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Author Stokes, G.
Title Who cares? Accountability for public safety in nurse education Type
Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal Online at Research Space @ Auckland University
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Keywords Nursing; Education; Accountability; Patient safety
Abstract The focus of this study is the management of unsafe nursing students within the tertiary education context. The moral dilemmas experienced by nurse educators, specifically linked to the issue of accountability for public safety, are explored. The theoretical framework for the thesis is informed by the two moral voices of justice and care identified by Gilligan and further developed using the work of Hekman and Lyotard. Case study methodology was used and data were collected from three schools of nursing and their respective educational organisations. Interviews were conducted with nurse educators and education administrators who had managed unsafe nursing students. Interviews were also conducted with representatives from the Nursing Council of New Zealand and the New Zealand Nurses Organisation to gain professional perspectives regarding public safety, nurse education and unsafe students. Transcripts were analysed using the strategies of categorical aggregation and direct interpretation. Issues identified in each of the three case studies were examined using philosophical and theoretical analyses. This thesis explores how students come to be identified as unsafe and the challenges this posed within three educational contexts. The justice and care moral voices of nurse educators and administrators and the ways in which these produced different ways of caring are made visible. Different competing and conflicting discourses of nursing and education are revealed, including the discourse of safety – one of the language games of nursing. The way in which participants positioned themselves and positioned others within these discourses are identified. Overall, education administrators considered accountability for public safety to be a specific professional, nursing responsibility and not a concern of education per se. This thesis provides an account of how nurse educators attempted to make the educational world safe for patients, students, and themselves. Participants experienced different tensions and moral dilemmas in the management of unsafe students, depending upon the moral language games they employed and the dominant discourse of the educational organisation. Nurse educators were expected to use the discourses of education to make their case and manage unsafe students. However, the discourses of nursing and education were found to be incommensurable and so the moral dilemmas experienced by nurse educators were detected as differends. This study bears witness to these differends.
Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1106
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Author Cobham, J.
Title Why do nurses stay in nursing? A test of social identity, equity sensitivity and expectancy theory Type
Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal
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Keywords Nursing; Recruitment and retention; Identity
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Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1107
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Author Seton, K.M.
Title Diversity in action: Overseas nurses' perspectives on transition to nursing practice in New Zealand Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Keywords Nursing; Cross-cultural comparison; Education
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Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1110
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Author Davenport, F.A.
Title Dying to know: A qualitative study exploring nurses' education in caring for the dying Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Keywords Nursing; Education; Terminal care
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Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1111
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Author Doughty, L.
Title Evaluation of the 2002 Auckland District Health Board: First year of clinical practice programme Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Keywords Clinical supervision; Nursing; Education
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Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1113
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Author Williams, J.L.
Title The Cummins model: An adaption to assist foreign nursing students in New Zealand Type
Year 2003 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Keywords Nursing; Education; Students
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Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1114
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Author Beveridge, S.
Title The development of critical thinking: A roller coaster ride for student and teacher in nursing education Type
Year 2003 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Waikato Library
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Keywords Nursing; Education; Critical thinking
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Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1115
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Author Hardcastle, J.
Title What is the potential of distance education for learning and practice development in critical care nursing in the South Island of New Zealand? Type
Year 2003 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Keywords Intensive care nursing; Nursing; Education
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Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1116
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Author Bickley, J.
Title A study of medical, nursing, and institutional not-for-resuscitation (NFR) discourses Type
Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 317 pp
Keywords Clinical decision making; Attitude of health personnel; Hospitals; Terminal care
Abstract This study investigates the way that medical, nursing and institutional discourses construct knowledge in the specific context of Not-for-resuscitation (NFR)in a New Zealand general hospital where NFR guidelines are available in the wards and from the regional ethics committee. The thesis argues that there are ranges of techniques that staff use to construct NFR knowledge, enacted through various forms of speech and silence, which result in orderly and disorderly experiences for patients nearing death. The study was conducted through a critical analysis of the talk of health professionals and the Chairperson of the Regional Ethics Committee.
Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1117
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Author Grant-Mackie, D.
Title A literature review of competence in relation to speciality nursing Type
Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library, NZNO Library
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Keywords Paediatric nursing; Nursing specialties; Professional competence; Nursing; Education
Abstract The original aim of the study was to find out through a questionnaire what child health/paediatric nurses in New Zealand/Aotearoa saw as their needs for post-registration education. Nurses were completing courses in the United Kingdom and returning to New Zealand/Aotearoa and realising that their nursing capabilities had improved. They became senior nurses with education responsibilities and exhibited political leadership among their colleagues in the field of child health/paediatric nursing. They were becoming increasingly concerned at the lack of any clinical courses in the specialty of child health/paediatric nursing to promote an appropriate standard of practice. It was intended that a research project about post-registration child health/paediatric education would assist concerned nurses to develop a programme. The time needed for such a project did not fit with a limited research paper. It was decided to reduce the project to a review of the literature on competence in nursing, with some comment on the specialty of child health/paediatric nursing. In order for nurses to find what they need to learn and know, an understanding of competence in nursing practice is required. Competence is defined as the ability of the nurse to carry out specific work in a designated area at a predetermined standard. Issues around competence, defining a scope of practice, development and assessment of competence, and regulation of nursing, are part of the context in which accountability for the practice of nurses sits.
Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1123
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Author Mackay, B.
Title An analysis of innovative roles in primary health care nursing Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Northland Polytechnic Library
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Keywords Nurse practitioners; Primary health care; Maori; Policy; Careers in nursing
Abstract An analytical tool of Force Field Analysis was used to identify and describe forces influencing the development of innovative roles, including the nurse practitioner role, in primary health care nursing. At the commencement of the study an initial analysis of research, literature and policy identified forces driving or restraining the development of innovative roles. A mixed research method of surveys and focus group interviews with key stakeholders, namely nurses in innovative roles, general practitioners and nurse leaders, was then used to identify factors influencing development within the Northland District Health Board. Descriptive statistics and interpretative methods were used to analyse the data. A final analysis enabled a picture of forces influencing innovative role development to be presented. Driving forces reflected international trends and were strongly influenced by economics and a political imperative to reconfigure health care services towards a primary health focus. The Treaty of Waitangi was also a key influence. Driving forces had greatest impact on the development of new roles. Forces were identified as drives towards cost-effective evidence-based health care (effective services), equity for Maori, response to local needs and workforce reorganisation. The major forces restraining the development of innovative roles were reinforced by attitudes, customs and support systems. These forces were identified as poor professional identity and support, an outdated nursing image, inadequate education and training and slow transition from traditional practices and structures (tradition). These forces had a negative influence on support for innovative roles. Promotion of kaupapa Maori, involvement of the local community, local Maori and nursing in decision-making and promotion of a team culture have the potential to support further development of innovative roles. Political ideology and the Treaty of Waitangi will continue to be major influences directed through policy and the contracting and funding process.
Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1124
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Author Boyd, L.
Title “It could have just as easily been me”: Nurses working in mental health services who have experienced mental illness Type
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library
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Keywords Nursing; Mental health; Occupational health and safety
Abstract This research explores the issues and experiences of mental health nurses who experience or have experienced mental illness. This project was prompted by the author's concern for colleagues and friends in this situation. The research topic was approached using a mix of critical ethnography and action research principles. Five mental health nurses who all work for the same district health board were interviewed about their experiences of being mental health professionals with mental illness and the issues that arose from this. The themes that emerged from this research are: the reactions of nurse colleagues, the effects on participants' own mental health treatment, employer responses, professional experiences and issues and strategies for coping. Discussion and recommendations focus on the need for improvements to the responses that mental health nurses with experience of mental illness encounter in their workplace. Recommendations from this research encompass suggestions for both individual and organisational education, action and change.
Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1127
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Author Mason, B.
Title An analysis of the role of the practice nurse in primary health care, 2000/2001 Type
Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library
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Keywords Primary health care; Practice nurses
Abstract In 1999 primary health care in New Zealand was in the process of change from the current personal health care model, which focuses on general practitioner based care, to a population and community based health care programme. Carryer, Dignam, Horsburgh, Hughes and Martin (1999) submitted a report to the National Health Commission entitled “Locating Nursing in Primary Health Care”. This report envisaged that nurses in primary health care would be part of interdisciplinary teams, act autonomously and undertake community consultation and education. The submission suggested that nurses, currently working in primary health care, were alraedy prepared and able to move across into the new form of primary health care, without further education or training.
Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1130
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Author Morgan, F.A.
Title Primary health care nurses supporting families parenting pre-term infants Type
Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library, University of Otago Library
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Keywords Primary health care; Community health nursing; Paediatric nursing; Premature infants
Abstract This thesis reviews the role of primary health care nurses, who have an opportunity to play a unique role in teaching, touching and empowering families with newly discharged pre-term babies. Birth of a baby earlier than 37 weeks gestation ushers in a period of uncertainty and stress for parents. Uncertainties may centre on whether their infant will survive and what ongoing growth and developmental issues their infant will face.
Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1132
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Author O'Malley, J.
Title Critical social analysis of acute institutionally based mental health nursing following an action research project Type
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library, Victoria University of Wellington Library
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Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Hospitals; Quality of health care
Abstract This study using action research involving twelve registered nurses worked toward improving nursing care in an acute mental health in-patient service. Following focus groups with consumers, families, nurses, doctors, and allied health professionals, the action research group developed projects over eighteen months to improve continuity and consistency of nursing care. There was a subsequent restructuring of nursing service to better define leadership, accountability and to strengthen care delivery. The second half of the thesis involves a critical social analysis of the research data and produces a theory of mental health nursing which, the author suggests, has wide application in practice.
Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1133
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