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Author Blake-Palmer, E. url  openurl
  Title Seeing the world through orthopaedic eyes: The experience of being an orthopaedic nurse: A hermeneutic study Type
  Year 2007 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Nursing specialties  
  Abstract This study explores the experience of being an orthopaedic nurse. As an orthopaedic nurse the author had concerns that the validity of orthopaedic nursing as a unique scope of practice was being questioned. In this thesis, the case for orthopaedic nursing is argued, by showing it as a specialty in its own right. A qualitative approach informed by the author's interpretation of philosophical hermeneutics as articulated by Heidegger (1927/1962) and Gadamer (1976; 1989) was undertaken. Phenomenology seeks to uncover 'taken-for granted' meanings in everyday experience and hermeneutic research recognises that the historical and cultural horizons of participants and researcher influence the interpretation. Eight nurses working in various orthopaedic settings were interviewed. Data was analysed using the interpretive thematic approach described by van Manen (1990). The nurses' stories from practice yielded two essential themes, 'being part', and 'gaining and maintaining integrity'. The author concludes that these themes interrelate and together reveal meanings and insights about being an orthopaedic nurse. 'Being part', shows the essential nature of relationships between orthopaedic nurses and others. 'Gaining and maintaining integrity' describes the embodied nature of the phenomenon. The overall thematic finding 'seeing the world through orthopaedic eyes' reveals the nature of orthopaedic nursing as a unique scope of practice.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 479 Serial 466  
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Author Quiding, Janine url  openurl
  Title Improving assessment inter-rater reliability of a nursing ePortfolio: An Integrative Review Type Book Whole
  Year 2021 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 66 p.  
  Keywords ePortfolios; Professional Development and Recognition Programmes (PDRP); Nursing assessment  
  Abstract Analyses 13 articles using an integrative review methodology framework and thematic analysis to support the data analysis process, seeking to clarify the inter-rater reliability of nursing ePortfolio assessment. Identifies two themes emerging from the data: the subjective nature of the assessor, and external factors due to the nature of nursing portfolio requirements. Considers how to minimise assessment variability due to subjective factors.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1749  
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Author McGregor, Jennifer url  openurl
  Title Historical Trauma Theory: The implications for nursing in Aotearoa New Zealand Type Book Whole
  Year 2021 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 79 p.  
  Keywords Historical Trauma Theory; Kaupapa Maori research methodology; Te Kapunga Putohe; Maori nursing research  
  Abstract Presents the findings of an integrative literature review exploring the possibility of applying Historical Trauma Theory to nursing practice. Uses Kaupapa Maori research methodology to apply Historical Trauma Theory to health care practice, in a Maori context. Considers how trauma theory can be used to support Wilson and Barton's Te Kapunga Putohe nursing model.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1748  
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Author Davenport, Angela C. url  openurl
  Title Exploring nurses' documentation of their contribution to Traumatic Brain Injury rehabilitation in an Aotearoa-New Zealand Rehabilitation Unit Type Book Whole
  Year 2020 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 244 p.  
  Keywords Traumatic brain injury; Documentation; Rehabilitation Nursing; Decision-making  
  Abstract Utilises a critical realist case study framework to explore how rehabilitation nurses documented their contribution for clients with traumatic brain injury (TBI), and the influences on that documentation. Administers a questionnaire, undertakes an audit and interviews the nurses about their contribution. Makes six recommendations in relation to organisational level decision-making and the practice of individual nurses.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1744  
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Author Gubb, Alicia url  openurl
  Title Rural nurse practitioner role to improve outcomes for Thames-Coromandel community Type Book Whole
  Year 2020 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 115 p.  
  Keywords Nurse practitioners; Rural nursing; Transitional care; Thames Coromandel  
  Abstract Maintains that the Nurse Practitioner (NP) role has the potential to achieve more equitable outcomes for rural populations, particularly for older adults in their transition from hospital to the rural setting. Examines how NPs can reduce readmissions, from a thematic analysis of the literature using a realist synthesis approach, focusing on the Thames Coromandel rural community. Derives three themes from the analysis: self-efficacy, holistic care, and care grounded in nursing philosophy.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1750  
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Author Foster, Pamela Margaret url  openurl
  Title What undergraduate nurse education actually teaches student nurses about people named as older: A Foucauldian discourse analysis Type Book Whole
  Year 2020 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 198 p.  
  Keywords Nursing education; Aged care; Nurses' perceptions; Stereotypes  
  Abstract Traces the origins of gerontology knowledge among student nurses while considering how people designated as older are perceived by the student nurse, and the effects of functional decline and biomedical discourses on their views of older people when on clinical placement in aged residential care (ARC) facilities. Hghlights the contested domain of gerontology knowledge to generate dialogue about how older age is actually represented in student nurse education, as the current iteration perpetuates stereotypical assumptions about older age.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1745  
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Author Hinvest, Kate url  openurl
  Title The meaning of nurses' caring for clinically-deteriorating patients Type Book Whole
  Year 2020 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 166 p.  
  Keywords Deterioration; Patients; Acute Assessment Unit; Phenomenology; Registered Nurses  
  Abstract Reveals and explores the stories of ten Registered Nurses working in Acute Assessment Units caring for clinically-deteriorating patients. Uses the perspectives of hermeneutic phenomenology to explore the meaning of nurses caring for such patients. Conducts semi-structured interviews with the RNs identifying three main themes.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1746  
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Author Johns, Susan Rosemary url  openurl
  Title It's always with you: the experience of being a 1970s hospital-trained general nursing student Type Book Whole
  Year 2019 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 203 p.  
  Keywords General nurse training; Nursing education; Hermeneutic phenomenology; Ontology  
  Abstract Uncovers the significance for nurses who were trained within the 1970s apprenticeship model in NZ hospitals, in their present understanding of themselves as nurses. Confirms that the 1970s heralded the beginning of the end of the apprenticeship system of nurse training, and that literature related to this era of general student nurse training is limited. Uses philosophical hermeneutics to guide interviews with 15 former student nurses who trained within the Auckland Hospital Board School of Nursing, and who reflect 40 years afterward, on how their apprenticeship training influenced the type of nurses they became.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1630  
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Author Paddy, Ann url  openurl
  Title Ageing at work: the phenomenon of being an older experienced health professional Type Book Whole
  Year 2010 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 235 p.  
  Keywords Ageing; Employment; Older nurses; Nurse managers; Surveys  
  Abstract Interviews 14 participants, 10 older and experienced health professionals, and four managers. Describes the lived experience of health professionals ageing at work, and of the managers interacting with them. Demonstrates that the ability of older practitioners to adapt to meet the ongoing physical demands of practice and their shifting workplace environment determines whether they will be valued at work and remain in their roles.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1803  
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Author Were, Katie Jane url  openurl
  Title Early Career Nurses: The relationship between Organisational Climate and Job Satisfaction and Burnout Type Book Whole
  Year 2016 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Graduate nurses; Organisational culture; Job satisfaction; Burn-out; District health boards; Nurse Entry to Practice (NETP); Nurse Entry to Speciality Practice (NESP)  
  Abstract Identifies early-career nurses' perceptions of their first two years of clinical practice, and how the organisational climate at a District Health Board (DHB) within NZ impacts on their success in clinical practice. Determines the relationship between three aspects of organisational climate -- nursing relationships, charge-nurse manager leadership, and staff organisation -- and early-career nurses' perceptions of job satisfaction and burnout. Receives 91 responses to a mixed-method survey. Identifies significant themes that emerged from thematic analysis: supervisor support, emotional labour, workload and staffing relations.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1556  
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Author Woods, M. url  openurl
  Title Parental resistance. Mobile and transitory discourses: A discursive analysis of parental resistance towards medical treatment for a seriously ill child Type
  Year 2008 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Nurse-family relations; Parents and caregivers; Pacific peoples; Communication; Children; Chronically ill  
  Abstract This qualitative thesis uses discourse analysis to examine parental resistance towards medical treatment of critically ill children. It is an investigation of the 'mobile and transitory' discourses at play in instances of resistance between parents, physicians and nurses within health care institutions, and an examination of the consequences of resistance through providing alternative ways of perceiving and therefore understanding these disagreements. The philosophical perspectives, methodology and methods used in this thesis are underpinned by selected ideas taken from the works of Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu and supported by relevant literature in the fields of media, law, children, parenting, caring, serious childhood illness, medicine and nursing. It is argued that from an examination of interview based texts, parental resistance is an omnipresent but transitory occurrence that affects many of the interactions between the parents of seriously ill children and clinical staff. It is maintained that within these interactions, the seeds of this resistance are sown in both critical decision making situations and in everyday occurrences between doctors, nurses and parents within healthcare institutions. Contributing factors to parental resistance include the use of power games by staff, the language of medicine, forms of symbolic violence, the presence or absence of trust between parents and medical staff, the effects of medical habitus, and challenges to the parental role and identity. Overall, it is proposed in this thesis that parents who resist treatment for their seriously ill child are not exceptions to the normative patient-physician relationship.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1140  
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Author Tipa, Zoe Kristen url  openurl
  Title Family Partnership as a model for cultural responsiveness in a well child context Type Book Whole
  Year 2013 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 149 p.  
  Keywords Family partnership model; Communication; Cultural competence; Plunket nurses; Community nursing; Maori children  
  Abstract Examines whether the Family Partnership model could be considered a model for cultural responsiveness while simultaneously providing a platform for more accurate assessment of the cultural competence of Plunket nurse practice. Determines the relationship between Family Partnership training for Plunket nurses and Maori child health outcomes. Distributes an online survey to Plunket nurses who had completed the training and to a group who had not. Conducts 10 observations and interviews with Plunket nurses and Maori clients. Presents the findings in three areas: Plunket nurse practice, client experience, and the impact of Family Partnership training on Plunket as an organisation.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1782  
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Author Neville, S.J. url  openurl
  Title Delirium in the older adult: A critical gerontological approach Type
  Year Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Geriatric nursing; Older people  
  Abstract The purpose of this thesis has been to explore the discursive production of delirium in people over the age of 65 years. The philosophical approaches underpinning the study were derived from the field of critical gerontology, postmodernism and the utilisation of a Foucauldian understanding of discourse and power/knowledge. Data sources included published documents on delirium, interviews with people over the age of 65 years who had been delirious (as well as their clinical notes), family members, registered nurses and a doctor. Textual analysis revealed the presence of two contesting and contradictory discourses that impacted on being an older person who had delirium. These were identified as the discourse of delirium as a syndrome and a personal discourse of delirium. The discourse of delirium as a syndrome is underpinned by the biomedicalisation of the ageing process. This process utilises scientific methods as the foundation from which to understand, research and provide a health service to older people with delirium. Any personal perspectives on delirium are rendered unimportant and relegated to marginalised positions. Nursing through its vicarious relationship to medicine is interpellated into deploying the discourse of delirium as a syndrome and has largely ignored the personal dimensions associated with this phenomenon. Consequently, the older delirious 'body' is known and inscribed as unruly, problematic, physically unwell, cognitively impaired and at risk. Conversely, a personal discourse of delirium privileges the individual narratives of people who have been delirious and provides a different perspective of delirium. The deployment of a personal discourse of delirium offers another position that views this group of older people as bringing to the health care setting a rich tapestry of life experiences that are more than a cluster of signs and symptoms. It is these varied life experiences that need to be included as a legitimate source of knowledge about delirium. This thesis demonstrates how nursing needs to espouse a critical gerontological position when working with older people who have delirium. Critical gerontology provides nurses with the theoretical tools to challenge the status quo and uncover the multiple, varied, contradictory and complex representations of delirium in older people.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 598 Serial 584  
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Author Carryer, J.B. url  openurl
  Title A feminist appraisal of the experience of embodied largeness: A challenge for nursing Type
  Year 1997 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Research Online  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 243 Serial 243  
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Author Wilson, S.C. url  openurl
  Title A qualitative exploration of emotional competence and its relevance to nursing relationships Type
  Year 2007 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey Research Online  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Nurse-patient relations; Nursing; Education; Students; Professional competence  
  Abstract This qualitative research project explored the experiences of nurse educators who sought to assess aspects, which could be related to facilitation of emotional competence, in nursing students. Focus groups were conducted in three different educational institutions, offering a Bachelor of nursing degree. Each of the participants had a teaching and assessment role within the school of nursing. The contributions of the nurse educators and their interactions were audio taped, transcribed and then later, analysed using thematic and focus group analysis practices. From the analysis of the experiences of the nurse educators, four predominant themes arose which capture the areas of importance to the participants. Student nurses can develop emotional competence by critically reflecting during classroom and clinical experiences. Continuous consideration must be made within each practicing area of nursing, of the environmental and relational challenges which inhibit or facilitate nurse's ability to practice with emotional competence. Educators and practicing nurses, who work alongside students, must uphold the expectation that emotional competence is a requisite ability and provide opportunities to foster emotional growth and skills to resolve conflict within the culture of nursing. A common view shared by the educators was that the profession of nursing needs to have a clear understanding of what constitutes emotional competence. Strategies to realistically incorporate emotional competence into the educational curriculum and competency based assessment opportunities within nursing education are required. Suggestions are presented from which undergraduate nursing education can facilitate development of emotional competence with those students working toward becoming a registered nurse. Emotional competence is suggested as an essential learning outcome in the movement toward transformative nursing education and a collaborative nursing profession.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1144  
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