Nursing Portfolio
The Senior Nursing Advisor for 2010 is Stephanie Jeremy
Stephanie is 3rd Year Undergraduate Nursing Student from the University of Canberra who was treasurer in 2009 for CRANC. She attended NURHC in Cairns and the CRANAplus conference in Alice Springs in 2009. The delegates from the CRANAplus conference were invited to attend a round table discussion for the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission by Minister Warren Snowden. By attending this forum, by questions posed by Sally Grainger, and an email Stephanie sent - the NRHSN was invited to meet at Parliament House to discuss inequities in scholarships between Medical, Nursing and Allied Health students. Stephanie felt very privileged to be invited to this meeting and have the chance to have a say at that level. Stephanie is excited to be the Senior Nursing representative for the NRHSN, is looking forward to working with Kim, and representing NRHSN members as best as possible.
The Junior Nursing Advisor for 2010 is Kim Izod
Kim is a 2nd Year Undergraduate Nursing Student, studying at Charles Darwin University in Darwin. She is a born and bred Territory girl with a passion for rural and remote health and helping her fellow nursing students achieve their best. 2010 is her second year with the NRHSN, last year she was the StARRH (Student Association for Rural & Remote health) Junior NRHSN representative. Kim felt amazed about the many opportunities available including the privilege to represent the Nursing Portfolio in the capacity of Junior Nursing representative. Kim is excited to be working with Stephanie and her contagious enthusiasm this year.
Both Stephanie and Kim are passionate about improving the opportunities for Nursing students to experience rural or remote health and supporting them in their journey. If you have any queries, need help or want to help Steph and Kim, please don't hesitate to contact them at nursing@nrhsn.org.au.
2010
Nursing Portfolio Goals
We have defined a few main goals here but of course have many more ideas!
Goal 1:
Aid the NRHSN in engaging with current nursing students and increasing nursing student membership
Did you know that the NRHSN has over 9000 students and that only 10% of members are Nursing students?
This needs to change!
We plan to be in contact with clubs to assess things such as:
- What has the club done to attract nurses?
- What worked?
- What didn’t work?
- Why their Nursing students joined?
Goal 2:
Collect data and knowledge relating to Nursing Rural and Remote placements
We plan to:
- Review, revamp and expand on survey undertaken by the Nursing Portfolio in 2009
- Enlist the help of the Senior NRHSN Reps to get the survey out to nursing members.
- Present results to NRHSN and conferences
Goal 3:
Assessment of Funding and Scholarships for nurses to undertake rural and remote placements
We plan to:
- Contact key stakeholders, universities, state and territories, and other organisations to ascertain what scholarships are available, their application guidelines, closing dates and other details.
- Publish information on nursing portfolio web page as a resource for students to access which is not currently available elsewhere
Goal 4:
Organise and facilitate nursing student forum at NURHC
We are planning:
- For this to be similar to the forum held at NURHC 2009
- For this meeting to be hopefully one hour in duration to enable more time for discussion
- For lunch to be served in the room to save time
- To ascertain the needs/thoughts/ideas of nursing students to enable better representation and planning
CRANAplus 2010 Conference Adelaide 13 -15th October
All disciplines welcome - get in early to apply for CoNS funding and early bird rates! The program and theme for this years conference has not been unveiled as yet so check the CRANA website for more details.
WINNOWS - NRHSN Nursing Sub-Group
Winnows is now on Facebook!
The NRHSN Nursing Sub-Group, known as Winnows was formed in 2002 and is open to all students studying Nursing and Midwifery within the Network. A new format Facebook Group was launched in 2009 as a cutting edge, dynamic forum for nursing students to keep in touch, chew the fat on topical issues, and give us all a big NURSEY voice, because we have a lot to say!
Winnows group details: (you will need a Facebook account to join)
Search for - "Winnows - NRHSN Nursing Sub-Group"Come and join the Winnows Facebook Group!
Share your stories of Rural & Remote Nursing Placement
Have you been on a rural or remote nursing placement?
If so we would love to read about your experience - make us laugh, make us cry, but most of all make us want to "go rural" with your story!
Send your story to the nursing email
Amanda Francis from Wollongong (SHARP) shares her story of placement in Broken Hill.
Click to read more... Amanda Francis - Broken Hill Nursing Placement
Call for Rural & Remote Nursing Placement Opportunities
Are you from a rural or remote health facility who accepts student nurses?
We have around 9,000 health students in our network - many of them student nurses who are struggling to find appropriate rural or remote placement opportunities.
Let us help you find you an enthusiastic student who wants to "go rural"! We can advertise your opportunity via our NRHSN weekly student newsletters. Register your interest by sending an email to the NRHSN nursing email
2009 News:
Diabetes Type 2 Guidelines for Practitioners Aug 09
The Rural Health Education Foundation has created educational tools for the NEW T2DM Guidelines released 31 Aug '09.
See their website for full details of how & when you can access the 4 programs: http://www.rhef.com.au/programs/program-1/?program_id=380
We have provided a Word version of the Guidelines here: Rural Health Ed - T2DM Guidelines Aug 09 (Word)
Nursing Text/s of Interest - March 2009
 If you have any interest in Community Nursing and come across this book then I can recommend it. Despite being Americanised (as are most Nursing Texts), it's a great intro into what Community-Based Nursing can be about & gives student nurses some ideas on the vast array of community settings & not just the hospital perspective.
- Hunt, R 2009, Introduction to Community-Based Nursing, 4th edn,
Wolters Kluwer Health; Lippincott Willians & Wilkins, Philadelphia.
2008 News:
CRANAplus Outback Flyer November 2008
Please download the November 2008 CRANA Outback Flyer (although please note that it is rather large so please wait tail not using dial up internet). Pages 6-8 mention NRHSN members & students as well as NURHC!
News Article of Interest - 20 Sep 2008
HECS Rebate to Attract Nurses
What do you think about the WA suggestion to reimburse HECS debts to attract nurses to public health jobs? Have your say by emailing the Nursing Portfolio and/or comment on the news article web page.
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