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important themes in the literature: the demand for and lack of mental health training and education, and the self-perceived low levels of confidence, competencies, skills and knowledge of remote nurses concerning mental healthcare. The chapter concludes that there is very little published literature and research into the research topic, and none in relation to the remote nurses’ social world of delivering mental healthcare. Chapter 4 outlines the theoretical framework, study design and methodology of the study. The theoretical underpinnings of the study are identified and discussed. The researcher describes and justifies the case study design and concludes by discussing and addressing criticisms of case study as a method of qualitative research. Chapter 5 outlines the methods of the study in relation to data collection and data analysis. The chapter describes components of the study including the participants, recruitment, sample size, data collection and analysis techniques, primarily coding and thematic analysis. Issues concerning the ethics involved in the study are also reviewed. Chapter 6 commences by outlining the process of undertaking situational analysis (Clarke, 2005) of the data to create a social world/arena map representing remote generalist nurses delivering mental healthcare. The ‘staged’ process of creating and building upon each of the various maps—the messy, ordered, relational and, finally, social worlds/arena maps—of remote nurses delivering mental healthcare is outlined. The chapter concludes with a brief discussion of the researcher’s experience of creating positional maps for the study, and the presentation of his attempt. Chapter 7 is a discussion of the findings based on thematic and situational analysis. The findings are presented with reference to the groups in the healthcare system arena and the elements in the non-human arena, both contained in the social world/arena map.