Achieving results by breaking away.
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Katreena Forsyth
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Developing support for remote nursing education through workplace culture that values learning.
OBJECTIVE: The present study presents the cultural challenges of introducing workplace learning associated with a nursing educational pathway into small rural hospitals. DESIGN AND INTERVENTION: Focus groups were conducted before and after an action research intervention to determine whether changes in understanding and values on learning had occurred. SETTING: Eight multipurpose services or small rural hospitals across rural New South Wales were involved in the intervention. SUBJECT: Nursing staff from eight rural health facilities participated voluntarily in the present study. OUTCOMES: Two outcomes were achieved: The development of mentoring, locally tailored to the needs and expectations of nursing participants; Values and understanding of learning were enhanced, with advanced levels of learning being identified and demonstrated by staff in the practice setting. CONCLUSION: Small rural hospitals can provide opportunities for advanced clinical learning. Forms of major mentoring are, however, critical to this process.
Attitude of Health Personnel↗
Culture of rural nursing practice: a critical theoretical analysis of determinants of power in nursing.
OBJECTIVE: This paper investigates the culture of workplace learning within a study of eight small hospitals in rural New South Wales (NSW), Australia. DESIGN: The study used a focus group method of data collection, undertaken before then after a series of interventions designed to nurture a culture that supports learning within the rural health care setting. PARTICIPANTS: Student AINs, AINs, ENs and RNs from any of the eight hospitals. CONCLUSION: Framed within a critical social perspective it applies a theory of culture to understand the determinants of social divisiveness that was occurring between different levels of the nursing workforce. These results are further analysed within a theoretical discussion of culture and power in nursing.
Education, Nursing, Continuing↗