Vol 2, No 4 (2012)

Table of Contents

Original Research

A nurse-managed population based heart failure clinic: sustaining quality of life
Lucille Travis, Sonya R. Hardin, Zeleka G. Benton, Leigh Austin, Laura W. Norris
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Team learning and innovation in nursing teams: Results of a comprehensive research project
Olaf Timmermans, Roland Van Linge, Peter Van Petegem, Joke Denekens
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p10
Atrial fibrillation and heart failure in seven nursing homes
Kjell Kruger, Marie Sandli, Jonn-Terje Geitung, Geir Egil Eide, Anders Grimsmo
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p22
Chinese female nursing students’ coping strategies, self-esteem and related factors in different years of school
Chunping Ni, Daiwei Lo, Xiwen Liu, Jinfeng Ma, Shasha Xu, Lu Li
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p33
Using focus groups to understand breast cancer screening beliefs and behaviors among Asian Indian women
Tsu-Yin Wu, Barbara Scheffer, Corinne Lee
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p42
Bridging the gap between doctors and nurses
Katrina Anne McKay, Seshasayee Narasimhan
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p52
Specialization in nursing management – distance learning in Brazil: Importance and application from the student perspective
Fabiana Silva Okagawa, Elena Bohomol, Isabel Cristina Cunha
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p56
Comparing centralized vs. decentralized nursing unit design as a determinant of stress and job satisfaction
Francine M. Parker, Sarajane Eisen, Jennifer Bell
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p66
Staff’s and family members’ spiritual well-being in relation to help for residents with dementia
John Fisher
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p77
From ignorance to denial about an orphan, but no rare, genetic disease: Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS type III)
Claude Hamonet, Jean-David Zeitoun
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p86
The promotion of family wellness for refugee families in cultural transition - A phenomenographic study
Kerstin Samarasinghe, Barbro Arvidsson, Agneta Abrahamsson, Bengt Fridlund
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p92
Caring competencies of baccalaureate nursing students of samar state university
Leodoro J. Labrague
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p105
The chronically ill patients’ quality of counselling in the hospital
Pirjo Kaakinen, Maria Kääriäinen, Helvi Kyngäs
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p114
The effect of home care services on maternal health after cesarean delivery in Turkey
Nuriye Büyükkayacı Duman, Nimet Karatas
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p124
The process and patterns of combining the use of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western medicine in Taiwanese people with cancer
Shou Yu Wang, Carol Windsor, Patsy Yates
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p134
RETRACTION: Domestic violence against women: Incidence and prevalence in an emergency department population
WEBSTER SAYUMPORN, C. Pedrosa, V. Lopez
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p145

Case Report

Academic-service collaboration in evidence-based practice
Susan Diemert Moch, Rebecka Harper, Angela Grimley, Brittney Castleman Thyssen, Teresa Coughlin, Paul Schedler, Megan Behl, Rachel Philipps
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p154
Challenges in educating a patient with severe anxiety and depression
Geraldine A. Lee, Mary S. Boyde
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p160
Addiction training for undergraduate nurses using screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment
Helen K. Burns, Kathryn Puskar, Michael T. Flaherty, Ann M. Mitchell, Holly Hagle, Betty Braxter, Marie Fioravanti, Heather J. Gotham, Irene Kane, Kimberly S. Talcott, Lauren Terhorst, Gail R. Woomer
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p167

Experience Exchange

Competencies for international nursing research in a wikinomics future
Mary Anne Schultz, Benson Yeung, Jane Frances Hook
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p178

Reviews

Nursing services: an imperative to health care marketing
Isaac D. Montoya, Olive M. Kimball
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p187
A systematic review to appraise the evidence relating to the impact and effects of formal continuing professional education on professional practice
Helen Sykes, Jenny Temple
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p194