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• Title: Rural Nuring in Canada: A Voice Unheard (Report)
• Author : Deirdre Myrick, Florence Yonge, Olive J. Jackman
• Release Date : January 22, 2010
• Genre: Industries & Professions,Books,Business & Personal Finance,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 83 KB

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INTRODUCTION In Canada, nursing as a professional practice is often thought of from a collective perspective. Invariably, the collective dialogue entails descriptors of nursing as that of nurses providing care for individuals in acute care settings, with an acute disease focus. Gortner (2004) states' nursing has been depicted at various times as a series of tasks and technology. This particular way of thinking can be viewed as a throwback to the medical model, which inhered an overwhelmingly physical focus. The medical model defines health in a physiological way, with physiological characteristics (Potter & Perry, 2006). Nurses were required to adhere to this medical model, predominant in the 1950s during which time medical and, by default; nursing care was transferred from community to hospital settings. In the Canadian post war economic growth, increased funding was directed primarily to the building of new hospitals (p.4). This process centralized the care of people to a single setting and institution, for the purpose of efficiency which promoted care in large institutional settings (Baumgart & Larsen, 1992; Canadian Nurses Association, 2005). The era of the (rural) district nurse or community nurse thus became obsolete. The large hospital institutions were touted as centres for the provision of the most advanced and leading technical care. Indeed, the advances in modern medicine allowed enormous progress to be made in treating diseases that were physical and acute in origin. The evolution of modern medicine and the development of antibiotics and other 'wonder drugs' contributed to the belief that there would be a cure for every disease/illness, thus shifting the emphasis away from prevention to cure (Allemang, 1995; Newman, 1975; Bramadat, & Saydak, 1993; Kulig, 2005; Reed, 2004). The diminished role of the nurse providing care in the community, however, had an effect on the lives of these people and the nurses who cared for them. Nurses who were particularly affected were those who provided care for people in rural Canadian areas (Ross-Kerr, 1998; Paul, 2005). These nurses not only cared for the rural populations but also lived and experienced rural living in a holistic way (McKay, 2005). The nursing care included a focus on social and political issues in addition to providing care to patients with physical illness (Whall, 2004).

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