title: Culture of rural nursing practice: a critical theoretical analysis of determinants of power in nursing.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This paper investigates the culture of workplace learning within a study of eight small hospitals in rural New South Wales (NSW), Australia.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study used a focus group method of data collection, undertaken before then after a series of interventions designed to nurture a culture that supports learning within the rural health care setting.
  
  
  METHODS
  Student AINs, AINs, ENs and RNs from any of the eight hospitals.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Framed within a critical social perspective it applies a theory of culture to understand the determinants of social divisiveness that was occurring between different levels of the nursing workforce. These results are further analysed within a theoretical discussion of culture and power in nursing.
authors.affiliation: Rural and Remote Health, School of Nursing and Health Science, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. gibhj001@students.unisa.edu.au
authors.forename: Heather
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gibb
authors.forename: Katreena
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Forsyth
authors.forename: Judith
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Anderson
mesh_terms: D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration; D004522:Educational Status; D017144:Focus Groups; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008611:Mentors; D009517:New South Wales; D009729:Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D011209:Power, Psychological; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012938:Social Perception