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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 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.
Our History
To celebrate 40 years, we’ve charted the milestones in our not-for-profit organisation’s history – including the famous 1983 conference, the development of the Remote Emergency Care course, and the creation of the Bush Support Line. A lot can change in 40 years, but the organisation’s volunteer roots, passionate Members, and focus on improving remote health remain to this day.
Tasmanian nurse Katie Pennington recognised as 2023 Remote & Isolated Health Professional of the Year
This year’s recipient of the CRANAplus Aurora Award for the Remote and Isolated Health Professional of the Year, Katie Pennington, reflects on the power of nurses’ voices, the community health model of care, and her work from East Timor to East Tasmania.