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Remote health manuals and professional education

Each remote area Aboriginal health service may follow different clinical guidelines, depending on the state or territory regulations. This page provides some of the key clinical guidelines and manuals commonly referred to by health workers in remote practice. There are also many online learning modules and case studies to support health workers, prescribers and nurses working in remote area Aboriginal health services.

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Clinical guidance

Resources, manuals, and handbooks that provide clinical guidance when working remotely. Please note different regions may use a specific guideline over another. You should confirm with your clinic about their site-specific preference.

  • Primary Clinical Care Manual 10th Edition
  • CARPA Standard Treatment Manual 7th Edition
  • Minymaku Kutju Tjukurpa – Women’s Business Manual 6th Edition
  • Clinical Procedures Manual for Remote and Rural Practice 4th Edition
  • Medicines Book for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners and workers 4th Edition
  • Tropical Health Orientation Manual
  • Remote Health Atlas – All Resources
  • Australian Medicines Handbook
  • Therapeutic Guidelines Australia
  • Australian Medicines Handbook: Children’s Dosing Companion
  • Injectable Drugs Handbook
  • The Chronic Conditions Manual, 2nd edition
  • Rural and remote emergency services standardisation guidelines (RRESSG), Qld
  • Kimberley Aboriginal Health Clinical Protocols and Guidelines
  • AusDI: Australian medicines information resource

Online learning for prescribers

Online courses and modules for prescribers, with a focus on remote health care.

  • Good Medicine Better Health modules
  • Otitis media: clarifying the role of antibiotics
  • Type 2 diabetes: intensifying treatment
  • ACRRM RG Foundation Skills: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
  • ACRRM RG Foundation Skills: Rural and Remote Context
  • Introduction to Primary Health Care
  • Otitis Media in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children
  • Working safe in remote places
  • Remote Area Health Corps eLearning
  • Pathways to Rural and Remote Orientation and Training (PaRROT), QLD

Online learning for A&TSIHW/A&TSIHPs

Online courses and modules with a focus on remote health care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workers/professionals/clinicians.

  • Good Medicine Better Health modules
  • Working safe in remote practice
  • Aboriginal Health Practitioner Module: Wound innovation
  • Remote Area Health Corps eLearning
  • Pathways to Rural and Remote Orientation and Training (PaRROT), QLD

Online learning for nurses

Online courses and modules for nurses, with a focus on remote health care.

  • Good medicine better health modules
  • Type 2 diabetes: Bill
  • Medication safety training
  • Otitis media: clarifying the role of antibiotics
  • Get it right! Taking a best possible medication history (BPMH)
  • Working safe in remote places
  • Pathways to Rural and Remote Orientation and Training (PaRROT), QLD
  • Remote Area Health Corps eLearning

Find out more about Good Medicine Better Health


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The information was first published on 31 March 2022. All reasonable care was taken to provide accurate information at the time of creation. This information is not intended as a substitute for medical advice and should not be exclusively relied on to manage or diagnose a medical condition.

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