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Author Therkleson, T; Sherwood, P.
Title Patients' experience of the external therapeutic application of ginger by anthroposophically trained nurses Type Journal Article
Year 2004 Publication The Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology Abbreviated Journal
Volume 4 Issue 1 Pages 1-11
Keywords Anthroposophical therapy
Abstract There has been considerable public debate on the range of complementary health practices throughout the western world, perhaps especially in Australia, United States and Europe. Most often, the research critique of these practices is restricted to quantitative or non-user qualitative research methodologies. Consequently, there is a significant gap in the research profile of complementary health services that need to be addressed particularly in view of the rapid and ongoing increase in the use of complementary services, even in the face of sometimes adverse media publicity. This paper demonstrates the contribution that phenomenologically-based research can make to fill this lacuna by explicating, in detail, the client experience of a complementary health practice. The paper explores patient experience of a ginger compress, as applied by anthroposophically trained nurses, to demonstrate various therapeutic effects. Four key themes emerged including an increase in warmth and internal activity in the major organs of the body, changes in thought-life and sensory perception along with a greater sense of well-being and self-focus with the perception of clearer personal boundaries. These themes, emerging from a patient sample in New Zealand, compared favourably to the Filderklinik Study completed in 1992 in a large German state hospital.
Call Number (down) NZNO @ research @ Serial 1345
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Author Ihimaera, L.V.
Title He ara ki te ao marama : a pathway to understanding the facilitation of taha wairua in mental health services Type Journal Article
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Held by Lakes DHB Library (ROM)
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords
Abstract A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for a Masters of Arts, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Call Number (down) NZNO @ research @ Serial 1366
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Author Heese, Norma
Title Report: Margaret May Blackwell Travel Fellowship 2004 Type Report
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 45p.
Keywords Primary health care; Child health services; Reports
Abstract Covers the placements the author visited and the topics learned whilst undertaking travel in the UK after being awarded the 2003 Margaret May Blackwell Travel Study Fellowship. Of specific interest was Well Child Care in Primary Health. Part of the Margaret May Blackwell Scholarship Reports series.
Call Number (down) NZNO @ research @ Serial 1412
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Author Corbett, A.
Title Cultural safety: A New Zealand experience Type Journal Article
Year 2004 Publication Journal of the Australasian Rehabilitation Nurses Association Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7 Issue 1 Pages 14-17
Keywords Cross-cultural comparison; Cultural safety; Transcultural nursing
Abstract The Indigenous Nursing Education Working Group report “Gettin em n keepin em”, was presented at the Australasian Nurse Educators Conference held in Rotorua, New Zealand. The practicalities of the implementation of this report were challenged in light of the experiences of New Zealand nurse educators in implementing the concepts of cultural safety into undergraduate nurse education in New Zealand. The experiences of one Maori family with the Australian health system is given to illustrate the points made.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 964 Serial 948
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Author Connor, M.
Title Courage and complexity in chronic illness: Reflective practice in nursing Type Book Whole
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Asthma; Nurse-patient relations; Nurse-family relations; Community health nursing; District nursing; Chronically ill
Abstract This book presents the reflective account of an actual nursing practice situation (a woman living with chronic asthma).The author provides a descriptive narrative and then delves deeper into the narrative to obtain greater understanding of what she calls “strife” in chronic illness and the best nursing practice to assist its resolution.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 926 Serial 910
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Author Connor, M.
Title The practical discourse in philosophy and nursing: An exploration of linkages and shifts in the evolution of praxis Type Journal Article
Year 2004 Publication Nursing Philosophy Abbreviated Journal
Volume 5 Issue 1 Pages 54-66
Keywords Nursing philosophy; Ethics; Nursing
Abstract This paper, firstly, examines the linkages and shifts in the evolution of of praxis. The concept of praxis, also known as the practical discourse in philosophy, has been expressed in different ways in different eras. However, the linkages from one era to another and from one paradigm to another are not well explicated in the nursing literature. Blurring of the linkages occurred from the popular association of praxis within the emancipatory paradigm. Integral to the concept of praxis, since the time of Aristotle, is the notion of phronesis: a process of moral reasoning enacted to establish the 'good' of a particular situation, often referred to as practical wisdom. Secondly, the paper, promotes and affirms the importance of praxiological knowledge development in the discipline. Furthermore, increased appreciation of the concept of praxis provides an important vehicle for the advancement of nursing as a moral endeavour and the nurse as moral agent.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 890 Serial 874
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Author Nichols, J.
Title An exploration of clinical supervision within mental health nursing Type Journal Article
Year 2004 Publication Vision: A Journal of Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue November Pages
Keywords Clinical supervision; Mental health; Psychiatric Nursing
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to shed some light on the concept of clinical supervision specifically in relation to mental health nursing. The author talks briefly about the naming and history of clinical supervision and aims to provide some clarity around defining the concept. There is discussion around the role, value and objectives of clinical supervision before critical examination of two models of clinical supervision within two different contexts. Finally the strengths and weaknesses of each model are discussed, and the differences illustrate some of the contextual factors of clinical supervision.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 876 Serial 860
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Author Hansen, C.
Title Professional practice attributes within public health nursing Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Public health; Nursing
Abstract
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 868 Serial 852
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Author Arcus, K.J.
Title Often wearisome, sometimes saddening, but always interesting: A hundred years of district nursing in Wellington, 1903-2003 Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords District nursing; History
Abstract October 2003 marked the centenary of Wellington district nursing. Annie Holgate, a 'trained, professional' nurse, was employed to care for the sick poor in 1903. The Wellington St John Ambulance District Nursing Guild funded district nursing for over fifty years. The first president, Sarah Ann Rhodes, left a legacy of a solid financial and administrative base for the whole of the Guild's existence. From 1945 the Wellington Hospital Board assumed responsibility for district nursing and expanded the service to the greater Wellington region. In 1974 the Community Health Services were formed, with Pauline MacInnes as the nurse leader. Expansion of healthcare in the community ensued, with district nurses pivotal to client-centred, community-based, collaborative healthcare. This service was dismantled in the wake of health sector restructuring in 1989. The philosophy and operation of the Community Health Service of this period bears a striking resemblance to the current concept of Primary Health Care. Primary sources from Wellington St John, Kai Tiaki and data from official publications were used to compile this history. Emergent themes are the autonomy of district nurses' practice, the invisibility of district nursing and the impact of visionary leadership. All have implications for the future of district nursing. District nursing, initially dependent on philanthropy, has been publicly funded in New Zealand since 1944. District nursing is now an essential component of health care.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 851 Serial 835
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Author Bray, Y.M.
Title A migrant family's experience of palliative nursing care Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Palliative care; Cultural safety; Asian peoples; Nurse-patient relations
Abstract The focus of this research was to explore the migrant family's experience in palliative care. In writing this thesis, the author notes that it became evident that cultural safety was a connection that warranted further study in relation to end-of-life nursing care as was illustrated by the intergenerational case study of this migrant family in New Zealand. The use of the case study method of qualitative research enabled the voice of the migrant to be heard and the story of the migrant family's experience to be showcased. The uniqueness of this family's palliative care experience was around the religious and cultural needs and migration as a process of transition from a previous society to a new one. Palliative care was defined by the family approach with strong community support and empowered by culturally safe and appropriate nursing practice. End-of-life illness is a time when cultural perspectives are challenged for patients and their families and religious and cultural practices take on a new priority, regardless of how they have lived life previously. As a migrant nurse living and working in the New Zealand context, the author identifies as an important factor, the nurse-patient interaction as an encounter between two cultural perspectives, the patient's and the nurse as bearer of her own culture. Acknowledging this factor is an important step in developing a culturally safe approach to practice, an approach that proved to be a major ingredient in planning and caring for this patient and his family in end-of-life illness. This study and thesis explores the underpinnings of culturally safe palliative nursing care and identified 'reflexive bracketing' as a useful practice in the process.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 846 Serial 830
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Author Codlin, K.C.
Title Mental health nurses and clinical supervision: A naturalistic comparison study into the effect of group clinical supervision on minor psychological disturbance, job satisfaction and work-related stress Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Clinical supervision; Stress; Job satisfaction; Mental health
Abstract
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 845 Serial 829
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Author Smith, P.A.
Title Mad bad or sad: Caring for the mentally disordered offender in the court environment from a nurse's perspective Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Mental health; Psychiatric Nursing
Abstract This paper examines the difficulties health professionals face daily when providing care for the mentally disordered offender in the court environment. The role of the court nurse is to provide care for people with mental health needs in the court and health professionals can find this a restrictive environment to work in. This is mainly due to the court's legal processes which are designed to punish rather than offer therapeutic alternatives. By advocating for the mentally disordered offender, the court nurse ensures the court is aware of an individual's mental health needs, thus reducing the prospect of inappropriate sentencing, and the associated stigmatisation that may occur as a result of a criminal conviction.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 843 Serial 827
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Author Maloney-Moni, J.
Title Kia Mana: A synergy of wellbeing Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Transcultural nursing; Psychology; Maori
Abstract
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 841 Serial 825
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Author Hughes, F.; Lockyer, H.
Title Evidence and engagement in the introduction of nurse prescribing in New Zealand Type Journal Article
Year 2004 Publication Nurse Prescribing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 2 Issue 3 Pages 131-136
Keywords
Abstract The article reviews the extension of prescribing rights to nurses, which is described as a complex process from both a policy and a legal perspective. New Zealand, like many other jurisdictions, took time to develop and establish changes. The authors present a number of lessons that New Zealand has learned about the factors likely to contribute to success. They identify success factors as including building strong relationships with stakeholders; using robust evidence and information, including the latest developments internationally; and ensuring flexible policy and legal arrangements that can respond to change.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 711 Serial 697
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Author Heap, J.
Title Enuresis in children and young people: A public health nurse approach in New Zealand Type Journal Article
Year 2004 Publication Journal of Child Health Care Abbreviated Journal
Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages 92-101
Keywords Public health; Nursing specialties; Children; Adolescents
Abstract This article discusses a child/adolescent-centred primary nocturnal enuresis program and service that is administered by a group of public health nurses in South Auckland. Enuresis is the involuntary passing of urine. Many children and adolescents who are nocturnal enuretics exhibit behaviours such as low self-esteem, withdrawal, less ambition and increased anxiety. These children are often low achievers within the school system and become a problem for their family and school.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 708 Serial 694
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