Table Of ContentContents
Issue 1, March 2007
EDITORIAL
Assessing the quality of research: a challenge for nursing
Karen Luker
FEATURE ARTICLES
Keeping healthy! Whose responsibility is it anyway? Vietnamese Canadian women and their healthcare
providers’ perspectives
Tam Truong Donnelly and William McKellin
Patient decision-making for clinical genetics
Gwen Anderson
Re-thinking the complexities of ‘culture’: what might we learn from Bourdieu?
M.J udith Lynam, A. J. Browne, S. Reimer Kirkham andJ . M. Anderson
The persistence of memory: using narrative picturing to co-operatively explore life stories in qualitative inquiry
Angela Simpson and Phil Barker
Evaluating in political turmoil: nursing challenges in prevention programs
Héléne Laperriére
Managing ambiguity and danger in an intensive therapy unit: ritual practices and sequestration
Susan Philpin
Critical discourse analysis for nursing research
Jennifer L. Smith
Towards a framework for establishing rigour in a discourse analysis of midwifery professionalisation
Anne Nixon and Charmaine Power
Patient narratives in the investigation and development of nursing practice expertise: a potential for transformation
Sally Hardy, Angie Titchen and Kim Manley
Nursing care and understanding the experiences of others: a Gadamerian perspective
Brian Phillips
BOOK REVIEW
Contents
Issue 1, March 2007
EDITORIAL
Assessing the quality of research: a challenge for nursing
Karen Luker
FEATURE ARTICLES
Keeping healthy! Whose responsibility is it anyway? Vietnamese Canadian women and their healthcare
providers’ perspectives
Tam Truong Donnelly and William McKellin
Patient decision-making for clinical genetics
Gwen Anderson
Re-thinking the complexities of ‘culture’: what might we learn from Bourdieu?
M.J udith Lynam, A. J. Browne, S. Reimer Kirkham andJ . M. Anderson
The persistence of memory: using narrative picturing to co-operatively explore life stories in qualitative inquiry
Angela Simpson and Phil Barker
Evaluating in political turmoil: nursing challenges in prevention programs
Héléne Laperriére
Managing ambiguity and danger in an intensive therapy unit: ritual practices and sequestration
Susan Philpin
Critical discourse analysis for nursing research
Jennifer L. Smith
Towards a framework for establishing rigour in a discourse analysis of midwifery professionalisation
Anne Nixon and Charmaine Power
Patient narratives in the investigation and development of nursing practice expertise: a potential for transformation
Sally Hardy, Angie Titchen and Kim Manley
Nursing care and understanding the experiences of others: a Gadamerian perspective
Brian Phillips
BOOK REVIEW
Issue 2, June 2007
EDITORIAL
Lessons from Malinowski: scholarship opportunities and the clinical academic
Steven J. Ersser
FEATURE ARTICLES
The sustainability of ideals, values and the nursing mandate: evidence from a longitudina! qualitative study
Jill Maben, Sue Latter and Jill Macleod Clark
The exodus of health professionals from sub-Saharan Africa: balancing human rights and societal needs in
the twenty-first century
Linda Ogilvie, Judy E. Mill, Barbara Astle, Anne Fanning and Mary Opare
Failures of reproduction: problematising ‘success’ in assisted reproductive technology
Kathleen Peters, Debra Jackson and Trudy Rudge
Experiences of infertility: liminality and the role of the fertility clinic
Helen Allan
‘With woman’ philosophy: examining the evidence, answering the questions
Mary Carolan and Ellen Hodnett
White on whiteness: becoming radicalized about race
Diana L. Gustafson
Decolonising research: a shift toward reconciliation
Deborah Prior
Verbal and social interactions in the nurse—patient relationship in forensic psychiatric nursing care: a model and
its philosophical and theoretical foundation
Mikael Rask and David Brunt
Issue 3, September 2007
EDITORIAL
Scylla or Charybdis: navigating between excessive examination and naive reliance on self-assessment
Brian Hodges
FEATURE ARTICLES
Continuing the dialogue: postcolonial feminist scholarship and Bourdieu — discourses of culture and points
of connection
JM Anderson, S Reimer Kirkham, AJ Browne and MJ Lynam
An examination of nervios among Mexican seasonal farm workers
Margaret England, Avis Mysyk and Juan Arturo Avila Gallegos
Prisoners signify: a political discourse analysis of mental illness in a prison control unit
Kristin Gates Cloyes
Admitting hospital patients: a qualitative study of an everyday nursing task
Aled Jones
Relatives’ presence in connection with cardiopulmonary resuscitation and sudden death at the intensive care unit
Hans Hadders
Complex adaptive systems and nursing
John Paley
The meaning of being a middle-aged close relative of a person who has suffered a stroke, | month after discharge
from a rehabilitation clinic
Britt Backstr6m and Karin Sundin
Pedagogy, power and practice ethics: clinical teaching in psychiatric/mental health settings
Carol Ewashen and Annette Lane
BOOK REVIEW
Issue 4, December 2007
EDITORIAL
Reflections on history's evidence base
Judith Godden
HISTORY ARTICLES
Accommodation and resistance to the dominant cultural discourse on psychiatric mental health: oral history accounts
of family members
Geertje Boschma
Textual analysis of retired nurses’ oral histories
Barbra Mann Wall, Nancy E. Edwards and Marjorie L. Porter
‘Angels in nursing’: images of nursing sisters in a Lutheran context in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Susanne Malchau
A historical description of the tensions in the development of modern nursing in nineteenth-century Britain and their
influence on contemporary debates about evidence and practice
Michael Traynor
Withdrawal from Weihui: China missions and the silencing of missionary nursing, |8 88-1947
Sonya Grypma
The personal writings of First World War nurses: a study of the interplay of authorial intention and scholarly
interpretation
Christine E. Hallett
Development of the New Zealand nursing workforce: historical themes and current challenges
Jeffrey D. Gage and Andrew R. Hornblow
FEATURE ARTICLE
Maintaining patient hopefulness: a critique
Martin Lipscomb
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