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6.5 Social Worlds Theory and Maps.............................................................................. 192 6.5.1 Introduction....................................................................................................... 192 6.5.2 Social worlds/arenas ......................................................................................... 193 6.5.3 Social world and arena mapping theory ........................................................... 193 6.6 Creating the Social World/Arena Map .................................................................... 195 6.6.1 Situational matrix.............................................................................................. 198 6.6.2 Creating the social world/arena map ................................................................ 200 6.7 Positional Maps........................................................................................................ 206 6.8 Summary: How the Three Types of Maps Present Different Ways of ‘Interrogating’ .......................................................................................................... 210 6.9 Summary .................................................................................................................. 211 Chapter 7: Findings ......................................................................................................... 212 7.1 Introduction.............................................................................................................. 212 7.2 Groups Within the Remote Nurse’s Social World of Delivering Mental Healthcare................................................................................................................. 212 7.2.1 Remote mental health patients .......................................................................... 212 7.2.2 Remote general nurses ...................................................................................... 213 7.2.3 Psychiatrists ...................................................................................................... 217 7.2.4 Mental health nurses (MHNs)........................................................................... 221 7.2.5 General (medical) practitioners (GPs) .............................................................. 225 7.2.6 Paramedics and ambulance officers.................................................................. 227 7.2.7 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers (ATSIHW).................. 229 7.2.8 Nurse practitioners ............................................................................................ 230 7.3 The Actors’ Arena.................................................................................................... 232 7.3.1 Police ................................................................................................................ 232 7.4 Other Groups Within the Healthcare System Arena................................................ 238 7.4.1 Administrators .................................................................................................. 238 7.4.2 Facilitators ........................................................................................................ 241 7.4.3 Others................................................................................................................ 243 7.5 The Non-Human Arena............................................................................................ 244 7.5.1 Influences in the non-human arena ................................................................... 244 7.6 Summary .................................................................................................................. 253 Chapter 8: Actor-Network Theory................................................................................. 255 8.1 Introduction.............................................................................................................. 255 8.2 Actor-Network Theory............................................................................................. 255 8.2.1 Three underlying principles .............................................................................. 256 8.2.2 History of actor-network theory ....................................................................... 257 8.2.3 Actor-network ................................................................................................... 258 8.2.4 Networks ........................................................................................................... 262 8.2.5 Commonalities of networks .............................................................................. 262 8.2.6 Actor and actants .............................................................................................. 266 8.2.7 Increasing complexity of the remote nurse’s social world ............................... 267 8.2.8 Elements in the non-human arena..................................................................... 271 8.2.9 ‘Black boxes’ and ‘punctualisation’ ................................................................. 280 8.2.10 Inscription in delivering mental healthcare .................................................... 283 8.2.11 Irreversibility in delivering mental healthcare................................................ 285