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Author McKelvie, R.
Title Partnership in paediatric nursing: A descriptive exploration of the concept and its practice Type
Year (down) 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
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 Southwick, M.
Title Pacific women's stories of becoming a nurse in New Zealand: A radical hermeneutic reconstruction of marginality Type
Year (down) 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Pacific peoples; New graduate nurses
Abstract This thesis examines Pacific women's experiences of becoming a nurse and their first year of practice post-registration, within the New Zealand context. The participants' stories of being students and beginning practitioners are inter-woven with the author's own reflections as a nurse and nurse educator who also claims a Pacific cultural heritage. To create the space in which the stories can be laid down, the thesis includes a description of the migration and settlement of Pacific peoples in Aotearoa/New Zealand. This description shows how Pacific people have been systematically stigmatised and locked into marginalised positions by mainstream dominant culture. The thesis deconstructs, what the author describes as, taken-for-granted and self perpetuating conceptualisations of marginality that currently underpin most theoretical explanations and proposes a reconstructed map of marginality. This deconstructed/reconstructed map of marginality is used as a template through which the experiences of the participants are filtered and interpreted. Radical Hermeneutics provides a philosophical underpinning for this project that has as one of its objectives the desire to resist reducing complexity to simplistic explanation and superficial solutions. The thesis challenges nursing to examine its role in reproducing the hegemonic power of dominant culture by applying unexamined cultural normative values that create binary boundaries between 'them' and 'us'. At the same time the thesis challenges Pacific people to move past hegemonically induced states of alienation and learn how to walk in multiple worlds with confidence and power.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 485
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Author Peach, J.
Title The contribution of nursing to the health of New Zealand Type
Year (down) 2001 Publication 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 (down) 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
Volume Issue Pages
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 (down) 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 Grayson, S.
Title Nursing management of the rheumatic fever secondary prophylaxis programme Type
Year (down) 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 Rayat, P.
Title The relationship between job satisfaction and professional development in nursing: A socio critical outlook Type
Year (down) 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Job satisfaction; Professional development; Nursing
Abstract Health reforms, reviews and restructuring are not new to New Zealand nursing. The author notes that changes in the environment have created many pressures on nursing as a profession. The profession is trying to deal with this turmoil in a responsible fashion. It is also trying to grow and develop at the same time. This research is focused on finding the relationship between job and professional development. It also highlights the factors that affect job satisfaction and professional development.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 570
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Author Ross, J.
Title Role identification: An impediment to effective core primary health care teamwork Type
Year (down) 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Multidisciplinary care teams; Teamwork; Primary health care
Abstract This study, which is methodologically grounded in qualitative research and philosophically informed by critical social science, explores aspects of the socio-political context in which practice nurses and general practitioners (core primary health care team) work within a team environment. It is indicated in the literature that there are benefits for improved health care through the development of collaborative teamwork. However, there have been many barriers identified which prevent collaborative teamwork. Amongst the many barriers, is the lack of role clarity and attitudinal differences. This thesis explored and highlighted whether the lack of role clarity and attitudinal differences do indeed impede the team's success, and are barriers to teamwork. The views and opinions of practice nurses and general practitioners and the understanding of their own and each other's current roles within the general practice setting were explored. The participants had the opportunity to discuss together, in focus group meetings, their thoughts on the topic. This raised their awareness of their taken for granted ideas on role and teamwork. Focus groups offered the participants the added opportunity to question each other which allowed for a deeper and more fulfilling understanding of role. New understandings that emerged could lead to alternative models of health care and influence the future delivery and planning of general practice. The thesis concludes by offering a potentially suitable model/framework which has been developed to further the understanding of teamwork in the future.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 571
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Author Puckey, T.C.
Title Vicarious traumatization: Relevance and implications for psychiatric mental health nursing Type
Year (down) 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Occupational health and safety; Mental health; Psychiatric Nursing; Trauma; Nursing
Abstract This research project is concerned with the risk of vicarious traumatisation for psychiatric mental health nurses. Vicarious traumatisation is an occupational hazard that is largely unrecognised and unaddressed in the profession. The paper explores the nature of vicarious traumatisation, and its contemporary conceptualisation in the literature on helping-induced trauma. Findings from the literature search and understanding of the construct of vicarious traumatisation are considered against the essence of psychiatric mental health nursing, the therapeutic relationship and use of self, and the nature of daily practice. After consideration of the potential risk of vicarious traumatisation for the profession it is argued that it is a real risk and is likely to impact on all areas of psychiatric mental health nursing practice. Support for the position that vicarious traumatisation is not well recognised and understood is offered. The paper concludes with recommendations that psychiatric mental health nurses and the profession take serious note of vicarious traumatisation as a risk, and there is an ethical imperative for psychiatric mental health nurses to take measures to inform themselves of and engage in processes of risk management for nurses and clients.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 572
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Author Jackson, H.
Title Compassion: A concept exploration Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2001 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 17 Issue 1 Pages 16-23
Keywords Ethics; Nursing philosophy
Abstract This paper explores the nature of compassion and posits it as a moral virtue that requires the nurse to act in the presence of suffering. Compassion is defined in relation to suffering and reciprocity, and distinguished from sympathy and pity.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 638 Serial 624
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Author Spence, D.
Title The evolving meaning of 'culture' in New Zealand nursing Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2001 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 17 Issue 3 Pages 51-61
Keywords Cultural safety; Biculturalism; History of nursing; Maori
Abstract The author traces the nursing definition of biculturalism as it has evolved from the colonial period to the present. An examination of nursing literature demonstrates that local understandings of culture have matured beyond anthropological interpretations to a sociopolitical definition of Maori culture. The author suggests that, in nursing, culture has come to mean cultural safety.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 625
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Author Noble-Adams, R.
Title 'Exemplary' nurses: An exploration of the phenomenon Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2001 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 17 Issue 1 Pages 24-33
Keywords Nurse-patient relations; Nursing; Professional competence
Abstract This paper examines the phenomenon of exemplary nursing. It includes a literature review to identify the characteristics of good nurses. These include particular personality traits, altruism, caring, expert practice, vocation, commitment and attitude. Aspects of the nurse-patient relationship with such nurses is described.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 640 Serial 626
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Author Hughes, F.
Title Locating health policy and nursing: Time for a closer relationship Type Journal Article
Year (down) 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 Day, D.R.; Mills, B.; Fairburn, F.
Title Exercise prescription: Are practice nurses adequately prepared for this? Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2001 Publication New Zealand Journal of Sports Medicine Abbreviated Journal
Volume 29 Issue 2 Pages 32-36
Keywords Practice nurses; Health education; Primary health care
Abstract This study sought to examine whether practice nurses were prepared to provide exercise prescriptions to clients. It involved administering questionnaires to 53 practice nurses in Otago to examine their understanding of green prescriptions and their knowledge and participation in exercise prescription.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 628
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Author Clendon, J.; McBride, K.
Title Public health nurses in New Zealand: The impact of invisibility Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2001 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 17 Issue 2 Pages 24-32
Keywords Public health; Nursing specialties
Abstract This research study examined the role of the public health nurse. Utilising community needs analysis method, 17 key informants and two focus groups were asked questions to determine perceptions of the public health nurse. Findings indicated that participants lacked knowledge regarding the role. Additional findings intimated that participants had difficulty in accessing public health nurse services and that 'knowing the system' was beneficial to receiving needed care. One of the major conclusions of this study was that many facets of care managed by public health nurses were invisible to the communities in which they work. Conclusions suggest that public health nurses need to enhance their service by improving accessibility to services and promoting their service in a more visible manner.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 643 Serial 629
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