CULTURE OF RURAL NURSING PRACTICE: A CRITICAL THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF DETERMINANTS OF POWER IN NURSING
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focus group, social power, small rural hospitals, learning culture
Abstract
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.
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Heather Gibb, RN, PhD (Psychology)
Professor of Nursing, Rural and Remote Health, School of Nursing and Health Science, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia.
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Katreena Forsyth, RN, BHlthSci (Nurs) Hons, CNC
Women’s Health, Mid Western Area Health Service, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia.
Judith Anderson, RN, BHlthSci (Nurs), Masters Hlth Sci (Nurs),
Project Officer, Mid Western Area Health Service, New South Wales, Australia.