Recently added articles from Contemporary Nurse:
Does implementation of clinical practice guidelines change nurses' screening for alcohol and other substance use?(Clinical report)
Aug 01, 2009; ... BACKGROUND Tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use accounted for 12% of the total burden of disease and injury in Australia in 2003 (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2007). According to the 2004 National Drug Strategy Household Survey, 35% and 38% of Australians aged 14 ...
Team nursing in acute care settings: nurses' experiences.(Report)
Aug 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION A review of models of care and nurses' roles in the New South Wales (NSW) health system has shown that a range of models involving team nursing are being used to organise the delivery of nursing care in acute care hospitals (NSW Health Office of Nursing and ...
Who's talking? Communication and the casual/part-time nurse: a literature review.
Aug 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION Nursing has come far since Florence Nightingale set out with her group of women to tend the sick and wounded soldiers of the Crimean war. It is possibly fair to say that the only feature of nursing delivery common to this early period and the contemporary era is an ...
Home alone: patient and carer uncertainty surrounding discharge with continuing clinical care needs.(Report)
Aug 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION Recently, as a result of advances in anaeshetic and surgical technology and changes in health care delivery brought about by financial restraints, individuals are often being discharged earlier from the hospital and are being cared for in their homes. These changes ...
Complementary and alternative medicine and the search for knowledge by conventional health care practitioners.(Report)
Aug 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION Complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) have been identified as being widely used both as a supplement to conventional or mainstream health care and as part of traditional health care systems and practices (Bodeker, Ong, Grundy, Burford, & Shein, 2005) ....