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(962-1067/99 $15.00 Published by Blackwell Science Ltd Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 0EL, UK 25 John Street, London WCIN BL, UK 23 Ainslie Place, Edinburgh EH3 6AJ, UK Commerce Place, 350 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA 54 University Street, Carlton South, Victoria 3053, Australia 10 rue Casimir Delavigne, 75006 Paris, France Blackwell Wissenschaft, Kurfurstendamm 57, D-10707 Berlin, Germany Nihombashi, Cho-Ku, Tokyo 104, Japan ISSN 0962 1067 Typeset by SPS, India and printed in Great Britain by Bell and Bain Ltd, Glasgow Contents VOLUME 9, ISSUE 1, JANUARY 2000 Nursing practice SUE DAVIES, LORRAINE ELLIS AND SARA LAKER Promoting Editorial autonomy and independence for older people within nursing DINAH GOULD practice: an observational study MARGARET A. PERRY Reflections on intuition and expertise Reviews HELVI KYNGAS, MARY E. DUFFY AND THILO KROLL Conceptual Research in brief analysis of compliance YUEH-JUEN HWU, VIVIEN E. COATES AND FENG-YU LIN A study CLAUDE MKHELE POISSONNET AND MONIQUE VERON Health of the effectiveness of different measuring times and counting effects of work schedules in healthcare professions methods of human radial pulse rates PATRICIA ROWLAND AND JENNIFER MILLWARD ‘Emergency’ Articles consultation in general practice: patients’ experiences Critical care nursing TRACEY K. BUCKNALL Critical care nurses’ decision-making Book reviews activities in the natural clinical setting INFORMATION POINT: Nursing Career Structure (see p. 25) Information for contributors B. FRIDLUND, E.-C. LINDGREN, A. IVARSSON, B.-M. JINHAGE, K. BOLSE, I. FLEMME, B. SANDSTEDT AND J. MARTENSSON Patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and their VOLUME 9, ISSUE 2, MARCH 2000 conceptions of the life situation: a qualitative analysis ISABELLA Y. M. LEE, W. T. CHIEN AND ANN E. MACKENZIE Needs of families with a relative in a critical care unit in Hong Editorial Kong 161 CHRISTINE WEBB MARTHA SUND-LEVANDER AND LIS KARIN WAHREN Assessment Review and prevention of shivering in patients with severe cerebral DINAH GOULD, TRUDI JAMES, AIDEEN TARPEY, DANIEL KELLY, injury. A pilot study DOROTHY PATTISON AND CAROLYN FOX Intervention studies to reduce the prevalence and incidence of pressure sores: a Users’ experiences of care literature review ELISABETH JONSEN, ELSY ATHLIN AND OLE B. SUHR Waiting for a liver transplant: the experience of patients with familial Articles amyloidotic polyneuropathy STEVE CAMPBELL, CHRISTINE O'MALLEY, DON WATSON, JAN Developing and evaluating care CHARLWOOD AND SUSAN M. LOWSON The image of the BRENDA ROE AND HELEN DOLL Prevalence of urinary incon- children’s nurse: qualities required by families of children’s tinence and its relationship with health status nurses’ uniforms INFORMATION POINT: Prevalence and incidence GERALDINE BYRNE, MARION RICHARDSON, JULIE BRUNSDON AND (see p. 178) ASMITA PATEL Patient satisfaction with emergency nurse \IDEEN TARPEY, DINAH GOULD, CAROLYN FOX, PETER DAVIES practitioners in A & E \ND MAGGIE COCKING Evaluating support surfaces for patients INFORMATION POINT: Chi-Squared Test (see p. 83) in transit through the accident and emergency department HAN BOTER, PATRIEK MISTIAEN AND INGRID GROENEWEGEN A Infection control randomized trial of a Telephone Reassurance Programme for DINAH GOULD, JOHN GAMMON, MICHAEL DONNELLY, LOUIS! patients recently discharged from an ophthalmic unit BATISTE, EILEEN BALL, ALEXANDRA M. S. CARNEIRO DE MELO, INFORMATION POINT: Type I and Type II errors (see p. 199) VAROSHI ALIDAD, ROGER MILES AND MAHMOUD HALABLAB E. MCINNES,N . CULLUM, E. A. NELSON, K. LUKER AND L. A. Improving hand hygiene in community healthcare settings: the DUFF The development of a national guideline on the impact of research and clinical collaboration management of leg ulcers CHRISTINE E. HALLETT Infection control in wound care: a study of fatalism in community nursing Patient participation in care RITTA SUHONEN, MARITTA VALIMAKI AND JOUKO KATAJISTO Pain management Individualized care in a Finnish healthcare organization BJORN SJOSTROM, LARS O. DAHLGREN AND HENGO HALJAMAI ANN CADD, DIANA KEATINGE, MONIKA HENSSEN, LYNNI Strategies used in post-operative pain assessment and their O'BRIEN, DEBORAH PARKER, YVONNE ROHR, JENNIFER SCHNEIDER clinical accuracy \ND JUDITH THOMPSON Assessment and documentation CAROLYN MACKINTOSH The effect of an acute pain service on of bowel care management in palliative care: incorporating nurses’ knowledge and beliefs about post-operative pain patient preferences into the care regimen HELEN P. BARTLETT, VANESSA SIMONITE, ELIZABETH WEST Experiences of care MOYRA E. MILLS AND KATE SULLIVAN Patients with operable COTT AND HEIDI TAYLOR A comparison of the nursing oesophageal cancer: their experience of information-giving in a competence of graduates and diplomates from UK nursing regional thoracic unit programmes rINA KOCH, DEBBIE KRALIK AND JENNY TAYLOR Men living INFORMATION POINT: Analysis of variance (ANOVA) (see p. 369) with diabetes: minimizing the intrusiveness of the disease INFORMATION POINT: Wilks’ lambda (see p. 369) CATRINE JACOBSSON, KARIN AXELSSON, PER OLOV OSTERLIND \ND ASTRID NORBERG How people with stroke and healthy Competence in specialized clinical areas older people experience the eating process JULIE SCHOLES, RUTH ENDACOTT AND ANNIE WAN YIM IP Relationships between partner’s support during CHELLEL A formula for diversity: a review of critical care labour and maternal outcomes curricula CHRISTINE V. LITTLE Technological competence as a funda- Professional development mental structure of learning in critical care nursing: a RITTTA VUORINEN, MARJA-TERTTU TARKKA AND RIITTA MER phenomenological study ETOJA Peer evaluation in nurses’ professional development: a NIGEL DAVIES AND DINAH GOULD Updating cardiopulmonary pilot study to investigate the issues resuscitation skills: a study to examine the efficacy of self- OLLY BAMFORD AND FAITH GIBSON The Clinical Nurse instruction on nurses’ competence Specialist: perceptions of practising CNSs of their role and HELEN C. STOKES Education and training towards competency development needs for cardiac rehabilitation nurses in the United Kingdom EILIS MCCAUGHAN AND KADER PARAHOO Medical and surgical Studies of nurses nurses’ perceptions of their level of competence and educa- BERNARD M. C. YAM AND JOH CHIN ROSSITER Caring in tional needs in caring for patients with cancer nursing: perceptions of Hong Kong nurses NORA KEARNEY, MORVEN MILLER, WALTER SERMEUS, DEREK USHA RANI ROUT Stress amongst district nurses: a preliminary HOY AND KRIS VANHAECHT Collaboration in cancer nursing investigation practice ROSALYND JOWETT AND BEN WELLENS Developing occupa- Issues in research methods tional standards: a learning disabilities project BRIAN PATEMAN Feminist research or humanistic research? HEATHER BAGLEY, LIS CORDINGLEY, ALISTAIR BURNS, CAROLINE Experiences of studying prostatectomy GODLOVE MOZLEY, CAROLINE SUTCLIFFE, DAVID CHALLIS AND PETER HUXLEY Recognition of depression by staff in nursing Book reviews and residential homes CAROLE THORNLEY A question of competence? Re-evaluating the roles of the nursing auxiliary and health care assistant in the NHS UME 9, ISSUE 3, MAY 2000 FAITH GIBSON AND LOUISE SOANES The development of clinical competencies for use on a paediatric oncology nursing Editorial course using a nominal group technique ANN BRADSHAW Review \NN BRADSHAW Competence and British nursing: a view from VOLUME 9, ISSUE 4, JULY 2000 history Editorial Articles INGER HALLSTROM Defining and assessing competence: issues and debates Review ELIZABETH A. GIROT Assessment of graduates and diplomates EDWARD PURSSELL The use of antipyretic medications in the in practice in the UK — are we measuring the same level of prevention of febrile convulsions in children competence? INFORMATION POINT: National Vocational Qualifications Articles (NVQs) (see p. 330) MARY J. WATKINS Competency for nursing practice Care following stroke KIM MANLEY AND ROB GARBETT Paying Peter and Paul: KARIN SUNDIN, LILIAN JANSSON AND ASTRID NORBERG Com- reconciling concepts of expertise with competency for a clinical municating with people with stroke and aphasia: under- career structure standing through sensation without words J. FLANAGAN, S. BALDWIN AND D. CLARKE Work-Based SUZANNE KUMLIEN AND KARIN AXELSSON The nursing care of Learning as a means of developing and assessing nursing stroke patients in nursing homes. Nurses’ descriptions and competence experiences relating to cognition and mood 498 LOUISE BRERETON AND MIKE NOLAN ‘You do know he’s had a VOLUME 9, ISSUE 5, SEPTEMBER 2000 stroke, don’t you?’ Preparation for family care-giving — the neglected dimension Editorial GEORGE DOWSWELL, JOHN LAWLER, THERESE DOWSWELL, JOHN STEVEN ERSSER YOUNG, ANNE FORSTER AND JEFF HEARN Investigating recovery from stroke: a qualitative study Reviews 658 DAWN WALSH AND DAVID G. SHAW The design of written Issues in care for longer-term patients information for cardiac patients: a review of the literature rINA KOCH AND SALLY HUDSON Older people and laxative use: 668 FRANCIS C. BILEY The effects on patient well-being of music literature review and pilot study report listening as a nursing intervention: a review of the literature KEVIN woo A pilot study to examine the relationships of 678 CLAUDIA GAMEL, MICHIEL HENGEVELD AND BRYN DAVIS dyspnoea, physical activity and fatigue in patients with chronic Informational needs about the effects of gynaecological cancer obstructive pulmonary disease on sexuality: a review of the literature ALAN K. WHITE AND MARTIN JOHNSON Men making sense of their chest pain — niggles, doubts and denials Articles Patient participation in care Conceptualising care LEENA TIMONEN AND MARJA SIHVONEN Patient participation in ANITA PEJLERT, ASTRID NORBERG AND KENNETH ASPLUND bedside reporting on surgical wards From a psychiatric ward to a home-like setting: the meaning of HELVI KYNGAS Compliance of adolescents with chronic disease caring as narrated by nurses SATU MAKINEN, TARJA SUOMINEN AND SIRKKA LAURI Self-care KEVIN D. KENDRICK AND SIMON ROBINSON Spirituality: its in adults with asthma: how they cope relevance and purpose for clinical nursing in a new millennium Issues in nursing practice Communications and partnerships with patients KATE S. WILLIAMS, R. PHIL ASSASSA, NIGEL K. G. SMITH, CAROI N. BROOKS, P. MAGEE, G. BHATTI, C. BRIGGS, S. BUCKLEY, JAGGER, SARAH PERRY, CHRISTINE SHAW, HELEN DALLOSSO, S. GUTHRIE, H. MOLTESEN, C. MOORE AND S. MURRAY Asian CATHERINE McGROTHER, MICHAEL CLARKE, KATHERINI patients’ perspectives on the communication facilities in a large R. BRITTAIN, C.M ARK CASTLEDEN AND CHRISTOPHER inner city hospital MAYNE Development, implementation and evaluation of a new M. BROWN, T. KOCH AND C. WEBB Information needs of women nurse-led continence service: a pilot study with non-invasive breast cancer CHRISTINE SHAW, KATE S. WILLIAMS AND R. PHIL ASSASSA ANNE MCQUEEN Nurse-—patient relationships and partnership Patients’ view of a new nurse-led continence service in hospital care INFORMATION POINT: Mann—Whitney Test (see p. 574) INFORMATION POINT: Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test (see p. 574) Nursing contributions to care ROSIE KNEAFSEY The effect of occupational socialization on \. A. RYAN AND M. CHAMBERS Medication management and nurses’ patient handling practices older patients: an individualized and systematic approach HUGH McKENNA, SINEAD KEENEY, ANITA GLENN AND PAULINI EIJA PAAVILAINEN, PAIV] ASTEDT-KURKI AND MARITA PAUNONEN GORDON Discharge planning: an exploratory study School nurses’ operational modes and ways of collaborating in BEV O'CONNELL, JEANNE YOUNG, JEFF BROOKS, JOAN HUTCH caring for child abusing families in Finland INGS AND JACQUI LOFTHOUSE Nurses’ perceptions of the CHRISTINE E. HALLETT AND BRIAN D. PATEMAN The ‘invisible nature and frequency of aggression in general ward settings assessment’: the role of the staff nurse in the community and high dependency areas setting ELIN M. HALLGRIMSDOTTIR Accident and emergency nurses’ perceptions and experiences of caring for families Issues in nursing children IDA TORUNN BJORK AND MARIT KIRKEVOLD From simplicity to P. L. RAMRITU Use of Oucher Numeric and the Word Graphic complexity: developing a model of practical skill performance Scale in children aged 9-14 years with post-operative pain in nursing INFORMATION POINT: Construct validity (see p. 763) Patients’ experiences JANE NOYES ‘Ventilator-dependent’ children who spend pro- longed periods of time in intensive care units when they no REET SJOGREN AND GUN NORDSTROM Oral health status of psychiatric patients longer have a medical need or want to be there ODETTE DE STAEBEL Malnutrition in Belgian children with INGER HALLSTROM, GUNNEL ELANDER AND LISELOTTE ROOKI Pain and nutrition as experienced by patients with hip fracture congenital heart disease on admission to hospital Research in brief Responses to care KAREN E. ROSE, JENNIFER GRABHAM AND ANDREW B. TULLO BRENDA ROE, KATE WILSON AND HELEN DOLL Health inter- Evaluating eye donation ventions and satisfaction with services: a comparative study of urinary incontinence sufferers living in two health authorities Book reviews in England MARY GROSSMAN, VIRGINIA LEE, JOCELYNE VAN NESTE KENNY, Articles LINDA MCHARG, MARYSE GODIN AND JANE CHAMBERS-EVANS IsSsSUuEeSs in caringi for older people Psychological adjustment of critically injured patients three REBECCA HERON AND HEATHER J. WHARRAD Prevalence and months _ afteere an unexspieacltiecd , potenotmitia lly r lhliiffee—- thrreeaatteenniinnge nursiz ng staff a awareness of - hearix ng ié mpai; rment i° n older hospit. al accident patients INNFFOORRNM ATION N PPOOIINNTT: : PPrriinncc ipal ‘omcpoomnpeonnte nt anaanlalyyssiiss ((sseeee p. p. 88001 ) STIG KARLSSON, GOSTA BUCHT, BIRGIT H. RASMUSSEN AND P. O. SANDMAN Restraint use in elder care: decision making Res-seeaarrcchh iin n briebrife among regi. stered nurses CATHERINE J. LOWE, D. K. RAYNOR, CHARLIE TEALE AND GILI LUUBBGGAAN N CaCann pprraacctitciec e nunrurssees identifyy medmiedciacattiioonn fp roblems Issues in patie. nt care usingg the the oveorve-r-7755 hehaea lth cchheecc k? EILIS M. MCCAUGHAN AND KATE A. THOMPSON Inf: ormatio: n needs of cancer patients receiving chemotherapy at a day-case ook reviews See Book revie unit in Northern Ireland Research in brief ’ st oe pe : ALISON J. TIERNEY, ALLISON WORTH AND NICK WATSON - VOLUME 9, ISSUE 6, NOVEMBER 2000 Sea te pe : ; re Meeting patients’ information needs before and after discharge et. Dee from hospital Editorial I 823 DINAH GOULD Indexes Review 826 TINA S. LAHDENPERA AND HELVI A. KYNGAS Compliance and its evaluation in patients with hypertension