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Wilkinson, J.A. |
| Title |
The New Zealand nurse practitioner polemic: A discourse analysis |
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| Year |
2007 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Massey University Library |
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| Keywords |
Nurse practitioners; History of nursing |
| Abstract |
The purpose of this research has been to trace the development of the nurse practitioner role in New Zealand. Using a discourse analytical approach informed by the work of Michel Foucault, the study foregrounds the discourses that have constructed the nurse practitioner role within the New Zealand social and political context. The author suggests that discourses of nursing and of medicine have established systems of disciplinary practices that produce nurses and physicians within defined role boundaries, not because of legislation, but because discourse has constructed certain rules. The nurse practitioner role transcends those boundaries and offers the possibility of a new and potentially more liberating identity for nurses and nursing. A plural approach of both textuality and discursivity was used to guide the analysis of texts chosen from published literature and from nine interviews conducted with individuals who have been influential in the unfolding of the nurse practitioner role. Both professionally and industrially and in academic and regulatory terms dating back to the Nurses Registration Act, 1901, the political discourses and disciplinary practices serving to position nurses in the health care sector and to represent nursing are examined. The play of these forces has created an interstice from which the nurse practitioner role in New Zealand could emerge. In combination with a new state regime of primary health care, the notion of an autonomous nursing profession in both practice and regulation has challenged medicine's traditional right to surveillance of nursing practice. Through a kind of regulated freedom, the availability of assessment, diagnostic and prescribing practices within a nursing discourse signals a radical shift in how nursing can be represented. The author concludes that the nurse practitioner polemic has revolutionised the nursing subject, and may in turn lead to a qualitatively different health service. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 517 |
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503 |
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| Author |
Roddick, J.A. |
| Title |
When the flag flew at half mast: Nursing and the 1918 influenza epidemic in Dunedin |
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2005 |
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| Keywords |
History of nursing; Public health |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1120 |
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1105 |
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| Author |
Sargison, P.A. |
| Title |
Essentially a woman's work: A history of general nursing in New Zealand, 1830-1930 |
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2002 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
University of Otago Library |
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| Keywords |
History of nursing; Gender |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1127 |
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1112 |
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| Author |
Andrews, C.M. |
| Title |
Developing a nursing speciality: Plunket Nursing 1905 – 1920 |
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2001 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
ResearchArchive@Victoria |
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| Keywords |
Plunket; History of nursing; Nursing specialties; Paediatric nursing |
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This paper focuses on the history of Plunket nursing and Truby King's ideology and other dominant ideologies, during the years 1905 – 1920. To provide a context, the paper explores the development of a new nursing speciality – Plunket nursing, that became part of the backbone of a fledgling health system and the New Zealand nursing profession. Correspondingly, Truby King presented the country with a vision for improving infant welfare underpinned by his eugenics view of the world and his experimentation with infant feeding. The author argues that nurses were drawn to the work of the newly created Plunket Society and that the Society had lasting influence on the development of nursing in New Zealand. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1167 |
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1152 |
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| Author |
Cullens, V. |
| Title |
Not just a shortage of girls: The shortage of nurses in post World War 2 New Zealand 1945-1955 |
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2001 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University Library |
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| Keywords |
Recruitment and retention; Nursing; History of nursing |
| Abstract |
This thesis explores the shortage of general hospital nurses in post World War II New Zealand between 1945 and 1955. Historical inquiry is used to identify the causes of the shortage and the response to the shortage by the Health Department, hospital boards and nurse leaders. Christchurch Hospital, administered by the North Canterbury Hospital Board, is used to illustrate the situation at one large, public, general hospital. Primary sources provided the majority of material which informed this thesis. Two themes emerge regarding the causes of the shortage of nurses: those that were readily acknowledged by nurse leaders and other health professionals at the time, and those which were less widely discussed, but which contributed to the nature of nursing work appearing less attractive to potential recruits. In response to the shortage the Health Department, hospital boards and the New Zealand Registered Nurses Association mounted several recruitment campaigns throughout the decade. As the shortage showed no sign of abatement the focus turned from recruitment to retention of nurses. While salaries, conditions and training were improved, nurse leaders also gave attention to establishing what nurses' work was and what it was not. Nurse leaders and others promoted nursing as a profession that could provide young women with a satisfying lifelong career. Due to these efforts, by 1955, this episode in the cycle of demand and supply of nurses had begun to improve. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1169 |
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1154 |
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| Author |
Adams, K. |
| Title |
A postmodern/poststructural exploration of the discursive formation of professional nursing in New Zealand 1840 – 2000 |
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2003 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University Library |
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| Keywords |
History of nursing; Careers in nursing; Nursing philosophy |
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This study examines the discursive formation of professional nursing in one country, as revealed by the history of nursing in New Zealand. Michel Foucault's approach to historical research signifies a different level of analysis from conventional approaches, focusing not on the history of ideas but on an understanding of the present, a history of the present. A genealogical method derived from Foucauldian poststructuralism reveals how different understandings of nursing have occurred and have governed nursing practices and scholarship in different historical contexts. The archaeological investigation in this study reveals two moments of epistemic transformation, that is, two intervals of mutation and discontinuity. The Nightingale era in the 1880s precipitated the first epistemic shift – premodernism to modernism. The transfer of nursing education from hospital based training to the tertiary education sector, followed by the introduction of the baccalaureate degree, precipitated the second epistemic shift in the 1990s, the advent of postmodernism. Encompassing these two epistemes, six historical contexts are identified, where significant disruptions to the nursing discourses overturned previously held assumptions about what constituted a nurse. Each historical context is identified by specific discursive constructs. The first is colonial caring, the second the Nightingale ethos and the third heroic, disciplined obedience. In the fourth context, nursing is framed by, and within, discourses of skilled, humanistic caring, in the fifth, scientific, task focused managerialism, and in the 1990s, the sixth context, by multiple realities in an age of uncertainty. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1258 |
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1243 |
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| Author |
Phillips, S. |
| Title |
Exploration of the socio-cultural conditions and challenges which may impede nursing development in the twenty-first century and proactive strategies to counter these challenges |
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1999 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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| Keywords |
History of nursing; Nursing philosophy |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1285 |
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1270 |
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| Author |
Robertson, A.M. |
| Title |
Rural women and maternity services |
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Book Chapter |
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2008 |
Publication |
Jean Ross (Ed.), Rural nursing: Aspects of practice (pp. 179-97) |
Abbreviated Journal |
Ministry of Health publications page |
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| Keywords |
Midwifery; Rural nursing; Professional competence; History of nursing |
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The author discusses the roles that nurses undertake in response to rural communities' health needs, focusing on the provision of maternity service. The author reviews structural changes such as the 1990 Amendment to the Nurses Act 1977 which, the author suggests, introduced a climate of professional rivalry, changes in funding that cut back general practitioners in the field, and the development of Lead Maternity Carers. Despite controversial developments, New Zealand maternity services have evolved to include a unique and internationally respected model of midwifery care. However, the author highlights several areas that limit the positive contribution of rural nurses and midwives. These include workforce recruitment and retention, equity of access, and issues around maintaining competency and education. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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761 |
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| Author |
Wassner, A. |
| Title |
Labour of love: Childbirth at Dunedin Hospital, 1862-1972 |
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Book Whole |
| Year |
1999 |
Publication |
Dissector |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Hospitals; History of nursing; Maternity care; Registered nurses; Nursing; Education |
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This book covers obstetrical care from a nursing perspective at the Dunedin Hospital's Maternity Units. The researcher found little information on the two lying-in (maternity) wards of the first two Dunedin Hospitals. The book presents historical records outlining obstetric nursing procedures and maternity culture at the Dunedin Hospitals, The Benevolent Institution, The Batchelor Maternity Hospital, and Queen Mary Hospital. It covers cultural, social and legislative changes over the period, and examines conditions and pay for nursing staff across this time. A chapter on the evolution of baby care looks at changes in acceptable practices around nursery care, breast and bottle feeding, and medical procedures. The book has an extensive list of appendices, including staff lists, training notes for staff, duty lists, and interviews with staff and patients. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1049 |
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| Author |
Matheson, S. |
| Title |
Psychiatric/mental health nursing: Positioning undergraduate education |
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2002 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
ResearchArchive@Victoria |
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| Keywords |
Psychiatric Nursing; History of nursing; Nursing; Education |
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In this paper, the critique of the mental health component of comprehensive nursing education and the questions that it raises are explored from historical, structural and ideological perspectives. In order to locate the past and highlight its significance to where psychiatric/mental health nurses find themselves today some of the history of the asylum system and the development of psychiatric nursing in New Zealand within these structures are presented. Ideological changes to the way mental health was thought about, and responded to, have had considerable impact on where psychiatric nurses practiced, how they practised and what they were named. This created the need for a different kind of nurse and has led to changes in the education of nurses. The structural influences on the training and education of nurses are identified through relevant reports and their recommendations and significance in relation to psychiatric/mental health nursing are examined. Issues deriving from the critique of undergraduate psychiatric/mental health nursing education highlight the urgent nature of the crisis and draw out the multiple and competing discourses that inform the education of nurses. In acknowledging that the crisis can be viewed from multiple perspectives the need for responses from multiple levels involving the Nursing Council of New Zealand, the Ministry of Health, the Mental Health Commission and nurses in education and practice are recommended. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1146 |
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| Author |
Chenery, K. |
| Title |
'Can mummy come too?' Rhetoric and realities of 'family-centred care' in one New Zealand hospital, 1960-1990 |
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2001 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
ResearchArchive@Victoria |
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Nurse-family relations; Policy; Hospitals; History of nursing; Paediatric nursing |
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This study explores the development of 'family-centred care' in New Zealand as part of an international movement advanced by 'experts' in the 1950s concerned with the psychological effects of mother-child separation. It positions the development of 'family-centred care' within the broader context of ideas and beliefs about mothering and children that emerged in New Zealand society between 1960 and 1980 as a response to these new concerns for children's emotional health. It examines New Zealand nursing, medical and related literature between 1960 and 1990 and considers both professional and public response to these concerns. The experiences of some mothers and nurses caring for children in one New Zealand hospital between 1960 and 1990 illustrate the significance of these responses in the context of one hospital children's ward and the subsequent implications for the practice of 'family-centred care'. This study demonstrates the difference between the professional rhetoric and the parental reality of 'family-centred care' in the context of one hospital children's ward between 1960 and 1990. The practice of 'family-centred care' placed mothers and nurses in contradictory positions within the ward environment. These contradictory positions were historically enduring, although they varied in their enactment. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1206 |
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| Author |
Delugar, A. |
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An historical inquiry to identify the contribution Beatrice Salmon's writings made to nursing education in New Zealand, 1969-1972 |
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1999 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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| Keywords |
History of nursing; Nursing; Education |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1271 |
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| Author |
Richardson, S. |
| Title |
Aoteaoroa/New Zealand nursing: From eugenics to cultural safety |
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Journal Article |
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2004 |
Publication |
Nursing Inquiry |
Abbreviated Journal |
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11 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
35-42 |
| Keywords |
Cultural safety; History of nursing; Nursing philosophy |
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The concept of cultural safety offers a unique approach to nursing practice, based on recognition of the power differentials inherent in any interaction. Clarification of the concept is offered, together with a review of the historical shift in nursing attitudes that has led to the emergence of “cultural safety” as a viable and valued component of nursing practice. The argument is made that cultural safety has allowed for a more reflective, critical understanding of the actions of nursing to develop. This includes recognition that nurses' attitudes and values have inevitably been influenced by social and political forces, and as such are in part reflective of those within the wider community. Comparison between the support given by nurses in the early 1900s to the theory of eugenics and the current acceptance of cultural safety is used to highlight this point. An examination of the literature identifies that ideological and conceptual changes have occurred in the approach of Aoteaoroa/New Zealand nurses to issues with cultural implications for practice. A review of background factors relating to Maori health status and the Treaty of Waitangi is presented as a necessary context to the overall discussion. The discussion concludes with an acknowledgement that while the rhetoric of cultural safety is now part of nursing culture in New Zealand, there is no firm evidence to evaluate its impact in practice. Issues identified as impacting on the ability to assess/research a concept, such as cultural safety, are discussed. For cultural safety to become recognised as a credible (and indispensable) tool, it is necessary to further examine the “end-point” or “outcomes” of the process. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1062 |
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| Author |
Stewart, J.; Floyd, S.; Thompson, S. |
| Title |
The way we were : collegiality in nursing in the '70s and '80s |
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Journal Article |
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2015 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki Nursing Research |
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6 |
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1 |
Pages |
4-8 |
| Keywords |
Collegiality; Oral history; Focus Groups; History of Nursing; Nursing Training |
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Reports the findings of oral history research into nurses' experiences of training and working in hospitals in NZ during the 1970s and 1980s and their accounts of early collegiality forged as a result of residential living and training in hierarchical hospitals. Conducts two focus group discussions among 10 long-serving nurses from two district health boards (DHBs). |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1405 |
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| Author |
Wood, Pamela J |
| Title |
Understanding and evaluating historical sources in nursing history research |
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Journal Article |
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2011 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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27 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
25-33 |
| Keywords |
History of nursing; Historical research; Research methodology; Nurse researchers |
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Describes four historical sources relevant to the history of nursing in NZ. Uses them to explain how nurse researchers can evaluate their research material. Outlines the five dimensions of evaluation: provenance, purpose, context, veracity, and usefulness. Explains the questions that must be addressed in each dimension of the evaluation. Illustrates the different kinds of information available in the 4 selected historical sources, by references to individual nurses. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1462 |
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