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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
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 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.
Meet CRANAplus Board Member, Naomi Zaro
Aboriginal Health Practitioner Naomi Zaro happened to turn on her computer while working in a remote NT community, to discover she’d just been welcomed as the newest member on the CRANAplus Board. Originally from Kalgoorlie in WA, Naomi has worked for the past 18 months as an AHP for Sunrise Health Service, based in Katherine in the NT, and is about to complete her Diploma of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care Practice.
Lightening the Burden
Ballarat-based nursing student Molly Gladman’s four-week placement in Tennant Creek saw her gain experience in the general ward, midwifery clinic, renal dialysis unit, and GP clinic. Confronted by the inequitable burden of disease faced by Indigenous Australians, she finished placement with a new resolution.
“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.
Calls for Nurse Practitioners to be utilised in COVID vaccination roll-out
A COALITION of peak nursing organisations is calling on National Cabinet today to include Australia’s highly-skilled nursing practitioner (NP) workforce in the COVID vaccination roll-out.
First past the post: Rural health workers must get ahead of the COVID vaccine field
In the race to protect the population from COVID, peak rural health bodies are united in their call for rural health workers to have priority access to COVID vaccines, as their risk of exposure…
CRANAplus Virtual Symposium
CRANAplus will be providing other opportunities that enable our community to engage, share knowledge, learn and connect with one another. There will be a one-day virtual symposium on…
Federal Regional Health Minister Mark Coulton discuss issues affecting remote health
The meeting between Minister Coulton and CRANAplus was the ideal opportunity to discuss the recently released 2021 – 22 Federal Budget initiatives targeting rural and remote health,…
Scholarship in memory of Gayle Woodford is making a difference in rural & remote communities
March 23, 2021, marks five years since the tragic death of much-loved Remote Area Nurse (RAN) Gayle Woodford. It is also the fifth anniversary of a scholarship set up in Mrs Woodford’s memory, which…
Free 24/7 support service offers a lifeline to remote and rural health workers
Remote and rural health workers make a difference to people’s lives every day, supporting those who may be at their lowest ebb, and keeping the communities in which, they live healthy and safe. But…
Decades of dedication
This year, breaking tradition due to the challenges surrounding COVID-19 we present the 2020 CRANAplus awards to you digitally. The 2020 CRANAplus awards focus specifically on recognising remote…
