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Kerslake, M. T. (1994). The nurse practitioner in the South Pacific region: concerns about this innovation. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Hay, J. (1991). A needs assessment of and for people with head injuries in the greater Auckland area. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Glasspoole, L. A. (1986). Psychotropic drug use with the elderly: nurse attitudes and knowledge levels. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Caldwell, S. (1998). From “beloved imbecile” to critical thinker: producing the politicized nurse. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Brown, M. B. (1991). The Auckland School of Nursing, 1883 – 1990: the rise and fall. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Blue, R. G. (1995). A new net goes out fishing: options for change within the public health nursing service. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Alexander, S. M. (1989). Evaluation as an aged-care management tool: a case study. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Abel, S. (1997). Midwifery and maternity services in transition: an examination of change following the Nurses Amendment Act 1990. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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White, G. E. (1990). Toward autonomy: an examination of midwifery education in New Zealand 1990. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Simich, M. - L. (1978). Women in employment in New Zealand 1911-1926. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: Includes superficial analysis of role of nurses & switch from private to hospital employment
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Clendon, J. (1999). The Nurse Practitioner-led Primary Health Care Clinic; A Community Needs Analysis. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: Aim: To determine the feasibility of establishing a nurse practitioner-led, family focused, primary health care clinic within a primary school environment as an alternate or complementary way of addressing the health needs of 'at risk' children and families to the services already provided by the public health nurse.Method: Utilising needs analysis method, data was collected from three sources – known demographic data, 17 key informant interviews and two focus group interviews. Questions were asked regarding the health needs of the community, the perceptions of participants regarding the role of the public health nurse in order to determine if a public health nurse would be the most appropriate person to lead a primary health care clinic, and the practicalities of establishing a clinic including services participants would expect a clinic to provide. Analysis was descriptive and exploratory.Results: A wide range of health needs were identified from both the demographic data and from participant interviews. Findings also showed that participant's understanding of the role of the public health nurse was not great and that community expectations were such that for a public health nurse to lead a primary health care clinic further skills would be required. Outcomes from investigating the practicalities of establishing a nurse practitioner-led clinic resulted in the preparation of a community-developed model that would serve to address the health needs of children and families in the area the study was undertaken.Conclusion: Overall findings indicated that the establishment of a nurse practitioner-led, family focused, primary health care clinic in a primary school environment is feasible. While a public health nurse may fulfil the role of the nurse practitioner, it was established that preparation to an advanced level of practice would be required. It is likely that a similar model would also be successful in other communities in New Zealand, however the health needs identified in this study are specific to the community studied. Further community needs assessments would need to be completed to ensure health services target health needs specific to the communities involved.
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Spence, D. (1999). Prejudice, paradox and possibility.
Abstract: This study explores the the experience of nursing a person, or people, form cultures other than one's own. Informed by the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics, and drawing specifically on some of the notions articulated by Hans-Georg Gadamer and Charles Taylor, it seeks to understand everyday nursing practices within their cultural and historical context.Against a background of Maori resurgence, nurses in New Zealand have been challenged in Aotearoa-New Zealand to recognise and address racism in their practice. Meeting the health needs of all people has long been important in nursing yet the curricular changes implemented in the early 1990s to enhance nursing's contribution to a more equitable health service created uncertainty and tension both within nursing, and between nursing and the wider community.In this study, I have interpreted the experiences of seventeen nurses practising in an increasingly ethnically diverse region. Personal understandings and those from relevant literature have been used to illuminate further the nature of cross-cultural experience from a nurse's perspective. The thesis asserts that the notions of prejudice, paradox and possibility can be used to describe the experience of nursing a person from another culture. Prejudice refers to the prior understandings that influence nursing action in both a positive and a negative sense. Paradox relates to the coexistence and necessary interplay of contradictory meanings and positions, while possibility points to the potential for new understandings to surface from the fusion of past with present, and between different interpretations. As New Zealand nurses negotiate the conflicts essential for ongoing development of their practice, the play of prejudice, paradox and possibility is evident at intra-personal and interpersonal levels as well as in relation to professional and other social discourses. This thesis challenges nurses to persist in working with the tensions inherent in cross-cultural practice. It encourages continuation of their efforts to understand and move beyond the prejudices that otherwise preclude the exploration of new possibilities.
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Robinson, T. (2005). Advancing nursing practice and deep vein thrombosis prevention. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Neugebauer, A. F. (2004). The adult congenital heart disease service: An evidence-based development of a nurse specialist position. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Hetaraka, B. (2006). A study of nurses working in a community development model. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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