|   | 
Details
   web
Records
Author Beckingham, C.R.
Title One great network: the family as an environmental influence in the prose works of Thomas Hardy Type
Year (up) 1983 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords
Abstract
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 240 Serial 240
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Caygill, J.
Title Professional care: structure, strategy and the moral career of the nurse in a psychiatric institution Type
Year (up) 1989 Publication New Zealand Sociology Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library
Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages 137-165
Keywords
Abstract This thesis presents the job of psychiatric nursing from the nurse's point of view, as derived from the author's personal experience and from interviews with thirty five other staff within a particular psychiatric institution.The first part of the thesis is reconstructed narrative account of an afternoon and a day shift in an acute admission ward. In the second part, the basic situation on the ward and some of the exigencies of nurse-patient and nurse-staff relations are discussed from structuralist and strategic conduct perspectives.The discussion that follows Anthony Giddens' (1976, 1979, 1984) conceptual framework of power, legitimation and signification, with particular attention to the strategic implications of ward routines, nursing practices, and interpersonal relations, as well as the duality of clinical and moralistic interpretive themes. The third part of the thesis 'the nurse's progress' over time. Characteristic changes in understanding and awareness take place with the movement from the 'backwards' to the 'acute' area and from the student to staff nurse. This is portrayed as a 'moral career' analogous to that suggested by Goffman (1968) for psychiatric patients; marked by 'happenings' that generate revised conceptions of self and others, and including those experiences of duality and contradiction discussed in part Two. While acknowledging the diversity of nurses' attitudes and approaches, with variations according to individual temperament, past experiences and the current setting, the suggestion is made of a common and distinctive 'meta-awareness' that develops with the fob
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 223 Serial 223
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Howie, E.
Title A nutritional education needs assessment of child health nurses Type
Year (up) 1989 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords
Abstract
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 229 Serial 229
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Papps, E.
Title The doctoring of childbirth and the regulation of midwifery Type
Year (up) 1992 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords
Abstract
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 233 Serial 233
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Henderson, A.P.
Title Nursing a colonial hangover: towards bicultural planning in New Zealand Type
Year (up) 1994 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords
Abstract
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 409 Serial 409
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Bray, M.L.
Title Nurses' knowledge of and attitudes to medicine Type
Year (up) 1995 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library
Volume 8 Issue 3 Pages 19-23
Keywords
Abstract Abstract information about attitudes to, and knowledge of, prescribed medication from a group of 70 students and 24 registered nurses at Otago Polytechnic. Employs a self-administered questionnaire previously used in a community survey in Southampton, UK
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 234 Serial 234
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Miles, M.A.P.
Title Why they leave: a Heideggerian hermeneutic study of the reasons why ten registered nurses left nursing practice to enter the professions of medicine or law Type
Year (up) 1997 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library, Bill Robertson Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords
Abstract The purpose of the study was to research the reasons for the dissatisfaction experienced by ten professional nurse-practitioners who chose to leave nursing to join the professions of law or medicine. The mnotivation for professional nurses to chose entry to these particular professions may in some way throw light upon the difficulties being experienced in attempts to bring about changes of an emancipatory nature in the nursing profession (Habermas, 1974). The approach for the study is hermeneutic phenomenology (Gadamer, 1975 – ; Heidegger, 1962)
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 148 Serial 148
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Wood, P.J.
Title Constructing colonial dirt: a cultural history of dirt in the nineteenth century colonial settlement of Dunedin, New Zealand Type
Year (up) 1997 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords
Abstract
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 331 Serial 331
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Richardson, A.
Title Health promotion and public health nursing Type
Year (up) 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords
Abstract
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 405 Serial 405
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Berry, R.
Title Psychiatric comorbidity and childhood adversity in women seeking treatment for alcohol and/or drug dependence Type
Year (up) 1999 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library, Dunedin
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords
Abstract Eighty alcohol and/or drug dependent women who were consecutive admissions to an outpatient alcohol and drug service were interviewed with the aim of gathering information regarding childhood adversity, psychiatric comorbidity and alcohol and drug history, including extent of treatment and alcohol and drug related criminality. A secondary aim of the study was to investigate associations between both the multiplicity of alcohol and drug dependence diagnosis and the presence of psychiatric comorbidity in relation to exposure to childhood adversity, including sexual, physical and emotional abuse.The data demonstrate that the study sample was a relatively severe group of alcohol and drug dependent women. A sizeable percentage came from backgrounds characterised by parental separation, conflict and alcohol and drug problems. Many were regularly exposed to physical abuse perpetrated by both parents or main parental figures and over two-thirds were exposed to some form of sexual abuse within their first 15 years. Sixty percent had been dependent on more than one psychoactive substance, with half having undergone previous alcohol and drug treatment. The women also presented with substantial histories of criminal convictions, with a quarter having served a prison sentence. The results indicate the presence of extensive psychiatric comorbidity in the sample. Two-thirds of the women met current DSM-IV criteria forat least one of the following Axis I disorders: major depressive syndrome, social phobia or bulimia nervosa, while nearly half had antisocial personality disorder. More importantly, significant associations were found regarding the presence of psychiatric comorbidity in relation to four measures of severe childhood adversity, i.e. childhood sexual, physical and emotional abuse and parental problems. Multiplicity of alcohol and drug dependence diagnosis was associated with severe emotional abuse, severe parental problems andpsychiatric comorbidity. Emotional abuse during childhood was the most pervasive indicator of comorbidity and multiplicity of alcohol and/or drug dependence. The main implication for clinical practice arising from the results of this study is the need for the development of a broader approach to alcohol and drug service provision. In order to achieve positive treatment outcomes, alcohol and drug service may need to routinely screen and plan treatment for unresolved childhood trauma, psychiatric disorder and other problems related to alcohol and drug use in all clients presenting for alcohol and drug treatment
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 210 Serial 210
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Neehoff, S.M.
Title Pedagogical possibilities for nursing Type
Year (up) 1999 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Nursing; Nursing philosophy; Feminist critique
Abstract This thesis is about what the author terms the 'invisible bodies of nursing'. The physical body of the nurse, the body of practice, and the body of knowledge. The physical body of the nurse is absent in most nursing literature, it is sometimes inferred but seldom discussed. The contention is that the physical body of the nurse is invisible because it is tacit. Much nursing practice is invisible because it is perceived by many nurses to be inarticulable and is carried out within a private discourse of nursing, silently and secretly. Nursing knowledge is invisible because it is not seen as being valid or authoritative or sanctioned as a legitimate discourse by the dominant discourse. These issues are approach through an evolving 'specular' lens. Luce Irigaray's philosophy of the feminine and her deconstructing and reconstructing of psychoanalytic structures for women inform this work. Michel Foucault's genealogical approach to analysing discourses is utilized, along with Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. Nursing's struggle for recognition is ongoing. The author discusses strategies that nurses could use to make themselves more 'visible' in healthcare structures. The exploration of the embodied self of the nurse and through this the embodied knowledge of nursing is nascent.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1287 Serial 1272
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Mossop, M.D.
Title Older patients' perspectives of being cared for by first year nursing students Type
Year (up) 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Older people; Nurse-patient relations; New graduate nurses; Hospitals
Abstract
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1135 Serial 1120
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Grant-Mackie, D.
Title A literature review of competence in relation to speciality nursing Type
Year (up) 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library, NZNO Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Paediatric nursing; Nursing specialties; Professional competence; Nursing; Education
Abstract The original aim of the study was to find out through a questionnaire what child health/paediatric nurses in New Zealand/Aotearoa saw as their needs for post-registration education. Nurses were completing courses in the United Kingdom and returning to New Zealand/Aotearoa and realising that their nursing capabilities had improved. They became senior nurses with education responsibilities and exhibited political leadership among their colleagues in the field of child health/paediatric nursing. They were becoming increasingly concerned at the lack of any clinical courses in the specialty of child health/paediatric nursing to promote an appropriate standard of practice. It was intended that a research project about post-registration child health/paediatric education would assist concerned nurses to develop a programme. The time needed for such a project did not fit with a limited research paper. It was decided to reduce the project to a review of the literature on competence in nursing, with some comment on the specialty of child health/paediatric nursing. In order for nurses to find what they need to learn and know, an understanding of competence in nursing practice is required. Competence is defined as the ability of the nurse to carry out specific work in a designated area at a predetermined standard. Issues around competence, defining a scope of practice, development and assessment of competence, and regulation of nursing, are part of the context in which accountability for the practice of nurses sits.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1123
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Sargison, P.A.
Title Essentially a woman's work: A history of general nursing in New Zealand, 1830-1930 Type
Year (up) 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords History of nursing; Gender
Abstract
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1127 Serial 1112
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Chick, D.N.P.
Title Rural district nurses as rehabilitationists Type
Year (up) 2003 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Rural nursing
Abstract
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1259 Serial 1244
Permanent link to this record