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Vermeulen, J. |
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“And there's the likes of me”: A phenomenological study of the experience of four women inpatients at a mental health unit |
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2002 |
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Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Psychiatric Nursing; Patient satisfaction; Hospitals; Nurse-patient relations |
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This research draws on the experiences of four women whilst they were inpatients at the Mental Health Unit in Southland. The Husserlian path of phenomenology was followed and in-depth interviewing used to collect data. Colaizzi's method of analysis enabled accurate interpretation of transcripts. The overall goal of this research was to provide health professionals with an opportunity to inform their practice, based on what consumers were saying about their experience of hospitalisation. Themes emerged through participants relating their experience by using comparisons with either their outside world or previous episodes of hospitalisation. Through analysis, two fundamental structures became evident within the findings. These were 'the environment as containment' and 'the road to recovery'. The author concludes that this study raises significant issues surrounding the experience of hospitalisation at the Mental Health Unit that have implications for future research and for future service delivery. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1246 |
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Stewart, C.M. |
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“Caring as the heart of nursing education” |
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2007 |
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Otago Polytechnic library. A copy can be obtained by contacting pgnursadmin@tekotago.ac.nz |
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Education; Nursing; Nurse-patient relations |
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Literature and discussion on the role of caring theory in nursing has been in evidence for at least the past 30 years. Many nursing theorists have identified caring as the heart of nursing. Nursing is a profession involved and concerned with relationships. These relationships begin in the schools of nursing, and are continued into the clinical practice setting. Curriculum development is focused on ensuring nurses are prepared for the real world of practice. It is the author's belief, that nurses who receive their education in an environment where caring is modelled and evidenced throughout the curriculum, become nurses who continue to practice in a caring way. This dissertation will demonstrate that Swanson's (1991) five caring processes provide a framework to evidence caring practice within a nursing curriculum. The author believes this topic needs to be discussed as schools of nursing continue to review their curricula to prepare nurses for an ever changing and challenging health environment. This dissertation explores the question, 'If caring is at the heart of the profession of nursing, is it also at the heart of nursing education?' The author's objective is to inform the reader, and perhaps encourage educators to be courageous in the demonstration of caring practice, and in the development of caring curricula. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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499 |
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Boyd, L. |
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“It could have just as easily been me”: Nurses working in mental health services who have experienced mental illness |
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2001 |
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NZNO Library |
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Nursing; Mental health; Occupational health and safety |
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This research explores the issues and experiences of mental health nurses who experience or have experienced mental illness. This project was prompted by the author's concern for colleagues and friends in this situation. The research topic was approached using a mix of critical ethnography and action research principles. Five mental health nurses who all work for the same district health board were interviewed about their experiences of being mental health professionals with mental illness and the issues that arose from this. The themes that emerged from this research are: the reactions of nurse colleagues, the effects on participants' own mental health treatment, employer responses, professional experiences and issues and strategies for coping. Discussion and recommendations focus on the need for improvements to the responses that mental health nurses with experience of mental illness encounter in their workplace. Recommendations from this research encompass suggestions for both individual and organisational education, action and change. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1127 |
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Brown, J.A. |
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“Let my spirit always sing”: A descriptive study of how four elderly rest home residents view spirituality and spiritual care at the end of life |
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2004 |
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ResearchArchive@Victoria |
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Older people; Rest homes; Spirituality; Nursing |
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This descriptive, qualitative study, believed to be the first of its kind conducted in a New Zealand setting, focuses on spirituality issues of a spiritually vulnerable group of people, older people in residential care. Four rest home residents were recruited, to talk about their spirituality, spiritual needs and how their spirits were nurtured, the role of care staff in providing spiritual care, and their satisfaction with the spiritual care they were being offered. They were also asked to predict their spiritual needs as they were dying, their wishes for spiritual care in the perideath period, whether they had communicated these wishes to anyone, their views on advance planning to ensure these wishes would be met, and their comfort with the research process. The research data was collected from semi-structured, audiotaped interviews that were later transcribed. The spirituality of all participants had a strongly Christian focus that was revealed in the ten themes to emerge from a modified application of Colaizzi's analysis technique. The first themes to emerge were God as the focus of spirituality, God in control, the importance of relationship, and the purpose in life: serving God. Changes in spirituality with age, spirituality and residential care, and spiritual care: whose responsibility? were also identified as themes, as were end of life spirituality, planning for spiritual care, and the participants' satisfaction with the research process. All were able to articulate their spirituality, were generally satisfied with the spiritual care they were receiving, and had views on the spiritual care they wished to receive in the perideath period. Moreover, the participants trusted their families and the care staff to ensure that these wishes would be honoured. Recommendations are made for improving the spiritual dimension of care, and for further research. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1228 |
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Diers, D. |
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“Noses and eyes”: Nurse practitioners in New Zealand |
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2008 |
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Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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24 |
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1 (Mar) |
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4-10 |
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Cross-cultural comparison; Nurse practitioners; History of nursing |
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Principles for understanding and evolving nurse practitioner practice, politics and policy are distilled from 40 years of experience in the United States and Australia. The issues in all countries are remarkably similar. The author suggests that some historical and conceptual grounding may assist the continuing development of this expanded role for nursing in New Zealand. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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965 |
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Hardcastle, J. |
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'Back to the bedside': Graduate level education in critical care |
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2008 |
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Nurse Education in Practice |
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8 |
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1 |
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46-53 |
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Nursing specialties; Nursing; Education; Curriculum |
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This paper explores the relationships within teaching, learning and practice development in critical care nursing and questions the popular assumption that 'post graduate (Master's level) education fits all'. The need for critical care nurses to apply advanced knowledge and technical skills to complex and dynamic practice situations necessitates the development of critical thinking and a problem-solving approach to clinical practice that can be fostered through education and experience. Discussion focuses on the successful development and implementation of graduate level education for critical care nurses in the South Island of New Zealand and how this development is challenging existing approaches to the provision and evaluation of formal critical care education in New Zealand. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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656 |
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Chenery, K. |
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'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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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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Noble-Adams, R. |
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'Exemplary' nurses: An exploration of the phenomenon |
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2001 |
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Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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17 |
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1 |
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24-33 |
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Nurse-patient relations; Nursing; Professional competence |
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This paper examines the phenomenon of exemplary nursing. It includes a literature review to identify the characteristics of good nurses. These include particular personality traits, altruism, caring, expert practice, vocation, commitment and attitude. Aspects of the nurse-patient relationship with such nurses is described. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 640 |
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626 |
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Darbyshire, P. |
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'Never mind the quality, feel the width': The nonsense of 'quality', 'excellence', and 'audit' in education, health and research |
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2008 |
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Collegian: Journal of the Royal College of Nursing Australia |
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15 |
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1 |
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35-41 |
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Accountability; Quality assurance; Organisational change; Nursing research; Nursing; Education |
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The author contends that health care and education have been colonised by 'The Audit Society' and managerialism. It is argued that under the benign guise of 'improving quality' and 'ensuring value for money' a more Orwellian purpose operates. Academics had to be transformed into a workforce of 'docile bodies', willing to scrutinise and survey themselves and their 'performance' as outcome deliverers and disciples of the new 'Qualispeak'. This paper critiques the current obsession with audit and performativity, and the constant and often pointless 'change' that is held to be so self-evidently 'a good thing' and identifies policy discussion as a linguistic wasteland. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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967 |
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Adams, Sue |
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'New Zealand Nurses: Caring for Our People 1880-1950' : An interview with author Pamela Wood |
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2023 |
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Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand |
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39 |
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1 |
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Nursing history; Books |
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Draws on a conversation between Wood and Adams, both tauiwi (non-Maori) academics, exploring challenges, innovations, and paradigms of care at a time in NZ history when colonising processes had already affected Maori. Traces the origins of rural, district and Plunket nursing. Provides insight into the structure and content of the book, its value in recording the history, proactive leadership, and practice of modern nursing as instigated by the British nursing diaspora. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1829 |
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Farrow, T. |
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'No suicide contracts' in community crisis situations: A conceptual analysis |
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2003 |
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Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing |
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10 |
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2 |
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199-202 |
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Mental health; Community health nursing; Psychology; Suicide |
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'No suicide contracts' take the form of a 'guarantee of safety', along with a 'promise' to call specified persons if the suicidal ideation becomes unmanageable for the person concerned. They are commonly used in community crisis situations with suicidal people in New Zealand. This article describes and analyses the use of 'no suicide contracts' in these settings. It is argued that the theoretical base (transactional analysis) of the 'no suicide contract' is likely to be deleterious in the community crisis situation. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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779 |
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Ross, Jean |
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'Place' Matters to Rural Nurses: A Study Located in the Rural Otago Region of New Zealand |
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Book Whole |
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2017 |
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346 p. |
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Rural nursing; Identity; Otago; Sense of place |
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Explores the social construction of the evolving professional identity, of rural nurses between the 1990z and early 2000s, a period of time was associated with two
significant national directives impacting on the professional practice of rural nurses and their contribution to the delivery of health care, from the rural Otago region of NZ. Engages with the concepts of place and governmentality. Demonstrates that rural nursing is a place–based practice governed both from within and beyond location, an analytical diagrammatic matrix. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1555 |
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Harvey, Geoffrey |
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'Thank you for telling our story...': An exploration of the needs of migrant nurses undergoing competence assessment for New Zealand registration |
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2022 |
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108 p. |
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Internationally qualified nurses (IQN); Migrant nurses; Competency assessment; Nursing registration; Surveys |
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Seeks to give voice to migrant nurses, using case-study methodology to highlight their experience of the competence assessment process. Distributes a questionnaire to a group of 22 newly-arrived IQNs, and conducts interviews with 10 IQNs who had been working in NZ for several years. Uncovers the motivations among the first group and reflections on the Competence Assessment Programme (CAP) among the second. Makes recommendations for CAP training based on the results of the study. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1836 |
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Papps, E. |
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(Re)positioning nursing: Watch this space |
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2001 |
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Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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17 |
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2 |
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4-12 |
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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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Walker, L. |
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?Holding up?: The first biennial NZNO Employment Survey |
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Report |
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2009 |
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Available from http://www.nzno.org.nz |
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Nursing; New Zealand Nurses' Organisation; Workplace; Personnel staffing and scheduling; Industrial relations |
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In this report, the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) releases the findings from its first-ever members' employment survey. The questionnaire, based on the United Kingdom?s Royal College of Nurse?s annual survey (which has been running for 21 years) covered core employment issues: employment agreements, hours, pay, job change, along with demographic details, as well as questions around plans for and perceptions of working life for over 800 NZNO members. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1331 |
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