INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING STUDIES

L. Commons and S. Baldwin 1

C. Bertero, B.-E. Eriksson and A.-C. Ek 9

F.-J. Shih 17

P. Gallery

A. Richardson and E. Ream 35

E. Ream and A. Richardson 44

J. Buchan, I. Seccombe and S. Thomas

J. M. Wilson and A. P. Retsas

c. Dfosu 72

S. L. Dudley-Brown 76

Call for Abstracts 84

Book Reviews 85

A. McGrory 87

J. M. J. F. Nissen, N. P. G. Boumans and J. A. Landeweerd

C. E. Hallett

93 Primary nursing and quality of care: a Dutch study

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S. Tilley, P. Runciman and L. Hockey 111

G. Rolfe and L.-M. Phillips 119

H. Ha-ping Yung 128

LIST OF CONTENTS

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Ethical policy guidelines development for general hospital nurses

A substantive theory of quality of life of adults with chronic leukaemia

Perception of self in the intensive care unit after cardiac surgery among adult Taiwanese and American-Chinese patients

Maternal knowledge and professional knowledge: co- operation and conflict in the care of sick children

Self-care behaviours initiated by chemotherapy patients in response to fatigue

Fatigue in patients with cancer and chronic obstructive air- ways disease: a phenomenological enquiry

Overseas mobility of U.K. based nurses

Personal constructs of nursing practice: a comparative analysis of three groups of Australian nurses

Continuing education: are conferences and workshops the link for hospital employed nurses?

The evaluation of nursing theory: a method for our madness

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Eye injuries: a review of the literature with nursing implications

Learning through reflection in the community: the relevance of Schon’s theories of coaching to nursing education

Research-based nurse education: understandings and personal accounts

The development and evaluation of the role of an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in dementia-an action research project

Ethical decision-making and the perception of the ward as a learning environment: a comparison between hospital- based and degree nursing students in Hong Kong

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K. Cash

K. Libbus, T. A. Bush and N. M. Hockman

M. J. Stewart, A. M. Hitth, G. Klassen, L. Makrides and H. Wolf

Chan Wai-Han, Chow Kit-Wai, P. French, Lai Vim-Sheung and Tse Lai-Kwan

Call for Abstracts

Book Review

D. Tolson and J. McIntosh

F. Clarke and R. Newell

E. M. Jackson

M. Johnson and C. Cook Bowman

L. Bowers

T. Jaarsma, H. H. Abu-Saad, R. Halfens and K. Dracup

J. M. Fitzpatrick, A. E. While and J. D. Roberts

D. Raphael, I. Brown, R. Renwick, M. Cava, N. Weir and K. Heathcote

Announcements

T. V. McCance, H. P. McKenna and J. R. P. Boore

K. S. Kauffman and D. H. Myers

S. Collingsworth, D. Gould and S. P. Wainwright

T. Hakulinen, M. Paunonen, M. A. White and M. E. Wilson

C. Brooker, K. Collins, R. Akehurst and J. Repper

137 Social epistemology, gender and nursing theory

144 Breastfeeding beliefs of low-income primigravidae

151 Stress, coping, and social support as psychosocial factors in readmissions for ischaemic heart disease

165 Which pressure sore rick calculator? A study of the effective- ness of the Norton scale in Hong Kong

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241 Caring: dealing with a difficult concept

249 The changing role of village health volunteers in Northeast Thailand: an ethnographic field study

256 Patient self-administration of medication: a review of the literature

270 Dynamics of families during the third trimester of pregnancy in southwest Finland

278 Mapping the difficulties experienced by clinicians and managers in health and social care who are seeking to develop research skills

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Listening in the care environment-chaos or clarity for the hearing-impaired elderly person

Perceptions of the body interior by children with asthma and children with no known chronic disease

Dimensions of care in five United States nursing homes: identifying invisible work in care-giving

Occupational prestige for registered nurses in the Asia- Pacific region: status consensus

Constructing international professional identity: what psy- chiatric nurses talk about on the Internet

‘Maintaining the balance’-nursing care of patients with chronic heart failure

Measuring clinical nurse performance: development of the King’s Nurse Performance Scale

Measuring the quality of life of older persons: a model with implications for community and public health nursing

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D. M. Mead, L. G. Moseley and R. M. Cook 285 Can feedback be individualised, useful, and economical?

H. Lukkarinen and M. Hentinen 295 Self-care agency and factors related to this agency among patients with coronary heart disease

A. Chiou, K. Potempa and M. 6. Buschmann

P. D. Williams

305 Anxiety, depression and coping methods of hospitalized patients with myocardial infarction in Taiwan

312 Siblings and pediatric chronic illness: a review of the literature

Announcement 324

J. P. H. Hamers, M. A. van den Hout, R. J. G. Halfens, H. H. Abu-Saad and A. E. G. Heijltjes

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R. Ashmore and D. Banks 335

C. T. Beck 346

E. Faxelid, B. M. Ahlberg, M. Maimbolwa and I. Krantz

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H. R. Boeije, A. C. Nievaard and A. F. Casparie

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L. Gilbert 367

R. G. Borda and I. J. Norman 375

R. G. Borda and I. J. Norman 385

L. Perry 395

R. Watson and I. J. Deary 405

C. E. Hallett 415

M. Cormier-Daigle and M. Stewart

H. P. McKenna

S.-F. Kao and B. Lusk

Announcements

NUMBER 5

Differences in pain assessment and decisions regarding the administration of analgesics between novices, intermedi- ates and experts in pediatric nursing

Student nurses perceptions of their interpersonal skills: A re-examination of Burnard and Morrison’s findings

Humor in nursing practice: a phenomenological study

Quality of STD care in an urban Zambian setting: the providers’ perspective

Coping strategies of enrolled nurses in nursing homes: Shifting between organizational imperatives and residents’ needs

Pharmacist and nurse: a team approach towards primary health care or a convenient “therapeutic alliance”?

Testing a model of absence and intent to stay in employ ment: a study of registered nurses in Malta

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Factors influencing turnover and absence of nurses: a research review

Fishing for understanding: nurses knowledge and attitudes in relation to nutritional care

Feeding difficulty in elderly patients with dementia: Con- firmatory factor analysis

The helping relationship in the community setting: the relevance of Rogerian theory to the supervision of Project 2000 students

Support and coping of male hemodialysis-dependent patients

Theory and research: a linkage to benefit practice

Attitudes of Asian and American graduate nursing students towards death and dying