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Author (down) Young, W.A. openurl 
  Title District nursing clients: perceptions of participation in nursing care Type
  Year 1989 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 285 Serial 285  
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Author (down) Woods, M. openurl 
  Title The ethical preparation and practice of nurses: a pilot research project Type
  Year 1992 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library; Manawatu Polytechnic Li  
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  Abstract This research project studied the ways in which nurses are educationally prepared for, and responded to, ethical problems in practice. The study involved both descriptive and analytical-interpretive methods that provided information and insights on the given aims of the research. The research findings indicated that nurses were educationally ill prepared in the area of nursing ethics. It also maintained that nurses that nurses were quite able to correctly identify ethical issues in their practice, but felt restrained about their freedom to act autonomously in response to these issues  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 184 Serial 184  
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Author (down) Woods, M. openurl 
  Title Nursing ethics education and contemporary concerns: a reflective report Type
  Year 1994 Publication Abbreviated Journal Manawatu Polytechnic Library; Massey University Li  
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  Abstract This report builds upon previous research undertaken in 1992 entitled 'the ethical preparation and practice of nurses: a pilot research project'. The overall aim was to compare new data with the results and tentative conclusions of the earlier research. Following two years of data gathering and analysis and discussions with diverse groups of experienced nurses, the conclusions of the earlier study were re-appraised in light of the contemporary developments in nursing ethics. The main conclusion of the research was that several nurses already possessed an ethic that was appropriate for their practice, but that it was unrecognised by other health professionals  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 186 Serial 186  
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Author (down) Woods, M. openurl 
  Title Maintaining the nursing ethic: a grounded theory of the moral practice of experienced nurses Type
  Year 1997 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library, Palmerston North  
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  Abstract This thesis presents a study of the every-day moral decision making of experienced nurses. Eight experienced registered nurses participated in the completed research that is based on data gathered through interviews, document audit and literature review. A grounded theory approach was used to analyse the extensive data gathered for the study. This methodology generated a theoretical description involving the antecedents, processes and consequences of nursing moral decision making.Nursing practice has moral content, if not an entirely moral purpose, and moral decision making is the central component of this practice, yet the ethical aspects of nursing practice remain a comparatively recent field of study. It is therefore essential to nurses and their patients that this process is adequately studied and theorised. To date, very few studies have been undertaken in this area in New Zealand. This study aims to at least partially redress this situation by offering insights through conceptualisation and theoretical description of nursing moral decision making.The findings of the study reveal that antecedents such as personal moral development, upbringing and social experiences, contribute to a 'nursing ethic' in the moral decision making of experienced nurses. Furthermore, the study shows that the context and individual and shared perceptions of moral events influence the degree of nursing involvement in ethical situations. Finally, the study maintains that an intrinsic and persistent nursing ethic guides ethical decision making in nursing. This ethic is an undeniable phenomenon of considerable significance to nursing practice and education  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 187 Serial 187  
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Author (down) Wilson, K.F. openurl 
  Title Professional closure: the case of the professional development of nursing in Rotorua 1840 – 1934 Type
  Year 1995 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
  Volume 13 Issue 1 Pages 12-22  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 257 Serial 257  
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Author (down) Wilson, D. openurl 
  Title Through the looking glass: nurses' responses to women experiencing partner abuse Type
  Year 1997 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 402 Serial 402  
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Author (down) Wilson, A.W. openurl 
  Title The lived experience of adult patients commencing radiotherapy and/or cytotoxic chemotherapy Type
  Year 1995 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 284 Serial 284  
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Author (down) Wilkinson, J.A. url  openurl
  Title The New Zealand nurse practitioner polemic: A discourse analysis Type
  Year 2007 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Keywords Nurse practitioners; History of nursing  
  Abstract The purpose of this research has been to trace the development of the nurse practitioner role in New Zealand. Using a discourse analytical approach informed by the work of Michel Foucault, the study foregrounds the discourses that have constructed the nurse practitioner role within the New Zealand social and political context. The author suggests that discourses of nursing and of medicine have established systems of disciplinary practices that produce nurses and physicians within defined role boundaries, not because of legislation, but because discourse has constructed certain rules. The nurse practitioner role transcends those boundaries and offers the possibility of a new and potentially more liberating identity for nurses and nursing. A plural approach of both textuality and discursivity was used to guide the analysis of texts chosen from published literature and from nine interviews conducted with individuals who have been influential in the unfolding of the nurse practitioner role. Both professionally and industrially and in academic and regulatory terms dating back to the Nurses Registration Act, 1901, the political discourses and disciplinary practices serving to position nurses in the health care sector and to represent nursing are examined. The play of these forces has created an interstice from which the nurse practitioner role in New Zealand could emerge. In combination with a new state regime of primary health care, the notion of an autonomous nursing profession in both practice and regulation has challenged medicine's traditional right to surveillance of nursing practice. Through a kind of regulated freedom, the availability of assessment, diagnostic and prescribing practices within a nursing discourse signals a radical shift in how nursing can be represented. The author concludes that the nurse practitioner polemic has revolutionised the nursing subject, and may in turn lead to a qualitatively different health service.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 517 Serial 503  
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Author (down) Wilkinson, J.A. openurl 
  Title A mantle of protection? A critical analysis of the personal safety of district nurses Type Journal Article
  Year 2002 Publication Whitireia Nursing Journal Abbreviated Journal Whitireia Community Polytechnic and Massey University libraries  
  Volume 9 Issue 30-6 Pages 30-36  
  Keywords Occupational health and safety; Workplace violence; District nursing  
  Abstract This qualitative inquiry, informed by Critical Social Theory, explored the personal safety experiences of district nurses in a New Zealand city.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1083  
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Author (down) White, J.M. openurl 
  Title Becoming a resident Type
  Year 1992 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 182 Serial 182  
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Author (down) Wenn, J. openurl 
  Title Hospital information systems: a nursing viewpoint Type
  Year 1983 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 181 Serial 181  
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Author (down) Wenmoth, J.D.A. openurl 
  Title A phenomenological study examining the experience of nausea, vomiting and retching associated with pregnancy Type
  Year 1997 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Abstract This paper outlines a phenomenological study carried out to explore the experience of nausea, vomiting and retching associated with pregnancy. These phenomena lack Nursing research and are debilitating symptoms which effect the quality of life for 50-75% of all pregnant women. Madjar ( 1991) indicates that the communication of such experiences can deepen our understanding of human life and coping. It is importance for Nurses to develop an understanding of lived experiences so that they can make more effective interventions. This study explores the essential humanness of life experiences as they are for those who live them. It involved collecting data from those experiencing the phenomena and analysing it. It focuses on the study of phenomena not as separate entities in themselves but as they are perceived as they are experienced. A 'purposeful sample' was required for this study. The aim was to include women who had direct knowledge of the phenomena of nausea, vomiting and retching associated with pregnancy. The study involved in depth interviewing of six women, the interviews were taped and independently transcribed, the transcripts were analysed to determine the meaning of the experience and to identify common themes. The experiences of the women are discussed in relation to what van Manen (1990) describes as four main life world existentials; the lived body, the lived other, lived space and lived time  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 15 Serial 15  
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Author (down) Watson, P.B. openurl 
  Title An understanding of family in the context of families facing the diagnosis of childhood cancer Type
  Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library, Manawatu Polytechnic Li  
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  Abstract The diagnosis of childhood cancer has a profound impact on the family. How nurses understand family affects their practice with families facing the diagnosis of childhood cancerShaped by Heideggerian phenomenology, van Manens methodology for hermeneutic phenomenology was used to construct an understanding of family from the experiences of family members facing the diagnosis of childhood cancer. Seven family members from two families, one mother, two fathers, two siblings, and two grandparents were interviewed about their experience of facing the diagnosis of childhood cancer.From the participants experience the meaning of family was interpreted as being-with-others, for-the-sake-of-others, who one might not distinguish from oneself. This understanding of family is recognisable, yet different from traditional definitions of family and may help nurses and family members to act more thoughtfully and tactfully with each other  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 153 Serial 153  
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Author (down) Walton, J.A. openurl 
  Title The night-time experience of elderly hospitalized adults and the nurses who care for them Type
  Year 1989 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Abstract This is a report of a study into the night-time experience of elderly hospitilised adults and the nurses who care for them. A grounded theory approach was used for the analysis of data and subsequent generation of a theoretical description an partial explanation of patient experiences, nursing actions and nurse-patient interactions.Data were gathered through observation, interview, document audit and literature review; tow general medical wards in a large regional hospital were the focus of field methods of data collection.It is argued that the night-time experiences of elderly hospitalized adults are to a large degree dependent on the individual patterns of sleep and waking behaviour of these people in their normal environments. If individualised care is given, nurses must be aware of people's usual patterns of behaviour.Nurses working at night engage in a series of complex decision sin the course of their interaction with patients. They work under constraints not present during the daytime, and are highly dependent on co-operation from colleagues on other shifts for information which would enable them to deliver optimum care at night. At the same time, night nurses have access to information from and about patients which would be invaluable to a total assessment of any patient's health state.Considerations of sleep and sleep are relevant to nurses working all shifts. The findings of the study have implications in terms of nurses' knowledge of all aspects of sleep; assessment practices; nurse-patient and nurse-nurse communication; nurse-patient relationships at night; wars management; and the independence of nurses  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 179 Serial 179  
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Author (down) Walton, J.A. openurl 
  Title Schizophrenia, a way of being-in-the-world Type
  Year 1995 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 180 Serial 180  
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