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Adams, K. |
| Title |
A postmodern/poststructural exploration of the discursive formation of professional nursing in New Zealand 1840 – 2000 |
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2003 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University Library |
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| Keywords |
History of nursing; Careers in nursing; Nursing philosophy |
| Abstract |
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 |
Warren, S. |
| Title |
Cultural safety, where does it fit? A literature review |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2002 |
Publication |
Vision: A Journal of Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
8 |
Issue |
14 |
Pages |
27-30 |
| Keywords |
Cultural safety; Cross-cultural comparison; History of nursing |
| Abstract |
This literature review discusses the history of the inclusion of culture into nursing studies. There is a small sample of overseas literature for critique with a focus on the inclusion of cultural safety in New Zealand. The concept of cultural safety was first introduced into New Zealand in the late 1980s. It was adopted by the New Zealand Nursing Council for nurses and midwives in 1992 and became part of the basic curriculum for nursing and midwifery education. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1095 |
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1080 |
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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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| Year |
2002 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
University of Otago Library |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
History of nursing; Gender |
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| Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1127 |
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1112 |
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| Author |
Matheson, S. |
| Title |
Psychiatric/mental health nursing: Positioning undergraduate education |
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| Year |
2002 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
ResearchArchive@Victoria |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Psychiatric Nursing; History of nursing; Nursing; Education |
| Abstract |
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 |
Spence, D. |
| Title |
The evolving meaning of 'culture' in New Zealand nursing |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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| Volume |
17 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
51-61 |
| Keywords |
Cultural safety; Biculturalism; History of nursing; Maori |
| Abstract |
The author traces the nursing definition of biculturalism as it has evolved from the colonial period to the present. An examination of nursing literature demonstrates that local understandings of culture have matured beyond anthropological interpretations to a sociopolitical definition of Maori culture. The author suggests that, in nursing, culture has come to mean cultural safety. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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625 |
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| Author |
Papps, E. |
| Title |
(Re)positioning nursing: Watch this space |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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| Volume |
17 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
4-12 |
| Keywords |
History of nursing; Nurse practitioners |
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This paper traces the emergence of categories of nurse over the last hundred years from the time that the Nurses Registration Act became law in 1901. Insights from the work of Michel Foucault are utilised to show how nurses and nursing have been historically shaped and positioned. It is suggested that the recent endorsement by the Nursing Council of New Zealand of the concept and title of 'nurse practitioner' represents an opportunity for nurses to imagine what might be constructed for their roles. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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630 |
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| Author |
French, P. |
| Title |
Nursing registration: A time to celebrate? |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
7 |
Issue |
8 |
Pages |
17-19 |
| Keywords |
History of nursing; Interprofessional relations; Physicians; Nursing philosophy |
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This article examines the knowledge and power relationships between the medical profession and nurses during the first half of the twentieth century. It argues that the 1901 Nurses' Registration Act allowed doctors to exert control over the nursing profession and that the hierarchal structure of the profession contributes to the culture of control and surveillance. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1029 |
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1013 |
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| Author |
McKenna, B.; Poole, S. |
| Title |
Debating forensic mental health nursing [corrected] |
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Miscellaneous |
| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
7 |
Issue |
6 |
Pages |
18-20 |
| Keywords |
Psychiatric Nursing; Law and legislation; Cross-cultural comparison; History of nursing |
| Abstract |
Forensic mental health nursing roles have developed along different lines in the United States and the United Kingdom. The authors suggest that New Zealand nurses consider the evolution of such roles here. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1043 |
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1027 |
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| Author |
O'Brien, A.J. |
| Title |
The therapeutic relationship: Historical development and contemporary significance |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
8 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
129-137 |
| Keywords |
Psychiatric Nursing; Nursing models; History of nursing; Nurse-patient relations |
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This article examines the therapeutic relationship, a concept held by many to be fundamental to the identity of mental health nurses. While the therapeutic relationship was given formal expression in nursing theory in the middle of the last century, its origins can be traced to attendants' interpersonal practices in the asylum era. The dominance of medical understandings of mental distress, and the working-class status of asylum attendants, prevented the development of an account of mental health nursing based on attendants' relationships with asylum inmates. It was left to Peplau and other nursing theorists to describe mental health nursing as a therapeutic relationship in the 1940s and later. Some distinctive features of colonial life in New Zealand suggest that the ideal of the attendant as the embodiment of bourgeoisie values seems particularly unlikely to have been realised in the New Zealand context. However, New Zealand literature from the 20th century shows that the therapeutic relationship, as part of a general development of a therapeutic discourse, came to assume a central place in conceptualisations of mental health nursing. While the therapeutic relationship is not by itself a sufficient basis for professional continuity, it continues to play a fundamental role in mental health nurses' professional identity. The way in which the therapeutic relationship is articulated in the future will determine the meaning of the therapeutic relationship for future generations of mental health nurses. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1088 |
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| Author |
Andrews, C.M. |
| Title |
Developing a nursing speciality: Plunket Nursing 1905 – 1920 |
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2001 |
Publication |
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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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| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University Library |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Recruitment and retention; Nursing; History of nursing |
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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 |
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 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
ResearchArchive@Victoria |
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Pages |
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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 |
Wassner, A. |
| Title |
Labour of love: Childbirth at Dunedin Hospital, 1862-1972 |
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Book Whole |
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1999 |
Publication |
Dissector |
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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 |
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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Pages |
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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 |
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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Pages |
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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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