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Author (up) Simich, M.-L.
Title Women in employment in New Zealand 1911-1926 Type
Year 1978 Publication Abbreviated Journal Auckland University Library
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Abstract Includes superficial analysis of role of nurses & switch from private to hospital employment
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 420 Serial 420
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Author (up) Spence, D.
Title Prejudice, paradox and possibility Type
Year 1999 Publication Abbreviated Journal Auckland
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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.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 448 Serial 448
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Author (up) Stokes, G.
Title Who cares? Accountability for public safety in nurse education Type
Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal Online at Research Space @ Auckland University
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Keywords Nursing; Education; Accountability; Patient safety
Abstract The focus of this study is the management of unsafe nursing students within the tertiary education context. The moral dilemmas experienced by nurse educators, specifically linked to the issue of accountability for public safety, are explored. The theoretical framework for the thesis is informed by the two moral voices of justice and care identified by Gilligan and further developed using the work of Hekman and Lyotard. Case study methodology was used and data were collected from three schools of nursing and their respective educational organisations. Interviews were conducted with nurse educators and education administrators who had managed unsafe nursing students. Interviews were also conducted with representatives from the Nursing Council of New Zealand and the New Zealand Nurses Organisation to gain professional perspectives regarding public safety, nurse education and unsafe students. Transcripts were analysed using the strategies of categorical aggregation and direct interpretation. Issues identified in each of the three case studies were examined using philosophical and theoretical analyses. This thesis explores how students come to be identified as unsafe and the challenges this posed within three educational contexts. The justice and care moral voices of nurse educators and administrators and the ways in which these produced different ways of caring are made visible. Different competing and conflicting discourses of nursing and education are revealed, including the discourse of safety – one of the language games of nursing. The way in which participants positioned themselves and positioned others within these discourses are identified. Overall, education administrators considered accountability for public safety to be a specific professional, nursing responsibility and not a concern of education per se. This thesis provides an account of how nurse educators attempted to make the educational world safe for patients, students, and themselves. Participants experienced different tensions and moral dilemmas in the management of unsafe students, depending upon the moral language games they employed and the dominant discourse of the educational organisation. Nurse educators were expected to use the discourses of education to make their case and manage unsafe students. However, the discourses of nursing and education were found to be incommensurable and so the moral dilemmas experienced by nurse educators were detected as differends. This study bears witness to these differends.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1106
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Author (up) Van der Harst, J.
Title Inside knowledge: A qualitative descriptive study of prison nursing in New Zealand Type
Year 2003 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Keywords Nursing specialties
Abstract Analysis of the research literature on prison nursing revealed a paucity of research, both in New Zealand and internationally. The aim of this research was to describe the working life of the nurse in a New Zealand prison and provide an understanding of and documentation on prison nursing in New Zealand. A qualitative descriptive study was undertaken to determine what it is like to nurse in a New Zealand prison. Ten nurses working at two public prisons and one private prison took part in the study. Data was collected by the use of semi-structured interviews and analysed thematically into four main themes. The participants' descriptions of their working lives as prison nurses expose the multifaceted nature of this work and the inherent relational dynamics. These dynamics determine the nurse's ability to practise effectively in the prison setting. Findings highlighted many paradoxical situations for nurses when working in this environment. The very aspects of the work that participants described as negative were also identified, in some instances, as challenging and satisfying.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 886 Serial 870
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Author (up) Vandergoot, A.
Title From ward nurse to proficient critical care nurse: A narrative inquiry study Type
Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal Akoranga Theses Collection, Auckland University of Technology
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Keywords Nursing specialties
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 602 Serial 588
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Author (up) Wallace, S.
Title The professionalisation of nursing 1900-1930 Type
Year 1987 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 291 Serial 291
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Author (up) Weidenbohm, K.
Title Pioneering rural nursing practice: An impact evaluation of a preventive home visiting service for older people Type
Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Keywords Community health nursing; Rural health services; Older people; Home care; Preventive health services
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 579 Serial 565
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Author (up) White, G.E.
Title Toward autonomy: an examination of midwifery education in New Zealand 1990 Type
Year 1990 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 335 Serial 335
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Author (up) Whitehead, N.
Title Quality and staffing: Is there a relationship in aged residential care Type
Year 2007 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Keywords Rest homes; Patient safety; Older people; Nursing specialties
Abstract This thesis reports a mixed methods study, longitudinal in nature, of consenting Age Related Residential Care (ARRC) hospitals in the upper half of the North Island, which was conducted to examine several factors, including AARC hospital efficiency at producing adverse event free days for residents. An interpretativist approach examined what best practice strategies were implemented by the ARRC hospitals that were identified to be most successful at producing adverse event free days for the residents.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1159
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Author (up) Williams, H.; Cuthbertson, S.; Newby, L.; Streat, S.J.
Title A follow-up service improves bereavement care in an intensive care unit Type
Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Auckland Hospital Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 149 Serial 149
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Author (up) Williams, J.L.
Title The Cummins model: An adaption to assist foreign nursing students in New Zealand Type
Year 2003 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Keywords Nursing; Education; Students
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1114
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Author (up) Williams, P.
Title The experience of being new in the role of Charge Nurse Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Auckland University of Technology Library
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Keywords Nursing
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 608 Serial 594
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