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Engaging Indigenous people within Higher Ed

CQUniversity's Office of Indigenous Engagement recently hosted a visit from the Oodgeroo Unit of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), at Rockhampton Campus.

Professor Anita Lee Hong, Director of the Oodgeroo Unit, and Lone Pearce, Project Officer, met with Office of Indigenous Engagement staff to discuss employment issues and best practice models for engaging Indigenous people within the higher education sector, including governance matters.

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Brenda back from Bahrain WHO project 

Published on 04 June, 2009 

CQUniversity's Professor Brenda Happell has just returned from a consultancy visit to Bahrain - on behalf of the World Health Organisation - and is looking forward to more interaction with health services in that country...

LINK HERE to see Brenda talking about her visit

Professor Happell used her visit in May to review Bahrain's approach to community mental health nursing and to recommend further community developments for the longer-term.

PhotoID:7271, Professor Brenda Happell - just back from a WHO project in Bahrain
Professor Brenda Happell - just back from a WHO project in Bahrain

She said that while Australia now has most mental health care provided in the community, Bahrain still has mainly inpatient care within one institution and only a very small number of community mental health nurses to provide home-based care.

"The limited number of nurses who work in community settings means they are only able to provide a limited service for each client." she said.

Professor Happell said Bahrain had expressed an interest in professional development to create a larger pool of qualified nurses.

She said there was potential for CQUniversity to help with expertise and credentialism, although the delivery of education was likely to be handled in Bahrain itself.