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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Myth Busting with NOFASD Australia
CRANAplus catches up with Robyn Smith, the Helpline Manager for the National Organisation for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (NOFASD), to tackle...
New resources to improve Quality Use of Medicines
NPS MedicineWise has just released three new resources to make it easier to follow a quality use of medicines (QUM) approach and reduce pressure on...
Student story: Earning independence
University of Notre Dame nursing student Jennifer Kuppens discusses how her placement in Kununurra District Hospital improved her time-management...
Student story: My intrastate odyssey
University of Wollongong Nutrition and Dietetics student Gynette Reyneke recalls her placement in Broken Hill. A warm welcome, heritage and culture,...
Equal opportunities needed for all health students
Two thirds of nursing students never had the opportunity to complete a rural or remote placement, recent National Rural Health Student Network...
Kellie Kerin: Upfront about Trauma, Turnover & Culture Shock
Short-lived attention to workplace safety for nurses and midwives in remote settings is nothing new. If RN Kellie Kerin, the NT Indigenous...
Meet 2022 OAM, Vicki O’Donnell from Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services
Vicki O’Donnell, a Nyikina Mangala woman from Derby in Western Australia, is the third person in her family to receive the OAM for community work....
Improve your triage competency, online
CRANAplus recently launched Triage Emergency Care Online, a scheduled online course that makes triage competency attainable to remote health...
New tool to fight infection in the tropics
Tropical areas across the top of Australia have a very high rate of potentially dangerous skin and other infections – and a very low level of...
Neuroprotective developmental care
Dr Pamela Douglas, the Medical Director of Possums & Co., discusses the Neuroprotective Developmental Care Accreditation Pathway, for which the...
Why we stay and why we leave
As part of her Flinders University Master’s of Remote and Indigenous Health, RN Jacki Argent interviewed seven experienced RANs for her study ‘Why...
A tropical transition to remote
We catch up with Madison Clark, RN with the Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service, to find out what it’s like to work near ‘the most beautiful...