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Research an exciting journey and a career statement: a means to an end, putting rurality on the nursing research agenda
Author(s) -
Allen Sonia,
Francis Karen,
O'Connor Margaret
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
australian journal of rural health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.48
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1440-1584
pISSN - 1038-5282
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1854.2004.00629.x
Subject(s) - rurality , statement (logic) , nursing , nursing research , sociology , medical education , medicine , rural area , political science , pathology , law
Two issues were of importance to nurses in rural areas considering postgraduate studies. The first was the need for part‐time study and what this entails. The second was a request that there be no research component within the postgraduate courses they identified. It is this second issue that I wish to address. I was a nonbeliever in the merit of research studies being integrated into nursing specialist programs. Following a long career in rural clinical nursing and management I have come full circle and now acknowledge the need to understand the role to base practice evidence that is generated through empirical research.