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Author Giddings, D.L.S.; Smith, M.C.
Title Stories of lesbian in/visibility in nursing Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Nursing Outlook Abbreviated Journal
Volume 49 Issue 1 Pages 14-19
Keywords Sexuality; Nursing; Identity; Work
Abstract (up) A study of the life histories of five self-identified lesbian women in nursing is reported. A metastory of “In/Visibility” captured the essence of lesbians being the focus of intense scrutiny while at the same time feeling the pressure to keep their lifestyle and identity hidden from others. Seven story themes were elaborated: closeting of lesbianism in nursing, isolating and hiding from self and others, living a double-life, self-loathing and shame, experiencing discrimination from others, keeping safe, and threatening others who are closeted.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 844
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Author Kiro,C.
Title Maori health policy and practice = Kimihia hauora Maori : Ngapuhi, Ngati-Hine, NgatiTe Rangiwewehe Type
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal Held by Lakes DHB Library (ROM)
Volume Issue Pages 441 pp
Keywords
Abstract (up) A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Massey University, Albany.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1363
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Author Spence, D.
Title Experiencing difference in nursing Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7 Issue 5 Pages 13-15
Keywords Transcultural nursing; Nursing research
Abstract (up) Draws on the author's doctoral thesis to examine the prejudices, paradoxes and possibilities inherent in nursing a person from a culture other than one's own.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1045 Serial 1029
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Author McKenna, B.; Poole, S.
Title Debating forensic mental health nursing [corrected] Type Miscellaneous
Year 2001 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7 Issue 6 Pages 18-20
Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Law and legislation; Cross-cultural comparison; History of nursing
Abstract (up) Forensic mental health nursing roles have developed along different lines in the United States and the United Kingdom. The authors suggest that New Zealand nurses consider the evolution of such roles here.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1043 Serial 1027
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Author Rayat, P.
Title The relationship between job satisfaction and professional development in nursing: A socio critical outlook Type
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Job satisfaction; Professional development; Nursing
Abstract (up) Health reforms, reviews and restructuring are not new to New Zealand nursing. The author notes that changes in the environment have created many pressures on nursing as a profession. The profession is trying to deal with this turmoil in a responsible fashion. It is also trying to grow and develop at the same time. This research is focused on finding the relationship between job and professional development. It also highlights the factors that affect job satisfaction and professional development.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 570
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Author Wilson, D.S.
Title Transforming nursing education: A legitimacy of difference Type
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal UC Research Repository
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Nursing; Education; Teaching methods; Curriculum; Feminist critique
Abstract (up) In 1973, two trial pre-registration nursing education programmes were piloted in New Zealand polytechnics. These represented an alternative to traditional hospital-sited schools of nursing. The establishment of nursing education in the tertiary sector marked a radical challenge to the cultural heritage of apprenticeship-style nursing training associated with paternal and medically-dominated health institutions. This thesis offers a Foucauldian and feminist poststructuralist analysis of discourses employed by fifteen senior nursing educators in the comprehensive registration programmes between 1973 and 1992. The women employed to teach in the comprehensive programmes faced unique challenges in establishing departments of nursing, in developing curricula that would promote a reorientation of nursing and in supporting candidates to attain their nursing registration. Through semi-structured interviews and discourse analysis methods, a set of unique characteristics shared by this group of early leading comprehensive nursing educators has emerged. The women's narratives were underpinned by discourses that centre around the valuing of education as a vehicle for emancipation and an upholding of a legitimacy of difference in nursing educators' work. The participants upheld the importance of clinical practice skills and drew on their own student nursing experiences as incentives for reforming nursing education. These nursing educators conceptualised an idealised type of graduate, and commonly employed an heroic metaphor to describe their experiences as senior comprehensive educators. Their engagement with such discourses and their shared characteristics demonstrate unique re-constitutions of power, knowledge and relations with their colleagues and clients throughout the education and health care sectors. The author proposes that these traits characterise the women as strategic and astute professionals who successfully negotiated the construction of comprehensive nursing programmes as a legitimate and transformative preparation for nursing registration.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1139
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Author Henry, Pamela
Title 'Coming home safely : a successful transition from hospital to home' : Margaret May Blackwell Study Fellowship for Nurses of Young Children, Nursing Education Research Foundation Type Report
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 38
Keywords Infants; Hospital care; Home care services; Community health care; Reports
Abstract (up) Investigates programmes to facilitate the transition to home for babies who have had lengthy admission to Neonatal Intensive Care Units. Provides an overview of the transition services at four sites visited in the US and Canada. Highlights the common elements among all four programmes and identifies the components of quality transition services. Evaluates their clinical effectiveness. Part of the Margaret May Blackwell Scholarship Reports series.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1426
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Author Peach, J.
Title The contribution of nursing to the health of New Zealand Type
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Nursing; Health status
Abstract (up) Nursing in New Zealand has been a recognised profession for one hundred years. Throughout this time the profession has made a significant contribution to the health of communities, nationally and internationally. Despite the obvious effort and achievement, the author suggests that the evidence of this contribution is not well known. She goes on to say that nurses, now as never before, are challenged to show how they 'add value' and to explain why nursing expertise is essential to safe service delivery. Finding a way to communicate this contribution has been identified as one of the most important issues facing the profession. This thesis explores the concept of contribution and presents a model, the 'Contribution Model', to show how nursing can articulate the action and achievements that show how nursing professionals have and will continue to contribute to health gain in New Zealand. Through the application of the 'Contribution Model' and framework presented in this thesis, nursing is shown to have made a contribution to health gain by using the broad range of knowledge, skills and experiences in a wide range of settings, to provide care wherever and whenever required. Case studies and scenarios from history, observation and prediction are used to show how the actions and achievements of nursing meet the expectations of individuals, the community and society: past, present and future.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 501 Serial 487
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Author Spence, D.
Title Hermeneutic notions illuminate cross-cultural nursing experiences Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 35 Issue 4 Pages 624-630
Keywords Transcultural nursing; Nursing
Abstract (up) The aim of this paper was to articulate selected hermeneutic notions for the purpose of extending current understanding of cross-cultural nursing practice, and build on the author's work in this area. The project asserted that the notions of prejudice, paradox and possibility portray a nursing view of this phenomenon. The emphasis in this paper, rather than being methodological, is on showing how specific hermeneutic notions contribute to deeper understanding of the nature of cross-cultural practice. It is argued that contact with, and the capacity to explore, the play of conflicting prejudices and possibilities enhances understanding of the complex and paradoxical nature of cross-cultural nursing.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 705
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Author Wilson, H.V.
Title Power and partnership: A critical analysis of the surveillance discourses of child health nurses Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 36 Issue 2 Pages 294-301
Keywords Paediatric nursing; Nurse-family relations; Nursing philosophy; Plunket
Abstract (up) The aim of this research was to explore surveillance discourses within New Zealand child health nursing and to identify whether surveillance practices have implications in this context for power relations. Five experienced and practising Plunket nurses were each interviewed twice. The texts generated by these semi-structured interviews were analysed using a Foucauldian approach to critical discourse analysis. In contrast with the conventional view of power as held and wielded by one party, this study revealed that, in the Plunket nursing context, power is exercised in various and unexpected ways. Although the relationship between the mother and the nurse cannot be said to operate as a partnership, it is constituted in the nurses' discourses as a dynamic relationship in which the mother is actively engaged on her own terms. The effect of this is that it is presented by the nurses as a precarious relationship that has significant implications for the success of their work.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1085
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Author Clendon, J.; White, G.E.
Title The feasibility of a nurse practitioner-led primary health care clinic in a school setting: A community needs analysis Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 34 Issue 2 Pages 171-178
Keywords Primary health care; Nurse managers; Advanced nursing practice; Community health nursing; School nursing
Abstract (up) The aim of this study was to determine the feasibility of establishing a nurse practitioner-led, family focused, primary health care clinic within a New Zealand primary school environment as a means of addressing the health needs of children and families. A secondary aim was to ascertain whether public health nurses were the most appropriate nurses to lead such a clinic. Utilising a community needs analysis method, data were collected from demographic data, 17 key informant interviews and two focus group interviews. Analysis was exploratory and descriptive. Findings included the identification of a wide range of health issues. These included asthma management and control issues, the need to address poor parenting, and specific problems of the refugee and migrant population. Findings also demonstrated that participant understanding of the role of the public health nurse was less than anticipated and that community expectations were such that for a public health nurse to lead a primary health care clinic it would be likely that further skills would be required. Outcomes from investigating the practicalities of establishing a nurse practitioner-led clinic resulted in the preparation of a community-developed plan that would serve to address the health needs of children and families in the area the study was undertaken. Services that participants identified as being appropriate included health information, health education, health assessment and referral. The authors conclude that the establishment of a nurse practitioner-led, family focused, primary health care clinic in a primary school environment was feasible. While a public health nurse may fulfil the role of the nurse practitioner, it was established that preparation to an advanced level of practice would be required.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 952
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Author Crowe, M.; O'Malley, J.; Gordon, S.
Title Meeting the needs of consumers in the community: A working partnership in mental health in New Zealand Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 35 Issue 1 Pages 88-96
Keywords Community health nursing; Psychiatric Nursing; Patient satisfaction; Mental health
Abstract (up) The aim of this study was to evaluate whether the services that community mental health nurses provide are meeting the needs of consumers in the community. This was a joint project between nurses and consumers. It was a service-specific descriptive research project utilising qualitative methods of data collection and analysis that provides a model for working in partnership. The results of this research identify collaboration in planning care and sharing information as two areas of concern but generally the consumers were very satisfied with the care provided by community mental health nurses. The analysis of the data suggests that consumers value nursing care because nurses provide support in their own home; they help consumers develop strategies for coping with their illness and their life; they provide practical assistance when it is required; they are vigilant about any deterioration or improvement; and they are available and accessible. The results of this study have demonstrated that nurses will remain critical to the success of community-based care because of their ability and willingness to be flexible to the demands of their own organisation and the users of services.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1087
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Author Wilson, M.
Title Organisational psychopaths and our health culture Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7 Issue 3 Pages 27-29
Keywords Nursing; Leadership; Organisational change
Abstract (up) The author discusses recent research on organisational psychopaths, and suggests it offers an explanation for the state of the health system since managerialism was ushered in through health reforms. She identifies personality traits of organisational psychopaths and of aberrant self-promoters. The author gives her experience of changes to the structure of nursing at a North Island metropolitan public hospital over an 8-year period.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1030 Serial 1014
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Author Ross, J.
Title Perspectives on developing the advanced role of rural nursing in New Zealand Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Health Manager Abbreviated Journal
Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages 19-21
Keywords Rural nursing; Advanced nursing practice; School nursing; Professional competence
Abstract (up) The author traces the development of rural nursing, which began as an assistant role for general practitioners, to the present role which incorporates advanced nursing practice. She reports the results of two surveys of nurses' roles and skills, from 1996 and 1999-2000. Specific rural competencies are identified, in managing isolation, professionalism in a small community, nurse/patient relationships in a small community, and independence.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1313 Serial 1297
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Author Spence, D.
Title The evolving meaning of 'culture' in New Zealand nursing Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 17 Issue 3 Pages 51-61
Keywords Cultural safety; Biculturalism; History of nursing; Maori
Abstract (up) The author traces the nursing definition of biculturalism as it has evolved from the colonial period to the present. An examination of nursing literature demonstrates that local understandings of culture have matured beyond anthropological interpretations to a sociopolitical definition of Maori culture. The author suggests that, in nursing, culture has come to mean cultural safety.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 625
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