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Volume 10 Issue 1-2 - 2001

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3 Publisher's Note: Publisher, Contemporary Nurse

5 Editorial: Setting the Agenda for Consumer-Oriented Care in the New Millennium
Margaret McMillan

7 Health assessment and its relationship to nursing practice in New Zealand
Kaye Milligan, Stephen Neville

12 Coping with crisis: How Australian families search for and select an aged care facility for a family member upon discharge from an acute care setting
Julianne Cheek, Alison Ballantyne

21 Bullying nurses at work: Theorising a gendered experience
Catherine Bray

30 Evaluating a problem based learning course: An action research study
Jackie Walker, Suzi Bailey, Robyn Brasell-Brian, Sharon Gould

39 Student learning through video assessment
Julie Thorburn, Therese Finn, Maureen Dean, Jennifer King, May Wilkinson

46 Nursing skill assessment within populations: Scale development and testing
Maree Johnson, Jane Marsden, Elizabeth Day, Sungwon Chang

65 Literature Review: The reluctance for the use of opioid analgesia in the client with cancer
Judy Hartikainen

70 Student's Corner: Withdrawal of treatment in the intensive care unit: The ethical and legal issues
Julianne KP Allen-Smyth

83 Feature Articles: Have you got an attitude problem? Caring for illicit drug-using patients
Rosemary Norman

91 Feature Articles: Effective communication in an intensive care setting: Nurses' stories
Denise Monkley, Kim Usher

102 Feature Articles: An evidence based approach to a perennial problem: Pressure ulcers
Barbara Newman, Fui Ping Lim

110 Feature Articles: Exploring the experiences of beginning registered nurses entering the acute care setting
Rachel Hinds, Jill Harley

117 Feature Articles: Promoting self-help strategies by sharing the lived experience of arthritis
Bev Taylor

Book Reviews

Anti-D in Midwifery: Panacea or Paradox?
Sara Wickham
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Westmead Pocket Anaesthetic Manual
Anthony Padley
Reviewed by Darren Gray

Postmodern and Poststructural Approaches to Nursing Research
Julianne Cheek
Reviewed by Colin Holmes



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