Four years ago Dubbo resident Pauline Smith had never thought she would complete the training she began nearly 20 years earlier and become a registered nurse.

The proposed expansion of the paramedic program at CSU will lead to a better trained workforce to meet the complex needs of modern emergency care and will save lives. The proposal is as part of CSU's $63.6 million bid to the Education Investment Fund to expand health disciplines taught at CSU in Orange and Bathurst.

Support is growing for Charles Sturt University's (CSU) bid to expand its health and human services programs through a submission to the Regional Priorities Round of the Education Investment Fund (EIF) for $63.6 million, with health providers keen to voice their endorsement.

Charles Sturt University will introduce its oral health therapy course, and expand enrolments into its rurally-based dental program in Orange, as part of its $63.6 million proposal to the federal government’s Education Investment Fund.

Charles Sturt University student Ms Megan Coleman has been announced as the Alphapharm 2012 NSW Pharmacy Student of the Year at a recent function in Sydney.

A first-year paramedic student at CSU has put her books aside temporarily as her training intensifies for the K4 500 metre kayaking event at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

Paramedics have been awarded the eighth consecutive Readers Digest Australia's Most Trusted Profession Award for 2012, and a CSU student was one of three paramedics to receive the award on behalf of the profession at a ceremony in Sydney on Thursday 26 July.

Researchers from CSU have contributed to research that has the potential to radically change the way septic shock (septicaemia, also known as 'blood poisoning') can be treated around the world and save millions of lives and millions of health care dollars annually.

A CSU human movement studies student has been awarded a prestigious scholarship from the National Strength and Conditioning Association in the United States, and is the first Australian and only non-American to do so.