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Author Heenan, S.M.(retired)
Title On-going – a 4 week assessment of ward situations, staff utilisation and nursing care index Type
Year 1978 Publication Abbreviated Journal Otago Hospital Board, Dunedin Hospital
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Abstract The author does not have a copy of the project.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1 Serial 1
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Author Wells, C.C.
Title Our dreams Type
Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
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Abstract There has been a great deal written about the efforts of the nursing profession to achieve full professional status but little about individual nurses' aspirations in seeking this goal. A group of 6 co-researchers, myself included, looked at this perceived gap in nurses' dreams for the profession.The philosophical underpinnings of the research were feminist and reflected postmodern feminist and some radical feminist concepts. This philosophical positions guided our research to uncover the knowledge of how we actively construct ourselves into dominant social values. This means we were searching for how our dreams were constructed and how we reflected the values of society in the way we produced our dreams. Peace and Power (Chinn & Wheeler, 1989) was used to guide the group interaction and Memory-Work (Hague, 1987) for data collecting and analysis. The co-researchers wrote individual stories about their dreams for the nursing profession. Collective analysis of the stories occurred in order to uncover the was in which the dreams were constructed. From this collective analysis the individual co-researchers redrafted their stories. Each redraft contained new insights, motives and actions of ourselves and others, forgotten experiences and inconsistencies, as a means of identifying and questioning dominant ideologies. The aim was to move towards empowerment through making the unconscious conscious.Four common dreams emerged from analysis of the stories: the first was that individual nurses want full professional status and autonomy; the second asked the nurses to care and support each other; a high standard of patient and nursing-focussed care was the third dream; and the fourth was for continuing education and knowledge to be shared between nurses. Although the dreams were common across the group it was found that the dreams varied in their construction. The dreams for each group member reflected multiple realities that emerged from different contexts, influenced by historical and socially dominant cultural values.Through studying and theorising our dreams for the nursing profession, we increased our understanding of how they were shaped so that we were able to initiate change and make our dreams become a reality. This has implications for the nursing profession. We live our lives collectively, as nurses and women, as others influence our being and reality. Although others influence us, it is each individual nurse who contributes to actively construct her/himself in to the dominant cultural values held by society and therefore up to each individual to initiate change. If nurses are able to make dreams a reality then positive changes will occur within the profession; I.e. decreased staff turnover, increased morale and increased quality in patient care
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 2 Serial 2
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Author Jarvis, B.M.
Title Patient nurse dependency in community health Type
Year 1981 Publication Abbreviated Journal Otago Hospital Board , Dunedin
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Abstract A study designed to, 1. Establish a Patient- Nurse dependency Rating for those under care by District Nursing Service in the Dunedin urban area. 2. Utilise the information gained in ensuring an equitable work load for each District Nurse
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 3 Serial 3
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Author Kerse, A.
Title Patient satisfaction study Type Miscellaneous
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 4 Serial 4
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Author Thomson, M.; Kinross, D.N.J.; Chick, D.N.P.; Corry, M.F.; Dowland, J.
Title People in hospital: a surgical ward Type
Year 1977 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Abstract A study of work patterns on a surgical ward
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 5 Serial 5
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Author Green, D.E.
Title Prediction of academic success and attrition on nursing students Type
Year 1976 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 6 Serial 6
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Author Kapoor, S.D.
Title A time for health: a study into the collaboration of professional, non-professionals and the public to promote better health Type
Year 1983 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
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Abstract An exploratory study of the functioning of four multi disciplinary health care teams ( HCT) in the New Zealand services and possible implications foe Health personnel education. This research seeks to 1. establish form structure and functioning of the HCT in the relation to the delivery of comprehensive primary health care. 2. Determine what collaborative skills are being used, the extent of interdependence and these factors which inhibit the use of these skills in providing primary health care. 3. Identify the key requirements for, and these factors which limit the successful functioning of the HCT in the provision of comprehensive primary health care. Data has been collected through structured interviews and observations. The analysis will compare and contrast the functioning of the social groups in the different settings in terms of their responses to both HCT index and appropriate contextual variables such that differences and similarities are delineated
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 7 Serial 7
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Author Takarangi, J.
Title Primary health care: implications for nursing workforce planning in New Zealand Type Miscellaneous
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 8 Serial 8
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Author Pybus, M.W.
Title Public health nurses and families under stress: promoting children's health in complex situations Type
Year 1993 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Abstract A description of the interaction between Public Health Nurses and stressed families that include children. It includes the perspective on the relationship of both the Nurses and the families ending with a classification of the goals of the service
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 10 Serial 10
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Author Butler, A.M.
Title Registered community nurse deployment in Auckland Type Miscellaneous
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 12 Serial 12
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Author Ainge, N.
Title Registered nurses participation in a professional recognition program. Their responses to nine job related factors Type
Year 1993 Publication Abbreviated Journal Mary Lambie Collection, Canterbury Medical Library
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Abstract A simple descriptive longitudinal survey monitoring self- reported incidence of satisfaction/ dissatisfaction to nine job related factors. The two hundred RN's participating in the pilot implementation of the Clinical Career Pathway (Canterbury Area Health Board) were surveyed in June 1992 and February 1993. This was a time of change in New Zealand's Health service
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 13 Serial 13
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Author McKillop, A.M.
Title Native health nursing in New Zealand 1911-1930: A new work and a new profession for women Type
Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library, Northland Polytechnic L
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Abstract The focus of this thesis is the practice of the nurses employed in the Native Health Nursing Scheme in New Zealand from 1911 to 1930. These nurses were a vanguard movement for change in community nursing services as they established a new role and developed innovative ways of practicing nursing while claiming greater autonomy and accountability for nurses who worked in community settings. Consequently they contributed to an increase in status for nurses in New Zealand.The Native Health Nursing Scheme was established by the Health Department to replace the Maori Health Nursing Scheme, an initiative by Maori leaders for Maori nurses to provide nursing care for their own people. The original scheme had foundered amid under-resourcing, a lack of support from hospital boards and administrative chaos. Government policy for Maori health was openly assimilationist and the mainly non-Maori Native Health nurses carried out this policy, yet paradoxically adapting their practice in order to be culturally acceptable to Maori.Their work with the Maori people placed the Native Health nurses in a unique position to claim professional territory in a new area of practice. As they took up the opportunities for an expanded nursing role, they practiced in a manner which would develop the scope and status of nursing. The geographical isolation of their practice setting provided the nurses with the challenge of practicing in an environment of minimal administrative and professional support, while also offering them the opportunity for independence and relative autonomy. Obedience, duty and virtue, qualities highly valued in women of the day, were expected especially in nurses. These expectations were in direct contrast to the qualities necessary to perform the duties of the Native Health nurse. The conditions under which these nurses worked and lived, the decisions they were required to make, and the partnerships they needed to establish to be effective in the communities in which they worked, required courage, strength, organizational ability and commitment
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 14 Serial 14
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Author Wenmoth, J.D.A.
Title A phenomenological study examining the experience of nausea, vomiting and retching associated with pregnancy Type
Year 1997 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Abstract This paper outlines a phenomenological study carried out to explore the experience of nausea, vomiting and retching associated with pregnancy. These phenomena lack Nursing research and are debilitating symptoms which effect the quality of life for 50-75% of all pregnant women. Madjar ( 1991) indicates that the communication of such experiences can deepen our understanding of human life and coping. It is importance for Nurses to develop an understanding of lived experiences so that they can make more effective interventions. This study explores the essential humanness of life experiences as they are for those who live them. It involved collecting data from those experiencing the phenomena and analysing it. It focuses on the study of phenomena not as separate entities in themselves but as they are perceived as they are experienced. A 'purposeful sample' was required for this study. The aim was to include women who had direct knowledge of the phenomena of nausea, vomiting and retching associated with pregnancy. The study involved in depth interviewing of six women, the interviews were taped and independently transcribed, the transcripts were analysed to determine the meaning of the experience and to identify common themes. The experiences of the women are discussed in relation to what van Manen (1990) describes as four main life world existentials; the lived body, the lived other, lived space and lived time
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 15 Serial 15
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Author Christensen, D.J.C.
Title A study of female behaviour in a crisis situation Type Miscellaneous
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Author Nevatt, E.A.
Title A study of individual health beliefs and practices in relation to propensity for self care Type
Year 1981 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Abstract The concepts of self care of health (the goal of self care) are explored in relation to the self care nursing model. It is a basic premise of this model that the client be involved to the fullest possible extent in regarding or developing self care skills. It is proposed that individuals differ in respect to their readiness of such involvement and effort in their own health work and, hence, inability to benefit from the application of the self care nursing model. The study aimed at developing a means of identifying and predicting these differences. It was hypothesised that the individuals perceptions and beliefs about heath, his attribution about the location of blame for illness and the extent to which he perceives himself as having control over the contingencies of his behaviour, would all systematically influence his readiness to engage in self care. A health questionnaire designed to obtain data on individual health related beliefs and practices was constructed. This was mailed to a random sample of non-academic staff from one of the universities. A combination of univariate and multivariate analyses of the 86 completed questionnaires showed four major variables to be significantly interrelated. The pattern of relationships which emerge between responses to other items in the questionnaire cast further light on the complex determinants of health behaviour. Of particular interest is the suggestion that the way health is defined is a crucial factor. Use of the principal axes method of factor allowed a shortened version of the original questionnaire to be produced. The profile yielded by scores on this instrument, not only describes the client in terms of four major health related variables, but can also be used to predict readiness to benefit from a self care nursing approach
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 19 Serial 19
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