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Author Davidson, L.
Title Family-centred care perceptions and practice: A pilot study Type (up)
Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University, Palmerston North, Library
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Keywords Nurse-family relations; Paediatric nursing
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1281 Serial 1266
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Author Jones, R.G.
Title Rongoa Maori and primary health care Type (up)
Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Held by NZNO Library
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Abstract A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Public Health.

Rongoa Maori, in its wider sense, refers to the traditional medical system of the indigenous people of New Zealand. The aims of this thesis were to identify the major issues involved in incorporating traditional healing in this context and to look at how this might be achieved.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ WA 300 JON Serial 1364
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Author Churcher, R.L.; Bowden, J.; Grogan, J.; Grofski, H.; Parker, J.; Berry, A.
Title Recovery room nursing – conditions and practice Type (up)
Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNA P. O. Box 2128 Wellington
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Abstract This report is the results of a national survey to establish base-line information about recovery room nursing. Factors addressed are: general statistics, physical conditions, staffing, orientation and education, support networks and procedure performed
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 11
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Author Thompson, J.
Title Budgeting for nursing services Type (up)
Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract The author suggests that a nursing service would benefit by using the concept of budgets and budgeting control, in terms of management accounting and its applicability to a hospital based nursing service. The main objective of this study was to suggest a possible line of approach towards the construction of an information system designed to yield reliable and useful data, without which there can be little hope of any truly effective guide to the development of nursing services.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 36
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Author Wenmoth, J.D.A.
Title Involuntary unemployment: A grounded theory analysis of the experience of five nurses Type (up)
Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract This study outlines the use of grounded theory strategy to analyse the experience of nurses who become involuntarily unemployed. It then proceeds to develop a theoretical framework that explain the common patterns in this experience. Using the Glasser and Strauss (1967) Grounded Theory approach, empirical observation was undertaken expressly for the purpose of generating insights which may lead to new understanding of the subject of this study. Using two inter-related procedures known as theoretical sampling and constant comparative analysis, data is systematically collected, coordinated and subjected to an ongoing analysis. Theory is then 'grounded ' in the real world. The study involved in depth interviewing of five mid-career nurses who were involuntarily unemployed. The data was transcribed and analysed to yield theoretical concepts and categories that were integrated into propositions to explain common patterns. It will be argued that this experience is a grieving process that is more that just grieving a job loss. It is proposed that there are three phases – 1. Personal devastation due to losses experienced.. 2. A period of healing. 3. Recovery and re-establishment of the 'new' person.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 69
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Author Paterson(now Fleming), B.L.
Title The types of information nurses pass on to other nurses verbally regarding their patients, which is not discussed in the legal nursing record Type (up)
Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Dunedin Hospital Staff Library
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Abstract This study was undertaken in a combined medical/surgical unit in an acute general hospital in New Zealand using the grounded theory research methodology. It aimed at identifying the types of information nurses pass on verbally regarding their patients, but which they do not document in the legal nursing record.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 129
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Author Churcher, R.L.; Bowden, J.; Grogan, J.; Grofski, H.; Parker, R.; Berry, A.
Title Trends in theatre nurse education Type (up)
Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Theatre Nurses Section, NZNO
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Abstract This reports the results of a national survey to ascertain what direction education of theatre nursing personnel is taking. It includes method and content preselection, orientation and in service education/ staff development phases of education. Options for the future are also addressed.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 144
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Author Haggerty, C.
Title Critical case study: Supporting the new graduate entering specialist psychiatric mental health nursing practice Type (up)
Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria
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Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Clinical supervision; Students; Preceptorship
Abstract This critical case study was undertaken for the purposes of illuminating information relating to new graduate nurses' experiences in their first clinical placement, in order to consider ways an established entry to practice programme can better support and enhance the students' transition from student nurse to staff nurse within psychiatric mental health nursing practice. Seven current students of the programme participated in the research. This provided the researcher with a variety of challenges related to her dual role as researcher and programme coordinator. Data was collected through the use of discussion groups, with participants and researcher jointly identifying the themes that were explored. These themes related to preceptorship and support, socialisation of the new graduate and risk management. The research has provided rich data that has already, and will continue to be used to inform future developments within both the educational and clinical components of the programme. The research has also provided opportunities for personal and professional growth through the sharing of experiences, and working together to identify emancipatory action which has in turn lead to transformation.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 450
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Author Huntington, A.D.
Title Blood, sweat and tears: Women as nurses nursing women in the gynaecology ward: A feminist interpretive study Type (up)
Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
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Keywords Feminist critique; Nursing specialties; Methodology
Abstract This feminist study is an exploration of the subjectivity of women working as nurses within the gynaecological ward. Gynaecology has a long history as a unique area of concern to the health practitioners of any given period. However, the author suggests, recently with the development of modern gynaecology, this specialty has become based on male knowledge and male texts, women either as patients or nurses appear voiceless within this canon. Major tests within nursing mirror a medical construction of gynaecology, with the women involved in the discourse again absent from the literature. To explore the nurses' reality within the gynaecological ward, the author has undertaken a feminist interpretive study. To contribute to this debate the author drew on certain specific notions from feminist and postmodern epistemologies. These notions of the Other, difference, the body and discourse provided a unique way of viewing the practice of the nurses in this gynaecological setting. These epistemological concepts were then interwoven with feminist strategies to undertake the research. Through the process of feminist praxis, which included the author working alongside the nurses and conducting in-depth interviews, three areas of general concern to the nurses emerged. Firstly the relationships, that is their relationships with each other as nurses and with their women patients. Secondly, the difficulties inherent in nurses' practice in this setting due to the nature of the experiences of the women they were nursing. These difficulties arose in relation to two particular situations, nursing women experiencing a mid-trimester termination and nursing women with cancer. Thirdly, the relationship with/in the medical discourse and individual doctors which, according to nurses, had a major impact on their work. This study contributes to nursing knowledge by providing a forum for the voices of women as nurses, who nurse women in the gynaecological ward, to be heard. The author concludes that nursing and feminism have much to offer each other and share an emancipatory goal of positive action to support and assist people in their lives.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 484
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Author Conroy, E.
Title Nursing informatics in New Zealand: Evolving towards extinction? Type (up)
Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
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Keywords Informatics; Technology; Education; Nursing
Abstract This project undertakes a critique and review of a decade (1990-2000) of available New Zealand literature to reveal the current state of nursing informatics utilisation in nursing practice. Since the early 1990s, nurses from diploma and baccalaureate nursing programs have been graduating with knowledge and skills in nursing informatics. Yet, when scrutinising the two main nursing publications for New Zealand, the author found scant publication of articles that pertain to this topic area of nursing. Competencies as product of the 1989 Guidelines for Teaching Nursing Informatics are a key consideration in this discussion, including ways in which the articles may reflect the content or intent of the Nursing Informatics curriculum as prescribed in these guidelines. This commentary discusses how nursing informatics has evolved in New Zealand nursing practice, situating its growth, or lack of, in the context of concurrent sociopolitical influences as well as conditions created by national and international nursing trends. Several recommendations are discussed to guide the future direction of nursing informatics for nursing education and practice in New Zealand.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 501
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Author McArtney, M.
Title Nursing development units: Between a rock and a hard place Type (up)
Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
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Keywords Professional development; Nursing
Abstract Practice development, situated at the nurse-patient interface, is a crucial aspect of professional development as a whole. The Nursing Development Unit (NDU) is one model of structured clinical practice development. NDU have their origin in a desire to provide the best possible care for patient through the support and development of autonomous therapeutic nurses. All possible sources of NDU-related literature from 1983-1999 were reviewed to determine the effectiveness of the NDU model. The purpose of the research was to establish the role of the parent organisation in supporting the ongoing viability of NDU; to describe the key processes and activities of NDU that are instrumental in the development of nursing practice; to clarify the role of the NDU in contributing to improved patient outcome; and finally to identify the critical indicator of successful NDUs for their application in the New Zealand context. The study found that British nursing journals have played a large part in promoting the NDU model. The pioneering units were given positive coverage and this has by and large continued. Accreditation systems have been important in maintaining standards and providing a generic framework for implementation. The trend is now towards internal funding from the parent organisation. The review identified a number of key features for the successful establishment of NDUs. NDUs appear to have under emphasised the development of socio-political acumen in the nursing staff. However, the NDU does offer a model for the development of confident, assertive, autonomous professionals. The NDU model values nursing as professional practice. The author concludes that the NDU model has stood the test of time, and demonstrated the ability to be at the vanguard of contemporary practice development. The model is flexible and its potential is maximised when it is tailored to meet the need of the parent organisation. The model has been successfully established in Australia, and has the potential to be adapted and refined for the New Zealand context.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 561
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Author McClunie-Trust, P.
Title Body boundaries and discursive practices in life threatening illness: Narratives of the self Type (up)
Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
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Keywords Nurse-family relations; Nursing; Ethics
Abstract This thesis tells a story from within and between the boundaries of my professional work as a nurse and my private life as the wife of a patient with life threatening illness. The events related in the thesis are told using a technique I have called writing back to myself, where my own journals and stories of the experience of living with life threatening illness provide data for analysis. The reader is invited to participate in these representations and to consider the potential for the skilful practice of nursing which may be read in the stories, and the analysis I have developed from them. I have developed the theoretical and methodological positionings for the thesis from the work of Foucault (1975,1979,1982,1988), Deleuze (1988), Ellis (1995), Richardson (1998) and other writers who utilise genealogical or narrative approaches. The analysis of my own stories in the thesis explores the philosophical and contextual positionings of the nurse as a knowledge worker through genealogies of practice and the specific intellectual work of the nurse. Local and contextual epistemologies are considered as ways of theorising nursing practice through personal knowledge, which is surfaced through the critical analysis of contextual positionings and the process of writing as inquiry.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 791
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Author Casey, G.
Title Conditional expertise in chronic illness Type (up)
Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Keywords Chronically ill; Nurse-patient relations
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 808 Serial 792
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Author Mortensen, A.
Title Destigmatisation: A grounded theory of the work of sexual health nurses Type (up)
Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Keywords Sexual and reproductive health; Prejudice; Nurse-patient relations; Attitude to health
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 809 Serial 793
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Author Blockley, C.E.
Title The experience of hospitalization first time for an acute medical illness Type (up)
Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Keywords Hospitals; Patient satisfaction
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 811 Serial 795
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