With over 7.6 million km² for a population of only about 22.7 million people (the lowest population density worldwide), the island continent Australia is quite a unique country (Australian Government, n.d.). Even though it counts as an industrial and well developed western country, it encounters many challenges in providing health care for 2.3% of the population due to it´s geography. These little over 500.000 people have settled in Australia’s rural areas, hundreds of kilometers away from the well developed metropolitan areas (Baxter, Hayes, & Gray, 2011). Looking especially at nursing, providing good care for those people is often difficult and only possible to a certain extend. However, compared to a developing country with similar challenges
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Nurses have a much higher chance of treating their patients in the best way possible compared to nurses in Niger, where those things are often not provided or unaffordable (Opiah, Ofi, Essien, & Monjok, 2012). Furthermore not only equipment for treatment is lacking, but also the essential equipment for communication is missing most of the times. In rural areas of Niger less than one third of the health care centers are able to communicate via radio telephone, the rest relies on occasional visitors who transport messages by car. This then effects another extensive field of nursing, which is surveillance. To keep watch over occurrence and spread of diseases to support effective control is only possible with a good communication network (Ndiaye et al., …show more content…
All the above mentioned practices and issues make working in a developing country very different, but also general things like political situations, unstable governments, geographic and demographic difficulties, safety and poverty impact on the job of a nurse. These conditions are definitely a lot harder compared to a developed country, but are often also described as more rewarding (Ng 'ang 'a, 2006). In the end, nurses all over the world follow the same goal, which is to make a difference in a patients life for the better no matter if in a developing country like Niger or to the population of rural
Nurses have a much higher chance of treating their patients in the best way possible compared to nurses in Niger, where those things are often not provided or unaffordable (Opiah, Ofi, Essien, & Monjok, 2012). Furthermore not only equipment for treatment is lacking, but also the essential equipment for communication is missing most of the times. In rural areas of Niger less than one third of the health care centers are able to communicate via radio telephone, the rest relies on occasional visitors who transport messages by car. This then effects another extensive field of nursing, which is surveillance. To keep watch over occurrence and spread of diseases to support effective control is only possible with a good communication network (Ndiaye et al., …show more content…
All the above mentioned practices and issues make working in a developing country very different, but also general things like political situations, unstable governments, geographic and demographic difficulties, safety and poverty impact on the job of a nurse. These conditions are definitely a lot harder compared to a developed country, but are often also described as more rewarding (Ng 'ang 'a, 2006). In the end, nurses all over the world follow the same goal, which is to make a difference in a patients life for the better no matter if in a developing country like Niger or to the population of rural