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Author Williams, H.; Cuthbertson, S.; Newby, L.; Streat, S.J.
Title (up) 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 Farrell, E.
Title (up) A lamp to light the way: Public health nurses' perceptions and experiences of professional/clinical supervision Type
Year 2003 Publication Abbreviated Journal Auckland University of Technology
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Keywords Public health; Nursing; Clinical supervision; Professional competence
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 887 Serial 871
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Author Hay, J.
Title (up) A needs assessment of and for people with head injuries in the greater Auckland area Type
Year 1991 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 308 Serial 308
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Author Blue, R.G.
Title (up) A new net goes out fishing: options for change within the public health nursing service Type
Year 1995 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 314 Serial 314
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Author Hetaraka, B.
Title (up) A study of nurses working in a community development model Type
Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal Auckland University of Technology Library
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Keywords Community health nursing; Health promotion; Nursing
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 486 Serial 472
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Author Robinson, T.
Title (up) Advancing nursing practice and deep vein thrombosis prevention Type
Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Keywords Cardiovascular diseases; Nursing; Prevention
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 477 Serial 464
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Author Kidd, J.D.
Title (up) Aroha mai: Nurses, nursing and mental illness Type
Year 2008 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Keywords Mental health; Nursing; Culture
Abstract This research takes an autoethnographical approach to exploring the connections between being a nurse, doing nursing work, and experiencing a mental illness. Data is comprised of autoethnographical stories from 18 nurses. Drawing on Lyotard's (1988) postmodern philosophy of 'regimes of phrases' and 'genres of discourse,' the nurses' stories yielded three motifs: Nursing, Tangata Whaiora (people seeking wellness) and Bullying. Interpretation of the motifs was undertaken by identifying and exploring connected or dissenting aspects within and between the motifs.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 478 Serial 465
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Author Desmond, N.
Title (up) Aspects of nursing in the general practice setting and the impact on immunisation coverage Type
Year 2007 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Keywords Nurse-family relations; Immunisation; Primary health care; Nursing
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 510 Serial 496
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Author Johns, S.
Title (up) Being constrained and enabled: A study of pre-registration nursing students ethical practice Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Auckland University of Technology Library
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Keywords Ethics; Nursing; Students
Abstract This study uncovers the experience of being ethical from the perspective of pre-registration nursing students. Using the qualitative methodology of phenomenology, specifically that outlined by van Manen, it seeks to show how students act ethically within everyday practice. Providing nursing care is an ethically charged undertaking and despite ethics taking an increasingly important place in nursing education, the author suggests that few studies show the contextual nature of ethical practice from the perspective of students. This study aims to partly redress this situation. In this study the author has interpreted the experiences of twelve pre-registration students. Using seventeen stories shared by the student participants, the author's personal understandings and literature, the meaning of being ethical has been illuminated. Three themes emerged from the interpretation. These include 'keeping things 'nice'', 'being true to yourself' and 'being present'. This thesis asserts that the overarching theme within these themes is that of 'being constrained and enabled'. Being constrained shows the experiences of students as they live through the tensions of being and doing as they strive to be ethical. Being enabled shows the experience of self-determination. Finally the study maintains that the shaping of ethical practice for undergraduate students may be enhanced when their reality is positioned and valued within educational processes.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 614 Serial 600
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Author Best, G.A.
Title (up) Being pruned: Student nurses experience of being shaped in clinical practice by lecturers Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Auckland University of Technology Library
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Keywords Students; Nursing; Education
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 599
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Author Margetts, M.; Cuthbertson, S.; Streat, S.J.
Title (up) Bereavement follow-up – its impact on practice Type
Year 1996 Publication Abbreviated Journal DCCM Auckland Hospital
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Abstract Since 1995 we have provided a bereavement follow-up service but the benefits of this to clinical care have not previously been reported . We reviewed the 1995 results, documentation methods, system design, discussed with reviewers their data collection, interview process and its effect on them and their practice. Next-of-kin of only 99/151 patients ( M87 age 14-88) were contacted 16-149 median 34 days after the death. Sleep disturbance (55/99) were the most common problems. We now give next-of- kin literature including a pamphlet which introduces our service and discusses these problems. Most next-of-kin (77/99) commented favorably on DCCM care, but 16/99 identified inadequate facilities and communication problems as service deficiencies. We have improved facilities (paint, furniture, telephone, drinks machine). We now notify patients general practitioners of every death and bring families back for meetings with staff when necessary. We changed systems of case identification and recording of next-of-kin information. Nurse interviewers (8) identified their needs for improved telephone skills, education about grief and research, debriefing after calls and their need for acknowledgement of participation in this service. Study days now address these issues. Interviewers difficulties with interview content have lead to changes. They suggested peer review of data forms to improve completeness which now occurs. Some found the interview process personally disturbing, but all reported positive changes in their practice with bereaved families.Within two years a bereavement service has led to improvements in facilities, communication, and staff expertise, it is now part of our holistic care
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 200 Serial 200
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Author Margetts, M.; Cuthbertson, S.; Streat, S.J.
Title (up) Bereavement follow-up service after fatal critical illness Type
Year 1995 Publication Abbreviated Journal DCCM, Auckland Hospital
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Abstract Fatal illness is often short. Communication between patient and family is impaired and how to best meet family needs is unclear. We began a follow-up service to determine current next-of-kins outcomes and remedy service deficiencies. A critical care nurse identified deaths from our data base and completed a structured telephone interview with the next-of-kin. There were 374 admissions from 1/1/95 – 17/5/95, 55 died. Next- of-kin of 52 patients (M29, age 19-88 median 52) were contactable 16-70 (median 33)days later. All (defacto/wives 18, husbands 9, mothers 9, daughters 8, others 8) consented to interview (5 -80, median 15 minutes). Forty-nine had resumed normal home activities and 23/25 workers had returned to work. Thirty-three still had disturbed sleep, three were taking hypnotics. Twenty-four had had contact with their general practitioner because of the death (six were prescribed sedatives or hypnotics). Nineteen had financial problems. Forty-seven described DCCM care positively, 35 specifically (nursing care and compassion 15, communication 8, flexible visitors policy8) but 13 had particular difficulties (communication 4 , waiting 2, facilities 4) and 4 serious non-DCCM issues. Forty-six considered themselves well informed and understood well the sequence of events. Forty-eight identified family and friends as primary support. Three requested information about another agency (counseling), 9 asked us to contact as further relative. A telephone bereavement service is well received by next-of-kin. Most families members resolve their early grief without external agencies but sleep and money are problems. We have improved our facilities and are addressing communication and cultural issues
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 199 Serial 199
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Author Morrison, M.
Title (up) Body-guarded: the social aesthetics of critical care Type
Year 1994 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 297 Serial 297
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Author Hall, J.
Title (up) Building trust to work with a grounded theory study of paediatric acute care nurses work Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Auckland University of Technology Library
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Keywords Nurse-family relations; Nurse-patient relations; Children; Paediatric nursing; Intensive care nursing
Abstract Grounded theory methodology has guided the grounded theory methods used to explore the acute care paediatric nurses' perspective of what they do when a child has had a severe accident. The research was initiated from the experience of nursing children in the context of a rehabilitation centre and wondering how acute care nurses promoted a child's recovery after a severe unintentional injury. Many avenues were used to search international and New Zealand literature but the scarcity of literature related to what acute care paediatric nurses do was evident. Nursing children in the acute care ward after a severe accident is complex. It encompasses nursing the family when they are experiencing a crisis. It is critical that the acute care nurse monitors and ensures the child's physiological needs are met, and the nurse “works with” the child to maintain and advance medical stability. Nursing interactions are an important part of “working with”, communication is the essence of nursing. This research has focussed on the nurses' social processes whilst caring for the physical needs of the child and interacting with the family and multidisciplinary team when appropriate. An effective working-relationship with a nurse and family is founded on trust. Grounded theory methods supported the process of exploring the social processes of “building trust” whilst “working with” families in a vulnerable position. Nurses rely on rapport to be invited into a family's space to “work with” and support the re-establishment of the parenting role. The “stepping in and out” of an effective working-relationship with a family is reliant on trust. Nurses build trust by spending time to “be with”, using chat to get to know each other, involving and supporting the family to parent a “different” child and reassuring and giving realistic hope to help the child and parents cope with their changed future. A substantive theory of the concept of “building trust to work with” has been developed using grounded theory methods. The theory has been conceptualised using the perspective of seven registered nurses working in paediatric acute care wards that admit children who have had a severe traumatic accident.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 597
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Author Harding, T.S.
Title (up) Constructing the “other”: On being a man and a nurse Type
Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Keywords Gender; Male nurses; Careers in nursing
Abstract This study explores the experiences of men who are nurses in Aotearoa New Zealand. Utilising discourse analysis a social constructionist reading of men, masculinity and nursing is provided to offer an alternative reading to much of the extant literature with respect to men in nursing. The study draws upon a number of different sources of “text”, including over 600 written works, two films and interviews with eighteen men who currently are, have been or are intending to be, nurses. Drawing primarily upon the “literary” textual sources a number of themes were identified for further exploration in interview with the co-researchers. These themes were the construction of masculinity, the construction of images of the nurse, the reaction to men who are nurses, sexuality issues, career development, and men and caring. The findings of this thesis reveal that the literature pertaining to men in nursing is replete with paradox and contradiction and fails to adequately account for the male experience. It is argued that the images and arguments provided in the literature with respect to men in nursing are based on out-of-date models and understandings of gender relations, masculinity and nursing. It is suggested that rather than enjoying patriarchal privilege, men who enter nursing must contend with being constructed as both an inferior man and inferior nurse. Their careers are not, as is alleged in the literature, based on developing “islands of masculinity” and male privilege, nor upon the avoidance of the emotional labour of nursing but reflect a belief that career is one way of doing care. It is argued in this work that men in nursing have fewer “taken-as-givens” upon which to base work and that they work to develop trusting relationships with their patients that are based on communication and empathy within a context defined by the patients' circumstances.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 595 Serial 581
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