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| Author |
Robertson, A.M. |
| Title |
Rural women and maternity services |
Type |
Book Chapter |
| Year |
2008 |
Publication |
Jean Ross (Ed.), Rural nursing: Aspects of practice (pp. 179-97) |
Abbreviated Journal |
Ministry of Health publications page |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Midwifery; Rural nursing; Professional competence; History of nursing |
| Abstract |
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 @ |
Serial |
761 |
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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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| Year |
2005 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
History of nursing; Public health |
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| Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1120 |
Serial |
1105 |
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| Author |
Ross, M.E. |
| Title |
A study into the effects of the New Zealand health reforms of the 1990's on the role of the nurse manager |
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| Year |
2005 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
University of Otago Library |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Nurse managers; History; Policy |
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| Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 687 |
Serial |
673 |
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| Author |
Sargison, P.A. |
| Title |
Essentially a woman's work: A history of general nursing in New Zealand, 1830-1930 |
Type |
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| Year |
2002 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
University of Otago Library |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
History of nursing; Gender |
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| Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1127 |
Serial |
1112 |
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| Author |
Smillie, A. |
| Title |
The end of tranquillity? An exploration of some organisational and societal factors that generated discord upon the introduction of trained nurses into New Zealand hospitals, 1885-1914 |
Type |
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| Year |
2003 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University of Wellington Library |
| Volume |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
History; Nursing |
| Abstract |
This historical research study examines some of the factors that caused problems for early New Zealand trained nurses upon their introduction into New Zealand hospitals, between 1885 and 1914. Eight incidents in the professional lives of nurses of the period are used as illustrations of the strains and discord that were apparent in this time of change. Analysis of these incidents attempts to answer the question as to whether the introduction of trained nurses into the New Zealand hospital system did add new considerations to problems encountered by nurses in their professional life. The conclusion is that there was a new dimension of difference added to the system with the introduction of the trained nurse. This developed from the evidence that these nurses, particularly if they were also matrons, had to fit into the existing power structures, which were not really ready to accept them, either through choice or lack of foresight. Enmeshed within these considerations is the influence of Florence Nightingale; her effect on nursing itself, and the consequent public and official perception, or misperception, of who nurses should be. |
| Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
857 |
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| Author |
Smillie, A. |
| Title |
Historical investigations: Risk management in a New Zealand hospital, 1888-1904 |
Type |
Journal Article |
| Year |
2006 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
22 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
33-38 |
| Keywords |
Risk management; History; Patient safety |
| Abstract |
This article examines historical events within one hospital and compares them with contemporary risk management practices. The examples involve a nurse sustaining injury in the course of her work, a fire in the hospital and two instances of patient complaints – one concerning nursing care and the other relating to a time lag between admission to hospital and receiving medical attention. Analysis of the processes followed in investigating these occurrences reveals that these historic investigations were small in scale and less bureaucratic than contemporary practice, and were based on a culture of blame. This is contrasted with modern risk management practices which are more focused on understanding what can be learned from the incident with respect to preventing recurrence. |
| Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 539 |
Serial |
525 |
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| Author |
Spence, D. |
| Title |
The evolving meaning of 'culture' in New Zealand nursing |
Type |
Journal Article |
| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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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 @ |
Serial |
625 |
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| Author |
Stewart, J.; Floyd, S.; Thompson, S. |
| Title |
The way we were : collegiality in nursing in the '70s and '80s |
Type |
Journal Article |
| Year |
2015 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki Nursing Research |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
6 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
4-8 |
| Keywords |
Collegiality; Oral history; Focus Groups; History of Nursing; Nursing Training |
| Abstract |
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). |
| Call Number |
NZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1405 |
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| Author |
Warren, S. |
| Title |
Cultural safety, where does it fit? A literature review |
Type |
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. |
| Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1095 |
Serial |
1080 |
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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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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Hospitals; History of nursing; Maternity care; Registered nurses; Nursing; Education |
| Abstract |
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. |
| Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1049 |
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| Author |
Wilkinson, J.A. |
| Title |
The New Zealand nurse practitioner polemic: A discourse analysis |
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| Year |
2007 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Massey University Library |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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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. |
| Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 517 |
Serial |
503 |
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| Author |
Wilkinson, Jillian Ann |
| Title |
The New Zealand nurse practitioner polemic : a discourse analysis : a thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand |
Type |
Book Whole |
| Year |
2007 |
Publication |
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Issue |
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Pages |
308 pp. |
| Keywords |
Nurse practitioners; Nursing history; Advanced nursing practice; Nursing identity; Discourse analysis; Nursing regulation; Surveys |
| Abstract |
Traces the development of the nurse practitioner role in NZ since its establishment in 2001, using a discourse analytical approach to examine those discourses that have defined the role. Employs both textual and discursive analysis of texts from published literature and from nine interviews with individuals influential in the evolution of the role. Examines political perspectives and disciplinary practices dating back to the Nurses Registration Act of 1901. Considers the implications of an autonomous nursing profession in both practice and regulation. |
| Call Number |
NZNO @ research @ |
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1614 |
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| Author |
Williams, B.G. |
| Title |
The primacy of the nurse in New Zealand 1960s-1990s: Attitudes, beliefs and responses over time |
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2000 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Nursing; History; Registered nurses |
| Abstract |
Exploring the past, and pulling ideas through to the present, to inform the future can make a valuable contribution to nurses and nursing in New Zealand. By gaining some understanding of the attitudes and beliefs nurses held, and how these influenced their responsiveness, we can learn what active responses might help inform our future. Nurses in New Zealand, as individuals and within the profession as a whole, reveal the primacy of the nurse – nurses who have made and can continue to make a difference to the health of the peoples of New Zealand. A hermeneutic process was used to interpret material, from international texts, national texts and public records over four decades, the 1960s to 1990s. This was supplemented and contrasted with material from twelve oral history participants. Analysis of the material led to the emergence of four themes: Nurses' decision-making: changes over time; An emerging understanding of autonomy and accountability; Nurses as a driving force; and Creating a nursing future. These four themes revealed an overall pattern of attitudes, beliefs and responses of the New Zealand registered nurse. The themes surfaced major revelations about the primacy of the nurse in New Zealand, nurses confident in their ability to take the opportunity, seize the moment, and effect change. The author suggests that the contribution this thesis makes to the discipline of nursing is an understanding of how the nurse actively constructs the scope of a professional response to the context. The author notes that the thesis demonstrates how nurses can learn from the past, that the attitudes and beliefs that underpin our active responses can either move us forward, or retard our progress. As nurses we can also learn that to move forward we need particular attitudes, beliefs and responses, that these are identifiable, and are key factors influencing our future, thus ensuring the continued primacy of the nurse. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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905 |
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| Author |
Wood, Pamela J |
| Title |
Understanding and evaluating historical sources in nursing history research |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2011 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
27 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
25-33 |
| Keywords |
History of nursing; Historical research; Research methodology; Nurse researchers |
| Abstract |
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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| Author |
Wood, Pamela J; Nelson, Katherine |
| Title |
The journal Kai Tiaki's role in developing research capability in New Zealand nursing, 1908-1959 |
Type |
Journal Article |
| Year |
2013 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
29 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
12-22 |
| Keywords |
Research capability; History of nursing; Nursing journal; Nursing scholarship; Nursing research |
| Abstract |
Undertakes an analysis of past issues of Kai Tiaki over the five decades following its establishment in 1908 to identify the antecedents to the development of research in NZ nursing from the 1970s. Demonstrates how the journal fostered nurses' awareness of research and promoted nursing scholarship, by publishing case studies, holding essay competitions, and published nurses' articles on practice or professional issues. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1480 |
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