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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 A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Massey University, Albany.
Call Number (down) NZNO @ research @ Serial 1363
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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 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 (down) NZNO @ research @ Serial 1426
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Author Carryer, J.B.
Title Embodied largeness: A significant women's health issue Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Nursing Inquiry Abbreviated Journal
Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages 90-97
Keywords Nurse-patient relations; Attitude of health personnel; Feminist critique
Abstract This paper describes a three-year long research project in which nine large-bodied women have engaged in a prolonged dialogue with the researcher about the experience of being 'obese'. The study involved an extensive review of the multidisciplinary literature that informs our understandings of body size. The literature review was shared with participants in order to support their critical understanding of their experience. The experience of participants raised questions as to how nursing could best provide health-care for large women. An examination of a wide range of literature pertinent to the area of study reveals widespread acceptance of the notion that to be thin is to be healthy and virtuous, and to be fat is to be unhealthy and morally deficient. According to the literature review, nurses have perpetuated an unhelpful and reductionist approach to their care of large women, in direct contradiction to nursing's supposed allegiance to a holistic approach to health-care. This paper suggests strategies for an improved response to women who are concerned about their large body size.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 941 Serial 925
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Author Richardson, S.; Allen, J.
Title Casualization of the nursing workforce: A New Zealand perspective on an international phenomenon Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication International Journal of Nursing Practice Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7 Issue 2 Pages 104-108
Keywords Industrial relations; Organisational change; Nursing; Personnel staffing and scheduling
Abstract A discussion of the increased use of 'casual' nursing staff (those nurses employed on a casual or 'per diem' basis) is presented. Reference is made to related literature, together with consideration of the implications associated with this trend. This issue has international significance, with the increased use of casual staff being widely recognised. A New Zealand perspective is included, with the provision of nursing care at Christchurch Hospital presented to illustrate certain aspects of the discussion. The impact of changing health-care systems and increased emphasis on efficiency and accountability are identified. This change to workplace practice will inevitably affect nursing; possible future developments are considered.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 909 Serial 893
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Author Rydon, S.E.
Title Attitudes, skills and knowledge of mental health nurses: The perception of users of mental health services Type
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Mental health; Psychiatric Nursing; Patient satisfaction; Attitude of health personnel
Abstract
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 819 Serial 803
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Author Hill, N.
Title A shared revelation: A comparative, triangulated study on improving quality of life in the terminally ill Type
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Quality of life; Terminal care; Nursing
Abstract
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 793 Serial 777
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Author Clendon, J.; McBride, K.
Title Public health nurses in New Zealand: The impact of invisibility Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 17 Issue 2 Pages 24-32
Keywords Public health; Nursing specialties
Abstract This research study examined the role of the public health nurse. Utilising community needs analysis method, 17 key informants and two focus groups were asked questions to determine perceptions of the public health nurse. Findings indicated that participants lacked knowledge regarding the role. Additional findings intimated that participants had difficulty in accessing public health nurse services and that 'knowing the system' was beneficial to receiving needed care. One of the major conclusions of this study was that many facets of care managed by public health nurses were invisible to the communities in which they work. Conclusions suggest that public health nurses need to enhance their service by improving accessibility to services and promoting their service in a more visible manner.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 643 Serial 629
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Author Hughes, F.
Title Locating health policy and nursing: Time for a closer relationship Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 17 Issue 3 Pages 5-14
Keywords Policy; Nursing
Abstract This paper outlines the role that policy and nursing have in a demanding and changing health care environment. It shows the basic tenets of policy, and provides strategies to enable nurses to increase their involvement in policy-making.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 641 Serial 627
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Author Noble-Adams, R.
Title 'Exemplary' nurses: An exploration of the phenomenon Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 17 Issue 1 Pages 24-33
Keywords Nurse-patient relations; Nursing; Professional competence
Abstract This paper examines the phenomenon of exemplary nursing. It includes a literature review to identify the characteristics of good nurses. These include particular personality traits, altruism, caring, expert practice, vocation, commitment and attitude. Aspects of the nurse-patient relationship with such nurses is described.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 640 Serial 626
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Author Jackson, H.
Title Compassion: A concept exploration Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 17 Issue 1 Pages 16-23
Keywords Ethics; Nursing philosophy
Abstract This paper explores the nature of compassion and posits it as a moral virtue that requires the nurse to act in the presence of suffering. Compassion is defined in relation to suffering and reciprocity, and distinguished from sympathy and pity.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 638 Serial 624
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Author Grayson, S.
Title Nursing management of the rheumatic fever secondary prophylaxis programme Type
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Community health nursing; Management; Nursing specialties
Abstract
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 576 Serial 562
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Author Tucakovic, M.
Title Nursing as an aesthetic praxis Type
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria
Volume Issue Pages
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.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 574 Serial 560
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Author Uren, M.
Title Nursing: A model for management: Why nurses are well equipped to be leaders of the future? Type
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Nurse managers; Nursing; Leadership
Abstract 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.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 573 Serial 559
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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 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 (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 501 Serial 487
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Author McKelvie, R.
Title Partnership in paediatric nursing: A descriptive exploration of the concept and its practice Type
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Paediatric nursing; Parents and caregivers; Children; Relationships
Abstract A 50 point research project presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Nursing at Massey University.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 484 Serial 471
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