title: Occupational stress and RANs.
abstract: This paper explores nurses' self-reported stress during a time of policy changes in the Northern Territory Health Department. It is argued that current research tends to associate nurses' stress with their personality or type of work, offering a psychological or occupational explanation. Little consideration is given to the complex structural subordination and ambivalence remote area nurses experience on Aboriginal settlements vis a vis their immediate superiors and clients. It is proposed that the nurses' self-reported stress can be partly accounted for by their marginal position between these two groups. The sociological concept of marginality can explain this.
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authors.lastname: Willis
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia / Q000453:epidemiology; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D003152:Community Health Nursing; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012380:Role; D012423:Rural Health; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires