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Author Pearson, J.R. openurl 
  Title Computer usage and the development of computer learning amongst first year student nurses enrolled in a nursing degree programme Type
  Year 1995 Publication Abbreviated Journal Author, Whitireia Community Polytechnic Library  
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  Abstract This report addresses the issue of computer literacy and its position in current nursing practice and nursing education.Two groups of nursing students in a three year Polytechnic provided programme were surveyed by questionnaire to gain information about their current computer usage. The first questionnaire was given to first year students at the end of the 1994 academic year. A basic self-paced word processing package was developed from the information. Following the teaching of the package to 1995 year students a questionnaire was given to this second group to gain information about the teaching programme and their intended computer use.A greater number of younger students were computer literate on course entry compared with mature students and personal computers were accessible to about 40% of students. Following completion of the computer package computers were being used by 8154 of the group for course work. Compared to approximately 44% of the previous (1994) group. It was concluded that the self paced package was a successful method of teaching basic computer literacy for the majority of students. However computer usage within the educational institution was affected by access to computers and the availability of computers and support personnel at times suitable for the student group. The findings had implications for the future planning of teaching progrrammes, computer access, and staffing for the Polytechnic, and recommendations addressed these issues  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 375 Serial 375  
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Author Cowan, L.M. openurl 
  Title Alcohol and drug treatment for women: clinicians beliefs and practice Type
  Year 1999 Publication Abbreviated Journal Author  
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  Abstract The aim of this study is to investigate whether clinicians consider women have different needs to men. To identify what specific treatment clinicians provided for women with alcohol and drug problems and ascertain whether various clinician variable, are elated to differences in beliefs and treatment provision.The questionnaire items for this study were included in the National Centre for Treatment Development (Alcohol, Drug & Addiction) New Zealand wide telephone survey of alcohol and drug clinicians. Independent interviewers surveyed 217 clinicians. Clinicians were first asked whether they believed women with alcohol and drug problems have differing treatment needs to men. Clinicians responses were compared with various clinician Socio-demographic characteristics (gender, age, ethnicity, professional group, years working in the alcohol and drug treatment field, work setting, qualifications/courses attended, location, and personal alcohol use).Key findings are that almost a quarter (24%) of the clinicians surveyed did not believe that women have different treatment needs to men. However the majority (76%) of clinicians do believe that women have different treatment needs to men. Furthermore findings from this study suggest that significant differences exist in relation to clinicians' practice in new Zealand in relation to clinician, gender, work setting (Crown Health Enterprise, outpatient and residential), and gender mix of caseload  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 378 Serial 378  
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Author Litchfield, M.; Clarke, M.; Edwards, R.; Richardson, F.; Tansley, R.; Woodman, K. openurl 
  Title A description of the needs of people with cancer and support people Type
  Year 1995 Publication Abbreviated Journal Author, Wellington Division of the Cancer Society  
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  Abstract The report of a research project commissioned by the Wellington Division of the New Zealand Cancer Society to provide a foundation for policy to give direction to development of its services. The research approach and methodology had an ecological theory foundation. It involved a survey and in-depth interviews with people with cancer and those caring for them to understand their experience. Needs were identified from the data and presented according to three distinct phases in the course of living with cancer. People moved from the shock of diagnosis, through the time of treatment when usual living was suspended and focus narrowed on the intensive fight against the disease, then into a very different phase of on-going ?wait-and-see? time requiring a new way of living with uncertainty for both patient and carers. The last phase was where most of the unmet needs lay. Recommendations were made for services to provide a continuous caring relationship for patients and carers with a knowledgeable person from the point of diagnosis.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 387  
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Author McEldowney, R.A. openurl 
  Title A new lamp is shining: life histories of five feminist nurse educators Type
  Year 1992 Publication Abbreviated Journal Author  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 439 Serial 439  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title Computers and the form of nursing to come Type Conference Article
  Year 1992 Publication Abbreviated Journal Held by NZNO Library and author  
  Volume (down) Proceedings of the Inaugural National Nursing Info Issue Pages 81-90  
  Keywords Nursing: Computers; Technology  
  Abstract A paper presented at the annual conference of Nursing Informatics New Zealand (subsequently incorporated into the collective organisation, Health Informatics NZ).  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1317  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title The language of nursing practice in hospitals Type Conference Article
  Year 1997 Publication Abbreviated Journal held by NZNO Library and author  
  Volume (down) Proceedings of the National Nursing Informatics Co Issue Pages  
  Keywords Hospitals; Nurse managers; Advanced nursing practice; Nurse-patient relations; Care plans  
  Abstract A paper presenting the findings of a small research project involving a group of self-selected senior nurses of Wellington Hospital to explore the nature of nursing practice in the care and management of hospitalised patients and to formalise the language that would acknowledge its significance in the current effort of hospitals to define patient care pathways. The nature of hospital nursing practice was described in themes of a generic process of nurse-patient care that articulates a distinct specialism of hospital nursing, whatever the hospital department in which nurses hold positions.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1322  
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