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| Author |
Hall, K.A. |
| Title |
Soothing sounds: An investigation into the value of music in palliative care |
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| Year |
2003 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
ResearchArchive@Victoria |
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| Keywords |
Palliative care; Nursing; Qualiltative research; Alternative therapies |
| Abstract |
This qualitative study focuses on van Manen's theory of the 'lived experience' in relation to two families and asks the first thesis question. What is the value of music in the care of someone who is dying? Over the course of their loved one's illness these families provided music in the patients home as part of their care. The study also captures the experiences of two nurses who work in the palliative setting, and their use of music in providing holistic care to their patients. Their experiences relate to the second question. How can nurses be assisted in introducing music into their planned care of patients? The results demonstrate the effectiveness of using taped music for someone who is dying, and the reduction in symptoms, such as anxiety, and pain. It also highlights the importance of the individual's choice, and the special moments that can be achieved for both patient and families when music is used in a caring, supportive environment. This encourages communication, especially in the sharing of emotions. This study may be the first qualitative study in New Zealand, that addresses the value of music in palliative care, therefore there is a need for continued research into this therapy as a treatment modality as part of planned care in palliative nursing. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1216 |
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1201 |
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| Author |
Hamilton, J. |
| Title |
Personal power and the language of possibility: A study of opportunity and potential and its implications for nursing |
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2003 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University Library |
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| Keywords |
Nursing philosophy; Careers in nursing |
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This study uses a critical approach to analyse influences connected to opportunities for nurses to have their unique contribution to the health system recognised, and identifies a plan of action. The stories as told by four Northland nurses, identified the underlying principle of self-knowledge which, when connected to core values emerged as personal power with the language of possibility. Other factors which enabled opportunity recognition were labelled as: knowing the self, integrating core values from personal and professional qualities, connecting these to an intuitive plan, trusting it because it is value-based, using that plan to form goals and achieve direction. Integrating core values into goal setting enabled people to make choices that would enhance as well as protect their personal development. This study has implications for nurses as they seek out places where they can work well and for health planners to design systems where this can happen. |
| Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1256 |
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1241 |
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| Author |
Phillips, B.N. |
| Title |
Possibilities for mental health nursing practice-based research |
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Report |
| Year |
2003 |
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| Keywords |
Nursing research; Psychiatric Nursing |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1257 |
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1242 |
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| Author |
Adams, K. |
| Title |
A postmodern/poststructural exploration of the discursive formation of professional nursing in New Zealand 1840 – 2000 |
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2003 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University Library |
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| Keywords |
History of nursing; Careers in nursing; Nursing philosophy |
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This study examines the discursive formation of professional nursing in one country, as revealed by the history of nursing in New Zealand. Michel Foucault's approach to historical research signifies a different level of analysis from conventional approaches, focusing not on the history of ideas but on an understanding of the present, a history of the present. A genealogical method derived from Foucauldian poststructuralism reveals how different understandings of nursing have occurred and have governed nursing practices and scholarship in different historical contexts. The archaeological investigation in this study reveals two moments of epistemic transformation, that is, two intervals of mutation and discontinuity. The Nightingale era in the 1880s precipitated the first epistemic shift – premodernism to modernism. The transfer of nursing education from hospital based training to the tertiary education sector, followed by the introduction of the baccalaureate degree, precipitated the second epistemic shift in the 1990s, the advent of postmodernism. Encompassing these two epistemes, six historical contexts are identified, where significant disruptions to the nursing discourses overturned previously held assumptions about what constituted a nurse. Each historical context is identified by specific discursive constructs. The first is colonial caring, the second the Nightingale ethos and the third heroic, disciplined obedience. In the fourth context, nursing is framed by, and within, discourses of skilled, humanistic caring, in the fifth, scientific, task focused managerialism, and in the 1990s, the sixth context, by multiple realities in an age of uncertainty. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1258 |
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1243 |
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| Author |
Chick, D.N.P. |
| Title |
Rural district nurses as rehabilitationists |
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| Year |
2003 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
University of Otago Library |
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| Keywords |
Rural nursing |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1259 |
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1244 |
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| Author |
Mercer, C. |
| Title |
Interpreting the phenomenology of out-of-town hospitalisation using a Heideggerian framework |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Vision: A Journal of Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
Available online from Eastern Institute of Technology |
| Volume |
11 |
Issue |
17 |
Pages |
20-25 |
| Keywords |
Nursing research; Patient satisfaction |
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This article is presented in two parts. In the first, an outline of Heidegger's approach to phenomenology is offered. A basic premise of hermeneutic phenomenology is that people make sense of the world through the narratives they tell to themselves and to others. When the researcher uses this philosophical approach, persons communicate their experiences; the researcher interprets the experience and communicates that understanding in writing. In the second part of the paper, the experiences of four people whose partners were hospitalised out of town is described. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1318 |
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1302 |
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Tan, S.T.; Wright, A.; Hemphill, A.; Ashton, K.; Evans, J.H. |
| Title |
Correction of deformational auricular anomalies by moulding: Results of a fast-track service |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2003 |
Publication |
New Zealand Medical Journal |
Abbreviated Journal |
Access is free to articles older than 6 months, and abstracts. |
| Volume |
116 |
Issue |
1181 |
Pages |
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| Keywords |
Infants; Neonatal nursing; Teamwork |
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This paper reports the result of a fast-track referral service in treating deformational auricular anomalies using moulding therapy, by employing nurses who were familiar with the indications and technique, working in close liaison with plastic surgeons. The type and severity of the auricular anomaly were documented both clinically and photographically before and three months following cessation of treatment. Assessment of the results was made by comparing the pre- and post-treatment photographs and by a postal questionnaire, which was dispatched to the parents of the patients three months after treatment was discontinued. All parents of the 30 infants felt that auricular moulding was worthwhile. The authors conclude that this is an effective treatment strategy that will largely negate the need for surgical correction of deformational auricular anomalies. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 568 |
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554 |
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| Author |
Morrison, M. |
| Title |
Posthuman pathology: A postmodern art project located in critical care |
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2003 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Intensive care nursing; Nursing philosophy; Culture; Technology |
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The author's art project “Posthuman Pathology” is a postmodern examination of the resolutely modernist culture of critical care medicine. She uses conceptual art practices in conjunction with the techniques of anti-aesthetics in order to dismantle, open out and critique ideas which are foundational to the culture of critical care. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 580 |
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566 |
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| Author |
Carryer, J.B.; Boyd, M. |
| Title |
The myth of medical liability for nursing practice |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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| Volume |
19 |
Issue |
4-12 |
Pages |
4-12 |
| Keywords |
Interprofessional relations; Law and legislation; Nurse practitioners; Advanced nursing practice |
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This article explores the complex nature of liability in the case of standing orders and vicarious liability by employers, and also when nurses and doctors are in management roles. The authors address misconceptions about medico-legal responsibility for nursing practice with the advent of nurse prescribers and nurse practitioners. They refer to the submission made by the College of Nurses Aotearoa (NZ) on the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act (2003), and discuss practice liability and nurse-physician collaboration. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 624 |
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610 |
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Fraser, A.G.; Williamson, S.; Lane, M.; Hollis, B. |
| Title |
Nurse-led dyspepsia clinic using the urea breath test for Helicobacter pylori |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2003 |
Publication |
New Zealand Medical Journal |
Abbreviated Journal |
Access is free to articles older than 6 months, and abstracts. |
| Volume |
116 |
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1176 |
Pages |
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Advanced nursing practice; Hospitals; Clinical assessment; Evaluation |
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Reports the audit of a nurse-led dyspepsia clinic at Auckland Hospital. Referrals to the Gastroenterology Department for gastroscopy were assessed in a dyspepsia clinic. Initial evaluation included consultation and a urea breath test (UBT). Patients given eradication treatment prior to initial clinic assessment were excluded. Patients with a positive UBT were given eradication treatment and were reviewed two months later for symptom assessment and follow-up UBT. Patients with a negative UBT were usually referred back to the GP. There were 173 patients with a mean age 38 years. The urea breath test was found to be useful as part of the initial assessment of selected patients who would otherwise have been referred for endoscopy. It is likely that the need for gastroscopy was reduced, but longer follow up will be required to determine whether or not this effect is simply due to delayed referral. This approach is likely to have value only in patients who have a relatively high chance of being H. pylori positive. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 625 |
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611 |
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Mortensen, A.; White, G.E. |
| Title |
The process of destigmatisation: The work of sexual health nurses |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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19 |
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1 |
Pages |
32-39 |
| Keywords |
Nursing specialties; Sexual and reproductive health; Attitude to health |
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The focus of this article is on the findings of a grounded theory study of sexual health nursing in New Zealand. Nurses' experiences of providing sexual health care are described and theoretical explanations generated. The emphasis in this article is on countering stigma which emerged as a recurrent problem for nurses in the study. A comparative analysis of the nurses' counter reactions with Gilmore and Somerville's (1994) model of stigmatised reactions towards people with sexually transmitted diseases was done. The model describes the processes of disidentification, depersonalisation, scapegoating, and discrimination, which characterise stigmatised reactions. Nurses' understandings of the impact of socioeconomic conditions and gender/power relations in society have an important role to play in how nurses manage care. The concept of destigmatisation, which seeks to counteract negative social attitudes, is discussed. The study showed that as a consequence of their work nurses in this study encountered professional stigma and marginalisation. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 626 |
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612 |
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| Author |
McCallin, A. |
| Title |
Interdisciplinary team leadership: A revisionist approach for an old problem? |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Journal of Nursing Management |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
11 |
Issue |
6 |
Pages |
364-370 |
| Keywords |
Leadership; Multidisciplinary care teams; Organisational change |
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In this paper the author argues that the term interdisciplinary team leadership should be embraced cautiously. Preliminary research suggests that interdisciplinary team leadership is a model of shared leadership that requires more development if it is to become the cornerstone of interdisciplinary team practice in a radically reforming health sector. Stewardship is proposed as a potential philosophy for interdisciplinary team leadership, and a new, shared leadership role of practice leader is suggested. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 724 |
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710 |
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| Author |
Spence, D. |
| Title |
Nursing people from cultures other than one's own: A perspective from New Zealand |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Contemporary Nurse |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
15 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
222-231 |
| Keywords |
Transcultural nursing; Maori; Psychiatric Nursing |
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This paper provides an overview of the evolving meaning of 'culture' in New Zealand nursing. Then, drawing upon the findings of research that used hermeneutic phenomenology to explore the experience of nursing people from cultures other than one's own, a description of the constituent parts is of this phenomenon is briefly outlined and followed by an exemplar that describes the coalescent and contradictory nature of the phenomenon as a whole. As New Zealand nurses negotiate the conflicts essential for ongoing development of their practice, interplay of the notions of prejudice, paradox and possibility is evident at intrapersonal and interpersonal levels as well as in relation to professional and other discourses. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 798 |
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782 |
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| Author |
Vernon, R.A. |
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Developing clinical skill competency of undergraduate nursing students utilising a simulated psychomotor skill laboratory and model of self-directed learning: An evaluation research study |
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2003 |
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 |
Students; Evaluation |
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| Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 871 |
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855 |
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| Author |
Jenkinson, F.H. |
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An evaluation of nursing documentation as it relates to pro re nata (prn) medication administration |
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2003 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Massey University Library |
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Issue |
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| Keywords |
Drug administration; Psychiatric Nursing; Administration; Mental health |
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| Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 875 |
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859 |
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