An ethnographic study examining quality of worklife issues of outpost nurses in northern Manitoba

by Martin, Donna E.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF FIGURES LIST OF TABLES LIST OF APPENDIXES LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS TABLE OF CONTENTS ......................................................... ............................................. ................................................... ................................................... .............................................. ........................................... CHAPTER I ......................................................... 1 STATEMENTOF THE RESEARCHAlMS AND OBJECTIVES ...... 1 Introduction ............................................ 1 Backgroundto the Study ................................ 3 The History of First Nations' Health Care Services .......... 4 Pre-Contact Era (prior to 1670) ..................... 4 Early Contact Era (1670 O 1821) .................... 5 Contact-Traditional Era (1 821 . 1 945) ............... 6 The Modem Era (1 945 O present) ................... 10 Health Transfer Initiative ..................... 12 Outpost Nursing Today ................................... 15 Northem Health Care Consumers ................... 15 Non-Aboriginal Outpost Nurses ..................... 18 Aboriginal Outpost Nurses ......................... 21 Nuning Research on Outpost Nuning ..................... 24 Research Airns and Objectives ........................... 26 Definition of Ternis ................................ 28 Methodological Perspective for the Study .................. 29 Ethnography ..................................... 31 Assumptions ........................................... 32 Limitations ............................................. 33 Organization of the Thesis ............................... 34 Sumrnary .............................................. 34