Introduction -- The remote area setting -- The nursing post -- Community and nurse relations -- Nurse recruitment and retention -- Finding a way: learning on the job -- Decision-making -- 'Keeping track' and the coordination of care -- Amorphous practice: its nature and outcomes -- The imperative for reform in remote area health care
Summary
In a frightening description of aberrant norms of practice, this book reveals the inadequacies of recruitment for nurses and their lack of relevant preparation for the often complex health problems occurring among the Aboriginal people. Significant for the future of nurses, nursing practice and Aboriginals in remote areas