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Retaining Rural and Remote Area Nurses: The Queensland, Australia Experience

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Retaining Rural and Remote Area Nurses: The Queensland, Australia Experience

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Remote area nurses work in a range of setting across Australia and the region with anemphasis on remote indigenous communities. They certainly cover mining, agricultural, tourismrefugee and international communities and many more. It is essential for the nurses to updatetheir skills and knowledge level so that the minimum standard of working can be maintained. InAustralia, a significant minority of health care professionals work in locations that are at adistance from major cities; therefore it sometimes lacks in diverse specialist services. Ruralpractices followed in clinics differs markedly from the practice of metropolitan clinicians and italso requires greater diversity skills and knowledge. This is also essential for the registerednurses to undergo with professional development so that numerous skills can be developed forthe purpose of delivering the best services to the patients. Nurses in Australia are experiencing several issues in the realm of professionaldevelopment especially because of non-availability of resources (Hungerford and et.al., 2016).Training is regarded as best way through which individuals can learn many things regardless oftheir job roles and responsibilities. Registered nurses in Australia are those graduates who havecompleted nursing programs and met the requirements outlined by a country, state and provincefor the purpose of obtaining a nursing licence. Since, their scope of practice is determined by thelegislation; therefore it is essential for them to consider all the framework so that they canmanage all their work practices in the best possible manner. For instance- nurses do not have the availability of continuous professional developmentsources which further affects their job roles. Nurses are having major issues in professional andknowledge development because they are not having suitable opportunities for training andlearning. Lack of training not only affects the work practices; but also it impedes the learningand growth prospects (Professional issues in nursing: challenges and opportunities. 2014). Thisis the major drawback which hampers the professional development aspects of nurses working inremote areas. Registered nurses working in rural and remote areas are required to have moreopportunities for training and development so that they can learn new and different aspects;however unavailability of such thing creates several constraints in the practice. While working in remote area, it becomes impossible for registered nurses to attend suchsessions and at the same time, it also affects the work practices. In rural areas, nurses are alsohaving many problems among which a few have resolution and a few does not have any2
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resolution. In rural areas, there is unavailability of clinics; hence this affects the practice ofworking in which they are unable to conduct their duties. Therefore, it can be said that theseissues greatly affects the service delivery aspects and ultimately that hampers service capabilityprovisions. Having clinics can enhance the practices of registered nurses and this can also assistthem to identify their own areas of improvement. Further, issues and constraints also generate atthe time when registered nurses are unable to get feedback and suggestions from the care users.This in turn impedes the way of managing own development and growth perspectives. At thesame time, it is also witnessed that several registered nurses are leaving their job roles becausethey do not get any sort of development opportunities while working in remote areas (Advancednursing practice in rural and remote areas. 2005). In most of the areas, some hospitals reported that staff turnover is increasing every yearbecause they have greater amount of issues related to the work processes. Example – nursesworking in remote and rural areas do not have proper resources; hence this impacts theirfinancial capability and in terms of consequences, they face several issues in managing theirpractices. Further, it has also been ascertained that in this area, investment is not properly made;hence this declines the chances of growth and prosperity (The challenges confronting cliniciansin rural acute care settings: a participatory research project. 2012). Registered nurses have towork according to legal framework and unavailability of such thing could lead to development ofa lot of issues. However, while working in remote areas, registered nurses do not find theappropriate ways through which they can uplift their skills and capabilities. However, in order tominimize such issues, health and community centre have taken varied measures for the purposeof enabling and accessing better health care in rural and remote areas. Proper allocation ofresources is required both in rural and urban areas so that challenges related to professionaldevelopment may not arise (Schoo, Lawn and Carson, 2016). For instance – the study done by the Bruce K Armstrong (2007), states that the nextAustralian government will confront major challenges in the funding and delivery of health careand this might also impact the practices of rural working. In the study, it is mentioned that nursesare experiencing major issues and challenges due to changes in demography and disease patterns.This develops numerous issues related to burden of chronic illness grows. At the same time, it isalso ascertained that in remote areas, nurses have major problems because they are unable to deal3
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