Book Reviews
States of health: health and illness in Australia (3rd edn)
J. George and A. Davis
Reviewed by Thea van de Mortel
A Personal Guide to Living With Progressive Memory Loss
Sandy Burfener and Prudence Twigg
Reviewed by Christine Toye
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
Accident and Emergency Nursing, fourth edition
Walsh, M. and Kent, A
Reviewed by Kathryn Zeitz
Advanced Critical Care Oncology
Cynthia C Chernecky & Barbara J Berger
Reviewed by Ann Allenby
Advances in Contemporary Child & Family Health Care: Building Family Health Capacity
Philip Darbyshire and Debra Jackson (eds)
Reviewed by Jan Pearson
Advances in Contemporary Nursing and Interpersonal Violence
Anne McMurray and Debra Jackson (eds)
Reviewed by Judy Lumby
Advances in Contemporary Transcultural Nursing
John Daly and Debra Jackson (eds)
Reviewed by Ann Harrington
Anaesthesia and Emergency Situations: A Management Guide
Gajinder Oberoi
Reviewed by Toni Gwynn-Jones
Anatomy and Physiology for Midwives
Jane Coad and Melvyn Dunstall
Reviewed by Jane Warland
Anti-D in Midwifery: Panacea or Paradox?
Sara Wickham
Reviewed by
Assessment and Care of the Well Newborn
Patti Thureen, Daniel Hall, Jane Deacon, and Jacinto Hernandez
Reviewed by Linda Sweet
Australia New Zealand Nursing Drug Handbook (3rd Edn)
Lim A, McKenzie G (eds)
Reviewed by John Smithson, Beverley Glass
Basic concepts for qualitative research
Immy Holloway
Reviewed by Linda Worrall-Carter
Basic Counseling Skills: A helper's manual
Richard Nelson-Jones
Reviewed by Susan McDonald
Basic Counselling Skills: A Helper's Manual
Richard Nelson-Jones
Reviewed by Susan McDonald
Basic Counselling Skills: A Helper's Manual
Richard Nelson-Jones
Reviewed by Susan McDonald
Bodies at Risk: An Ethnography of Heart Disease
Elizabeth E Wheatley
Reviewed by Angela Cushing
Care of the Difficult Patient: A Nurse's Guide
Peter J Manos and Joan Braun
Reviewed by Anthony J O'Brien
Child Abuse and Culture: Working with Diverse Families
Lisa Aronson Fontes
Reviewed by Robin Nayda
Children's Health Care: Issues for the Year 2000 and Beyond
Gullotta/Hampton/Adams/Ryan and Weissberg
Reviewed by Allison Williams
Clinical Judgement and Communication in Nurse Practitioner Practice
Susan K Chase
Reviewed by Debra Thoms
Clinical leadership in nursing
Judith T Rocchiccioli and Mary S Tilbury
Reviewed by Neil MacKinnon
Clinician's Guide to Substance Abuse
David Smith and Richard Seymour
Reviewed by Wendy Moyle
Clinicians Guide to Mental Illness
Dennis C. Daley and Ihsan M. Salloum
Reviewed by Lisa Lynch
Collaboration: A health care imperative
Toni Sullivan (Primary author and editor)
Reviewed by Ken Walsh
Colonial Dis-Ease: Us Navy Health Policies and the Chamorros of Guam, 1898-1941
Anne Perez Hattori
Reviewed by Rose McEldowney
Communicating with Dying People and Their Relatives
Jean Lugton
Reviewed by Susan Bardy
Community Health and Wellness: A Socioecological Approach
Anne McMurray
Reviewed by Bodil Rasmussen
Counting, Health and Identity: a History of Aboriginal Health and Demography in Western Australia and Queensland 1900-1940
Gordon Briscoe
Reviewed by Maggie Walter
Critical Thinking Skills (Palgrave Study Guides)
Stella Cottrell
Reviewed by Lea Budden
Cultural safety in Aotearoa New Zealand
Dianne Wepa
Reviewed by Sheryl Reimer Kirkham
Cultural Safety in Aotearoa New Zealand
Dianne Wepa (ed)
Reviewed by Don Gorman
Culture Care Diversity and Universality: A Worldwide Nursing Theory
Leininger MM and McFarland MR
Reviewed by Rick Zoucha
Dementia and Memory: A Handbook for Students and Professionals
Simon BN Thompson
Reviewed by Bruce Barber
Dictionary of Nursing, 17th edition
Reviewed by John Rogers
E Ola Na Kini: The Health of the Hawaiians
Hishinuma E
Reviewed by Laurie D McCubbin
Effective Writing for Health Professionals: A Practial Guide to Getting Published
M-J Johnstone
Reviewed by Judy Zollo
Emergencies in Mental Health Practice: Evaluation and Management
Philip Kleespies
Reviewed by Nicholas G Procter
Essentials of Computers for Nurses: Informatics for the New Millennium
Virginia K. Saba and Kathleen Ann McCormick
Reviewed by Stephen Chu
Essentials of Law for Health Professionals
Forrester
Reviewed by Di Wickett
Essentials of Nurse Anaesthesia
Laura McIntosh
Reviewed by Elizabeth Manias
Freedom to Practise: The Development of Patient-centred Nursing
Binnie, A. & Titchen, A.
Lathlean, J.
Reviewed by Laurie S Bourke
Fundamentals of Pharmacology: A Text for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals
Alan Galbraith, Shane Bullock & Elizabeth Manias
Reviewed by Yenna Salamonson
Handbook for Mortals: Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness
Joanne Lynn, Joan Harrold
Reviewed by Susan Bardy
Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry & Practice
Peter Reason & Hilary Bradbury
Reviewed by
Health and Social Change: A critical theory
Graham Scambler
Reviewed by Maria Fedoruk
Health and Social Research in Multiethnic Societies
James Y Nazroo
Reviewed by Barbara Lonbaken
Health Care and the Law
Wallace, Meg
Reviewed by Carol Grech
Health Promoting Palliative Care
Alan Kellehear
Reviewed by Glenda Parmenter
Health Promotion Strategies and Methods
Reviewed by Merilyn King
Health Sociology: An Australian Perspective
David Gray
Reviewed by Alison Hutton
Herbs & Natural Supplements. An evidence-based guide (2nd edn)
Braun L and Cohen M (Eds)
Reviewed by Matthew Leach
Hermeneutic Phenomenological Research: A Practical Guide for Nurse Researchers
Marlene Zichi Cohen, David L. Kahn, Richard Harold Steeves
Reviewed by Kevin Rouse
HIV Nursing and Symptom Management
Mary E Ropka and Ann B Williams
Reviewed by Michelle Goode
In Our Own Right: Black Australian Nurses' Stories
Sally S Goold OAM and Kerrynne Liddle (eds)
Reviewed by Anthony J O'Brien
In Our Own Right: Black Australian Nurses' Stories
Sally S Goold OAM and Kerrynne Liddle (eds)
Reviewed by Donna Lennon
In Our Own Right: Black Australian Nurses’ Stories
Sally S Goold OAM and Kerrynne Liddle (eds)
Reviewed by Diana Grant-Mackie
Interpersonal Communication in Nursing: Theory and Practice
Roger B Ellis, Robert J Gates and Neil Kenworthy
Reviewed by Cath Hall
Introduction to Breast Care
Carol Bird
Reviewed by Annette Summers
Laboratory and diagnostic tests: A pocket guide
Mary Ellen McMorrow & Louise Malarkey
Reviewed by Miriam Dayhew
Mail and Internet Surveys: The Tailored Design Method
Don A. Dillman
Reviewed by Tom A Laws
Making Social Science Matter: Why social inquiry fails and how it can succeed again
Esther-Mirjam Sent
Reviewed by Trish Scott-Wandmaker
Management in the Australian Health Care Industry, 2nd edition
M Clinton and D Scheiwe
Reviewed by Virginia M King
Management of Mental Disorders (Edition one)
Mario Maj, Juan José López-Ibor, Norman Sartorius, and Mitsumoto Sato
Reviewed by Nicholas G Procter
Men's Health: An Introduction for Nurses and Health Professionals
T. Harrison and K. Dignan
Reviewed by Anne McMurray
Men's Health: An Introduction for Nurses and Health Professionals
Tony Harrison and Karen Dignan (eds)
Reviewed by Tom A Laws
Mental Health Care for People with Learning Disabilities
Helena Priest and Michael Gibbs
Reviewed by Jan Walmsley
Microbiology and Infection Control for Health Professionals
Dr Gary Lee and Dr Penny Bishop
Reviewed by Anne Marie Keenan
Microbiology and Infection Control for Health Professionals, 3rd edn
Gary Lee and Penny Bishop (eds)
Reviewed by Jim Hackett
Midwifery. Preparation for Practice
Pairman S, Pincombe J, Thorogood C and Tracy S (eds)
Reviewed by Joanne Gray
Mom's Cancer
Brian Fies
Reviewed by Elizabeth Pascoe
Mura Solwata Kosker: We Saltwater Women
Ellie Gaffney
Reviewed by Sue Forsyth
Negotiated Realities: Making sense of interaction between patients diagnosed as neurotic and nurses
Stephen Tilley
Reviewed by Trudy Rudge
Nurse Practitioners: Developing the role in the hospital setting
Shirley Reveley, Mike Walsh, Alison Crumbie
Reviewed by Diane J Tofts
Nursing Administration in the 21st Century - A Self-Care Theory Approach
Sarah E Allison and Katherine E McLaughlin-Rendenning
Reviewed by Marilyn Chew
Nursing Calculations: A course to develop and assess skills in nursing calculations
Reviewed by Hamish Thomson
Nursing Matters: Critical sociological perspectives
Helen Keleher and Fran McInerney (eds)
Reviewed by Jane Shoebridge
Nursing Older People: Issues and Innovations
R Nay & S Garratt
Reviewed by Wendy Moyle
Nursing Research: Methods, critical appraisal and utilisation. 1st Australasian Edition
Christine Beanland, Zevia Schneider, Geri LoBiondo-Wood, Judith Haber
Reviewed by
Nursing Theorists and Their Work (6th edition)
Ann Marriner Tomey and Martha Raile Alligood (eds)
Reviewed by Merri Paech
Ordinary Miracles in Nursing
Patricia Winstead-Fry and Deborah Labovitz (eds)
Reviewed by Morgan Smith
Pain Causes and Management
Jan Hawthorn & Kathy Redmond
Reviewed by Annette Walker
Palliative care: Explorations and challenges
Judith Parker & Sanchia Aranda (Eds.)
Reviewed by Allan Kellehear
Pathophysiology Applied to Nursing
Esther Chang, John Daly and Doug Elliot
Reviewed by Allison Williams
Patient and Person: Developing Interpersonal Skills in Nursing, 2nd Edition
Stein-Parbury J
Reviewed by Margaret McAllister
Patient Education: A Practical Approach
Kate Lorig
Reviewed by Margaret McAllister
Patients, Power and Politics: From Patients to Citizens
Christine Hogg
Reviewed by Philip Warelow
Postmodern and Poststructural Approaches to Nursing Research
Julianne Cheek
Reviewed by Colin Holmes
Principles and Practice of Psychiatric Nursing 7th edition
Dr Stuart, G.W. and Dr Laraia, M.T
Reviewed by Kerrie Hancox
Principles and Practices of Research in Midwifery
Elizabeth R.Cluett Rosalind Bluff
Reviewed by Christine Thompson
Promoting Health: The Primary Health Care Approach - Second Edition
Andrea Wass
Reviewed by Bodil Rasmussen
Promoting Men's Health: Developing Practice
Neil Davidson and Trefor Lloyd
Reviewed by Tom A Laws
Psychiatric Nursing Made Incredibly Easy
Reviewed by Margaret McAllister
Psychiatric Nursing: An Integration Of Theory And Practice
O'Brien, Kennedy & Ballard
Reviewed by Robert Jackson
Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach (Applied Social Research Methods)
Joseph A Maxwell
Reviewed by Nicholas G Procter
Qualitative Research in Practice: Stories from the field
Yvonne Darlington and Dorothy Scott
Reviewed by Nicholas G Procter
Reading Doctors' Writing: Race, politics and power in Indigenous health research 1870-1969
David Piers Thomas
Reviewed by Helen Ware
Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches (2nd Edition)
John W Creswell
Reviewed by Lynne S Giddings
Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches (2nd edn)
John W Creswell
Reviewed by Lynne S Giddings
Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches (2nd Edn)
John W Creswell
Reviewed by Lynne S Giddings
Resources for Nursing Research: An Annotated Bibliography (4th edition)
Cynthia Clamp, Stephen Gough, and Lucy Land
Reviewed by Jeanine Blackford
Sleep Management in Nursing Practice: an Evidence-based guide
Kevin Morgan and S. Jose Closs
Reviewed by Sue DeVries
Sociology of Health and Health Care (Second Edition)
Steve Taylor & David Field (Eds.)
Reviewed by Jane Shoebridge
Sounding The Alarm
Jennifer Cramer
Reviewed by Sue Lenthal
Statistics for Social & Health Research: With a Guide to SPSS, 2nd Edition
George Argyrous
Reviewed by Stephen Chu
Strategies for Healthcare Education: How to Teach in the 21st Century
Jan Woodhouse (ed) and Dorothy Marriss (foreword)
Reviewed by Angela Cushing
Successful Qualitative Health Research: A Practical Introduction
Emily Hansen
Reviewed by Kay Price
Symposium on Indigenous Health and the Contribution of Sociology
Jane Shoebridge & Eileen Willis
Reviewed by Davina B Woods
Talking With Angel: About Illness, Death, And Survival
Evelyn Elsaesser Valarino and Kenneth Ring
Reviewed by Susannne Becker
Teaching in Nursing: A guide for faculty
DM Billings & JA Halstead
Reviewed by Linda Worrall-Carter
The A-Z of Community Mental Health Nursing Practice
Sheila Forster (ed)
Reviewed by Nicholas G Procter
The Clinical Placement: An essential guide for nursing students
Levett-Jones T and Bourgeois S
Reviewed by Karen Wotton
The Diving-Bell & The Butterfly
Jean-Dominique Bauby
Reviewed by Kate-Louise Wiltshire
The health of Indigenous Australians
Neil Thomson
Reviewed by Rose McEldowney
The Health of Indigenous Australians
Neil Thomson (ed)
Reviewed by Susannne Becker
The Life and Times of Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Muriel Knox Doherty, R Lynette Russell (ed)
Reviewed by Joan Durdin
The nurse's guide to cardiac rhythm interpretation: Implications for patient care
Sara Paul and Jennifer D. Hebra
Reviewed by Thea van de Mortel
The Nurses' Handbook of Complementary Therapies
Denise Rankin-Box (ed)
Reviewed by Gay Edgecombe
The Person as Patient – psychosocial perspectives for the health care professional
Ramsden Elsa
Reviewed by Kate Andre
The Practitioner as Assessor
Sue Howard and Anne Eaton
Reviewed by Renée Rendell
The Sage Dictionary of Health and Society
Kevin White
Reviewed by Angela Cushing
The Social Construction of Anorexia Nervosa
Julie Hepworth
Reviewed by Kay Price
The Study Skills Handbook (Palgrave Study Guides)
Stella Cottrell
Reviewed by Marie Gasper
Transcultural Concepts in Nursing Care (5th Edn)
Andrews M, Boyle J
Reviewed by Sandra J Mixer
Treatment protocol project (1997). Management of mental disorders (First edition)
Reviewed by Nicholas G Procter
Treatment protocol project (1997). Management of mental disorders (Second edition)
Reviewed by Nicholas G Procter
Understanding Health: A Determinants Approach
Helen Keleher and Berni Murphy (eds)
Reviewed by Jeffrey Fuller
Understanding Health: A Determinants Approach
Helen Keleher and Berni Murphy (eds)
Reviewed by Jeffrey Fuller
Understanding Health: A Determinants Approach
Helen Keleher and Berni Murphy (eds)
Reviewed by Jeffrey Fuller
Understanding Social Statistics (2nd edition)
Jane L Fielding and Nigel Gilbert
Reviewed by Glenn Gardner
Westmead Pocket Anaesthetic Manual
Anthony Padley
Reviewed by Darren Gray
Why is it so difficult to die?
Brian Nyatanga
Reviewed by Susan Bardy
Women's Health: A Handbook for Nurses
Catriona Sutherland
Reviewed by Diane J Tofts
Women's Health: A primary care approach
C Rogers-Clark and A Smith
Reviewed by Thea van de Mortel
Women's Health: A primary care approach
C Rogers-Clark and A Smith
Reviewed by Thea van de Mortel
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