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Author Alexander, S.M.
Title Evaluation as an aged-care management tool: a case study Type
Year 1989 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 317 Serial 317
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Author Abel, S.
Title Midwifery and maternity services in transition: an examination of change following the Nurses Amendment Act 1990 Type
Year 1997 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 318 Serial 318
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Author White, G.E.
Title Toward autonomy: an examination of midwifery education in New Zealand 1990 Type
Year 1990 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 335 Serial 335
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Author Simich, M.-L.
Title Women in employment in New Zealand 1911-1926 Type
Year 1978 Publication Abbreviated Journal Auckland University Library
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Abstract Includes superficial analysis of role of nurses & switch from private to hospital employment
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 420 Serial 420
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Author Clendon, J.
Title The Nurse Practitioner-led Primary Health Care Clinic; A Community Needs Analysis Type
Year 1999 Publication Abbreviated Journal Albany, Auckland
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Abstract Aim: To determine the feasibility of establishing a nurse practitioner-led, family focused, primary health care clinic within a primary school environment as an alternate or complementary way of addressing the health needs of 'at risk' children and families to the services already provided by the public health nurse.Method: Utilising needs analysis method, data was collected from three sources – known demographic data, 17 key informant interviews and two focus group interviews. Questions were asked regarding the health needs of the community, the perceptions of participants regarding the role of the public health nurse in order to determine if a public health nurse would be the most appropriate person to lead a primary health care clinic, and the practicalities of establishing a clinic including services participants would expect a clinic to provide. Analysis was descriptive and exploratory.Results: A wide range of health needs were identified from both the demographic data and from participant interviews. Findings also showed that participant's understanding of the role of the public health nurse was not great and that community expectations were such that for a public health nurse to lead a primary health care clinic further skills would be required. Outcomes from investigating the practicalities of establishing a nurse practitioner-led clinic resulted in the preparation of a community-developed model that would serve to address the health needs of children and families in the area the study was undertaken.Conclusion: Overall findings indicated that the establishment of a nurse practitioner-led, family focused, primary health care clinic in a primary school environment is feasible. While a public health nurse may fulfil the role of the nurse practitioner, it was established that preparation to an advanced level of practice would be required. It is likely that a similar model would also be successful in other communities in New Zealand, however the health needs identified in this study are specific to the community studied. Further community needs assessments would need to be completed to ensure health services target health needs specific to the communities involved.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 447 Serial 447
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Author Spence, D.
Title Prejudice, paradox and possibility Type
Year 1999 Publication Abbreviated Journal Auckland
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Abstract This study explores the the experience of nursing a person, or people, form cultures other than one's own. Informed by the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics, and drawing specifically on some of the notions articulated by Hans-Georg Gadamer and Charles Taylor, it seeks to understand everyday nursing practices within their cultural and historical context.Against a background of Maori resurgence, nurses in New Zealand have been challenged in Aotearoa-New Zealand to recognise and address racism in their practice. Meeting the health needs of all people has long been important in nursing yet the curricular changes implemented in the early 1990s to enhance nursing's contribution to a more equitable health service created uncertainty and tension both within nursing, and between nursing and the wider community.In this study, I have interpreted the experiences of seventeen nurses practising in an increasingly ethnically diverse region. Personal understandings and those from relevant literature have been used to illuminate further the nature of cross-cultural experience from a nurse's perspective. The thesis asserts that the notions of prejudice, paradox and possibility can be used to describe the experience of nursing a person from another culture. Prejudice refers to the prior understandings that influence nursing action in both a positive and a negative sense. Paradox relates to the coexistence and necessary interplay of contradictory meanings and positions, while possibility points to the potential for new understandings to surface from the fusion of past with present, and between different interpretations. As New Zealand nurses negotiate the conflicts essential for ongoing development of their practice, the play of prejudice, paradox and possibility is evident at intra-personal and interpersonal levels as well as in relation to professional and other social discourses. This thesis challenges nurses to persist in working with the tensions inherent in cross-cultural practice. It encourages continuation of their efforts to understand and move beyond the prejudices that otherwise preclude the exploration of new possibilities.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 448 Serial 448
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Author Robinson, T.
Title Advancing nursing practice and deep vein thrombosis prevention Type
Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Keywords Cardiovascular diseases; Nursing; Prevention
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 477 Serial 464
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Author Kidd, J.D.
Title Aroha mai: Nurses, nursing and mental illness Type
Year 2008 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Keywords Mental health; Nursing; Culture
Abstract This research takes an autoethnographical approach to exploring the connections between being a nurse, doing nursing work, and experiencing a mental illness. Data is comprised of autoethnographical stories from 18 nurses. Drawing on Lyotard's (1988) postmodern philosophy of 'regimes of phrases' and 'genres of discourse,' the nurses' stories yielded three motifs: Nursing, Tangata Whaiora (people seeking wellness) and Bullying. Interpretation of the motifs was undertaken by identifying and exploring connected or dissenting aspects within and between the motifs.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 478 Serial 465
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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
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Keywords Cardiovascular diseases; Nursing specialties; Nursing
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 482 Serial 469
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Author Hetaraka, B.
Title A study of nurses working in a community development model Type
Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal Auckland University of Technology Library
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Keywords Community health nursing; Health promotion; Nursing
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 486 Serial 472
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Author Desmond, N.
Title Aspects of nursing in the general practice setting and the impact on immunisation coverage Type
Year 2007 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Keywords Nurse-family relations; Immunisation; Primary health care; Nursing
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 510 Serial 496
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Author Grayson, S.
Title Nursing management of the rheumatic fever secondary prophylaxis programme Type
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Keywords Community health nursing; Management; Nursing specialties
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 576 Serial 562
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Author Isaac, D.
Title Passionate dedication: A qualitative descriptive study of nurses' and hospital play specialists' experiences on a children's burn ward Type
Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal Auckland University of Technology Library
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Keywords Children; Nursing specialties; Mentoring; Job satisfaction
Abstract A qualitative descriptive approach was undertaken to explore the experience of eight registered nurses and two hospital play specialists who care for children hospitalised with burn injuries. The research participants were recruited from a paediatric ward that offers centralised specialty care to children with burns. Emerging out of the data was the over-arching theme of 'passionate dedication' that shows the nurses and hospital play specialists genuine compassion and commitment to meet the needs of the children with burns. The findings of the study reveal that the participant's dedication is shaped and determined by a dynamic process that involves having professional integrity and in-depth knowledge of caring for children and burn management. The nurses and the hospital play specialists have a common understanding of what their role entails and the skills required to provide quality care and support to the children and the children's family. On a personal and professional level the participants encounter several challenges in this care context that are physically and emotionally overwhelming. Despite becoming overwhelmed the participants are revealed as being resourceful and resilient in their aptitude to find ways that enable them to cope and get through. The author suggests that this study supports international literature that suggests that caring for children with burns is equally rewarding, as much as it is physically and emotionally demanding. The author identifies that the implication in this study for the organisation is to seriously consider issues regarding productivity and efficiency of the workforce with acknowledgement that nurses and hospital play specialists cannot do this emotional work without effective systems of support in place.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 577 Serial 563
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Author Weidenbohm, K.
Title Pioneering rural nursing practice: An impact evaluation of a preventive home visiting service for older people Type
Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Keywords Community health nursing; Rural health services; Older people; Home care; Preventive health services
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 579 Serial 565
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Author Harding, T.S.
Title Constructing the “other”: On being a man and a nurse Type
Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Keywords Gender; Male nurses; Careers in nursing
Abstract This study explores the experiences of men who are nurses in Aotearoa New Zealand. Utilising discourse analysis a social constructionist reading of men, masculinity and nursing is provided to offer an alternative reading to much of the extant literature with respect to men in nursing. The study draws upon a number of different sources of “text”, including over 600 written works, two films and interviews with eighteen men who currently are, have been or are intending to be, nurses. Drawing primarily upon the “literary” textual sources a number of themes were identified for further exploration in interview with the co-researchers. These themes were the construction of masculinity, the construction of images of the nurse, the reaction to men who are nurses, sexuality issues, career development, and men and caring. The findings of this thesis reveal that the literature pertaining to men in nursing is replete with paradox and contradiction and fails to adequately account for the male experience. It is argued that the images and arguments provided in the literature with respect to men in nursing are based on out-of-date models and understandings of gender relations, masculinity and nursing. It is suggested that rather than enjoying patriarchal privilege, men who enter nursing must contend with being constructed as both an inferior man and inferior nurse. Their careers are not, as is alleged in the literature, based on developing “islands of masculinity” and male privilege, nor upon the avoidance of the emotional labour of nursing but reflect a belief that career is one way of doing care. It is argued in this work that men in nursing have fewer “taken-as-givens” upon which to base work and that they work to develop trusting relationships with their patients that are based on communication and empathy within a context defined by the patients' circumstances.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 595 Serial 581
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