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Manning, J. |
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Building trust with families in neonatal intensive care units |
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2006 |
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Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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12 |
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6 |
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18-20 |
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Paediatric nursing; Neonatal nursing; Parents and caregivers; Communication |
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Establishing a trusting relationship is a key therapeutic intervention for nurses working with families of hospitalised children. This article is an exploration of the definition of trust. Specifically, it considers how parents come to trust (or not) nurses in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) helps to reveal the meaning of parent-nurse trust and how this affects nursing practice. Understanding and meeting parental needs is important in developing and sustaining trust. The medical model of care often dominates in NICU. This is a deficit model that focuses on illness and treatment. However, the use of a nursing framework, such as developmentally supportive family centred care, focuses on recognising and building on the strengths of the family, by fostering trust to equip the family with the capacity to manage their infant's health care. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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976 |
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Lichfield, M. |
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The paediatric nurse and the child in hospital |
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1974 |
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New Zealand Nursing Journal |
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67 |
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11 |
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Paediatric nursing; Nurse-family relations; Nurse managers |
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A paper intended to inform paediatric nurses and influence service policy and management, adapted from a presentation at an inservice education study day for nurses at Wellington Hospital. The paper grew out of the findings of a small research project undertaken by the author as part of nursing practice in a paediatric ward of Wellington Hospital. The observations of the stress in the experience of infants and parents and the ambiguities inherent in the relationships between parents and nurses were the basis for arguing for changes in nursing practice and ward management. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1312 |
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Wilson, H.V. |
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Power and partnership: A critical analysis of the surveillance discourses of child health nurses |
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2001 |
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Journal of Advanced Nursing |
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36 |
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2 |
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294-301 |
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Paediatric nursing; Nurse-family relations; Nursing philosophy; Plunket |
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The aim of this research was to explore surveillance discourses within New Zealand child health nursing and to identify whether surveillance practices have implications in this context for power relations. Five experienced and practising Plunket nurses were each interviewed twice. The texts generated by these semi-structured interviews were analysed using a Foucauldian approach to critical discourse analysis. In contrast with the conventional view of power as held and wielded by one party, this study revealed that, in the Plunket nursing context, power is exercised in various and unexpected ways. Although the relationship between the mother and the nurse cannot be said to operate as a partnership, it is constituted in the nurses' discourses as a dynamic relationship in which the mother is actively engaged on her own terms. The effect of this is that it is presented by the nurses as a precarious relationship that has significant implications for the success of their work. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1085 |
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Grant-Mackie, D. |
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A literature review of competence in relation to speciality nursing |
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2000 |
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University of Otago Library, NZNO Library |
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Paediatric nursing; Nursing specialties; Professional competence; Nursing; Education |
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The original aim of the study was to find out through a questionnaire what child health/paediatric nurses in New Zealand/Aotearoa saw as their needs for post-registration education. Nurses were completing courses in the United Kingdom and returning to New Zealand/Aotearoa and realising that their nursing capabilities had improved. They became senior nurses with education responsibilities and exhibited political leadership among their colleagues in the field of child health/paediatric nursing. They were becoming increasingly concerned at the lack of any clinical courses in the specialty of child health/paediatric nursing to promote an appropriate standard of practice. It was intended that a research project about post-registration child health/paediatric education would assist concerned nurses to develop a programme. The time needed for such a project did not fit with a limited research paper. It was decided to reduce the project to a review of the literature on competence in nursing, with some comment on the specialty of child health/paediatric nursing. In order for nurses to find what they need to learn and know, an understanding of competence in nursing practice is required. Competence is defined as the ability of the nurse to carry out specific work in a designated area at a predetermined standard. Issues around competence, defining a scope of practice, development and assessment of competence, and regulation of nursing, are part of the context in which accountability for the practice of nurses sits. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1123 |
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Chenery, K. |
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Building child health nurses' confidence and competence |
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2007 |
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Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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13 |
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5 |
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26-38 |
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Paediatric nursing; Nursing; Education; Evaluation |
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This article describes the development of the Generic Orientation Programme, Child Health Nursing and its perceived impact on practice after ten months, through two simultaneous evaluation surveys, seeking the views of programme participants and their nurse managers. The programme aims to equip the newly appointed RN in the child health cluster or the nurse working in a non-designated children's area with the knowledge and skills to safely care for children. These include basic anatomical and physiological differences; fluid and electrolyte management; safe administration of medication; pain management; recognition of the seriously ill child; and building partnerships with children and their families. A survey instrument eliciting qualitative and quantitative responses was used. The majority of nurse respondents believed they had gained new knowledge and described how they were incorporating it into everyday practice. Similarly, several nurse managers observed that nurses' clinical knowledge and skills had improved since attending the programme. In particular, responses from those working in non-designated children's areas suggested the programme had provided them with greater insight into the care of children. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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975 |
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McKelvie, R. |
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Partnership in paediatric nursing: A descriptive exploration of the concept and its practice |
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2001 |
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Paediatric nursing; Parents and caregivers; Children; Relationships |
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A 50 point research project presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Nursing at Massey University. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 484 |
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471 |
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Manning, J. |
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Skin-to-skin care of the very low birth weight infant: Taking a risk and making it happen |
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2007 |
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Otago Polytechnic library. A copy can be obtained by contacting pgnursadmin@tekotago.ac.nz |
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Paediatric nursing; Premature infants; Nursing; Hospitals |
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Parent-infant skin-to-skin care has become an advocated aspect of care in neonatal intensive care units nationally within New Zealand and internationally. However the implementation of this care by nurses can be limited by a number of factors within the practice environment. This dissertation presents a critical analysis of literature alongside reflection on the author's own practice experience to explore factors that may be constraining the use of skin-to-skin care with the very low birth weight infant in the neonatal intensive care unit. These factors are examined through a lens of risk taking behaviour underpinned by the grounded theory work of Dobos (1992). The concept of risk is explored in order to develop an understanding of why, in the author's view, the practice of skin-to-skin care of very low birth weight infants may have declined in recent years. For neonatal nurses skin-to-skin care of the very low birth weight infant presents challenges related to the environment, physiological stability of the infant and changes over the past 10 years in the clinical management of very low birth weight infants. As progress is made toward the design, development and eventual move to a new unit in Dunedin recommendations pertaining to the change in physical space, the introduction of a structured model for nursing care and implications for nursing practice development in relation to skin-to-skin care are described. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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800 |
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Coleman, R.; Sim, G. |
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Title |
The sacredness of the head: Cultural implications for neuroscience nurses |
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2003 |
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Australasian Journal of Neuroscience |
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16 |
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2 |
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20-22 |
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Paediatric nursing; Transcultural nursing; Culture |
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The aim of this paper is to increase neuroscience nurses' awareness of how the head is perceived as sacred by some cultures. This article will outline a definition of culture, discussion around the sanctity of the head for some cultures, the cultural significance of common neuroscience interventions, the use of traditional healing methods, and prayer. Examples will be provided of how nursing interactions and interventions affect some cultures, looking primarily at a Maori and Pacific Island perspective. The focus of this paper is within a New Zealand paediatric setting. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1083 |
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1068 |
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Smart, S. |
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Post-operative pain management knowledge and attitude of paediatric nurses: A New Zealand regional view |
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2005 |
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ResearchArchive@Victoria |
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Pain management; Paediatric nursing; Hospitals; Pharmacology |
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This research explored the knowledge and attitudes towards paediatric post-operative pain, within the New Zealand context of small regional hospitals. It established how nurses working in these areas obtain and update their paediatric pain management knowledge, and what is it that influences their paediatric post-operative pain management practices. A questionnaire survey of registered nurses working in three small paediatric units (5 to 12 beds), in regional secondary service hospitals was undertaken. The survey had a 79% (n=33) response rate. Findings corroborate many findings in previously published literature including that nurses do well in questions related to assessment. However pharmacological knowledge continues to be lacking. Results also indicated that while nurses have a good understanding about who is the best person to rate pain, this wasn't carried through in the clinical scenarios provided. Education is clearly an important factor in improving the knowledge and attitudes needed in clinical practice. While this survey was somewhat limited, both in size and in that a clear correlation between the results and actual clinical practice could not be made, results are significant for the areas surveyed and for the development of pain education for nurses. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1194 |
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1179 |
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Murphy, S.E.E. |
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Through mothers' eyes: The lived experience of caring for a child who has undergone and recovered from a liver transplantation |
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2008 |
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ResearchArchive@Victoria |
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Parents and caregivers; Paediatric nursing; Children; Surgery |
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Mothers, whose children had undergone a liver transplant more than one year ago at time of interview and whose children were outpatients of Starship Children's Hospital, were invited to participate in this research. A Heideggerian hermeneutic phenomenological approach, informed by the work of van Manen (1990) was used. Three mothers of children who had received a liver transplant were interviewed to reveal the meanings of the phenomenon – what is the meaning of lived experience of mothers in caring for their child who has undergone and recovered following liver transplantation? Little previous study regarding mothers' lived experience of caring for their child, who had recovered from a liver transplant, was found in the literature. The emerging themes were punctuated with stress being a consistent feature. Utilising Ruddick's (1983) concepts of maternal thinking, the emerging themes were merged within the three interests governing maternal practice; preservation, growth and acceptability. The absolute capacity for attentive love draws the experience together. An essential theme identified out of the analysis was the concept of survival relating to the unique features of liver transplantation and the consequences of liver rejection and failure. The findings contribute to the understanding of the phenomenon, emphasising the need for good support systems for families of children who have undergone transplantation; assistance in the establishment of maternal coping strategies and regular feedback on the children's progress acknowledging the role and care provided by mothers. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1242 |
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1227 |
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Andrews, C.M. |
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Developing a nursing speciality: Plunket Nursing 1905 – 1920 |
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2001 |
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ResearchArchive@Victoria |
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Plunket; History of nursing; Nursing specialties; Paediatric nursing |
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This paper focuses on the history of Plunket nursing and Truby King's ideology and other dominant ideologies, during the years 1905 – 1920. To provide a context, the paper explores the development of a new nursing speciality – Plunket nursing, that became part of the backbone of a fledgling health system and the New Zealand nursing profession. Correspondingly, Truby King presented the country with a vision for improving infant welfare underpinned by his eugenics view of the world and his experimentation with infant feeding. The author argues that nurses were drawn to the work of the newly created Plunket Society and that the Society had lasting influence on the development of nursing in New Zealand. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1167 |
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1152 |
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Wilson, H.V. |
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Paradoxical pursuits in child health nursing practice: Discourses of scientific mothercraft |
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2003 |
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Critical Public Health |
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13 |
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3 |
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281-293 |
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Plunket; Nurse-family relations; Paediatric nursing; Nursing philosophy |
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the discourses of scientific mothercraft and their implications for the nurse-mother relationship, drawing on the author's recent research into surveillance and the exercise of power in the child health nursing context. The application of Foucauldian discourse analysis to the texts generated by interviews with five New Zealand child health nurses confirms that this paradoxical role has never been fully resolved. Plunket nurses primarily work in the community with the parents of new babies and preschool children. Their work, child health surveillance, is considered to involve routine and unproblematic practices generally carried out in the context of a relationship between the nurse and the mother. However, there are suggestions in the literature that historically the nurse's surveillance role has conflicting objectives, as she is at the same time an inspector and family friend. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1116 |
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1101 |
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Watson, Paul |
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Preschool children frequently seen but seldom heard in nursing care |
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2008 |
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Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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24 |
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3 |
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41-48 |
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Preschool children; Children's voices; Paediatric nursing |
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Maintains that children's voices are largely unheard in nursing practice. Recommends the need for research that seeks to understand how preschool children experience being ill and how they communicate those experiences to others. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1438 |
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Morgan, F.A. |
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Primary health care nurses supporting families parenting pre-term infants |
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2006 |
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NZNO Library, University of Otago Library |
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Primary health care; Community health nursing; Paediatric nursing; Premature infants |
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This thesis reviews the role of primary health care nurses, who have an opportunity to play a unique role in teaching, touching and empowering families with newly discharged pre-term babies. Birth of a baby earlier than 37 weeks gestation ushers in a period of uncertainty and stress for parents. Uncertainties may centre on whether their infant will survive and what ongoing growth and developmental issues their infant will face. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1132 |
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Water, T. |
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The meaning of being in dilemma in paediatric practice: A phenomenological study |
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2008 |
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NZNO Library |
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259 pp |
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Psychology; Paediatric nursing; Paedetric practice; Problem solving |
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This study explores the phenomenon of dilemma in paediatric practice. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological method informed by the writings of Heidegger [1889-1976] and Gadamer [1900-2002] this study provides an understanding of the meaning of 'being in dilemma' from the perspective of predominantly paediatric health care professionals but also families in New Zealand. Study participants include four families who had a child requiring health care and fifteen health care practitioners from the disciplines of medicine, nursing, physiotherapy, play specialist and occupational therapy who work with families and children requiring health care. Participants' narratives of their experiences of 'being in dilemma' were captured via audio taped interviewing. These stories uncover the everyday realities facing health professionals and families and provide an ontological understanding for the notion of dilemma. The findings of this study suggest that experience of dilemma for health professionals reveals a world that is uncertain and questionable where they are thrown into having to make uncomfortable choices and must live with the painful consequences of their actions. The consequences of being in such dilemma are having to find ways of living with the angst, or risk becoming too sensitive or desensitizing. For families the experience of dilemma reveals a similar phenomenon most evident in circumstances where they feel totalized by the impact of heath care encounters. This study has uncovered that the perspectives that health professionals and families bring to the experience of dilemma reveal different concerns and commitments and may be hidden from each other. This thesis proposes that health professionals and families need support in living with their own personal encounters of enduring experiences of dilemma. |
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1234 |
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