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Author |
Hill, N. |
Title |
A shared revelation: A comparative, triangulated study on improving quality of life in the terminally ill |
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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 |
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 |
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Year |
2001 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Massey University Library |
Volume |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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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 |
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 |
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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 |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 909 |
Serial |
893 |
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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 |
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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. |
Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 941 |
Serial |
925 |
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Author |
French, P. |
Title |
Nursing registration: A time to celebrate? |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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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 |
Wilson, M. |
Title |
Organisational psychopaths and our health culture |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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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. |
Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1030 |
Serial |
1014 |
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Author |
McKenna, B.; Poole, S. |
Title |
Debating forensic mental health nursing [corrected] |
Type |
Miscellaneous |
Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
7 |
Issue |
6 |
Pages |
18-20 |
Keywords |
Psychiatric Nursing; Law and legislation; Cross-cultural comparison; History of nursing |
Abstract |
Forensic mental health nursing roles have developed along different lines in the United States and the United Kingdom. The authors suggest that New Zealand nurses consider the evolution of such roles here. |
Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1043 |
Serial |
1027 |
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Author |
Spence, D. |
Title |
Experiencing difference in nursing |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
7 |
Issue |
5 |
Pages |
13-15 |
Keywords |
Transcultural nursing; Nursing research |
Abstract |
Draws on the author's doctoral thesis to examine the prejudices, paradoxes and possibilities inherent in nursing a person from a culture other than one's own. |
Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1045 |
Serial |
1029 |
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Author |
Spence, D. |
Title |
Prejudice, paradox, and possibility: Nursing people from cultures other than one's own |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Journal of Transcultural Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
12 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
100-106 |
Keywords |
Cultural safety; Transcultural nursing; Nurse-patient relations |
Abstract |
This article provides a brief overview of the findings of a hermeneutic study that explored the experience of nursing people from cultures other than one's own. The notions prejudice, paradox, and possibility are argued to describe this phenomenon. Nurses in New Zealand are being challenged to recognise and address racism in their practice. Yet, the implementation of cultural safety in nursing education has created tension within the profession and between nursing and the wider community. As nurses negotiate the conflicts essential for ongoing development of their practice, the play of prejudice, paradox, and possibility is evident at intrapersonal and interpersonal levels as well as in relation to professional and other discourses. Nurses are challenged to continue their efforts to understand and move beyond the prejudices that otherwise preclude the exploration of new possibilities. |
Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1104 |
Serial |
1089 |
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Author |
Hall, L. |
Title |
Burnout: Results of an empirical study of New Zealand nurses |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Contemporary Nurse |
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Volume |
11 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
71-83 |
Keywords |
Occupational health and safety; Stress; Nursing |
Abstract |
This is the first New Zealand study to use the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and the Phase Model of Burnout to determine the extent and severity of burnout in a population of 1134 nurses. Burnout is conceptualised as a syndrome consisting of three components-emotional exhaustion, reduced personal accomplishment and depersonalisation of clients or patients that occurs in individuals who work in the human service professions, particularly nursing. It has been observed that nurses are at a high risk of burnout and burnout has been described as the 'professional cancer' of nursing. Results revealed an overall 'low to average' level of burnout, suggesting that New Zealand nurses, apart from those in the 41-45 age group, are doing better than expected insofar as they are managing to avoid or not progress to the advanced phases of burnout. Possible explanations and directions for future research are presented. |
Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1117 |
Serial |
1102 |
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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 |
Volume |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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Keywords |
Nursing |
Abstract |
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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 |
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Year |
2001 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
NZNO Library |
Volume |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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Keywords |
Nursing; Pain management; Attitude of health personnel |
Abstract |
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Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1140 |
Serial |
1125 |
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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 |
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Year |
2001 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University Library |
Volume |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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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 |
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Year |
2001 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Massey University Library |
Volume |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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Keywords |
Nursing; Evidence-based medicine |
Abstract |
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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 |
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Year |
2001 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Massey University Library |
Volume |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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Keywords |
Administration; Nursing; Organisational culture |
Abstract |
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Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1272 |
Serial |
1257 |
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