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Author Wilson, C. openurl 
  Title Reflections on care: Older people speak about experiences of nursing care in acute medical and surgical wards Type
  Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Older people; Nurse-patient relations  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 289 Serial 289  
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Author Hames, P.V.M. openurl 
  Title Patient advocacy: A concept analysis Type
  Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Patient rights; Nursing; Nurse-patient relations  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 689 Serial 675  
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Author Casey, G. openurl 
  Title Conditional expertise in chronic illness Type
  Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Chronically ill; Nurse-patient relations  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 808 Serial 792  
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Author Mortensen, A. openurl 
  Title Destigmatisation: A grounded theory of the work of sexual health nurses Type
  Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Sexual and reproductive health; Prejudice; Nurse-patient relations; Attitude to health  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 809 Serial 793  
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Author O'Brien, A.J. openurl 
  Title The therapeutic relationship: Perceptions of mental health nurses Type
  Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Mental health; Nurse-patient relations  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 914 Serial 898  
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Author Mossop, M.D. openurl 
  Title Older patients' perspectives of being cared for by first year nursing students Type
  Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Older people; Nurse-patient relations; New graduate nurses; Hospitals  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1135 Serial 1120  
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Author Murray, D.J. openurl 
  Title The roles of nurses working with adolescents in Auckland secondary schools Type
  Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Adolescents; Nurse-patient relations  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 605  
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Author Martin, M. openurl 
  Title A grain of salt ...: A contemplative study of natural form in nursing, developed in collaboration with people in life-threatening and life-challenging situations to reveal untold stories of healing Type
  Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Terminal care; Nurse-patient relations  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1267  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title The language of nursing practice in hospitals Type Conference Article
  Year 1997 Publication Abbreviated Journal held by NZNO Library and author  
  Volume Proceedings of the National Nursing Informatics Co Issue Pages  
  Keywords Hospitals; Nurse managers; Advanced nursing practice; Nurse-patient relations; Care plans  
  Abstract (up) A paper presenting the findings of a small research project involving a group of self-selected senior nurses of Wellington Hospital to explore the nature of nursing practice in the care and management of hospitalised patients and to formalise the language that would acknowledge its significance in the current effort of hospitals to define patient care pathways. The nature of hospital nursing practice was described in themes of a generic process of nurse-patient care that articulates a distinct specialism of hospital nursing, whatever the hospital department in which nurses hold positions.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1322  
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Author Watson, S.L. url  openurl
  Title Attitudinal shifting: A grounded theory of health promotion in coronary care Type
  Year 2007 Publication Abbreviated Journal AUT University Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Health promotion; Policy; Professional development; Cardiovascular diseases; Nursing; Nurse-patient relations; Education  
  Abstract (up) Current New Zealand health policy encourages collaborative health promotion in all sectors of health service delivery. The integrated approach to the acute management of coronary heart disease in a coronary care unit, combining medical therapy and lifestyle change, supports clinical health promotion. The aim of this study was to use the grounded theory approach to discover the main concerns of nurses' promoting health in an acute coronary care setting and to explain the processes that nurses used to integrate health promotional activities into their practice. Seventeen registered nurses from three coronary care units within a large metropolitan city in New Zealand were interviewed. Data were constantly compared and analysed using Glaser's emergent approach to grounded theory.The main concern for nurses promoting health within coronary care was ritualistic practice. In this study, ritualistic practice concerns the medically-based protocols, routines, language and technology that drives nursing practice in coronary care. This concern was resolved via the socio-cultural process of attitudinal shifting that occurs over time involving three stages. The three conceptual categories, environmental pressures, practice reality and responsive action are the main components of the theory of attitudinal shifting. In environmental pressures, nurses experience a tension between specialist medically-dominated nursing practice and the generalist nursing role of promoting health. In practice reality, nurses become aware that the individual needs of patients are not being met. This causes role conflict until the nurse observes colleagues who role model possibilities for practice, working with patients to promote health. Responsive action sees the nurse engaging in self-development, also focusing on the nurse-patient relationship, thereby enabling active patient involvement in individual health-promoting decisions. The author suggests that the findings from this research have implications for nursing practice and education. With the increasing specialisation in nursing practice, these findings may be of interest to nurses working in delegated medical roles where the reality of everyday practice precludes nurses from undertaking their essential nursing role. Health care facilities also need to ensure that there are opportunities for the personal and professional development of nursing staff. The place of health promotion within nursing undergraduate curricula needs to be examined, as many nurses found that they were ill prepared for undertaking health promotional activities.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 807  
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Author Harding, T.S.; North, N.; Perkins, R. openurl 
  Title Sexualizing men's touch: Male nurses and the use of intimate touch in clinical practice Type Journal Article
  Year 2008 Publication Research & Theory for Nursing Practice Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 22 Issue 2 Pages 88-102  
  Keywords Male nurses; Nurse-patient relations; Gender  
  Abstract (up) Drawn from a larger study, this article reports the experiences of a group of male nurses regarding the use of intimate physical touch. Using discourse analysis, interview data from 18 male nurses were analysed and related to existing text on men as nurses. The analysis reveals that although touch is important in nursing care, it is problematic for men because discourses have normalised women's use of touch as a caring behaviour and have sexualised men's touch. Participants described their vulnerability, how they protected themselves from risk, and the resulting stress. The complicity of nurses in sexualising men's touch and the neglect of educators in preparing men for providing intimate care are revealed. A paradox emerged whereby the very measures employed to protect both patients and men as nurses exacerbate the perceived risk posed by men carrying out intimate care. The authors suggest that deconstructing and reframing prevailing discourses around nursing, gender, and caring involving touch can help to legitimise men's involvement in physical caring.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 960  
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Author Blockley, Colette; Alterio, Maxine openurl 
  Title Patients' experiences of interpersonal relationships during first time acute hospitalisation Type Journal Article
  Year 2008 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 24 Issue 2 (Jul) Pages p16-26.  
  Keywords Acute hospitalisation; Vulnerability; Support; Nurse-patient relationships  
  Abstract (up) Examines the role of interpersonal relationships on patients' experiences during first time acute hospitalisation. Involving 12 first time acute medical and surgical admission patients, it was developed from a wider study exploring patients' overall experiences. Using a qualitative methodology with data collected by means of personal stories and semi-structured interviews findings suggest that patient vulnerability is reduced through supportive interpersonal relationships and that it is nurses who play a key role in developing and maintaining these relationships with patients.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1432  
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Author Hall, J. url  openurl
  Title Building trust to work with a grounded theory study of paediatric acute care nurses work Type
  Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Auckland University of Technology Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Nurse-family relations; Nurse-patient relations; Children; Paediatric nursing; Intensive care nursing  
  Abstract (up) Grounded theory methodology has guided the grounded theory methods used to explore the acute care paediatric nurses' perspective of what they do when a child has had a severe accident. The research was initiated from the experience of nursing children in the context of a rehabilitation centre and wondering how acute care nurses promoted a child's recovery after a severe unintentional injury. Many avenues were used to search international and New Zealand literature but the scarcity of literature related to what acute care paediatric nurses do was evident. Nursing children in the acute care ward after a severe accident is complex. It encompasses nursing the family when they are experiencing a crisis. It is critical that the acute care nurse monitors and ensures the child's physiological needs are met, and the nurse “works with” the child to maintain and advance medical stability. Nursing interactions are an important part of “working with”, communication is the essence of nursing. This research has focussed on the nurses' social processes whilst caring for the physical needs of the child and interacting with the family and multidisciplinary team when appropriate. An effective working-relationship with a nurse and family is founded on trust. Grounded theory methods supported the process of exploring the social processes of “building trust” whilst “working with” families in a vulnerable position. Nurses rely on rapport to be invited into a family's space to “work with” and support the re-establishment of the parenting role. The “stepping in and out” of an effective working-relationship with a family is reliant on trust. Nurses build trust by spending time to “be with”, using chat to get to know each other, involving and supporting the family to parent a “different” child and reassuring and giving realistic hope to help the child and parents cope with their changed future. A substantive theory of the concept of “building trust to work with” has been developed using grounded theory methods. The theory has been conceptualised using the perspective of seven registered nurses working in paediatric acute care wards that admit children who have had a severe traumatic accident.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 597  
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Author Radka, I.M. openurl 
  Title Handover and the consumer voice: The importance of knowing the whole, full story Type
  Year 2003 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Communication; Patient satisfaction; Nurse-patient relations  
  Abstract (up) In the acute hospital setting, nurses provide care twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Due to the ever-changing nature of the patient's situation, nurses need quality information at the beginning of each eight-hour shift to plan and implement patient care effectively. It is claimed that handover is central for maintaining the continuity and the quality of patient care. This qualitative descriptive study was undertaken to identify what core information needs to be exchanged at nursing handover to ensure quality and continuity of patient care. Five consumers who had experience of recurrent hospital admissions shared their perceptions of handover practice through individual interviews. Three focus group meetings of seven nurses from a secondary care setting discussed handover practice from their professional perspectives. Both nursing and consumer voices are integral to the overall understanding of this study but the consumer voice is the privileged and dominant voice. Through the process of thematic content analysis the central themes of communication, continuity and competence emerged for the consumers. Consumers expect to be kept informed and involved in their healthcare. They want continuity of nurse, information and care and expect that nurses involved in the delivery of healthcare are competent to manage their situation. The 'importance of knowing' is the overarching construct generated in this research. Knowing is identified as the foundation on which quality and continuity of care is built and is discussed under the subheadings of: not knowing, knowing the patient as a person, knowing takes time, hidden knowing, knowing consumers' rights, oral knowing, knowing involves more than handing over patient care and knowing the economics. Recommendations have been developed for future research, nursing practice, education and management. These centre on ways to develop a more consumer-focused approach to contemporary healthcare.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 883 Serial 867  
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Author Maries, V.J. url  openurl
  Title Chosen moments: A reflective journey illustrating terminally ill patients choosing the moment to die Type
  Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Terminal care; Palliative care; Nurse-patient relations  
  Abstract (up) In this project the author reveals how she is observing and thinking as she cares for people who are dying. She records her reflections and insights and reveals that there is life right up to the moment of death, having observed terminally ill patients choosing the precise moment to die. She describes her observations of these moments by using poetry and stories, and explores the implications for her practice as a result. The author presents her reflections using an individualistic, reflective and exploratory perspective which is informed by the work of nursing scholars. This paper is framed using the metaphors of a journey and a window to indicate the reflective process that the author used to journal her observations in practice over time.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 773  
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