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st NTERNATIONAL JOURNAL of NURSING PRACTICE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Alan Pearson School of Nursing and Midwifery, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia REGIONAL EDITORS Australia and the Pacific UK and Europe Nordic Countries Professor Mary FitzGerald Professor lain Graham Dr Marja-Leena Perala Asia Africa Canada Professor David Thompson Professor Leana R. Uys Ms Doris Grinspun New Zealand South America Professor Alison Dixon Professor G. Hussein Rassool For contact details see inside back cover INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD David Arthur Hong Kong Polytechnic, Hong Kong Jean Orr Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland Helen Baker University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia Jan Pincombe University of South Australia, Salisbury East, Australia Senga Bond University of Newcastle, Newcastle-upon- Tyne, UK Marta Stankova Charles University, The Czech Republi: Anne Chang Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Beverley Taylor Southern Cross University, NSW, Australia Elisabeth Hamrin Lin Koping, Sweden Alison Tierney University of Adelaide, SA, Australia Patricia Hess San Francisco State University, California, USA Pearl Treacy University College, Dublin, Ireland Laszlo Komaromy Medical University of Pécs, Hungary Jean Watson University of Colorado, Denver, USA Judy Lumby New South Wales College of Nursing, NSW, lustralia Robin Watts Curtin University of Technology, WA, Australia Ann McMurray Griffith University, Queensland, Australia Jill White University of Technology, NSW, Australia Marie Manthey Creative Nursing Management, Minneapolis, USA PRODUCTION EDITOR Sandra Ozols (sozols(@ bigpond.net.au) This journal is also published online at www.blackwell-synergy.com Aims and Scope: International Journal of Nursing Practice is a fully refereed vices Abstracts, Health Source Nursing {cademi (EBSCO), Index Medicus (MEDLINE), journal that publishes original scholarly work that advances the internatignal Ingenta (UnCover), Journals at Ovid Nursing and Allied Health (EBSCO), ProQuest (Uni understanding and development of nursing, both as a profession and as an aca versity Microfilms), Social Planning Policy and Development Abstract and Sociologi: demic disc ipline The Journal focuses on research papers and prote ssional dis ibstracts cussion papers that have a sound scientific, theoretical or philosophical bas« Editorial Correspondence: All authors who require assistance can contact the Preference is given to high-quality papers written in a way that renders them Editorial Assistant, Ms Stephenie Peels (email [email protected]) accessible to a wide audience without compromising quality. The primary cri teria for acceptance are excellence, relevance and clarity. All articles are peer Disclaimer: The Publisher and Editors cannot be held responsible for errors or reviewed by at least two researchers expert in the field of the submitted paper any consequences arising trom the use of information contained in this jour the views and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Publisher Publication Frequency: Six issues per year. and Editors, neither does the publication of advertisements constitute any Abstracting and Indexing Services: The Journal is indexed by Academic endorsement by the Publisher and Editors of the products advertised 5 Search (EBSCO), ASSIA, Australian Medical Index, Biomedical Reference (EBSCO) This journal 1s printed mn acid jree paper British Nursing Index, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, CINAHL Database, Health Ser © 2004 Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd. To submit your manuscript visit ijnp.manuscriptcentral.com For subscription and all other information visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/ijn ISSN 1322-7114 (Print) ISSN 1440-172X (Online) IJN.JEBa. DecO4 st NTERNATIONAL JOURNAL of NURSING PRACTICE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Alan Pearson School of Nursing and Midwifery, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia REGIONAL EDITORS Australia and the Pacific UK and Europe Nordic Countries Professor Mary FitzGerald Professor lain Graham Dr Marja-Leena Perala Asia Africa Canada Professor David Thompson Professor Leana R. Uys Ms Doris Grinspun New Zealand South America Professor Alison Dixon Professor G. Hussein Rassool For contact details see inside back cover INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD David Arthur Hong Kong Polytechnic, Hong Kong Jean Orr Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland Helen Baker University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia Jan Pincombe University of South Australia, Salisbury East, Australia Senga Bond University of Newcastle, Newcastle-upon- Tyne, UK Marta Stankova Charles University, The Czech Republi: Anne Chang Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Beverley Taylor Southern Cross University, NSW, Australia Elisabeth Hamrin Lin Koping, Sweden Alison Tierney University of Adelaide, SA, Australia Patricia Hess San Francisco State University, California, USA Pearl Treacy University College, Dublin, Ireland Laszlo Komaromy Medical University of Pécs, Hungary Jean Watson University of Colorado, Denver, USA Judy Lumby New South Wales College of Nursing, NSW, lustralia Robin Watts Curtin University of Technology, WA, Australia Ann McMurray Griffith University, Queensland, Australia Jill White University of Technology, NSW, Australia Marie Manthey Creative Nursing Management, Minneapolis, USA PRODUCTION EDITOR Sandra Ozols (sozols(@ bigpond.net.au) This journal is also published online at www.blackwell-synergy.com Aims and Scope: International Journal of Nursing Practice is a fully refereed vices Abstracts, Health Source Nursing {cademi (EBSCO), Index Medicus (MEDLINE), journal that publishes original scholarly work that advances the internatignal Ingenta (UnCover), Journals at Ovid Nursing and Allied Health (EBSCO), ProQuest (Uni understanding and development of nursing, both as a profession and as an aca versity Microfilms), Social Planning Policy and Development Abstract and Sociologi: demic disc ipline The Journal focuses on research papers and prote ssional dis ibstracts cussion papers that have a sound scientific, theoretical or philosophical bas« Editorial Correspondence: All authors who require assistance can contact the Preference is given to high-quality papers written in a way that renders them Editorial Assistant, Ms Stephenie Peels (email [email protected]) accessible to a wide audience without compromising quality. The primary cri teria for acceptance are excellence, relevance and clarity. All articles are peer Disclaimer: The Publisher and Editors cannot be held responsible for errors or reviewed by at least two researchers expert in the field of the submitted paper any consequences arising trom the use of information contained in this jour the views and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Publisher Publication Frequency: Six issues per year. and Editors, neither does the publication of advertisements constitute any Abstracting and Indexing Services: The Journal is indexed by Academic endorsement by the Publisher and Editors of the products advertised 5 Search (EBSCO), ASSIA, Australian Medical Index, Biomedical Reference (EBSCO) This journal 1s printed mn acid jree paper British Nursing Index, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, CINAHL Database, Health Ser © 2004 Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd. To submit your manuscript visit ijnp.manuscriptcentral.com For subscription and all other information visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/ijn ISSN 1322-7114 (Print) ISSN 1440-172X (Online) IJN.JEBa. DecO4 * VOLUME CONTENTS #* Number 1 Editorial Horses for courses Var} FitzGerald Scholarly Paper A systematic review on the effectiveness of alcohol-based solutions for hand hygiene Wilawan Picheansathian Research Papers Part two: The core components of legitimate influence and the conditions that constrain or facilitate advanced nursing practice in adult critical care Carol Ball and Carol L Cox Who, when and where? Identification of patients at risk of an in-hospital advers« event: Implications for nursing practice Julie Considine and Mari Botti The attitudes, concerns, gloving practices and knowledge of nurses in a Taiwanes« hospital regarding AIDS and HIV Chi-Wen Juan, Robert Siebers, Francis Fu-Sheng Wu, Chia-Ju Wu, Yu-Jun Chang and Cindy Chao The context, measures and outcomes of psychosocial care interventions in long-term health care for older people {nn E MacKenzie, Diana TF Lee and Fiona M Ross The life situation and functional capacity of the elderly with locomotor disability in Sweden and Poland according to a model by Lawton Krystyna Jaracz, Gunnel Gustafsson and Elisabeth Hamrin International Review Networking for the advancement of nursing research in Europe for twenty-five years Varja-Leena Perala and Marjaana Pelkonen Number 2 Editorial Scholarship in nursing Alan Pearson Scholarly Paper Managing professionals: The emerging leadership role of Victorian Maternal and Child Health coordinators Kerreen Reiger and Helen Keleher Research Papers The perceiy ed needs of Jordanian families of hospitalized, critically ill patients Musa Ali Al-Hassan and Issa M Hweidi The clinical application of three screening tools for recognizing post-partum depression Barbara Hanna, Heather Jarman and Sally Savage The search for insight: Clients’ psychological experiences of alcohol withdrawal in a voluntary, residential, health care setting Morgan Smith The benefits and use of shock advisory defibrillators in hospitals Trudy Dwyer, Leonie Mosel Williams and lan Jacobs Anxiety and depression in community-dwelling, Italian Alzheimer’s disease caregivers oO S Julita Sansoni, Ercole Vellone and Giovanni Piras Number 3 Editorial Oral health and older people Alan Pearson Scholarly Paper Opportunities for an improved role for nurses in psychoactive substance use: Review of the literature Annette M Nkowane and Shekhar Saxena Research Papers Study abroad as a process of lear ning inter¢ ultural competence in nursing Liisa Koskinen and Kerttu Tossavainen Managing as carers of stroke survivors: Strategies from the field Bev 0’ Connell and Linda Baker Reasons for atte nding and not atte nding a support group for rec ipl nts ol implantable cardioverter defibrillators and their carers inne M Williams, Jeanne Young, Sue Nikoletti and Shelle} UcRae Is there evidence of the International Classification of Func tioning, Disability and Health in undergraduate nursing students’ patient assessm¢ nts? Julie Pryor, Ralph Forbes and Laynie Hall-Pullin Number 4 Editorial The shortage of nurses: Is it ‘“man’-made? Alan Pearson Research Papers Journeying to professionalism: The case of Irish nursing and midwifery research Sarah L Condell Giving voice to the burden of blame: A feminist study of mothers’ experiences of mother blaming Debra Jackson and Judy Mannix Ethics in nursing homes: Experience and casuistry Ashild Slettebo and Eli Haugen Bunch A nursing intervention for the quality use of medicines by elderly community clients Rhonda Griffiths, Maree Johnson, Margaret Piper and Rachel Langdon The effectiveness of a pram-walking exercise programme in reducing depressive symptomatology for postnatal women Ky lie Armstrong and Helen Edwards Book Review Number 5 Editorial Getting researc h into practice Alan Pearson Research Papers Falls risk assessment, multitargeted interventions and the impact on hospital falls Heather McFarlane-Kolb Geriatric rehabilitation nursing: Developing a model Pirkko Routasalo, Seija Arve and Sirkka Lauri Errors in body temperature assessment related to individual variation, measur ing technique and e quipment Martha Sund-Levander, Ewa Grodzinsky, Dan Loyd and Lis Karin Wahren The effectiveness of a multidisciplinary pain management programme managing chronic pain Elin Dy svik, Anne Guttormsen Vinsnes and Ole-Johan Eikeland Predictors of patients’ experiences ot nursing care in medical surgic al wards Muayyad M Ahmad and Jafar A Alasad Clinical Report Establishing prevention, education and community awareness through a compre ~hensive diabetes, hype rtension and hy perc holesterolaemia scree ning programme: The Smith Island, Maryland, USA experience Michele R Davidson Number 6 Editorial Building research capacity in nursing {lan Pearson Research Papers Suffering related to health care: A study of breast cancer patients’ experiences Maria Arman, Arne Rehnsfeldt, Lisbet Lindholm, Elisabeth Hamrin and Katie Eriksson The problem of postoperative pain: Issues for future research Mari Botti, Tracey Bucknall and Elizabeth Manias Jordanian pregnant women’s expectations of their first childbirth experience Arwa Oweis and Lubna Abushaikha A historical perspective on the contrasting experiences of nurses as research subjects and research activists Stephanie Kirby Positive outcomes for survivors of haematological malignancies from a spiritual perspective Pam McGrath Clinical Report The influence of the full moon on the number of admissions related to gastrointestinal bleeding Eva Maria Roman, German Soriano, Mercedes Fuentes, Maria Luz Galvez and Clotilde Fernandez Referees Author Index Subject Index