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Author Muir-Cochrane, E.; Holmes, C.; Walton, J.A.
Title Law and policy in relation to the use of seclusion in psychiatric hospitals in Australia and New Zealand Type Journal Article
Year 2002 Publication Contemporary Nurse Abbreviated Journal
Volume 13 Issue (down) 2/3 Pages 136-145
Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Law and legislation; Policy; Patient rights; Cross-cultural comparison
Abstract This paper discusses legal issues associated with the seclusion of acutely disturbed patients in psychiatric hospitals in Australia and New Zealand. There continues to be great variation in opinion and operational definition as to whether seclusion is a medical treatment, nursing intervention and management tool, or merely a form of situational restraint. Reflecting this lack of clarity, mental health acts and policies concerning the regulation and practice of seclusion lack consistency and focus across geographical boundaries and jurisdictions. Australian and New Zealand legislation and institutional policy is discussed in order to shed light on the contemporary issues highlighted by this controversial nursing practice. The authors note that mental health professionals must continue to review the practice of seclusion and to actively promote the use of acceptable alternatives. In addition nurses and other mental health professionals have a responsibility to understand current legislation and policy frameworks and to influence change where this is necessary to ensure the best practice possible in their clinical area.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1074
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Author Fernandez, Carole; Wilson, Denise
Title Maori women's views on smoking cessation initiatives Type Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 24 Issue (down) 2 (Jul) Pages 27-40
Keywords Maori health; Smoking cessation; Primary health-care nursing; Maori-centred research
Abstract Interviews a group of Maori women who have successfully ceased smoking and asks about influences and supportive interventions that helped them quit smoking. Analyses the data using Boyatzis' (1998) approach and identifies two primary themes providing insight for nurses working with Maori women smokers: transmission of whanau values; and factors crucial in influencing change.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1431
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Author Blockley, Colette; Alterio, Maxine
Title Patients' experiences of interpersonal relationships during first time acute hospitalisation Type Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 24 Issue (down) 2 (Jul) Pages p16-26.
Keywords Acute hospitalisation; Vulnerability; Support; Nurse-patient relationships
Abstract Examines the role of interpersonal relationships on patients' experiences during first time acute hospitalisation. Involving 12 first time acute medical and surgical admission patients, it was developed from a wider study exploring patients' overall experiences. Using a qualitative methodology with data collected by means of personal stories and semi-structured interviews findings suggest that patient vulnerability is reduced through supportive interpersonal relationships and that it is nurses who play a key role in developing and maintaining these relationships with patients.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1432
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Author Yarwood, Judy
Title Nurses' view of family nursing in community contexts: an exploratory study Type Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 24 Issue (down) 2 (Jul) Pages 41-51
Keywords Family; Family nursing; Community Nurses; Relationships
Abstract Explores, through the use of focus groups, ways in which community based nurses interact with family as a whole. Identifies Public health, Practice, District, Well child health and rural nurses as all having an integral role in building relationships with family to ensure child and family health. Suggests the findings point to a need for the establishment of a recognised family/family health nursing role.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1433
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Author Barton, Pipi; Wilson, Denise
Title Te Kapunga Putohe (the restless hands) : a Maori centred nursing practice model Type Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 24 Issue (down) 2 (Jul) Pages 6-15
Keywords Maori-centred practice; Nursing model; Maori health; Indigenous; Kaupapa Maori; Maori health
Abstract Notes an absence of nursing practice models focussing on the traditional beliefs of Maori amongst nursing literature. Presents Te Kapunga Putohe (the restless hands) model of Maori centred nursing practice. Illustrates how Maori knowledge and nursing knowledge can be incorporated to deliver nursing care that is both culturally appropriate and can improve the nursing experience for Maori clients.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1434
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Author Madjar, D.I.
Title The experience of pain in surgical patients – a cross cultural study Type
Year 1981 Publication Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
Volume 2 Issue (down) 2 Pages 29-33
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Abstract A study of 33 adult patients – 20 Anglo – Australian, 13 Yugoslav- who were admitted for arranged abdominal surgery to three Australian hospitals between January and June 1980. Focusing on the role of cultural factors in the experience of post operative pain the study confirmed the existence of some behavioral differences between Anglo – Australian and Yugoslav patients in terms of their responses to pain. The greatest degree of difference between the two groups however was found in their underlying attitudes to pain
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 112 Serial 112
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Author Watson, P.B.
Title Care or control questions and answers for psychiatric nursing practice Type
Year 1990 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal Author
Volume 6 Issue (down) 2 Pages 10-14
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Abstract An existential phenomenological approach is used to study the experience of six adults hospitalised with acute mental illness which they considered contribute to the stress of, or coping with mental illness. The phenomenological research methods used is described. The analysis of the data reveals that consumers of acute mental health care view being controlled as contributing to the stress of mental illness, and caring as contributing to them coping with mental illness. The implications of these findings for nursing practice and further research are discussed
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 151 Serial 151
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Author Clark, R.R.; Wasilewska, T.; Carter, J.
Title Lymphoedema: a study of Otago women treated for breast cancer Type Journal Article
Year 1997 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 12 Issue (down) 2 Pages 4-15
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Abstract Otago women who had been treated for breast cancer were asked by questionnaire about patterns of arm swelling post treatment. Almost one third indicated they had had swelling at some time. Few had received preventive advice or what to do should arm swelling occur
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 157 Serial 157
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Author Lakeman, R.M.
Title Psychiatric – mental health nurses on the internet Type Journal Article
Year 1998 Publication Computers in Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 16 Issue (down) 2 Pages 87-89
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Abstract This research began in 1995 with an e-mail survey of psychiatric / mental health (PMH) nurses who belonged to an e-mail discussion group. The original aims were to describe how PMH used and learned to use the internet, the benefits to their work, and how they saw the internet affecting their work in future. Data were analysed using content analysis techniques and findings published in a number of forums. In 1999 another survey using the same e-mail list was undertaken to explore how things had changed in terms of internet use and peoples visions of how the internet is likely to impact on nursing in the future. These data are the subject of continuing analysis
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 191 Serial 191
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Author Walker, J.
Title The transition to registered nurse: the experience of a group of New Zealand degree graduates Type Journal Article
Year 1998 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 13 Issue (down) 2 Pages 36-43
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Abstract Since 1991, nursing profession in New Zealand has primarily been through a three year programme. The purpose of this study was to explore the issues faced by a group of degree graduates in their first year of registered nurse practice and to identify if the degree graduatesoutcomes (such as critical thinking, problem solving, reflection on practice, research, independent learning, and using cultural safety knowledge) had mediated this transposition process. Purpose sampling was used to invite five female graduates to take part in two focusgroups, one held at months and the other at 9 months after starting work. Qualitative data were collected using semi-structured questions and the taped interviews were analysed for themes. Five themes were identified: accepting responsibility, accepting their level of knowledge, becoming a team member, professional standards, and workplace conditions. Graduates were using their cultural safety knowledge but they perceived their knowledge of research was linked to further academic. Their ability to critique their own practice was evident but they found it difficult to challenge their colleagues' practice and the wider agency culture. Implications of the study are discussed in relation to nursing education and preceptor programmes and areas for further research are indicated
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 192 Serial 192
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Author Caygill, J.
Title Professional care: structure, strategy and the moral career of the nurse in a psychiatric institution Type
Year 1989 Publication New Zealand Sociology Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library
Volume 8 Issue (down) 2 Pages 137-165
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Abstract This thesis presents the job of psychiatric nursing from the nurse's point of view, as derived from the author's personal experience and from interviews with thirty five other staff within a particular psychiatric institution.The first part of the thesis is reconstructed narrative account of an afternoon and a day shift in an acute admission ward. In the second part, the basic situation on the ward and some of the exigencies of nurse-patient and nurse-staff relations are discussed from structuralist and strategic conduct perspectives.The discussion that follows Anthony Giddens' (1976, 1979, 1984) conceptual framework of power, legitimation and signification, with particular attention to the strategic implications of ward routines, nursing practices, and interpersonal relations, as well as the duality of clinical and moralistic interpretive themes. The third part of the thesis 'the nurse's progress' over time. Characteristic changes in understanding and awareness take place with the movement from the 'backwards' to the 'acute' area and from the student to staff nurse. This is portrayed as a 'moral career' analogous to that suggested by Goffman (1968) for psychiatric patients; marked by 'happenings' that generate revised conceptions of self and others, and including those experiences of duality and contradiction discussed in part Two. While acknowledging the diversity of nurses' attitudes and approaches, with variations according to individual temperament, past experiences and the current setting, the suggestion is made of a common and distinctive 'meta-awareness' that develops with the fob
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 223 Serial 223
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Author Mayson, J.; Hayward, W.
Title Learning to be a nurse: the contribution of the hidden curriculum in the clinical setting Type Journal Article
Year 1997 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 12 Issue (down) 2 Pages 16-22
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 264 Serial 264
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Author Giddings, D.L.S.; Wood, P.J.
Title Revealing sexuality: nurses' knowledge and attitudes. A survey of pre and post registration nursing students 1988-1991 Type Journal Article
Year 1998 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 13 Issue (down) 2 Pages 11-25
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 366 Serial 366
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title Survey of child health care in primary schools in the Wellington area Type
Year 1979 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal Author, New Zealand Nurses Association Library, We
Volume 75 Issue (down) 2 Pages 18-20
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Abstract The study was undertaken as a project for the International Year of the Child. There was a need for information to identify what health care in needed in schools and to contribute to a review of the role of the nurses. Teachers and principals of all primary schools of the Wellington area were surveyed to describe the health care being provided and needed. Recommendations were made for school nurses who would support the health-related teaching by teachers, provide first aid and advice, and take an extended role for family health operating from a clinic in the school.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 388
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Author McKegg, A.H.
Title The Maori health nursing scheme: an experiment in autonomous health care Type Journal Article
Year 1992 Publication New Zealand Journal of History Abbreviated Journal
Volume 26 Issue (down) 2 Pages 145-160
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Abstract Analysis of role of services providers to show discrepancies between formulated policy and implementation. Draws parallels with 1980's Maori health initiatives
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 424 Serial 424
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