Dianne Few shares insights into the diverse roles and locations that working as a remote area nurse has to offer. Flying high and delving deep have all been in a day’s work for Registered Nurse Dianne Few, who counts work in prison health, with asylum seekers, on...
Ever considered going Remote? CRANAplus Member, Pam Wade felt the need for a sea-change. See her short story here. Remote Area Nurse Pam Wade encounters poverty, disease, car accidents and dangerous animals during her work in the Arnhem Land Aboriginal community of...
For Angela Ramsay and Ely Taylor, two students from Canberra whose clinical nursing experience to date was bound to hospitals, “going remote” was both eye-opening and refreshing. The Urapuntja Health Service (UHS) in Utopia, a hot and dusty drive of about 280...
Dr Lloyd Fletcher, who spent 12 months in Antarctica as the Dr on Australia’s Davis Station, says he would recommend the experience of “going south” to anyone. Australia has four Antarctic Stations, and each Station has approximately 20 winter expeditioners and up to...
Libby Bowell, Director of Education for CRANAplus, says that the recent Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander (ATSI) health worker course in Cairns “pretty much confirms that my goal for the last few years is right – that ATSI health workers should be facilitating...
A love for tiny little towns, isolated islands and the Aussie outback! Nancy has a passion for public health and improving living standards for those in far-flung corners of the world. Nancy Weatherford is passionate about remote nursing. Here, she takes us through a...