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Author McDonald, S.
Title Registered nurses' perceptions of their role in acute inpatient care in New Zealand: A qualitative descriptive study Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Mental health; Psychiatric Nursing
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Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 620 Serial 606
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Author Stewart, L.
Title Stories from Pacific Island nurses: Why do Pacific Island Bachelor of Nursing students not return to their own countries after being scholarship recipients? Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Pacific peoples; New graduate nurses; Students
Abstract
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 618 Serial 604
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Author Johns, S.
Title Being constrained and enabled: A study of pre-registration nursing students ethical practice Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Auckland University of Technology Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Ethics; Nursing; Students
Abstract This study uncovers the experience of being ethical from the perspective of pre-registration nursing students. Using the qualitative methodology of phenomenology, specifically that outlined by van Manen, it seeks to show how students act ethically within everyday practice. Providing nursing care is an ethically charged undertaking and despite ethics taking an increasingly important place in nursing education, the author suggests that few studies show the contextual nature of ethical practice from the perspective of students. This study aims to partly redress this situation. In this study the author has interpreted the experiences of twelve pre-registration students. Using seventeen stories shared by the student participants, the author's personal understandings and literature, the meaning of being ethical has been illuminated. Three themes emerged from the interpretation. These include 'keeping things 'nice'', 'being true to yourself' and 'being present'. This thesis asserts that the overarching theme within these themes is that of 'being constrained and enabled'. Being constrained shows the experiences of students as they live through the tensions of being and doing as they strive to be ethical. Being enabled shows the experience of self-determination. Finally the study maintains that the shaping of ethical practice for undergraduate students may be enhanced when their reality is positioned and valued within educational processes.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 614 Serial 600
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Author Vallant, S.R.
Title Dialogue and monologue: The relationship between student nurse and nurse clinician: The impact on student learning Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Students; Nursing; Mentoring
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Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 610 Serial 596
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Author Williams, P.
Title The experience of being new in the role of Charge Nurse Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Auckland University of Technology Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Nursing
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Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 608 Serial 594
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Author Lauder, G.C.
Title Health in the workplace: An exploration of healthy options for an aged care setting Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Geriatric nursing; Health behaviour; Workplace
Abstract People working in aged care settings in New Zealand spend approximately 30% of their lives in their workplace. There is a challenge for workplaces to support people to maintain and improve their health status. This project investigated the question: How can workplaces support staff to maintain health in an aged care environment? The project concerned two considerations: primarily what people can do for themselves and how the organisation can assist their interest and maintain their investment in health based activities and secondly what workplaces can do to make the organisations more healthy. The philosophy and the realities of the workplace were reviewed and the project addressed the strategies that could be adopted by the workplace. The study identifies a series of practical activities and outcomes that aged care facilities can undertake for nurses/caregivers or other members of staff working in the workplace. The findings lead to recommendations about healthy outcomes and managing health and creating a positive climate for health within the workplace.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 605 Serial 591
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Author Coupe, D.
Title How accountable is accountable for mental health nurses? Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Accountability; Nursing; Mental health
Abstract Accountability has been described by nurses as an elusive concept or myth. The author suggests that this elusive concept or myth can partly be attributed to accountability becoming visible usually following a critical incident. The overall goal of this project is to provide nurses working within mental health with the incentive to raise their awareness and explore what their roles and responsibilities are within the accountability process in a more positive scenario. This research paper reports on an exploration of the key components of accountability within the New Zealand mental health environment. It describes significant influences that affect accountability. This is achieved by the means of a literature review, sharing of the author's experience of being involved in a national inquiry, and the adaptation of a who what and how framework, in conjunction with a diagram displaying accountability levels and lines for mental health nurses. The author points out that the domains of accountability for nurses will continue to evolve and expand but what remains important is that consumers have access to good quality mental health care.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 604 Serial 590
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Author Wilkinson, J.A.
Title Using adult learning theory to enhance clinical teaching Type Journal Article
Year 2004 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 20 Issue 1 Pages 36-44
Keywords Critical thinking; Nursing; Education; Motivation; Theory
Abstract In this article four theories of adult learning theory are presented: self directed learning; experiential learning; constructivist theory; and critical thinking. These are discussed alongside theories about motivation to learn. Suggestions for how the theory may be applied to the clinical learning environment are offered.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 565 Serial 551
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Author Wong, G.; Sakulneya, A.
Title Promoting EAL nursing students' mastery of informal language Type Journal Article
Year 2004 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 20 Issue 1 Pages 45-52
Keywords Communication; Asian peoples; Education; Nursing
Abstract This article describes the development, delivery and evaluation of a pilot programme designed to help nursing and midwifery students from Asian and non-English speaking backgrounds improve their conversational skills in practice settings. Many such students, although previously assessed as competent in English, find that communication with patients and their families, and other health professionals is difficult. The study was conducted in a large tertiary educational institution in a major metropolitan centre. Each week for a period of 11 weeks students participated in an interactive session. Content for these was based on areas highlighted by a needs assessment involving interviews with both students and lecturers, and was subject to ongoing modification in response to feedback from participants. Evaluation questionnaires completed at the conclusion of the series indicated that students perceived the impact as positive. Students who attended regularly and were actively involved in the practice activities described gains in communication skills. From this it was concluded that further development of the pilot scheme was warranted in order to benefit English as an additional language (EAL) students enrolled in nursing and midwifery courses
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 564 Serial 550
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Author Malcolm, H.
Title Patient privacy in a shared hospital room: Right or luxury? Type Journal Article
Year 2004 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 20 Issue 1 Pages 28-35
Keywords Patient rights; Law and legislation; Nursing; Hospitals
Abstract In this article the author discusses the New Zealand legislation aimed at protecting the individual's right to privacy and concludes that practice may place healthcare consumers' rights at risk. While patient privacy should be of concern to all health professionals, the focus here is on the nurse's role in relation to recently formulated competencies published by the Nursing Council of New Zealand, which includes the recommendation that care be seen to exhibit an awareness of healthcare consumers' rights to privacy alongside the expectation that nurses question practices that compromise patient privacy.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 562 Serial 548
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Author Mortensen, A.; Young, N.
Title Caring for refugees in emergency departments in New Zealand Type Journal Article
Year 2004 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 20 Issue 2 Pages 24-35
Keywords Emergency nursing; Culture; Mental health; Health status
Abstract This paper outlines some of the special health needs of people from refugee backgrounds who present in the emergency department, and the role of emergency department nurses in improving care for refugee and migrant peoples. Refugees and asylum seekers represent a significant proportion of attendees in emergency departments in Auckland Hospitals. Culture and ethnicity are a major factor to be considered in addressing the health care needs of this population. Other factors such as the physical and psychological sequelae of the refugee experience, health care experience prior to arrival in New Zealand, poverty, language, and the trauma of resettlement also have a major impact on health care seeking behaviours.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 557 Serial 543
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Author Spence, D.
Title Advanced nursing practice through postgraduate education, part one Type Journal Article
Year 2004 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 20 Issue 2 Pages 46-55
Keywords Advanced nursing practice; Education; Professional development; Research
Abstract In New Zealand the clinically focused postgraduate papers and programmes, available through universities and polytechnics, are evaluated from an educational perspective but little evaluation of the implications for practice has been undertaken. This paper is Part One of a report on a study that sought to illuminate the impact of clinically focused postgraduate education on advancing nursing practice. Hermeneutic methodology provided a framework for analysing both the perspectives of nurses who had undergone such education and those who had directly employed and worked alongside these nurses. Emerging themes are described here. In a second article the findings will be discussed in relation to literature. Constraining factors will be identified and strategies designed to maximise the benefits of education for advancing nursing practice will be recommended.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 555 Serial 541
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Author Neugebauer, A.F.
Title The adult congenital heart disease service: An evidence-based development of a nurse specialist position Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Cardiovascular diseases; Nursing specialties; Nursing
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Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 482 Serial 469
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Author White, T.
Title Avoiding the pitfalls of long-term suprapubic catheterisation Type Journal Article
Year 2004 Publication Vision: A Journal of Nursing Abbreviated Journal Available online at Eastern Institute of Technology
Volume 12 Issue 2 Pages 4-7
Keywords Nursing specialties; Long term care
Abstract Studies show that majority of complications experienced by patients with long term suprapubic catheters are associated with urinary tract infection and encrustation of catheters. This article will revise the pathophysiology of infection and encrustation and discuss management of suprapubic catheters based on current best practice. It is stressed that suprapubic catheters should only be considered once less invasive methods of maintaining bladder function have been exhausted as it is preferable for patients to manage incontinence with bladder training, pelvic floor exercises and continence products than to have a permanent indwelling catheter inserted.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 1319 Serial 1303
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Author Lindsay, L.
Title Atrocity tales: The language of terrorism in nursing Type
Year 2004 Publication Whitireia Nursing Journal Abbreviated Journal
Volume 11 Issue Pages 27-35
Keywords Gender; Male nurses; Culture
Abstract In this paper, the author explores the concept of 'professional terrorism'. He exposes discrimination against male nurses as being a form of professional terrorism, primarily as it is enacted through use of language. He presents the concept of horizontal violence as a way to understand why nurses, as a marginalised group, perform oppressive acts towards male nurses, who are similarly oppressed. He outlines the cost of such a culture on nursing practice and presents strategies for change.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 1310 Serial 1294
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