BREAATHHE

The University of Newcastle Rural Health Club. Tickets for first aid courses & first yr med skills night! https://linktr.ee/breaathhe

BREAATHHE is proud to be one of 29 Rural Health Clubs (RHC) forming the National Rural Health Students Network (NRHSN). Like all RHCs, BREAATHHE aims to promote rural and remote practice to our members through information exchange, placement opportunities, support and advocacy. With 1100+ members, we're extremely proud to be the RHC with the most diverse collection of health degrees. We're also one of the largest (by membership numbers) in the country. We have a multi-disciplinary focus – with members from Medicine, Medical Radiation Science, Nursing/Midwifery, Nutrition & Dietetics, Occupational Therapy, Oral Health, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Podiatry, Psychology, Social Work and Speech Pathology, plus more – so it’s a great chance to get to know a little more about other health professions and make some contacts that just might come in handy at the end of your studies. We run a number of activities each year in order to promote rural and remote health careers to our members. Our activities provide fun and educational experiences for students and include first aid courses, skills night, rural high school visits, the Rural Soiree, speaker nights, scholarship nights, rural clinical school information nights, cultural awareness training, Allied Health careers information night, celebration of Indigenous culturally significant dates, and lots more…

BREAATHHE membership is just $5 for the life of your degree. To Join:
Step 1: https://breaathhemembership.getqpay.com
Step 2: https://www.nrhsn.org.au/register

If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to send an email to breaathhe@nrhsn.org.au

10/04/2026

Meet our allied health speaker for our upcoming rural soirée on May 1st!

Sonja is a Lecturer in Pharmacy at The University of Newcastle Department of Rural Health (UONDRH) in Tamworth. This position enables her to work collaboratively with undergraduate pharmacy students and preceptors to enhance the clinical placement experience of students in rural and regional settings.

Sonja’s role at the UONDRH includes being a Rural Pharmacy Liaison Officer (RPLO). As an RPLO, Sonja supports local pharmacists by coordinating and facilitating local continuing professional development opportunities and providing networking opportunities and mentoring for intern and newly graduated pharmacists. Sonja is passionate about developing strategies to address the rural pharmacy workforce shortage

Sonja has worked as a clinical pharmacist in both community and hospital settings across NSW and is a credentialed pharmacist with the PSA.

If you would like to hear more of Sonja’s story, tickets for rural soirée are at our link in bio!

31/03/2026

a recap on our first rural high school visit for 2026! Thank you to all of the lovely students who came, we had such a fun time getting to know you all, and we hope you enjoyed the trip, made new friends and fell in love/more in love with rural health!
Thank you to the 3 beautiful schools we worked with, and 2 of our amazing incredibly hardworking RHSV reps Mickayla & Martha who made this trip such a success!
Thank you to and TRRH for having us.
We are in the works for planning our second trip for the year! Keen an eye out on our socials for applications!!

30/03/2026

Do you need a night out?🥂 A chance to swap the scrubs for a suit 🤵or to rehabilitate your dancing shoes to boogie away placement blues 🕺, or do you need some resuscitation fluids with 100% healthcare inspiration?

LOOK NO FURTHER! BREAATHHE is excited to announce our annual rural soirée, the club’s biggest event of the year! Join us in celebrating all things rural health, with medical, nursing, midwifery and allied health speakers, as well as networking and our photo competition, all whilst enjoying an amazing 2 course meal at Merewether Surfhouse with a bar tab in cocktail attire 🍹💃

TICKETS ARE LIVE 🕺
*Tickets are $80 for members, $90 for non-members: https://campus.hellorubric.com/?eid=59667

*advertised price does not include purchase fee

29/03/2026

such a lovely day in quirindi on our first rural high school visit trip of 2026!

19/03/2026

Considering your next steps in allied health? 🩻🩺

Explore career pathways, internship, support roles, graduate programs and more at the Allied Health Expo. Connect with professionals, grow your network, and get real insight into what employers value in graduates.

Tuesday, 31 March
Brennan Room, Shortland Building, Callaghan campus

Event schedule:
👩‍⚕️11:30am-12pm: Employer Insights Panel Discussion
📝12:00-12:45pm: Nailing your Job Application Info Session
🏥 12:00-2:00pm: Expo (drop in any time)

Learn more, using the link in our bio!

19/02/2026

Applications for our first rural high school trip are now open! 📚👨‍🌾Our amazing RHSV team have been cooking up an exciting opportunity open to any UON health students who are passionate about rural health, or wanting to find out what it’s all about! 🌾🐮
This time round were heading North West to the Tamworth area, visiting some schools in the surrounding towns between the 26th and 28th March.
Apply through the link in our bio, due by the 1st March.
Good luck!

17/02/2026

To our first yr medical students!!!🫀📚
Wanting to get ahead with auscultation 🩺? Still trying to figure out how to put a blood pressure cuff on correctly (we’ve all been there dw), or do u keep hearing about those pesky ECG things and would like to know how to read them🔍?

We’ve got you. Run by our lovely 3rd/4th yr legends, the night will consist of a few skills stations with dinner on us and a kahoot to finish.

Wednesday 25th Feb 6pm. Sign up at link in bio. Price for event does not include purchase fee. If you have any dietaries, please DM this account so we can cater for you!

10/02/2026

It’s giveaway time!!! 🕺🏼🕺🏼Do you need scrubs for placement 👚? Textbooks for class 📚? Or you’ve lost your stethoscope 🤔🩺 we can (potentially) help you !! Follow the steps above, and a LITTMAN CLASSIC III steth (or the equivalent voucher for studies) COULD BE YOURS!!

01/02/2026

Need a first aid course for placement? We’ve got you sorted. Tickets at link in bio. 🫀🏥🐍

24/09/2025

💚💚 Are you a student studying medicine, nursing, midwifery, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology, nutrition and dietetics, pharmacy, radiation science or any other health degree? Are you interested in promoting rural health, supporting rural students and promoting interdisciplinary health care? 💚💚
WE WANT YOU!

🍀🍀 This is your opportunity to join a committee dedicated to rural health equity and committed to solving the current rural health workforce shortage. 🍀🍀
👩‍🎓We encourage any current students to apply for BREAATHHE positions, regardless of year group or health degree. 👩‍🎓

💚💚 To apply please complete this google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/13vYahibT-k_VgdDC1sIhdaT-LWQ2zafSeUszTIgbrDQ/edit
(also available via the LinkTree in our Bio)

Include:
Your name
Current year level
Degree studying
Position(s) you’re applying for
A brief blurb about yourself and why you would be a suitable candidate for that/those position(s) (max. 500 words)

Positions available to current BREAATHHE Members:
Medical Councillor
Nursing & Midwifery Councillor
Allied Health Councillor
Indigenous Health Officer
Promotions/Media and Communications Councillor
Rural High School Visit Coordinator

Positions available to the current committee:
President
Vice president
Treasurer
Secretary

You can read about the positions here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gl7ZfxtdtYL8tLMB2fAVvPdKcr1f4M4vkQvMiVQDKKY/edit?usp=sharing

Nominations will be open from Wednesday 24th September 2025 until midnight Wednesday 8th October 2025.

The incoming committee will be announced at our annual general meeting (TBD).
🌳 We look forward to reading your applications! 🌳

15/08/2025

☘️ Are you studying medicine, nursing, midwifery or an allied health degree? ☘️

Our second Rural High School visit is almost here and we are looking for you to share your experience and skills with aspiring Health Students!!!
We will travel to Gloucester, Taree and Forster to visit high schools and primary schools along the way!!
The trip will run from the 18th to 20th of September (Thursday to Saturday).

The cost of the event is $40 and this includes two nights accomodation, food for three days (including pub feeds), travel costs (aka fuel reimbursement in these dire financial times) and the cost of any equipment required.

****ALL this information is available on our Instagram and Facebook****

Please ensure to read our information package available in our bio link-tree for more information

🌱 Fill out the Application form below 🌱
Please note applications close midnight Friday 22/08/2025

💚 Application form: https://forms.gle/ZRMWs7cZVFD7xZL49

28/07/2025

Skills nights are back for semester 2!!

They are an awesome chance to learn or revise some essential skills plus meet some new friends 💚

We’ll be working through six stations including; cannulation, catheterisation, suturing, intubation, bag mask ventilation and plastering

(Don’t forget that we’re giving you dinner too!)

Tickets available here:
https://campus.hellorubric.com/?eid=38106

Just $10 for BREAATHHE members and $20 for non-members

Address

University Drive
Callaghan, NSW
2300

Website

http://breaathhe.nrhsn.org.au/, https://linktr.ee/breaathhe?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAafrWr5dTRbNI27nfN0CutP6NPDIGCr3y1j

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