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Author French, P.
Title (down) Nursing registration: A time to celebrate? Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7 Issue 8 Pages 17-19
Keywords History of nursing; Interprofessional relations; Physicians; Nursing philosophy
Abstract This article examines the knowledge and power relationships between the medical profession and nurses during the first half of the twentieth century. It argues that the 1901 Nurses' Registration Act allowed doctors to exert control over the nursing profession and that the hierarchal structure of the profession contributes to the culture of control and surveillance.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1029 Serial 1013
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Author Grayson, S.
Title (down) 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
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 576 Serial 562
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Author Hamilton, C.
Title (down) Nursing care delivery Type
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Nursing
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1133 Serial 1118
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Author Tucakovic, M.
Title (down) 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 NRSNZNO @ research @ 574 Serial 560
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Author Cullens, V.
Title (down) Not just a shortage of girls: The shortage of nurses in post World War 2 New Zealand 1945-1955 Type
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University Library
Volume Issue Pages
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 Horsburgh, M.; Lamdin, R.; Williamson, E.
Title (down) Multiprofessional learning: The attitudes of medical, nursing and pharmacy students to shared learning Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Medical Education Abbreviated Journal
Volume 35 Issue 9 Pages 876-883
Keywords Nursing; Education; Students; Interprofessional relations
Abstract 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.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 719
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Author Brookes, K.
Title (down) Moving stories from nurses in flight Type
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal Otago Polytechnic library. A copy can be obtained by contacting pgnursadmin@tekotago.ac.nz
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Nursing specialties; Advanced nursing practice; Intensive care nursing; Feminist critique
Abstract 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.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 918
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Author Schumacher, A.T.
Title (down) More than meets the eye: Explicating the essence of gerontology nursing Type
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria
Volume Issue Pages
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 Crowe, M.; O'Malley, J.; Gordon, S.
Title (down) Meeting the needs of consumers in the community: A working partnership in mental health in New Zealand Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 35 Issue 1 Pages 88-96
Keywords Community health nursing; Psychiatric Nursing; Patient satisfaction; Mental health
Abstract The aim of this study was to evaluate whether the services that community mental health nurses provide are meeting the needs of consumers in the community. This was a joint project between nurses and consumers. It was a service-specific descriptive research project utilising qualitative methods of data collection and analysis that provides a model for working in partnership. The results of this research identify collaboration in planning care and sharing information as two areas of concern but generally the consumers were very satisfied with the care provided by community mental health nurses. The analysis of the data suggests that consumers value nursing care because nurses provide support in their own home; they help consumers develop strategies for coping with their illness and their life; they provide practical assistance when it is required; they are vigilant about any deterioration or improvement; and they are available and accessible. The results of this study have demonstrated that nurses will remain critical to the success of community-based care because of their ability and willingness to be flexible to the demands of their own organisation and the users of services.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1087
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Author Kiro,C.
Title (down) 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 NZNO @ research @ Serial 1363
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Author Hughes, F.
Title (down) 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 NRSNZNO @ research @ 641 Serial 627
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Author Wright, R.
Title (down) Linking theory with practice Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
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.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1012
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Author Johnstone, C.
Title (down) Linking diet and respiratory distress Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7 Issue 5 Pages 22-23
Keywords Diet; Chronic diseases; District nursing
Abstract The author, a district nurse, describes the experiences of a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease requiring long-term oxygen therapy and characterised as a carbon dioxide retainer whose overall health was improved by a carbohydrate restricted diet. The literature on carbohydrate intake and respiratory disease is briefly reviewed.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1011
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Author Walsh, C.; Boyd, L.; Baker, P.; Gavriel, A.; McClusky, N.; Puckey, T.C.; Sadler, D.; Stidworthy, A.
Title (down) 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 Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Patient satisfaction; Hospitals; Administration
Abstract
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1275 Serial 1260
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Author Herd, C.M.F.
Title (down) Is it a dangerous game? Registered nurses' experiences of working with care assistants in a public hospital setting Type
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University, Palmerston North, Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Registered nurses; Personnel; Interprofessional relations
Abstract
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1274 Serial 1259
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