Karen Francis

TL;DR: This paper explored rural nurses' experiences of mentoring and found that rural nurses use multiple perspectives of self in order to manage their interactions with others in their roles as community members, consumers of healthcare services and nurses Personal strategies adapted to local context constitute the skills that experienced rural nurses pass on to neophyte rural nurses through mentoring, while at the same time protecting them through troubleshooting and translating local cultural norms.

TL;DR: The project, funded by the Australian Government's Australia Malaysia Institute, and implemented by a group of Australian nurse academics, provided a rare professional development opportunity to nurses in urban and remote areas of Malaysia.

TL;DR: Action research was key to the success achieved by the participants in changing clinical practice, service delivery and the Victorian Drugs Poisons and Controlled Substances Act (1981) to authorise registered nurses to supply medicines.

TL;DR: Nursing leadership and the style of management adopted by senior nursing and medical administrators at the Ministry of Heath were identified as factors impacting on the practice of nurses and their capacity to raise community awareness and contribute to the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS in Jordan.

TL;DR: This study utilised face-to-face or telephone interviews with nurses and paramedics working in remote offshore and onshore industrial health roles seeking to understand their experience of working in this context of health practice.