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Before we had formal healthcare structures, people looked after sick members of their families and their communities at home, often with visits from a doctor and a nurse. Indeed these sick people would then recover or die in those very same homes. People would either return to their usual duties, or be looked after at home as invalids, or leave that home in a funeral procession.
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Australian College of Nursing (ACN). (2015). Community and primary health care: Nurses where you need them eBook. Retrieved from https://issuu.com/australiancollegeofnursing/docs/cphcnw_ebook_c1
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Fenech, H., Finlayson, J., Tasker, D. (2017). When a Nurse Comes to Call. In: Tasker, D., Higgs, J., Loftus, S. (eds) Community-Based Healthcare. Practice, Education, Work and Society. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-995-9_8
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