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Prebble, K.; McDonald, B. |
| Title |
Adaptation to the mental health setting: the lived experience of comprehensive nurse graduates |
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Journal Article |
Year  |
1997 |
Publication |
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Mental Health Nursing |
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| Volume |
6 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
30-36 |
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| Abstract |
The aim of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore the experience of new comprehensive nursing graduates as they adapted to working in the acute psychiatric setting. Interviews were conducted with four participants, focussing on their current work experiences and how the philosophical beliefs and values derived from their educational preparation fit with those they encountered within the practice setting. The data were analysed by noting common experiences, values and meanings and identifying the themes as they emerged. The themes were: transition to practice, conflict, contradiction, structural constraints, and the reality of the psychiatric setting. The results of the study confirm the concern that has been voiced by new graduates about the quality and quantity of current orientation programmes. Conflicting values and beliefs concerning the nature of mental health/psychiatric nursing has also become evident. It appears that the graduates' Comprehensive nursing preparation may have contributed to their feelings of unease as they attempted to fit their own values and beliefs about nursing with those of the acute psychiatric setting |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 412 |
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412 |
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| Author |
Honey, M. |
| Title |
New Zealand practice nurses' use of and attitude toward computers |
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| Year |
1997 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Massey University |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 433 |
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433 |
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| Author |
Litchfield, M. |
| Title |
The language of nursing practice in hospitals |
Type |
Conference Article |
| Year |
1997 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
held by NZNO Library and author |
| Volume |
Proceedings of the National Nursing Informatics Co |
Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Hospitals; Nurse managers; Advanced nursing practice; Nurse-patient relations; Care plans |
| Abstract |
A paper presenting the findings of a small research project involving a group of self-selected senior nurses of Wellington Hospital to explore the nature of nursing practice in the care and management of hospitalised patients and to formalise the language that would acknowledge its significance in the current effort of hospitals to define patient care pathways. The nature of hospital nursing practice was described in themes of a generic process of nurse-patient care that articulates a distinct specialism of hospital nursing, whatever the hospital department in which nurses hold positions. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1322 |
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| Author |
Rogers, Luenda |
| Title |
Report on Margaret May Blackwell Travel Study undertaken March/April 1997 [Management of babies born to mothers with dependencies -- drug and alcohol; Health care of young children whose families are homeless] |
Type |
Report |
| Year |
1997 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
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Pages |
79p. |
| Keywords |
Infants; Drug dependency; Alcohol dependency; Homelessness; Child health services; Reports |
| Abstract |
As the recipient of the Margaret May Blackwell Travel Fellowship two topics were studied: management of babies born to mothers with drug and alcohol dependencies, and the health-care of young children whose families are homeless. Part of the Margaret May Blackwell Scholarship Reports series. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1411 |
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