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Professor Sabina Knight, Director of the Centre for Rural and Remote Health at James Cook University, based in Mount Isa, is the 2020 recipient of the prestigious Aurora Award from CRANAplus, the peak national body for remote health. Professor Sabina...
Di Thornton gains recognition this year because of her exceptional response to the COVID-19 pandemic while serving small-town communities either side of the Victoria/South Australia border. Nurse Practitioner Di Thornton, who provides health services to several...
The COVID-19 Response and Action Information Group (CRAIG) at the Top End Health Service (TEHS) has worked tirelessly since the arrival of the pandemic in Australia to produce plans and procedures for remote clinics to follow. The Collaborative Team Award for a team...
Occupational therapy student Elyse Krsanac at Curtin University says her placement at Alice Springs Hospital earlier this year “was easily the most rewarding experience of my life so far”. The placement allowed me to grow personally and professionally in ways that I...
The CRANAplus scholarships are a great boost to help relieve financial stress for recipients undergoing their placements says fnursing student Elise Thornwaite who is studying a Bachelor of Nursing at the Australian Catholic University in Canberra. Here is her...
Decision time came 45 years ago for Nurse Practitioner Stephen Farrington when he met a young boy sitting with an old man carving a boomerang at Uluru. That decision was to spend his working life in remote Indigenous communities. Here is his story and his views on...
Sue Kruske and Sue Kildea, midwives and leading university educators based in Alice Springs, are passionate about building knowledge of, and expanding services for Birthing on Country. “Getting it right from the start: supporting women to be strong, capable mothers,...
The CRANAplus awards are always a highlight for conference delegates, and in maintaining tradition they were awarded at the conference dinner in 2019. The awards are an opportunity to recognise those remote and isolated health professionals who have made a significant...
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...