The Weekly Update

Dear Members,

Welcome to another edition of the Friday Flyer. Throughout January we have been updating our Membership database and speaking to many of our lapsed members reminding and encouraging them to renew their membership.
Many were surprised that their membership had lapsed as they were still receiving the Friday Flyer each week. Our Constitution requires that past members “are entitled to and receive email bulletins from CRANAplus, provided their email address is operating”, so please do not assume your membership is necessarily current.

Renewal is easy – just go to the website and either renew online with our secure form, or give us a call and we can take your details over the phone. Membership is valid for twelve months and offers discounts on courses, conference and selected CRANAplus products. There is also the option of multiple-year membership which offers you even further discount.

CRANAplus’ strength lies in with our membership base, strengthening our voice when advocating for the remote health sector. Please encourage your colleagues and friends to join CRANAplus.

The second edition of the Clinical Procedures Manual is popular and they're “flying off the shelves” according to Amy in the Alice office who has been processing your orders. If you would like to order a copy, click here

Looking for a change? Check our employment link this week for more vacancies

Many of you might remember that raffle monies from our 2008 Conference were donated to the Afar Pastoralist Development Association in Africa. We have their latest newsletter update available on the website for your interest.

From the CRANAplus Team - Have a great week.
 

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Scholarships Available

CRANAplus / YNA Undergraduate Scholarships
Each year CRANAplus in partnership with Your Nursing Agency (YNA) offer a total of six $1000 scholarships.

These scholarships are available to students who as part of their undergraduate course of study in a health discipline at an Australian University, undertake a remote location placement
 

SA Nursing and Midwifery Premier’s Scholarships 2009/2010
The Premier of South Australia is committed to building a valued and sustainable nursing and midwifery workforce. Scholarships are being offered to nurses and midwives to explore innovative practices within their chosen field, either nationally or internationally.

NSW Regional Dentistry Scholarship
The NSW Regional Dentistry Scholarship aims to support a student with strong links to regional New South Wales to train for a professional dental career. The scholarship will be awarded annually to a student commencing dentistry studies to help offset their costs in establishing themselves in their course.
Applications close 24 February 2010.

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Educational Opportunities

The Centre for Remote Health is running an Advanced Medications Practice for Aboriginal Health Workers Short Course

Dates : 23-25 February 2010
Time: 9 am – 3 pm daily
Cost: $450 (includes GST)

The three day program covers a revision of the basic medicines knowledge essential for safe use of medicines by AHWs who are authorised under Section 29 to supply medicines. Case studies of issues commonly experienced in remote practice will be used to help AHW find information about medicines and make decisions about which medicines are right for the client

For registration enquiries please contact:
Student Administration Officer, Centre for Remote Health, PO Box 4066, Alice Springs, NT 0871
Telephone: (08) 8951 4718 Fax: (08) 8951 4777 or e-mail: crh.studentadmin@flinders.edu.au

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Awards and Fellowship Nominations

Awards Put Australia's Top Nurses in the Spotlight
The Australian community is being urged to nominate the nation's most accomplished and dedicated nurses, midwives, personal care attendants
and assistants in nursing for the 2010 HESTA Australian Nursing Awards.
With a prize pool of $25,000 across the categories of Nurse HESTA Australian Nursing Awards are one of Australia's most prestigious nursing awards. Ms Corboy said 1,400 nurses had been nominated since the awards were founded four years ago, and the calibre of the nominations continued to impress.

National Institute of Clinical Studies
NICS (TRIP) Fellowship applications now open NICS is very pleased to announce that NHMRC is launching the new Translating Research into Practice (TRIP) Fellowship scheme for 2010. The principles, aims and education components of the TRIP Fellowship scheme are essentially the same as those for the NICS Fellowships, which it will replace. The TRIP Fellowship scheme will support early-to-mid career clinical leaders in researching approaches to applying evidence to improve clinical practice. The fellowship applications are now open and will close at 5pm (AEDT) 1 March 2010, for funding commencing in October 2010. Go to: www.emergencycare.nhmrc.gov.au/blog for more information

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Articles of Interest

EMERGENCY RELIEF AND EXTRA FINANCIAL COUNSELLING FOR LAVERTON REGION
The Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin, today announced an extra $20,000 in emergency relief will be available to existing providers. The Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs is working with Centrelink and a range of other agencies to help people in Laverton and the Ngaanyatjarra Lands manage their finances and reduce the numbers seeking credit.

MAGISTRATE CALLS FOR FULL-TIME ABORIGINAL INTERPRETERS
A Port Augusta magistrate says Aboriginal interpreters need to be employed full-time at the court to solve ongoing problems that are delaying trials and court proceedings.

AMA CRITICAL OF CATARACT SURGERY MOVE
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) says a planned transfer of many cataract operations from the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) to Modbury Hospital has been poorly thought out

ABORIGINES MADE `INVISIBLE' IN DATA, SAYS MEDICAL EXPERT
Australia makes its indigenous population "invisible" and will never be able to close the gap in the life expectancy between Aborigines and white people because of the "outrageous" inaccuracy in the statistics keeping track of their births and deaths.

RIVERS OF GOLD ARE DIVERTED INTO WRONG HANDS
Is Sam Tomarchio, the Laverton-based lender of last resort to Aboriginal residents of remote desert communities, a prince or a profiteer?

FATTEST HAND IS FIRST IN THE TILL  
Ernest Hunter, the Cairns-based psychiatrist who has worked in the Kimberley and has been working in the stony fields of indigenous mental health in North Queensland for many years now, wrote an excellent article in yesterday's edition of The Australian telling the truth about the parasites that prey on the indigenous poor in remote communities. Hunter's point was made a long time ago by the eminent African-American economist Thomas Sowell who summed up the issue succinctly by saying: "The poor are a goldmine."
 

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