Advocating for end-of-life choice at home: a survey of rural Australian nurses

Frances Reed

qualifications: Bachelor of Nursing (honours)

contribution: original concept, designed the project, devised survey tool, literature review, collected data, input data, statistical analysis, wrote the first draft, contributed to drafts

position: PhD student

I am a rural district nurse interested in how to provide the best possible health promotion and care for people in my community and other areas where access to appropriate care is difficult. I have previously researched the attitudes of nurses to providing care to people with mental health problems in a rural general hospital. Currently I am in the last stages of researching how district nurses advocate successfully for the end-of-life goals of rural Australians with the aim of developing a model for advocacy that can be used to guide practice.

Les Fitzgerald

qualifications: PhD

contribution: supervised data collection, contributed to drafts

position: Senior Lecturer

Dr Melanie Bish

qualifications: PhD

contribution: supervised data collection, contributed to drafts

position: Head of Department