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Johnstone, C. |
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Title |
Linking diet and respiratory distress |
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2001 |
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Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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7 |
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5 |
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22-23 |
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Diet; Chronic diseases; District nursing |
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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. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1011 |
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Wright, R. |
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Linking theory with practice |
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Journal Article |
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2001 |
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Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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7 |
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2 |
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14-15 |
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Intensive care nursing; Nurse-family relations; Nursing models |
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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. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1012 |
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Skadiang, K. |
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Researching post-tonsillectomy bleeding |
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Journal Article |
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2001 |
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Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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7 |
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4 |
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22-23 |
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Surgery; Health status; Nursing |
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This article reports findings from an audit of post-tonsillectomy haemorrhage among patients at South Auckland Health from October 1998 to April 1999. All patients who underwent tonsillectomy or adenotonsillectomy were contacted by telephone, after the 14th day and before the 21st day following surgery. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1015 |
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Prentice, D.; Hathaway, M. |
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Responding to a death from meningococcal disease: A case study |
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Journal Article |
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2001 |
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Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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7 |
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5 |
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16-18 |
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Infectious diseases; Public health; Infection control |
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The public health nurses present a case study on adapting meningococcal disease public health protocols to work with the situation of a Cook Island family following the death of a member from meningococcal disease. They discuss the meningococcal disease epidemic in New Zealand and outline the signs and symptoms of the disease. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1016 |
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Webby, A. |
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Developing safe nursing practice for Maori |
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Journal Article |
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2001 |
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Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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7 |
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1 |
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16-17 |
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Maori; Psychiatric Nursing; Nursing models |
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A safe mental health nursing practice for Maori is defined as one that includes Maori ways of knowing. The author also notes that Maori mental health nurses must be given the ability to create their own practice to best meet their clients' needs. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1028 |
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Rameka, M. |
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Perioperative nursing practice & cultural safety |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2001 |
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Dissector |
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29 |
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3 |
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21-23 |
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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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1084 |
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Wilson, H.V. |
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Power and partnership: A critical analysis of the surveillance discourses of child health nurses |
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Year |
2001 |
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Journal of Advanced Nursing |
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36 |
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2 |
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294-301 |
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Paediatric nursing; Nurse-family relations; Nursing philosophy; Plunket |
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The aim of this research was to explore surveillance discourses within New Zealand child health nursing and to identify whether surveillance practices have implications in this context for power relations. Five experienced and practising Plunket nurses were each interviewed twice. The texts generated by these semi-structured interviews were analysed using a Foucauldian approach to critical discourse analysis. In contrast with the conventional view of power as held and wielded by one party, this study revealed that, in the Plunket nursing context, power is exercised in various and unexpected ways. Although the relationship between the mother and the nurse cannot be said to operate as a partnership, it is constituted in the nurses' discourses as a dynamic relationship in which the mother is actively engaged on her own terms. The effect of this is that it is presented by the nurses as a precarious relationship that has significant implications for the success of their work. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1085 |
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Woods, M. |
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Balancing rights and duties in 'life and death' decision making involving children: A role for nurses? |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Nursing Ethics |
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8 |
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5 |
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397-408 |
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Parents and caregivers; Children; Ethics; Clinical decision making; Nurse-family relations; Chronically ill |
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This article examines a growing number of cases in New Zealand in which parents and guardians are required to make life and death ethical decisions on behalf of their seriously ill child. Increasingly, nurses and other practitioners are expected to more closely inform, involve and support the rights of parents or guardians in such situations. Differing moral and ethical values between the medical team and parents or guardians can lead to difficult decision making situations. The article analyses the moral parameters, processes, outcomes and ethical responses that must be considered when life and death ethical decisions involving children are made. It concludes with a recommendation that nurses should be recognised as perhaps the most suitable of all health care personnel when careful mediation is needed to produce an acceptable moral outcome in difficult ethical situations. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1086 |
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Crowe, M.; O'Malley, J.; Gordon, S. |
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Meeting the needs of consumers in the community: A working partnership in mental health in New Zealand |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2001 |
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Journal of Advanced Nursing |
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35 |
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1 |
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88-96 |
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Community health nursing; Psychiatric Nursing; Patient satisfaction; Mental health |
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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. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1087 |
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O'Brien, A.J. |
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Title |
The therapeutic relationship: Historical development and contemporary significance |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2001 |
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Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing |
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8 |
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2 |
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129-137 |
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Psychiatric Nursing; Nursing models; History of nursing; Nurse-patient relations |
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This article examines the therapeutic relationship, a concept held by many to be fundamental to the identity of mental health nurses. While the therapeutic relationship was given formal expression in nursing theory in the middle of the last century, its origins can be traced to attendants' interpersonal practices in the asylum era. The dominance of medical understandings of mental distress, and the working-class status of asylum attendants, prevented the development of an account of mental health nursing based on attendants' relationships with asylum inmates. It was left to Peplau and other nursing theorists to describe mental health nursing as a therapeutic relationship in the 1940s and later. Some distinctive features of colonial life in New Zealand suggest that the ideal of the attendant as the embodiment of bourgeoisie values seems particularly unlikely to have been realised in the New Zealand context. However, New Zealand literature from the 20th century shows that the therapeutic relationship, as part of a general development of a therapeutic discourse, came to assume a central place in conceptualisations of mental health nursing. While the therapeutic relationship is not by itself a sufficient basis for professional continuity, it continues to play a fundamental role in mental health nurses' professional identity. The way in which the therapeutic relationship is articulated in the future will determine the meaning of the therapeutic relationship for future generations of mental health nurses. |
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1088 |
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Milligan, K.; Neville, S.J. |
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Health assessment and its relationship to nursing practice in New Zealand |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2001 |
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Contemporary Nurse |
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10 |
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1/2 |
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7-11 |
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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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Boyd, L. |
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“It could have just as easily been me”: Nurses working in mental health services who have experienced mental illness |
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2001 |
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NZNO Library |
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Nursing; Mental health; Occupational health and safety |
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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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O'Malley, J. |
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Critical social analysis of acute institutionally based mental health nursing following an action research project |
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2001 |
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NZNO Library, Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Psychiatric Nursing; Hospitals; Quality of health care |
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This study using action research involving twelve registered nurses worked toward improving nursing care in an acute mental health in-patient service. Following focus groups with consumers, families, nurses, doctors, and allied health professionals, the action research group developed projects over eighteen months to improve continuity and consistency of nursing care. There was a subsequent restructuring of nursing service to better define leadership, accountability and to strengthen care delivery. The second half of the thesis involves a critical social analysis of the research data and produces a theory of mental health nursing which, the author suggests, has wide application in practice. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1133 |
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Wilson, L.J. |
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Futurist planning, not a shortage stopgap: Recruitment and retention of registered nurses in New Zealand |
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2001 |
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Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Recruitment and retention; Registered nurses; Policy; Careers in nursing |
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This literature review critically examines contributing factors to the current nursing shortage in New Zealand, centering on recruitment and retention of registered nurses. There is a dramatic widening between the supply of registered nurses and the demand for their services. All regions in New Zealand are reporting difficulty in hiring experienced and specialty nurses, and recruiting time is lengthening. This report suggests that the shortage is closely linked to factors in the nursing care environment. As a result of multiple factors during the centralising, cost-containing, acuity-increasing decade of the 1990s, the care environment has driven practising nurses out of acute care settings and discouraged new students from entering the profession. The availability of numerous alternative career opportunities has heightened the effect. Continuing causes to the non-selection of nursing as a profession are the influences of wage compression and limited career progression over the lifetime of the nurse, and insufficient orientation and mentoring of new nurses. Recent changes in the health care system have gone unevaluated and without oversight by nursing regulatory agencies – a situation not in the best interests of patients or nurses. A number of both literature-supported and resourceful approaches, including recommendations towards addressing the nursing shortage are proposed in this review. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1258 |
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Rummel, L. |
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Safeguarding the practices of nursing: The lived experience of being-as preceptor to undergraduate student nurses in acute care settings |
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2001 |
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Massey University, Albany, Library |
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Preceptorship; Nursing; Education; Identity; Intensive care nursing |
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This thesis used a Heideggerian Hermeneutic approach to explore the experiences of registered nurses who act as preceptors to undergraduate student nurses. The researcher interviewed fifteen volunteer registered nurses twice as preceptors to investigate their experience. The data generated was audio-taped and analysed. Four dominant themes emerged. The first, 'Becoming attuned – the call', related to registered nurses responding to the call to be preceptors to students in their clinical placement. The second, “The emerging identity of being-as preceptor: keeping the student in mind”, related to preceptors cultivating their own identity as preceptors as they worked with students in the world of nursing practice. The third, 'Assessing where the student is at: the preceptor and preceptee working and growing together', related to a constant evaluation by preceptors of students' knowledge, readiness to learn, and the provision of learning opportunities. The fourth, 'Preceptors as builders of nursing practice through teaching reality nursing', facilitated the preceptee's experience of the real world of nursing practice. An overall constitutive theme: 'Preceptors as the safeguarders of the practices of nursing', emerged as the essence of the experience. |
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1263 |
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