Weekly Update

Dear CRANAplus Members,

This week we are pleased to welcome our newest Corporate Member CQ Nurse. CQ Nurse is based in Mackay, Central Queensland, offering nursing and midwifery placements covering a huge geographical area with many diverse settings.

We remind you that if you are an employee of a corporate member organisation please identify this when you join or renew your membership as this entitles you to a significant discount. Check the logos on the sidebar to see all our corporate members. CRANAplus is proud of all these organisations that choose to partner with and support us.

The much anticipated fifth edition of the CARPA Standard Treatment Manual has arrived! This highly respected publication has a very strong reputation, among its users and further afield, as an essential tool to support evidence based practice in remote and indigenous health services. The fifth edition has maintained the essential components of past manuals, while heeding the recommendations from the 2007 evaluation of the previous edition. Copies of this easily portable manual are available at $70 including postage & handling.
Order online at here or call either of the CRANAplus offices listed on the sidebar

Congratulations to new member Brenda Love from Woodvale, WA. Brenda is the recipient of a complimentary Clinical Procedures Manual as part of our membership promotion month. Brenda is member 913, one of three random numbers chosen to award a complimentary manual. If you are lapsed member or thinking of joining this is the perfect time to do so as there are two CPM’s still available this month.

Our 2010 courses have filled quicker than ever, reflecting how popular and successful the CRANAplus FLEC Program continues to be. Having already delivered 21 courses for the year, due to popular request we are pleased to announce that we've squeezed a few more courses into our schedule as we try and cater to the extra demand.

REC181 Mackay Qld August 3-5th
AREC182 Mackay Qld August 6-8th
MEC170 Pt Augusta SA September 17-19th
MEC184 Mackay Qld December 3-5th

Register now at http://courses.crana.org.au/ or risk missing out.

Extending information for rural health professionals is a project of the Supporting Women in Rural Areas Diagnosed with Breast Cancer Program, funded by the Australian Government and delivered by National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre (NBOCC).
NBOCC is collaborating with the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) to provide new educational opportunities for general practitioners, nurses and other health professionals working in rural areas to access information about the latest advances in evidence-based breast cancer treatment and care. Click here for more information.

Researchers from Griffith University are surveying professionals who currently work or who have worked, in rural and remote communities in Queensland. This is part of an Australian Research Council Discovery Project entitled Managing tensions in professional statutory practice: Living and working in rural and remote communities. If you are interested in participating, click here. Survey respondents can enter the draw to win a $100 gift voucher.

Have a good weekend from all at the CRANAplus team!

Regards,
Anne-Marie Borchers
 

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Remote Health Practice Program

CRANAplus is very pleased to inform our members that the Centre for Remote Health's RHPP course coordinator - Associate Professor Sabina Knight has today received notification that Master of Remote Health Practice: Nurse Practitioner has been accredited by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of the Northern Territory. The program has been developed for nurse practitioners in remote and Indigenous health and is jointly owned by Flinders University and CRANAplus.

Applications are now open for mid year intake for the Remote Health Practice and Remote Health Management programs. These programs are of interest to those interested in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, remote or small rural health; and for the Master of Remote Health Practice - public health and research. Speciality streams of medicine, nursing, allied health, management, oral health have now been joined by pharmacy, remote child protection and aged and disability.

Course information, on line application advice, key dates, book lists are all available on the Centre for Remote Health's website.

See Education / Remote Health Practice for details of how to apply with SATAC www.crh.org.au
 

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Scholarships & Education

CRANAplus/YNA Undergraduate Scholarships
Deadline - 31st August 2010 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 any Australian university, undertakes a remote location placement.

PHC: Making a difference
25-26 October 2010
This short course has been developed to strengthen health professionals understanding of the social, environmental, structural, political and philosophical issues that impact upon health care provision in remote Australia. The workshop will explore primary health care, its current status and potential in Australian health care as well as the recognition of the importance of integrating health promotion and prevention strategies in remote health settings.

AUSMED: Improving Your Knowledge of Medicines Seminar
As medicines are one of the highest areas of risk for ALL nurses; it is essential that YOU regularly update your knowledge on this key professional area.
Brisbane: 19 - 20 August
Perth: 2 - 3 December
Adelaide: 15 - 16 November

Live Strong: Closing the Gap on Chronic Disease DVD available to order
Live Strong is the latest of the half hour documentary style programs in the Rural Health Education Foundation’s Strong Series.
The Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing has supported the distribution of this resource. To order your free DVD visit the Rural Health Education Foundation’s website www.rhef.com.au or contact the Foundation on (02) 62325480

ASIST Applied suicide intervention skills training
15-16 July 2010 - two day workshop
Melbourne, Vic
Phone: 8841 3000 - Email: mchs@mannchs.org.au

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Survey Participants Needed

Managing tensions in professional statutory practice: Living and working in rural and remote communities

Researchers are looking for professionals with statutory responsibilities who currently work or who have worked, in rural and remote communities in Queensland, to fill in an online survey about managing tensions in professional statutory work while living and working in rural and remote communities.
The survey can be accessed through this link. Survey respondents can enter the draw to win a $100 gift card.
This study explores the management of tensions in work-life balances for professionals not only having statutory responsibilities in health, education, human and police services, but also living in the rural and remote communities they serve. It aims to generate new knowledge about: how professionals and their local communities can forge productive links to enhance collaboration and service delivery; and factors contributing to professionals’ training, recruitment and retention in such communities.

For further information or assistance in completing the survey, please contact: Natalie Clements, Senior Research Assistant, Griffith University, 07 3382 1134, N.Clements@griffith.edu.au

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Articles of Interest

MORE CONDOMAN RESOURCES & BOOST FOR HEALTH CAMPAIGN FRONTED BY RUGBY LEAGUE STAR STEVE RENOUF
Indigenous Health Minister, Warren Snowdon, today announced the Rudd Government would provide $356,000 to fund the second phase of a Queensland Indigenous health campaign, fronted by former Indigenous rugby league star Steve Renouf.
The funding will support the expansion of the Hero Rewards campaign throughout Queensland. The campaign was developed by the Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council (QAIHC), the state’s peak body for Aboriginal Medical Services.

SNOWDON PRAISES HEALTH CARE
Indigenous Health Minister Warren Snowdon and Macarthur Labor candidate Nick Bleasdale made a special visit to Tharawal Aboriginal Corporation in Airds last week.

FUNDING BOOST TO UPGRADE ABORIGINAL CLINIC
Mount Gambier’s Pangula Mannamurna Aboriginal community clinic will benefit from $72,000 in funding allocated by the Federal Government as it works to secure accreditation.

HEART FOUNDATION 2011 CONFERENCE – CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The Heart Foundation's 2011 conference, "Heart to Heart: from Access to Action", will be held at the world class Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, on 17–19 March 2011.
The conference will host leading international and Australian presenters to showcase key clinical, research and public health perspectives on cardiovascular disease. The call for abstracts is now open. The deadline for submission is Friday, 17 September 2010. For more information, please click here

ABORIGINAL DENTAL HEALTH 11 TIMES WORSE
Oral health in young Aboriginal adults is up to 11 times worse than in the general population, an Adelaide University researcher has found.
Lisa Jamieson compared Aboriginal participants from the Northern Territory's Top End with the results of a national survey.

RCNA CEO ON 'NIGHT SHIFT' FOR THE HOMELESS
Nurses urged to support nursing colleague for the homeless.
Tonight, 105,000 Australians will be homeless. Nearly a quarter of these homeless people are children. Nurses being at the frontline of health services in this country are all too aware of the health and social issues facing the homeless.

FIRST MIDWIVES TO BENEFIT FROM INDEMNITY INSURANCE
Privately practising midwives and their patients get extra protection from today with Commonwealth Government-supported professional indemnity insurance now available.
This will make a real difference to expectant mums who can now elect to see a private midwife who will have Government subsidised insurance and from 1 November, have the cost of those services covered by Medicare.
Around half of the approximately 277,000 babies born each year in Australia are delivered through the private system and half through the public system.

NEW ACCOMMODATION FOR INDIGENOUS STUDENTS FROM THE APY LANDS
The Australian Government has delivered a $3 million accommodation centre for Indigenous students from the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands who study in Adelaide.The Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin, and the South Australian Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation, Grace Portolesi, today opened the Wiltja accommodation centre which will provide accommodation for up to 105 Indigenous students from the APY Lands.
 

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