Faculty of Health news

I am saddened now that the time for me to return home has arrived.  I am however very excited about returning home, seeing friends and family, and getting ready for Christmas. The grand kids are already telling me how many sleeps there are until Santa and his reindeers arrive.  Of course, they continually update me on what is on their Christmas list and assure me they have been very good so Santa should be pleased!    

It’s that time of year again, ‘Daylight Savings’ when time zones across the country all change. Managing meeting schedules is again in disarray as we attempt to operate within business hours in each jurisdiction. It is hard and we don’t always get it right.  Please be kind to one another and accept that time changes create burdens that impact on everyone. For those of you who live in jurisdictions that have daylight savings enjoy late night barbeques, long walks, gardening in the evening or whatever extra activities you enjoy. 

The scholarship will support a scoping review and gap analysis to explore acceptability of Perinatal Mental Health (PMH) screening for specific vulnerable population groups, and availability of trauma and culturally sensitive assessment and care pathways. The Nursing and Midwifery (NaM) workforce is pivotal in PMH screening, assessment, and care. The study will engage NaM leadership to inform advancement of algorithms for NaM workforce development and decision-making in PMH screening.

You can be brave . You are strong , you are resilient.
Studying external has proven this.  I have the skills to work in many environments. 

Sue Kruske and Jenne Roberts from the Molly Wardaguga Research Centre are designing a scoping plan for a comprehensive evaluation of the NT Healthy Under 5-Kids– Partnering Families Program (HU5K-PF). The Healthy under 5 Kids program aims to improve the health, wellbeing, development, safety and learning outcomes of children and their families by providing health assessments and support and connecting families to other services. This program makes a big contribution to the NT’s early childhood development goal of ensuring all children are ready to learn from day 1 of starting school.

As you know we are working toward establishing our own simulation spaces in Queensland, Victoria and WA.  After a lot of navel gazing and deliberating on nomenclature for these initiatives while recognising that the terms ‘Centre” and ‘Campus’ can’t be used the following has been conceptualised as a working name: