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2005
Kulig, J., Stewart, N. J., Smith, B., Remus, G., Kosteniuk, J., Andrews, M. E., MacLeod, M., Pitblado, J. R., D’Arcy, C., Forbes, D., Morgan, D.
Research on nursing practice issues in rural and remote areas of Canada is very limited. This report describes the method and initial results of a comprehensive survey of registered nurses (RNs) practising outside the commuting zones of large urban centres, designed to determine: who practises...
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Hope against hope: Exploring the hopes and challenges of rural female caregivers of persons with advanced cancer.
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Thomas, R., Hallstrom, L., Williams, A., Cooper, R., Holtslander, L., Eby, J., Duggleby, W.
Background This paper focuses on the qualitative component of a study evaluating a hope intervention, entitled Living with Hope Program (LWHP), designed to foster hope in female caregivers of family members living with advanced cancer. The purpose of this research is to share, in the form of a...
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2009
Preceptorship is widely used as a cost-effective clinical non-traditional teaching method. However, insufficient research has been done in this area, particularly as to how a successful student-preceptor relationship is formed. The rural setting poses additional challenges as the nursing...
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2012
Myrick, F., Jackman, D., Yonge, O.
Rural nursing is recognized as a unique health care domain. Within that context, the preceptorship experience is purported to be an important approach to preparing safe and competent rural practitioners. Preceptorship is the one-to-one pairing of a nursing student with a professional nurse who...
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2005
Stewart, N., Morgan, D. G., D’Arcy, C., Forbes, D., Andrews, M. E., Pitblado, J. R.
This paper describes the demographics of Registered Nurses (RNs) who work alone in rural and remote Canada, their workplaces, and the benefits and challenges of this unique nursing employment situation. Data presented are from a national survey, one of 4 principal approaches used in conducting...
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2011
Yonge, O., Myrick, F., Ferguson, L.
The purpose of this article is to report preceptor perceptions of the process of evaluating nursing students in a rural setting. A grounded theory methodology was used to carry out this study to ascertain what is actually going on in the rural preceptorship experience. Twenty-six preceptors from...