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Chenery, K. |
| Title |
'Can mummy come too?' Rhetoric and realities of 'family-centred care' in one New Zealand hospital, 1960-1990 |
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| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
ResearchArchive@Victoria |
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Pages |
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Nurse-family relations; Policy; Hospitals; History of nursing; Paediatric nursing |
| Abstract |
This study explores the development of 'family-centred care' in New Zealand as part of an international movement advanced by 'experts' in the 1950s concerned with the psychological effects of mother-child separation. It positions the development of 'family-centred care' within the broader context of ideas and beliefs about mothering and children that emerged in New Zealand society between 1960 and 1980 as a response to these new concerns for children's emotional health. It examines New Zealand nursing, medical and related literature between 1960 and 1990 and considers both professional and public response to these concerns. The experiences of some mothers and nurses caring for children in one New Zealand hospital between 1960 and 1990 illustrate the significance of these responses in the context of one hospital children's ward and the subsequent implications for the practice of 'family-centred care'. This study demonstrates the difference between the professional rhetoric and the parental reality of 'family-centred care' in the context of one hospital children's ward between 1960 and 1990. The practice of 'family-centred care' placed mothers and nurses in contradictory positions within the ward environment. These contradictory positions were historically enduring, although they varied in their enactment. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1206 |
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| Author |
Carryer, J.B. |
| Title |
Embodied largeness: A significant women's health issue |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Nursing Inquiry |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| 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. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 941 |
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925 |
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| Author |
Noble-Adams, R. |
| Title |
'Exemplary' nurses: An exploration of the phenomenon |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| 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. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 640 |
Serial |
626 |
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| Author |
Hamilton, C. |
| Title |
Nursing care delivery |
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| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Massey University Library |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Nursing |
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| Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1133 |
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1118 |
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| Author |
Litchfield, M. |
| Title |
A framework of complementary models of nursing practice: A study of nursing roles and practice for a new era of healthcare provision in New Zealand |
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Report |
| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Online on the Ministry of Health's Centre for Rural Health pages |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Nursing models; Rural nursing; Policy; Scope of practice |
| Abstract |
This is the second of a series of research projects undertaken to present the contemporary picture of the nurse workforce and their work in rural settings to inform policy for development of rural healthcare. The document presents the findings of telephone interviews with nurses in different work rural work settings around the country discussing their practice. The analysis identified a framework of four models of nursing practice: two traditional models defined by the institutions employing nurses, and two emerging models defined by the new positions requiring nurses to respond directly to health need. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1176 |
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| Author |
Brookes, K. |
| Title |
Moving stories from nurses in flight |
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| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Otago Polytechnic library. A copy can be obtained by contacting pgnursadmin@tekotago.ac.nz |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Nursing specialties; Advanced nursing practice; Intensive care nursing; Feminist critique |
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This thesis contains a collection of stories gifted by four New Zealand Retrieval Team nurses who are experienced in the transport of patients. These nurses are commonly called flight nurses and they assist in the transport of patients via helicopter, fixed-wing aeroplane, large commercial aeroplanes and ambulances. While their practice is not exclusively in the helicopter there is an emphasis on this mode of transport in this thesis. Flight nursing is a scope of nursing practice where the use, and visibility, of nurses' stories is rare. The specific context of this research is positioned in one tertiary intensive care unit in New Zealand but it is anticipated that the stories from four flight nurses and the author's subsequent thoughts on them will resonate with flight nurses in other regions. The stories were collected using a storytelling methodology that has been informed by qualitative and feminist perspectives. The stories were either gathered and shaped using interview and transcription techniques with the storyteller and the researcher, or written by the storyteller. The thesis has been written as a narrative and chronicles the journey to the point of receiving the stories and the lines of inquiry in which they subsequently directed the author. The stories are central to this research and appear in their entirety. The reader is encouraged to create their own meaning from the stories. The stories themselves have several common threads, which are planning, communication, teamwork and the unexpected. The threads underpinning the stories are not unique to flight nursing practice and have been discussed in other scopes of practice. One area the author has chosen to explore in more depth is the impacts of technology, privacy, narrative pedagogy and disenfranchisement on the visibility of flight nurses' stories. The other area she has chosen for discussion is advanced and specialty nursing practice as it relates to flight nurses. As a result of this discussion she proposes her own view for advanced and specialty practice in flight nursing. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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918 |
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| Author |
Rameka, M. |
| Title |
Perioperative nursing practice & cultural safety |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Dissector |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
29 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
21-23 |
| Keywords |
Nursing specialties; Surgery; Cultural safety |
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This article is from a conference paper presented to the 12th World Conference on Surgical Patient Care. It presents cultural safety, as differentiated from transcultural nursing, and investigates how it relates to perioperative nursing. Examples are presented of how nurses can adhere to medical requirements, and address the cultural needs of Maori patients. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1084 |
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| Author |
Milligan, K.; Neville, S.J. |
| Title |
Health assessment and its relationship to nursing practice in New Zealand |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Contemporary Nurse |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
10 |
Issue |
1/2 |
Pages |
7-11 |
| Keywords |
Nursing; Education; Professional competence; Nurse practitioners; Cross-cultural comparison |
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This article draws on Australian experience to gain insight to three specific areas of health assessment that are topical in New Zealand, which has recently introduced the concept into nursing training. The issues are annual registration based on evidence of competence to practice, a review of undergraduate curricula, and the development of nurse practitioner/advanced nurse practitioner roles. The meaning of the concept 'health assessment' is also clarified in order to provide consistency as new initiatives in nursing are currently being developed. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1090 |
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Horsburgh, M.; Lamdin, R.; Williamson, E. |
| Title |
Multiprofessional learning: The attitudes of medical, nursing and pharmacy students to shared learning |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Medical Education |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
35 |
Issue |
9 |
Pages |
876-883 |
| Keywords |
Nursing; Education; Students; Interprofessional relations |
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This study has sought to quantify the attitudes of first-year medical, nursing and pharmacy students' towards interprofessional learning, at course commencement. The Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale (RIPLS) (University of Liverpool, Department of Health Care Education), was administered to first-year medical, nursing and pharmacy students at the University of Auckland. Differences between the three groups were analysed. The majority of students reported positive attitudes towards shared learning. The benefits of shared learning, including the acquisition of teamworking skills, were seen to be beneficial to patient care and likely to enhance professional working relationships. However professional groups differed: nursing and pharmacy students indicated more strongly that an outcome of learning together would be more effective teamworking. Medical students were the least sure of their professional role, and considered that they required the acquisition of more knowledge and skills than nursing or pharmacy students. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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719 |
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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 |
| Abstract |
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 |
Wilson, D.S. |
| Title |
Transforming nursing education: A legitimacy of difference |
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| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
UC Research Repository |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Nursing; Education; Teaching methods; Curriculum; Feminist critique |
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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 |
Stolz-Schwarz, P. |
| Title |
Barriers to and facilitators of research use in clinical practice for a sample of New Zealand registered nurses |
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| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Massey University Library |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Nursing; Evidence-based medicine |
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| Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1271 |
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1256 |
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| Author |
Peach, J. |
| Title |
The contribution of nursing to the health of New Zealand |
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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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| 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. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 501 |
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487 |
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| Author |
Wilson, M. |
| Title |
Organisational psychopaths and our health culture |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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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 |
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1014 |
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Boyd, L. |
| Title |
“It could have just as easily been me”: Nurses working in mental health services who have experienced mental illness |
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| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
NZNO Library |
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| Keywords |
Nursing; Mental health; Occupational health and safety |
| Abstract |
This research explores the issues and experiences of mental health nurses who experience or have experienced mental illness. This project was prompted by the author's concern for colleagues and friends in this situation. The research topic was approached using a mix of critical ethnography and action research principles. Five mental health nurses who all work for the same district health board were interviewed about their experiences of being mental health professionals with mental illness and the issues that arose from this. The themes that emerged from this research are: the reactions of nurse colleagues, the effects on participants' own mental health treatment, employer responses, professional experiences and issues and strategies for coping. Discussion and recommendations focus on the need for improvements to the responses that mental health nurses with experience of mental illness encounter in their workplace. Recommendations from this research encompass suggestions for both individual and organisational education, action and change. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1127 |
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