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van Wissen, K.A.; Litchfield, M.; Maling, T. |
| Title |
Living with high blood pressure |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
1998 |
Publication |
Journal of Advanced Nursing |
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27 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
567-574 |
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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. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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360 |
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Lakeman, R.M. |
| Title |
Psychiatric – mental health nurses on the internet |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
1998 |
Publication |
Computers in Nursing |
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16 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
87-89 |
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This research began in 1995 with an e-mail survey of psychiatric / mental health (PMH) nurses who belonged to an e-mail discussion group. The original aims were to describe how PMH used and learned to use the internet, the benefits to their work, and how they saw the internet affecting their work in future. Data were analysed using content analysis techniques and findings published in a number of forums. In 1999 another survey using the same e-mail list was undertaken to explore how things had changed in terms of internet use and peoples visions of how the internet is likely to impact on nursing in the future. These data are the subject of continuing analysis |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 191 |
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191 |
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Holloway, K. T. |
| Title |
Developing evidence based in clinical teaching (contexually modified replication study) |
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1998 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
Whitireia Community Polytechnic, Porirua |
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14 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
22-32 |
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There is concern over the standards of nursing practice skill acquisition in undergraduate programs. One of the issues relevant to this is which of the multitude of nursing practice skills to include in an undergraduate program. Previous research by Alavi, Loh and Reilly (1991) has been modified and used in clinical settings in the New Zealand context in order to address this concern. Competency level of the most important skills identified by clinicians was also sought in order to aid development of a skill curriculum for Whitireia Community Polytechnic. There is a strong theoretical support for the preparation of student nurses in skills laboratories prior to clinical learning experience in order to maximise learning. Further directions for study are covered with discussion of the implications for teaching from the research findings |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 377 |
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377 |
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Walker, J. |
| Title |
The transition to registered nurse: the experience of a group of New Zealand degree graduates |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
1998 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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| Volume |
13 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
36-43 |
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Since 1991, nursing profession in New Zealand has primarily been through a three year programme. The purpose of this study was to explore the issues faced by a group of degree graduates in their first year of registered nurse practice and to identify if the degree graduatesoutcomes (such as critical thinking, problem solving, reflection on practice, research, independent learning, and using cultural safety knowledge) had mediated this transposition process. Purpose sampling was used to invite five female graduates to take part in two focusgroups, one held at months and the other at 9 months after starting work. Qualitative data were collected using semi-structured questions and the taped interviews were analysed for themes. Five themes were identified: accepting responsibility, accepting their level of knowledge, becoming a team member, professional standards, and workplace conditions. Graduates were using their cultural safety knowledge but they perceived their knowledge of research was linked to further academic. Their ability to critique their own practice was evident but they found it difficult to challenge their colleagues' practice and the wider agency culture. Implications of the study are discussed in relation to nursing education and preceptor programmes and areas for further research are indicated |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 192 |
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192 |
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Giddings, D.L.S.; Wood, P.J. |
| Title |
Revealing sexuality: nurses' knowledge and attitudes. A survey of pre and post registration nursing students 1988-1991 |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
1998 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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| Volume |
13 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
11-25 |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 366 |
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366 |
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Litchfield, M. |
| Title |
Case management and nurses |
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Journal Article |
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1998 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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| Volume |
13 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
26-35 |
| Keywords |
Nursing; Care plans |
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The report of an exploratory study of current approaches to case management by nurses as requested by the College of Nurses Aotearoa New Zealand. It revealed different interpretations of nurse case management around New Zealand and in the US, UK and Australia. They differed according to the conceptualisation of health service design and delivery in the respective country. Case management in New Zealand in general presented nurse care management roles as an interface between the mangement of health service delivery and the peculiarities of the healthcare people received, holding the potential for achieving tailored, patient-centred care outcomes. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1323 |
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Litchfield, M. |
| Title |
The scope of advancing nursing practice |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
1998 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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| Volume |
13 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
13-24 |
| Keywords |
Nursing specialties; Nursing |
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An overview of the model of nursing practice and nurse roles derived through a programme of nursing research in the context of the changing New Zealand health system. The emphasis is on the complementary nature of the practice of family nurses taking a generic integrative service delivery hub role and the practice of other nurses advancing in specialist roles. Nursing care is presented as a professional, collective practice of registered nurses spread across all health service sectors and employment settings. Nurse roles are differentiated according to the interplay of two factors influencing the extent of practice autonomy the nurses assume (educationally supported) in responding to health need. A diagram depicts the interrelationship of competency and scope for the inclusive three different career trajectories of nurses advancing in practice. NOTE: This paper was published with an error in the title of the article (stated correctly on the journal contents page). An apology from the journal editor with an explanation of the importance of the use of the term ?advancing? and not ?advanced? was published in the subsequent issue (Nursing Praxis in NZ,14(1)). |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1325 |
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Trim, S.P. |
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Report on the pilot NZNO practice nurse accreditation programme March 1995 – April 1998 |
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1998 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
NZNO Library |
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4 |
Issue |
7 |
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26 |
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The New Zealand Nurses organsation agreed to become the accrediting body for nurses in NZ in 1994 and Susanne Trim, NZNO Professional Nursing Adviser, worked with the National Practice Nurse Section to develop and pilot a model for accreditation.A consultative process was used to develop a framework and process during 1995 and this was unanimously endorsed in the April 1996 National Practice Nurse Section AGM.Implementation occurred from May 1996 to March 1998 with a comprehensive evaluation of the model collection of data from practice nurse applicants, non-applicants, the Practice Nurse Accreditation Board, National PN Sections and the project co-ordinator.The number of applications received exceeded expectations 212 (14% NZNO practice nurse members). There was a high level of satisfaction expressed by applicants.A number of content issues were identified during the pilot as needing review, clarification and amendment. These were of a minor nature rather than recommended changes to the structure itself.The accreditation Board processes were modified part way through the implementation to improve efficiencies and were found to be satisfactory. The training model and timing were appropriate.Administrative support and central co-ordination through designated NZNO staff member proved to be time consuming but vital.Practice Nurses embraced accreditation however as a group they have some minor unique characteristics. This should caution NZNO to proceed gradually with accreditation of other Section Nurses and monitor progress closely |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 340 |
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340 |
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Litchfield, M. |
| Title |
Professional development: Developing a new model of integrated care |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
1998 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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4 |
Issue |
9 |
Pages |
23-25 |
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Nursing models; Nurse practitioners; Policy; Nurse-family relations |
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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. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1324 |
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Wells, C.C. |
| Title |
Our dreams |
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1998 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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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 |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 2 |
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2 |
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McKillop, A.M. |
| Title |
Native health nursing in New Zealand 1911-1930: A new work and a new profession for women |
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1998 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Massey University Library, Northland Polytechnic L |
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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 |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 14 |
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14 |
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French, P. |
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A study of the regulation of nursing in New Zealand 1901 – 1997 |
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1998 |
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Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 63 |
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63 |
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Williams, H.; Cuthbertson, S.; Newby, L.; Streat, S.J. |
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A follow-up service improves bereavement care in an intensive care unit |
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1998 |
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Auckland Hospital Library |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 149 |
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149 |
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Watson, P.B. |
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An understanding of family in the context of families facing the diagnosis of childhood cancer |
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1998 |
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Massey University Library, Manawatu Polytechnic Li |
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The diagnosis of childhood cancer has a profound impact on the family. How nurses understand family affects their practice with families facing the diagnosis of childhood cancerShaped by Heideggerian phenomenology, van Manens methodology for hermeneutic phenomenology was used to construct an understanding of family from the experiences of family members facing the diagnosis of childhood cancer. Seven family members from two families, one mother, two fathers, two siblings, and two grandparents were interviewed about their experience of facing the diagnosis of childhood cancer.From the participants experience the meaning of family was interpreted as being-with-others, for-the-sake-of-others, who one might not distinguish from oneself. This understanding of family is recognisable, yet different from traditional definitions of family and may help nurses and family members to act more thoughtfully and tactfully with each other |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 153 |
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153 |
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Mote, J.A. |
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Quilting conversations: a reflective account of women growing up on the West Coast and going nursing in the 1930's and 1940's |
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1998 |
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Victoria University of Wellington Library, Grey Ba |
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This is an oral herstory of two West Coast Women in conversation with a contemporary, and all are nurses. The conversations are presented as whole patterns which are quilted together to form a story within a story. I have woven in my story, with the commonality of being a nurse and having lived on the West Coast for five years.Until the 1960s, women on the West Coast had had very little written about their lives and the nursing records on the Coast were very limited, even in the 1990s. The women in this study conveyed the childhood memories and the nursing days, as they reflected on a training that was strictly disciplined, hierarchical in a hospital based apprentice system.The opportunity to do this project has enabled me to explore some of the aspects of the lives of women on the West Coast, particularly through the eyes of two wonderful women. Their contribution has been particularly valuable, in that they were able to convey how it was for them as children, and also the experiences of their mother and other women. Both were nurses who trained at Grey River Hospital between 1933 and 1946, and they were able to recall their nursing days on the Coast and make a contribution to West Coast history.It has enabled me to rediscover my own nursing story and to gain insight into the conversations that will inspire my nursing, and enable me to hand on stories to other nurses. This thesis will also be of interest to nurses of the future, reflecting on the past and experiencing how it was then |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 172 |
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172 |
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