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Wheeler, K. |
| Title |
Metabolism of riboflavin by the human term placenta |
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1995 |
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Victoria University of Wellington |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 333 |
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333 |
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Cowan, C. |
| Title |
The use of holistic nursing interventions in the treatment of breast cancer: a pilot study |
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| Year |
1995 |
Publication |
New Zealand Practice Nurse |
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80-83 |
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Nursing is increasingly using holistic interventions. Some research validating these interventions has been conducted. However there was no nursing research for these interventions with women with breast cancer. This research explored the experience of one womean who was diagnosed with breast cancer and who actively chose to have these interventions as an adjunct to the medical treatment.It was a single subject phenomenological study, effectively being a pilot study. Data was collected through unstructured interview, participant observation and review of the nursing notes. Interpretative analysis techniques were used to obtain the results. Three themes of the experience of the subject were identified as:1. maintenance of the locus of control with the subject,2. the choice of a health professional with philosophical base similar to that of the subject and3. maintenance of a focus on healthy living.These interventions were perceived as beneficial by this subject. This research demonstrated that further study on the effectiveness of holistic nursing interventions with women being treated for breast cancer is indicated |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 365 |
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365 |
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Pearson, J.R. |
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Computer usage and the development of computer learning amongst first year student nurses enrolled in a nursing degree programme |
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1995 |
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Author, Whitireia Community Polytechnic Library |
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This report addresses the issue of computer literacy and its position in current nursing practice and nursing education.Two groups of nursing students in a three year Polytechnic provided programme were surveyed by questionnaire to gain information about their current computer usage. The first questionnaire was given to first year students at the end of the 1994 academic year. A basic self-paced word processing package was developed from the information. Following the teaching of the package to 1995 year students a questionnaire was given to this second group to gain information about the teaching programme and their intended computer use.A greater number of younger students were computer literate on course entry compared with mature students and personal computers were accessible to about 40% of students. Following completion of the computer package computers were being used by 8154 of the group for course work. Compared to approximately 44% of the previous (1994) group. It was concluded that the self paced package was a successful method of teaching basic computer literacy for the majority of students. However computer usage within the educational institution was affected by access to computers and the availability of computers and support personnel at times suitable for the student group. The findings had implications for the future planning of teaching progrrammes, computer access, and staffing for the Polytechnic, and recommendations addressed these issues |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 375 |
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375 |
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Allen, N.R. |
| Title |
Competencies for registration of nurses in New Zealand |
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1995 |
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Nursing Council Library |
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Summary of the work of six groups of nurses from throughout New Zealand in defining compentencies for registration |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 384 |
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384 |
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Blanchard, D.L. |
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Nursing practice in the changing health care environment “just keep going until you see it right” |
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1995 |
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Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 410 |
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410 |
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Walsh, C. |
| Title |
Psychiatric nursing: a feminist perspective on nursing practice |
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1995 |
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Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 411 |
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411 |
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Walton, J.A. |
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Schizophrenia, a way of being-in-the-world |
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1995 |
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Massey University Library |
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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. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 446 |
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446 |
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Beale, T.M. |
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Psychiatric nurses: the influence of their personal life experiences on therapeutic readiness |
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1995 |
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Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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This research investigates the impact of fifteen psychiatric nurses' personal experiences on their therapeutic relationships with clines. A hermeneutic phenomenological methodology informed by Heidegger is employed to gain an understanding of the human experience of these nurses in the context of the therapeutic relationship.The research illuminates the significant impact of these nurses' experiences on their relationships. Some experiences are found to enhance therapeutic readiness while the other personal experiences impede it, some impeding it to a degree that nurses are unable to work therapeutically with certain clients. The stories that describe the personal experiences that lead towards therapeutic readiness care special, as are the accounts of the professionalism and care that these nurses bring to their clients |
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256 |
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Litchfield, M.; Clarke, M.; Edwards, R.; Richardson, F.; Tansley, R.; Woodman, K. |
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A description of the needs of people with cancer and support people |
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1995 |
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Author, Wellington Division of the Cancer Society |
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The report of a research project commissioned by the Wellington Division of the New Zealand Cancer Society to provide a foundation for policy to give direction to development of its services. The research approach and methodology had an ecological theory foundation. It involved a survey and in-depth interviews with people with cancer and those caring for them to understand their experience. Needs were identified from the data and presented according to three distinct phases in the course of living with cancer. People moved from the shock of diagnosis, through the time of treatment when usual living was suspended and focus narrowed on the intensive fight against the disease, then into a very different phase of on-going ?wait-and-see? time requiring a new way of living with uncertainty for both patient and carers. The last phase was where most of the unmet needs lay. Recommendations were made for services to provide a continuous caring relationship for patients and carers with a knowledgeable person from the point of diagnosis. |
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387 |
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Wilson, K.F. |
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Professional closure: the case of the professional development of nursing in Rotorua 1840 – 1934 |
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1995 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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Massey University Library |
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13 |
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1 |
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12-22 |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 257 |
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257 |
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Hollows, K. |
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The lived experience of registered nurses involved in the withdrawal of nutrition and hydration in a persistant vegetative state (PVS) patient |
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1995 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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10 |
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1 |
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28-37 |
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The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe the experience of five Registered Nurses involved in the withdrawal of nutrition and hydration in a persistant vegetative state (PVS) patient. Three female and two male nurses who had been involved in the care of a PVS patient within the last ten years were interviewed. The phenomenological design was used because it provided richness and clarity to the issues raised. Three major findings were identified as positive significant experiences for these nurses: support through 'talking': coping through 'thinking': and, decision making being kept 'in-house' (family and central care giving team)" |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 364 |
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364 |
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Bray, M.L. |
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Nurses' knowledge of and attitudes to medicine |
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1995 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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University of Otago Library |
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8 |
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3 |
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19-23 |
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Abstract information about attitudes to, and knowledge of, prescribed medication from a group of 70 students and 24 registered nurses at Otago Polytechnic. Employs a self-administered questionnaire previously used in a community survey in Southampton, UK |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 234 |
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234 |
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Street, A.; Walsh, C. |
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Not just a rubber stamp! mental health nurses as Duly Authorised Officers |
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1995 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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10 |
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3 |
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16-23 |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 266 |
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266 |
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Peddie, B. |
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Whooping cough in the Northern Coromandel -1995 |
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1995 |
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Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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4 |
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7 |
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14-17 |
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Data gathered during a whooping cough outbreak in the Northern Coromandel in 1995 highlights some distinct characteristics about how the disease manifestests itself in a defined geographical area, and about the place of prophylactic Erythromycin. This was probably the most fully documented outbreak in New Zealand, and possibly the first study conducted from a community perspective |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 286 |
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286 |
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Hill, L. |
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Feminist and unionism in New Zealand: organising the markets for women's work |
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1995 |
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Broadsheet |
Abbreviated Journal |
University of Canterbury Library, NZNO |
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Autumn |
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21-24 |
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In 1991 a new labor relations regime was introduced which overturned a 100 year old pattern of 'historic compromise' between capital and labor. In a labor market structured by gender and race, this major change in bargaining arrangements has already widened the pay gap between men's and women's average earnings and reduced union coverage, particularly among women workers in low paid clerical, sales and service work. This study, documenting recent feminist struggle in the area of labor relations, provides a first look at the collective organisation of women under two different labor relations regimes.In the 1980s a particular conjunction of occupational unionism and feminism in New Zealand facilitated some significant improvements in the situation of women in paid employment. The thesis examines feminist strategies which led to a Working Women's Charter adopted by unions, an increase in women holding office in unions, complaints procedures for sexual harassment, standing committees to represent women and Maori in the union movement, and legislation to implement equal employment opportunity programmes and equal pay for work of equal value. It looks at how the institution-alisation of bargaining by occupation supported industrially weak workers and underpinned the unionisation of women, which occupational unions and women's own strategies of organisation provided the autonomous 'political space' to organise around issues specifically relevant to women.At the core of the thesis are three case studies of unions representing three of the occupations in which women are concentrated: clerical work, nursing and cleaning. It examines commonalities and contrasts in the industrial situations covered by these unions, and differences and similarities in the strategies they adopted. The focus of research, conducted between late 1990 and early1993, was the views of officials of these unions in the context of radical change in the regulation of wage bargaining. Particular attention was given to the way issues relating to women workers were prioritised in unions led by women or by men.These case studies are contextualised in chapters examining the position of women in the labor market, feminist organisation within the union movement, and corporatist change in labor relations legislation. In tracing the development of feminist unionism in the 1980s, the thesis considers the strategies of the NZ Council of Trade Unions and looks at what the radical change in bargaining structure will mean for collective organisation by women in paid employment |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 154 |
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154 |
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