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Lowe, L. |
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Title |
Linking housing and health status |
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2002 |
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Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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8 |
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9 |
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26-27 |
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Health status; Public health; Nursing |
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The author examines the impact of poor housing on health, and looks at how the situation can be improved. Ways that nurses can work towards improving housing standards and thus health are discussed. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1021 |
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1005 |
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Christie, J. |
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Managing febrile children: When and how to treat |
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Year |
2002 |
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Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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8 |
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4 |
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15-17 |
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Paediatric nursing; Evidence-based medicine; Children; Guidelines |
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The author describes the nursing of febrile children in a general paediatric ward at Tauranga Hospital. She focuses on the cooling methods used and their efficacy. Ward practice is compared with clinical trials and the literature to determine best practice and evidence-based guidelines. Also discussed are fans and clothes removal, tepid sponging, paracetamol, and brufen. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1006 |
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Hales, A.; Dignam, D. |
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Title |
Nurse prescribing lessons from the US |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2002 |
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Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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8 |
Issue |
10 |
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12-15 |
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Nurse practitioners; Prescriptive authority; Cross-cultural comparison; Advanced nursing practice; Education |
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The researchers present a survey of a sample population of 32 advanced practice nurses (APN) in the US about their experiences of acquiring and implementing prescriptive authority. The issues relevant to nurse practitioners in New Zealand are discussed, around acquiring knowledge and education, relationships with other professionals, establishing the role, and retaining the nursing role. The intent and scope of APN prescribing in the US is also discussed. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1007 |
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Crowe, M.; O'Malley, J.; Bigwood, S. |
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Nursing mental health consumers in the community |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2002 |
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Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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8 |
Issue |
8 |
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14-15 |
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Community health nursing; Psychiatric Nursing |
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The purpose of this research was to describe the characteristics of community mental health nursing care in the community. Twenty six nurses were enrolled in a study consisting of semi-structured interviews about the nature of their care. Responses were analysed to identify categories of skills. These were characterised as: establishing connectedness; promoting individual and family resilience, promoting citizenship; and addressing structural issues. Responses from the nurses are used to illustrate these categories. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1024 |
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1008 |
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Brinkman, A. |
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Title |
Occupational stress in hospitals: A nursing perspective |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2002 |
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Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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8 |
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6 |
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21-23 |
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Occupational health and safety; Stress; Nursing |
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This article examines the environmental stressors that cause occupational stress for many nurses, particularly the health reforms and the Employment Contracts Act (ECA). The concept of stress is reviewed and theories of occupational stress are described, including the demand-control theory and the transactional model. Nurses are advised to become aware of occupational stress in their workplaces, citing a study by the author showing high levels of stress among hospital nurses. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1025 |
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1009 |
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Hansen, G. |
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The role of massage in the care of the critically ill |
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2002 |
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Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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8 |
Issue |
7 |
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14-16 |
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Nursing; Alternative therapies; Intensive care nursing |
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This article looks at the research on the benefits of massage for alleviating the anxiety of patients in critical care. The author draws on her own experiences with cardiac patients and affirms the lasting psychological benefit of massage. She provides advice on which parts of the body to massage on patients in critical care, which to avoid and how to know when it is contraindicated. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1010 |
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Kyle, W. |
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Dementia specific nursing in New Zealand: History and practice today |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2002 |
Publication |
Vision: A Journal of Nursing |
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8 |
Issue |
14 |
Pages |
3-9 |
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Keywords |
Dementia; Nursing specialties |
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The author examines influences on contemporary dementia specific nursing practice. She addresses the current situation and future developments in this area. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1079 |
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Warren, S. |
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Cultural safety, where does it fit? A literature review |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2002 |
Publication |
Vision: A Journal of Nursing |
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8 |
Issue |
14 |
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27-30 |
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Cultural safety; Cross-cultural comparison; History of nursing |
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This literature review discusses the history of the inclusion of culture into nursing studies. There is a small sample of overseas literature for critique with a focus on the inclusion of cultural safety in New Zealand. The concept of cultural safety was first introduced into New Zealand in the late 1980s. It was adopted by the New Zealand Nursing Council for nurses and midwives in 1992 and became part of the basic curriculum for nursing and midwifery education. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1095 |
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1080 |
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Milligan, K. |
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Aesthetic knowledge and the use of arts in nursing |
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Year |
2002 |
Publication |
Beginning Journeys: A Collection of Work |
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7 |
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9-14 |
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Nursing philosophy; Nursing; Education; Teaching methods |
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The author considers aesthetic knowing and the use of the arts in nursing. She identifies concepts that pertain to the art of nursing. The interrelationship of the moral sense and the art of nursing is explored. The author concludes that the mediums of non-fiction, fiction and poetry can provide valuable contributions to the aesthetic way of knowing in nursing education, practice and research. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1094 |
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Dickinson, A.R.; Dignam, D. |
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Managing it: A mother's perspective of managing a pre-school child's acute asthma episode |
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Year |
2002 |
Publication |
Journal of Child Health Care |
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6 |
Issue |
1 |
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7-18 |
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Asthma; Parents and caregivers; Children; Nurse-patient relations |
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This exploratory descriptive study informed by grounded theory examines the experience of mothers in managing their pre-school child's acute asthma attack at home. The study reveals that mothers perceive that they are responsible for the management of their pre-school child during an acute asthma episode, a process they described as 'managing it'. This process involves mother in 'working on treatment', 'making the call', 'watching' and 'calming', while the husband/partner, family, friends and health professionals are 'supporting treatment'. This study suggests that nurses and doctors need to move away from the current paternalistic view of health care delivery in acute settings and embrace the concepts of support and partnership in the care of the pre-school child with asthma and their family. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 728 |
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714 |
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Davy, R. |
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Title |
Strategy to increase smear testing of older women |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2002 |
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Practice nurse: Official Journal of the New Zealand College of Practice Nurses |
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2 |
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3 |
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13-14 |
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Health promotion; Older people; Screening |
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The author presents a project to increase enrolments of women aged 60-69 years in the cervical screening programme. The programme included provision of packages comprising fliers, counter signs, stickers, postcards and pens to 1387 women's groups or locations where women gather. The author collates and analyses calls to the advertised 0800 telephone number, smear tests at the Well Women's Nursing Trust, and enrolment rates on the Cervical Screening Register from June to August 2001. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 637 |
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623 |
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Connor, M. |
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Sharing the burden of strife in chronic illness: A praxiological study of nursing practice in a community context |
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2002 |
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Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Chronically ill; Nursing; Nurse-patient relations; Nursing research; Methodology |
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This inquiry is an in-depth exploration of one middle aged woman's experience of strife in chronic illness and her nursing care involving four nurses (including the author) in a community context over a three-year period. The study is praxiological in that the understanding achieved is derived from practice within a 'research as praxis' methodology positioned in the disciplinary perspective of nursing as a practical human science. Five methodological premises inform the research processes: reflexivity, dialogue, moral comportment, re-presentation in narrative and critique. They emanate from an eclectic ontological praxiology based on the research framework constructed from Gadamerian philosophical hermeneutics, components of other philosophical praxiologies evolved from an exploration of the practical discourse in philosophy and my preferred health and nursing assumptions. The research processes include researcher journalling, a summary of Sarah's nursing record and dialogical meetings with Sarah and the nurse co-participants. Using the research material a narrative is then co-constructed. The narrative is structured around what Sarah viewed as the overall nursing contribution to her care; the 'sharing of her burden of illness'. This, she maintained, enabled her to live safely in the community. Finally there occurs a critique of the narrative within a discursive framework. Three themes, embedded in particular discourses, emerged from the narrative both in Sarah's and the nurses' experience; paradox, moral meaning and metaphor. Sarah's experience is interpreted as taking place in the 'in-between space' of the disease and health-illness discourses. Two main concepts which depict the tension experienced in this space are the 'the ontological assault of illness' and 'entrapment in the disease discourse'. The nurses, in this instance, 'pushed the boundaries' to create a space for the nursing as a caring practice discourse on the margins of nursing as a functional service discourse. The author notes that, within the nursing as a caring practice space, many 'fine lines' were walked with Sarah. Walking the 'fine line' of an 'intense relationship' was seen as advanced nursing practice. The research highlights important implications for a person and/or families who live with chronic illness and practice and educational issues for advanced nurse practitioners. Further, it promotes praxiological methodologies as advantageous for expanding nursing knowledge. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 495 |
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481 |
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Ramsden, I. |
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Cultural safety and nursing education in Aotearoa and Te Waipounamu |
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2002 |
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Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Cultural safety; Maori; Nursing; Education |
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The research on which this thesis is based involves both a private narrative and a public narrative, with the story of cultural safety, and the history, theory and the future direction gathered into one qualitative work. The work is divided into three sections. The first is entitled, Ko Wai Matou? The Private Narrative. This section seeks to explore the historical, social, educational, physical, emotional, political and moral influences and ephiphanies which brought about the personality which introduced cultural safety ideas into nursing and midwifery. Early nursing practice is investigated and examples from practice are used to illustrate learning and consolidation of the ideas which led to Cultural Safety Theory. The second section is entitled He Huarahi Hou: A New Pathway. This section explains the progress of the theory and its relationship to education pedagogy and to nursing practice. Comparison between the work of Madeline Leininger and the Transcultural Theory of Nursing and the New Zealand concept of cultural safety is undertaken. The role and application of the Treaty of Waitangi to the theory of cultural safety is explored in this section. The third section, entitled He Whakawhanuitanga: The Public Narrative, looks at the introduction of cultural safety into the nursing education system and its implementation. The public and media reaction to the inclusion of cultural safety in the national examination for nursing registration and the subsequent parliamentary response are noted. The interviews with nursing and midwifery leadership, Maori and pakeha key players in the process and consumer views of the ideas are documented and pertinent excerpts have been included. The work concludes with a discussion on the likely future of cultural safety as a theory and in practice and outlines several issues which represent a challenge to the viability of the concept in nursing and midwifery education. The author notes that the story of cultural safety is a personal story, but also a very public one. It is set in neo-colonial New Zealand, but has implications for indigenous people throughout the world. It is about human samenesses and human differences, but is also a story about all interactions between nurses and patients because all are power laden. Finally, she points out that, although it is about nursing, it is also relevant to all encounters, all exchanges between health care workers and patients. |
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486 |
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McKergow, C.R.W. |
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Preparing to care in the 21st century: A personal search for the meaning of ontological competency through an embodied journey of the soul |
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2002 |
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Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Nursing; Professional development; Breast cancer; Cancer |
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This thesis is a philosophical inquiry that reflects a personal search for the meaning of ontological competency undertaken by the author after developing breast cancer. The text weaves together in creative synthesis, a collection of academic and personal writing undertaken during an MA (Applied) in Nursing degree process. Using the work of Dowling Singe (1999), Watson (1999), and Wilber (1985, 1990, 1991 & 2000), the thesis seeks, through the use of reflective autobiographical inquiry (Johnstone 1999a), to explore the personal meaning-making activities engaged in during this time to throw light upon the nature of nurse / nursing being. Exploring developmental schemata drawn from personal experience and illuminated by theory, nurses and nursing are challenged to become more self-reflective and self-aware. To facilitate the personal and professional growth that underpins notions of ontological competency, various aids in the form of maps and models are provided to support a transformative journey into awareness. From this position of expanding consciousness, the nurse / nursing is encouraged to reach beyond current paradigms, metaparadigms, epistemologies, and restrictive philosophies and to yield to the evolutionary imperative that seeks to prepare for a 21st century clinical practice where caring / healing becomes embodied enactment from “the Ground of All Being”. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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774 |
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O'Reilly, A.F. |
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Relinquishing personhood in dementia: Discordant discourses: A nurse's inquiry |
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2002 |
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Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Dementia; Nursing; Nurse-patient relations; Relationships |
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This thesis traces the journey of the author's inquiry into family members' experience of the relinquishment of the personhood of a loved one with a dementia; a journey in which she reports that her own prior understandings were significantly challenged. The study was prompted by her experience of working in the area of dementia care and hearing, in the course of the working day, comments such as 'there's nobody there' made in relation to someone suffering from severe dementia. Such comments appear to imply that the person of the dementia sufferer in some way is no longer present. They are comments which relate to the very nature of personhood. The study takes impetus from the fact that the ways in which nurses view the personhood of dementia sufferers has significant consequences for the ways in which they respond to dementia sufferers and their families. This thesis, which retells the stories of four family members who each have a loved one with a dementia illness, reveals that rather than there being a unified concept of personhood in dementia, and in spite of the fact that particular understandings of dementia and personhood dominate our cultural conversations, in their day to day lives these four family members managed and made sense of their experience through particular and different ways of looking at the impact dementia has on the personhood of dementia sufferers. Not all did, in fact, relinquish the personhood of their family member. In their lived lives, the four research participants had recourse, each in different ways, to multiple discourses of personhood. For some, in addition to loss, there was also unexpected gain. This finding necessitated and shaped further inquiry into discourse and the role of discourse in shaping, constraining and opening up possibilities for meaning, and into the two substantive areas of dementia and personhood. Nurses work closely alongside the family of dementia sufferers who are daily faced with the challenge of managing and making meaning of that situation. It is critically important that they are able to recognise, validate and support the variety of needs that family members have. Nurses, whose education is traditionally based on a biomedical framework, are nevertheless often required to mediate between different understandings. Not only do they need currency of knowledge in the rapidly changing biomedical field of dementia, but they need also an understanding of the role and the power of discursive constructions of both dementia and personhood. Such understanding will provide insight into alternate ways of understanding these concepts. However, although such understanding is critical for nurses working in this area, the author suggests that nursing literature has not brought these discussions to the fore. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 792 |
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776 |
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