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Author Churcher, R.L.; Bowden, J.; Grogan, J.; Grofski, H.; Parker, J.; Berry, A. openurl 
  Title Recovery room nursing – conditions and practice Type
  Year (down) 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNA P. O. Box 2128 Wellington  
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  Abstract This report is the results of a national survey to establish base-line information about recovery room nursing. Factors addressed are: general statistics, physical conditions, staffing, orientation and education, support networks and procedure performed  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 11  
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Author Thompson, J. openurl 
  Title Budgeting for nursing services Type
  Year (down) 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract The author suggests that a nursing service would benefit by using the concept of budgets and budgeting control, in terms of management accounting and its applicability to a hospital based nursing service. The main objective of this study was to suggest a possible line of approach towards the construction of an information system designed to yield reliable and useful data, without which there can be little hope of any truly effective guide to the development of nursing services.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 36  
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Author Wenmoth, J.D.A. openurl 
  Title Involuntary unemployment: A grounded theory analysis of the experience of five nurses Type
  Year (down) 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract This study outlines the use of grounded theory strategy to analyse the experience of nurses who become involuntarily unemployed. It then proceeds to develop a theoretical framework that explain the common patterns in this experience. Using the Glasser and Strauss (1967) Grounded Theory approach, empirical observation was undertaken expressly for the purpose of generating insights which may lead to new understanding of the subject of this study. Using two inter-related procedures known as theoretical sampling and constant comparative analysis, data is systematically collected, coordinated and subjected to an ongoing analysis. Theory is then 'grounded ' in the real world. The study involved in depth interviewing of five mid-career nurses who were involuntarily unemployed. The data was transcribed and analysed to yield theoretical concepts and categories that were integrated into propositions to explain common patterns. It will be argued that this experience is a grieving process that is more that just grieving a job loss. It is proposed that there are three phases – 1. Personal devastation due to losses experienced.. 2. A period of healing. 3. Recovery and re-establishment of the 'new' person.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 69  
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Author Nevatt, E.A. openurl 
  Title Occupational health care: An entrepreneurial venture in New Zealand Type Report
  Year (down) 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract A description of the establishment and the first year's operation of an occupational health service set up as a limited liability company and offering contracted fee- for- service health care for employees of clients' businesses. The report tells how the two nurses established the company and how the company secured contracts, it describes the delivery of health care in the workplace. The nurses' perception of their work and the client managers' evaluation of the service are included.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 89  
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Author Paterson(now Fleming), B.L. openurl 
  Title The types of information nurses pass on to other nurses verbally regarding their patients, which is not discussed in the legal nursing record Type
  Year (down) 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Dunedin Hospital Staff Library  
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  Abstract This study was undertaken in a combined medical/surgical unit in an acute general hospital in New Zealand using the grounded theory research methodology. It aimed at identifying the types of information nurses pass on verbally regarding their patients, but which they do not document in the legal nursing record.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 129  
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Author Churcher, R.L.; Bowden, J.; Grogan, J.; Grofski, H.; Parker, R.; Berry, A. openurl 
  Title Trends in theatre nurse education Type
  Year (down) 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Theatre Nurses Section, NZNO  
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  Abstract This reports the results of a national survey to ascertain what direction education of theatre nursing personnel is taking. It includes method and content preselection, orientation and in service education/ staff development phases of education. Options for the future are also addressed.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 144  
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Author Haggerty, C. url  openurl
  Title Critical case study: Supporting the new graduate entering specialist psychiatric mental health nursing practice Type
  Year (down) 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria  
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  Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Clinical supervision; Students; Preceptorship  
  Abstract This critical case study was undertaken for the purposes of illuminating information relating to new graduate nurses' experiences in their first clinical placement, in order to consider ways an established entry to practice programme can better support and enhance the students' transition from student nurse to staff nurse within psychiatric mental health nursing practice. Seven current students of the programme participated in the research. This provided the researcher with a variety of challenges related to her dual role as researcher and programme coordinator. Data was collected through the use of discussion groups, with participants and researcher jointly identifying the themes that were explored. These themes related to preceptorship and support, socialisation of the new graduate and risk management. The research has provided rich data that has already, and will continue to be used to inform future developments within both the educational and clinical components of the programme. The research has also provided opportunities for personal and professional growth through the sharing of experiences, and working together to identify emancipatory action which has in turn lead to transformation.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 450  
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Author Huntington, A.D. openurl 
  Title Blood, sweat and tears: Women as nurses nursing women in the gynaecology ward: A feminist interpretive study Type
  Year (down) 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Keywords Feminist critique; Nursing specialties; Methodology  
  Abstract This feminist study is an exploration of the subjectivity of women working as nurses within the gynaecological ward. Gynaecology has a long history as a unique area of concern to the health practitioners of any given period. However, the author suggests, recently with the development of modern gynaecology, this specialty has become based on male knowledge and male texts, women either as patients or nurses appear voiceless within this canon. Major tests within nursing mirror a medical construction of gynaecology, with the women involved in the discourse again absent from the literature. To explore the nurses' reality within the gynaecological ward, the author has undertaken a feminist interpretive study. To contribute to this debate the author drew on certain specific notions from feminist and postmodern epistemologies. These notions of the Other, difference, the body and discourse provided a unique way of viewing the practice of the nurses in this gynaecological setting. These epistemological concepts were then interwoven with feminist strategies to undertake the research. Through the process of feminist praxis, which included the author working alongside the nurses and conducting in-depth interviews, three areas of general concern to the nurses emerged. Firstly the relationships, that is their relationships with each other as nurses and with their women patients. Secondly, the difficulties inherent in nurses' practice in this setting due to the nature of the experiences of the women they were nursing. These difficulties arose in relation to two particular situations, nursing women experiencing a mid-trimester termination and nursing women with cancer. Thirdly, the relationship with/in the medical discourse and individual doctors which, according to nurses, had a major impact on their work. This study contributes to nursing knowledge by providing a forum for the voices of women as nurses, who nurse women in the gynaecological ward, to be heard. The author concludes that nursing and feminism have much to offer each other and share an emancipatory goal of positive action to support and assist people in their lives.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 484  
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Author Conroy, E. url  openurl
  Title Nursing informatics in New Zealand: Evolving towards extinction? Type
  Year (down) 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Keywords Informatics; Technology; Education; Nursing  
  Abstract This project undertakes a critique and review of a decade (1990-2000) of available New Zealand literature to reveal the current state of nursing informatics utilisation in nursing practice. Since the early 1990s, nurses from diploma and baccalaureate nursing programs have been graduating with knowledge and skills in nursing informatics. Yet, when scrutinising the two main nursing publications for New Zealand, the author found scant publication of articles that pertain to this topic area of nursing. Competencies as product of the 1989 Guidelines for Teaching Nursing Informatics are a key consideration in this discussion, including ways in which the articles may reflect the content or intent of the Nursing Informatics curriculum as prescribed in these guidelines. This commentary discusses how nursing informatics has evolved in New Zealand nursing practice, situating its growth, or lack of, in the context of concurrent sociopolitical influences as well as conditions created by national and international nursing trends. Several recommendations are discussed to guide the future direction of nursing informatics for nursing education and practice in New Zealand.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 501  
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Author McArtney, M. openurl 
  Title Nursing development units: Between a rock and a hard place Type
  Year (down) 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Keywords Professional development; Nursing  
  Abstract Practice development, situated at the nurse-patient interface, is a crucial aspect of professional development as a whole. The Nursing Development Unit (NDU) is one model of structured clinical practice development. NDU have their origin in a desire to provide the best possible care for patient through the support and development of autonomous therapeutic nurses. All possible sources of NDU-related literature from 1983-1999 were reviewed to determine the effectiveness of the NDU model. The purpose of the research was to establish the role of the parent organisation in supporting the ongoing viability of NDU; to describe the key processes and activities of NDU that are instrumental in the development of nursing practice; to clarify the role of the NDU in contributing to improved patient outcome; and finally to identify the critical indicator of successful NDUs for their application in the New Zealand context. The study found that British nursing journals have played a large part in promoting the NDU model. The pioneering units were given positive coverage and this has by and large continued. Accreditation systems have been important in maintaining standards and providing a generic framework for implementation. The trend is now towards internal funding from the parent organisation. The review identified a number of key features for the successful establishment of NDUs. NDUs appear to have under emphasised the development of socio-political acumen in the nursing staff. However, the NDU does offer a model for the development of confident, assertive, autonomous professionals. The NDU model values nursing as professional practice. The author concludes that the NDU model has stood the test of time, and demonstrated the ability to be at the vanguard of contemporary practice development. The model is flexible and its potential is maximised when it is tailored to meet the need of the parent organisation. The model has been successfully established in Australia, and has the potential to be adapted and refined for the New Zealand context.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 561  
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Author Carter, T. openurl 
  Title The places we will go Type
  Year (down) 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Keywords Nursing philosophy  
  Abstract The author examines how writing shapes her practice and how she nurses, her way of being and doing. She notes that “as human beings we cannot be broken into subsets, my personal and professional being inform each other, therefore you will find woven into the fabric of this paper my personal and professional becoming united by the dominant thread of nursing”. The paper is structured using the different phases of her career as a staff nurse, nurse practitioner and charge nurse. In each section she has linked the stories of children and young adults with reflections on her writing and how it has impacted her practice. She goes on to say that question and reflection are vital adjuncts to nurses' development as individual practitioners and to the profession. They facilitate journeying past the superficial into the deep of a relationship with patients and colleagues. She identifies a responsibility as nurses is to engage with the individual and help them find a space where they can regain a sense of hope and personal power. This paper follows the author's journey, leaving her with a clearer understanding of who she is and how she nurses.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 578 Serial 564  
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Author White, G.E.; Su, H.-R. openurl 
  Title Am I dying, nurse? Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2000 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 15 Issue 1 Pages 33-40  
  Keywords Communication; Ethics; Nursing; Palliative care  
  Abstract This paper addresses the concept of truth, and debates who should tell it and how it should be told. It explores the cultural aspects of knowing the truth about dying. The question of whether nurses have a moral obligation to tell the truth is explored, and suggests the lack of New Zealand research in this area should be addressed.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 631  
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Author Jacobs, S. openurl 
  Title Credentialling: Setting standards for advanced nursing practice Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2000 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 15 Issue 2 Pages 38-46  
  Keywords Scope of practice; Advanced nursing practice  
  Abstract This article examines professional regulation with particular reference to advanced practice. As well as providing an overview of credentialing and other aspects of professional regulation, including licensure, certification, registration, and titling, the question of how much regulation, and by whom, is explored.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 632  
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Author Wallis, R. openurl 
  Title Post-anaesthetic shaking: A review of the literature Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2000 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 15 Issue 1 Pages 23-32  
  Keywords Surgery; Pharmacology; Nursing research  
  Abstract This paper addresses the problem of shaking and shivering as discussed in the nursing and medical literature. It defines post-anaesthetic shaking, focusing on the role of anaesthetics in hypothermia, pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions, and theories of causes and consequences. Ways of preventing and treating post-anaesthetic shaking are examined.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 633  
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Author Horsburgh, M. openurl 
  Title Quality in undergraduate nursing programmes: The role of Nursing Council Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2000 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 15 Issue 2 Pages 25-37  
  Keywords Nursing Council of New Zealand; Nursing; Education; Nursing; Quality assurance  
  Abstract This paper looks broadly at issues to do with quality monitoring in higher education and considers the role and focus of the Nursing Council of New Zealand in the approval of and ongoing monitoring of undergraduate nursing degree programmes. It is suggested that the approach taken by the Nursing Council is accountability led where minimal attention is given to teaching and learning and actual graduate outcomes. This may lead to a mistaken belief that Nursing Council's monitoring focuses on quality or that the outcomes of their monitoring might contribute to programme enhancement. A shift to emphasise learning processes, students and continual improvement in order to enhance programme quality is proposed.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 634  
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