Clinical Challenges

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.

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.

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.