Includes index.

Contents: Part I: Health care delivery: Interdisciplinary collaboration: Nursing care delivery in nonurban, nonindustrialized settings: A comparison of three industrialized countries -- The future of rural communities: Mobilizing local resources -- Case management in rural areas: Definition, clients, financing, staffing, and service delivery issues -- Advanced visit planning: A concurrent quality assurance of IHS outpatient care -- A rural community-Based model for care delivery to chronically mentally III elderly -- Developing hospice programs in frontier communities -- Community health: Nursing students' perceptions of the poor -- Continuing education for self-actualization: Building a plan for rural nurses -- Part II: Rural health care issues: Expanding nursing roles: Issues in rural health nursing -- Rural health care delivery and financing: Results of eight case studies -- Rural health care and regionalization of services -- Medical malpractice: A rural obstetrician's perspective -- Nursing centers: One approach to rural health care -- Correlation of quality of life and physician distribution in Georgia: A disturbing paradox -- Nurses as primary care providers in rural America -- Rural nurses: Surviving cost containment -- Work stresses of community health nurses in Oklahoma -- Big-time ethical decision making in small rural hospitals -- Quality assurance: Considerations for rural health care institutions -- Challenges of serving as the Directer of an Emergency medical service in Alaska -- Emergency nursing in rural Texas: A case study -- Changes in rural hospital services: The role of health professions -- What can be done for rural health care? And who can do it? -- Aerospace nursing: The new frontier -- Meeting the challenges of rural nursing research.