December 2005 Vol.4 No.3
   CONTENTS

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Medicine and Nursing
1.  The Roles of Nurse Practitioners in the United States∼Ya-Wen Chen
2.  Nursing Clinical Ladder: The Current Situation and Future Development
3.  Problem-Based Learning in Nursing Education
4.  Apply the Balanced Scorecard to Measure Strategic Performance in Healthcare System
5. Physical Care of Early Prostate Cancer Patients with High Dose Rate Brachytherapy 

Research Articles
6. An Evaluation Study of Applying Problem-Based Learning on Adult Health Nursing Program
7.    The Depressive Symptoms and Related Factors of Hemodialysis Patients
8.    Osteoporosis and Its Related Factors of Women Participated in Community Health Screening
9.    Multimedia Videodisc Health Teaching to Increase the Medical Decision in Hysterectomy Woman
10. An Improvement Project of Returning Inpatients' Possessions in the Acute Psychiatric Wards
11.    The Body Image Disturbance Nursing Care Experience for a Patient with Foot Flap Reconstruction
12. Nursing Care of a Suicidal Elder Patient with Esophageal Corrosive Injury∼Chun-hui Lee
13. The Nursing Care Experience of an Acute Myocardial Infarction Patient
14. Nursing Experience of a Patient with Orthotopic Liver Transplantation

Tzu Chi Field
•Dharma Master Yin Shun—Kindly Like a Father∼Nanly Hsu
•Precious Nursing Experience∼Ya-Hui Su
•The Impressive Sign Language of a Couple's Love∼Mei-Ling Hsieh
•The Grest Love to South Asia—Report from Sililanka∼Chang-Tao Wang

•Smile—My Perfect Life∼Zi-Qi Liu
•Nothing is Impossible∼Hui-Ping Wu

Nursing Student's Field
•Feeling With Learning Traditional Chinese Medicine∼Hsiu-Chuan Chang
•A Clinical Practive Diary of Mother of the Ward∼Wan-Ju Chang
•Wonderful Life Experience∼Tzu-Ting Li

An Interview with Famous Person
•Interview with Hsin-Ju Lu,Director,Department of Nursing,Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital,Da Lin∼Lay-Lan Lee

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