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Record W2570422657 · doi:10.19044/esj.2016.v12n36p56

Barriers to Practice of Rural and Remote Nursing in Canada

2016· article· en· W2570422657 on OpenAlexaffabout
Steve Hunt, Elena Hunt

Bibliographic record

VenueEuropean Scientific Journal ESJ · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicGlobal Health Workforce Issues
Canadian institutionsLaurentian University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWorkforceNursingChecklistIncentiveRural areaScope of practiceHealth careMedicineMedical educationPsychologyPolitical science

Abstract

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The delivery of rural and remote healthcare has been identified in the literature as a unique and complex working environment for Nursing practice. This Canadian setting integrative review looks at barriers associated with rural and remote nursing. Nine articles were retained after filtering over 200 articles extracted from 4 databases. Critical Appraisal Skills Programme Checklist (CASP) for qualitative research and Quality Assessment Tool for Quantitative Studies (QATQ) were used for assessment of a total sample of N=3402 participants. Four (4) main themes (barriers) were extracted: 1) Professional Isolation, 2) Competing Demands, 3) Lack of Sustainable Continuing Educational Initiatives and 4) Lack of Organizational Support. Following analysis of the demographic data, an emerging theme of an aging workforce was also seen as a potential future barrier to rural nursing practice. Future research is required in order for sufficient and appropriate action to be taken in addressing aforementioned barriers. Recommendations for nursing practice and policy in rural and remote areas revolve around exposing nursing students to rural / remote settings, incentives for new graduate students to practice in these areas, as well as support and educational initiatives encouraging practitioners to work to their full scope of practice.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.011
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.044
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.082
Threshold uncertainty score0.280

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0110.044
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0060.014
Science and technology studies0.0040.002
Scholarly communication0.0050.001
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.027
GPT teacher head0.390
Teacher spread0.363 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2016
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