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Glick, C.L. |
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An independent nurse practitioner in occupational health: is it feasible for New Zealand? |
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1988 |
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Massey University Library |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 260 |
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260 |
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Hickson, P. |
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Knowledge and action in nursing: a critical approach to the practice worlds of four nurses |
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1988 |
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Massey University Library |
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This thesis provides an interpretive critique of the way in which knowledge is viewed, transmitted and crystallized in the practice worlds experienced by four registered nurses working in acute care hospital settings. The theoretical assumptions of critical social theory underpin both the methodological approach (case study) and the analysis of data. In-depth unstructured interview, a critically reflexive dialogue between the investigator and participant focussed on the practice world experiences of the nurse, was the principle research method. A brief analysis of documentation was also undertaken.It is argued that previous studies related to nursing practice, and to the social worlds of nursing, have been limited by their failure to take account of the socio-political context in which nursing takes place. There has been a tendency to treat the transmission of knowledge in nursing and nursing practice process of information exchange. No account of socially generated constraints on personal and professional agency, or of systematic distortions in communication within the practice setting are therefore given.The analysis of data in this study demonstrates the way in which constraints on personal and professional agency were experienced by each of the four participants. In particular, practice expressing the participant's professional nursing knowledge and values ws often denied in the face of shared understandings reflective of the institutional ideology. These shared understandings included a belief in the legitimacy of medical domination over other social factors and the support of doctor, rather than nurse or patient, centered practices.This study demonstrates that the way that nurses and other social actors come to “know” and interpret their social worlds is dependent on the socio-political contest in which that knowledge in produced. It also shows how this knowledge may be treated ad though it were 'an object'. This tendency to treat existing social relationships and practices as 'natural' hence unchallengeable masks possibilities for transformative action within the practice of nursing.It is argued that a particular form of knowledge is required if nurses are to overcome the types of constraint experienced by these four nurses. This knowledge, emancipatory knowledge, is that developed in the process of shared, socially critical self-reflection rather than solitary, self-critical reflection |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 268 |
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268 |
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Page, A.E. |
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Paradoxes in women's health protection practices |
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1987 |
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The study explored the basis of the relatively low uptake of cervical screening and practice of breast self-examination among New Zealand women. Consistent with an interpretive approach to social phenomena it was anticipated that part of the explanation would lie in the meanings which women attach in general and to these specific health-protection practices.Theoretical sampling was effected by semi-structured interviews with 45 women. Transcripts of these interviews provided the substance data which were then analysed by the process of constant comparative analysis and other grounded theory strategies for analysis.The concept of a health-protective paradox centered around the core-variable 'vigilance-harmonizing which was generated to reconcile the seeming inconsistencies within, and between, individual women and their health practices. This conceptualisation was developed from the substantive date in order to provide a model designed to increase the effectiveness of nursing interventions for this area. The model, by illuminating processes from the client's perspective then can indicate those processes most suitable for incorporation in effective health education measures designed to promote the uptake of cervical screening and breast self-examination by women.As an adjunct to the study, a breast cancer case history is presented which shows the theory-in-use. The use of this case-history lies in the fact that it shares the substantive area of inquiry which serves to accentuate the viability, relevance and applicability of the grounded theory |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 170 |
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170 |
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Russell, G.R. |
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Evaluation of a service delivery programme |
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1987 |
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Massey University Library |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 177 |
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177 |
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Kinross, D.N.J.; Nevatt, E.A.; Boddy, J.M.; North, N. |
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A nurse in an urban community: a process study |
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1987 |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 251 |
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251 |
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Sakulneya, A. |
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Breast-feeding: personal and social influences |
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1986 |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 178 |
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178 |
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McSherry, M.A. |
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Childbirth in the Manawatu: women's perspectives |
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1986 |
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Massey University Library |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 261 |
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261 |
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Rodgers, J.A. |
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Nursing education in New Zealand 1883 to 1930: the persistance of the Nightingale ethos |
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1985 |
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The Nightingale ethos with its allegiance to the traditional belief in women's responsibility for nurturance, cleanliness and order, aided in the shaping of early formal nursing education in New Zealand |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 82 |
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82 |
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Perry, J.(see also C.) |
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Theory and practice in the induction of five graduate nurses: a reflexive critique |
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1985 |
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Massey University Library |
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This study investigates the induction of comprehensive Nurses into a professional culture during their polytechnic education and the first year of Hospital practise. A critical theory framework combined with case study method is used to demonstrate the ways in which social forces constrain individual and professional action. It is argued that a more socially critical approach to the design of Nursing curricula might begin to transform some of the social structures which presently inhibit and constrain the professional choices and actions of student and graduate Nurse |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 134 |
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134 |
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Monro, J.A. |
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Person-environment imbalance in an occupational setting: a comparative study of nursing stress in several hospital wards |
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1985 |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 281 |
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281 |
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Takarangi, J. |
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The role-practice interface in community health nursing in New Zealand |
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1983 |
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Massey University Library |
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This field project undertaken in 1981 was designed to compare and contrast the role perspective with the practice perspective. Job descriptions were used as the role data and this role data was then considered in relation to information gained from field observations. The discussion looked at the findings in the current context of debate surrounding the future “roles” of nurses in the community |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 126 |
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126 |
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Rayner, B.M. |
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Constancy and difference in the dimensions and elements of nursing practice 1901-1981 |
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1983 |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 174 |
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174 |
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Wenn, J. |
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Hospital information systems: a nursing viewpoint |
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1983 |
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Massey University Library |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 181 |
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181 |
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North, N. |
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Compliance from the perspective of tuberculosis patients |
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1983 |
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Massey University Library |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 283 |
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283 |
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Butterfield, S.L. |
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Helplessness or self care: a study of nursing practice with depressed patients in an In care setting |
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1982 |
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Massey University Library Palmerston North |
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This study was conducted to investigate the practise of Nurses when working with depressed patients in an In Care setting. A survey of the literature shows that the role commonly prescribed for nurses who work in psychiatric settings is one that emphasises a one- on -one relationship based on models of psychotherapy and focuses on individual illness, pathology, systems and psycho dynamics. It is suggested that this is not a role which most Nurses working in New Zealand psychiatric settings would be able to implement in practise. Three perspective's of Nursing practise were explored in the study. What Nurses were seen to do in practice. What they thought they should do as evidenced in results of an exercise to rank different possible interventions, and what patients said were helpful Nursing interventions. A framework was developed for the study which depicts the process of helplessness(depression) as the negative 'mirror -image' of the process of self care. Results were analysed within this framework to determine whether or not Nurses tended to support behaviours which were indicative of movement towards helplessness or encourage those which indicated progress towards self care by their interventions. There was little evidence of positive reinforcement for independent or coping behaviours with patients in the study sample. Further, the nursing practise showed little relationship to the role prescribed in the literature. The Nurses did demonstrate a warm caring friendly approach that seemed to stem from a more traditional 'succouring, mothering' view of Nurses' role |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 61 |
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61 |
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