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Wright, R. |
| Title |
Linking theory with practice |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
7 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
14-15 |
| Keywords |
Intensive care nursing; Nurse-family relations; Nursing models |
| Abstract |
This article describes the care of a brain-dead intensive care unit patient. The human caring theory of Jean Watson is used to interpret the interactions between family, patient and nurse in this case study. Watson's concepts of care are examined as they relate to each stage of caring for the patient and his family. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1012 |
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Woods, M. |
| Title |
Balancing rights and duties in 'life and death' decision making involving children: A role for nurses? |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Nursing Ethics |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
8 |
Issue |
5 |
Pages |
397-408 |
| Keywords |
Parents and caregivers; Children; Ethics; Clinical decision making; Nurse-family relations; Chronically ill |
| Abstract |
This article examines a growing number of cases in New Zealand in which parents and guardians are required to make life and death ethical decisions on behalf of their seriously ill child. Increasingly, nurses and other practitioners are expected to more closely inform, involve and support the rights of parents or guardians in such situations. Differing moral and ethical values between the medical team and parents or guardians can lead to difficult decision making situations. The article analyses the moral parameters, processes, outcomes and ethical responses that must be considered when life and death ethical decisions involving children are made. It concludes with a recommendation that nurses should be recognised as perhaps the most suitable of all health care personnel when careful mediation is needed to produce an acceptable moral outcome in difficult ethical situations. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1086 |
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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 |
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| Volume |
7 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
27-29 |
| Keywords |
Nursing; Leadership; Organisational change |
| Abstract |
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. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1030 |
Serial |
1014 |
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| Author |
Wilson, L.J. |
| Title |
Futurist planning, not a shortage stopgap: Recruitment and retention of registered nurses in New Zealand |
Type |
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| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Recruitment and retention; Registered nurses; Policy; Careers in nursing |
| Abstract |
This literature review critically examines contributing factors to the current nursing shortage in New Zealand, centering on recruitment and retention of registered nurses. There is a dramatic widening between the supply of registered nurses and the demand for their services. All regions in New Zealand are reporting difficulty in hiring experienced and specialty nurses, and recruiting time is lengthening. This report suggests that the shortage is closely linked to factors in the nursing care environment. As a result of multiple factors during the centralising, cost-containing, acuity-increasing decade of the 1990s, the care environment has driven practising nurses out of acute care settings and discouraged new students from entering the profession. The availability of numerous alternative career opportunities has heightened the effect. Continuing causes to the non-selection of nursing as a profession are the influences of wage compression and limited career progression over the lifetime of the nurse, and insufficient orientation and mentoring of new nurses. Recent changes in the health care system have gone unevaluated and without oversight by nursing regulatory agencies – a situation not in the best interests of patients or nurses. A number of both literature-supported and resourceful approaches, including recommendations towards addressing the nursing shortage are proposed in this review. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1258 |
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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 |
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| Volume |
36 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
294-301 |
| Keywords |
Paediatric nursing; Nurse-family relations; Nursing philosophy; Plunket |
| Abstract |
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. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1085 |
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| Author |
Wilson, D.S. |
| Title |
Transforming nursing education: A legitimacy of difference |
Type |
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| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
UC Research Repository |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Nursing; Education; Teaching methods; Curriculum; Feminist critique |
| Abstract |
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. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1139 |
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| Author |
Webby, A. |
| Title |
Developing safe nursing practice for Maori |
Type |
Journal Article |
| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
7 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
16-17 |
| Keywords |
Maori; Psychiatric Nursing; Nursing models |
| Abstract |
A safe mental health nursing practice for Maori is defined as one that includes Maori ways of knowing. The author also notes that Maori mental health nurses must be given the ability to create their own practice to best meet their clients' needs. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1028 |
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| Author |
Watson, S. |
| Title |
Humane caring: Quality of life issues for those elderly people wanting to remain in their own environment |
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| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
ResearchArchive@Victoria |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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Geriatric nursing; Older people; Home care |
| Abstract |
This thesis explores the issues surrounding the elderly remaining in their own environment and why remaining 'at home' becomes so essential for them. There are many elderly people who have moved to residential care settings on the advice of others. The author explores the implications of such moves through the stories of several elderly persons, and her own experiences as a nurse working with the elderly in institutional care. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1217 |
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| Author |
Watson, K. |
| Title |
Culture, breastfeeding and bottles |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Vision: A Journal of Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
7 |
Issue |
13 |
Pages |
19-23 |
| Keywords |
Breastfeeding |
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This essay explores some of the historical influences in New Zealand that have lead to the current infant feeding practices. It critically examines recent cultural influences on breastfeeding practices and seeks to explain why there is no breastfeeding culture. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1292 |
Serial |
1277 |
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| Author |
Ward, J. |
| Title |
High acuity nursing |
Type |
Journal Article |
| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Vision: A Journal of Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
7 |
Issue |
12 |
Pages |
15-19 |
| Keywords |
Nurse-family relations; Emergency nursing; Technology |
| Abstract |
This article looks at the role of technology in nursing, and the interaction between it and human compassion and caring. The interface between critical care technologies and caring is explored, along with the social and political issues facing critical care areas. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1298 |
Serial |
1283 |
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Walsh, C.; Boyd, L.; Baker, P.; Gavriel, A.; McClusky, N.; Puckey, T.C.; Sadler, D.; Stidworthy, A. |
| Title |
It was time for me to leave: A participatory action research study into discharge planning from an acute mental health setting |
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Report |
| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Psychiatric Nursing; Patient satisfaction; Hospitals; Administration |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1275 |
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1260 |
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| Author |
Walker, J.; Bailey, S.; Brasell-Brian, R.; Gould, S. |
| Title |
Evaluating a problem based learning course: An action research study |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Contemporary Nurse |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
10 |
Issue |
1/2 |
Pages |
30-38 |
| Keywords |
Nursing; Education; Teaching methods |
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate how the New Zealand style of problem based learning was developing students' understanding and integration of knowledge. The 'pure' problem based learning process has been adapted to move students gradually from teacher direction to taking responsibility for their learning. Two cycles of an action research method were used, involving 4 lecturers and 17 students. Data was collected both quantitatively and qualitatively over a 16-week period. Findings indicated the importance of: explaining the purpose and process of problem based learning; communicating in detail the role of both students and lecturers; keeping communication lines open; addressing timetabling issues and valuing this method of learning for nursing practice. Implications for nursing education are addressed. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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695 |
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| Author |
Vernon, R.A. |
| Title |
Clinical case study: Acute traumatic head injury |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Vision: A Journal of Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
7 |
Issue |
12 |
Pages |
3-9 |
| Keywords |
Trauma; Emergency nursing; Nursing specialties; Quality of health care |
| Abstract |
This clinical case study takes an integrated approach to investigation and critical analysis of the complex physiological and pathophysiological treatment modalities instigated when a patient presents following acute traumatic head injury. A broad overview of the developmental physiology of the brain and an explanation of the mechanism of traumatic brain injury as it relates to alterations in cerebral blood flow, intracranial pressure and cerebral metabolism is presented. The author describes in narrative form the clinical presentation of a patient, her symptoms and initial treatment rationale. It concludes with analysis of the patients initial treatment priorities and symptom management during the first 48 hours of her care. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1281 |
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| Author |
Uren, M. |
| Title |
Nursing: A model for management: Why nurses are well equipped to be leaders of the future? |
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| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Pages |
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Nurse managers; Nursing; Leadership |
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The subject of nursing leadership is approached by reviewing the literature of two prominent nursing theorists, Patricia Benner and Jean Watson, and the literature of transformational leadership. Common themes are identified. An exhortation is offered to nurses to consider that the caring characteristics of nurses are what is required in the corporate world of management. Chapter 1, questions whether nursing and management are different worlds or shared realities. It outlines the author's experience of practising as a manager in a complex organisation and the seeming barriers that exist between managers and nurses and management and nursing. A questioning of those barriers became the impetus for the review. Chapter 2, outlines the work of Patricia Benner and Jean Watson. Caring is identified as a core concept which is said to differ significantly from a conventional understanding of helping and is inextricably linked to a profound understanding of what it means to be human. Chapter 3, reviews the literature of contemporary managers who are exploring a transformed approach to leadership and management. Six themes are identified that are common to nursing theory and transformational leadership theory. Chapter 4, acknowledges that despite the similarities between nursing and contemporary management thought, there remains a gap between nurses and management. Rather than feeling optimistic about the future, and confident in assuming leadership roles, many nurses feel defeated and fearful about the future. It is suggested that this may be a consequence of bad experience of leadership, of loss of joy of caring and of failure to value the strength residing in the collective community of nurses. Nurses are encouraged to recognise that their knowledge and experience of caring and wholeness, healing, sharing and enabling, are the attributes that equip them to be leaders of the future health and corporate world. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 573 |
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559 |
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| Author |
Tucakovic, M. |
| Title |
Nursing as an aesthetic praxis |
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2001 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
ResearchArchive@Victoria |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Nursing; Nursing philosophy |
| Abstract |
This thesis focuses on the experience of being human as process in order to reveal being. Illness and health are seen as reflections of this process of revelation. This work argues that health and illness are physical expressions of consciousness and therefore an outcome of what a human being has thought. In this way, this work shows how thought/intent serves to create life in the moment. In this understanding lies the potential to change reality, to change life. The thesis identifies self-responsibility as the key to changing consciousness. Taking responsibility for the creation of one's reality eliminates the human tendency to blame another for what is experienced in life. To that end, this work argues, we are each free to choose what is felt in response to life. In so doing, we can become conscious that life is a choice, that is to be approached from either the position of perfection, or excellence. The author proposes that, in the understanding that human beings are the creators of their reality, it is possible to conceive of care in nursing that is directed at changing thinking/thought. Such change would be to focus on the excellence of life, and in that way enact care in nursing that is an enabling through a process of being that is an emotional allowance in response to life. To this end, this work is titled Nursing as an Aesthetic Praxis. The aesthetic is emotion and feeling. Praxis, is presented in its dialectical relationship of thought and action that is then bound to emotion and feeling in such a way that it illuminates the nature of thinking. This way of thinking, this work shows, is transformatory. Where transformation is a process of being that as a state of excellence is one of incremental human freedom accompanied by incremental responsibility. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 574 |
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560 |
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