RFDS nurses help deliver crucial services as part of rural and remote community COVID-19 vaccination rollout
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 feels like her team is “contributing towards making history” helping vaccinate rural and remote communities in WA. “Being able to protect some of our most remote and vulnerable people […]
Meet the Remote Area Nurse of the Year
“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, the highest accolade for the remote and isolated health profession, at last week’s 2021 CRANAplus Awards. “We are not nurses that go out there [to rural and remote Australia] unprepared […]
New study pinpoints the need for better workplace safety for RANs
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 registered nurse and researcher Laura Wright from James Cook University’s Murtupuni Centre for Rural and Remote Health, found that recommendations from research on RAN workplace safety dating back as far […]
Black African nurses battle racism in rural Australian workplaces, study finds
Black African nurses battle racism in rural Australian workplaces, study finds
Inquest into Gayle Woodford’s murder calls for better protection
Inquest into Gayle Woodford’s murder calls for better protection
Scholarship in memory of Gayle Woodford makes lasting impact
Tuesday, 23 March, marks five years since the tragic murder of South Australian remote area nurse (RAN) Gayle Woodford. It is also the fifth anniversary of a scholarship established in Mrs Woodford’s memory that is improving the knowledge, skills, safety and security of the country’s remote health workers. Jointly established by CRANAplus and the Centre […]
Meet CRANAplus CEO Katherine Isbister
Meet CRANAplus CEO Katherine Isbister
Drones to deliver medical supplies to remote communities across NT
Custom-made drones with a flying range of up to 250 kilometres will begin delivering potentially life-saving medicines to remote communities across the Northern Territory under a new trial hoping to give Australians living out bush more timely access to medical supplies. The first ever healthcare drone trial for regional Australia, it is expected that the […]
In conversation with National Rural Health Commissioner Ruth Stewart
In conversation with National Rural Health Commissioner Ruth Stewart
A uniquely local vaccination solution in the face of a global pandemic
Amid COVID-19 a medical centre in regional South Australia has found a unique way to immunise the community against the flu this season. Practice Nurse Gabby Combe at the Crystal Brook Medical Centre says traditionally leading up to the flu season, the clinic, in conjunction with other outreach services in the Laura District, run events […]