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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...
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....
Triage requirements vary significantly across different healthcare settings, encompassing distinctions between state services, health districts, and individual practices. Notably, there is no universal set of ‘national triage requirements’, and each institution may...
Are you interested in undertaking research in the remote healthcare sector? We invited six nurses with research experience to answer your burning questions. How should I select my research topic? When doing any research, whether as a short project or for a lengthy...
CRANAplus course facilitator, Kirsty Blair RN/RM has experience ranging from intensive care as the after-hours coordinator in a busy city hospital to working overseas in war-torn regions. Having spent years working in Aboriginal communities in the Top End, the happy...
Check out what it’s like to take to the road as a CRANAplus facilitator. A few of our volunteers have captured some behind-the-scenes action as they rounded out the 2023 course schedule. The expertise of our facilitators is at the core of our uniquely tailored...
CRANAplus Board member and RN Ann Aitken recently found herself tending to a person with chest pains during a recreational train journey. Here she tells her tale – and pays thanks to having recently undertaken the CRANAplus Advanced Life Support course. Ann Aitken and...
The recipient of the 2023 Early to Remote Practice Award, Micah Haslam RN, describes receiving the award as a surprise and honour. Here, she talks about her newfound love of Gunbalanya. Micah (right) with Aboriginal Community Worker Roxanne Naborlhborlh (left) at...
How can you make your voice heard when you are out of sight from the majority of Australians? CRANA would answer this question successfully, but not without difficulty, over the next four decades. As Jenny Klotz put it in 1985, “The Tyranny of Distance is a daunting...
At the 1985 conference in Townsville, education (or lack thereof) was identified as the single most important issue facing RANs. An early CRANA promotional poster once the organisation had been funded to deliver a range of services. The 'Remote Area Nursing Practice:...
Is Australia ready for future pandemics? Whether we can curb the spread will depend on the nation’s ability to run effective quarantine facilities, writes Senior Research Officer, Angela Sheedy. Along with a project team at Charles Darwin University Menzies School of...
CRANAplus Member and Riverina-based District Nurse Educator Dalya Holowinski explains the process of identifying the learning needs of the emerging workforce, the roving CNE model, and the responsibilities that established nurses have towards those just starting out....