Marŋgithirri guŋga'yunarawu ga guŋga'yunyarawu marŋgithinyarawu learning to connect and connecting to learn: preparing the rural and remote allied health workforce through a co‐created student‐implemented service in East Arnhem, Australia
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Objectives: To explore the process of learning for allied health students providing a student-implemented service for older Yolŋu in remote East Arnhem, Northern Territory, Australia. Design: An exploratory qualitative study following an 8-week student-implemented service using semi-structured interviews with those who implemented, supported and received the service. Data were analysed thematically using an inductive approach. Setting: The service was implemented by allied health students with older Yolŋu from Nhulunbuy and Yirrkala and surrounding remote Aboriginal communities of the East Arnhem Region of the Northern Territory. Allied health students were on clinical placement from James Cook University and received clinical, cultural and pastoral supervision and support from Flinders University, James Cook University, Indigenous Allied Health Australia two Yolŋu cultural consultants and two local community organisations. Participants: Data were collected from: four students who implemented the service; four professional supervisors, three placement co-ordinators, a Yolŋu cultural consultant and a care manager from a local community organisation, all of whom supported implementation of the service; and seven older Yolŋu and their families who were recipients of the service. Findings: ‘Learning to connect and connecting to learn’ described how allied health students were learning to provide a service for older Yolŋu. Four interrelated processes connected their learning: ‘preparing and supporting’, ‘bonding and responding’, ‘growing and enriching’ and ‘working and weaving’.
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Australian Journal of Rural Health
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1038-5282
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Wiley-Blackwell
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10.1111/ajr.12813