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Author Sylvester, M.R. openurl 
  Title First antenatal visit: meeting now for the future: a grounded theory study of the meeting between the independent midwife and the pregnant woman Type
  Year 1999 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 398 Serial 398  
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Author Stewart, A. openurl 
  Title A study of families' experiences of assisting a member into residential care Type
  Year 1997 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 399 Serial 399  
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Author Teekman, B. openurl 
  Title Reflective thinking in nursing practice Type
  Year 1997 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 400 Serial 400  
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Author Vincent, N. openurl 
  Title Starting late: problems and coping strategies of women who delay parenting until after the age of 40 years Type
  Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 401 Serial 401  
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Author 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 (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 402 Serial 402  
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Author Davenport, F.A. openurl 
  Title A descriptive study of the spiritual needs of patients with leukemia Type
  Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 403 Serial 403  
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Author Bates, R. openurl 
  Title On the theory and methodology of role: a contribution towards an interactive paradigm Type
  Year 1976 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 417 Serial 417  
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Author 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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  Abstract This phenomenological study describes what it is like to live with a schizophrenic illness and relates the understanding gained from this description to implications for nursing practice. The participants in the study were ten adults who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia, who take regular medication and who are living independant lives in the community. Over a period of sixteen months they were interviewed about effects of the illness on their everyday lives. During this time they explained the challenges and difficulties which have faced them, both during and long after the resolution of acute illness. As they describe it schizophrenia is a part of who they are.The narrative contained in this thesis presents the participants' stories in aggregated form, setting their experiences alongside ideas from the early work of Martin Heidegger, whose phenomenological writing informed the analysis and interpretation of the data. As the participants explain, schizophrenia has touched every aspect of their lives. Living with schizophrenia is shown to affect their whole being-in-the-world. It incorporates Being-with-others, living carefully and taking a stand on life. While hoping for a cure, their reality is of living with a chroinic ilness which has major effects on their lives. At the same time the participants are shown to define themselves not in terms of their illness and treatment, but in respect of their hopes and dreams and the stance each is taking on his or her own life. In this way their existential predicament is highlighted in the study. Participants are on the one hand very much like all people, while on the other hand they have to contend with very different concerns than do most others.  
  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 446 Serial 446  
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Author Davies, D.C. openurl 
  Title Practice nurses' perceptions of their contribution to the care of individuals with chronic health conditions Type
  Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Keywords Primary health care; Chronic diseases; Patient satisfaction; Nursing  
  Abstract Table of Contents: 1. Background and overview; 2. Research design and method; 3. Literature review; 4. Preparation of the individual for an appointment at the general practice; 5. Care provided by the practice nurse at the general practice; 6. The giving of information; 7. A discussion of the dualities of the contribution of practice nurses to the care of individuals with chronic conditions; 8. Study summary and conclusions.  
  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 492 Serial 478  
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Author Thomson, M.; Kinross, D.N.J.; Chick, D.N.P.; Corry, M.F.; Dowland, J. openurl 
  Title People in hospital: a surgical ward Type
  Year 1977 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Abstract A study of work patterns on a surgical ward  
  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 5 Serial 5  
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Author 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 (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 517 Serial 503  
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Author Corry, M.F. openurl 
  Title Evaluating nursing services Type
  Year 1976 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 53 Serial 53  
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Author Carter, G.E. openurl 
  Title Critical thinking abilities: Evidence from students' clinical self-evaluation responses: A pilot study Type
  Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Keywords Clinical assessment; Critical thinking  
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  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 597 Serial 583  
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Author Neville, S.J. url  openurl
  Title Delirium in the older adult: A critical gerontological approach Type
  Year Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Keywords Geriatric nursing; Older people  
  Abstract The purpose of this thesis has been to explore the discursive production of delirium in people over the age of 65 years. The philosophical approaches underpinning the study were derived from the field of critical gerontology, postmodernism and the utilisation of a Foucauldian understanding of discourse and power/knowledge. Data sources included published documents on delirium, interviews with people over the age of 65 years who had been delirious (as well as their clinical notes), family members, registered nurses and a doctor. Textual analysis revealed the presence of two contesting and contradictory discourses that impacted on being an older person who had delirium. These were identified as the discourse of delirium as a syndrome and a personal discourse of delirium. The discourse of delirium as a syndrome is underpinned by the biomedicalisation of the ageing process. This process utilises scientific methods as the foundation from which to understand, research and provide a health service to older people with delirium. Any personal perspectives on delirium are rendered unimportant and relegated to marginalised positions. Nursing through its vicarious relationship to medicine is interpellated into deploying the discourse of delirium as a syndrome and has largely ignored the personal dimensions associated with this phenomenon. Consequently, the older delirious 'body' is known and inscribed as unruly, problematic, physically unwell, cognitively impaired and at risk. Conversely, a personal discourse of delirium privileges the individual narratives of people who have been delirious and provides a different perspective of delirium. The deployment of a personal discourse of delirium offers another position that views this group of older people as bringing to the health care setting a rich tapestry of life experiences that are more than a cluster of signs and symptoms. It is these varied life experiences that need to be included as a legitimate source of knowledge about delirium. This thesis demonstrates how nursing needs to espouse a critical gerontological position when working with older people who have delirium. Critical gerontology provides nurses with the theoretical tools to challenge the status quo and uncover the multiple, varied, contradictory and complex representations of delirium in older people.  
  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 598 Serial 584  
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Author Butterfield, S.L. openurl 
  Title Helplessness or self care: a study of nursing practice with depressed patients in an In care setting Type
  Year 1982 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library Palmerston North  
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  Abstract This study was conducted to investigate the practise of Nurses when working with depressed patients in an In Care setting. A survey of the literature shows that the role commonly prescribed for nurses who work in psychiatric settings is one that emphasises a one- on -one relationship based on models of psychotherapy and focuses on individual illness, pathology, systems and psycho dynamics. It is suggested that this is not a role which most Nurses working in New Zealand psychiatric settings would be able to implement in practise. Three perspective's of Nursing practise were explored in the study. What Nurses were seen to do in practice. What they thought they should do as evidenced in results of an exercise to rank different possible interventions, and what patients said were helpful Nursing interventions. A framework was developed for the study which depicts the process of helplessness(depression) as the negative 'mirror -image' of the process of self care. Results were analysed within this framework to determine whether or not Nurses tended to support behaviours which were indicative of movement towards helplessness or encourage those which indicated progress towards self care by their interventions. There was little evidence of positive reinforcement for independent or coping behaviours with patients in the study sample. Further, the nursing practise showed little relationship to the role prescribed in the literature. The Nurses did demonstrate a warm caring friendly approach that seemed to stem from a more traditional 'succouring, mothering' view of Nurses' role  
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