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Volume contents Contents Volume 26 Number 1 July 1997 1 EDITORIAL References, copyright and plagiarism 2 NEWS 6 SIOBAN NELSON Pastoral care and moral government: early nineteenth century nursing and solutions to the Irish question 15 G. WILSHAW Integration of therapeutic approaches: a new direction for mental health nurses? 20 R. G. SAMMUT Psychiatric nurses’ satisfaction: the effects of closure of a hospital 25 R. WATSON AND I. j. DEARY A longitudinal study of feeding difficulty and nursing intervention in elderly patients with dementia 33 p. CALLAGHAN, CHEUNG siu SHAN. LAU SUK YU, LO WAi CHING AND TSUI LAI KWAN Attitudes towards mental illness: testing the contact hypothesis among Chinese student nurses in Hong Kong 41 pAivikki koponen, sirkka-liisa helio and seppo aro Finnish public health nurses’ experiences of primary health care based on the population responsibility principle 49 j. WUEST Illuminating environmental influences on women’s Ccuing 59 J. GRAYDON, S. GALLOWAY, S. PALMER-WICKHAM, D. HARRISON, L. RICH-VAN DER BIJ, P. WEST. S. BURLEIN-HALL AND B. EVANS-BOYDEN Information needs of women during early treatment for breast cancer 65 ADA C. ROGERS Vulnerability, health and health care 73 H. LUKKARINEN AND M. HENTINEN Assessment of quality of life with the Nottingham Health Profile among patients with coronary heart disease 85 s. WATTS AND A. BROOKS Patients’ perceptions of the pre-operative information they need about events they may experience in the intensive care unit 93 G. BYRNE AND R. HEYMAN Understanding nurses’ communication with patients in accident & emergency departments using a symbolic interactionist perspective 101 MARION JONES, P. O’NEILL, H. WATERMAN AND C. WEBB Building a relationship: communications and relationships between staff and stroke patients on a rehabilitation ward 111 C. E. MEURIER, C. A. VINCENT AND D. G. PARMAR Learning ft-om errors in nursing practice 120 WENDY MOYLE AND MICHAEL CLINTON The problem of arriving at a phenomenological description of memory loss 126 ALAN BARNARD A critical review of the belief that technology is a neutral object and nurses are its master 132 w. F. BUCHMANN Adherence: a matter of self-efficacy and power 138 B. M. RAUDONis AND G. J. ACTON Theory-based nursing practice 146 H. A. CAHILL What should nurse teachers be doing? A preliminary study 154 B. PRICE Defining quality student feedback in distance learning 161 J. MACLEOD CLARK, J. MABEN AND K. JONES Project 2000: perceptions of the philosophy and practice of nursing: shifting perceptions—a new practitioner? 169 s. JORDAN AND K. REID The biological sciences in nursing: an empirical paper reporting on the applications of physiology to nursing care 180 T. THORNTON Attitudes towards the relevance of biological, behavioural and social sciences in nursing education 187 JOHN PALEY Husserl, phenomenology and nursing 194 L. KING AND J. V. APPLETON Intuition: a critical review of the research and rhetoric 203 J. CIOFFI Heuristics, servants to intuition, in clinical decision-making 209 BOOK REVIEWS 214 JANFORUM Sociology and the nursing curriculum: a further comment Volume contents Volume 26 Number 2 August 1997 220 EDITORIAL Relaunch of the Patients Association: Will it help to empower patients? 221 NEWS 226 JOAN EVANS Men in nursing: issues of gender segregation and hidden advantage 232 CAROLYN MACKINTOSH A historical study of men in nursing 237 MARGARET EDWARDS The nurses’ aide: past and future necessity 246 JILL MACLEOD CLARK, JILL MABEN AND KAREN JONES Project 2000. Perceptions of the philosophy and practice of nursing: preparation for practice 257 ANNE-LISE MCDONALD, IAN H. LANGFORD AND NIGEL BOLDERO The future of community nursing in the United Kingdom 266 RIITTA PAAVILAINEN AND PAlvi ASTEDT-KURKI Self-reported family health and well-being after early discharge from maternity hospital: a phenomenological study 273 CLARE BENNETT AND ALAN WEALE HIV and AIDS awareness: an evaluation of a short training programme for midwives 283 IAN HODGSON Attitudes towards people with HIV/AIDS: entropy and health care ethics 289 PETER NOLAN AND PAUL CRAWFORD Towards a rhetoric of spirituality in mental health care 295 C. SCANLON AND w. S. WEIR Learning from practice? Mental health nurses’ perceptions and experiences of clinical supervision 304 CHRISTOPHER STIRLING AND ALBERT MCHUGH Natural therapeutic holding: a non-aversive alternative to the use of control and restraint in the management of violence for people with learning disabilities 312 LOU F. GRAMLING AND NANGY L. MCCAIN Grey glasses: sadness in young women 320 BEVERLEY FRENCH British Studies which measure patient outcome, 1990-1994 329 CATHERINE TAYLOR Problem solving in clinical nursing practice 337 LENA RING AND ELLA DANIELSON Patients’ experiences of long-term oxygen therapy 345 KATHLEEN MAC LELLAN A chart audit reviewing the prescription and administration trends of analgesia and the documentation of pain, after surgery 351 MARION GOOD AND LINDA SCHULER Subject retention in a controlled clinical trial 356 MARK MITCHELL Patients’ perceptions of pre-operative preparation for day surgery 364 CHRISTOPHER c. TYE The emergency nurse practitioner role in major accident and emergency departments: professional issues and the research agenda 371 CORA HINDS AND ALWYN MOYER Support as experienced by patients with cancer during radiotherapy treatments 380 PETER FRENCH, LEE FUNG WAH FLORA, LIU SUM PING, LUK KAR BO AND WONG HEUNG YEE RITA The prevalence and cause of occupational back pain in Hong Kong registered nurses 389 CAROLYN HICKS AND DEBORAH HENNESSY The use of a customized training needs analysis tool for nurse practitioner development 399 DEBBIE KRALIK, TINA KOCH AND KAREN WOTTON Engagement and detachment: understanding patients’ experiences with nursing 408 SUE DAVIES, SARA LAKER AND LORRAINE ELLIS Promoting autonomy and independence for older people within nursing practice: a literature review 418 SHEILA TWINN An exploratory study examining the influence of translation on the validity and reliability of qualitative data in nursing research 424 MARTIEN T. MULLER, LOES PIJNENBORG, BREGJE D. ONWUTEAKA-PHILIPSEN, GERRIT VAN DER WAL AND JACQUES TH.M. VAN EIJK The role of the nurse in active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide 431 BOOK REVIEWS 434 JANFORUM Feedback Volume contents Volume 26 Number 3 September 1997 437 EDITORIAL Liminal nurses urgently needed for the challenges ahead 439 NEWS 444 ERNEST CHAPMAN In praise of ivory towers 449 AASHILD SLETTEBOE Dilemma: a concept analysis 455 LEE CHUN-HEUNG AND PETER FRENCH Education in the practicum: a study of the ward learning climate in Hong Kong 463 j. R. CHILVERS AND D. JONES The Teaching Nursing Homes innovation: a literature review 470 NIGEL WYNNE, STUART BRAND AND ROY SMITH Incomplete holism in pre-registration nurse education: the position of the biological sciences 475 MARTYN C. JONES AND DEREK w. JOHNSTON Distress, stress and coping in first-year student nurses 483 MARY E. HOLLIDAY AND DAVID L. PARKER Florence Nightingale, feminism and nursing 489 DAVID RUSSELL An oral history project in mental health nursing 496 RICHARD HOGSTON Nursing diagnosis and classification systems: a position paper 501 PETER KAI-GHEUNG CHUK Clinical nurse specialists and quality patient care 507 P. THOMSON AND H. KOHLI Health promotion training needs analysis: an integral role for clinical nurses in Lanarkshire, Scotland 515 DOUGLAS P. OLSEN When the patient causes the problem: the effect of patient responsibility on the nurse-patient relationship 523 GWEN HARTRICK Relational capacity: the foundation for interpersonal nursing practice 529 YVONNE FULTON Nurses’ views on empowerment: a critical social theory perspective 537 BONNIE SIBBALD, GRETA BARNES AND STEPHEN R. DURHAM Skin prick testing in general practice: a pilot study 543 SYLVINA TATE Peppermint oil: a treatment for postoperative nausea 550 ANN MARIE BOWMAN Sleep satisfaction, perceived pain and acute confusion in elderly clients undergoing orthopaedic procedures 565 KAREN MOORE SGHAEFER Health patterns of women with fibromyalgia 572 ALEXANDER MOLASSIOTIS A conceptual model of adaptation to illness and quality of life for cancer patients treated with bone marrow transplants 580 THORA B. hafsteinsd6ttir AND MIEKE GRYPDONCK Being a stroke patient: a review of the literature 589 ELEANOR VANETZIAN Learning readiness for patient teaching in stroke rehabilitation 595 KAREN THEOBOLD The experience of spouses whose partners have suffered a myocardial infarction: a phenomenological study 602 DIANA T. F. LEE Residential care placement: perceptions among elderly Chinese people in Hong Kong 608 JANE DYSON Research: promoting positive attitudes through education 613 JANE DRUMMOND AND DEBRA RICKWOOD Childbirth confidence: validating the childbirth self-efficacy inventory (CBSEI) in an Australian sample 623 IMELDA T. COYNE Sampling in qualitative research. Purposeful and theoretical sampling; merging or clear boundaries? 631 BOOK REVIEWS 635 CONFERENCE REPORT 637 CONFERENCE REPORT 639 CONFERENCE REPORT 1 Volume contents Volume 26 Number 4 October 1997 641 GUEST EDITORIAL United Kingdom universities’ research assessment exercise 1996: critique, comment and concerns 643 NEWS 649 JANICE M. MORSE AND CARL MITCHAM Compathy: the contagion of physical distress 658 SHARON D. HORNER Uncertainty in mothers’ care for their ill children 664 NANCY R. LACKEY AND MARIE F. GATES Combining the analyses of three qualitative data sets in studying young caregivers 672 MARGARET ENGLAND Self-coherence, emotional arousal and perceived health of adult children caring for a brain-impaired parent 683 BRITT ALMBERG, MARGARETA GRAFSTROM AND BENGT WINBLAD Major Strain and coping strategies as reported by family members who care for aged demented relatives 692 JAMES NOEL GAVIN Nursing ideology and the ‘generic carer’ 698 HEIDAR ALI ABEDi AND CHRISTOPHER MAGGS Identifying the health needs of elderly people using the Omaha Classification Scheme 704 DAVID PULSFORD Therapeutic activities for people with dementia—what, why... and why not? 710 LINDA A. ROSS Elderly patients’ perceptions of their spiritual needs and care: a pilot study 716 LUZ s. PORTER, MARCIAL ASTACio AND LORETO c. SOBONG Telephone hotline assessment and counselling of suicidal military service veterans in the USA 723 MARI MCGHEE, KEN O’NEILL, KIRSTEN MAJOR AND SARA TWADDLE Evaluation of a nurse-led continence service in the south-west of Glasgow, Scotland 729 ROSE WILES Empowering practice nurses in the follow-up of patients with established heart disease: lessons from patients’ experiences 736 RUTH NORTHWAY Disability and oppression: some implications for nurses and nursing 744 PAUL j. DAWSON A personal reflection on the nature of somatic treatments and the implications for mental health nursing 751 BEN HANNIGAN A challenge for community psychiatric nursing: is there a future in primary health care? 758 IAN SHAW Assessing quality in health care services: lessons from mental health nursing 765 JAN REED AND VALERIE ROSKELL PAYTON Focus groups: issues of analysis and interpretation 772 Liv INGER STRAND AND ANNE ELISABETH LJUNGGREN Different approximations of the McGill Pain ’ Questionnaire in the Norwegian language: a discussion of content validity 780 ' TOM MASON An ethnomethodological analysis of the use of seclusion 790 JEAN FAUGIER AND MARY SARGEANT Sampling hard to reach populations 798 ANITA C. ALL AND LINDA SULLIVAN The effects of an HIV/AIDS educational programme on the anxiety level of nursing students 804 KATIE BOOTH, MARIA KENRICK AND SIMON WOODS Nursing knowledge, theory and method revisited 812 OLIVE YONGE Assessing and preparing students for distance preceptorship placements 817 STELLA KOTZABASSAKI, MARIA PANOU, FOTINI DIMOU, ATHINA KARABAGLI, BASILIKI KOUTSOPOULOU AND URANIA IKONOMOU Nursing students’ and faculty’s perceptions of the characteristics of ‘best’ and ‘worst’ clinical teachers: a replication study 825 EILEEN s. O’NEILL AND NANCY M. DLUHY A longitudinal framework for fostering critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning 833 CATHERINE DAVIS, BRYN D. DAVIS AND PHILIP BURNARD Use of the QSR.NUD,IST Computer program to identify how clinical midwife mentors view their work 840 BOOK REVIEWS Volume contents Volume 26 Number 5 November 1997 843 GUEST EDITORIAL 25 years of nurse education in the University of Wales College of Medicine 845 NEWS 851 SOLVE elmstAhl, MATS PERSSON, MARGARETA ANDREN AND VLASTA BLABOLIL Malnutrition in geriatric patients; a neglected problem? 856 PAULA MCCORMACK Undemutrition in the elderly population living at home in the community: a review of the literature 864 SARAH A. WILSON The transition to nursing home life: a comparison of planned and unplanned admissions 872 LIAN CHIU, WOEI-CHERNG SHYU AND TCHEN-RU JAYNE CHEN A cost-effectiveness analysis of home care and community-based nursing homes for stroke patients and their families 879 NICOLA MEAD, PETER BOWER AND LINDA CASK Emotional problems in primary care: what is the potential for increasing the role of nurses? 891 KEITH BRUNTON Stigma 899 LINDSAY GEORGE The psychological characteristics of patients suffering from anorexia nervosa and the nurse’s role in creating a therapeutic relationship 909 MAREK MOTYKA, HELENA MOTYKA AND ROMANA WSOLEK Elements of psychological support in nursing care 913 MARY MORGAN, STEPHEN MATTHEY, BRYANNE BARNETT AND CHERYL RICHARDSON A group programme for postnatally distressed women and their partners 921 MICHAEL SHEPPARD Depression in female health visitor consulters: social and demographic facets 930 LEN BOWERS Community psychiatric nurse caseloads and the ‘worried well’: misspent time or vital work? 937 MARTIN F. WARD AND MARTIN JONES Evaluating the impact of in-patient bed reduction and community nurse increases in one English Mental Healthcare Trust 946 HUDA HUIJER ABU-SAAD AND JAN P. HAMERS Decision-making and paediatric pain: a review 953 JUDITH A. ERLEN AND SUSAN M. SEREIKA Critical care nurses, ethical decision-making and stress 962 MARGITA KLEMETTi, NINA SANTAVIRTA, ANNELi sarvimAki AND hjOrdis bjorvell Tension neck and evaluation of a physical training course among office workers in a bank corporation 968 STEVEN P. WAINWRIGHT AND DINAH GOULD Non-adherence with medications in organ transplant patients: a literature review 978 KATRINA BREADEN Cancer and beyond: the question of survivorship 985 MARY E. MUMFORD A descriptive study of the readability of patient information leaflets designed by nurses 992 PETER GALLERY Caring for parents of hospitalized children: a hidden area of nursing work 999 VIVIEN M. WOODWARD Professional caring: a contradiction in terms? 1005 ELIZABETH BETHUNE AND NOEL JACKLING Critical thinking skills: the role of prior experience 1013 ANITA j. GREEN AND DAVID G. HOLLOWAY Using a phenomenological research technique to examine student nurses’ understandings of experimental teaching and learning: a critical review of methodological issues 1020 PHILIP j. WARELOW A nursing journey through discursive praxis 1028 ALUN JONES A ‘bonding between strangers’: a palliative model of clinical supervision 1036 SUSAN KIRK, CAROLINE CARLISLE AND KAREN A. LUKER The implications of Project 2000 and the formation of links with higher education for the professional and academic needs of nurse teachers in the United Kingdom 1045 GERALDINE M.C. MASON AND MOIRA ATTREE The relationship between research and the nursing process in clinical practice 1050 BOOK REVIEWS Volume contents Volume 26 Number 6 December 1997 1057 EDITORIAL The challenge of providing primary health care for all 1060 NEWS 1065 JANET FERGUSON, DEBORAH GILROY, KATHLEEN PUNTILLO AND TERESA DOWDESWELL Dimensions of pain and analgesic administration associated with coronary artery bypass grafting in an Australian intensive care unit 1073 ELOISE c. j. CARR Evaluating the use of a pain assessment tool and care plan: a pilot study 1080 LOUISE BELL, ASHLEY SOLIERI, PAT WEST, KATE BURGESS AND TERESA DOWDESWELL The development and benefits of nursing protocols for fractured neck of femur patients 1086 JUNE MUI HING MAK Oncology nursing: professional development as a clinical specialty in Hong Kong 1091 ALISON LANGLEY-EVANS AND SHEILA PAYNE Light-hearted death talk in a palliative day care context 1098 JANE HADDOCK AND CAROLINE BURROWS The role of the nurse in health promotion: an evaluation of a smoking cessation programme in surgical pre-admission clinics 1111 MERVI KUISMA, IRJA MURTONEN, MARITA PAUNONEN, KRISTIINA LEHTI, MEERI KOIVULA AND MARJORIE WHITE Family dynamics of families with mental health problems in Finland 1117 ANNE-CATHRINE MATTIASSON AND LARS ANDERSSON Quality of nursing home care assessed by competent nursing home patients 1125 LUCY E. WILLETTS AND JULIAN LEFF Expressed emotion and schizophrenia: the efficacy of a staff training programme 1134 BARBRO MENDEL, KIM LOTZEN, JOHAN BERGENIUS AND HJORDIS BJORVELL Living with dizziness: an explorative study 1142 MAREE RAFTOS, JUDY MANNix AND DEBRA JACKSON More than motherhood? A feminist exploration of women’s health’ in papers indexed by CINAHL 1993-1995 1150 DEBBIE TOLSON Age-related hearing loss: a case for nursing intervention 1158 ANN ADAMS AND SENGA BOND Clinical specialty and organizational features of acute hospital wards 1168 DEBORAH McCaffrey Lessons learned from clinical nurse specialist longevity 1175 ELAINE DENNY The second missing link: Bible nursing in 19th century London 1183 JANE DYSON, MARK COBB AND DAWN FORMAN The meaning of spirituality: a literature review 1189 SARAH SOURIAL An analysis of caring 1193 SADA CAMIAH Utilization of nursing research in practice and application strategies to raise research awareness amongst nurse practitioners: a model for success 1203 VIRGINIA DUNN, N. CRICHTON, B. ROE, K. SEERS AND K. WILLIAMS Using research for practice: a UK experience of the BARRIERS Scale 1211 PENELOPE ANN HILTON Theoretical perspectives of nursing: a review of the literature 1221 COLUMBA McLAUGHLiN The effect of classroom theory and contact with patients on the attitudes of student nurses towards mentally ill people 1229 CHRISTINE E. HALLET Pragmatism and Project 2000: the relevance of Dewey’s theory of experimentalism to nursing education 1235 JANICE B. CLARKE AND JEREMY WARR Academic validation of prior and experiential learning: evaluation of the process 1243 BRENDA CLARKE AND CHRIS JAMES The purpose of flexible learning in post-registration nurse education 1252 MEI KUEN LI Perceptions of effective clinical teaching behaviours in a hospital-based nurse training programme 1262 STEVEN p. WAIN WRIGHT A new paradigm for nursing: the potential of realism 1272 BOOK REVIEWS 1278 JANFORUM 1281 AUTHOR INDEX 1286 KEYWORD INDEX I / I I