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Author Trenberth, D. url  openurl
  Title New Zealand families' beliefs about what constitutes successful management of unsupervised childcare Type
  Year 2008 Publication Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria  
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  Keywords Children; Parents and caregivers  
  Abstract This study explored what some New Zealand families believe constitutes the successful management of unsupervised childcare. It was designed to increase social understanding and practitioner knowledge of the issue by exploring families' beliefs, practices and perspectives. The researcher was concerned with the professional role nurses may play with this group of children. A qualitative descriptive approach was used to obtain a straight description of successful unsupervised childcare, using the everyday language of the participating families. Data was collected in semi structured interviews with five family groups, and subjected to content and thematic analysis. Findings suggest unsupervised childcare is both choice and solution, though parents are fearful of the legal and social consequences of using it. Context of the care is important, with the child's preference, community context and availability of adults through distal supervision critical components of its success. Trust between parent and child, the use of rules and boundaries to regulate child behaviour, the teaching of skills and strategies to build child competency, and parental support of children while unsupervised are identified by parents as factors linked to success. Parents identify increasing child independence and self responsibility as positive outcomes from the successful use of unsupervised childcare. This study has helped to identify positive factors resulting in good outcomes from which successful interventions could be developed, provides information that will be of particular interest to practitioners and policy makers, and provides a platform to launch larger studies into the issue of unsupervised children.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1252 Serial 1237  
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Author Dickinson, A.R. url  openurl
  Title Within the web: The family/practitioner relationship in the context of chronic childhood illness Type
  Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal ScholarlyCommons@AUT  
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  Keywords Nurse-family relations; Chronically ill; Children  
  Abstract This study explores the phenomenon of the relationships between practitioners and families who have a child with a chronic illness. Using a heremeneutic phenomenological method informed by the writings of Martin Heidegger [1889-1976] and Hans-Georg Gadamer [1900-2002], this study provides an understanding of the meaning of 'being in relationship' from the perspective of both families and practitioners. Study participants include ten family groups who have a child with a chronic illness and twelve practitioners from the disciplines of nursing, medicine, dietetics, physiotherapy and speech therapy who work with children with chronic illness. Narrative audio-taped interviewing was the means by which the participants told their stories about times that relationships worked well and when they did not. These stories uncover the every day realities of 'being in relationship' and provide another understanding of the relationship between family and practitioner.The findings of this thesis suggest that chronic childhood illness 'throws' families and practitioners together into a web of relationships that must work for the sake of the child. The relationship is primarily conducted between adults. Children are usually excluded. In order to understand and manage the child's illness, practitioners and families 'go around' and act 'in-between' relationships. While the quality of the relationship from the family perspective is not essential to the chronic illness journey, relationships are more successful when practitioners recognise the uniqueness of each family web. The nature of the relationship is often simple, yet it co-exists with complexity. This thesis proposes that a 'companion relationship' between practitioners and family may offer a more effective and satisfying way of working. It also challenges practitioners to consider the voice of children within health care relationships.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1253 Serial 1238  
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Author Hamilton, J. openurl 
  Title Personal power and the language of possibility: A study of opportunity and potential and its implications for nursing Type
  Year 2003 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University Library  
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  Keywords Nursing philosophy; Careers in nursing  
  Abstract This study uses a critical approach to analyse influences connected to opportunities for nurses to have their unique contribution to the health system recognised, and identifies a plan of action. The stories as told by four Northland nurses, identified the underlying principle of self-knowledge which, when connected to core values emerged as personal power with the language of possibility. Other factors which enabled opportunity recognition were labelled as: knowing the self, integrating core values from personal and professional qualities, connecting these to an intuitive plan, trusting it because it is value-based, using that plan to form goals and achieve direction. Integrating core values into goal setting enabled people to make choices that would enhance as well as protect their personal development. This study has implications for nurses as they seek out places where they can work well and for health planners to design systems where this can happen.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1256 Serial 1241  
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Author Phillips, B.N. openurl 
  Title Possibilities for mental health nursing practice-based research Type Report
  Year 2003 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
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  Keywords Nursing research; Psychiatric Nursing  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1257 Serial 1242  
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Author Adams, K. openurl 
  Title A postmodern/poststructural exploration of the discursive formation of professional nursing in New Zealand 1840 – 2000 Type
  Year 2003 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University Library  
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  Keywords History of nursing; Careers in nursing; Nursing philosophy  
  Abstract This study examines the discursive formation of professional nursing in one country, as revealed by the history of nursing in New Zealand. Michel Foucault's approach to historical research signifies a different level of analysis from conventional approaches, focusing not on the history of ideas but on an understanding of the present, a history of the present. A genealogical method derived from Foucauldian poststructuralism reveals how different understandings of nursing have occurred and have governed nursing practices and scholarship in different historical contexts. The archaeological investigation in this study reveals two moments of epistemic transformation, that is, two intervals of mutation and discontinuity. The Nightingale era in the 1880s precipitated the first epistemic shift – premodernism to modernism. The transfer of nursing education from hospital based training to the tertiary education sector, followed by the introduction of the baccalaureate degree, precipitated the second epistemic shift in the 1990s, the advent of postmodernism. Encompassing these two epistemes, six historical contexts are identified, where significant disruptions to the nursing discourses overturned previously held assumptions about what constituted a nurse. Each historical context is identified by specific discursive constructs. The first is colonial caring, the second the Nightingale ethos and the third heroic, disciplined obedience. In the fourth context, nursing is framed by, and within, discourses of skilled, humanistic caring, in the fifth, scientific, task focused managerialism, and in the 1990s, the sixth context, by multiple realities in an age of uncertainty.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1258 Serial 1243  
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Author Chick, D.N.P. openurl 
  Title Rural district nurses as rehabilitationists Type
  Year 2003 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library  
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  Keywords Rural nursing  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1259 Serial 1244  
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Author O'Sullivan, C. openurl 
  Title Cardiopulmonary resuscitation: Attitudes and knowledge of medical and nursing staff Type
  Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Keywords Attitude of health personnel; Emergency nursing  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1262 Serial 1247  
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Author Woodbridge, M. openurl 
  Title From child savers to child activists: A participatory action research project with community child health nurses Type
  Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Keywords Community health nursing; Paediatric nursing  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1266 Serial 1251  
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Author Raynel, S. openurl 
  Title Nurse-led clinics on ophthalmic practice: A vision for the future Type
  Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Keywords Nursing specialties  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1267 Serial 1252  
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Author McMillan, A. openurl 
  Title The past influencing the future: A journey through occupational health Type
  Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal Otago Polytechnic Library  
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  Keywords Occupational health and safety  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1268 Serial 1253  
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Author DeSouza, R. openurl 
  Title Walking upright here: Countering prevailing discourses through reflexivity and methodological pluralism Type
  Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Keywords Transcultural nursing; Childbirth  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1269 Serial 1254  
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Author Stolz-Schwarz, P. openurl 
  Title Barriers to and facilitators of research use in clinical practice for a sample of New Zealand registered nurses Type
  Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Keywords Nursing; Evidence-based medicine  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1271 Serial 1256  
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Author Rowe, W. openurl 
  Title An ethnography of the nursing handover Type
  Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Keywords Administration; Nursing; Organisational culture  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1272 Serial 1257  
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Author Herd, C.M.F. openurl 
  Title Is it a dangerous game? Registered nurses' experiences of working with care assistants in a public hospital setting Type
  Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University, Palmerston North, Library  
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  Keywords Registered nurses; Personnel; Interprofessional relations  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1274 Serial 1259  
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Author Walsh, C.; Boyd, L.; Baker, P.; Gavriel, A.; McClusky, N.; Puckey, T.C.; Sadler, D.; Stidworthy, A. openurl 
  Title It was time for me to leave: A participatory action research study into discharge planning from an acute mental health setting Type Report
  Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
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  Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Patient satisfaction; Hospitals; Administration  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1275 Serial 1260  
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