Practical Skills

Are you look­ing to refresh your skills in plas­ter­ing, sutur­ing, and eye and ear assessment?

This course equips remote and iso­lat­ed health pro­fes­sion­als with essen­tial prac­ti­cal skills in sutur­ing, plas­ter­ing, and ENT assess­ment to enhance clin­i­cal con­fi­dence, safe­ty, and respon­sive­ness in low-resource set­tings. Through hands-on, cul­tur­al­ly safe train­ing, par­tic­i­pants will devel­op the knowl­edge and skills to deliv­er time­ly, effec­tive care aligned with best prac­tice stan­dards, there­by strength­en­ing work­force capa­bil­i­ty and improv­ing health out­comes in rur­al and remote communities.

The course is designed to meet the learn­ing needs of the remote and iso­lat­ed work­force (Nurs­es, Para­medics, Abo­rig­i­nal and/​or Tor­res Strait Islander Health Prac­ti­tion­ers and Med­ical Offi­cers) who may be required to utilise these prac­ti­cal skills in their workplace.

If you have any queries about the course or its rel­e­vance to your prac­tice, sub­mit an enquiry here.

The CRANAplus Prac­ti­cal Skills course con­sists of two components:

• Online pre-learn­ing and assess­ments that must be com­plet­ed one week before the course
• Atten­dance at a one-day work­shop con­sist­ing of lec­tures, skill sta­tions and prac­ti­cal-based scenarios.

• Demon­strate safe and effec­tive first aid sutur­ing tech­niques for a range of wound types, using appro­pri­ate mate­ri­als and meth­ods suit­ed to remote and resource-lim­it­ed settings
• Apply plas­ter­ing skills to immo­bilise frac­tures and soft tis­sue injuries safely
• Con­duct focused ear, nose and throat assess­ments to iden­ti­fy com­mon con­di­tions and deter­mine appro­pri­ate man­age­ment or refer­ral pathways
• Reflect on scope of prac­tice and esca­la­tion path­ways, recog­nis­ing when to seek sup­port, refer, or adapt pro­ce­dures based on con­text and avail­able resources.

• A CRANAplus Prac­ti­cal Skills Course Cer­tifi­cate (Valid for 2 years)

Giv­en the remote loca­tion of many of our cours­es, we are some­times restrict­ed to Veg­e­tar­i­an and Gluten Free dietary options. While we always sup­ply fresh food and fruit, par­tic­u­lar foods may not be eas­i­ly accessed in remote areas. Should you have quite spe­cif­ic restric­tions we encour­age you to bring some basics and then pick and choose from the fresh food offered on the day. You should also inform us of any aller­gies you may have so we can advise the cater­er and be aware of the situation.

CRANAplus Mem­bers receive a dis­count on face-to-face course reg­is­tra­tion and are eli­gi­ble to apply for var­i­ous CRANAplus pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment grants to meet the costs asso­ci­at­ed with course atten­dance. You can also find a list of grants and schol­ar­ships offered by exter­nal providers, such as the Health Work­force Schol­ar­ship Pro­gram, on our Path­way Incen­tives page.

View the answers to oth­er fre­quent­ly asked ques­tions about CRANAplus face-to-face courses.