When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Australia, registered nurse Wayne Burns joined the response, pivoting into carrying out swabbing and, not long after, vaccinations on the [...]
Nurse practitioners and doctors are being enticed into working in rural and remote Australia by having their HECs/HELP debt entirely wiped, or slashed. The new [...]
Northern Territory residents have been put on alert after local authorities revealed an uptake in positive cases of Japanese encephalitis (JE) among feral pigs. Forty [...]
A university-led project aims to improve access to treatment for heart failure for people living in regional and remote areas. The project, I-HEART (Implementation of [...]
A training course to help professionals and frontline workers better recognise and respond to victims of sexual violence has been developed by Monash University. The [...]
As Australia’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign gathers pace, Kate Jones, one of the senior primary healthcare nurses of the Royal Flying Doctor Service, Western Operations, says [...]
“It highlights to the rest of Australia that remote area nursing is very much a speciality,” says Terrie Ivanhoe, of taking out the Aurora Award, [...]
Improvements to workplace safety for nurses working in regional and remote areas are urgently needed according to a new study. The literature review undertaken by [...]
A new nursing pilot project will deliver needed health information, tools and resources to farmers in the East Gippsland high country, according to the Victorian [...]
