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Polaschek, N. |
Title |
Living on dialysis: Concerns of clients in a renal setting |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Journal of Advanced Nursing |
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Volume |
41 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
44-52 |
Keywords |
Nurse-patient relations; Psychology; Attitude to health; Terminal care |
Abstract |
This article reports a study that sought to understand the experience of a group of Caucasian men with end stage renal failure managing their own haemodialysis therapy in their homes. The study used a critical interpretive methodology. The renal setting was critically viewed as a specialised health care context constituted by several interrelated discourses. Although established by the dominant professional discourse, it also includes a number of others, in particular an obscure client discourse that is a response to the dominant discourse. Initially, participants' own interpretations of their individual experiences were outlined. These were then collectively reinterpreted by contextualising them in terms of the critical view of the renal setting, in order to discern their own views as renal clients that were obscured by the language and ideas of the dominant discourse with which they had been enculturated. From an analysis of the set of accounts derived from interviews with six participants, four concerns of the renal client discourse were identified. These concerns were: (1) suffering from continuing symptoms of end stage renal failure and dialysis; (2) limitations resulting from negotiating dialysis into their lifestyle; (3) ongoingness and uncertainty of life on dialysis; and (4) altered relationship between autonomy and dependence inherent in living on dialysis. One specific implication of this study is that the distinctive potential of the nursing role in renal settings lies beyond the performance of a range of technical tasks, in addressing the experience of people living on dialysis, described here as the concerns of the renal client discourse. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1072 |
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Author |
Pearson, J.R. |
Title |
A discussion of the principles of health promotion and their application to nursing |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Whitireia Nursing Journal |
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Volume |
10 |
Issue |
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Pages |
23-34 |
Keywords |
Health promotion; Nursing |
Abstract |
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Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1088 |
Serial |
1073 |
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Author |
Milligan, K.; Neville, S.J. |
Title |
The contextualisation of health assessment |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
19 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
23-31 |
Keywords |
Cross-cultural comparison; Evaluation; Nursing |
Abstract |
The authors defines health assessment and argue that it is a tool nurses should be using as a means of improving health outcomes for clients. The skills involved in health assessments are analysed, and four levels of data gathering are identified. The authors present an historical perspective, tracing the development of these skills as they have been incorporated in nursing practice in North America and Australia. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1095 |
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Author |
Speed, G. |
Title |
Advanced nurse practice |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Nursing dialogue: A Professional Journal for nurses |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
10 |
Issue |
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Pages |
6-12 |
Keywords |
Nurse practitioners; Cross-cultural comparison; Law and legislation; Advanced nursing practice |
Abstract |
The concept and characteristics of advanced nursing practice in New Zealand and overseas is compared with the nurse practitioner role. There is an international debate over definitions of advanced nursing and the range of roles that have developed. The rationale for the nurse practitioner role in New Zealand is examined, along with the associated legislation currently before Parliament. Job titles and roles of nurses within the Waikato Hospital intensive care unit are discussed and ways of developing the role of nurse practitioner are presented. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1096 |
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Author |
Wilson, H.V. |
Title |
Paradoxical pursuits in child health nursing practice: Discourses of scientific mothercraft |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Critical Public Health |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
13 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
281-293 |
Keywords |
Plunket; Nurse-family relations; Paediatric nursing; Nursing philosophy |
Abstract |
The purpose of this paper is to examine the discourses of scientific mothercraft and their implications for the nurse-mother relationship, drawing on the author's recent research into surveillance and the exercise of power in the child health nursing context. The application of Foucauldian discourse analysis to the texts generated by interviews with five New Zealand child health nurses confirms that this paradoxical role has never been fully resolved. Plunket nurses primarily work in the community with the parents of new babies and preschool children. Their work, child health surveillance, is considered to involve routine and unproblematic practices generally carried out in the context of a relationship between the nurse and the mother. However, there are suggestions in the literature that historically the nurse's surveillance role has conflicting objectives, as she is at the same time an inspector and family friend. |
Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1116 |
Serial |
1101 |
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Author |
Jonsdottir, H.; Litchfield, M.; Pharris, M. |
Title |
Partnership in practice |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Research & Theory for Nursing Practice |
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Volume |
17 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
51-63 |
Keywords |
Nurse-patient relations; Nursing philosophy; Nursing research |
Abstract |
This article presents a reconsideration of partnership between nurse and client as the core of the nursing discipline. It points to the significance of the relational nature of partnership, differentiating its features and form from the prevalent understanding associated with prescriptive interventions to achieve predetermined goals and outcomes. The meaning of partnership is presented within the nursing process where the caring presence of the nurse becomes integral to the health experience of the client as the potential for action. Exemplars provide illustration of this emerging view in practice and research. This is the first of a series of articles written as a partnership between nurse scholars from Iceland, New Zealand and the USA. The series draws on research projects that explored the philosophical, theoretical, ethical and practical nature of nursing practice and its significance for health and healthcare in a world of changing need. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1172 |
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Author |
Polaschek, N. |
Title |
Negotiated care: A model for nursing work in the renal setting |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Journal of Advanced Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
42 |
Issue |
4 |
Pages |
355-363 |
Keywords |
Chronically ill; Nursing models; Nurse-patient relations; Communication |
Abstract |
This article outlines a model for the nursing role in the chronic health care context of renal replacement therapy. Materials from several streams of literature are used to conceptualise the potential for nursing work in the renal setting as negotiated care. In order to present the role of the renal nurse in this way it is contextualised by viewing the renal setting as a specialised social context constituted by a dominant professional discourse and a contrasting client discourse. While performing specific therapeutic activities in accord with the dominant discourse, renal nurses can develop a relationship with the person living on dialysis, based on responsiveness to their subjective experience reflecting the renal client discourse. In contrast to the language of noncompliance prevalent in the renal setting, nurses can, through their relationship with renal clients, facilitate their attempts to negotiate the requirements of the therapeutic regime into their own personal life situation. Nurses can mediate between the dominant and client discourses for the person living on dialysis. Care describes the quality that nurses actively seek to create in their relationships with clients, through negotiation, in order to support them to live as fully as possible while using renal replacement therapy. The author concludes that within chronic health care contexts, shaped by the acute curative paradigm of biomedicine, the model of nursing work as negotiated care has the potential to humanise contemporary medical technologies by responding to clients' experiences of illness and therapy. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1186 |
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Author |
Booher, J. |
Title |
Care of the patient following coronary artery grafts |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Vision: A Journal of Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
Available online from the Eastern Institute of Technology website |
Volume |
10 |
Issue |
16 |
Pages |
15-18 |
Keywords |
Surgery; Nursing; Case studies; Oncology; Cancer |
Abstract |
This case study outlines the care of Mr. M, a sixty-six year old ventilated patient admitted to an Intensive Care Unit for management following coronary artery grafts. Mr. M's health history and risk factors are explored, in particular how they contributed to his presentation. Mr. M's post operative problems are identified and the rationale for his management is discussed with emphasis on the nursing care provided. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1298 |
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Author |
Haywood, B. |
Title |
Pre-employment health screening: Is it useful? |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Vision: A Journal of Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
Available online from the Eastern Institute of Technology |
Volume |
11 |
Issue |
17 |
Pages |
10-14 |
Keywords |
Occupational health and safety; Nursing specialties |
Abstract |
The author, an occupational health nurse, examines rationale for and effectiveness of the pre-employment assessment, which has become an accepted practice. Reasons for doing assessments include the reduction of risk to the employer from lower accident rates and absenteeism, compliance with legislative requirements and the provision of baseline health measures for general health surveillance. The costs of the screening process, along with the benefits are weighed up, in conjunction with international research in the area. The author found little research on the process in New Zealand. The opportunity for primary health care and health promotion practice as an aspect of this screening is highlighted as an important, though underestimated, benefit. Regular auditing is recommended to ensure that the outcomes of the process meet the criteria required. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1299 |
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Author |
Ellis, T. |
Title |
A multidimensional approach to caring for a patient with breast cancer: A case study |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Vision: A Journal of Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
Available online from Eastern Institute of Technology |
Volume |
11 |
Issue |
17 |
Pages |
15-19 |
Keywords |
Case studies; Breast cancer; Nursing; Cancer; Oncology |
Abstract |
This story follows the nursing care of a woman in her mid forties, diagnosed with breast cancer. The case study follows her from the diagnosis and decision to undergo a mastectomy, and the requirements of nursing care through that process. It discusses the emotional and physical preparation necessary for surgery, perioperative care, multidisciplinary care, and issues around body image post-mastectomy. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1301 |
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Author |
Mercer, C. |
Title |
Interpreting the phenomenology of out-of-town hospitalisation using a Heideggerian framework |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Vision: A Journal of Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
Available online from Eastern Institute of Technology |
Volume |
11 |
Issue |
17 |
Pages |
20-25 |
Keywords |
Nursing research; Patient satisfaction |
Abstract |
This article is presented in two parts. In the first, an outline of Heidegger's approach to phenomenology is offered. A basic premise of hermeneutic phenomenology is that people make sense of the world through the narratives they tell to themselves and to others. When the researcher uses this philosophical approach, persons communicate their experiences; the researcher interprets the experience and communicates that understanding in writing. In the second part of the paper, the experiences of four people whose partners were hospitalised out of town is described. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1318 |
Serial |
1302 |
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Author |
Trotter, A. |
Title |
Mary Potter's Little Company of Mary: The New Zealand experience, 1914-2002 |
Type |
Book Whole |
Year |
2003 |
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Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1048 |
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Author |
Kirkman, A.; Dixon, D.A. |
Title |
Nurses at university: Negotiating academic, work and personal pathways |
Type |
Book Chapter |
Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Davey,J., Neale, J., Morris Mathews, K. , Living and learning: Experiences of university after age 40 (pp. 93-108) |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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Keywords |
Nursing; Education; Careers in nursing |
Abstract |
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Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1160 |
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