Remote Area Nurses (RANs) work in a variety of settings across Australia and the region, such as remote Indigenous, mining, pastoral, industrial, fishing, tourism, railway, agricultural, Island, detention, refugee and international community development.
They do this in small teams experiencing personal and professional isolation, often caring for people of extreme health need, providing care across the lifespan to people in the context of their family and community. This heath care spans acute, urgent, chronic, and preventive and public health programs as well as emergency care within a primary health care framework. The professional agility and collaborative advanced practice required is unique in nursing and what RANs describe as most rewarding.
CRANAplus continues to advocate for the provision of safe high quality health care to people in remote areas of Australia and clearly to do so requires excellent preparation.
The RHP program was developed by Flinders University and the Council of Remote Area Nurses of Australia (CRANAplus), in consultation with the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) and the Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health (SARRAH) and built on previous work with the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO).
The program is unique in that it offers both public health and advance practice in a multidisciplinary framework.
The Graduate Diploma provides the foundation on which RANs can develop their practice. Framing Indigenous health and clinical teaching for remote advanced nursing practice, Family Nursing, Remote Nurse Practitioner: Chronic Disease and Research Methods are all offered in intensive blocks in Alice Springs with the remainder of the topics offered externally, many with options for residential blocks.
The teaching team are enthusiastic, highly regarded practitioners with in the broad discipline of remote health and committed to supporting RANs to achieve their potential as advanced practitioners across Australia in remote, rural and isolated areas. The RAN topics coordinators are all them selves graduates of the Masters Program and practicing remote area nurses in Australia and New Zealand.
Students have the option to exit with a Graduate Certificate or progress to complete a Masters of Remote Health Practice.
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