Episode 61 Synopsis
MERV
In the country, where men are men and health services are few and far between, men's health has become a major issue. The Community Health Team from Mudgee have come up with an innovative way to tackle this problem - they have created MERV, the Men's Educational Rural Van.
Duration: 5 minutes
Location: Crown Casino VIC, Mudgee NSW
Valuable Assets
There is a severe shortage of nurses in Australia. The NSW Nursing and Midwifery Office (NAMO) is trying to cope with this by recruiting nurses and midwives from overseas. These are a few of the nurses who are giving nursing down-under a go.
Duration: 5 minutes
Location: Sydney, NSW
Feeling a Bit Queer
Gay and Lesbian Health Victoria is an organisation whose role it is to ensure that the Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual. Transgender, Intersex and Queer community is adequately cared for by a heteronormative health system.
Duration: 6 minutes
Location: Collingwood, VIC, Melbourne VIC
Out of the Theatre
The Perioperative Nurses Association is an organisation that caters for theatre nurses. What does it mean to be a theatre nurse in 2008? We visit their annual conference and talk to some of Victoria’s leading theatre nurses.
Duration: 6 minutes
Location: Collingwood, VIC, Melbourne VIC
