Butterfield, S. L. (1982). Helplessness or self care: a study of nursing practice with depressed patients in an In care setting. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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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Butterfield, S. L. (1978). More power to the patient: self-care within acute care situations. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: “A brief look at self-care and some of the issues relevant to nurses recognising it as a component of acute care”
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Eaddy, J. H. (1976). Nursing care: quality and quantity. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: A study of the care given by Nurses measuring the quantity of care available against the quantity demanded by the patients at the time of survey
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Rodgers, J. A. (1985). Nursing education in New Zealand 1883 to 1930: the persistance of the Nightingale ethos. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: The Nightingale ethos with its allegiance to the traditional belief in women's responsibility for nurturance, cleanliness and order, aided in the shaping of early formal nursing education in New Zealand
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Bramley, C. J. (1981). The nurse and the problem drinker: a study of helping behaviour. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine aspects of the behaviour of Nurses towards persons with alcohol related problems. Similarities and differences in helpful and unhelpful behaviour as perceived by providers and users of care are identified using the behaviour to alcoholism management ( B.R.A.M.) scale. The research covers two phases. In phase One 27 Registered Nurses and 12 members of Alcoholics Anonymous completed critical incident questionnaires which furnished a list of helpful behaviours and a list of unhelpful behaviours. These have been analysed and a set of descriptive statements prepared which constitutes the B.R. A.M. scale. In Phase Two this has been administered to 67 Registered Nurses and 46 members of Alcoholics Anonymous and the results assessed. The findings show that Nurses and Problem Drinkers view the same behaviour as helpful. There is however a significant difference between the two groups on the types of behaviour they consider to be unhelpful. This finding has consequences for those who provide care for problem Drinkers and for Teachers and students in education programs for Nurses
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Nevatt, E. A. (1979). The place of the problem oriented record in nursing practice. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Rummel, L. (1993). The proving ground: a phenomenological study of pre-registration comprehensive nursing students in acute care settings. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: This research focuses upon the lived experience of Diploma of Comprehensive Nursing Students in their final clinical experience. It is generated from the narrative of the students, how they experience their practise, how they make clinical judgements and how they prepare themselves for their graduate practise. Twenty one participants were each interviewed three times throughout a 6-8 week clinical experience in an acute care setting
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Clarke-Woolley, C. (1976). The relationship of an instrumental T-Group and personality changes in self concept and self actualisation. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Takarangi, J. (1983). The role-practice interface in community health nursing in New Zealand. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: This field project undertaken in 1981 was designed to compare and contrast the role perspective with the practice perspective. Job descriptions were used as the role data and this role data was then considered in relation to information gained from field observations. The discussion looked at the findings in the current context of debate surrounding the future “roles” of nurses in the community
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Idour, D. M. G. (1981). The social context and the relevance of nursing curricula. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: The relevance of Nursing Curricula and the degree of effectiveness of their outcomes for the 'consumer' ( clients, students, a given society) are seen as commiserate to the degree that a curriculum is developed with due regard for the 'social realities' of a society. "Social realities' are defined as the actual conditions, pressures, disabilities and abilities, limitations and resources that exist in the lifespan of people and form the environment within which Nursing practices. A Curriculum relevancy process ( CRP) has been developed for use as the main analytical tool of the study. CRP has been designated as an information seeking, problem solving and evaluative process. It consists of three phases with a major emphasis on the first phase, information seeking. Information has been gathered about contemporary social realities ( the year of 1979) and related Socio- health disorders. Information has been gathered and analysed from official ad voluntary sources and the findings related to curricular choices for Nursing education
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Churcher, R. L., & Jones, M. (1986). Theatre nursing – some perceptions of practice. The peri-operative continuum: do we work within it? Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: This research project looked at the extent to which affective nursing is practised in operating theatres from an organisational climate point of view. Theatre nurses self image was also studied. The results suggest that even in moderately restrictive organisation; climates affective nursing care can and is being practised. The move towards the perioperative nursing role is practical in these circumstances
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Perry, J.(see also C.). (1985). Theory and practice in the induction of five graduate nurses: a reflexive critique. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: This study investigates the induction of comprehensive Nurses into a professional culture during their polytechnic education and the first year of Hospital practise. A critical theory framework combined with case study method is used to demonstrate the ways in which social forces constrain individual and professional action. It is argued that a more socially critical approach to the design of Nursing curricula might begin to transform some of the social structures which presently inhibit and constrain the professional choices and actions of student and graduate Nurse
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Chappell, A. L. (1982). Towards hope: identifying the healing role of the nurse in promoting psychosocial adaptation in serious illness. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Fleming, V. E. M. (1991). Towards nursing advocacy: a socio-political process. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: This thesis provides a reflexive critique of the power structures which constrain nursing actions in the practice setting, an abortion clinic, of the registered nurses who participated in this study. The development of abortion services, like other health services for women, has been based on a medical ideology of health which has created many ethical dilemmas for nurses. One of the most complex of these is the extent to which nurses should fulfil the role of client advocate. While the literature on nursing advocacy has been prolific, published research in this area is scant.The theoretical assumptions of critical social science, provide the basis for the methodological approach of action research adapted in this study. In depth, unstructured interviews involving exchange of dialogue amongst the participants with the researcher focused on the participants' experiences of their own nursing practice, with a view to uncoveing and removing restrasints, which had prevented them fulfililng an advocacy role. Diaries were also kept and used as supplementary research tools.The analysis of the data demonstrates the ways in which nurses interpret their own practice world as a system independent of their own actions. It shows how the shared understandings of the participants were 'ideologically frozen' and power relations inherent in the health care system are deep rooted and subtle, coming to be treated as natural by the nurses, and so denying them their own ability to make changes.It is suggested that opportunities for nurses coming together and engaging in such critically reflexive dialogue may provide a basis for future emancipation from traditional power structures. In this way effective and satisfying nursing practice dependent on emancipatory knowledge and a reinterpretation of power structures may result in an advocacy role for nurses
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Watson, P. B. (1998). An understanding of family in the context of families facing the diagnosis of childhood cancer. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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
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