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Author Walton, J.A.
Title Schizophrenia, a way of being-in-the-world Type
Year 1995 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Abstract This phenomenological study describes what it is like to live with a schizophrenic illness and relates the understanding gained from this description to implications for nursing practice. The participants in the study were ten adults who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia, who take regular medication and who are living independant lives in the community. Over a period of sixteen months they were interviewed about effects of the illness on their everyday lives. During this time they explained the challenges and difficulties which have faced them, both during and long after the resolution of acute illness. As they describe it schizophrenia is a part of who they are.The narrative contained in this thesis presents the participants' stories in aggregated form, setting their experiences alongside ideas from the early work of Martin Heidegger, whose phenomenological writing informed the analysis and interpretation of the data. As the participants explain, schizophrenia has touched every aspect of their lives. Living with schizophrenia is shown to affect their whole being-in-the-world. It incorporates Being-with-others, living carefully and taking a stand on life. While hoping for a cure, their reality is of living with a chroinic ilness which has major effects on their lives. At the same time the participants are shown to define themselves not in terms of their illness and treatment, but in respect of their hopes and dreams and the stance each is taking on his or her own life. In this way their existential predicament is highlighted in the study. Participants are on the one hand very much like all people, while on the other hand they have to contend with very different concerns than do most others.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 446 Serial (down) 446
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Author Walsh, C.
Title Psychiatric nursing: a feminist perspective on nursing practice Type
Year 1995 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 411 Serial (down) 411
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Author Blanchard, D.L.
Title Nursing practice in the changing health care environment “just keep going until you see it right” Type
Year 1995 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 410 Serial (down) 410
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Author Litchfield, M.; Clarke, M.; Edwards, R.; Richardson, F.; Tansley, R.; Woodman, K.
Title A description of the needs of people with cancer and support people Type
Year 1995 Publication Abbreviated Journal Author, Wellington Division of the Cancer Society
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Abstract The report of a research project commissioned by the Wellington Division of the New Zealand Cancer Society to provide a foundation for policy to give direction to development of its services. The research approach and methodology had an ecological theory foundation. It involved a survey and in-depth interviews with people with cancer and those caring for them to understand their experience. Needs were identified from the data and presented according to three distinct phases in the course of living with cancer. People moved from the shock of diagnosis, through the time of treatment when usual living was suspended and focus narrowed on the intensive fight against the disease, then into a very different phase of on-going ?wait-and-see? time requiring a new way of living with uncertainty for both patient and carers. The last phase was where most of the unmet needs lay. Recommendations were made for services to provide a continuous caring relationship for patients and carers with a knowledgeable person from the point of diagnosis.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial (down) 387
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Author Allen, N.R.
Title Competencies for registration of nurses in New Zealand Type
Year 1995 Publication Abbreviated Journal Nursing Council Library
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Abstract Summary of the work of six groups of nurses from throughout New Zealand in defining compentencies for registration
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 384 Serial (down) 384
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Author Pearson, J.R.
Title Computer usage and the development of computer learning amongst first year student nurses enrolled in a nursing degree programme Type
Year 1995 Publication Abbreviated Journal Author, Whitireia Community Polytechnic Library
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Abstract This report addresses the issue of computer literacy and its position in current nursing practice and nursing education.Two groups of nursing students in a three year Polytechnic provided programme were surveyed by questionnaire to gain information about their current computer usage. The first questionnaire was given to first year students at the end of the 1994 academic year. A basic self-paced word processing package was developed from the information. Following the teaching of the package to 1995 year students a questionnaire was given to this second group to gain information about the teaching programme and their intended computer use.A greater number of younger students were computer literate on course entry compared with mature students and personal computers were accessible to about 40% of students. Following completion of the computer package computers were being used by 8154 of the group for course work. Compared to approximately 44% of the previous (1994) group. It was concluded that the self paced package was a successful method of teaching basic computer literacy for the majority of students. However computer usage within the educational institution was affected by access to computers and the availability of computers and support personnel at times suitable for the student group. The findings had implications for the future planning of teaching progrrammes, computer access, and staffing for the Polytechnic, and recommendations addressed these issues
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 375 Serial (down) 375
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Author Cowan, C.
Title The use of holistic nursing interventions in the treatment of breast cancer: a pilot study Type Journal Article
Year 1995 Publication New Zealand Practice Nurse Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 80-83
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Abstract Nursing is increasingly using holistic interventions. Some research validating these interventions has been conducted. However there was no nursing research for these interventions with women with breast cancer. This research explored the experience of one womean who was diagnosed with breast cancer and who actively chose to have these interventions as an adjunct to the medical treatment.It was a single subject phenomenological study, effectively being a pilot study. Data was collected through unstructured interview, participant observation and review of the nursing notes. Interpretative analysis techniques were used to obtain the results. Three themes of the experience of the subject were identified as:1. maintenance of the locus of control with the subject,2. the choice of a health professional with philosophical base similar to that of the subject and3. maintenance of a focus on healthy living.These interventions were perceived as beneficial by this subject. This research demonstrated that further study on the effectiveness of holistic nursing interventions with women being treated for breast cancer is indicated
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 365 Serial (down) 365
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Author Hollows, K.
Title The lived experience of registered nurses involved in the withdrawal of nutrition and hydration in a persistant vegetative state (PVS) patient Type Journal Article
Year 1995 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 28-37
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Abstract The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe the experience of five Registered Nurses involved in the withdrawal of nutrition and hydration in a persistant vegetative state (PVS) patient. Three female and two male nurses who had been involved in the care of a PVS patient within the last ten years were interviewed. The phenomenological design was used because it provided richness and clarity to the issues raised. Three major findings were identified as positive significant experiences for these nurses: support through 'talking': coping through 'thinking': and, decision making being kept 'in-house' (family and central care giving team)"
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 364 Serial (down) 364
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Author Wheeler, K.
Title Metabolism of riboflavin by the human term placenta Type
Year 1995 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 333 Serial (down) 333
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Author Blue, R.G.
Title A new net goes out fishing: options for change within the public health nursing service Type
Year 1995 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 314 Serial (down) 314
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Author Browne, B.
Title Health and safety in employment: legal remedies to prevent the occupational hazards of hospital oncology nurses Type
Year 1995 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Waikato Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 313 Serial (down) 313
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Author Dodd, J.E.L.
Title Individual privacy and the public good of health research Type
Year 1995 Publication Abbreviated Journal Author
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Abstract This is a piece of philosophy research and covers the following matters; the nature of privacy, Why it is morally significant, nature of health research, the privacy issues in health research and finally some suggestions as to ways privacy in health research may be preserved
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 305 Serial (down) 305
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Author McEldowney, R.A.
Title Critical resistance in nursing education: a nurse educator's story Type
Year 1995 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Waikato Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 300 Serial (down) 300
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Author Peddie, B.
Title Whooping cough in the Northern Coromandel -1995 Type
Year 1995 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal Author
Volume 4 Issue 7 Pages 14-17
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Abstract Data gathered during a whooping cough outbreak in the Northern Coromandel in 1995 highlights some distinct characteristics about how the disease manifestests itself in a defined geographical area, and about the place of prophylactic Erythromycin. This was probably the most fully documented outbreak in New Zealand, and possibly the first study conducted from a community perspective
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 286 Serial (down) 286
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Author Wilson, A.W.
Title The lived experience of adult patients commencing radiotherapy and/or cytotoxic chemotherapy Type
Year 1995 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 284 Serial (down) 284
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