dc.contributor.author | Stehlik, Daniela | |
dc.contributor.author | Chenoweth, Lesley | |
dc.contributor.author | McAuliffe, Donna | |
dc.contributor.author | OConnor, Barrie | |
dc.contributor.author | Jervis-Tracey, Paula | |
dc.contributor.author | Klieve, Helen | |
dc.contributor.editor | Ann-Marie Cook, Rob Fisher | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-02T22:41:55Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-01-02T22:41:55Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/170798 | |
dc.description.abstract | Delivering essential health, education and human services in rural and remote communities
remains a critical problem for Australia. Our landscape, its geographic size and population
spread has historically demanded unique responses to the nature of ‘work’. In the past decade
a national adaptive response has resulted in a marked increase in the number of professionals
who now fly-in/fly-out (FiFo) of their workplaces.
Commencing initially as a response to the mining boom of the early 2000s, and largely
focused on engineers and geologists, it is now on the cusp of becoming institutionalized in
other professional settings (traditionally seen as the caring professions) including health
services, social work services and education services.
Drawing on three year research conducted with a grant from the Australian Research Council
(DP0988473 Managing tensions in professional statutory practice: living and working in
rural and remote communities) and framed against the context of our larger study (n = 800) of
professionals (nursing, social work, education and police) working in rural and remote
Queensland, this paper considers the nature of this form of work from the perspective of FiFo
health professionals working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in the
far north of tropical Queensland.
The paper discusses a number of important aspects to this new practice including the
changing nature of the roles of professionals in small communities, where they may be
located for several consecutive days, but do not live permanently: for example, juggling
relationships (personal and professional); boundaries of professionalism; maintaining
confidentiality and role specific tensions. It concludes with some insights into the future
challenges of what has come to be seen as a ‘solution’ to increasing demands for more
equitable service delivery. It remains my personal choice to choose this way of working. My life was a
suitcase, laptop and a room when I lived in [Queensland remote community
… and any] travel home to my family [860 kms away] was self-funded and on
my days off. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.publisher | Inter-Disciplinary.Net | |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | |
dc.publisher.uri | http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/conferences/ | |
dc.relation.ispartofconferencename | VoW3 | |
dc.relation.ispartofconferencetitle | 3rd Global Conference: The Value of Work (VoW3) | |
dc.relation.ispartofdatefrom | 2013-09-01 | |
dc.relation.ispartofdateto | 2013-09-03 | |
dc.relation.ispartoflocation | Oxford, United Kingdom | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Education Assessment and Evaluation | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 130303 | |
dc.title | Can there be continuity of care? Flying in and flying out of the workplace | |
dc.type | Conference output | |
dc.type.description | E1 - Conferences | |
dc.type.code | E - Conference Publications | |
gro.hasfulltext | No Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Stehlik, Daniela A. | |
gro.griffith.author | Chenoweth, Lesley I. | |
gro.griffith.author | O'Connor, Barrie A. | |
gro.griffith.author | Jervis-Tracey, Paula D. | |
gro.griffith.author | McAuliffe, Donna A. | |
gro.griffith.author | Klieve, Helen M. | |