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Author Andrew, C. openurl 
  Title (up) Optimising the human experience: the lived world of nursing the families of people who die in intensive care Type
  Year 1997 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 380 Serial 380  
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Author Madjar, D.I. openurl 
  Title (up) Pain as embodied experience: a phenomenological study of clinically inflicted pain in adult patients Type
  Year 1991 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Abstract This phenomenological study describes the lived experience of pain inflicted in the context of medically prescribed treatment, explores the meanings of such pain for patients who endured it and for nurses whose actions contributed to its generation, and presents a thematic description of the phenomenon of clinically inflicted pain. The study is informed by phenomenology, both in terms of its premises and orientation, and its research design and method.The participants in the study were 14 adult patients, admitted to hospital following burn injuries, or receiving intravenous chemotherapy upon diagnosis of cancer, and 20 nurses involved in their care. Data collection took place over a period of five months and included participant observation and compilation of field notes, and a total of 89 tape-recorded interviews (48 with patients and 41 with nurses). Through the process of hermeneutic interpretation a number of themes were identified and used to describe the phenomenon of clinically inflicted pain and the structure or the lived experience of the patients and the nurses concerned.The phenomenon of clinically inflicted pain is described in terms of four isolated themes: (1) the hurt and painfulness of inflicted pain; (2) handing one's body over to others; (3) the expectation and experience of being wounded, and (4) restraining the body and the voice. These themes point to the embodied nature of pain experience and the extent to which the person is involved not only in the enduring of pain but also in its generation. The broader lifeworld of clinically inflicted pain, often as punishment and almost always a something avoidable, and in turn being constituted by their experiences in terms of losing and seeking to regain a sense of embodied self and of personal situation, and by changed experiences of lived space and lived time.Nurses who themselves helped to generate pain, frequently overlooked the patient's lived experience and thus the essential nature of inflicted pain as painful, wounding, and demanding cooperation and composure from the patient. Instead, the pain frequently become invisible to nurses involved in its infliction, or when it could not be overlooked or ignored, it was perceived inevitable , non-harmful and even as beneficial to patients' recovery. The strategic responses that nurses adopted to pain infliction included detachment from the perceived impact and consequences of their own actions and objectification of the person in pain as a body-object on whom certain tasks had to be performed. An alternative to the strategy of detachment and objectification was involvement in a therapeutic partnership between the nurse and the patient, where shared control over pain infliction and relief helped to sustain trust in the relationship and preserve personal integrity of the patient and the nurse.The study points to dangers for both patients and nurses when clinically pain is ignored, overlooked or treated with detachment. It also points a way toward nursing practice, that is guided by thoughtfulness and sensitivity to patients' lived experience, and awareness of freedom and responsibility inherent in nursing actions, including those involved in inflicting and relieving pain. The study raises questions about nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and actions in relation to clinically inflicted pain, and highlights the need for nursing education and practice to consider the contribution of a phenomenological perspective to the understanding of human experience of pain, and the nursing role in its generation, prevention and relief  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 279 Serial 279  
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Author Page, A.E. openurl 
  Title (up) Paradoxes in women's health protection practices Type
  Year 1987 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Abstract The study explored the basis of the relatively low uptake of cervical screening and practice of breast self-examination among New Zealand women. Consistent with an interpretive approach to social phenomena it was anticipated that part of the explanation would lie in the meanings which women attach in general and to these specific health-protection practices.Theoretical sampling was effected by semi-structured interviews with 45 women. Transcripts of these interviews provided the substance data which were then analysed by the process of constant comparative analysis and other grounded theory strategies for analysis.The concept of a health-protective paradox centered around the core-variable 'vigilance-harmonizing which was generated to reconcile the seeming inconsistencies within, and between, individual women and their health practices. This conceptualisation was developed from the substantive date in order to provide a model designed to increase the effectiveness of nursing interventions for this area. The model, by illuminating processes from the client's perspective then can indicate those processes most suitable for incorporation in effective health education measures designed to promote the uptake of cervical screening and breast self-examination by women.As an adjunct to the study, a breast cancer case history is presented which shows the theory-in-use. The use of this case-history lies in the fact that it shares the substantive area of inquiry which serves to accentuate the viability, relevance and applicability of the grounded theory  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 170 Serial 170  
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Author Hames, P.V.M. openurl 
  Title (up) Patient advocacy: A concept analysis Type
  Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Keywords Patient rights; Nursing; Nurse-patient relations  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 689 Serial 675  
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Author Baur, P. openurl 
  Title (up) Patients who present to the emergency department but do not wait: An exploratory study Type
  Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Keywords Emergency nursing; Hospitals  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 849  
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Author McRae, B.H.T.K. openurl 
  Title (up) Peer review: organisational learning for nurses Type
  Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 190 Serial 190  
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Author Thomson, M.; Kinross, D.N.J.; Chick, D.N.P.; Corry, M.F.; Dowland, J. openurl 
  Title (up) People in hospital: a surgical ward Type
  Year 1977 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Abstract A study of work patterns on a surgical ward  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 5 Serial 5  
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Author Monro, J.A. openurl 
  Title (up) Person-environment imbalance in an occupational setting: a comparative study of nursing stress in several hospital wards Type
  Year 1985 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 281 Serial 281  
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Author Davies, D.C. openurl 
  Title (up) Practice nurses' perceptions of their contribution to the care of individuals with chronic health conditions Type
  Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Keywords Primary health care; Chronic diseases; Patient satisfaction; Nursing  
  Abstract Table of Contents: 1. Background and overview; 2. Research design and method; 3. Literature review; 4. Preparation of the individual for an appointment at the general practice; 5. Care provided by the practice nurse at the general practice; 6. The giving of information; 7. A discussion of the dualities of the contribution of practice nurses to the care of individuals with chronic conditions; 8. Study summary and conclusions.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 492 Serial 478  
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Author Wilson, K.F. openurl 
  Title (up) Professional closure: the case of the professional development of nursing in Rotorua 1840 – 1934 Type
  Year 1995 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
  Volume 13 Issue 1 Pages 12-22  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 257 Serial 257  
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Author Euswas, P.W. openurl 
  Title (up) Professional nurses' view of caring in nursing practice: two preliminary studies in New Zealand Type
  Year 1991 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
  Volume 5 Issue 3 Pages 42  
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  Abstract Two convenience samples of 90 NZ registered nurses responded to two structured questionnaires designed to explore nurses views of caring in nursing practice.The studies demonstrate that nurses see caring as a central concept in their practice. From the response the meaning of caring was found to be multi dimensional, consisting of six components: value, expressive, action, relationship, knowledge and purpose. The value dimension includes areas such as humanistic value and professional value. The expressive component consists of empathy, compassion, trust, concern, sharing and willingness. Action components are helping, comforting, being there, empowering, advocacy, nurturing, advising, touching and performing nursing procedures. The major relationship component is partnership. An important part of the knowledge component is clinical expertise and the purposive component of caring consists of meeting health needs and promoting healing and welfare. The meaning of caring begins to emerge from these studies. However, they do not provide full understanding of caring phenomena. A further in-depth study of actual nursing practice is still in progress  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 9 Serial 9  
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Author Hansen, C. openurl 
  Title (up) Professional practice attributes within public health nursing Type
  Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Keywords Public health; Nursing  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 868 Serial 852  
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Author Pybus, M.W. openurl 
  Title (up) Public health nurses and families under stress: promoting children's health in complex situations Type
  Year 1993 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Abstract A description of the interaction between Public Health Nurses and stressed families that include children. It includes the perspective on the relationship of both the Nurses and the families ending with a classification of the goals of the service  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 10 Serial 10  
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Author Teekman, B. openurl 
  Title (up) Reflective thinking in nursing practice Type
  Year 1997 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 400 Serial 400  
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Author Jones, B. openurl 
  Title (up) Saving lives and changing dirty nappies: Illuminating nursing in the neonatal nurse practitioner role: The New Zealand experience Type
  Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Keywords Neonatal nursing; Nurse practitioners  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 919 Serial 903  
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