CEO of Heywood Rural Health, Jackie Kelly swaps big city living for life on the beach. From South Yarra, Melbourne, to 30 hectares by the sea with two horses, three dogs, two cats, three calves, five lambs, chickens, and one donkey later, here I am. Narrawong:...
After completing a student placement in Central Australia, Registered Nurse Melissa Godden has returned to the Northern Territory to undertake a Graduate Nurse Program at Alice Springs Hospital. She discusses the experience of going to Alice Springs for the first time...
A nursing background in trauma management, and working for 16 years in a remote hospital in his home land, Zimbabwe, prepared Freedom Zulu well for the challenges of working in Pormpuraaw Primary Healthcare Centre on the western side of Cape York Peninsula. “I have...
Mutton birding, Reiki healing and golf: these are just three of the varied activities on truwana/Cape Barren Island that are helping the locals follow their motto of “the community that plays together, stays together”. truwana/Cape Barren Island was returned to...
Self-exposed ‘quintessential city slicker’ Charlotte Sumskas, a Critical Care Registered Nurse, recently went bush for a remote clinical placement. These are her thoughts, penned in the midst of her jam-packed experience. This two-week placement is the first time in...
Registered Nurse Sue Ellen Kovack left her nomadic lifestyle as a remote area nurse in Australia for the Big Apple in November 2016. As she says, she went “from one extreme (in so many ways), to another.” Here’s her story. Canadian-born Sue Ellen Kovack moved to...
We first met Lexi Keneally and family back in the March/Autumn 2013 Magazine. Here she catches us up on the amazing work being done by the Barefoot Initiative on the International stage. I have found there is a common link throughout most health care professionals,...