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Volume 29 Issue 2 - 2008

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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



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