The 2023 Edu­ca­tion course sched­ule is well under­way. Teams and equip­ment have been on the road and in the air since late Jan­u­ary, mov­ing across the length and breadth of the coun­try deliv­er­ing clin­i­cal edu­ca­tion on loca­tion. What par­tic­i­pants see and expe­ri­ence on a CRANAplus clin­i­cal course is the prod­uct of efforts from many peo­ple, much of which is accom­plished ​‘behind the scenes’. The recent­ly pub­lished CRANAplus Edu­ca­tion Ser­vices Char­ter high­lights many com­po­nents of our work and what you, the sec­tor, can expect from us.

This year will see a con­tin­ued focus on con­tin­ued qual­i­ty improve­ment (CQI) in our sys­tems and prod­ucts. Our com­pre­hen­sive CQI Frame­work, and the key roles ded­i­cat­ed to its imple­men­ta­tion, are build­ing momen­tum and dri­ving inno­va­tion. As we emerge from the worst impacts of the pan­dem­ic and asso­ci­at­ed dis­rup­tions to course deliv­ery, there is a pal­pa­ble ener­gy and cre­ativ­i­ty emerg­ing across the team.

The new two-day Mater­ni­ty Emer­gency Care (MEC) course work­shop com­menced in Jan­u­ary. The mater­ni­ty stream Clin­i­cal Edu­ca­tors have approached this with great thought and care and ini­tial feed­back from par­tic­i­pants is very pos­i­tive. We will con­tin­ue to refine and adjust the pro­gram based on feed­back from all of our stake­hold­ers dur­ing the tran­si­tion phase.

The much-antic­i­pat­ed Advanced Remote Emer­gency Care (AREC) course will make a return in 2023.

While ser­vice deliv­ery dis­rup­tion through­out the pan­dem­ic imped­ed progress on the re-write of this course, devel­op­ment is well under­way for the launch of the new course fol­low­ing the CRANAplus Con­fer­ence in Cairns this Octo­ber. A sec­ond course will run in Dar­win in November.

The new AREC course includes Advanced Adult Life Sup­port and builds on the core prin­ci­ples of ear­ly recog­ni­tion, assess­ment and man­age­ment of the crit­i­cal­ly unwell or injured patient.

It is designed for prac­tis­ing remote and iso­lat­ed health pro­fes­sion­als who are expe­ri­enced and have an advanced lev­el of clin­i­cal knowl­edge and skills. Keep an eye on our web­site for fur­ther infor­ma­tion and registrations.

As the year gets into full swing we remain indebt­ed to the gen­eros­i­ty and skill of our vol­un­teer clin­i­cal edu­ca­tion facil­i­ta­tors. Our pool of over 140 vol­un­teers remains strong and growing.

Each course is enriched by their clin­i­cal expe­ri­ence and knowl­edge, as well as their good will and desire to ​‘give back’ in a way that is prac­ti­cal and purposeful.

We hope to bring more First Peo­ples facil­i­ta­tors on board in com­ing months, espe­cial­ly Abo­rig­i­nal and/​or Tor­res Strait Islander Health workers/​practitioners.

Hope to see you on course some­time soon!

Amelia Druhan
Deputy CEO & Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of Education