June 2009 No 97, 2009/2 - 124 pagesEditorialPages 3 to 3Are nurses moving towards a fundamental reassessment?By Monique FormarierDiscussionPages 4 to 22An analysis of professional practice as a means to enhance one’s skills: Theoretical basis, actual process, and associated limitationsBy Anne Marie LagadecPages 23 to 33An interprofessional or interdisciplinary problem?By Yves CouturierMethodologyPages 34 to 49The emotional labor underlying caring: An evolutionary concept analysisBy Huynh Truc, Marie Alderson, Mary ThompsonPages 50 to 62Promising mixed-method strategies for the assessment of nursing interventionsBy Caroline Larue, Carmen G. Loiselle, Jean-Pierre Bonin, Robin Cohen, Céline Gélinas, Sylvie Dubois, Sylvie LambertResearchPages 63 to 73Validation of a tool for family caregiversBy Francine Ducharme, Louise Lévesque, Chantal D. Caron, Elizabeth Hanson, Lennart Magnusson, Janet Nolan, Mike NolanPages 74 to 84Validation of the French version of the Self-Appraisal of Illness QuestionnaireBy Elena Hunt, Geneviève Vachon, Gilles CôtéPages 85 to 91Strategies for assessing the impact of Healing Touch in nursing careBy F Hentz, Aurelien Mulliez, Bénédicte Belgacem, C. Noirfalise, H. Barrier, J. Gorrand, C. Paniagua, B Mathé, Laurent GerbaudPages 92 to 97Evaluation of the impact of touch in nursing care: Statistical results from a multicenter, prospective, and randomized studyBy F Hentz, Aurelien Mulliez, Bénédicte Belgacem, C. Noirfalise, H. Barrier, J. Gorrand, C. Paniagua, B Mathé, Laurent GerbaudVariaPages 98 to 103Perceived stigma at the end of the hospitalization period and the social reinsertion of mentally ill patientsBy Emma Spiers, Serge CombaluzierPages 104 to 115Suffering and complaints in adult sickle cell patients in painBy Jacqueline Faure, Patricia HanquetPages 116 to 124The contribution of the health executive to nursing recruitment in geriatricsBy Isabelle Garnaud
