This volume should be quite useful to the target audience. It provides a good foundation for evidence-based practice and further research (4 stars). Doody's Book Review Service.The nursing community is continually challenged with expanding the empirical knowledge base that informs rural nursing practice. This volume of the prestigious Annual Review of Nursing Research, Focus on Rural Health, addresses this challenge. Contributors have developed creative and effective strategies to identify relevant research and present them in the context of the rural delivery system.

This 21st volume of the Annual Review synthesizes nursing research to date on child health and illness, including family issues. Ages range from pre-term babies to adolescents, with a focus on chronic illness. A special final chapter reviews the highlights of the past 10 volumes of the Annual Review of Nursing Research, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Review.

First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

Now in its second decade of publication, this landmark series draws together and critically reviews all the existing research in specific areas of nursing practice, nursing care delivery, nursing education, and the professional aspects of nursing.

Now in its second decade of publication, this landmark series draws together and critically reviews all the existing research in specific areas of nursing practice, nursing care delivery, nursing education, and the professional aspects of nursing.

Now in its second decade of publication, this landmark series draws together and critically reviews all the existing research in specific areas of nursing practice, nursing care delivery, nursing education, and the professional aspects of nursing.

This early volume in the long-running series focuses primarily on community issues. As in all volumes in the series, leading nurse practitioners provide students, researchers, and clinicians with the foundations for evidence-based practice and further research.