Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief: Ian NormanThe Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London, James Clerk Maxwell Building, 57 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8WA, UK (Editorial Assistant: Stephanie Waller) fax: (+44)20 7848 3069 email: ijns@kcl.ac.uk
Executive Editor: Peter Griffiths, Lecturer, Primary & Intermediate Care Section, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery, King's College London, James Clerk Maxwell Building, 57 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8WA
Editors: Mary Fitzgerald, University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia Nancy Fugate Woods, School of Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, USA Sue Holmes, Faculty of Health and Social Care, Canterbury Christ Church University College, Canterbury, Kent, UK. Hugh McKenna, Professor and Head, School of Nursing, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland Mike Nolan, University of Sheffield, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Samuel Fox House, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK Alison While, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery, King's College London, James Clerk Maxwell Building, London, UK
Honorary Editors: Jenifer Wilson-Barnett, London, UK Rosemary Crow, Guildford, UK
Statistical Editors:: Jason Beckstead, Florida, USA Trevor Murrells, London, UK
Assistant Editors: Jyu-Lin Chen, California, USA Wai-Tong Chien, Kowloon, Hong Kong John Cutcliffe, Texas, USA Ruth Harris, London, UK Hong Lu, Beijing, P. R. China Chizu Mimura, Tokyo, Japan Elizabeth Manias, Victoria, Australia Linda McGillis Hall, Ontario, Canada Naomi Seboni, Botswana, Africa Michael Simon, Kansas City, USA Jane Yelland, Melbourne, Australia
Editorial Board: J. Boore, Coleraine, UK S.H. Bortoli Cassiani, Sao Paulo, Brazil U-L. Chung, Taipei City, Taiwan J Corbin, Alberta, Canada J. Daly, NSW, Australia V.J. Ehlers, Republic of South Africa L. Franck, London, UK H. Huijer Abu-Saad, Beirut, Lebanon A. Jull, Auckland, New Zealand S. Ketefian, Michigan, USA K. McPherson, Auckland, New Zealand C. Normand, Dublin, Ireland M. Pajnkihar, Maribor, Slovenia A. M. Rafferty, London, UK I. Rahm Hallberg, Lund, Sweden P.A. Scott, Dublin, Ireland
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