Issues in the Rural Professions: Challenges and Approaches

This paper evaluates the challenges faced by learners in rural and remote communities in the healthcare domain and approaches to improve professional seclusion. It discusses the impact of existing health policy regulations on rural workforce recruitment and the significance of urban-centric allied health sector and nursing profession. The paper also highlights the deficiency of clinical placement scopes and resources and suggests improved approaches for acknowledging limited as well as improved quality of elective rural placements.

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Several areas of concern have been recognized which reflects the influence of the quality
and value attained by learners in rural and remote communities. Though a major segment of
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) have evaluated the areas
pertaining to education, they have been focusing on the greater arena of problems and challenges
which the learners of healthcare domain have been encountering (Playford, Larson &
Wheatland, 2006). Furthermore it has been identified that a major segment of issues elevated the
areas of complexities and have served resolution if been supported by enhanced rates of
developments. The paper aims to evaluate the issues pertaining to the arena of rural profession
and approaches which can improve the sense of professional seclusion.
Workforce recruitment has always been identified as a vital form of rural concern
whereby its resolution has been regarded as an essential form of objective at national and state
levels in Australia. One of the primary areas of concern associated to the existing health policy
regulations which are to elevate the rate inclination of the undergraduates in the sphere of rural
professionalism through the coverage of the rural practice (Daly et al., 2013). However, at this
juncture it has been noted that in comparison to the attitudes of urbanites towards the rural
professional practice, the rural placement programmes have demonstrated constructive attitudes
as well as professional strategies for learners comprising of all disciplines (Russell, McGrail &
Humphreys, 2017). Several observations of medical learners have fundamentally associated rural
recruitment opportunities with the primary preference of students which have generated
incoherent results (Playford, Larson & Wheatland, 2006). Though the issue related to the
declined rate of rural governance faced by the education sphere by further subsidising the private
sector it has been considered by many as a natural occurrence (Bæck, 2016). Furthermore it has
been noted the way critical forms of social as well as structural entities have constrained the

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accessibility of supreme level of education resulting a declined degree of performance of learners
belonging to urban areas and very few reaching the level of higher education. For instance, the
learners of the indigenous communities in Australia have shared their experiences of high degree
of seclusion from primary education system resulting in lower rate success and achievements
(Roberts, 2004).
Furthermore, critical observations revealed the way shorter recruitments have been
associated with the prospective rural practice. Theorists revealed certain approaches which aim
to enhance the time and effort depleted in specific nations at the occurrence of courses which
may pose redundancy if the objective focused on the increase in the domains of rural workforce
(Roberts, 2004). A considerable rate of significance has been provided to urban-centric allied
health sector and students developing knowledge in nursing profession, rural recruitment
positions along with the loss of work revenue earnings and other issues whereby the learners
have limited accessibility to those domains (Bæck, 2016). Thus it has been recognized that
limited number of placements tends to condense the rates of unconstructive insignificant facets
while giving the provision of adequate arenas into the domain of rural health care practice.
Therefore, the elevated degree of deficiency of clinical placement scopes and resources can be
regarded as improved approaches for acknowledging limited as well as improved quality of
elective rural placements.

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