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Volume 26 Issue 1 - 2007
Advances in Contemporary General Practice Nursing: Role of the Practice Nurse
Role of the Practice Nurse
Foreword
3 Increasing Research in Primary Care
Critical for consolidating nurses’ position in the primary health care teamKathleen Dracup
Professional Issues
Role of the Practice Nurse
5 Editorial: Practice Nursing in Australia
Ready for prime timePatricia M Davidson, Elizabeth J Halcomb, Elizabeth Patterson
7 Nurses in General Practice Settings
Roles & responsibilitiesKay Price
15 Where Does Practice Nursing Fit in Primary Health Care?
Merilyn Annells RN PhD
Professional Issues
27 Editorial: Professional Organisations and Regulatory Bodies
Forging and advancing the role of nurses in Australian primary careJohn Daly, Rosemary B Bryant
30 Leadership in Primary Health Care
An international perspectiveAnne McMurray
37 Divisions of General Practice and Practice Nurse Development in Australia
Sally Hall
48 Multiprofessional Working, Interprofessional Learning and Primary care
A way forward?Debra Humphris
56 Policy Development to Support Nursing in Australian General Practice
An overviewJulie Porritt
Perspective on Health Professionals in the Primary Care Setting
65 Opinion Piece: Investing in Primary Care Nursing
An important strategy in improving the health and well-being of womenAfaf Meleis
66 Expanding Roles of Aboriginal Health Workers in the Primary Care Setting
Seeking recognitionPenny Abbott, Elaine Gordon, Joyce Davison
74 Practice Nursing in Rural Australia
Desley Hegney
83 Nurses in Primary Care and the Nurse Practitioner Role in Thailand
Somchit Hanucharurnkul
94 Meeting a Primary Care Challenge in the United States
Chronic illness careJoAnne M Saxe, Susan L Janson Professor, Suzan Stringari-Murray Associate Clinical Professor, Jane E Hirsch Associate Clinical Professor, Catherine M Waters Associate Professor
104 Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioners in Canada
Alba DiCenso, Lucille Auffrey, Denise Bryant-Lukosius, Faith Donald, Ruth Martin-Misener, Sue Matthews, Joanne Opsteen
A Way Forward for Practice Nursing
116 Opinion Piece: Research and Development
Reflections of Practice Nurse Research FellowsLynne Walker, Judy Evans
117 The Research Potential of Practice Nurses
What contribution to primary health care research?Julie J Yallop, Brian R McAvoy
125 Strategic Directions for Developing the Australian General Practice Nurse Role in Cardiovascular Disease Management
Elizabeth J Halcomb, Patricia M Davidson, Julie J Yallop, Rhonda Griffiths, John Daly
136 Time to Talk, Time to See
Changing microeconomies of professional practice among nurses and doctors in Australian general practiceChristine Phillips, Kathryn Dwan, Christopher Pearce, Sally Hall, Julie Porritt, Rachel Yates, Carmel Seibold
Epilogue
145 Exploring the Development of Australian General Practice Nursing
Where we have come from and where to from here?Elizabeth J Halcomb, Patricia M Davidson, Elizabeth Patterson
Book Reviews
154 Clinical Judgement and Communication in Nurse Practitioner Practice
Susan K Chase
Reviewed by Debra Thoms
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