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Author Lui, D.M.K.
Title Nursing and midwifery attitudes towards withdrawal of care in a neonatal intensive care unit: Part 1. Literature review Type Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication Journal of Neonatal Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 9 Issue 2 Pages 45-47
Keywords Attitude of health personnel; Neonatal nursing; Ethics; Technology
Abstract This article seeks to investigate the attitude of nurses and midwives to the withdrawal of care from sick neonates. Advanced technology results in the survival of increasingly premature babies with extremely low birthweights and this has inevitably led to an increase in the ethical dilemmas faced by neonatal staff as to whether continued treatment is actually in the best interests of these infants. Part 1 reviews the literature on this subject. Part 2 describes the results of a survey carried out in a New Zealand NICU.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 906 Serial 890
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Author Lui, D.M.K.
Title Nursing and midwifery attitudes towards withdrawal of care in a neonatal intensive care unit: Part 2. Survey results Type Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication Journal of Neonatal Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 9 Issue 3 Pages 91-96
Keywords Intensive care nursing; Paediatric nursing; Ethics; Attitude of health personnel
Abstract Discontinuation of life support measures for an extremely low birthweight or very premature baby is controversial and difficult for both the parents and the healthcare professional involved in caring for the infant. This study seeks to investigate the attitude of nurses and midwives to the withdrawal of care from sick neonates. Part 1 reviewed the literature on this subject. Part 2 reports the results of a survey carried out in a New Zealand NICU.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 966 Serial 950
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Author McCallum, C.
Title Balancing technology with the art of caring Type Journal Article
Year 2002 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 8 Issue 7 Pages 21-23
Keywords Technology; Nursing; Nurse-patient relations; Ethics
Abstract The author examines the role of technology in high dependency units, which can alienate nurses from patients. The ethical issues raised by technology are reviewed, particularly the allocation of expensive interventions, and the implications of life-sustaining technology on the application of informed consent. The author highlights the challenge facing nurses to bridge the gap between medical technology and humane caring.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1017 Serial 1001
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Author McClunie-Trust, P.
Title Body boundaries and discursive practices in life threatening illness: Narratives of the self Type
Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Nurse-family relations; Nursing; Ethics
Abstract This thesis tells a story from within and between the boundaries of my professional work as a nurse and my private life as the wife of a patient with life threatening illness. The events related in the thesis are told using a technique I have called writing back to myself, where my own journals and stories of the experience of living with life threatening illness provide data for analysis. The reader is invited to participate in these representations and to consider the potential for the skilful practice of nursing which may be read in the stories, and the analysis I have developed from them. I have developed the theoretical and methodological positionings for the thesis from the work of Foucault (1975,1979,1982,1988), Deleuze (1988), Ellis (1995), Richardson (1998) and other writers who utilise genealogical or narrative approaches. The analysis of my own stories in the thesis explores the philosophical and contextual positionings of the nurse as a knowledge worker through genealogies of practice and the specific intellectual work of the nurse. Local and contextual epistemologies are considered as ways of theorising nursing practice through personal knowledge, which is surfaced through the critical analysis of contextual positionings and the process of writing as inquiry.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 791
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Author Paterson, M.
Title Dealing with life and death decisions Type Journal Article
Year 2000 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6 Issue 7 Pages 14-16
Keywords Ethics; Nursing; Patient rights; Clinical decision making; Euthanasia
Abstract This article examines the implications for nurses of not-for-resuscitation orders and orders to withdraw treatment. The rights of patients and correct procedure in the case of not-for-resuscitation or do-not-resuscitate orders are considered, as well as the ethical dilemma facing nurses in cases of the withdrawal of treatment. Guidelines are offered to assist nurses in reaching an ethical decision to withdraw treatment. Euthanasia is defined and case law decisions on not-for-resuscitation and treatment withdrawal are cited.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1017
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Author Song, Jenny
Title Ethics education in nursing: challenges for nurse educators Type Journal Article
Year 2018 Publication Kai Tiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal
Volume 9 Issue 1 Pages 12-17
Keywords Ethics; Undergraduate nursing education; Case studies; Nursing students
Abstract Explores the experiences of a group of nurse educators responsible for teaching ethics to undergraduate nursing students. Discusses the ethical challenges they encounter in their classroom practice. Employs a case study approach to explore the experiences of seven educators working at a large tertiary institution. Interviews them to ascertain the challenges they face in teaching ethics to nursing students, and how best to overcome them.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1595
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Author Song, Wen Jie
Title Teaching Ethics in Nursing Education – A case study of teaching in a New Zealand tertiary education context Type Book Whole
Year 2017 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 104 p.
Keywords Ethics; Nursing Education; Nursing Curriculum; Nursing Educators
Abstract Explores what experiences and challenges nursing educators face teaching ethics content and identifies the difficulties encountered in classroom practice. Interviews a self-selecting sample of 7 nursing educators working at a large NZ tertiary institution in the North Island. Outlines the seven dominant themes to emerge from the inductive data analysis process.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1584
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Author Spence, D.; Smythe, E.
Title Courage as integral to advancing nursing practice Type Journal Article
Year 2007 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 23 Issue 2 Pages 43-55
Keywords Ethics; Advanced nursing practice
Abstract This paper focuses on the illumination of courage in nursing. The authors suggest it is a fundamental component of nursing, yet it is seldom mentioned or recognised in the literature, or supported in practice. Data from a hermeneutic analysis of nurses' practice stories is integrated with literature to assist deeper understanding of the meaning of courage in contemporary nursing practice. The purpose is to make visible a phenomenon that needs to be actively fostered if nursing is to effectively contribute to an improved health service.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 470 Serial 456
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Author Thompson, R.
Title On call but not rostered Type Book Chapter
Year 2008 Publication Jean Ross (Ed.), Rural nursing: Aspects of practice (pp. 67-78) Abbreviated Journal Ministry of Health publications page
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Rural nursing; Ethics; Registered nurses
Abstract In this chapter the author uses storytelling to explore the legal and ethical issues she experiences as a rural volunteer registered nurse. She describes the relationship between the nurse and community embodied in areas such as the public perception of nurses, and discusses aspects of her practice in the light of the particular legal and ethical context of rural areas.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 768 Serial 752
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Author Wareham, P.; McCallin, A.; Diesfeld, K.
Title Advance directives: The New Zealand context Type Journal Article
Year 2005 Publication Nursing Ethics Abbreviated Journal
Volume 12 Issue 4 Pages 349-359
Keywords Law and legislation; Patient rights; Nursing; Ethics
Abstract Advance directives convey consumers' wishes about accepting or refusing future treatment if they become incompetent. There are associated ethical issues for health practitioners and this article considers the features that are relevant to nurses. In New Zealand, consumers have a legal right to use an advance directive that is not limited to life-prolonging care and includes general health procedures. Concerns may arise regarding a consumer's competence and the document's validity. Nurses need to understand their legal and professional obligations to comply with an advance directive. What role does a nurse play and what questions arise for a nurse when advance directives are discussed with consumers? This article considers the cultural dimensions, legal boundaries, consumers' and providers' perspectives, and the medical and nursing positions in New Zealand.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1069 Serial 1054
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Author White, G.E.; Su, H.-R.
Title Am I dying, nurse? Type Journal Article
Year 2000 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 15 Issue 1 Pages 33-40
Keywords Communication; Ethics; Nursing; Palliative care
Abstract This paper addresses the concept of truth, and debates who should tell it and how it should be told. It explores the cultural aspects of knowing the truth about dying. The question of whether nurses have a moral obligation to tell the truth is explored, and suggests the lack of New Zealand research in this area should be addressed.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 631
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Author Woods, M.
Title A nursing ethic: The moral voice of experienced nurses Type Journal Article
Year 1999 Publication Nursing Ethics Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6 Issue 5 Pages 423-433
Keywords Ethics; Nursing; Education
Abstract This article presents discussion on some of the main findings of a recently completed study on nursing ethics in New Zealand. An interpretation of a nurse's story taken from the study is offered and suggestions are made for nursing ethics education.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1092
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Author Woods, M.
Title Balancing rights and duties in 'life and death' decision making involving children: A role for nurses? Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Nursing Ethics Abbreviated Journal
Volume 8 Issue 5 Pages 397-408
Keywords Parents and caregivers; Children; Ethics; Clinical decision making; Nurse-family relations; Chronically ill
Abstract This article examines a growing number of cases in New Zealand in which parents and guardians are required to make life and death ethical decisions on behalf of their seriously ill child. Increasingly, nurses and other practitioners are expected to more closely inform, involve and support the rights of parents or guardians in such situations. Differing moral and ethical values between the medical team and parents or guardians can lead to difficult decision making situations. The article analyses the moral parameters, processes, outcomes and ethical responses that must be considered when life and death ethical decisions involving children are made. It concludes with a recommendation that nurses should be recognised as perhaps the most suitable of all health care personnel when careful mediation is needed to produce an acceptable moral outcome in difficult ethical situations.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1086
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