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McLauchlan, M. F. (1997). Women's place: an exploration of current discourses of childbirth. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Fox, R. A. (1997). The antenatal education needs of Maori women in the Tainui region. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Dickinson, A. R. (1997). Managing it: a mother's perspective of managing their pre-school child's acute asthma episode. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Andrew, C. (1997). Optimising the human experience: the lived world of nursing the families of people who die in intensive care. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Stewart, A. (1997). A study of families' experiences of assisting a member into residential care. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Teekman, B. (1997). Reflective thinking in nursing practice. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Wilson, D. (1997). Through the looking glass: nurses' responses to women experiencing partner abuse. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Favell, M. E. (1997). Plunket Nursing in a social, political and historical context: clients' perspectives of mothering and nursing. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Honey, M. (1997). New Zealand practice nurses' use of and attitude toward computers. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Litchfield, M. (1997). The language of nursing practice in hospitals. (Vol. Proceedings of the National Nursing Informatics Co).
Abstract: A paper presenting the findings of a small research project involving a group of self-selected senior nurses of Wellington Hospital to explore the nature of nursing practice in the care and management of hospitalised patients and to formalise the language that would acknowledge its significance in the current effort of hospitals to define patient care pathways. The nature of hospital nursing practice was described in themes of a generic process of nurse-patient care that articulates a distinct specialism of hospital nursing, whatever the hospital department in which nurses hold positions.
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Clark, R. R., Wasilewska, T., & Carter, J. (1997). Lymphoedema: a study of Otago women treated for breast cancer. Nursing Praxis in New Zealand, 12(2), 4–15.
Abstract: Otago women who had been treated for breast cancer were asked by questionnaire about patterns of arm swelling post treatment. Almost one third indicated they had had swelling at some time. Few had received preventive advice or what to do should arm swelling occur
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Mayson, J., & Hayward, W. (1997). Learning to be a nurse: the contribution of the hidden curriculum in the clinical setting. Nursing Praxis in New Zealand, 12(2), 16–22.
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Litchfield, M. (1997). The process of nursing partnership in family health (Vol. 4).
Abstract: The study reconceptualises the process of nursing practice where health is expanding consciousness. The praxis methodology and design derive from the findings of the previous study (Litchfield, 1993) through which a framework for personal practice was articulated. The philosophical premises were hermeneutic and dialogic reflecting a narrative orientation within a participatory paradigm. Ontology and epistemology merge and language is fundamental. The findings from this subsequent study depict the process of modeling practice as a tetrahedron to show inter-relatedness of four facets, each defined completely by the others: partnership, dialogue, pattern recognition and health as dialectic. Five young families with complex health circumstances were preferred by Plunket Nurses and visited at hole to talk about health and the family. Th e process of health patterning ended with indication of insight as the potential for action; the partnership ended as the closure of the initial contract to provide a summary text to the family. Transformative change in family living was identified. The continuous analysis of the scripts of the evolving conversations and summary text showed the relational, dialogic processes were identified as vision – finding purpose to act in the here-and-now against the backdrop of past and potential of the future; and community – a sense of being connected, participant and relevant in society. This process of research, as if practice, presented health and caring as synonymous and core of the discipline of nursing
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Prebble, K., & McDonald, B. (1997). Adaptation to the mental health setting: the lived experience of comprehensive nurse graduates. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 6(1), 30–36.
Abstract: The aim of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore the experience of new comprehensive nursing graduates as they adapted to working in the acute psychiatric setting. Interviews were conducted with four participants, focussing on their current work experiences and how the philosophical beliefs and values derived from their educational preparation fit with those they encountered within the practice setting. The data were analysed by noting common experiences, values and meanings and identifying the themes as they emerged. The themes were: transition to practice, conflict, contradiction, structural constraints, and the reality of the psychiatric setting. The results of the study confirm the concern that has been voiced by new graduates about the quality and quantity of current orientation programmes. Conflicting values and beliefs concerning the nature of mental health/psychiatric nursing has also become evident. It appears that the graduates' Comprehensive nursing preparation may have contributed to their feelings of unease as they attempted to fit their own values and beliefs about nursing with those of the acute psychiatric setting
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Martin, M., & Mullard, T. (1997). High level of compliance with rifampicin chemoprophylaxis of meningococcal disease. The New Zealand Public Health Report, 4(6), 41–43.
Abstract: This study investigated the degree of compliance and reasons for non-compliance with chemoprophylactic Rifampicin medication among 103 close contacts of memingococcal disease in the greater Auckland region during the period July to September 1996. The study showed a high degree of compliance among close contacts, with 96.1% taking Rifampicin as prescribed. Reasons for compliance were related to the contacts ' perceptions of susceptibility to the illness, the severity of the disease, and the benefits of medical intervention. The contacts found the service provided by the public health staff ws sufficient, and the information provided was valuable
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