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Volume contents Contents VOLUME 19 NUMBER 1 JANUARY 1994 1 GUEST EDITORIAL Facilitating primary health care 4 NEWS 6 TARJA SUOMINEN, HELENA LEINO-KILPI AND PEKKA LAIPPALA Nurses’ role in informing breast cancer patients: a comparison between patients’ and nurses’ opinions 12 ELIZABETH j. HANSON An exploration of the taken-for-granted world of the cancer nurse in relation to stress and the person with cancer 21 ANNIKA LILIENBERG, MATS BENGTSSON AND HANS STARKHAMMAR Implantable devices for venous access: nurses’ and patients’ evaluation of three different port systems 29 PETER ALLMARK An argument against the use of the concept of ‘persons’ in health care ethics 36 WINIFRED j. PINCH Vertical transmission in HIV infection/AIDS: a feminist perspective 45 MAGI SQUE AND SHEILA A. PAYNE Gift Exchange Theory: a critique in relation to organ transplantation 52 ALISON E. WHILE AND VICTORIA K. WILCOX Paediatric day surgery: day-case unit admission compared with general paediatric ward admission 58 KATE R. YOUNG An evaluative study of a community health service development 66 RUUD HALFENS, KAREN COX AND ANNETTE KUPPEN-VAN MERWIJK Effect of the USe of sleep medication in Dutch hospitals on the use of sleep medication at home 71 JAYNE SUTCLIFFE AND SUSAN HOLMES Dehydration: burden or benefit to the dying patient? 77 DAYLE HUNT JOSEPH AND BARBARA PATTERSON Risk taking and its influence on metabolic control: a study of adult clients with diabetes 85 GRACE WHITIS Visiting hospitalized patients 89 AILSA DALE AND SHEILA CORNWELL The role of lavender oil in relieving perineal discomfort following childbirth: a blind randomized clinical trial 97 M. DIANNE GODKIN AND ELLEN L. TOTH Cardiopulmonary resuscitation decision making in long-term care: a role for the muse? 105 CHRIS A. ARMSTRONG-ESTHER Long-term care reform in Alberta, Canada: the role of the resident classification system 114 ASSUMPTA A. RYAN AND HUGH p. McKENNA A Comparative study of the attitudes of nursing and medical students to aspects of patient care and the nurse’s role in organizing that care 124 ANNE E. M. NYSTROM AND KERSTIN M. SEGESTEN On sources of powerlessness in nursing home life 134 PHILIPPA H. TRNOBRANSKi Nurse practitioner: redefining the role of the community nurse? 140 SUSAN E. FRENCH, DEREK WATTERS AND DAVID RALPH MATTHEWS Nursing as a career choice for women in Pakistan 152 CAROL L. McWIlLIAM AND CAROL A. WONG Keeping it secret: the costs and benefits of nursing’s hidden work in discharging patients 164 BARBARA PATERSON AND MARTA CRAWFORD Caring in nursing education: an analysis 174 JUSTUS A. AKINSANYA Making research useful to the practising nurse 180 PATRICIA L. WILLIAMS AND CHRISTINE WEBB The Delphi technique: a methodological discussion 187 DEBORAH G. SPENCE The CLuriculum revolution: can educational reform take place without a revolution in practice? 194 FLORENCE MYRICK AND CELESTE BARRETT Selecting clinical preceptors for basic baccalaureate nursing students: a critical issue in clinical teaching 199 BOOK REVIEWS 206 CONFERENCE REPORT Unity for Quality: 20th Quadrennial Congress of the International Council of Nurses, Madrid, Spain, 20-25 June 1993 Volume contents VOLUME 19 NUMBER! FEBRUARY 1994 211 EDITORIAL Nurses and technicians in high technology areas 212 NEWS 215 KATHLEEN KADNER Therapeutic intimacy in nursing 219 RICHARD WHITTINGTON AND TIL WYKES Violence in psychiatric hospitals: are certain staff prone to being assaulted? 226 MAN CHEUNG CHUNG AND PETER NOLAN The influence of positivistic thought on nineteenth century asylum nursing 233 SABINA DE GEEST, IVO ABRAHAM, HILDE GEMOETS AND GEORGES EVERS Development of the long-term medication behaviour self-efficacy scale: qualitative study for item development 239 KAREN R. WATERS Getting dressed in the early morning: styles of staff/patient interaction on rehabilitation hospital wards for elderly people 249 MAUREEN s. MACMILLAN Hospital staff’s perceptions of risk associated with the discharge of elderly people from acute hospital care 257 ROGER WATSON Measuring feeding difficulty in patients with dementia: developing a scale 264 c. A. ARMSTRONG-ESTHER, K. D. BROWNE AND j. G. McAFEE Elderly patients: Still clean and sitting quietly 272 CECILIA R. BARRON, MARTHA J. FOXALL, KATHLEEN VON DOLLEN, PATRICIA A. JONES AND KELLY A. SHULL Marital status, social support, and loneliness in visually impaired elderly people 281 SUSAN SIMMONS Social networks: their relevance to mental health nursing 290 NICHOLAS HOLDSWORTH AND WILLIAM GUY Problems of service assessment ab intro: research and evaluation relating to a new early intervention community psychiatric nursing service 299 IAN CHASTON A comparative study of internal customer management practices within service sector firms and the National Health Service 309 MELANIE A. JASPER Issues in phenomenology for researchers of nursing 315 MARSHA E. FONTEYN AND LISA FLAIG COOPER The written nuTsing process: is it still useful to nursing education? 320 IRMA KIIKKALA AND TERTTU MUNNUKKA Nursing research: on what basis? 328 K. LOUISE BARRIBALL AND ALISON WHILE Collecting data using a semi-structured interview: a discussion paper 336 JAN REED Phenomenology without phenomena: a discussion of the use of phenomenology to examine expertise in long-term care of elderly patients 342 BRENDA J. JACONO AND JOHN J. JACONO How should holism guide the setting of educational standards? 347 CARMEN DE LA CUESTA Marketing: a process in health visiting 354 ANNEKE L. FRANCKE AND TILL ERKENS Confluent education: an integrative method for nursing (continuing) education 362 BRENDAN McMAHON The functions of space 367 HELEN CARTER Confronting patriarchal attitudes in the fight for professional recognition 373 JAMES BUCHAN Lessons from America? US magnet hospitals and their implications for UK nursing 385 LORRAINE N. SMITH An analysis and reflections on the quality of nursing research in 1992 394 CARMEL SEIBOLD, LYN RICHARDS AND DAWN SIMON Feminist method and qualitative research about midlife 403 BOOK REVIEWS 409 CONFERENCE REPORT Much Talking: How Much Dialogue? The International Confederation of Midwives—23rd International Congress, Vancouver, Canada, 9-14 May 1993 Volume contents VOLUME 19 NUMBERS MARCH 1994 411 EDITORIAL Project 2000 assessed; is nursing education a means or an end? 412 NEWS 415 ROBERT SKELTON Nursing and empowerment: concepts and strategies 424 RITVA RAATIKAINEN Power or the lack of it in nursing care 433 SARAH E. JEWELL Patient participation: what does it mean to nurses? 439 LINDA A. ROSS Spiritual aspects of nursing 448 ANN M. THOMSON AND VALERIE F. HILLIER A re-evaluation of the effect of pethidine on the length of labour 457 MARTIN HIND An investigation into factors that affect oesophageal temperature dining abdominal surgery 465 MARTIN CARAHER Nursing and health promotion practice: the creation of victims and winners in a political context 469 PATRICK A. TYLER AND RACHEL N. ELLISON Sources of stress and psychological well-being in high-dependency nursing 477 ELAINE E. STEINKE Knowledge and attitudes of older adults about sexuality in ageing: a comparison of two studies 486 JOHN STRUTHERS An exploration into the role of humour in the nursing student-nurse teacher relationship 492 MARILYN F. JACKSON Discharge planning: issues and challenges for gerontological nursing. A critique of the literature 503 MARGARET j. BULL Use of formal community services by elders and their family caregivers 2 weeks following hospital discharge 509 KEITH R. JONES Ambulatory bio-feedback for stress incontinence exercise regimes: a novel development of the perineometer 513 SARAH CHURCH AND PATRICIA LYNE Research-based practice: some problems illustrated by the discussion of evidence concerning the use of a pressure-relieving device in nursing and midwifery 519 MARIANNE ARNDT Nurses’ medication errors 527 HUGH P. McKENNA The attitudes of traditional and undergraduate nursing students towards nursing models: a comparative survey 537 ANNIE P. DAL AY ON Components of preoperative patient teaching in Kuwait 543 JANNICE SNELLING The effect of chronic pain on the family unit 552 GINA COPP Palliative care nursing education: a review of research findings 558 TONY ARTHUR AND NIGKY JAMES Determining nurse staffing levels: a critical review of the literature 566 SARA L. MARSHALL AND ALISON E. WHILE Interviewing respondents who have English as a second language: challenges encountered and suggestions for other researchers 572 JOHN SHEEHAN A journal club as a teaching and learning strategy in nurse teacher education 579 SHEILA STARK A nurse tutor’s experience of personal and professional growth through action research 585 CHRISTOPHER c. BASSETT Nurse teachers’ attitudes to research: a phenomenological study 593 ALISON j. TIERNEY An analysis of nursing’s performance in the 1992 assessment of research of British universities 603 BOOK REVIEWS 609 CONFERENCE REPORT Nursing, Women’s History and the Politics of Welfare—Nottingham, 21-24 July 1993 Volume contents VOLUME 19 NUMBER 4 APRIL 1994 613 EDITORIAL Care of asthma patients 614 NEWS 617 JANE E. GRAYDON Women with breast cancer: their quality of life following a course of radiation therapy 623 ANN LONG AND BRENDAN MULLEN An exploration of women’s perceptions of the major factors that contributed to their alcohol abuse 640 ALISON FERGUSON Evaluating the purpose and benefits of continuing education in nursing and the implications for the provision of continuing education for cancer nurses 647 JOANNE WIDERQUIST AND RUTH DAVIDHIZAR The ministry of nursing 653 CAROL WHITTAKER, HILARY DICKINSON, JOHN HUMPHREYS AND ROBERTA RAMSAMMY An evaluation of communication strategies during the process of incorporating a college of health studies into a university 659 JOHN KEADY AND MIKE NOLAN Younger onset dementia: developing a longitudinal model as the basis for a research agenda and as a guide to interventions with sufferers and carers 670 DAN KUREMYR, MONA KIHLGREN, ASTRID NORBERG, STURE ASTROM AND INGVAR KARLSSON Emotional experiences, empathy and burnout among staff caring for demented patients at a collective living unit and a nursing home 680 DAVID ARTHUR AND KIM USHER An application of nursing faculty practice: clinical camps 685 BEVERLY D. HAGENHOFF, CINDY FEUTZ, VICKI S. CONN, KELLI K. SAGEHORN AND MARYBETH MORANVILLE-HUNZIKER Patient education needs as reported by congestive heart failure patients and their nurses 691 SUZANNE BAKKEN HENRY, WILLIAM L. HOLZEMER AND CHERYL A. REILLY The relationship between type of care planning system and patient outcomes in hospitalized AIDS patients 699 CAROLE BURGESS AND MARY L. HAMBLETT Application of the Rotter scale of internal-external locus of control to determine differences between smokers, non-smokers and ex-smokers in their general locus of control 705 SUSAN M. READ AND STEVE GEORGE Nurse practitioners in accident and emergency departments: reflections on a pilot study 717 BERNARD EDWARDS Telephone triage: how experienced nurses reach decisions 725 JO ALLEYNE AND V. j. THOMAS The management of sickle cell crisis pain as experienced by patients and their carers 733 PHILIPPA H. TRNOBRANSKI Nurse-patient negotiation: assumption or reality? 738 ANN SEED Patients to people 749 ELIZABETH STURCH Assessment of learning in the cross-cultural domain: reflection leads to learning for the teacher 755 PHILIP DARBYSHIRE Skilled expert practice: is it ‘all in the mind’? A response to English’s critique of Benner’s novice to expert model 762 S. JOSE GLOSS AND FRANGINE M. CHEATER Utilization of nursing research: culture, interest and support 774 ANN E. MACKENZIE Evaluating ethnography: considerations for analysis 782 ALISON RICHARDSON The health diary: an examination of its use as a data collection method 792 ADRIAN K. MORGAN Client education experiences in professional nursing practice — a phenomenological perspective 802 DAVID GLENISTER Patient participation in psychiatric services: a literature review and proposal for a research strategy 812 PHILIP WOODROW Mentorship: perceptions and pitfalls for nursing practice 819 ALASTAIR M. GRAY AND V. L. PHILIPS Turnover, age and length of service: a comparison of nurses and other staff in the National Health Service 828 BOOK REVIEWS Volume contents VOLUME 19 NUMBERS MAY 1994 835 GUEST EDITORIAL Nursing development units: professionalization strategy for nurses, cheap service option or genuine improvement in patient care? 837 NEWS 840 VIRGINIA B. NEWBERN AND HEIDI V. KROWGHUK Failure to thrive in elderly people: a conceptual analysis 850 ROGER WATSON Measuring feeding difficulty in patients with dementia: replication and validation of the EdFED Scale #1 856 PHILIP DARBYSHIRE Understanding caring through arts and humanities: a medical/nursing humanities approach to promoting alternative experiences of thinking and learning 864 ANNS FAIRLIE AND RICHARD BROWN Accidents and incidents involving patients in a mental health service 870 HUGH p. McKENNA The essential elements of a practitioners’ nursing model: a survey of psychiatric “nurse managers 878 KATHERINE K. CARR AND MARY K. KAZANOWSKI Factors affecting job satisfaction of nurses who work in long-term care 884 RACHEL SMITH AND PETER DRAPER Who is in Control? An investigation of nurse and patient beliefs relating to control of their health care 893 CATHERINE GAMBLE, KENNY MIDENCE AND JULIAN LEFF The effects of family work training on mental health nurses’ attitude to and knowledge of schizophrenia: a replication 897 CAROLE A. ROBINSON Nursing interventions with families: a demand or an invitation to change? 905 PENNY JENNINGS Learning through experience: an evaluation of ‘Hospital at Home’ 912 RENEE ADOMAT AND ANITA KILLINGWORTH Care of the critically ill patient: the impact of stress on the use of touch in intensive therapy units 923 JOY DUXBURY An investigation into primary nursing and its effect upon the nursing attitudes about and administration of prn night sedation 932 DAVID RUSHFORTH The adaptation of an experimental sampling procedure for application in naturalistic psychiatric nursing research settings 938 NORMA REID, GILLIAN ROBINSON AND CHRIS TODD The 12-hour shift: the views of nurse educators and students 947 ELAINE D. MAIRIS Concept clarification in professional practice — dignity 954 BRENDA JACONO AND JOHN JACONO Power tactics and their potential impact on nursing 960 BRYN D. DAVIS, JENNIFER R. BILLINGS AND RICHARD K. RYLAND Evaluation of nursing process documentation 969 GARY ROLFE Towards a new model of nursing research 976 TINA KOCH Establishing rigour in qualitative research: the decision trail 987 E. ANNE LACEY Research utilization in nursing practice — a pilot study 996 j. GREENWOOD What is it precisely that interpretive social research researches? 1003 SUSAN PROCTER AND MAURA HUNT Using the Delphi survey technique to develop a professional definition of nursing for analysing nursing workload 1015 PAUL j. DAWSON In defence of the middle ground 1024 JUDITH CHAVASSE Curriculum evaluation in nursing education: a review of the literature 1032 THOMAS KIPPENBROCK, MARY FISHER AND GERTRUDE HUSTER Leadership and its transition among nursing administration graduate departments 1039 BOOK REVIEWS Volume contents VOLUME 19 NUMBER 6 JUNE 1994 1045 EDITORIAL British health ombudsman names health authorities for the first time in his report 1047 NEWS 1050 MARY D. JERRETT Parents’ experience of coming to know the care of a chronically ill child 1057 MARY-LOU ELLERTON AND CRAIG MERRIAM Preparing children and families psychologically for day surgery: an evaluation 1063 H. H. ABU-SAAD, H. POOL AND B. TULKENS Further validity testing of the Abu-Saad Paediatric Pain Assessment Tool 1072 S. JOSE GLOSS Pain in elderly patients: a neglected phenomenon? 1082 ARJA LIUKKONEN AND PiRjo LAITINEN Reasons for uses of physical restraint and alternatives to them in geriatric nursing: a questionnaire study among nursing staff 1088 EVELYN j. FINNEMA, THEO DASSEN AND RUUD HALFENS Aggression in psychiatry: a qualitative study focusing on the characterization and perception of patient aggression by nurses working on psychiatric wards 1096 JULIE REPPER, RIGHARD FORD AND ANNA COOKE How can nurses build trusting relationships with people who have severe and long-term mental health problems? Experiences of case managers and their clients 1105 JANYTH MOWAT AND HEATHER K. SPENCE LASCHINGER Self-efficacy in caregivers of cognitively impaired elderly people: a concept analysis 1114 SUSAN M. BAUER Psychoneuroimmunology and cancer: an integrated review 1121 DINAH GOULD AND EMMA REAM Nurses’ views of infection control: an interview study 1132 MARIAN MOONS, ADA KERKSTRA AND TINEKE BIEWENGA Specialized home care for patients with AIDS: an experiment in Rotterdam, The Netherlands 1141 LESLEY SPENCER How do nuTses deal with their own grief when a patient dies on an intensive care unit, and what help can be given to enable them to overcome their grief effectively? 1151 GILLIAN R. JOHNSON The phenomenon of death: a study of Diploma in Higher Education nursing students’ reality 1162 HARRIET CONLEY WICHOWSKI Professional uncertainty: nurses in the technologically intense arena 1168 MICHAEL P. KELLY Patients’ decision making in major surgery: the case of total colectomy 1178 KATHARINE Y. KOLCABA A theory of holistic comfort for nursing 1185 MERJA NIKKONEN Caring from the point of view of a Finnish mental health nurse: a life history approach 1196 JOHN FIELDING AND SUSAN M. WEAVER A Comparison of hospital- and community-based mental health nurses: perceptions of their work environment and psychological health 1205 ADA KERKSTRA AND FRANK BEEMSTER The quality of assessment visits in community nursing 1212 NICKY BRITTEN AND ADRIENNE SHAW Patients’ experiences of emergency admission: how relevant is the British government’s Patients Charter? 1221 HUGH P. McKENNA The Delphi technique: a worthwhile research approach for nursing? 1226 CATHERINE A. CZECHMEISTER Metaphor in illness and nursing: a two-edged sword. A discussion of the social use of metaphor in everyday language, and implications of nursing and nursing education 1234 JAN SNOWBALL, KATH ROSS AND KATHY MURPHY Illuminating dissertation supervision through reflection 1241 LEA BUDDEN Nursing faculty practice: benefits vs costs 1247 CAROL E. MARROW AND SUE TATUM Student supervision: myth or reality? 1256 BOOK REVIEWS 1259 AUTHOR INDEX 1264 SUBJECT INDEX % I 1 I I 1 f I \ I I 0' i