Aims:
This paper presents a discussion of historical scholarship published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing.

Background:
The Journal of Advanced Nursing provides a forum for disseminating high-quality research and scholarship. For over 35 years, scholars have used the…

Media theorist Marshall McLuhan described media as an extension of man and that each new medium or technology introduces a change to the scale or pace or pattern in human affairs (McLuhan 1994). In 100 BC paper discovery permitted recording…

There is an increasing need to address the educational needs of students with English as a second language. The authors assessed the value of a Web-based activity to meet the needs of students with English as a second language in…

For most of us, the home is considered to be our castle: when we close the doors, it is our equivalent to pulling up the drawbridge, thereby retreating from the outside world. But more often, there is no retreat from…

AIM:
This article is a report on a descriptive study of nursing identity as constructed in the Web 2.0 site YouTube.
BACKGROUND:
Public images of the nurse carry stereotypes that rely on the taken for granted gender category of the…

The paper presents the first phase of the findings of a doctoral research project. The primary author [PS] acknowledges the support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council in providing funding for the part-time PhD studentship. The authors thank the…

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:

To highlight and illuminate the emotional sequelae of whistleblowing from whistleblowers and subjects of whistleblowing complaints.

BACKGROUND:

Whistleblowing has the potential to have a negative impact on individuals' physical and emotional well-being.…

Aim: To explore the role of the mental health nurse in wards run on therapeutic community principles in one English provincial hospital.

Background: Under a pioneering Medical Superintendent, the restrictive regime for patients with mental health problems in Fulbourn…

Background:  Measures of the effectiveness of databases have traditionally focused on recall, precision, with some debate on how relevance can be assessed, and by whom. New measures of database performance are required when users are familiar with search engines, and…

Newsletter, On Remembrance Day, all efforts are spent to remember those who fell in the various wars that have taken place and continue to take place all over the world. We are urged to observe a solemn two minute silence…