1st Edition

Clinical Challenges Focus on Nursing

By Judy Lumby Copyright 2000
240 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

Nurses work across the health care system in a great variety of roles. From patient care to administration, nurses see where the pressures are, and how well we are managing to look after some of the most vulnerable people in our society. Clinical Challenges explores contemporary issues central to nurses' work. Part I explores clinical concerns such as pain and wound management, the role of the... Read more
Contents

Part I: Nursing Practice

1. Managing Pain

Isobel Taylor + Shirley Anne Wilson - Commentary: Michael Cousins

2. Managing Wounds

Keryln Carville - Commentary: Tal Ellis

3. Nurse Practitioners

Amanda Adrian + Jane O'Connell

4. The NSW Nurse Practitioner Project

Amanda Adrian + Jane O'Connell - Commentary: Chris Murphy

Part II: Influences on Pracice

5. Suicide

Pierre Baume

6. Drug Use

Kate Dolan - Commentary: Richard Matthews

7. Ageing

John Stevens + Julienne Onley - Commentary: Irene Stein

8. Extending Life

Mary Chiarella - Commentary: Michael Walsh

Part III: Health Care Delivery

9. Clinical Information Systems

Dianne Ayres + Lyn Perks - Commentary: Jeffrey Soar

10. Health Care as a Market Place

Debbie Picone - Commentary: Kim Walker

11. Always in the Red

Kerry Russell - Commentary: Belinda Chaplin

Index.

Biography

Judy Lumby RN, PhD, MHPEd, BA, FCN (NSW). FCN (RCNA) is Executive Director, NSW College of Nursing; Emeritus Professor, University of Technology, Sydney; Honorary Professor, University of Sydney; and Research Fellow, Victoria University, Wellington NZ.

Debbie Picone RN, BHA (NSW), FCN (NSW) is Chief Executive Officer, Corrections Health NSW and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Sydney.