TY - BOOK AU - Brayley,Annabelle TI - Nurses of the outback: 15 amazing lives in remote area nursing SN - 9781921901362 AV - RT34 .B73 2014 U1 - 610.73430994 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Melbourne, Victoria PB - Michael Joseph KW - Appoo, Josephine. KW - Wilson, Oscar. KW - Mandijalu, Wilson. KW - White, Barbara. KW - Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Council KW - Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia KW - Northern Territory Aeromedical Service KW - Central Australian Palliative Care Team KW - Rural nurses KW - Australia KW - Training of KW - Primary health care KW - Palliative treatment KW - Literature and stories - Non fiction KW - aiatsiss KW - History - Biographies KW - Community organisations - Health and family planning KW - Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine KW - Health - Rural and remote KW - Health - Treatments - Traditional KW - Health services - Emergency services KW - Health services - Emergency services - Air ambulances / Flying Doctor KW - Health services - Health workers - Nurses and nursing KW - Health services - Health workers KW - Health - Injuries and accidents KW - Health - Endocrine system - Diabetes KW - Death - Beliefs KW - Mental health - Non-Indigenous KW - Substance use KW - Environment - Climate and weather KW - Pitjantjatjara people (C6) (NT SG52-11) KW - aiatsisl KW - Bundjalung / Banjalang people (E12) (NSW SH56-02) KW - Gurindji people (C20) (NT SE52-08) KW - Rural nursing KW - Biography KW - fast KW - Nurses KW - Queensland KW - Rural health services KW - Emergency medical services KW - Anecdotes KW - Victoria River Downs (North NT SE52-04) KW - aiatsisp KW - Bidyadanga / Lagrange (WA West Kimberley SE51-10) KW - Bathurst Island (NT SC52-15) KW - Kaltukatjara / Docker River (South Central NT SG52-03) KW - Elliott / Gurungu (North NT SE53-06) KW - Remote areas KW - Rural populations KW - Nursing KW - Australian KW - Biographies N1 - 1. Outback angel / Neen Hawkes (Darwin, Northern Territory) -- 2. Investing in futures / Anna Burley (Georgetown, Queensland) -- 3. Tarmacs and toolboxes / Geri Malone (Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia) -- 4. Pushing the boundaries / Catherine Jurd (Julia Creek, Queensland) -- 5. A path less traveled / Christine Foletti (Cocos-Keeling Islands, Indian Ocean) -- 6. Heart of the territory / Margie McLean (Victoria River & Barkly Regions, Northern Territory) -- 7. The Magic of Moomba / Chris Belshaw (Moomba Oil and Gas Field, South Australia) -- 8. Lost and found / Aggie Harpham (Kunnurra, Western Australia) -- 9. Beyond the black stump / Maureen Ker (White Cliffs, New South Wales) -- 10. Nurse on a mission / Karen Schnitzerling (St. Helens, Tasmania) -- 11. Finishing up business / Fred Miegel (Alice Springs, Northern Territory) -- 12. Walking her magic line / Jo Appoo (Elliott, Northern Territory) -- 13. Finding home / June Andrew ( Marree, South Australia) -- 14. Calling Australia home / Shamiso Muchando ( Derby, Western Australia) -- 15. West-coast nirvana / Sue Stewart (Bidyadanga, Western Australia); General N2 - The work of a nurse is challenging enough, but when you add a remote location, the stakes are so much higher. Meet fifteen courageous people who prove that the outback runs on nurse power. There's Anna, who is on duty as the fury of Cyclone Yasi tears through inland Queensland; Maureen in outback New South Wales, who faces everything from a snakebite to a helicopter crash; Aggie, who overcomes her demons to help young people in the Kimberley; and Catherine, newly graduated and determined to make a difference in the Gulf Country she and her rodeo-riding husband call home ER -