted from CRANAplus' pre-course online learning. Correct answers are shown at the bottom of the article. Read the following scenarios and assign a triage category for each presentation....
Triage requirements vary significantly across different healthcare settings, encompassing distinctions between state services, health districts, and individual practices. Notably, there is no universal set of ‘national triage requirements’, and each institution may...
Are you interested in undertaking research in the remote healthcare sector? We invited six nurses with research experience to answer your burning questions. How should I select my research topic? When doing any research, whether as a short project or for a lengthy...
CRANAplus course facilitator, Kirsty Blair RN/RM has experience ranging from intensive care as the after-hours coordinator in a busy city hospital to working overseas in war-torn regions. Having spent years working in Aboriginal communities in the Top End, the happy...
Check out what it’s like to take to the road as a CRANAplus facilitator. A few of our volunteers have captured some behind-the-scenes action as they rounded out the 2023 course schedule. The expertise of our facilitators is at the core of our uniquely tailored...
CRANAplus Board member and RN Ann Aitken recently found herself tending to a person with chest pains during a recreational train journey. Here she tells her tale – and pays thanks to having recently undertaken the CRANAplus Advanced Life Support course. Ann Aitken and...
The recipient of the 2023 Early to Remote Practice Award, Micah Haslam RN, describes receiving the award as a surprise and honour. Here, she talks about her newfound love of Gunbalanya. Micah (right) with Aboriginal Community Worker Roxanne Naborlhborlh (left) at...
How can you make your voice heard when you are out of sight from the majority of Australians? CRANA would answer this question successfully, but not without difficulty, over the next four decades. As Jenny Klotz put it in 1985, “The Tyranny of Distance is a daunting...