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...
Remote clinics can be the ideal environment for nurses to encourage patients to be involved in decisions about their health, says retired clinical nurse consultant Helen Walker. “One-on-one nursing in these remote clinics can bring this quality to the fore, a crucial...
CRANAplus is committed to working with its Members to explore and clarify their experiences, to help guide and inform CRANAplus activities and advocacy. This includes the emerging workforce – CRANAplus Undergraduate Student Members. In November 2023, Professional...
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...
Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service (TCHHS) clinical facilitator Ivy Hodges has a keen insight into how the graduate students she is mentoring are feeling and what they are experiencing. Not so long ago, she was one of those students herself. Here Ivy talks...
“It’s a privilege when people want to share their stories with you and you can help them,” says Bush Support Line psychologist Maria-Christine Mandile. Helping health workers feel settled in rural and remote locations with plans to stay long-term is a triple-win...
Melbourne-based nursing student Grace recently undertook a clinical placement in Alice Springs, NT – an experience she describes as invaluable. Here, she talks about her cultural orientation, adventures in the red and ridged landscape, and connecting with other...
Second-year nursing student Brittanie says her very remote placement in Nyirripi, Central Australia imparted “lessons that no textbook could convey”. Here the University of New England student writes of forming bonds and witnessing community resilience, stepping out...
After 60 hours of night shift, locum nurse Greta Webb spent time telling us how much she has loved being a part of Rural LAP. A veteran of the program, Greta joined Rural LAP 13 years ago and confidently tells us that she has “been everywhere”. Reflecting on her time...
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....
2021 NT Australian of the Year, Dr Wendy Page spent three decades working in East Arnhem Land with Miwatj Health Aboriginal Corporation, fighting a parasitic enemy that is invisible to the naked eye and capable of multiplying into the millions – with incredible...
We invited CRANAplus Members to share their advice on items to bring when working in a remote area, or to purchase when visiting a regional or urban hub. Here is the list you helped us to compile! 1. Coffee As Laura from Arnhem Land puts it, “good coffee is hard to...