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Renor, C |
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Blogging about 'It' |
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2012 |
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Whitireia Nursing Journal |
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Available through NZNO library |
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19 |
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59-62 |
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Blogs; Education, Non-Traditional; Education, Nursing, Continuing; Learning Styles |
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As nurses and students we all have our own 'its', which get out of perspective and cause us anxiety. By sharing this blog with you, I hope I help you with your 'it'. When all else fails try blogging about your 'it', and use reflection as a tool to grow yourself, instigate change and promote yourself as the evidence-based, caring nurse that you are. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1385 |
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Bell, J. |
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Blood glucose control using insulin therapy in critically ill adult patients with stress hyperglycaemia: A systematic review |
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2007 |
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Massey University Library |
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Intensive care nursing |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 824 |
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808 |
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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 |
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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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McClunie-Trust, P. |
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Body boundaries and discursive practices in life threatening illness: Narratives of the self |
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2000 |
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Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Nurse-family relations; Nursing; Ethics |
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This thesis tells a story from within and between the boundaries of my professional work as a nurse and my private life as the wife of a patient with life threatening illness. The events related in the thesis are told using a technique I have called writing back to myself, where my own journals and stories of the experience of living with life threatening illness provide data for analysis. The reader is invited to participate in these representations and to consider the potential for the skilful practice of nursing which may be read in the stories, and the analysis I have developed from them. I have developed the theoretical and methodological positionings for the thesis from the work of Foucault (1975,1979,1982,1988), Deleuze (1988), Ellis (1995), Richardson (1998) and other writers who utilise genealogical or narrative approaches. The analysis of my own stories in the thesis explores the philosophical and contextual positionings of the nurse as a knowledge worker through genealogies of practice and the specific intellectual work of the nurse. Local and contextual epistemologies are considered as ways of theorising nursing practice through personal knowledge, which is surfaced through the critical analysis of contextual positionings and the process of writing as inquiry. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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791 |
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Alavi, C. |
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Breaking-in bodies: Teaching, nursing, initiations or what's love got to do with it? |
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2005 |
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Contemporary Nurse |
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18 |
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3 |
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292-299 |
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Nursing; Education; Psychology; Nurse-patient relations; Students |
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This paper discusses how students become able to work with sick patients for whom they may feel disgust or discomfort. It is a sustained engagement with the literature on abjection and disgust and is not the outcome of evaluation research. It considers the role of problem-based learning pedagogy in facilitating students' negotiation of their own discomfort and horror, and describes experiences which enable them to approach abject patients with more comfort and less disgust. The paper argues the importance of creating spaces where students can explore issues which are distressing and disturbing so that they will feel able to remain in nursing. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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658 |
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McKenna, B. |
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Bridging the theory-practice gap |
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1999 |
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Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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5 |
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2 |
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14-16 |
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Psychiatric nursing; Nursing; Education; Teaching methods |
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The author presents a case study of a joint appointment between a nurse lecturer and a staff nurse in an acute forensic psychiatry unit. He explores the advantages, disadvantages and reasons for success in relation to the findings of a survey of the literature on joint appointments. This technique is seen as a means of narrowing the gap between theory and practice which resulted when nurse training was transferred from hospitals to polytechnics. He highlights the need to develop research methodology to clarify potential benefits of this approach. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1024 |
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Chenery, K. |
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Building child health nurses' confidence and competence |
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2007 |
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Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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13 |
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5 |
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26-38 |
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Paediatric nursing; Nursing; Education; Evaluation |
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This article describes the development of the Generic Orientation Programme, Child Health Nursing and its perceived impact on practice after ten months, through two simultaneous evaluation surveys, seeking the views of programme participants and their nurse managers. The programme aims to equip the newly appointed RN in the child health cluster or the nurse working in a non-designated children's area with the knowledge and skills to safely care for children. These include basic anatomical and physiological differences; fluid and electrolyte management; safe administration of medication; pain management; recognition of the seriously ill child; and building partnerships with children and their families. A survey instrument eliciting qualitative and quantitative responses was used. The majority of nurse respondents believed they had gained new knowledge and described how they were incorporating it into everyday practice. Similarly, several nurse managers observed that nurses' clinical knowledge and skills had improved since attending the programme. In particular, responses from those working in non-designated children's areas suggested the programme had provided them with greater insight into the care of children. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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975 |
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Haitana, Jevada; Bland, Marian |
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Building relationships : the key to preceptoring nursing students |
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2011 |
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Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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27 |
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1 |
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4-12 |
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Preceptorship experience; Undergraduate nursing students; Relationships |
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Seeks to understand the experiences of being a preceptor of student nurses, and the factors that impact on the role. Undertakes a qualitative descriptive study in a small provincial hospital of 5 registered nurse preceptors, who complete semi-structured audio-taped interviews. Analyses the data using a step-by-step process. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1460 |
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Haitana, J. |
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Building relationships: A qualitative descriptive study reflective of the day-to-day experiences of one group of preceptors in a provincial hospital in New Zealand |
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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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Hospitals; Preceptorship; Education; Professional development; Mentoring; Training; Nursing |
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Research suggests that the experience of being a preceptor can be rewarding, but there are challenges which may impact on their ability to fulfil the preceptorship role. In an effort to understand the experiences of being a preceptor and the factors that impact on that role, a qualitative descriptive study was undertaken in a small provincial hospital in New Zealand. A purposeful sample of five registered nurse preceptors completed semi-structured audio-taped interviews. Seven common categories were developed from the data – willingness to engage, building a relationship, letting go, support, workload, students in the clinical setting and making judgements. The author notes that this research has highlighted that preceptors need prior notice that they are going to be having student nurses so that they can be better prepared; preceptors and student nurses also need to be rostered together for the whole placement to allow a one-on-one relationship to develop. Preceptors would benefit from having a lighter workload during the first few days of preceptoring as then they can spend more time teaching the student. Schools of nursing and hospitals also need to have an ongoing collaborative relationship in planning and supporting the preceptorship program; this would further support preceptors in their role. The lecturer from the school of nursing needs to be contactable and available to both the preceptor and the student to clarify any misunderstandings and as a resource should any problems arise. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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476 |
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Hall, J. |
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Building trust to work with a grounded theory study of paediatric acute care nurses work |
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2004 |
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Auckland University of Technology Library |
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Nurse-family relations; Nurse-patient relations; Children; Paediatric nursing; Intensive care nursing |
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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. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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597 |
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Manning, J. |
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Building trust with families in neonatal intensive care units |
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2006 |
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Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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12 |
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6 |
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18-20 |
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Paediatric nursing; Neonatal nursing; Parents and caregivers; Communication |
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Establishing a trusting relationship is a key therapeutic intervention for nurses working with families of hospitalised children. This article is an exploration of the definition of trust. Specifically, it considers how parents come to trust (or not) nurses in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) helps to reveal the meaning of parent-nurse trust and how this affects nursing practice. Understanding and meeting parental needs is important in developing and sustaining trust. The medical model of care often dominates in NICU. This is a deficit model that focuses on illness and treatment. However, the use of a nursing framework, such as developmentally supportive family centred care, focuses on recognising and building on the strengths of the family, by fostering trust to equip the family with the capacity to manage their infant's health care. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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976 |
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Hall, L. |
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Burnout: Results of an empirical study of New Zealand nurses |
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2001 |
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Contemporary Nurse |
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11 |
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1 |
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71-83 |
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Occupational health and safety; Stress; Nursing |
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This is the first New Zealand study to use the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and the Phase Model of Burnout to determine the extent and severity of burnout in a population of 1134 nurses. Burnout is conceptualised as a syndrome consisting of three components-emotional exhaustion, reduced personal accomplishment and depersonalisation of clients or patients that occurs in individuals who work in the human service professions, particularly nursing. It has been observed that nurses are at a high risk of burnout and burnout has been described as the 'professional cancer' of nursing. Results revealed an overall 'low to average' level of burnout, suggesting that New Zealand nurses, apart from those in the 41-45 age group, are doing better than expected insofar as they are managing to avoid or not progress to the advanced phases of burnout. Possible explanations and directions for future research are presented. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1117 |
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1102 |
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Dobbs, L. |
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Can evidence improve nursing practice? |
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2006 |
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Nursing Journal Northland Polytechnic |
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coda, An Institutional Repository for the New Zealand ITP Sector |
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10 |
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27-32 |
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Evidence-based medicine; Nursing; Professional development |
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Evidenced Based Practice is aimed at providing safe, effective and cost-appropriate health care. The utilisation of EBP in nursing has proved to be valuable not only for patients and nurses, but also for other health professionals and the wider community. However, despite the recognised benefits of EBP, a significant gap between theory and practice exists. This paper explores some of the issues behind not implementing EBP, such as comfort with traditional practices, lack of engagement with EBP, and time constraints. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1226 |
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1211 |
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Hamer, H.P.; McCallin, A. |
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Cardiac pain or panic disorder? Managing uncertainty in the emergency department |
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2006 |
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Nursing & Health Sciences |
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8 |
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4 |
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224-230 |
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Emergency nursing; Clinical assessment; Diagnosis |
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This paper presents research findings from a New Zealand study that explored emergency nurses' differentiation of non-cardiac chest pain from panic disorder and raised significant issues in the nursing assessment and management of such clients. The data were gathered from focus group interviews and were analysed thematically. Three themes, prioritising time, managing uncertainty and ambiguity, and the life-threatening lens, were identified. The findings confirm that a panic disorder is not always diagnosed when biomedical assessment is used in isolation from a psychosocial assessment. Emergency nurses are pivotal in reversing the cycle of repeat presenters with non-cardiac chest pain. Recommendations for assessing and managing this complex condition are presented. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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689 |
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O'Sullivan, C. |
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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation: Attitudes and knowledge of medical and nursing staff |
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2002 |
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Massey University Library |
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Attitude of health personnel; Emergency nursing |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1262 |
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1247 |
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