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The experience of general nurses in rural Australian emergency departments

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There is an urgent need for local emergency education and training for general nurses working in rural hospital settings, with nurses showing a strong preference for ongoing professional development incorporating scenario based and context specific education.
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This article is published in Nurse Education in Practice.The article was published on 2012-01-01. It has received 24 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Rural health & Emergency department.

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Rural nursing and quality end-of-life care: palliative care ... palliative approach ... or somewhere in-between?

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that urban-centric models of palliative care do not fit well in rural nursing practice and the importance of understanding the rural context is highlighted.
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Implementing clinical supervision for Australian rural nurses

TL;DR: The findings from this study provide guidance for others introducing similar programmes and indicate that clinical supervision must be focused, well planned and supported.
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Bringing together the ‘Threads of Care’ in possible miscarriage for women, their partners and nurses in non-metropolitan EDs

TL;DR: The theory enhances the understanding of what constitutes optimal and effective care for women and their partners when presenting to non-metropolitan emergency departments with possible miscarriage, and will inform approaches to care that aim to meet the needs of women, their partners and nursing staff who care for them.
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Nurses’ experiences of working in rural hospitals: An integrative review

TL;DR: There is a need for further research exploring the experiences of nurses working in rural hospitals and its impact on job satisfaction, turnover intention and patient safety.
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A feasibility study on disaster preparedness in regional and rural emergency departments in New South Wales : Nurses self-assessment of knowledge, skills and preparation for disaster management

TL;DR: Results highlighted the nature of and delivery of continuing professional development in relation to disaster preparedness; mechanisms to encourage emergency department nurses to develop personal and family preparedness plans (to improved disaster preparediveness); and increased training in connection to psychological assessment of patients, and identification of biological agent signs and symptoms.
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Thematic networks: an analytic tool for qualitative research

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a technique for conducting thematic analysis of qualitative material, presenting a step-by-step guide of the analytic process, with the aid of an empirical example.
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Barriers to Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Research

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined findings from 20 interviews with U.K. social researchers, all of whom are practitioners of mixed methods research, and a wide variety of possible barriers to integrating mixed methods findings are presented.
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Addressing the health disadvantage of rural populations: How does epidemiological evidence inform rural health policies and research?

TL;DR: A comprehensive literature review of rural-urban health status differentials within Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the USA, the UK, and a variety of other western European nations was undertaken to understand the differences in life expectancy and cause-specific morbidity and mortality.
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‘Best practice’ in focus group research: making sense of different views

TL;DR: The authors identify the broad epistemological debates which underpin conflicting statements on "rigour" and "good practice" in qualitative research; to relate divergences in statements of 'good practice' in focus group design made by the pre-eminent commentators on focus group methodology to broader epistemology debates; and to stimulate further reflection on the range of possible uses for focus groups in health services research.
Book Chapter

Rural and Remote Health