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Author Madjar, D.I. openurl 
  Title (up) The experience of pain in surgical patients – a cross cultural study Type
  Year 1981 Publication Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
  Volume 2 Issue 2 Pages 29-33  
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  Abstract A study of 33 adult patients – 20 Anglo – Australian, 13 Yugoslav- who were admitted for arranged abdominal surgery to three Australian hospitals between January and June 1980. Focusing on the role of cultural factors in the experience of post operative pain the study confirmed the existence of some behavioral differences between Anglo – Australian and Yugoslav patients in terms of their responses to pain. The greatest degree of difference between the two groups however was found in their underlying attitudes to pain  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 112 Serial 112  
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Author Glen, J. openurl 
  Title (up) The having-been-ness and the being-in-the-world of twin survivors Type
  Year 1996 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 259 Serial 259  
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Author Leamy, J. openurl 
  Title (up) The healing journey: survivors of ritual abuse Type
  Year 1994 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 274 Serial 274  
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Author Cooney, C. openurl 
  Title (up) The ICN international classification for nursing practice project. Terms used by community-based mental health nurses to describe their practice Type
  Year 1996 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Abstract The ICN International classification for nursing practice project.Terms used by Community-based Mental Health Nurses to describe their practice.In December 1995 a team of advisors from throughout the Asia and pacific region gathered in Taipei, Republic of China, for the International Council of Nurses (ICN) International Classification of Nursing Practice (ICNP) project. During the week long workshop the early draft Classification architecture was presented and exercises were undertaken to test the relevance and accuracy of selected Terms and associated characteristics from the classification. The team of Consultants, who have been working on the Classification since 1990, identified that the most underdeveloped aspects of the hierarchy were community health and mental health nursing. They encouraged the team of Advisors to conduct research with nurses to add to these areas of the Classification in particular.The purpose of the ICP is to make nursing visible through an internationally accepted language which represents nursing diagnoses, interventions and outcomes. The classification is sponsored by ICN and follows a format similar to the WHO International Classification of Diseases (ICD) which is used extensively throughout the world to statistically record work completed by medical practitioners.The research undertaken at Lakeland Health with five Community-based Mental Health Nurses used the retrospective method of nursing diagnosis validation tool and field exercise method provided by the ICNP Consultant team. These were underpinned by participatory action research methodology. Over four sessions the participants identified six Terms and then field tested each to assess the relevance of that Term in practice. At the weekly sessions the participants shared their reflections on the validity of each Term and discussed other outcomes resulting from their involvement in the research process.The research report outlines the ICNP project and associated literature, explains the research methodology, identifies the resulting Terms and characteristics ready for submission to the ICNP Consultant team and examines outcomes from involvement in the participatory process  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 363 Serial 363  
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Author Wilson, A.W. openurl 
  Title (up) The lived experience of adult patients commencing radiotherapy and/or cytotoxic chemotherapy Type
  Year 1995 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 284 Serial 284  
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Author Wilkinson, J.A. url  openurl
  Title (up) The New Zealand nurse practitioner polemic: A discourse analysis Type
  Year 2007 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Keywords Nurse practitioners; History of nursing  
  Abstract The purpose of this research has been to trace the development of the nurse practitioner role in New Zealand. Using a discourse analytical approach informed by the work of Michel Foucault, the study foregrounds the discourses that have constructed the nurse practitioner role within the New Zealand social and political context. The author suggests that discourses of nursing and of medicine have established systems of disciplinary practices that produce nurses and physicians within defined role boundaries, not because of legislation, but because discourse has constructed certain rules. The nurse practitioner role transcends those boundaries and offers the possibility of a new and potentially more liberating identity for nurses and nursing. A plural approach of both textuality and discursivity was used to guide the analysis of texts chosen from published literature and from nine interviews conducted with individuals who have been influential in the unfolding of the nurse practitioner role. Both professionally and industrially and in academic and regulatory terms dating back to the Nurses Registration Act, 1901, the political discourses and disciplinary practices serving to position nurses in the health care sector and to represent nursing are examined. The play of these forces has created an interstice from which the nurse practitioner role in New Zealand could emerge. In combination with a new state regime of primary health care, the notion of an autonomous nursing profession in both practice and regulation has challenged medicine's traditional right to surveillance of nursing practice. Through a kind of regulated freedom, the availability of assessment, diagnostic and prescribing practices within a nursing discourse signals a radical shift in how nursing can be represented. The author concludes that the nurse practitioner polemic has revolutionised the nursing subject, and may in turn lead to a qualitatively different health service.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 517 Serial 503  
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Author Walton, J.A. openurl 
  Title (up) The night-time experience of elderly hospitalized adults and the nurses who care for them Type
  Year 1989 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Abstract This is a report of a study into the night-time experience of elderly hospitilised adults and the nurses who care for them. A grounded theory approach was used for the analysis of data and subsequent generation of a theoretical description an partial explanation of patient experiences, nursing actions and nurse-patient interactions.Data were gathered through observation, interview, document audit and literature review; tow general medical wards in a large regional hospital were the focus of field methods of data collection.It is argued that the night-time experiences of elderly hospitalized adults are to a large degree dependent on the individual patterns of sleep and waking behaviour of these people in their normal environments. If individualised care is given, nurses must be aware of people's usual patterns of behaviour.Nurses working at night engage in a series of complex decision sin the course of their interaction with patients. They work under constraints not present during the daytime, and are highly dependent on co-operation from colleagues on other shifts for information which would enable them to deliver optimum care at night. At the same time, night nurses have access to information from and about patients which would be invaluable to a total assessment of any patient's health state.Considerations of sleep and sleep are relevant to nurses working all shifts. The findings of the study have implications in terms of nurses' knowledge of all aspects of sleep; assessment practices; nurse-patient and nurse-nurse communication; nurse-patient relationships at night; wars management; and the independence of nurses  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 179 Serial 179  
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Author Bramley, C.J. openurl 
  Title (up) The nurse and the problem drinker: a study of helping behaviour Type
  Year 1981 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Abstract The purpose of this study is to examine aspects of the behaviour of Nurses towards persons with alcohol related problems. Similarities and differences in helpful and unhelpful behaviour as perceived by providers and users of care are identified using the behaviour to alcoholism management ( B.R.A.M.) scale. The research covers two phases. In phase One 27 Registered Nurses and 12 members of Alcoholics Anonymous completed critical incident questionnaires which furnished a list of helpful behaviours and a list of unhelpful behaviours. These have been analysed and a set of descriptive statements prepared which constitutes the B.R. A.M. scale. In Phase Two this has been administered to 67 Registered Nurses and 46 members of Alcoholics Anonymous and the results assessed. The findings show that Nurses and Problem Drinkers view the same behaviour as helpful. There is however a significant difference between the two groups on the types of behaviour they consider to be unhelpful. This finding has consequences for those who provide care for problem Drinkers and for Teachers and students in education programs for Nurses  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 116 Serial 116  
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Author Christensen, D.J.C. openurl 
  Title (up) The nursed passage: a theoretical framework for the nurse-patient partnership Type
  Year 1988 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Abstract This study focussed on nursing practice in action. The research goal was to identify nursing-relevant dimensions within a person's experience of being a hospital patient undergoing elective surgery. In order to discover and conceptualize the underlying processes which are present as patients are nursed through this experience, an open question was posed – What is happening here? A qualitative research method ws the most appropriate means of discovering an answer to this question.The particular method chosen was the grounded theory approach developed by Glaser and Strauss. Data were collected in five surgical wards of a large city hospital over a period of five months. The research participants were twenty-one patients and the nurses involved in their care. Primary sources of data were interviews and the nursing records. These were augmented by field notes and accounts of observed incidents relating to the care of each patient.Using the inductive strategies of the grounded theory method, numerous descriptive concepts were generated during the data analysis. These were ordered within an integrating social process derived from anthropology. By this means a founded theory in the form of a theoretical framework – the Nursed Passage – was developed. Within this passage the patient is the passage and nursing is translated into action through the agency of the nurse.The Nursed Passage is a patterned partnership with three key elements. Firstly, the temporal element, characterised by ongoing movement and constant change, is conveyed in the sequence of phases or stages. Secondly the participative element is portrayed as a patterned relationship in which both nurses and patient are actively involved in progressing the patient through the passage. Finally, the contextual element recognises complex factors within the nursing environment which have an impact on the shape of the relationship between patient and nurse.This theoretical framework, generated from the reality of nursing as it occurs in one setting, assigns a specific shape to the encounter between nurses and patient. It identifies the contribution nursing alone can make to optimise each patient's hospital experience. In this way it both complements and facilitates the work of medical and other colleagues with whom nurses work. Thus it serves to revalue nursing in terms that can maximally utilise the registered nurse's knowledge and skill for the benefit of all concerned. Consequently, it has the potential value for nursing practice, education and research  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 245 Serial 245  
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Author Nevatt, E.A. openurl 
  Title (up) The place of the problem oriented record in nursing practice Type
  Year 1979 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 119 Serial 119  
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Author Marshall, D.C. openurl 
  Title (up) The preceptor's role in student evaluation: An investigation Type
  Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Keywords Preceptorship; Students; Teaching methods  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 906  
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Author Hopkins, C.J. openurl 
  Title (up) The presenting symptoms associated with arachnoiditis and the experience of living with them in everyday life Type
  Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 396 Serial 396  
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Author Rummel, L. openurl 
  Title (up) The proving ground: a phenomenological study of pre-registration comprehensive nursing students in acute care settings Type
  Year 1993 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library, Carrington, Manukau & O  
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  Abstract This research focuses upon the lived experience of Diploma of Comprehensive Nursing Students in their final clinical experience. It is generated from the narrative of the students, how they experience their practise, how they make clinical judgements and how they prepare themselves for their graduate practise. Twenty one participants were each interviewed three times throughout a 6-8 week clinical experience in an acute care setting  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 122 Serial 122  
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Author Clarke-Woolley, C. openurl 
  Title (up) The relationship of an instrumental T-Group and personality changes in self concept and self actualisation Type
  Year 1976 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 123 Serial 123  
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Author Dyson, L. openurl 
  Title (up) The role of the lecturer in the preceptor model of clinical teaching Type
  Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 395 Serial 395  
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