Volume 33, Number 3, June 2006

Volume 33, No. 3, June 2006

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NZFP June 2006

NZFP June 2006

CONTENTS

Contents

Primary Care Nursing

New Zealand practice nursing in the third millennium: Key issues in 2006
Eileen M McKinlay

The future of practice nursing
Rosemary Minto

Why nurses in NZ stay working in rural areas
Kirsty A Murrell-McMillan

Nursing on Stewart Island
Deborah Dillon

Opinion and Comment

Editorial
Tony Townsend

The RNZCGP Annual Conference
Ngaire Kerse

Swamp Rat

Original Scientific Papers

The benefits for house surgeons of a three-month rural general practic run: First responses from a longitudinal study off rural trainees
John D Pearson

General practitioners' actual and scheduled charges for consultations with children and the elderly in South Island PHO's
Murray Tilyard, Susan Dovey and Vanessa Krebs

Improving Performance

Problem gamblers and their families can be helped by their GP
Sean G Sullivan, Ross N McCormick, Michael K Lamont and Alison A Penfold

Continuing Medical Education

Hidden under the covers: Pressure ulcers in primary care
Carol Tweed and Mark Weatherall

Managing leg ulcers - its not rocket science
Andrew Jull and Julie Betts

Tai Chi for fall prevention and health
Paul Lam

Obesity in children
Robyn Toomath

POEMs: Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters

Cochrane Corner: Acyclovir as another treatment for pityriasis rosea
Bruce Arroll

Issues

Hothealth Websites
Kim Bannister

Book Review
Mandy Robinson

Reflections

GP midwifery, towards an alternative history
Jim Hefford

Journal Review Service

Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit