INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING STUDIES
Dr NIELS BUUS
University of Southern Denmark Denmark
Professor PATRICIA DAVIDSON University of Technology Sydney, Australia Professor RUTH HARRIS Kingston University and St George’s University of London
London, UK
Professor ANDREW JULL University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand Dr HONG LU
Peking University School of Nursing Beijing, PR China
Dr JILL MABEN
Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery
King’s College London London, UK
Professor SHARON McKINLEY University of Technology, Sydney Sydney, Australia
Dr CHIZU MIMURA
Sashiogi Hospital, Saitama, Japan Professor NANCY NIVISON MENZEL University of Nevada, Las Vegas Las Vegas, USA
Professor MICHAEL SIMON Faculty of Health Sciences University of Southampton, UK
Associate Professor JUDE SPIERS University of Alberta
Faculty of Nursing Alberta, Canada Dr KAREN SPILSBURY Department of Health Sciences University of York
York, UK
Dr KOEN VAN DEN HEEDE Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre Brussels, Belgium
Professor MARITTA VÄLIMÄKI University of Turku
Turku, Finland Professor LINDA AIKEN
University of Pennsylvania PA, USA Professor S H BORTOLI CASSIANI University of Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo, Brazil Professor SOPHIA CHAN University of Hong Kong Pokfulam, Hong Kong Dr U-L CHUNG
National Taipei College of Nursing Taipei City, Taiwan
Professor SEAN CLARKE
Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Professor JULIET CORBIN
International Institute for Qualitative Research, University of Alberta Alberta, Canada
Professor JOHN CUTCLIFFE University of Maine Maine, USA
Professor YU-TZU DAI National Taiwan University Taiwan
Professor JOHN DALY
University of Technology, Sydney Sydney, Australia
Dr V J EHLERS University of South Africa Republic of South Africa
Professor MARY FITZGERALD University of Tasmania Tasmania, Australia Professor LINDA FRANCK
Centre for Nursing & Allied Health Professions Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK Professor Dr H HUIJER ABU-SAAD American University of Beirut Beirut, Lebanon
Professor SHAKE KETEFIAN University of Michigan Michigan, USA
Professor ELIZABETH MANIAS University of Melbourne Melbourne, Australia
Professor HUGH McKENNA CBE Dean, Faculty of Life & Health Sciences University of Ulster, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland
Professor KATHRYN McPHERSON Auckland University of Technology Auckland, New Zealand
Professor Dr D MONTEIRO da CRUZ University of Sao Paula
Sao Paula, Brazil Professor MIKE NOLAN School of Nursing and Midwifery University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Professor CHARLES NORMAND Trinity College Dublin
Dublin, Rep. of Ireland
Professor INGALILL RAHM HALLBERG Lund University
Lund, Sweden
Professor ANNE MARIE RAFFERTY CBE King’s College London
London, UK
Professor ANNE SCOTT Dublin City University Dublin, Rep. of Ireland Dr NAOMI SEBONI
University of Botswana & Swaziland Botswana, Africa
Professor ALISON WHILE
Florence Nightingale School of Nursing
& Midwifery, King’s College London London, UK
Professor JANE YELLAND Murdoch Childrens Research Institute Victoria, Australia
London, UK HONORARY EDITORS
Prof. ROSEMARY CROW, Guildford, UK Prof. Dame JENIFER WILSON-BARNETT, London, UK
STATISTICAL EDITORS Professor JASON W BECKSTEAD, Florida, USA
Mr TREVOR MURRELLS, London, UK
EDITORIAL BOARD
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
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B. Lundman, K. Viglund, L. Aléx, E. Jonsén, A. Norberg, R.S. Fischer, G. Strandberg and B. Nygren
P. Andreatta, F. Gans-Larty, D. Debpuur, A. Ofosu and J. Perosky
J. Zhang, A.E. While and I.J. Norman
S. Pin-pin Choi, S. Mei-che Pang, K. Cheung and T. Kwok-shing Wong
A. While and G. Dewsbury
1266 Development and psychometric properties of the Inner Strength Scale
Education and Professional Development
1275 Evaluation of simulation-based training on the ability of birth attendants to correctly perform bimanual compression as Obstetric first aid 1281 Nurses’ knowledge and risk perception towards seasonal influenza
and vaccination and their vaccination behaviours: A cross-sectional survey
1290 Stabilizing and destabilizing forces in the nursing work environment:
A qualitative study on turnover intention DISCUSSION PAPERS
1302 Nursing and information and communication technology (ICT):
A discussion of trends and future directions