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| Author | Therkleson,T. | ||||
| Title | Ginger compress therapy for adults with osteoarthritis | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2010 | Publication | Journal of Advanced Nursing | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 66 | Issue | 10 | Pages  |
2225?2233 |
| Keywords | Ginger compress therapy; Giorgi?s method; nursing; osteoarthritis | ||||
| Abstract | Abstract Aim. This paper is a report of a study to explicate the phenomenon of ginger compresses for people with osteoarthritis. Background. Osteoarthritis is claimed to be the leading cause of musculoskeletal pain and disability in Western society. Management ideally combines non-pharmacological strategies, including complementary therapies and pain-relieving medication. Ginger has been applied externally for over a thousand years in China to manage arthritis symptoms. Method. Husserlian phenomenological methodology was used and the data were collected in 2007. Ten purposively selected adults who had suffered osteoarthritis for at least a year kept daily diaries and made drawings, and follow-up interviews and telephone conversations were conducted. Findings. Seven themes were identified in the data: (1) Meditative-like stillness and relaxation of thoughts; (2) Constant penetrating warmth throughout the body; (3) Positive change in outlook; (4) Increased energy and interest in the world; (5) Deeply relaxed state that progressed to a gradual shift in pain and increased interest in others; (6) Increased suppleness within the body and (7) More comfortable, flexible joint mobility. The essential experience of ginger compresses exposed the unique qualities of heat, stimulation, anti-inflammation and analgesia. Conclusion. Nurses could consider this therapy as part of a holistic treatment for people with osteoarthritis symptoms. Controlled research is needed with larger numbers of older people to explore further the effects of the ginger compress therapy. |
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| Call Number | NZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1346 | ||
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| Author | van Wissen, K.A.; Woodman, K. | ||||
| Title | Nurses' attitudes and concerns to HIV/AIDS: a focus group approach | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1994 | Publication | Journal of Advanced Nursing | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 20 | Issue | 6 | Pages |
1141-1147 |
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| Abstract | An exploratory qualitative study was investigated to further identify nurses'' attitudes to the care of people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodefiency syndrome (AIDS). This follows as a sequel to a study using questionnaire. Data collected from nine focus groups attended by a total of 29 nurses at a hospital within a new Zealand regional health authority. The principal findings suggest that nurses' attitudes to this patient group are varied and depend on social influences, personal experiences and the extent of knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS. Other concerns raised included nurses' rights to choose to care for HIV-positive patients and the issue of universal precautions. Theses findings may have implications for further educational initiatives and information of hospital policy | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ 356 | Serial | 356 | ||
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| Author | Teekman, B.; Stillwell, Y. | ||||
| Title | Exploring reflective thinking in nursing practice | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2000 | Publication | Journal of Advanced Nursing | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 31 | Issue | 5 | Pages |
1125-1135 |
| Keywords | Nursing; Problem solving; Experiential learning | ||||
| Abstract | Sense-Making, a qualitative research method, was used to obtain and analyse data from interviews with 10 registered nurses, in order to study reflective thinking in actual nursing practice. Ten non-routine nursing situations were analysed for the presence of reflective thinking. Reflective thinking was extensively manifest, especially in moments of doubt and perplexity, and consisted of such cognitive activities as comparing and contrasting phenomena, recognising patterns, categorising perceptions, framing, and self-questioning in order to create meaning and understanding. Self-questioning was identified as a significant process within reflective thinking. By exploring and analysing the type of questions respondents were asking themselves, the study uncovered three hierarchical levels of reflective thinking, focussed on action, evaluation and critical enquiry. The findings of this study resulted in the development of a model of reflective thinking, which is discussed in terms of the implications for learning in nursing practice. | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ | Serial | 655 | ||
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| Author | Payne, D.; Goedeke, S. | ||||
| Title | Holding together: Caring for clients undergoing assisted reproductive technologies | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2007 | Publication | Journal of Advanced Nursing | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 60 | Issue | 6 | Pages |
645-653 |
| Keywords | Nursing specialties; Sexual and reproductive health; Communication; Multidisciplinary care teams | ||||
| Abstract | This paper reports a study to investigate the roles and experiences of nurses caring for clients undergoing assisted reproductive technologies (ART). Nurses are in a potentially unique position in the assisted reproductive technology environment as they maintain a more constant contact with the client. A qualitative approach was taken and a convenience sample of 15 nurses from New Zealand was interviewed in 2005. Data were analysed using interpretive description. The overarching theme identified was that of the potential role of the nurse to 'hold together' multiple components of the assisted reproductive technology process: holding together clients' emotional and physical experiences of assisted reproductive technologies; holding together the roles of different specialist team members; and holding together personal own emotions. It encompasses practices such as information-giving, interpreting, supporting and advocating. The researchers note that recognition of and support for the complexity of the role of ART nurses may positively contribute to clients' experiences. | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ 985 | Serial | 969 | ||
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| Author | Harding, T.S. | ||||
| Title | The construction of men who are nurses as gay | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2007 | Publication | Journal of Advanced Nursing | Abbreviated Journal | Coda: An institutional repository for the New Zealand ITP sector |
| Volume | 60 | Issue | 6 | Pages |
636-644 |
| Keywords | Male nurses; Prejudice; Sexuality | ||||
| Abstract | This paper is a report of a study to determine the construction of male nurses as gay, and to describe how this discourse impacts on a group of New Zealand male nurses. This social constructionist study drew on data collected from existing texts on men, nursing and masculinity and interviews with 18 New Zealand men conducted in 2003-2004. Discourse analysis, informed by masculinity theory and queer theory, was used to analyse the data. Despite the participants' beliefs that the majority of male nurses are heterosexual, the stereotype persists. A paradox emerged between the 'homosexual' general nurse and the 'heterosexual' pyschiatric nurse. The stigma associated with homosexuality exposes male nurses to homophobia in the workplace. The heterosexual men employed strategies to avoid the presumption of homosexuality; these included: avoiding contact with gay colleagues and overt expression of their heterosexuality. These stigmatising discourses create a barrier to caring and, aligned with the presence of homophobia in the workplace, deter men's entry into the profession and may be important issues with respect to their retention. | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ | Serial | 647 | ||
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| Author | Spence, D. | ||||
| Title | Hermeneutic notions illuminate cross-cultural nursing experiences | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2001 | Publication | Journal of Advanced Nursing | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 35 | Issue | 4 | Pages |
624-630 |
| Keywords | Transcultural nursing; Nursing | ||||
| Abstract | The aim of this paper was to articulate selected hermeneutic notions for the purpose of extending current understanding of cross-cultural nursing practice, and build on the author's work in this area. The project asserted that the notions of prejudice, paradox and possibility portray a nursing view of this phenomenon. The emphasis in this paper, rather than being methodological, is on showing how specific hermeneutic notions contribute to deeper understanding of the nature of cross-cultural practice. It is argued that contact with, and the capacity to explore, the play of conflicting prejudices and possibilities enhances understanding of the complex and paradoxical nature of cross-cultural nursing. | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ | Serial | 705 | ||
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| Author | Carter, H.; MacLeod, R.; Brander, P.; McPherson, K. | ||||
| Title | Living with a terminal illness: Patients' priorities | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2004 | Publication | Journal of Advanced Nursing | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 45 | Issue | 6 | Pages |
611-620 |
| Keywords | Terminal care; Quality of life; Nursing models; Cancer | ||||
| Abstract | The aim of this paper is to report on an exploratory, qualitative study exploring what people living with terminal illness considered were the areas of priority in their lives. Ten people living with terminal cancer were interviewed. Analysis of the interviews incorporated principles of narrative analysis and grounded theory. Over 30 categories were identified and collated into five inter-related themes (personal/intrinsic factors, external/extrinsic factors, future issues, perceptions of normality and taking charge) encompassing the issues of importance to all participants. Each theme focused on 'life and living' in relation to life as it was or would be without illness. Practical issues of daily living and the opportunity to address philosophical issues around the meaning of life emerged as important areas. The central theme, 'taking charge', concerned with people's levels of life engagement, was integrally connected to all other themes. The findings suggest that the way in which health professionals manage patients' involvement in matters such as symptom relief can impact on existential areas of concern. The findings challenge some aspects of traditional 'expert-defined' outcome measures. As this was an exploratory study, further work is needed to test and develop the model presented. | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1061 | ||
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| Author | Horsburgh, M. | ||||
| Title | Graduate nurses' adjustment to initial employment | Type | |||
| Year | 1987 | Publication | Journal of Advanced Nursing | Abbreviated Journal | University of Auckland, Auckland Institute of Te |
| Volume | 14 | Issue | Pages |
610-617 | |
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| Abstract | An ethnographic study which attempts to understand what initial employment means to graduates from a comprehensive nursing course. The researcher participated in the first 3-4 months of the nurses' employment in general hospital settings. Five major themes emerge from the study indicating that the rhetoric practice of the school of nursing is different from the rhetoric and practice within general hospital settings. The reality of initial employment for the new graduated conflicts with the values and ideals of nursing promulgated by the comprehensive nursing course. The educational program stressed patient centred nursing, where nurses accepted responsibility for the continuing care of individuals. In contrast the hospital settings stress nursing as management of tasks across different patients. This conflict was a major source of frustration for the 'beginning' nurses. Ultimately they accept the reality of nursing as the management of tasks, but not without some personal cost. Orientation programs and the early employment period focus on 'fitting in to the system'. A significant determinant of the practice of new graduates are context effects such the time of their shift and the availability of experienced nurses. A number of management practices foster and maintain a beginning level of practice and new graduates have no opportunity to practice as autonomous nurses within a multi disciplinary health care team. Beginning practice is identified in new graduates through their difficulties in coping with unplanned or unexpected events. The initial employment period is dominated by shift work, resulting tiredness and adjustment to social activities.It is argued that management practices which support the ideals of comprehensive nursing courses and totally qualified nursing workforce have yet to occur. There are implications in this study for nursing education and nursing practice | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ 59 | Serial | 59 | ||
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| Author | van Wissen, K.A.; Litchfield, M.; Maling, T. | ||||
| Title | Living with high blood pressure | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1998 | Publication | Journal of Advanced Nursing | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 27 | Issue | 3 | Pages |
567-574 |
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| Abstract | An interdisciplinary (nursing-medicine) collaboration in a qualitative descriptive research project undertaken in the Wellington School of Medicine with New Zealand Health Research Council funding. The purpose was to inform the practice of nursing and medical practitioners. A group of patients were interviewed in their homes. Their experience of having a diagnosis of hypertension and prescription of long-term treatment requiring adjustment in their lives and the lives of their families is presented as themes. | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ | Serial | 360 | ||
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| Author | Clendon, J. | ||||
| Title | Nurse-managed clinics: Issues in evaluation | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2003 | Publication | Journal of Advanced Nursing | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 44 | Issue | 6 | Pages |
558-565 |
| Keywords | Evaluation research; Nurse managers; Qualiltative research; Patient satisfaction | ||||
| Abstract | This article explores the importance of evaluation of nurse-managed clinics using the Mana Health Clinic in Auckland, as an example. Fourth generation evaluation is offered as an appropriate methodology for undertaking evaluation of nurse-managed clinics. Fourth generation evaluation actively seeks involvement of clients in the process and outcome of the evaluation, resulting in participation and empowerment of stakeholders in the service – a precept often forgotten in traditional evaluation strategies and of vital importance in understanding why people use nurse-managed clinics. The method proposed here also incorporates the need for quantitative data. The main argument is that a combination of qualitative and quantitative data sources is likely to give the greatest understanding of nurse-managed clinics' utilisation. | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ | Serial | 949 | ||
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| Author | Giddings, D.L.S.; Roy, D.E.; Predeger, E. | ||||
| Title | Women's experience of ageing with a chronic condition | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2007 | Publication | Journal of Advanced Nursing | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 58 | Issue | 6 | Pages |
557-565 |
| Keywords | Chronic diseases; Age factors; Gender; Nursing | ||||
| Abstract | This paper is a report of a study to explore the experiences of 'almost old' women as they grow older while living with a chronic condition. Little is known about the contextual effects of ageing and how it shapes and is shaped by a woman's chronic illness experience. Seven women aged between 50 and 58 years participated in this interpretive descriptive study that explored the issues of ageing with a chronic condition. Three focus groups were held between March 2003 and March 2004. Transcriptions were analysed after each focus group. Participants were given the opportunity to respond to the findings as the analysis progressed. The experience of living with a chronic illness foreshadowed what was to come with ageing and embodied the ageing process: it was just part of their lives. Alongside this, the women now felt less out of place. Their peers were catching up and beginning to experience aspects of participants' everyday reality. The women, however, experienced double jeopardy because ageing amplified the ongoing vulnerabilities of living with a chronic condition. The authors conclude that nurses who recognise the resourcefulness and expertise of women who live with a chronic condition can effectively be co-strategists in helping them to age well. | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ | Serial | 880 | ||
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| Author | Neville, S.J.; Henderson, H.M. | ||||
| Title | Perceptions of lesbian, gay and bisexual people of primary healthcare services | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2006 | Publication | Journal of Advanced Nursing | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 55 | Issue | 4 | Pages |
407-415 |
| Keywords | Sexuality; Attitude of health personnel; Primary health care | ||||
| Abstract | This paper reports a study exploring people's perceptions of disclosure about lesbian, gay and bisexual identity to their primary healthcare providers. Disclosure of sexual identity to healthcare professionals is integral to attending to the health needs of lesbian, gay and bisexual populations, as non-disclosure has been shown to have a negative impact on the health of these people. From April to July 2004, a national survey of lesbian, gay and bisexual persons was carried out in New Zealand. Participants were recruited through mainstream and lesbian, gay and bisexual media and venues, and 2269 people completed the questionnaire, either electronically or via hard copy. The 133-item instrument included a range of closed-response questions in a variety of domains of interest. In this paper, we report results from the health and well-being domain. More women than men identified that the practitioner's attitude toward their non-heterosexual identity was important when choosing a primary healthcare provider. Statistically significantly more women than men reported that their healthcare provider usually or always presumed that they were heterosexual and in addition more women had disclosed their sexual identity to their healthcare provider. The authors advise that nurses reconsider their approach to all users of healthcare services by not assuming everyone is heterosexual, integrating questions about sexual identity into health interviews and ensuring that all other aspects of the assessment process are appropriate and safe for lesbian, gay and bisexual people. | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ 1059 | Serial | 1043 | ||
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| Author | Polaschek, N. | ||||
| Title | Negotiated care: A model for nursing work in the renal setting | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2003 | Publication | Journal of Advanced Nursing | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 42 | Issue | 4 | Pages |
355-363 |
| Keywords | Chronically ill; Nursing models; Nurse-patient relations; Communication | ||||
| Abstract | This article outlines a model for the nursing role in the chronic health care context of renal replacement therapy. Materials from several streams of literature are used to conceptualise the potential for nursing work in the renal setting as negotiated care. In order to present the role of the renal nurse in this way it is contextualised by viewing the renal setting as a specialised social context constituted by a dominant professional discourse and a contrasting client discourse. While performing specific therapeutic activities in accord with the dominant discourse, renal nurses can develop a relationship with the person living on dialysis, based on responsiveness to their subjective experience reflecting the renal client discourse. In contrast to the language of noncompliance prevalent in the renal setting, nurses can, through their relationship with renal clients, facilitate their attempts to negotiate the requirements of the therapeutic regime into their own personal life situation. Nurses can mediate between the dominant and client discourses for the person living on dialysis. Care describes the quality that nurses actively seek to create in their relationships with clients, through negotiation, in order to support them to live as fully as possible while using renal replacement therapy. The author concludes that within chronic health care contexts, shaped by the acute curative paradigm of biomedicine, the model of nursing work as negotiated care has the potential to humanise contemporary medical technologies by responding to clients' experiences of illness and therapy. | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1186 | ||
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| Author | Wilson, H.V. | ||||
| Title | Power and partnership: A critical analysis of the surveillance discourses of child health nurses | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2001 | Publication | Journal of Advanced Nursing | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 36 | Issue | 2 | Pages |
294-301 |
| Keywords | Paediatric nursing; Nurse-family relations; Nursing philosophy; Plunket | ||||
| Abstract | The aim of this research was to explore surveillance discourses within New Zealand child health nursing and to identify whether surveillance practices have implications in this context for power relations. Five experienced and practising Plunket nurses were each interviewed twice. The texts generated by these semi-structured interviews were analysed using a Foucauldian approach to critical discourse analysis. In contrast with the conventional view of power as held and wielded by one party, this study revealed that, in the Plunket nursing context, power is exercised in various and unexpected ways. Although the relationship between the mother and the nurse cannot be said to operate as a partnership, it is constituted in the nurses' discourses as a dynamic relationship in which the mother is actively engaged on her own terms. The effect of this is that it is presented by the nurses as a precarious relationship that has significant implications for the success of their work. | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1085 | ||
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| Author | Budge, C.; Carryer, J.B.; Wood, S. | ||||
| Title | Health correlates of autonomy, control and professional relationships in the nursing work environment | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2003 | Publication | Journal of Advanced Nursing | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 42 | Issue | 3 | Pages |
260-268 |
| Keywords | Workplace; Occupational health and safety; Registered nurses | ||||
| Abstract | The aim of this study was to examine nursing in New Zealand and to see whether aspects of the work environment are associated with health status. A total of 225 registered nurses in a general hospital completed the Revised Nursing Work Index (NWI-R) and Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36). Ratings indicated that the New Zealand hospital environment was characterized by less autonomy and control and better nurse-physician relations than in USA hospitals. Results of correlations demonstrated that more positive ratings of the three workplace attributes were associated with better health status amongst the nurses. The results of regression analyses were indicative either of a confounding relationship or of a mediating relationship such that nurses' relations with physicians, administration and other departments mediate the associations between autonomy, control and health status. | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ | Serial | 703 | ||
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