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Author Davies, M. openurl 
  Title Lived experiences of nurses as they engage in practice at an advanced level within emergency departments in New Zealand Type
  Year 2005 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Keywords Emergency nursing; Nurse practitioners; Advanced nursing practice  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 682 Serial 668  
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Author Richardson, C.A. openurl 
  Title Ever decreasing circles: Non-curative terminal illness, empowerment and decision making: Lessons for nursing practice Type
  Year 2005 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library  
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  Keywords Nursing; Palliative care; Terminal care; Psychology  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 683 Serial 669  
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Author Betts, J.A. openurl 
  Title Establishing and evaluating a nurse practitioner leg ulcer clinic: The journey Type
  Year 2005 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library  
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  Keywords Nurse practitioners; Community health nursing  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 684 Serial 670  
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Author Pirret, A.M. openurl 
  Title The use of knowledge of respiratory physiology in critical care nurses' clinical decision-making Type
  Year 2005 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Keywords Intensive care nursing; Clinical decision making  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 686 Serial 672  
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Author Ross, M.E. openurl 
  Title A study into the effects of the New Zealand health reforms of the 1990's on the role of the nurse manager Type
  Year 2005 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library  
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  Keywords Nurse managers; History; Policy  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 687 Serial 673  
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Author Hames, P.V.M. openurl 
  Title Patient advocacy: A concept analysis Type
  Year 2006 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Keywords Patient rights; Nursing; Nurse-patient relations  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 689 Serial 675  
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Author Dewes, C.A. openurl 
  Title Perceptions and expectations of a kaiawhina role Type
  Year 2006 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library  
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  Keywords Maori; Students; Nursing  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 692 Serial 678  
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Author McEldowney, R.A.; Richardson, F.; Turia, D.; Laracy, K.; Scott, W.; MacDonald, S. url  openurl
  Title Opening our eyes, shifting our thinking: The process of teaching and learning about reflection in cultural safety education and practice: An evaluation study Type Report
  Year 2006 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal  
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  Keywords Cultural safety; Nursing; Culture  
  Abstract The purpose of the research was an evaluation of practice exemplars as a reflective process in teaching and learning about cultural safety. Six Maori, two Pacific and five Pakeha students, ranging in age from 30 to 40, took part in the research. The research findings revealed five sub themes: personal safety, power/ powerlessness, reflection, teaching and learning and cultural safety. The presentation, while acknowledging that cultural safety shared some commonalities with culture care theory, highlighted differences between the two. These included that cultural safety was explicit in identifying the inherent power of the nurse in health care relationships; related to the experience of the recipient of nursing care, and extended beyond cultural awareness and sensitivity; provided consumers of nursing services with the power to comment on practices; and contributed to the achievement of positive outcomes and experiences for them. It outlined the characteristics of a culturally safe nurse as a nurse who had undertaken a process of reflection on her/his own cultural identity and who recognised the impact their personal culture had on client care.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 693 Serial 679  
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Author Mulcahy, D.M. url  openurl
  Title Journeys cross divides: Nurses and midwives' experiences of choosing a path following separation of the professions Type
  Year 2006 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Keywords Midwifery; Nursing; Policy; Careers in nursing  
  Abstract In 2003 the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act was introduced and established separate regulatory authorities for nursing and midwifery. This study is designed to explore the experiences of dually registered practitioners affected by this divide, as now there are two separate and possible paths, and two corresponding sets of competencies to fulfil. The design for this qualitative descriptive study utilised the written and oral narratives of three practitioners affected by this professional regulation and demonstrated its impact on their career development. Individual storytelling, as narrative, provided a theoretical lens aiding insight into their experience and pattern of decision making. In addition, symbolic consideration of the study data was provided by collective storytelling via the perennial myth of the hero journey. Shifting professional ground following the Health Practitioners Competence Act 2003 generated a focus for the inquiry into practitioners' modes of adjustment. For the practitioners in the study, transition between the occupational roles of nursing and midwifery comprised the possible career trajectories. A status passage, as the process of change from one social status to another, is described and includes the transitional experience of anticipation, expectation, contrast, and change. The author suggests that the findings from this research provide illumination of the nuances of professional decision making as a lived experience, and highlight how these practitioners dealt with shifting meaning, values, awareness, choices, and relationships. Aspects of group agency and identity, change management, and professional role transition were revealed. Life pattern, revealed through narrative, was an important research construct for exposing the ways in which the participants negotiated change, and displayed the function of their thinking and reasoning through dilemmas. Perception of individual and group identity revealed attitudes of esteem to the dominant discourse, and exposed dynamic tension between work patterns and life stage. Renegotiating arrangements of personal and professional commitment resulted from this dynamic interplay, and the relationship to stress and burnout was explored.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 700 Serial 686  
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Author Goulding, M.T. openurl 
  Title The influence of work-related stress on nurses' smoking: A comparison of perceived stress levels in smokers and non-smokers in a sample of mental health nurses Type
  Year 2006 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library  
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  Keywords Smoking; Psychiatric Nursing; Stress; Mental health  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 701 Serial 687  
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Author Watkins, B.E. openurl 
  Title Making meaning of a personal experience of discrimination in relation to a disability: An exploration of the literature Type
  Year 2006 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Keywords People with disabilities; Nursing  
  Abstract This paper explores the reaction of the author's colleagues when she returned to work disabled after recovering from an injury. In order to understand the new experience of disability and discrimination and to help answer what changed the behaviour of colleagues, the author considered evidence from the published literature. After considering many different models of disability, the social model of disability helped clarify and frame her own experience. Reflecting on this literature and personal experience, she suggests that there is acknowledgement that society's attitudes are changing slowly through governmental action and the activism of the disabled. However, she goes on to say, it is only through progressing education, experiencing disability, and continuing emancipatory research that progress will be made to release people with disabilities from their bonds of prejudice and oppression.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 734 Serial 720  
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Author Scott, W. openurl 
  Title Listen to the beat of my heart: The lived experience of panic attack in undergraduate nursing students: An interpretive inquiry Type
  Year 2006 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Keywords Psychology; Students; Nursing; Midwifery  
  Abstract 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.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 735 Serial 721  
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Author Chapman, C. openurl 
  Title The elective way: An exploration of pre-operative education for orthopaedic joint replacements Type
  Year 2006 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Keywords Patient satisfaction; Surgery; Education  
  Abstract This research paper provides a description and analysis of literature and research focusing on pre-operative education programmes available internationally and nationally for patients receiving total joint replacements. This discussion differentiates between pre-assessment and pre-operative education to provide an understanding that both aspects are important in there own right. Together pre-assessment and pre-operative education complement each other to provide total care for patients awaiting total joint replacement surgery. One way of alleviating apprehension experienced by the patient about their surgery is by providing appropriate joint replacement education programmes that meet their needs. This type of programme is a form of empowerment which provides patients with appropriate and relevant information. This allows the patient to be actively involved in their own care and enable them to make informed decisions. The importance of education, information and communication; anxiety and pain; family and peer support; mobility and insecurity is a common thread in the literature where patients describe their experiences and concerns following a total joint replacement. These concepts are discussed and related to why pre-operative education programmes are recommended to help alleviate patients concerns and are important in providing a total multidisciplinary approach to care.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 736 Serial 722  
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Author Garlick, A. openurl 
  Title Determined to make a difference: A study of public health nursing practice with vulnerable families Type
  Year 2006 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library, NZNO Library  
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  Keywords Public health; Children; Nurse-family relations  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 737 Serial 723  
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Author Ramsamy, K. url  openurl
  Title Colonisation: The experience of a psychiatric nurse through the lens of reflective autobiography Type
  Year 2006 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Keywords Cultural safety; Colonisation; History; Nursing  
  Abstract The author points to the oppression of colonisation living on in the daily lives of colonised people, and goes on to say that it is vital for nurses to understand the effects of that oppression, as well as the restrictive impacts, and dislocation from one's land and culture to-day. Nurses come from both the descendants of colonisers and the colonised. This thesis is a journey and a quest for insights into the impacts and significances of colonisation by looking at historical and socio-political contexts that have bearing on the health of colonised people who remain mostly powerless and marginalised. It is prompted in response to a cultural safety model which advocates that nurses should become familiar with their own background and history in order to be culturally safe in practice. This reflective autobiographical account is a personal effort and provides the foundation for an exploration of issues during nursing practice encounters, from a colonised ethnic minority perspective. The method was informed by Moustakas research approach and Johnstone's Reflective Topical Autobiographical process. The selection of specific events are deliberate, to make visible some of the many barriers that exist within our health structures as pertinent issues for non-dominant cultures that remain on the margin of our society. Maori issues provide a contrast and became a catalyst for the author while working for kaupapa Maori services. The intention of this thesis is to generate new knowledge about what it means to be a nurse from an ethnic minority working in a kaupapa Maori mental health service, and to encourage other nurses to explore these issues further. Some recommendations are made for nurses in the last chapter.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 739 Serial 725  
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