This title is the first in an annual series placing the very best of nursing research within easy and affordable grasp of nurses. It brings together research of exceptional quality at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and which is of a length that it can't be published in journals without editing and sacrificing depth, nor published in book form without adding material and sacrificing rigour. Contemporary Issues in Nursing is not dissimilar to the Recent Advances in Nursing of years gone by, but nursing has moved on since those volumes were published. Nursing culture now demands that writing be much more research-based than previously, and pre- and post-graduate students produce increasing amounts of writing which is crying out to be published. This volume is a source of new knowledge for practitioners and an inspiring example to student nurses and midwives. It is essential reading for everyone involved in and committed to the nursing and midwifery professions.
