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| Author |
Bresaz, D.M. |
| Title |
Environmental influences on inpatient assaultive behaviour |
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| Year |
2003 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Workplace violence; Mental health; Psychiatric Nursing; Methodology; Administration |
| Abstract |
This retrospective quasi-experimental study reviewed assaults in two adult mental health inpatient rehabilitation units. The majority of clients in this area experience enduring mental health illnesses and have complex physical health issues. The service comprises of an intensive rehabilitation unit and a secure extended rehabilitation unit. Between May and August 2001 the service moved to purpose built facilities. The opportunity was taken to review clients' assaultive behaviour in the new environment and to compare the incidents with those in the old environment to see if there had been any significant changes. Data on assault incidents including time of assault, place of assault, who was involved and what preventative actions were suggested were collected from the Incident and Accident Hazard Reports (IAHR) dating from 1 April 2000 until 31 May 2002. Staff were expected to complete IAHR reports on all assault incidents. The research examined whether the change in environmental conditions impacted on clients' wellbeing in relation to assaultive behaviour. Trends within the IAHR reports were also examined in order to compare these to similar studies completed in other parts of the world. There were 141 IAHR reports of assault incidents. Fifty of these occurred in the pre move period, 38 in the transition phase and 53 in the post move. There was no significant difference in the rate of assaults in the pre-move to post move period. Completion of the IAHR forms was seen to be very problematic, especially in relation to legal status of perpetrators and documentation of prevention strategies. An urgent audit of existing practice is now required to establish if problems found with the quality and completion of the IAHR forms continues to be evident in the rehabilitation service and if present staff education is needed to improve the standard of documentation. Research is also needed to establish the extent to which staff implement strategies to prevent assaults, and to reduce recidivism. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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858 |
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| Author |
Brockie, Teresa; Clark, Terryann C; Best, Odette; Power, Tamara; Bourque Bearskin, Lisa; Kurtz, Donna LM; Lowe, John; Wilson, Denise |
| Title |
Indigenous social exclusion to inclusion: Case studies on Indigenous nursing leadership in four high income countries. |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2021 |
Publication |
Journal of Clinical Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Issue |
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Pages |
1-15 |
| Keywords |
Nursing leadership; Indigenous nurses; Nursing workforce; Indigenous health; Kaupapa Maori research methodology |
| Abstract |
Maintains that achieving health equity for indigenous populations requires indigenous nursing leadership to develop and implement new systems of care delivery. Develops a consensus among indigenous nurse academics from Australia, Canada, NZ and the US on the three themes of nursing leadership, to redress colonial injustices, to contribute to models of care and to enhance the indigenous workforce. Highlights five indigenous strategies for influencing outcomes: nationhood and reconcilation as levers for change; nursing leadership; workforce strategies; culturally-safe practices and models of care; nurse activism. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1773 |
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| Author |
Connor, M. |
| Title |
Sharing the burden of strife in chronic illness: A praxiological study of nursing practice in a community context |
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| Year |
2002 |
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 |
Chronically ill; Nursing; Nurse-patient relations; Nursing research; Methodology |
| Abstract |
This inquiry is an in-depth exploration of one middle aged woman's experience of strife in chronic illness and her nursing care involving four nurses (including the author) in a community context over a three-year period. The study is praxiological in that the understanding achieved is derived from practice within a 'research as praxis' methodology positioned in the disciplinary perspective of nursing as a practical human science. Five methodological premises inform the research processes: reflexivity, dialogue, moral comportment, re-presentation in narrative and critique. They emanate from an eclectic ontological praxiology based on the research framework constructed from Gadamerian philosophical hermeneutics, components of other philosophical praxiologies evolved from an exploration of the practical discourse in philosophy and my preferred health and nursing assumptions. The research processes include researcher journalling, a summary of Sarah's nursing record and dialogical meetings with Sarah and the nurse co-participants. Using the research material a narrative is then co-constructed. The narrative is structured around what Sarah viewed as the overall nursing contribution to her care; the 'sharing of her burden of illness'. This, she maintained, enabled her to live safely in the community. Finally there occurs a critique of the narrative within a discursive framework. Three themes, embedded in particular discourses, emerged from the narrative both in Sarah's and the nurses' experience; paradox, moral meaning and metaphor. Sarah's experience is interpreted as taking place in the 'in-between space' of the disease and health-illness discourses. Two main concepts which depict the tension experienced in this space are the 'the ontological assault of illness' and 'entrapment in the disease discourse'. The nurses, in this instance, 'pushed the boundaries' to create a space for the nursing as a caring practice discourse on the margins of nursing as a functional service discourse. The author notes that, within the nursing as a caring practice space, many 'fine lines' were walked with Sarah. Walking the 'fine line' of an 'intense relationship' was seen as advanced nursing practice. The research highlights important implications for a person and/or families who live with chronic illness and practice and educational issues for advanced nurse practitioners. Further, it promotes praxiological methodologies as advantageous for expanding nursing knowledge. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 495 |
Serial |
481 |
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| Author |
Crawford, Ruth |
| Title |
Using focused ethnography in nursing research |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2019 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki Nursing Research |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
10 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
63-67 |
| Keywords |
Focused ethnography; Communication; Nursing research; Research methodology |
| Abstract |
Details how the author employed focused ethnography in her doctoral research to investigate nurses' and parents' experience of emotional communication in the context of a children's unit of a regional hospital in NZ. Interviews 10 parents and 10 nurses after the children were discharged. Validates the ethnographic method as a means of inspecting the hidden as well as observable aspects of nurse-parent interaction. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1628 |
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| Author |
Gallocher-Shearer, S. |
| Title |
Exploring the archetypal dimension in nursing |
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| Year |
2005 |
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 |
Methodology; Relationships; Nursing; Psychology |
| Abstract |
This study explores the archetypal dimension of nursing reality in nurses' stories through a window of nurse-nurse relations. The thesis argues the existence of the unconscious psyche and its importance for nursing, and the study unfolds a methodology that attends to unconscious processes and is congruent with analytical psychology and its practice. It is a two strand inquiry informed by general hermeneutics and Jungian thought engaging a synthetic interpretive methodology using interweaving intellectual and imaginistic processes. In the first strand of the inquiry five female registered nurses share their individual stories which become the text for a nursing narrative that reveals the what-is of nursing reality in essences of Story and Kinship, and a Lifeworld undermined by high levels of Stress. In the second strand of the inquiry the researcher engages imaginistic process to access the archetypal dimension of the nursing narrative, resulting in a sub text from which archetypal images emerge to reveal the more-than of nursing reality. The emergent images are amplified to reveal their symbolic meanings, and their connection to the nursing narrative is explored. An interpretation that is consistent with analytical psychology is offered in a synthesis of the material arising from the nurses' stories and the imaginistic process. The author notes that this synthetic understanding is teleological in nature and directs attention to the need for nursing to grow a differentiated consciousness that is honouring of the feminine principle in the psyche in contradistinction from an overweaning masculine patriarchal consciousness that compromises the nursing endeavour. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 496 |
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482 |
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| Author |
Giddings, D.L.S. |
| Title |
Mixed-methods research: Positivism dressed in drag |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2006 |
Publication |
Journal of Research in Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
11 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
195-203 |
| Keywords |
Methodology; Nursing research |
| Abstract |
The author critiques the claim that mixed method research is a third methodology, and the implied belief that the mixing of qualitative and quantitative methods will produce the 'best of both worlds'. The author suggests that this assumption, combined with inherent promises of inclusiveness, takes on a reality and certainty in research findings that serves well the powerful nexus of economic restraint and evidence-based practice. The author argues that the use of the terms 'qualitative' and 'quantitative' as normative descriptors reinforces their binary positioning, effectively marginalising the methodological diversity within them. Ideologically, mixed methods covers for the continuing hegemony of positivism, albeit in its more moderate, postpositivist form. If naively interpreted, mixed methods could become the preferred approach in the teaching and doing of research. The author concludes that rather than the promotion of more co-operative and complex designs for increasingly complex social and health issues, economic and administrative pressures may lead to demands for the 'quick fix' that mixed methods appears to offer. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
717 |
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| Author |
Giddings, D.L.S.; Grant, B.M. |
| Title |
A Trojan Horse for positivism? A critique of mixed methods research |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2007 |
Publication |
Advances in Nursing Science |
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30 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
52-60 |
| Keywords |
Nursing research; Methodology; Evaluation |
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This paper presents an analysis of mixed methods research, which the authors suggest is captured by a pragmatically inflected form of post-positivism. Although it passes for an alternative methodological movement that purports to breach the divide between qualitative and quantitative research, most mixed methods studies favour the forms of analysis and truth finding associated with positivism. The authors anticipate a move away from exploring more philosophical questions or undertaking modes of enquiry that challenge the status quo. At the same time, they recognise that mixed methods research offers particular strengths and that, although it serves as a Trojan Horse for positivism, it may productively carry other paradigmatic passengers. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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650 |
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| Author |
Gray, Nadine |
| Title |
Privileging Matauranga Maori in nursing education: Experiences of Maori student nurses learning within an indigenous university |
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Book Whole |
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2020 |
Publication |
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Pages |
116 p. |
| Keywords |
Matauranga Maori; Nursing education; Wananga; Kaupapa Maori research methodology |
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Investigates factors supporting Maori student engagement, retention and success in nursing education. Explores the experiences, perceptions and insights of Maori nursing students enrolled in Te Ohanga Mataora: Bachelor of Health Sciences Maori Nursing at Te Whare Wananga O Awanuiarangi. Conducts semi-structured face-to-face interviews with 12 full-time Maori undergraduate nursing students, highlighting both positive and negative factors in academic engagement. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1742 |
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| Author |
Henry, Amy |
| Title |
Staying at home: A qualitative descriptive study on Pacific palliative health |
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Book Whole |
| Year |
2020 |
Publication |
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Issue |
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Pages |
137 p. |
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Palliative care; Pacific health; Community palliative care; Talanoa research methodology; Surveys |
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Develops an understanding of the experiences of, and barriers for Pacific peoples in Canterbury utilising palliative care services. Considers the strengths and enablers for Pacific peoples accessing palliative care services and how such services, including home based palliative care, could better serve this community. Undertakes interviews using a semi-structured question guide, with nine family members who had provided palliative care within the last three years. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1762 |
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| Author |
Honey, M.L.L. |
| Title |
Methodological issues with case study research |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2010 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki Nursing Research |
Abbreviated Journal |
NZNO Library |
| Volume |
1 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
9-11 |
| Keywords |
Research, nursing; Research methodology; Study design; data analysis; Data collection methods |
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Case study research, as a qualitative methodology, attracts some criticism, especially related to rigour, reliability and validity. A New Zealand-based study that explored complex phenomena – flexible learning for postgraduate nurses – provides a practical example of how the case study design can address these criticisms. Through describing the mixed methods used, different sources and methods of data collection, and data analysis, the process of achieving data quality and trustworthiness are highlighted. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1338 |
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| Author |
Huntington, A.D. |
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Blood, sweat and tears: Women as nurses nursing women in the gynaecology ward: A feminist interpretive study |
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2000 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Feminist critique; Nursing specialties; Methodology |
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This feminist study is an exploration of the subjectivity of women working as nurses within the gynaecological ward. Gynaecology has a long history as a unique area of concern to the health practitioners of any given period. However, the author suggests, recently with the development of modern gynaecology, this specialty has become based on male knowledge and male texts, women either as patients or nurses appear voiceless within this canon. Major tests within nursing mirror a medical construction of gynaecology, with the women involved in the discourse again absent from the literature. To explore the nurses' reality within the gynaecological ward, the author has undertaken a feminist interpretive study. To contribute to this debate the author drew on certain specific notions from feminist and postmodern epistemologies. These notions of the Other, difference, the body and discourse provided a unique way of viewing the practice of the nurses in this gynaecological setting. These epistemological concepts were then interwoven with feminist strategies to undertake the research. Through the process of feminist praxis, which included the author working alongside the nurses and conducting in-depth interviews, three areas of general concern to the nurses emerged. Firstly the relationships, that is their relationships with each other as nurses and with their women patients. Secondly, the difficulties inherent in nurses' practice in this setting due to the nature of the experiences of the women they were nursing. These difficulties arose in relation to two particular situations, nursing women experiencing a mid-trimester termination and nursing women with cancer. Thirdly, the relationship with/in the medical discourse and individual doctors which, according to nurses, had a major impact on their work. This study contributes to nursing knowledge by providing a forum for the voices of women as nurses, who nurse women in the gynaecological ward, to be heard. The author concludes that nursing and feminism have much to offer each other and share an emancipatory goal of positive action to support and assist people in their lives. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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484 |
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| Author |
Komene, Ebony; Adams, Sue; Clark, Terryann |
| Title |
Korero mai: A Kaupapa Maori study exploring the experiences of whanau Maori caring for tamariki with atopic dermatitis |
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Journal Article |
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2022 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand |
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38 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
12-22 |
| Keywords |
Kaupapa Maori research methodology; Atopic dermatitis; Maori children; Matauranga Maori; Surveys |
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Explores the experiences of Maori parents caring for their children with atopic dermatitis. Conducts face-to-face interviews to uncover the experiences of 6 families dealing with the condition. Identifies five common themes, highlighting the importance of matauranga Maori to the families in supporting their children. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1805 |
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| Author |
Lesa, Raewyn |
| Title |
Personal experience of using a case study for a doctorate |
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Journal Article |
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2019 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki Nursing Research |
Abbreviated Journal |
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10 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
68-70 |
| Keywords |
Nursing students; Simulation; Case study; Research methodology |
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Draws on personal experience us using a case study for doctoral research. Presents practical insights into the process of designing a credible research case study based on the author's research into the experiences of third-year nursing students in simulation and clinical practice. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1629 |
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| Author |
Litchfield, Merian |
| Title |
Nursing is -- and has -- a methodology: a nursing voice |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2021 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki Nursing Research |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
12 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
66-72 |
| Keywords |
Nursing knowldege; Nursing voice; Nursing methodology |
| Abstract |
Argues that a nursing paradigm identifies and differentiates the nursing perspective on health, and reinterprets practical expertise. Posits that nurse researchers present their findings as practice wisdom. Suggests that the significance of nursing lies in its knowledgeable practitioners and that the nursing voice is a collective one. Emphasises the need for a distinctly nursing perspective on health in NZ. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1721 |
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| Author |
MacKenzie, Morag |
| Title |
Using trans-disciplinary research to explore solutions to 'wicked problems' |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2021 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki Nursing Research |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
12 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
73-76 |
| Keywords |
Enrolled nurses; Trans-disciplinary research; Research methodology |
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Explores the challenges and opportunities for enrolled nursing in NZ. Employs trans-disciplinary research (TDR) methodology to approach the question of how enrolled nurses (EN) might become more visible in the health workforce by means of potential innovations arising from collaboration between stakeholders in health-care delivery. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1722 |
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