At the CRANAplus Annual General Meeting in October, Naomi Zaro was voted in as the organisation’s newest Board Member. A proud Torres Strait Islander woman, Ms Zaro is eager to support the implementation of the CRANAplus First Peoples’ Strategy. Aboriginal Health...
Jordyn Iovino reflects on her clinical placement with Desert Therapy in Alice Springs and discusses how she has grown as a professional through increased cultural awareness. Prior to beginning my Masters of Occupational Therapy degree, I researched the vast...
The Victorian Government announced funding for a Bush Nursing Pilot project this June. We catch up with Sarah Carr from Dargo Bush Nursing Centre to find out how the project is being implemented and why it's so important. “Our centre is probably one of the most remote...
Judy Burke has been working as the women’s and maternal health coordinator at Katherine West Health Board for the past two years. “My focus is on health promotion in maternal health and the key message is for good pre- conception and collaborative antenatal care,” she...
Primary healthcare, women’s health, rural nursing, rural midwifery, and shining a light on nursing in the bush are key priorities set by the new Deputy National Rural Health Commissioner. Queensland Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer Adjunct Professor Shelley Nowlan...
The awards just keep coming for Professor Sabina Knight, a key player in the creation of the Council of Remote Area Nurses of Australia (CRANA) back in 1983, the organisation that led to CRANAplus in 2008. She is currently Director and Professor at the Murtupuni...
Developing skills in the general medical ward and during home visits and experiencing Cairns by pushbike made this clinical placement away from her kids worthwhile for Nicola Dolan – and allowed her to visualise whether regional health had a place in her future. I was...
Third-year nursing student Sarah Horn took to the air during her clinical placement at RFDS’ Meekatharra base. Despite the challenges of working at altitude and in intense heat, learning cultural and clinical lessons and supporting airborne patients through their...
Maigan Marrocco headed to Lake Grace in south-west WA to undertake her stage three nursing placement, with the financial assistance of a CRANAplus sponsored Undergraduate Remote Placement Scholarship. In contrast to the experiences of some students, her experience saw...
Cross-cultural nursing, and certainly Remote Area Nursing (RAN), were basically unheard of in Australia when Registered Nurse Toni Dowd began practising in the late 1970s. “Even though I had completed a five-year pilot Combined University and General Nursing Program...
Catch up with Keppel Schafer, CRANAplus Facilitator since 2011. Keppel followed his grandmother’s steps into healthcare and is passionate about the transition from paper-based to digital recordkeeping. “Some girls follow in their mother’s footsteps. I’m a grandson who...
We take a look at pandemic fatigue affecting the Australian health care workforce and outline how to cope. There is currently so much confusion out there about the pros and cons of vaccines; the different lockdown rules or restrictions for each state; the different...