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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title The successful design and delivery of rural health services: The meaning of success Type Report
  Year 2002 Publication (down) Abbreviated Journal Accessible from www.moh.govt.nz  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Rural health services; Management; Primary health care  
  Abstract A report on the analysis of data from an in-depth survey designed by Sue Dawson, previously Rural Health Researcher in the Centre for Rural Health, and follow-up interviews. The study purpose was to construct a definition of ?successful design and delivery of rural health services? as a step towards a measurement tool. Participants were grouped as general practitioners (GPs), nurses and community representatives. A format for a participatory approach to evaluation of rural health services is derived from the criteria of success identified, with its relevance for the implementation of the new Government primary health care strategy explicit. This format provided the basis for a subsequent evaluation case study undertaken in a small rural forestry township by the Centre for Rural Health.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1328  
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Author Tautua, Pelei openurl 
  Title Exploring primary health care nursing for child and family health (specifically targeting 0-5 year's age group). Margaret May Blackwell Travel Study Fellowship for Nurses of Young Children 2002 Type Report
  Year 2002 Publication (down) Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 82 p.  
  Keywords Primary health care – Nursing; Pacific Islanders – Health; Child health services; Family health  
  Abstract Compares the delivery models used by primary health-care nurses in Auckland for follow-up services aimed at Pacific children discharged from hospital with preventable illnesses, with similar services and programmes in Tonga and Samoa. Also compares NZ and Pacific Island programmes to promote immunisation and breastfeeding. Part of the Margaret May Blackwell Scholarship Reports series.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1420  
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Author Holdaway, Maureen Ann url  openurl
  Title A Maori model of primary health care nursing Type Book Whole
  Year 2002 Publication (down) Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 192 p.  
  Keywords Primary health care nursing; Maori women's health; Maori model of health; Kaupapa Maori research; Health reforms; Health policy; Surveys  
  Abstract Identifies how traditional nursing practice in Maori communities may be enhanced. Highlights the need for nursing to broaden concepts of health, community, and public health nursing, to focus on issues of capacity-building, community needs, and a broader understanding of the social, political, cultural, and economic contexts of the communities primary health-care nurses serve. Explores how health is experienced by Maori women during in-depth interviews using critical ethnographic method, underpinned by a Maori-centred approach. Articulates a model of health that is a dynamic process based on the restoration and maintenance of cultural integrity, derived from the principle of self-determination.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1809  
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Author Connor, M. url  openurl
  Title Sharing the burden of strife in chronic illness: A praxiological study of nursing practice in a community context Type
  Year 2002 Publication (down) Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Chronically ill; Nursing; Nurse-patient relations; Nursing research; Methodology  
  Abstract This inquiry is an in-depth exploration of one middle aged woman's experience of strife in chronic illness and her nursing care involving four nurses (including the author) in a community context over a three-year period. The study is praxiological in that the understanding achieved is derived from practice within a 'research as praxis' methodology positioned in the disciplinary perspective of nursing as a practical human science. Five methodological premises inform the research processes: reflexivity, dialogue, moral comportment, re-presentation in narrative and critique. They emanate from an eclectic ontological praxiology based on the research framework constructed from Gadamerian philosophical hermeneutics, components of other philosophical praxiologies evolved from an exploration of the practical discourse in philosophy and my preferred health and nursing assumptions. The research processes include researcher journalling, a summary of Sarah's nursing record and dialogical meetings with Sarah and the nurse co-participants. Using the research material a narrative is then co-constructed. The narrative is structured around what Sarah viewed as the overall nursing contribution to her care; the 'sharing of her burden of illness'. This, she maintained, enabled her to live safely in the community. Finally there occurs a critique of the narrative within a discursive framework. Three themes, embedded in particular discourses, emerged from the narrative both in Sarah's and the nurses' experience; paradox, moral meaning and metaphor. Sarah's experience is interpreted as taking place in the 'in-between space' of the disease and health-illness discourses. Two main concepts which depict the tension experienced in this space are the 'the ontological assault of illness' and 'entrapment in the disease discourse'. The nurses, in this instance, 'pushed the boundaries' to create a space for the nursing as a caring practice discourse on the margins of nursing as a functional service discourse. The author notes that, within the nursing as a caring practice space, many 'fine lines' were walked with Sarah. Walking the 'fine line' of an 'intense relationship' was seen as advanced nursing practice. The research highlights important implications for a person and/or families who live with chronic illness and practice and educational issues for advanced nurse practitioners. Further, it promotes praxiological methodologies as advantageous for expanding nursing knowledge.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 495 Serial 481  
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Author O'Reilly, A.F. openurl 
  Title Relinquishing personhood in dementia: Discordant discourses: A nurse's inquiry Type
  Year 2002 Publication (down) Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Dementia; Nursing; Nurse-patient relations; Relationships  
  Abstract This thesis traces the journey of the author's inquiry into family members' experience of the relinquishment of the personhood of a loved one with a dementia; a journey in which she reports that her own prior understandings were significantly challenged. The study was prompted by her experience of working in the area of dementia care and hearing, in the course of the working day, comments such as 'there's nobody there' made in relation to someone suffering from severe dementia. Such comments appear to imply that the person of the dementia sufferer in some way is no longer present. They are comments which relate to the very nature of personhood. The study takes impetus from the fact that the ways in which nurses view the personhood of dementia sufferers has significant consequences for the ways in which they respond to dementia sufferers and their families. This thesis, which retells the stories of four family members who each have a loved one with a dementia illness, reveals that rather than there being a unified concept of personhood in dementia, and in spite of the fact that particular understandings of dementia and personhood dominate our cultural conversations, in their day to day lives these four family members managed and made sense of their experience through particular and different ways of looking at the impact dementia has on the personhood of dementia sufferers. Not all did, in fact, relinquish the personhood of their family member. In their lived lives, the four research participants had recourse, each in different ways, to multiple discourses of personhood. For some, in addition to loss, there was also unexpected gain. This finding necessitated and shaped further inquiry into discourse and the role of discourse in shaping, constraining and opening up possibilities for meaning, and into the two substantive areas of dementia and personhood. Nurses work closely alongside the family of dementia sufferers who are daily faced with the challenge of managing and making meaning of that situation. It is critically important that they are able to recognise, validate and support the variety of needs that family members have. Nurses, whose education is traditionally based on a biomedical framework, are nevertheless often required to mediate between different understandings. Not only do they need currency of knowledge in the rapidly changing biomedical field of dementia, but they need also an understanding of the role and the power of discursive constructions of both dementia and personhood. Such understanding will provide insight into alternate ways of understanding these concepts. However, although such understanding is critical for nurses working in this area, the author suggests that nursing literature has not brought these discussions to the fore.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 792 Serial 776  
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Author Sargison, P.A. openurl 
  Title Essentially a woman's work: A history of general nursing in New Zealand, 1830-1930 Type
  Year 2002 Publication (down) Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords History of nursing; Gender  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1127 Serial 1112  
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Author Stojanovic, J.E.E. url  openurl
  Title Leaving your dignity at the door: Maternity in Wellington 1950 – 1970 Type
  Year 2002 Publication (down) Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Hospitals; Nursing specialties; Maternity care; Patient satisfaction  
  Abstract This thesis describes the maternity system in Wellington between 1950 and 1970 particularly from the perspectives of consumers and midwives. Four women consumers who experienced maternity in Wellington and two midwives who worked in Wellington's maternity hospitals during this period provided their oral testimonies as the main primary sources for this study. The author's experience of being a student nurse and a consumer in Wellington and other primary and secondary sources are used to substantiate, explore and explain the topic. The study traces the socio-political changes in New Zealand maternity from 1900 to 1970 creating a backdrop against which Wellington's maternity system, including the women, the hospitals, the workforce, maternity practices and the childbearing process are illuminated using the insights of women and midwives who experienced them. The oral testimonies of the six participants described positive and negative aspects of their maternity experiences, but the three strong themes that arose from their accounts included 'being alone', 'lack of autonomy' and 'uncaring attitudes'.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1223 Serial 1208  
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Author O'Sullivan, C. openurl 
  Title Cardiopulmonary resuscitation: Attitudes and knowledge of medical and nursing staff Type
  Year 2002 Publication (down) Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  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 (down) Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  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 (down) Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  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 (down) Abbreviated Journal Otago Polytechnic Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  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 (down) Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Transcultural nursing; Childbirth  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1269 Serial 1254  
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