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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 (up) Abbreviated Journal
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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 NRSNZNO @ research @ 484 Serial 471
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Author Peach, J.
Title The contribution of nursing to the health of New Zealand Type
Year 2001 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria
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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.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 501 Serial 487
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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 (up) Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
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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 NRSNZNO @ research @ 573 Serial 559
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Author Tucakovic, M.
Title Nursing as an aesthetic praxis Type
Year 2001 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria
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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.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 574 Serial 560
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Author Grayson, S.
Title Nursing management of the rheumatic fever secondary prophylaxis programme Type
Year 2001 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Keywords Community health nursing; Management; Nursing specialties
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 576 Serial 562
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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 (up) Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Keywords Quality of life; Terminal care; Nursing
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 793 Serial 777
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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 (up) Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Keywords Mental health; Psychiatric Nursing; Patient satisfaction; Attitude of health personnel
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 819 Serial 803
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Author Hamilton, C.
Title Nursing care delivery Type
Year 2001 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Keywords Nursing
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1133 Serial 1118
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Author Barton, J.
Title Pain knowledge and attitudes of nurses and midwives in a New Zealand context Type
Year 2001 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library
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Keywords Nursing; Pain management; Attitude of health personnel
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1140 Serial 1125
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Author Schumacher, A.T.
Title More than meets the eye: Explicating the essence of gerontology nursing Type
Year 2001 Publication (up) 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.
Title Developing a nursing speciality: Plunket Nursing 1905 – 1920 Type
Year 2001 Publication (up) 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.
Title Not just a shortage of girls: The shortage of nurses in post World War 2 New Zealand 1945-1955 Type
Year 2001 Publication (up) 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.
Title Barriers to and facilitators of research use in clinical practice for a sample of New Zealand registered nurses Type
Year 2001 Publication (up) 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.
Title An ethnography of the nursing handover Type
Year 2001 Publication (up) 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.
Title Is it a dangerous game? Registered nurses' experiences of working with care assistants in a public hospital setting Type
Year 2001 Publication (up) 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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