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Miss Amy Wenham1 1National Rural Health Student Network, Mascot, Australia   The poor mental health of our health professionals is a topic that is of global concern. Increased responsibility and often less resources, puts our nursing and allied health professionals...

Ms Amanda North1, Ms Julie Moran1 1Cranaplus, Cairns, Australia   This presentation will outline the design and delivery of a new Mental Health Emergencies course, which aims to improve rural and remote practitioners’ response to the often-marginalised people who present...

Mrs Brenda Birch1 1CRANAplus, Wonga, Australia   If you’ve ever spent any time with the remote Australian health workforce, you will very quickly conclude that they are some of the most resilient, inspiring and committed people you’ve ever met.  But...

Mr Greg Smith1 1Maningrida Health Centre, winnellie, Australia   The purpose of the presentation Aboriginal peoples, particularly those living in remote and very remote areas, experience poor health – higher rates of chronic illnesses and avoidable hospitalisations compared to non-Aboriginal...

MS Tzu-Ling Chen, MS Li-Yin  Chien 1Department of Nursing, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2Institute of Community Health Care, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan   Introduction: With the global trend of increasing obesity among children, healthy feeding pattern is being...

Mrs Cathryn Josif1 1Kimberley Rural Health Alliance, Broome, Australia   The recruitment and retention of nurses to rural and remote areas is a global issue. Australia’s nursing and midwifery workforce is maldistributed and rural areas are underserved.  Only 1.1% of ...

Mr David Carpenter1 1Royal Flying Doctor Service Central Operations, Alice Springs, Australia   In late 2017 there were 34 confirmed presentations of invasive serogroup W Meningococcal (MenW) infection in remote Central Australia, from a virtual zero baseline.  Many of the...

Miss Sarah Smith1, Prof. Elizabeth Halcomb1, Dr. Jenny Sim1 1University Of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia   It is estimated that approximately 31% of Australia’s population resides outside major cities (Francis et al., 2014). This places great pressure on rural health services,...

Maureen Fields1, Ms Lauren Coad1 1CareLynx, Edge Hill, Australia   Aged Care facilities have significant and unique issues in the provision of high quality, consistent clinical nursing care in rural and remote areas of Australia. With many remote communities struggling...

Ms Kerry Copley1, Ms Louise Patel1 1Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance NT , Darwin, Australia   Our presentation will discuss the benefits and challenges of developing and implementing a state or territory wide continuous quality improvement (CQI) strategy. Our aim was...