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Author Mockford, Angela
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Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1421
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Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1812
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Author Vermeulen, J.
Title (up) “And there's the likes of me”: A phenomenological study of the experience of four women inpatients at a mental health unit Type
Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
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Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Patient satisfaction; Hospitals; Nurse-patient relations
Abstract This research draws on the experiences of four women whilst they were inpatients at the Mental Health Unit in Southland. The Husserlian path of phenomenology was followed and in-depth interviewing used to collect data. Colaizzi's method of analysis enabled accurate interpretation of transcripts. The overall goal of this research was to provide health professionals with an opportunity to inform their practice, based on what consumers were saying about their experience of hospitalisation. Themes emerged through participants relating their experience by using comparisons with either their outside world or previous episodes of hospitalisation. Through analysis, two fundamental structures became evident within the findings. These were 'the environment as containment' and 'the road to recovery'. The author concludes that this study raises significant issues surrounding the experience of hospitalisation at the Mental Health Unit that have implications for future research and for future service delivery.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1246
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Author Stewart, C.M.
Title (up) “Caring as the heart of nursing education” Type
Year 2007 Publication Abbreviated Journal Otago Polytechnic library. A copy can be obtained by contacting pgnursadmin@tekotago.ac.nz
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Keywords Education; Nursing; Nurse-patient relations
Abstract Literature and discussion on the role of caring theory in nursing has been in evidence for at least the past 30 years. Many nursing theorists have identified caring as the heart of nursing. Nursing is a profession involved and concerned with relationships. These relationships begin in the schools of nursing, and are continued into the clinical practice setting. Curriculum development is focused on ensuring nurses are prepared for the real world of practice. It is the author's belief, that nurses who receive their education in an environment where caring is modelled and evidenced throughout the curriculum, become nurses who continue to practice in a caring way. This dissertation will demonstrate that Swanson's (1991) five caring processes provide a framework to evidence caring practice within a nursing curriculum. The author believes this topic needs to be discussed as schools of nursing continue to review their curricula to prepare nurses for an ever changing and challenging health environment. This dissertation explores the question, 'If caring is at the heart of the profession of nursing, is it also at the heart of nursing education?' The author's objective is to inform the reader, and perhaps encourage educators to be courageous in the demonstration of caring practice, and in the development of caring curricula.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 499
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Author Krisjanous, Jayne & Wood, Pamela
Title (up) “For quiet nerves and steady poise”: A historical analysis of advertising to New Zealand nurses in the Kai Tiaki Journal 1908-1929 Type Journal Article
Year 2020 Publication Journal of Historical Research in Marketing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 12 Issue 1 Pages 19-52
Keywords Advertising; Kai Tiaki
Abstract Examines advertising placed within 'Kai Tiaki: The Journal of Nurses of New Zealand' during its first 20 years, when nursing was emerging as an organised and professionalised body of health-care workers. Derives five main themes from undertaking qualitative content analysis.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1701
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Author Boyd, L.
Title (up) “It could have just as easily been me”: Nurses working in mental health services who have experienced mental illness Type
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library
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Keywords Nursing; Mental health; Occupational health and safety
Abstract This research explores the issues and experiences of mental health nurses who experience or have experienced mental illness. This project was prompted by the author's concern for colleagues and friends in this situation. The research topic was approached using a mix of critical ethnography and action research principles. Five mental health nurses who all work for the same district health board were interviewed about their experiences of being mental health professionals with mental illness and the issues that arose from this. The themes that emerged from this research are: the reactions of nurse colleagues, the effects on participants' own mental health treatment, employer responses, professional experiences and issues and strategies for coping. Discussion and recommendations focus on the need for improvements to the responses that mental health nurses with experience of mental illness encounter in their workplace. Recommendations from this research encompass suggestions for both individual and organisational education, action and change.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1127
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Author Fletcher, Stephanie
Title (up) “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? Type Journal Article
Year 2021 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 88 p.
Keywords Psychology service; Primary health care nurses; Well-being; Mental health services; Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (FACT)
Abstract 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.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1801
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Author Brown, J.A.
Title (up) “Let my spirit always sing”: A descriptive study of how four elderly rest home residents view spirituality and spiritual care at the end of life Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria
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Keywords Older people; Rest homes; Spirituality; Nursing
Abstract This descriptive, qualitative study, believed to be the first of its kind conducted in a New Zealand setting, focuses on spirituality issues of a spiritually vulnerable group of people, older people in residential care. Four rest home residents were recruited, to talk about their spirituality, spiritual needs and how their spirits were nurtured, the role of care staff in providing spiritual care, and their satisfaction with the spiritual care they were being offered. They were also asked to predict their spiritual needs as they were dying, their wishes for spiritual care in the perideath period, whether they had communicated these wishes to anyone, their views on advance planning to ensure these wishes would be met, and their comfort with the research process. The research data was collected from semi-structured, audiotaped interviews that were later transcribed. The spirituality of all participants had a strongly Christian focus that was revealed in the ten themes to emerge from a modified application of Colaizzi's analysis technique. The first themes to emerge were God as the focus of spirituality, God in control, the importance of relationship, and the purpose in life: serving God. Changes in spirituality with age, spirituality and residential care, and spiritual care: whose responsibility? were also identified as themes, as were end of life spirituality, planning for spiritual care, and the participants' satisfaction with the research process. All were able to articulate their spirituality, were generally satisfied with the spiritual care they were receiving, and had views on the spiritual care they wished to receive in the perideath period. Moreover, the participants trusted their families and the care staff to ensure that these wishes would be honoured. Recommendations are made for improving the spiritual dimension of care, and for further research.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1228
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Author Diers, D.
Title (up) “Noses and eyes”: Nurse practitioners in New Zealand Type Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 24 Issue 1 (Mar) Pages 4-10
Keywords Cross-cultural comparison; Nurse practitioners; History of nursing
Abstract Principles for understanding and evolving nurse practitioner practice, politics and policy are distilled from 40 years of experience in the United States and Australia. The issues in all countries are remarkably similar. The author suggests that some historical and conceptual grounding may assist the continuing development of this expanded role for nursing in New Zealand.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 965
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Author Prentice, Jennifer Joan
Title (up) “Tell someone who cares” -- participatory action research of motivation and workplace engagement among caregivers in aged residential care, New Zealand Type Book Whole
Year 2019 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 180 p.
Keywords Aged residential care; Motivation; Action research; Caregivers
Abstract Aims to understand the factors that encourage motivation and engagement of caregivers who are relatively poorly paid, with limited training, but who are required to provide personal care to an increasingly frail population. Undertakes an initial exploratory study, with participants from four rural aged-residential care (ARC) facilities, to identify three key themes that influence caregiver motivation. Subsequently develops these initial themes, within a 42-bed facility, to explore how to encourage caregiver motivation. Bases the four-step process on Lewin’s cycle: plan, act, observe, and reflect. Establishes an advisory group of caregivers who develop a nine-point action plan, accepted by management and implemented in the facility.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1638
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Author Hardcastle, J.
Title (up) 'Back to the bedside': Graduate level education in critical care Type Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Nurse Education in Practice Abbreviated Journal
Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages 46-53
Keywords Nursing specialties; Nursing; Education; Curriculum
Abstract This paper explores the relationships within teaching, learning and practice development in critical care nursing and questions the popular assumption that 'post graduate (Master's level) education fits all'. The need for critical care nurses to apply advanced knowledge and technical skills to complex and dynamic practice situations necessitates the development of critical thinking and a problem-solving approach to clinical practice that can be fostered through education and experience. Discussion focuses on the successful development and implementation of graduate level education for critical care nurses in the South Island of New Zealand and how this development is challenging existing approaches to the provision and evaluation of formal critical care education in New Zealand.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 656
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Author Chenery, K.
Title (up) 'Can mummy come too?' Rhetoric and realities of 'family-centred care' in one New Zealand hospital, 1960-1990 Type
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria
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Keywords Nurse-family relations; Policy; Hospitals; History of nursing; Paediatric nursing
Abstract This study explores the development of 'family-centred care' in New Zealand as part of an international movement advanced by 'experts' in the 1950s concerned with the psychological effects of mother-child separation. It positions the development of 'family-centred care' within the broader context of ideas and beliefs about mothering and children that emerged in New Zealand society between 1960 and 1980 as a response to these new concerns for children's emotional health. It examines New Zealand nursing, medical and related literature between 1960 and 1990 and considers both professional and public response to these concerns. The experiences of some mothers and nurses caring for children in one New Zealand hospital between 1960 and 1990 illustrate the significance of these responses in the context of one hospital children's ward and the subsequent implications for the practice of 'family-centred care'. This study demonstrates the difference between the professional rhetoric and the parental reality of 'family-centred care' in the context of one hospital children's ward between 1960 and 1990. The practice of 'family-centred care' placed mothers and nurses in contradictory positions within the ward environment. These contradictory positions were historically enduring, although they varied in their enactment.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1206
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Author Henry, Pamela
Title (up) 'Coming home safely : a successful transition from hospital to home' : Margaret May Blackwell Study Fellowship for Nurses of Young Children, Nursing Education Research Foundation Type Report
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 38
Keywords Infants; Hospital care; Home care services; Community health care; Reports
Abstract Investigates programmes to facilitate the transition to home for babies who have had lengthy admission to Neonatal Intensive Care Units. Provides an overview of the transition services at four sites visited in the US and Canada. Highlights the common elements among all four programmes and identifies the components of quality transition services. Evaluates their clinical effectiveness. Part of the Margaret May Blackwell Scholarship Reports series.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1426
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Author Noble-Adams, R.
Title (up) 'Exemplary' nurses: An exploration of the phenomenon Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 17 Issue 1 Pages 24-33
Keywords Nurse-patient relations; Nursing; Professional competence
Abstract This paper examines the phenomenon of exemplary nursing. It includes a literature review to identify the characteristics of good nurses. These include particular personality traits, altruism, caring, expert practice, vocation, commitment and attitude. Aspects of the nurse-patient relationship with such nurses is described.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 640 Serial 626
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Author King, S.L.J.; Walsh, K.
Title (up) 'I think PCA is great, but . . .'- Surgical nurses' perceptions of patient-controlled analgesia Type Journal Article
Year 2007 Publication International Journal of Nursing Practice Abbreviated Journal
Volume 13 Issue 5 Pages 276-283
Keywords Nurse-patient relations; Drug administration; Pain management
Abstract This qualitative study investigated surgical nurses' perceptions of patient-controlled analgesia as a strategy for managing acute pain in a tertiary care hospital. Patient-controlled analgesia is commonly used and nurses play an essential role in caring for patients prescribed it. The study was divided into two parts. First, audiotaped semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 nurses. The interviews were followed by a postal questionnaire to 336 nurses with 171 returned. Thematic analysis was the chosen methodology. The audiotaped transcripts and questionnaires surfaced five themes, with the dominant one being `I think PCA is great, but . . .'. The paper outlines and explores these themes and addresses the implications arising from the research for both clinical practice and education.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 972
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