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Author French, P. openurl 
  Title A study of the regulation of nursing in New Zealand 1901 – 1997 Type
  Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 63 Serial (down) 63  
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Author Thomson, M. openurl 
  Title A study of the position of staff-sister in a New Zealand public hospital with special focus on supervision Type
  Year 1974 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Abstract This study examines demographic data on the primary subject, the staff sister. Data on trainee nurses was also used to give meaning by comparing the two positions and to describe both sides of the staff-sister; trainee nurse relationship. Data on the staff sister's job, her present and future orientations, satisfaction and problems are included  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 20 Serial (down) 20  
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Author Kapoor, S.D. openurl 
  Title A time for health: a study into the collaboration of professional, non-professionals and the public to promote better health Type
  Year 1983 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Abstract An exploratory study of the functioning of four multi disciplinary health care teams ( HCT) in the New Zealand services and possible implications foe Health personnel education. This research seeks to 1. establish form structure and functioning of the HCT in the relation to the delivery of comprehensive primary health care. 2. Determine what collaborative skills are being used, the extent of interdependence and these factors which inhibit the use of these skills in providing primary health care. 3. Identify the key requirements for, and these factors which limit the successful functioning of the HCT in the provision of comprehensive primary health care. Data has been collected through structured interviews and observations. The analysis will compare and contrast the functioning of the social groups in the different settings in terms of their responses to both HCT index and appropriate contextual variables such that differences and similarities are delineated  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 7 Serial (down) 7  
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Author Green, D.E. openurl 
  Title Prediction of academic success and attrition on nursing students Type
  Year 1976 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 6 Serial (down) 6  
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Author Wells, C.C. openurl 
  Title Our dreams Type
  Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Abstract There has been a great deal written about the efforts of the nursing profession to achieve full professional status but little about individual nurses' aspirations in seeking this goal. A group of 6 co-researchers, myself included, looked at this perceived gap in nurses' dreams for the profession.The philosophical underpinnings of the research were feminist and reflected postmodern feminist and some radical feminist concepts. This philosophical positions guided our research to uncover the knowledge of how we actively construct ourselves into dominant social values. This means we were searching for how our dreams were constructed and how we reflected the values of society in the way we produced our dreams. Peace and Power (Chinn & Wheeler, 1989) was used to guide the group interaction and Memory-Work (Hague, 1987) for data collecting and analysis. The co-researchers wrote individual stories about their dreams for the nursing profession. Collective analysis of the stories occurred in order to uncover the was in which the dreams were constructed. From this collective analysis the individual co-researchers redrafted their stories. Each redraft contained new insights, motives and actions of ourselves and others, forgotten experiences and inconsistencies, as a means of identifying and questioning dominant ideologies. The aim was to move towards empowerment through making the unconscious conscious.Four common dreams emerged from analysis of the stories: the first was that individual nurses want full professional status and autonomy; the second asked the nurses to care and support each other; a high standard of patient and nursing-focussed care was the third dream; and the fourth was for continuing education and knowledge to be shared between nurses. Although the dreams were common across the group it was found that the dreams varied in their construction. The dreams for each group member reflected multiple realities that emerged from different contexts, influenced by historical and socially dominant cultural values.Through studying and theorising our dreams for the nursing profession, we increased our understanding of how they were shaped so that we were able to initiate change and make our dreams become a reality. This has implications for the nursing profession. We live our lives collectively, as nurses and women, as others influence our being and reality. Although others influence us, it is each individual nurse who contributes to actively construct her/himself in to the dominant cultural values held by society and therefore up to each individual to initiate change. If nurses are able to make dreams a reality then positive changes will occur within the profession; I.e. decreased staff turnover, increased morale and increased quality in patient care  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 2 Serial (down) 2  
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