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MOHMQuit: ten years of collaboration to support smoke-free pregnancies
For more than a decade, UCRH academics working in rural health research have collaborated with maternity services across NSW to address one of the most persistent and complex challenges in antenatal care: supporting pregnant women to quit smoking. As the MOHMQuit – Midwives and Obstetricians Helping Mothers to Quit Smoking
MOHMQuit: ten years of collaboration to support smoke-free pregnancies
For more than a decade, UCRH academics working in rural health research have collaborated with maternity services across NSW to address one of the most persistent and complex challenges in antenatal care: supporting pregnant women to quit smoking. As the MOHMQuit – Midwives and Obstetricians Helping Mothers to Quit Smoking
MOHMQuit: ten years of collaboration to support smoke-free pregnancies
For more than a decade, UCRH academics working in rural health research have collaborated with maternity services across NSW to address one of the most persistent and complex challenges in
Local knowledge saves lives
Community-led responses are a critical part of rural health research, especially as climate disasters become more frequent and severe. A new journal article co-authored by UCRH researchers Jo Longman, Emma
Why local networks matter after disasters
Rural health research often focuses on services and systems, but communities themselves play a huge role in how people respond and recover after disasters. A new journal article co-authored by
Psychosocial support to quit smoking
New rural health research involving UCRH’s Professor Megan Passey from the University Centre for Rural Health has contributed to an important update on how best to support women to stop
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We recently hosted an infectious disease training course for pharmacists. Fourteen hospital pharmacists attended from Lismore, Ballina and our MPS sites. The training was endorsed by the Society of Hospital Pharmacists Australia. A Specialist pharmacist (Antimicrobial Stewardship, Antibiotic Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Sarah Risdale – Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital)
The annual World Dentist Day is not only an opportunity to promote dental health, but also a great chance to promote dentistry and oral health courses to local high school students At our recent High School Day promoting health careers to year 11 students and careers advisors from 12 local
We are pleased to announce that the UCRH proudly endorses a yes vote for the upcoming referendum concerning the Voice to Parliament initiative. Aboriginal members of staff have crafted the following statement of support, with the full support of our Management Group: The University Centre for Rural Health supports a
WellMob, a one-stop digital library of social and emotional wellbeing content made for and by our diverse Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples had created a new resource with tips for self-care in the lead-up to the referendum on the Voice to Parliament. This resource sheet for community has practical
The MOHMQuit team are delighted to announce that Julie Dorling and Madeline Hubbard- our Partner Investigators from the Western NSW LHD – recently won a combined nomination for the Western NSW Clinical Researcher of the Year! They received their award at the Western NSW Health Research Network WHRN2023 Research Symposium
No, this isn’t Grey’s Anatomy training, this is Grey Patient Scenario training! Our fifth-year medical students from Western Sydney University recently participated in their first Grey Patient Scenario session with Dr Martin Duffy, FACEM and UCRH Lismore Critical Care Academic Lead. What is a Grey Patient Scenario (GPS) you ask?
New retrieval doctors at Lismore Base Hospital have started an intense training journey. Following a week of pre-hospital training in Sydney, it was time for them to sharpen their inter-hospital skills, simulating the critical care emergencies that the doctor/critical care paramedic team faces. Using our Simulation Centre, the new doctors
Best of luck to the four UCRH team members headed to Canada in coming days to attend the Healing Our Spirit Worldwide Gathering in Vancouver, Canada. Healing Our Spirit Worldwide brings together Indigenous people from around the world every four years. This is the ninth gathering and will see around
UCRH, in collaboration with Northern NSW Local Health District and the North Coast Allied Health Association, recently held two half-day workshops for local allied health professionals. The workshops were focused on trauma informed care and covered trauma Informed health care delivery, impacts and strategies around vicarious trauma and clinician wellbeing.
Our Simulation Centre team and regular users of our new Sim Man recently participated in a Virtual Instructor Lead Training (VILT) session. The session was designed to help everyone discover the additional functionalities of our new Sim Man. Staff from Lismore Base Hospital were given a one-on-one introduction to Sim
Two of our third year University of Sydney occupational therapy students, Vicky and Naomi, reflect on their recent placement at Harwood Island Public School, including introducing the kids to Mindfulness Mondays! We consider ourselves incredibly fortunate to have had the privilege of spending eight weeks at Harwood Island Public School,
Research just published in Medical Education delves into the experience of medical students who volunteered their time and skills when a regional town experience disaster, drawing important insights around their motivations and mental health implications. When major floods devastated the Northern Rivers last year, a large group of medical students
