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employed in a fluid and demanding work environment whereby they could not make with certainty, prior diarized appointments. Approximately half of the remote nurse participants required this approach. 5.5 Ethical Requirements To permissibly undertake this study consent was received from the James Cook University Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC). The purpose of the Human Ethics Committee is to protect the welfare and rights of participants involved in any research in accordance with the National Statement on Ethical Conduct Involving Humans of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Values and Ethics: Guidelines for Ethical Conduct in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research (NHMRC) and James Cook University guidelines. The principles outlined by the NHMRC for the conduct of human research such as respect for human beings, research merit and integrity, justice, and beneficence were adhered to throughout the study (National Health and Medical Research Council, 2007). Informed consent was gained from all participants involved in the study and adherence to the NHMRC guidelines for consent of human participants in research was abided by. Particular adherence was paid to Section 2.2 of the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research which requires that informed consent involves giving due scope to people’s capacity to make their own decisions and that participation is the result of a choice made by participants (National Health and Medical Research Council, 2007). The circumstances surrounding consent included; consent being a voluntary choice, based on sufficient information and adequate understanding of both the proposed research