Volume 25 Issue 1-2 - 2007

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Clinical Practice

4 Mechanisms and Classifications of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A literature review
Maria Murphy, John E Saunders, Michelle Campbell

Community and Family Health

13 Domestic Violence Against Women in Their Childbearing Years: A review of the literature
Rebecca O'Reilly
22 Female Genital Mutilation: Origin, beliefs, prevalence and implications for health care workers caring for immigrant women in Australia
Olayide O Ogunsiji, Lesley Wilkes, Debra Jackson
31 Family Care: An exploratory study of experience and expectations among older Chinese immigrants in Australia
Meihan Lo, Cherry Russell
39 Women's Experience of Being Well During Peri-Menopause: A phenomenological study
Sandra Mackey
50 Cultural Diversity in Heart Failure Management: Findings from the DISCOVER Study (Part 2)
Patricia M Davidson, Peter Macdonald, Debra K Moser, Esther Ang, Glenn Paull, Sam Choucair, John Daly, Leila Gholizadeh, Kathleen Dracup

Nurse Education, Training and Recruitment

63 Nurses on the Move: Evaluation of a program to assist international students undertaking an accelerated Bachelor of Nursing Program
Carmel Seibold, Colleen Rolls, Michelle Campbell
72 Undergraduate Nursing Students' Attitudes Towards Mental Health Nursing: Determining the influencing factors
Brenda Happell, Karla Gough
82 The Impact of a Postgraduate Diabetes Course on the Perceptions Aboriginal Health Workers and Supervisors in South Australia
Meri King, Rebecca Munt, Angela Eastwood
94 Issues and Challenges in the Mental Health Workforce Development
Michael Roche, Christine Duffield RN, BScN, MHP, PhD, FCN(NSW), FCHSE

Nursing Theory

104 A Safety Net: Use of pseudonyms in oral nursing history
Margaret McLeod, Karen Francis
114 An Evaluation of the Seminal Work of Patricia Benner: Theory or philosophy?
Tanya K Altmann
124 Development of a Theoretically Derived Model of Resilience Through Concept Analysis
Brigid M Gillespie, Wendy Chaboyer, Marianne Wallis

Methodology

136 Designing an Effective Evaluation Plan: A tool for understanding and planning evaluations for complex nursing contexts
Kenneth Walsh PhD, Jan Duke, Maralyn Foureur, Lesley Macdonald
146 Role Theory: A framework to investigate the community nurse role in contemporary health care systems
Kim Brookes, Patricia M Davidson, John Daly, Elizabeth J Halcomb

Student's Corner

156 Engaging Nurses in Patient Care: Clinical reflection by a student nurse
Kasia Siobhan Bail

Exemplar

163 'It's not easy': Caring for Aboriginal clients with diabetes in remote Australia
Michelle Cribbes, Karen Glaister

Book Reviews

172 Successful Qualitative Health Research: A Practical Introduction
Emily Hansen
Reviewed by Kay Price
173 The Clinical Placement: An essential guide for nursing students
Levett-Jones T and Bourgeois S
Reviewed by Karen Wotton
173 Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives (2nd edition)
James B Waldram, D Ann Herring and T Kue Young
Reviewed by Shirley Woods, Arlene Kent-Wilkinson
174 Critical Thinking Skills (Palgrave Study Guides)
Stella Cottrell
Reviewed by Lea Budden
174 Mura Solwata Kosker: We Saltwater Women
Ellie Gaffney
Reviewed by Sue Forsyth
175 Health and Social Research in Multiethnic Societies
James Y Nazroo
Reviewed by Barbara Lonbaken
176 The Study Skills Handbook (Palgrave Study Guides)
Stella Cottrell
Reviewed by Marie Gasper

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