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Chang, E.M.; Bidewell, J.W.; Huntington, A.D.; Daly, J.; Johnson, A.; Wilson, H.; Lambert, V.; Lambert, C.E. |
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A survey of role stress, coping and health in Australian and New Zealand hospital nurses |
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Journal Article |
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2008 |
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Intensive & Critical Care Nursing |
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44 |
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8 |
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1354-1362 |
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Stress; Psychology; Cross-cultural comparison; Nursing |
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The aim of this study was to examine and compare Australian and New Zealand nurses' experience of workplace stress, coping strategies and health status. A postal survey was administered to 328 New South Wales (Australia) and 190 New Zealand volunteer acute care hospital nurses (response rate 41%) from randomly sampled nurses. The survey consisted of a demographic questionnaire, the Nursing Stress Scale, the WAYS of Coping Questionnaire and the SF-36 Health Survey Version 2. More frequent workplace stress predicted lower physical and mental health. Problem-focused coping was associated with better mental health. Emotion-focused coping was associated with reduced mental health. Coping styles did not predict physical health. New South Wales and New Zealand scored effectively the same on sources of workplace stress, stress coping methods, and physical and mental health when controlling for relevant variables. Results suggest mental health benefits for nurses who use problem-solving to cope with stress by addressing the external source of the stress, rather than emotion-focused coping in which nurses try to control or manage their internal response to stress. Cultural similarities and similar hospital environments could account for equivalent findings for New South Wales and New Zealand. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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970 |
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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 |
Publication |
Contemporary Nurse |
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18 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
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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Water, T. |
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Title |
The meaning of being in dilemma in paediatric practice: A phenomenological study |
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2008 |
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NZNO Library |
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259 pp |
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Psychology; Paediatric nursing; Paedetric practice; Problem solving |
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This study explores the phenomenon of dilemma in paediatric practice. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological method informed by the writings of Heidegger [1889-1976] and Gadamer [1900-2002] this study provides an understanding of the meaning of 'being in dilemma' from the perspective of predominantly paediatric health care professionals but also families in New Zealand. Study participants include four families who had a child requiring health care and fifteen health care practitioners from the disciplines of medicine, nursing, physiotherapy, play specialist and occupational therapy who work with families and children requiring health care. Participants' narratives of their experiences of 'being in dilemma' were captured via audio taped interviewing. These stories uncover the everyday realities facing health professionals and families and provide an ontological understanding for the notion of dilemma. The findings of this study suggest that experience of dilemma for health professionals reveals a world that is uncertain and questionable where they are thrown into having to make uncomfortable choices and must live with the painful consequences of their actions. The consequences of being in such dilemma are having to find ways of living with the angst, or risk becoming too sensitive or desensitizing. For families the experience of dilemma reveals a similar phenomenon most evident in circumstances where they feel totalized by the impact of heath care encounters. This study has uncovered that the perspectives that health professionals and families bring to the experience of dilemma reveal different concerns and commitments and may be hidden from each other. This thesis proposes that health professionals and families need support in living with their own personal encounters of enduring experiences of dilemma. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1234 |
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Farrow, T. |
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Title |
'No suicide contracts' in community crisis situations: A conceptual analysis |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2003 |
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Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing |
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10 |
Issue |
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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Gillespie, Moira Elizabeth |
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Compassion fatigue and cancer nurses: a national survey of cancer nurses in New Zealand |
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2013 |
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Available through NZNO library |
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91 pp |
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Cancer; Nurses -- Job Stress; Empathy; Burnout, Professional -- Psychology; Surveys |
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Identifies the experiences of NZ cancer nurses whose primary role is to care for patients aged 20 or older, and their whanau/family, and describes the factors that may influence care. Examines whether nurses received training in the management of stressors associated with caring for cancer patients, either during their training or while in the cancer workplace setting. Considers whether nurses working in peripheral (satellite) cancer centres were at more risk than their colleagues in larger regional centres. Conducts a quantitative, descriptive and anonymous survey of members of the Cancer Nurses' Section of the NZNO, using the Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL) questionnaire, which scores compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction and burnout. |
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NZNO @ research @ WY GIL |
Serial |
1397 |
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Author |
Fletcher, Stephanie |
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“It's one less thing I have to do” : does referring patients to a co-located psychology service impact on the well-being of primary care health providers? |
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Journal Article |
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2021 |
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88 p. |
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Psychology service; Primary health care nurses; Well-being; Mental health services; Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (FACT) |
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Investigates wheether the impact of a co-located psychological service to which Primary Care Providers cn refer patients with mild to moderate mental health needs, would impact on the well-being of the providers at work. Describes Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (FACT) services delivered by psychologists working in a a large primary care practice in the lower North Island. Conducts interviews with GPs, nurse practitioners (NP) and registered nurses (RN), analysing the data using thematic analysis. Finds an inverse relationship between the FACT service and the well-being of staff. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1801 |
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Author |
Fielden, J. |
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Title |
Grief as a transformative experience: Weaving through different lifeworlds after a loved one has completed suicide |
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Journal Article |
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2003 |
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International Journal of Mental Health Nursing |
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12 |
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1 |
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74-85 |
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Grief; Psychology; Nursing specialties; Suicide |
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This research is an exploration and interpretation of the lived experiences of family members since they lost a close family member to suicidal death. The findings have implications for nurses and counsellors working in the area of suicide bereavement. Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology was utilised and informed by van Manen's and Benner's work. Data from in-depth interviews with six participants, the researcher's journal entries and published literature were analysed. Findings gave rise to a grief model where suicide survivors moved through four modes of being-in-the-world characterized by 13 lifeworlds or themes. Surviving suicide was a transformative process that in time enabled survivors to discover new ways of understanding and relating to the world. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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702 |
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Polaschek, N. |
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Living on dialysis: Concerns of clients in a renal setting |
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Journal Article |
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2003 |
Publication |
Journal of Advanced Nursing |
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41 |
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1 |
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44-52 |
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Keywords |
Nurse-patient relations; Psychology; Attitude to health; Terminal care |
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This article reports a study that sought to understand the experience of a group of Caucasian men with end stage renal failure managing their own haemodialysis therapy in their homes. The study used a critical interpretive methodology. The renal setting was critically viewed as a specialised health care context constituted by several interrelated discourses. Although established by the dominant professional discourse, it also includes a number of others, in particular an obscure client discourse that is a response to the dominant discourse. Initially, participants' own interpretations of their individual experiences were outlined. These were then collectively reinterpreted by contextualising them in terms of the critical view of the renal setting, in order to discern their own views as renal clients that were obscured by the language and ideas of the dominant discourse with which they had been enculturated. From an analysis of the set of accounts derived from interviews with six participants, four concerns of the renal client discourse were identified. These concerns were: (1) suffering from continuing symptoms of end stage renal failure and dialysis; (2) limitations resulting from negotiating dialysis into their lifestyle; (3) ongoingness and uncertainty of life on dialysis; and (4) altered relationship between autonomy and dependence inherent in living on dialysis. One specific implication of this study is that the distinctive potential of the nursing role in renal settings lies beyond the performance of a range of technical tasks, in addressing the experience of people living on dialysis, described here as the concerns of the renal client discourse. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1072 |
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Sibley, Elyse; Mercer, Christine |
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Management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD): an integrative review |
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Journal Article |
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2023 |
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Kaitiaki Nursing Research |
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14 |
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1 |
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41-49 |
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Dementia; Behaviour; Psychology; Non-pharmacological interventions |
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Describes the behavioural and psychological symptoms associated with dementia, including depression, agitation, psychosis, hallucinations, delusions and apathy. Employs an integrative review to investigate why care-givers resort to anti-psychotic medication in the first instance instead of non-pharmacological interventions to manage such symptoms. Identifies three themes: low staff-to-patient ratios, insufficient specialised staff; inadequate understanding of the manifestations of dementia. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1850 |
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Bee, S. |
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Post traumatic stress disorder: The role of critical incident stress management |
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Journal Article |
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1999 |
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Vision: A Journal of Nursing |
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5 |
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8 |
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20-23 |
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Trauma; Psychology; Workplace; Nursing |
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The author defines and describes PTSD, and looks at how it may apply to nurses. Primarily affected by delayed PTSD, nurses may experience it as burn-out, after exposure to trauma over time. The Critical Incident Stress Management programme instigated at Healthcare Hawkes Bay is outlined. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1303 |
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1288 |
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Author |
Bradshaw, W. |
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Helping clients move towards health change |
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Journal Article |
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2007 |
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Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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13 |
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7 |
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16-18 |
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Health promotion; Psychology; Nursing; Case studies; Smoking |
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The author reflects on his use of the American psychotherapist James Prochaska's stages of change theory. This model deals with individuals and how they move towards change, through stages of pre-contemplation to maintenance of changed behaviours. He presents examples of his use of the model with clients, when dealing with issues of smoking cessation and weight loss. He analyses his practice and interactions with clients, and affirms that stages of change model can be a useful tool to bring about change within clients. He suggests it gives clients the opportunity to contemplate change and gives nurses working in health promotion the opportunity to be part of the change process. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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985 |
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Ronaldson, A. |
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Coping with body image changes after limb loss |
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Journal Article |
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1999 |
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5 |
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11 |
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14-16 |
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People with disabilities; Nursing; Psychology |
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The author reviews the literature on the differences in the way people manage the process of coming to terms with amputation. The socio-cultural implications of body image construction are discussed and a new framework for clinical practice is suggested. The implications for nursing are examined and positions nurses as advocates. The importance of language is identified. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1042 |
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1026 |
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Gallocher-Shearer, S. |
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Exploring the archetypal dimension in nursing |
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2005 |
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Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Methodology; Relationships; Nursing; Psychology |
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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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Richardson, C.A. |
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Ever decreasing circles: Non-curative terminal illness, empowerment and decision making: Lessons for nursing practice |
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2005 |
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University of Otago Library |
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Nursing; Palliative care; Terminal care; Psychology |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 683 |
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669 |
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Scott, W. |
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Listen to the beat of my heart: The lived experience of panic attack in undergraduate nursing students: An interpretive inquiry |
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2006 |
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Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Psychology; Students; Nursing; Midwifery |
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This interpretive inquiry explores the lived experience of 3 undergraduate nursing students and one midwifery student who have panic attacks. The aim of the research is to give voice to these students and to raise awareness among nurse educators about the impact that panic attacks may have for them. The research question asks, “what is the lived experience of panic attack in undergraduate nursing students?” A semi structured interview was conducted with each student in order to gain significant data. The research identified four key themes implicit to the lived experience of panic attack analysis: Listen to the beat of my heart (embodiedness), fearfulness, shamefulness, and holding one's own (coping). The findings suggest that the lived experience of panic attack is embedded in the lifeworld of lived body, lived time, lived relation, and lived space. Panic attack affects students physically and emotionally and interpersonally. The significant finding is that nurse educators need be aware of the coping or non-coping strategies used by students and, most importantly, recognise the impact that panic attacks have on their study. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 735 |
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721 |
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