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Author Richardson, A.
Title (up) Health promotion and public health nursing Type
Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 405 Serial 405
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Author Simpson, J.
Title (up) Hospice nurses responses to patient non-acceptance of treatment or care Type
Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library (later 1999)
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Abstract Hospice nurses in New Zealand provide supportive care to patients of settings. In doing so, the hospice nurse and team are likely to have an ideal of a “good death” that guides their practice.A 'good death“ is one where symptons are well controlled without over medicalisation, where there is an acceptance of death by the patient and loved ones and where appropriatepreparation and completion of unfinished business has occurred. The death itself is peaceful and the loved ones are present. However, patients or their families do not always accept the treatment or care that the nurses offer to facilitate the best quality of life and a ”good death“ for the patient. This may leave the nurses involved feeling distressed and confused, as they are confronted with the conflict between the patients' path and the nurses' ideals.This study employs critical incident technique to explore how nurses respond and feel when the patients decline the treatment or care the nurse feels will improve their quality of life and eventually lead to a ”good death“. The findings illustrate a broad range of treatment or care that is declined by either patients or their families in the first instance. This study uncovers a number of action responses nurses use in these situations, which demonstrate acceptance of patient choice but also need to help the patient experience a ”good death". In addition it demonstrates that nurses experience a gamut of emotional responses to such situations, some of which are painful for the nurse and have the potential to cause stress. Recommendations are made which may assist nurses limit the distress they experience when patients of their families decline the treatment or care, and empower nurses with further strategies to use in such situations
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 306 Serial 306
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Author Armstrong,S
Title (up) How can the medical librarian contribute to evidence-based nursing practice Type
Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Held by Lakes DHB LIbrary (ROM)
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Abstract Submitted to the School of Communications and Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Library and Information studies.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1361
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Author Papps, Elaine
Title (up) Knowledge, power, and nursing education in New Zealand: a critical analysis of the construction of the nursing identity Type Book Whole
Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 330 p.
Keywords Nursing education; Nursing identity; Michel Foucault; Curriculum; Governmentality
Abstract Describes and critically analyses the construction of the nursing identity through curriculum and social relations of power. Conducts a critical analysis using Foucault's power/knowledge problematic to unmask power relations positioning the nurse in the discourses of medicine and gender. Analyses the construction of the nursing identity through curriculum and the social relations of power, using the Foucauldian notion of governmentality.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 330
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Author van Wissen, K.A.; Litchfield, M.; Maling, T.
Title (up) Living with high blood pressure Type Journal Article
Year 1998 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 27 Issue 3 Pages 567-574
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Abstract An interdisciplinary (nursing-medicine) collaboration in a qualitative descriptive research project undertaken in the Wellington School of Medicine with New Zealand Health Research Council funding. The purpose was to inform the practice of nursing and medical practitioners. A group of patients were interviewed in their homes. Their experience of having a diagnosis of hypertension and prescription of long-term treatment requiring adjustment in their lives and the lives of their families is presented as themes.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 360
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Author Calvert, S.
Title (up) Making decisions: focusing on my baby's well-being: a grounded theory study exploring the way that decisions were made in the midwife-woman relationship Type
Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 393 Serial 393
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Author Clark, R.R.
Title (up) My fat arm: Living with lymphoedema following treatment for breast cancer Type
Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 350
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Author Clinical Training Agency,
Title (up) National review of clinical training agency funded advanced mental health nursing programme Type
Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal CTA – HFA – NZNO Library
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Abstract In 1997, Advanced Mental Health Nursing Programmes were funded nationally by the Clinical Training Agency using the funds made available subsequent to the 1996 Mason Report. The training leads to an award of either a post graduate certificate or diploma awarded by a tertiary education provider.A review was conducted with the aim to monitor the impact on service provision of advanced mental health nurse practitioner training. This was done by obtaining feedback through using an agreed standard questionnaire from course participants and mental health service providers.In seeking to learn more about the impact of these programmes, the CTA identified the following key issues:- what effect the courses may have had on mental health workforce make-up, skills and retention.- perceptions of programme delivery and content.- the impact on service delivery.Overall findings are shared which highlight that the course was seen as well organised and participants and service providers would recommend it to their colleagues. The greatest effect of the course appeared to be in developing more understanding of clinical supervision. Participating in the course had also led to positive changes in relationships with the clients and colleagues for more than three quarters of the group.The provision of an Advanced Mental Health Nursing Programme in 1997 has had many positive effects. The funding strategy and delivery models that have evolved may provide a useful template for other nursing specialty areas
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 355 Serial 355
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Author McKillop, A.M.
Title (up) 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 O'Brien, A.J.
Title (up) Negotiating the relationship: mental health nurses' perception of their practice Type
Year 1998 Publication Australian & New Zealand Journal of Mental Health Nursing Abbreviated Journal Author
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Abstract This exploratory descriptive study used focus groups to investigate experienced mental health nurses' perceptions of expertise in relation to their practice. Two focus group discussions were conducted, one compiling 4 nurses working in in-patient care, and the other with 5 nurses working in community care. The nurse-patient relationship was the central theme for both groups. Three sub-themes were identified and are discussed. They are: involvement, individualising care & minimising visibility. The significance of these themes for the articulation of mental health nursing practice is discussed
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 362 Serial 362
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Author Nelson, C.M.
Title (up) Nursing the stranger you know Type
Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington, Library – Depar
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Abstract Nursing the Stranger You Know demonstrates how combining aspects of nursing theory, the work of Ken Wilber, a leading writer in the field of transpersonal psychology and my own reflections have enhanced how I am able to experience and practice nursing in a primary health care setting.This study acknowledges and values the power of the connections which link us all together. The greatest strength of this work is that it shows, through the use of personal writing, how it is possible to nurse beyond the present and beyond the obvious when clinical, theoretical and self knowledge are all equally respected and incorporated into nursing practice
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 197 Serial 197
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Author Beck, A.
Title (up) Organisational outcomes of burnout among nurses Type
Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Waikato Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 315 Serial 315
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Author Wells, C.C.
Title (up) 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 McRae, B.H.T.K.
Title (up) Peer review: organisational learning for nurses Type
Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 190 Serial 190
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title (up) Professional development: Developing a new model of integrated care Type Journal Article
Year 1998 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 4 Issue 9 Pages 23-25
Keywords Nursing models; Nurse practitioners; Policy; Nurse-family relations
Abstract An overview of the model of nursing practice and nurse roles derived through a programme of nursing research in the context of the policy and strategies directing developments in the New Zealand health system. The emphsis was on the health service configuration model presented diagrammatically to show the position of a new role of family nurse with a distinct form of practice forming the hub.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1324
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