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Mrs Katie Pennington1, Dr Kim Clark, Professor Sabina Knight, Dr Fatima Yaqoot 1Edith Cowan University Introduction:    RNs play a critical role in enabling access to medicines in remote Australia and many nurses have long questioned the legally tenuous nature of...

Ms Jessica Gysin-Webster1, Ms Katrina Seng2 1OutsideIn Group 2Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network   KIHS faced the 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the already volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment that is...

Ms Kellie Kerin1 1AMSANT Kellie is a very proud Central Arrernte woman and has been a Registered Nurse for 26 years. Once learning of her Aboriginality in 1997, Kellie has been deliberate in her efforts to find her true identity...

Ms Anne Garrahy1, Mr Chris O’Donnell, Adjunct Professor Shelley Nowlan 1Queensland Health In mid-2020 nurse practitioners in Queensland were granted temporary legislative authority to conduct a capacity assessment of a person making an advance health directive so that community members...

Ms Michelle Dowden1 1One Disease One Disease has been working to eliminate Crusted Scabies as a public health concern. A major strategy is working with communities to create Scabies Free Zones. Evaluations have reported that the One Disease is a  ...

Ensuring the safety and security of remote health workforce remains and ongoing priority for CRANAplus, CRANAplus Board of Directors approved funding to ensure our suite of safety and security resources are contemporary and continue to meet the needs of the remote...

Come and practice mindfulness meditation with us at the CRANAplus Conference this year! Experience your own reduced rumination, worry and stress, improved working memory, calmness and clarity. The 20-minute mindfulness sessions will be led by one of our CRANAplus Bush...

Prof. Janie Dade Smith1, Dr Shannon Springer1 1Bond University, Varsity Lakes, QLD, Australia   Introduction There are many initiatives occurring in Australia to teach cross cultural education to health professionals. However there is little evidence that any of these programs have a long term impact on the...

Gayle Woodford Scholarship Gayle was a committed, proactive and professional Remote Area Nurse (RAN). She worked for Nganampa Health Service for 5 years before her sad death in 2016.  Her role as a RAN was the fulfilment of a ‘dream’...

Dr. Ramakuela NJ1 1Department of Advanced Nursing, University of Venda, Thohoyandou, South Africa Women who had never achieved pregnancy after adequate exposure to unprotected sex without using contraceptives tend to suffer primary infertility. It is a global reproductive health issue...