Issues in Australian Nursing
2nd Edition
Published in June 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
424 pages
978-0-443-04033-7 (ISBN)
Description
Set against a worldwide context of primary health care, the issues discussed here look at the key role the nursing profession can, and should, play in implementing "health for all" in Australia. This publication presents a variety of issues around the three themes of health reform, professionalism and nursing practice. The authors have contributed a perspective on issues which are of particular interest to them such as Aboriginal health, psychiatric deinstitutionalization, the nurse as ethicist, sexuality and nursing, industrial power and nurses' control over nursing.
Set against a worldwide context of primary health care, the issues discussed here look at the key role the nursing profession can, and should, play in implementing "health for all" in Australia. This publication presents a variety of issues around the three themes of health reform, professionalism and nursing practice. The authors have contributed a perspective on issues which are of particular interest to them such as Aboriginal health, psychiatric deinstitutionalization, the nurse as ethicist, sexuality and nursing, industrial power and nurses' control over nursing.
Set against a worldwide context of primary health care, the issues discussed here look at the key role the nursing profession can, and should, play in implementing "health for all" in Australia. This publication presents a variety of issues around the three themes of health reform, professionalism and nursing practice. The authors have contributed a perspective on issues which are of particular interest to them such as Aboriginal health, psychiatric deinstitutionalization, the nurse as ethicist, sexuality and nursing, industrial power and nurses' control over nursing.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Health Sciences
Target group
Adult education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
5 line drawings, tables
Dimensions
Height: 22 mm
Width: 216 mm
Weight
504 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-443-04033-7 (9780443040337)
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Content
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.