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Author Schumacher, A.T. url  openurl
  Title More than meets the eye: Explicating the essence of gerontology nursing Type
  Year 2001 Publication (down) Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria  
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  Keywords Geriatric nursing; Nursing philosophy; Nursing specialties  
  Abstract The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological was to unveil a deeper meaning and understanding of gerontology nursing, thus contributing to its value and worth as a speciality area of nursing. Conversations with four gerontology nurses were taped, transcribed and then analysed using van Manen's (1990) approach to researching lived experience. From the analysis, four cardinal elements emerged: true acceptance, personal knowing, being present, and being alive. Those four cardinal elements were reworked and further analysed to reveal three central aspects or essences of gerontology nursing. These essences were the centrality of temporality, the interconnectedness of human relationships, and the significance of the lived body. Temporality is demonstrated by nursing application of objective, or clock time, as well as subjectively in regards to the lived time of the clients. Interconnectedness is the lived human relationship between nurse and client and is represented by commitment, presencing/giving of self, connecting, and knowing the client holistically. The third essence is corporeality, which is portrayed by the gerontology nurses' distinguishing characteristics and their perception of the lived body of the nursed. The final analysis unveiled caring for the body, the act of seeing, and the joy of care as emergent essences of gerontology nursing. Language of nursing in relationship to 'basic nursing care' is critiqued for its potential to devalue gerontology nursing and, by association, old people.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1157 Serial 1142  
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Author Andrews, C.M. url  openurl
  Title Developing a nursing speciality: Plunket Nursing 1905 – 1920 Type
  Year 2001 Publication (down) Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria  
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  Keywords Plunket; History of nursing; Nursing specialties; Paediatric nursing  
  Abstract This paper focuses on the history of Plunket nursing and Truby King's ideology and other dominant ideologies, during the years 1905 – 1920. To provide a context, the paper explores the development of a new nursing speciality – Plunket nursing, that became part of the backbone of a fledgling health system and the New Zealand nursing profession. Correspondingly, Truby King presented the country with a vision for improving infant welfare underpinned by his eugenics view of the world and his experimentation with infant feeding. The author argues that nurses were drawn to the work of the newly created Plunket Society and that the Society had lasting influence on the development of nursing in New Zealand.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1167 Serial 1152  
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Author Cullens, V. openurl 
  Title Not just a shortage of girls: The shortage of nurses in post World War 2 New Zealand 1945-1955 Type
  Year 2001 Publication (down) Abbreviated Journal Victoria University Library  
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  Keywords Recruitment and retention; Nursing; History of nursing  
  Abstract This thesis explores the shortage of general hospital nurses in post World War II New Zealand between 1945 and 1955. Historical inquiry is used to identify the causes of the shortage and the response to the shortage by the Health Department, hospital boards and nurse leaders. Christchurch Hospital, administered by the North Canterbury Hospital Board, is used to illustrate the situation at one large, public, general hospital. Primary sources provided the majority of material which informed this thesis. Two themes emerge regarding the causes of the shortage of nurses: those that were readily acknowledged by nurse leaders and other health professionals at the time, and those which were less widely discussed, but which contributed to the nature of nursing work appearing less attractive to potential recruits. In response to the shortage the Health Department, hospital boards and the New Zealand Registered Nurses Association mounted several recruitment campaigns throughout the decade. As the shortage showed no sign of abatement the focus turned from recruitment to retention of nurses. While salaries, conditions and training were improved, nurse leaders also gave attention to establishing what nurses' work was and what it was not. Nurse leaders and others promoted nursing as a profession that could provide young women with a satisfying lifelong career. Due to these efforts, by 1955, this episode in the cycle of demand and supply of nurses had begun to improve.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1169 Serial 1154  
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Author Stolz-Schwarz, P. openurl 
  Title Barriers to and facilitators of research use in clinical practice for a sample of New Zealand registered nurses Type
  Year 2001 Publication (down) Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Keywords Nursing; Evidence-based medicine  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1271 Serial 1256  
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Author Rowe, W. openurl 
  Title An ethnography of the nursing handover Type
  Year 2001 Publication (down) Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Keywords Administration; Nursing; Organisational culture  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1272 Serial 1257  
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Author Herd, C.M.F. openurl 
  Title Is it a dangerous game? Registered nurses' experiences of working with care assistants in a public hospital setting Type
  Year 2001 Publication (down) Abbreviated Journal Massey University, Palmerston North, Library  
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  Keywords Registered nurses; Personnel; Interprofessional relations  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1274 Serial 1259  
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Author Walsh, C.; Boyd, L.; Baker, P.; Gavriel, A.; McClusky, N.; Puckey, T.C.; Sadler, D.; Stidworthy, A. openurl 
  Title It was time for me to leave: A participatory action research study into discharge planning from an acute mental health setting Type Report
  Year 2001 Publication (down) Abbreviated Journal  
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  Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Patient satisfaction; Hospitals; Administration  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1275 Serial 1260  
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Author Gilmour, J.A. openurl 
  Title On the margins: Nurses and the intermittent care of people with dementia: A discourse analysis Type
  Year 2001 Publication (down) Abbreviated Journal Massey University, Palmerston North, Library  
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  Keywords Older people; Dementia; Nursing  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1276 Serial 1261  
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