Professional boundaries in rural practice

Living and working in a rural community can bring unique rewards and complex professional challenges. Rural health professionals may care for people they know through whanau, friendships, schools, sports, cultural groups or community events, making boundaries difficult to navigate.

In this webinar, Dr Lucy O'Hagan will explore dual relationships and their impact on clinical care, patient privacy and clinician wellbeing. Using real-world rural scenarios, she will share practical ways to maintain professionalism, trust and personal wellbeing while living and working in the communities you serve.

Lucy is a GP, medical educator, writer and mentor who spent 20 years as a rural GP in Wanaka. A long-standing RNZCGP educator, Lucy has studied the social science of medicine, narrative practice and kaitiakitanga through Te Wananga o Aotearoa.

This webinar will be valuable for individuals and teams living and working in the same communities. As a resource it can be used by indiviual practitioners, as a prompt for a practice discussion or as an orientation for new practitioners to this context.

1 CME credit or 2 CME credits for RNZCGP Fellows.

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