Bush nurses : inspiring true stories of nursing bravery and ingenuity in rural and remote Australia / edited by Annabelle Brayley.

By: Brayley, AnnabelleContributor(s): Brayley, Annabelle [editor.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Melbourne, Victoria : Michael Joseph an inprint of Penguin Books, 2013Description: xi, 292 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : photographs, portraits ; 23 cmContent type: still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781921901393 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Nurses -- Australia -- Personal Narratives | Rural Health Services -- Australia -- Personal Narratives | Nursing Care -- Australia -- Personal Narratives | Rural Nurses -- Australia -- Anecdotes | Rural Nurses | Country life -- Australia -- Anecdotes | Rural nursing -- Australia -- Anecdotes | Rural nurses -- Australia -- Anecdotes | Nurses -- Australia -- Anecdotes | Nurses -- Australia -- Biography | Nurses -- Australia -- Anecdotes | Rural nurses -- Australia -- Anecdotes | Nursing Care | Rural Health Services | Nurses | Nurses -- Australia | Rural nurses -- Australia | Rural nurses | Nurses | Australia | Australia | Remote areas | Anecdotes | Nursing | Rural populations | AustralianGenre/Form: Personal Narratives | Anecdotes. | Personal Narratives DDC classification: 610.73430994 LOC classification: RTNLM classification: 2013 I-168 | WY 100 KA1
Contents:
1. Baby business -- 2. Looking back -- 3. Nurses at work -- 4. Out on the edge -- 5. Winging to work -- 6. Animal tales -- 7. Some days are diamond -- 8. On death and dying -- 9. Future pathways.
Summary: It takes something special to be a bush nurse working in rural and remote Australia. These remarkable women patch people up and keep them alive while waiting for the doctor to arrive. They drive the ambulances, operate the clinics and deliver the babies. They are on call around the clock and there are no days off. They often make do with whatever is at hand while working in some of the most isolated places on the planet. Be they devastating family tragedies, close scrapes with bushfires or encounters with tru larrikins of the outback, some stories will make your hair stand on end, others will make you laugh and some will make your cry. Eith tales from Birdsville to Bedourie, Oodnadatta to Uluru, you'll be amazed at the courage and resourcefulness of these nurses who have been the backbone of medical practice in remote Australia for more than a hundred years.
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1. Baby business -- 2. Looking back -- 3. Nurses at work -- 4. Out on the edge -- 5. Winging to work -- 6. Animal tales -- 7. Some days are diamond -- 8. On death and dying -- 9. Future pathways.

1. Baby business -- 2. Looking back -- 3. Nurses at work -- 4. Out on the edge -- 5. Winging to work -- 6. Animal tales -- 7. Some days are diamond -- 8. On death and dying -- 9. Future pathways.

It takes something special to be a bush nurse working in rural and remote Australia. These remarkable women patch people up and keep them alive while waiting for the doctor to arrive. They drive the ambulances, operate the clinics and deliver the babies. They are on call around the clock and there are no days off. They often make do with whatever is at hand while working in some of the most isolated places on the planet. Be they devastating family tragedies, close scrapes with bushfires or encounters with tru larrikins of the outback, some stories will make your hair stand on end, others will make you laugh and some will make your cry. Eith tales from Birdsville to Bedourie, Oodnadatta to Uluru, you'll be amazed at the courage and resourcefulness of these nurses who have been the backbone of medical practice in remote Australia for more than a hundred years.

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