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2024 Remote Nursing & Midwifery Conference
The Remote Nursing & Midwifery Conference is Australia’s signature annual event for the remote health workforce. Its rich history spans back to 1983, the date of the very first CRANAplus Conference. Now with a new name, but very much the event you know and love, this year’s conference will be held in Naarm, on the traditional lands of the Kulin Nation, at Crown Melbourne, Victoria from 23-25 October 2024.
Scholarships, Awards & Grants
CRANAplus supports isolated and remote health professionals through the challenges they face. Our not-for-profit organisation delivers undergraduate scholarships, post-graduate scholarships, industry awards, and remote health course attendance grants. We produce guidelines and position statements, and advocate for change on issues that matter to our membership. Our services empower remote and isolated health professionals to develop their career and deliver effective remote healthcare.
Mental Health & Wellbeing
The CRANAplus Bush Support Line is vital in retaining a healthy, resilient remote health workforce. Our Bush Support Line offers free 24/7 confidential mental health support to health professionals servicing outback towns, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, and other remote, isolated destinations. We deliver Wellbeing Workshops and distribute mental health and wellbeing resources, content and products to support isolated and remote health nurses, midwives, and others in remote healthcare jobs.
Rural and Remote Employment
Become an integral part of Australia’s remote healthcare workforce by browsing our remote healthcare employment page. Find an isolated health or remote health job as a clinical nurse, care nurse, midwife, nurse manager, or within another profession, while working in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, men’s health, maternal health, mental health care, children’s health, primary health, aged care, or other fields.
What to take with you! Remote area nursing packing list
We invited CRANAplus Members to share their advice on items to bring when working in a remote area, or to purchase when visiting a regional or urban hub. Here is the list you helped us to compile!
Strongyloidiasis – eradicating every last worm
2021 NT Australian of the Year, Dr Wendy Page spent three decades working in East Arnhem Land with Miwatj Health Aboriginal Corporation, fighting a parasitic enemy that is invisible to the naked eye and capable of multiplying into the millions – with incredible success. Now through the advocacy group Strongyloidiasis Australia, she’s tackling the disease on a national scale.
Nursing & midwifery students on remote placements to benefit from new Government payment
CRANAplus welcomes the announcement by the Government that it will establish a Commonwealth Prac Payment worth $319.50 a week to support nursing and midwifery students to undertake mandatory unpaid…
Communities urged to unveil local healthcare excellence
The peak body for the remote health workforce is calling upon everyday Australians to identify nurses, midwives and other health professionals who deserve the industry’s top professional accolade.
Remote area nurse John Wright elected as CRANAplus Board Chair
Experienced remote area nurse John Wright has been appointed as the new Board Chair of CRANAplus, the peak professional body for remote health in Australia.
New models of nursing care will provide solutions to the ageing population
A joint press release from Members of the Nursing Leaders of Australia, representing Australian Nursing Peak Organisations, following the release of the Intergenerational Report.
Release of The National Rural and Remote Nursing Generalist Framework heralds new era of preparedness for remote area nurses
The Assistant Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention & Rural and Regional Health, the Hon. Emma McBride, has today launched the National Rural and Remote Nursing Generalist Framework…
CRANAplus welcomes funding for WA’s Nurse Practitioner Workforce
CRANAplus welcomes the announcement of $11.7 million in government funding towards the employment of 20 Nurse Practitioners in Western Australia for two years as part of a pilot program that aims to…
Nursing organisations condemn Morrison Government for failures in aged care
The country’s peak nursing organisations today stand together to condemn the Morrison Government for its failure to protect Australia’s nursing home residents, and the nurses and care workers doing…
“Government to lure doctors and nurses to rural regional and remote areas by slashing university debt”
Peak nursing organisations welcome the announcement of additional support for health practitioners to work in rural and remote areas.
Remote Area Nurses Recognised for Excellence
Outstanding Australian remote health professionals are being celebrated this September with the announcement of the 2021 CRANAplus Award Winners.
