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Volume 22 Issue 1 - 2006

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3 Guest Editorial: A New Direction for Community Services in the 21st Century
Felicity Astin

Nurse Education

7 International Postgraduate Nursing Students: Implications for studying and working within a different culture
Kathleen Kilstoff, Jacqueline Baker

17 The Development of Nurse Practitioners via Flexible Learning: Toward an innovative Masters degree curriculum in Thailand
Boontip Siritarungsri, Karen Francis, Ahmud Basseer Jeeawody, John Grootjans, Tassana Boontong, Wichit Srisuphan

26 Assisting Pre-Registration Students in the Acquisition of Clinical Skills Utilising Computer Assisted Learning
Jacqueline Bloomfield, Diane J Tofts

36 Problems in the Supervision and Assessment of Student Nurses: Can clinical placement be improved?
Jim Kevin

46 Collaborative Voices: Ongoing reflections on nursing competencies
Pam McGrath, Jennifer Anastasi, Stephanie Fox-Young, Don Gorman, Lorna Moxham, Joanne Tollefson

59 The Evolving Relationship of Technology and Nursing Practice: Negotiating the provision of care in a high tech environment
Amanda Henderson

66 Is Nurse Education Sexist?: An exploratory study
Stephen Kermode

Student's Corner

75 Living in Poverty and its Effects on Health
Sally Swinnerton

Exemplar

81 A Palliative Care Story: Negotiating the abject
Pamela van der Riet

Clinical Practice

84 Advancing Practice Through Prescribing: Is there a better way?
Stephan Harding, Andrew Gardner

91 Glyceryl Trinitrate (Anginine) Use in a Cardiovascular Emergency
Pauline Greenland

97 Acute Pain in Surgical Patients
Anthony Schoenwald, Cath Rogers Clark

109 Perceptions of Infection Control Practices Among Health Professionals
Rochelle E Watkins, Dianne Wynaden, Linda Hart, Ian Landsborough, Sunita McGowan, Gaye Speed, Angélica Orb, Saras Henderson, Sally Wilson, Wendy Calnan

120 The Effect of Extra Walking on the Mobility, Independence and Exercise Self-Efficacy of Elderly Hospital In-Patients: A pilot study
Bruce Killey, Elizabeth Watt

139 Publisher's Note: Advances in Contemporary Nursing ISSN 1832-9861: An annual series from Contemporary Nurse
James Davidson

Book Reviews

134 Microbiology and Infection Control for Health Professionals, 3rd edn
Gary Lee and Penny Bishop (eds)
Reviewed by Jim Hackett

135 Pathophysiology Applied to Nursing
Esther Chang, John Daly and Doug Elliot
Reviewed by Allison Williams

135 Care of the Difficult Patient: A Nurse's Guide
Peter J Manos and Joan Braun
Reviewed by Anthony J O'Brien

136 Talking With Angel: About Illness, Death, And Survival
Evelyn Elsaesser Valarino and Kenneth Ring
Reviewed by Susannne Becker

137 The Health of Indigenous Australians
Neil Thomson (ed)
Reviewed by Susannne Becker

138 In Our Own Right: Black Australian Nurses' Stories
Sally S Goold OAM and Kerrynne Liddle (eds)
Reviewed by Donna Lennon



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