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8.2.14.3 Enrolment The third phase is ‘enrolment’, which is the obtained consent of all necessary actors to assume the roles defined for them during interessement. It is the recruitment of the identified actors (Callon, 1986a). In the present case, the purpose of establishing the remote general nurses’ network is to deliver remote mental healthcare. Remote nurses cannot do this alone; they do not fly planes, drive ambulances full-time or undertake policing. Remote nurses act, but not in isolation. Other actors (psychiatrists, MHNs, RFDS personnel) translate meanings, causes or effect differences. Each actor’s actions reciprocally affect and combine with the actions of other actors in the network, hence the need for enrolment. Yet members of the network are not passive unquestioning recipients of everything or every action of the remote nurse actor. This reflects an interesting collateral result or by product of denser and more complex networks: trust. This study found very high levels of trust between the groups. Networks are constructed by remote nurse actors to support the knowledge claim (Callon, 1986a) of the most appropriate action to deliver mental healthcare (Callon & Law, 1982). Remote nurses employ (usually unconsciously) a set of strategies to define and inter-relate the various roles that they assign other actors, as they build the network. A singular example for each actor might be that GPs are for sedative medication orders, psychiatrists for authority to aero-evacuate a mental health patient, police for protection and safety, RFDS personnel for transport and Emergency Department/Mental Health Unit personnel for admission to hospital. The easiest and surest means to enrol another actor into the network is through convincing them that they need to join the network to achieve their goals. Controlling