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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
Our Bush Support Line offers free 24/7, 365-day telephone support to Australia's current and emerging rural and remote health workforce and their families. The line is staffed by psychologists with rural, remote, and cross-cultural expertise. We deliver Wellbeing Workshops and distribute mental health and wellbeing resources, content and products to support the isolated and remote health workforce.

Supporting your 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.

Advocacy for closing the continuity gap for remote midwives
For midwife Donna Stephen, holistic care and continuity of care are paramount for expecting mums. In this article she explains why.

A swift look into bush nursing centres
Sue Carroll joined our CRANAplus Nursing and Midwifery Roundtable to be an advocate, make a difference and tell her story. Here, she shares what life is like at Swifts Creek Bush Nursing Centre.