Part 1 Health reform: nursing in primary health care, Elizabeth Percival; influencing the politics of health reform, June Cochrane; nursed education reform - teaching for health, Elaine Duffy et al; why is health care for Aborigines so ineffective?, Joan Winch; institutionalization versus living in the community - psychiatric deinstitutionalization and nursing in New South Wales, Maurice Breust; the future - planning, reformation, uncertainty, Gillian Biscoe; health maintenance organizations - primary care and health for all by the year 2000 - a critical issue for nursing, Marjorie Cuthbert; co-operation, collaboration or confrontation - the insubordination of Australian nursing?, Jane Shoebridge. Part 3 Towards professionalism: accountability - the pivot of professionalism, Genevieve Gray and Rosalie Pratt; the image of the nurse - the community's perception and its implications for the profession, Virginia Bonawit; to be or not to be - it's time to market nursing's image, Gillian Clark; nurses' control over nursing, Enid Jenkins; competencies for registration of nurses in Australia, Suzanne Cameron; career structure for nurses - the South Australian experience, Margaret Silver; the professional role of a national nursing association, Marilyn Beaumont; the use and abuse of industrial power - the profession's dilemma, Bridgid McCoppin. Part 3 Practice: preparation for practice, Judy Lumby; physical examination - an aspect of health assessment in nursing practice, Di Longson and Alison Copley; the nurse as ethicist in the health team, Ann Woodruff; sexuality and the role of the nurse, Lesley Barclay; continuing education in nursing - current status and future prospects, Pamela Ryan; independent nurse consultants - the lateral lea;, Bernadette Keane; making the most of new opportunities - clinical nursing research in the 1990s, Elizabeth Pittam.
