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Author Ho, T. openurl 
  Title Ethical dilemmas in neonatal care Type Journal Article
  Year 2000 Publication (up) Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6 Issue 7 Pages 17-19  
  Keywords Intensive care nursing; Paediatric nursing; Ethics; Clinical decision making  
  Abstract The author explores possible approaches to the ethical dilemma confronting nurses of critically ill premature infants with an uncertain or futile outcome despite aggressive neonatal intensive care. A case history illustrates the issues. The morality of nursing decisions based on deontological and utilitarian principles is examined, as are the concepts of beneficence and non-maleficence. A fusion of virtue ethics and the ethic of care is suggested as appropriate for ethical decision-making in the neonatal intensive care environment.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1035 Serial 1019  
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Author Lewer, D. openurl 
  Title Analysing the Mental Health Act Type Journal Article
  Year 1999 Publication (up) Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 5 Issue 8 Pages 14-16  
  Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Mental health; Law and legislation; Ethics  
  Abstract Changes brought by the Mental Health Act (MHA) to clinical practice, and some of the problems it has created for nurses, are examined in this article. Compulsory assessment and treatment orders (CATO) and the role of Duly Authorised Officers (DAO), and moral dilemmas that can arise as a consequence of CATOs used by DAOs are examined. The requirement for DAOs to act as patient advocates and to safeguard cultural beliefs are highlighted. The MHA promotes self responsibility and a treatment philosophy rather than detention of the mentally ill.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1039 Serial 1023  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title Viewpoint: Telling nursing stories Type Journal Article
  Year 1994 Publication (up) Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 2 Issue 4 Pages 28  
  Keywords Nursing research; Ethics; Patient rights  
  Abstract A brief critique and comment on the ethical implications of nurse researchers using methodology that involves soliciting personal experiences of patients and subsequently publishing them as stories.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1321  
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Author Wareham, P.; McCallin, A.; Diesfeld, K. openurl 
  Title Advance directives: The New Zealand context Type Journal Article
  Year 2005 Publication (up) Nursing Ethics Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 12 Issue 4 Pages 349-359  
  Keywords Law and legislation; Patient rights; Nursing; Ethics  
  Abstract Advance directives convey consumers' wishes about accepting or refusing future treatment if they become incompetent. There are associated ethical issues for health practitioners and this article considers the features that are relevant to nurses. In New Zealand, consumers have a legal right to use an advance directive that is not limited to life-prolonging care and includes general health procedures. Concerns may arise regarding a consumer's competence and the document's validity. Nurses need to understand their legal and professional obligations to comply with an advance directive. What role does a nurse play and what questions arise for a nurse when advance directives are discussed with consumers? This article considers the cultural dimensions, legal boundaries, consumers' and providers' perspectives, and the medical and nursing positions in New Zealand.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1069 Serial 1054  
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Author Woods, M. openurl 
  Title Balancing rights and duties in 'life and death' decision making involving children: A role for nurses? Type Journal Article
  Year 2001 Publication (up) Nursing Ethics Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 8 Issue 5 Pages 397-408  
  Keywords Parents and caregivers; Children; Ethics; Clinical decision making; Nurse-family relations; Chronically ill  
  Abstract This article examines a growing number of cases in New Zealand in which parents and guardians are required to make life and death ethical decisions on behalf of their seriously ill child. Increasingly, nurses and other practitioners are expected to more closely inform, involve and support the rights of parents or guardians in such situations. Differing moral and ethical values between the medical team and parents or guardians can lead to difficult decision making situations. The article analyses the moral parameters, processes, outcomes and ethical responses that must be considered when life and death ethical decisions involving children are made. It concludes with a recommendation that nurses should be recognised as perhaps the most suitable of all health care personnel when careful mediation is needed to produce an acceptable moral outcome in difficult ethical situations.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1086  
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Author Woods, M. openurl 
  Title A nursing ethic: The moral voice of experienced nurses Type Journal Article
  Year 1999 Publication (up) Nursing Ethics Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6 Issue 5 Pages 423-433  
  Keywords Ethics; Nursing; Education  
  Abstract This article presents discussion on some of the main findings of a recently completed study on nursing ethics in New Zealand. An interpretation of a nurse's story taken from the study is offered and suggestions are made for nursing ethics education.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1092  
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Author Connor, M. openurl 
  Title The practical discourse in philosophy and nursing: An exploration of linkages and shifts in the evolution of praxis Type Journal Article
  Year 2004 Publication (up) Nursing Philosophy Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 5 Issue 1 Pages 54-66  
  Keywords Nursing philosophy; Ethics; Nursing  
  Abstract This paper, firstly, examines the linkages and shifts in the evolution of of praxis. The concept of praxis, also known as the practical discourse in philosophy, has been expressed in different ways in different eras. However, the linkages from one era to another and from one paradigm to another are not well explicated in the nursing literature. Blurring of the linkages occurred from the popular association of praxis within the emancipatory paradigm. Integral to the concept of praxis, since the time of Aristotle, is the notion of phronesis: a process of moral reasoning enacted to establish the 'good' of a particular situation, often referred to as practical wisdom. Secondly, the paper, promotes and affirms the importance of praxiological knowledge development in the discipline. Furthermore, increased appreciation of the concept of praxis provides an important vehicle for the advancement of nursing as a moral endeavour and the nurse as moral agent.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 890 Serial 874  
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Author Spence, D.; Smythe, E. openurl 
  Title Courage as integral to advancing nursing practice Type Journal Article
  Year 2007 Publication (up) Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 23 Issue 2 Pages 43-55  
  Keywords Ethics; Advanced nursing practice  
  Abstract This paper focuses on the illumination of courage in nursing. The authors suggest it is a fundamental component of nursing, yet it is seldom mentioned or recognised in the literature, or supported in practice. Data from a hermeneutic analysis of nurses' practice stories is integrated with literature to assist deeper understanding of the meaning of courage in contemporary nursing practice. The purpose is to make visible a phenomenon that needs to be actively fostered if nursing is to effectively contribute to an improved health service.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 470 Serial 456  
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Author Connor, M. openurl 
  Title Advancing nursing practice in New Zealand: A place for caring as a moral imperative Type Journal Article
  Year 2003 Publication (up) Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 19 Issue 3 Pages 13-21  
  Keywords Advanced nursing practice; Ethics; Professional competence; Nurse-patient relations  
  Abstract The author argues that the framework of competencies required for advanced nursing practice should include a moral dimension in order to take account of relational as well as functional competencies. There is no recognition of the relational competencies required to practice caring as a moral imperative. The Nursing Council of New Zealand expects that nurses will practise 'in accord with values and moral principles'. The paper explores the history of two nursing discourses, that which sees nursing as a functional occupation and that which emphasises the relationship between nurse and patient. A practice exemplar is used to demonstrate positive outcomes from advanced relational competencies.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 553  
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Author Jackson, H. openurl 
  Title Compassion: A concept exploration Type Journal Article
  Year 2001 Publication (up) Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 17 Issue 1 Pages 16-23  
  Keywords Ethics; Nursing philosophy  
  Abstract This paper explores the nature of compassion and posits it as a moral virtue that requires the nurse to act in the presence of suffering. Compassion is defined in relation to suffering and reciprocity, and distinguished from sympathy and pity.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 638 Serial 624  
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Author White, G.E.; Su, H.-R. openurl 
  Title Am I dying, nurse? Type Journal Article
  Year 2000 Publication (up) Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 15 Issue 1 Pages 33-40  
  Keywords Communication; Ethics; Nursing; Palliative care  
  Abstract This paper addresses the concept of truth, and debates who should tell it and how it should be told. It explores the cultural aspects of knowing the truth about dying. The question of whether nurses have a moral obligation to tell the truth is explored, and suggests the lack of New Zealand research in this area should be addressed.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 631  
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Author Harding, Thomas openurl 
  Title Cultural safety : a vital element for nursing ethics Type Journal Article
  Year 2013 Publication (up) Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 29 Issue 1 Pages 4-11  
  Keywords Ethics; Cultural safety; Nursing education; Internationalisation  
  Abstract Argues that the globalisation of nursing and the internationalisation of nursing education potentially leads to the values underpinning nursing curricula coming into conflict with those of other cultures. Suggests the need to examine the values inherent in ethics education in nursing, proposing that cultural safety is incorporated into it in an increasingly multi-cultural nursing environment.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1479  
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Author Kyle, W. openurl 
  Title The influence of technology in nursing practice with elder care facilities Type Journal Article
  Year 2001 Publication (up) Vision: A Journal of Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 7 Issue 12 Pages 20-23  
  Keywords Older people; Technology; Nursing specialties; Ethics; Training  
  Abstract This article firstly describes the application of technological care practices in elder care, and then looks at the attitudes of the elderly and their families towards this care. The value of the equipment in terms of quality of care is considered, and a discussion of the continuing education needs of nurses is presented. The ethical questions around the use of technology are examined, along with possible strategies to deal with such issues.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1299 Serial 1284  
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