Volume 29 Issue 2 - Contemporary Nurse: Healthcare Across the Lifespan

Volume 29 Issue 2 - 2008

Clinical Practice
123		Risk assessment and fall prevention: Practice Development in action Jennifer Dempsey
135		Patient and professional dissatisfaction: A literature review of prognosis communication related to hospital settings Kasia Siobhan Bail
147		Creating comfort: Nurses’ perspectives on pressure care management in the last 48 hours of life Christina Searle, Fran McInerney
159		Enhancing scope of practice for the second level nurse: A change process to meet growing demand for rural health services Katrina Nankervis, Amanda Kenny, Melanie Bish
Community Health
174		The implications of policy on delivering a palliative approach in residential aged care: Rhetoric or reality? Sonia Allen, Margaret O'Connor, Ysanne Chapman, Karen Francis
184		Exploration of social support systems for older adults: A preliminary study Regina M McDonald, Peter J Brown
195		Unstructured cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention in rural South Australia: Does it meet best practice guidelines? Tracey Wachtel
205		Young men’s health: A balance between self-reliance and vulnerability in the light of hegemonic masculinity Regina Nobis, Inger Sandén
218		Perceptions of people with Type 2 Diabetes about self-management and the efficacy of community based services Sally J Wellard, Sheree Rennie, Rosey King
Methodology
227		Examining the methods used for a critical ethnographic enquiry Sonia Allen, Ysanne Chapman, Karen Francis, Margaret O'Connor
Book Reviews
238		Herbs & Natural Supplements. An Evidence-Based Guide (2nd edn) Lesley Braun and Marc Cohen Reviewed by Matthew Leach
239		Midwifery. Preparation for Practice Sally Pairman, Jan Pincombe, Carol Thorogood, and Sally Tracy (eds) Reviewed by Joanne Gray