“…Rural nurses must become adept at managing multiple, overlapping roles as community members and advocates, as health care professionals and, inevitably, as patients (Kilpatrick, Cheers, Gilles, & Taylor, 2009;Long & Weinert, 2010;Mills, Francis, & Bonner, 2007). Moules, MacLeod, Thirsk, and Hanlon (2010) observe that public health nurses in rural communities must be "exquisitely attuned to having and using power, keeping confidences, and setting and crossing boundaries" (p. 332).…”