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Isles, V. |
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The development and role of the clinical nurse specialist in New Zealand: A comparison of the role with that in the United States of America, United Kingdom, and Australia |
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2005 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Otago Polytechnic library. A copy can be obtained by contacting pgnursadmin@tekotago.ac.nz |
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Nursing specialties |
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The development and role of the clinical nurse specialist in New Zealand is the focus of this dissertation. It is an area that has not clearly been documented previously and the author hoped that by articulating this role to nurses, educators, and administrators that the role of the clinical nurse specialist will be more clearly defined and perhaps recognised for the contribution it provides to health care in New Zealand. At present, it is difficult to justify the clinical nurse specialist position in New Zealand, when individuals have been left to define and develop their own positions. This has led to widely differing practice modes and role confusion, and therefore a varying degree of success in achieving improved nursing practice. Without title protection and some form of accreditation process to ensure standard of practice throughout the country it is not possible for post-holders to move from position to position throughout the country. The role and definition of the clinical nurse specialist must be clarified in order to reduce confusion. Restriction of the title to those who meet the defining characteristics will strengthen the role, improve collaboration with other members of the team as well as making it easier for the public to understand the role. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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586 |
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Vandergoot, A. |
| Title |
From ward nurse to proficient critical care nurse: A narrative inquiry study |
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2005 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Akoranga Theses Collection, Auckland University of Technology |
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Nursing specialties |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 602 |
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588 |
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| Author |
Wilson, D.; McBride-Henry, K.; Huntington, A.D. |
| Title |
Family violence: Walking the tight rope between maternal alienation and child safety |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2005 |
Publication |
Contemporary Nurse |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
18 |
Issue |
1-2 |
Pages |
85-96 |
| Keywords |
Nursing; Domestic violence; Nurse-patient relations; Children |
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This paper discusses the complexity of family violence for nurses negotiating the 'tight rope' between the prime concern for the safety of children and further contributing to maternal alienation, within a New Zealand context. The premise that restoration of the mother-child relationship is paramount for the long-term wellbeing of both the children and the mother provides the basis for discussing implications for nursing practice. Evidence shows that when mothers are supported and have the necessary resources there is a reduction in the violence and abuse she and her children experience; this occurs even in situations where the mother is the primary abuser of her children. The family-centred care philosophy, which is widely accepted as the best approach to nursing care for children and their families, creates tension for nurses caring for children who are the victims of abuse as this care generally occurs away from the context of the family. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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698 |
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| Author |
Stokes, G. |
| Title |
Who cares? Accountability for public safety in nurse education |
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2005 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Online at Research Space @ Auckland University |
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| Keywords |
Nursing; Education; Accountability; Patient safety |
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The focus of this study is the management of unsafe nursing students within the tertiary education context. The moral dilemmas experienced by nurse educators, specifically linked to the issue of accountability for public safety, are explored. The theoretical framework for the thesis is informed by the two moral voices of justice and care identified by Gilligan and further developed using the work of Hekman and Lyotard. Case study methodology was used and data were collected from three schools of nursing and their respective educational organisations. Interviews were conducted with nurse educators and education administrators who had managed unsafe nursing students. Interviews were also conducted with representatives from the Nursing Council of New Zealand and the New Zealand Nurses Organisation to gain professional perspectives regarding public safety, nurse education and unsafe students. Transcripts were analysed using the strategies of categorical aggregation and direct interpretation. Issues identified in each of the three case studies were examined using philosophical and theoretical analyses. This thesis explores how students come to be identified as unsafe and the challenges this posed within three educational contexts. The justice and care moral voices of nurse educators and administrators and the ways in which these produced different ways of caring are made visible. Different competing and conflicting discourses of nursing and education are revealed, including the discourse of safety – one of the language games of nursing. The way in which participants positioned themselves and positioned others within these discourses are identified. Overall, education administrators considered accountability for public safety to be a specific professional, nursing responsibility and not a concern of education per se. This thesis provides an account of how nurse educators attempted to make the educational world safe for patients, students, and themselves. Participants experienced different tensions and moral dilemmas in the management of unsafe students, depending upon the moral language games they employed and the dominant discourse of the educational organisation. Nurse educators were expected to use the discourses of education to make their case and manage unsafe students. However, the discourses of nursing and education were found to be incommensurable and so the moral dilemmas experienced by nurse educators were detected as differends. This study bears witness to these differends. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1106 |
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Richardson, M.; Vernon, R.A.; Jacobs, S. |
| Title |
Implementing health assessment into the undergraduate nursing curriculum |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2005 |
Publication |
Vision: A Journal of Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
Available online from Eastern Institute of Technology |
| Volume |
13 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
18-21 |
| Keywords |
Nursing; Education; Curriculum |
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This article explores historical, philosophical and theoretical perspectives of health assessment, and discusses one institution's experiences developing and implementing undergraduate health assessment courses. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1306 |
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| Author |
Gallagher, P. |
| Title |
Rethinking the gap: Investigating the theory-practice relationship in nursing |
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2005 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Coda |
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| Keywords |
Nursing; Education; Nursing models; Nursing philosophy |
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A Grounded Theory approach was taken to explore the concept of the gap between theory and practice, whereby they are seen to be discrete entitites. For this study, the first phase of data collection was a series of computer mediated group discussions, and the second a number of individual interviews. In both sets of interviews participants were asked to describe how they experienced and managed differences they perceived between theory and practice in nursing. The participants referred to different types of theory relevant and central to effective nursing practice. The first was private theory; the second was formal theory and third was situational theory. For the students it was a conflict that produced uncomfortable emotions, distrust of others and personal self doubt. In an effort to reduce this discomfort the students sought an explanation for the differences between theory and practice, some of which challenged their key personal values. However, the most emotionally neutral explanation that also preserved the integrity of their key values was that there was a gap between the theory and the practice of nursing. The theory Negotiating Different Experiences has implications for the education of nurses in that personal knowledge and experiences must be incorporated in a programme of study and the feelings evoked by learning must be acknowledged as a catalyst to enhance learning. Further, the different forms of theory to which students will be exposed must be made explicit and nursing educators who must involve the individual student as an active partner in the mapping of a personalised programme, which includes the creation of individual assessment methods. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1104 |
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| Author |
Alavi, C. |
| Title |
Breaking-in bodies: Teaching, nursing, initiations or what's love got to do with it? |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2005 |
Publication |
Contemporary Nurse |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
18 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
292-299 |
| Keywords |
Nursing; Education; Psychology; Nurse-patient relations; Students |
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This paper discusses how students become able to work with sick patients for whom they may feel disgust or discomfort. It is a sustained engagement with the literature on abjection and disgust and is not the outcome of evaluation research. It considers the role of problem-based learning pedagogy in facilitating students' negotiation of their own discomfort and horror, and describes experiences which enable them to approach abject patients with more comfort and less disgust. The paper argues the importance of creating spaces where students can explore issues which are distressing and disturbing so that they will feel able to remain in nursing. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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658 |
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Friedel, J.; Treagust, D.F. |
| Title |
Learning bioscience in nursing education: Perceptions of the intended and the prescribed curriculum |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2005 |
Publication |
Learning in Health & Social Care |
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4 |
Issue |
4 |
Pages |
203-216 |
| Keywords |
Nursing; Education; Teaching methods |
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This study used a curriculum inquiry framework to investigate the perceptions of 184 nursing students and nurse educators in relation to bioscience in the nursing curriculum. Nursing students were found to have significantly more positive attitudes to bioscience in nursing education than nurse educators, and nurse educators were not found to have significantly better self-efficacy in bioscience than the students, although this might have been expected. The results of focus group discussions, used to investigate this in more depth, suggested that some nurse educators and clinical preceptors may not have sufficient science background or bioscience knowledge, to help nursing students apply bioscience knowledge to practice. As a result of this, it is suggested that the aims of the intended and prescribed nursing curricula are not being fulfilled in the implemented curriculum. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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713 |
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Richardson, C.A. |
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Ever decreasing circles: Non-curative terminal illness, empowerment and decision making: Lessons for nursing practice |
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2005 |
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University of Otago Library |
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Pages |
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Nursing; Palliative care; Terminal care; Psychology |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 683 |
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669 |
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| Author |
Stewart, R. |
| Title |
Opportunistic chlamydia testing: Improving nursing practice through self-audit and reflection |
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Journal Article |
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2005 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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21 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
43-52 |
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Nursing; Practice nurses; Diseases; Case studies |
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This article details how an individual family planning nurse's practice concerning opportunistic testing for sexually transmitted chlamydia was improved through an audit of her testing rates and reflection on the outcome. The leading curable sexually transmitted infection in New Zealand, chlamydia, (including the incidence and spread of the infection and why it is a public health issue) is discussed, and the audit examined. The first audit of fifty consecutive client visits exposed a lack of opportunistic testing. The second looking at a similar but more recent group of client visits, made after the results of the first (zero opportunistic testing) were known, shows an increase in testing and education about chlamydia. Important clinical issues concerning chlamydia testing and treatment are considered. In conclusion the article challenges other nurses in the community to take a lead in raising awareness of the consequences of undiagnosed chlamydial infection and find ways of increasing opportunistic testing for chlamydia within their practice. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 554 |
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540 |
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Scrymgeour, G. |
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Using diagnostic reasoning in nursing practice: Ectopic pregnancy: A case study approach |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2005 |
Publication |
Vision: A Journal of Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
Available online at Eastern Institute of Technology |
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13 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
13-17 |
| Keywords |
Nursing; Pregnancy; Clinical assessment |
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This paper explores, through the use of a case study, an evidence-based diagnostic reasoning process utilising the framework followed by Dains, Baumann and Scheibel (1998). This framework, as described by these authors, involves an inductive process of reasoning, which leads to formulation of a hypothesis that is then analysed using an evidence-based approach. From this analysis, a likely diagnosis can be made and appropriate therapeutic intervention initiated. This research demonstrates that although an evidence-based approach is the ideal, sometimes clinical intuition is equally important to the clinical outcome. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1305 |
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| Author |
Murphy, R. |
| Title |
A day in the life of an acute hospital psychiatric nurse |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2005 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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11 |
Issue |
9 |
Pages |
24-25 |
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Nursing; Psychiatric Nursing; Interprofessional relations; Mental health; Multidisciplinary care teams |
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A nurse presents a personal account of a typical day at Middlemore Hospital's 50-bed acute inpatient mental health unit Tiaho Mai. The article covers aspects of shift handover, working with multidisciplinary teams, developing care plans, working with families, and responding to emergencies. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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957 |
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Cobham, J. |
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Why do nurses stay in nursing? A test of social identity, equity sensitivity and expectancy theory |
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2005 |
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Nursing; Recruitment and retention; Identity |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1107 |
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King, A.; Parsons, M. |
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An evaluation of two respite models for older people and their informal caregivers |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2005 |
Publication |
New Zealand Medical Journal |
Abbreviated Journal |
Access is free to articles older than 6 months, and abstracts. |
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118 |
Issue |
1214 |
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Older people; Evaluation |
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The researchers evaluate two case-management models of respite relief care at Waitemata District Health Board. The evaluation consisted of semi-structured interviews and postal surveys for clients utilising respite care and staff members involved in both the North/West and Rodney models of respite care in Auckland. Across the two regions, a total of 2 older people and their informal caregivers, 2 respite coordinators, and the Needs Assessment Service Coordination (NASC) Manager were interviewed. In addition, postal surveys were received from 21 older people, 36 informal caregivers, 11 NASC workers, and 3 allied health professionals. Findings revealed there was generally high satisfaction with both the respite models. Caregivers believed the respite service did give them a break, although it was insufficient. Caregivers reported concerns regarding how respite facilities could improve and the older person's deterioration post respite. Staff identified improvements for each of the models. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 549 |
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535 |
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Flynn, L.; Carryer, J.B.; Budge, C. |
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Organisational attributes valued by hospital, home care, and district nurses in the United States and New Zealand |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2005 |
Publication |
Journal of Nursing Scholarship |
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37 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
67-72 |
| Keywords |
Organisational culture; Cross-cultural comparison; Nursing |
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The aim of this study was to determine whether hospital-based, home care, and district nurses identify a core set of organisational attributes in the nursing work environment that they value as important to the support of professional practice. Survey data, collected in 2002 2003 from 403 home care nurses in the United States and 320 district nurses in New Zealand, were pooled with an existing data set of 669 hospital-based nurses to conduct this descriptive, nonexperimental study. The importance of organisational attributes in the nursing work environment was measured using the Nursing Work Index-Revised (NWI-R). The authors found that at least 80% of hospital-based, home care, and district nurses either agreed or strongly agreed that 47 of the 49 items comprising the NWI-R represented organisational attributes they considered important to the support of their professional nursing practice. Mean importance scores among home care nurses, however, were significantly lower than were those of the other two groups. The authors conclude that the overall, hospital-based, home care, and district nurses had a high level of agreement regarding the importance of organisational traits to the support of their professional practice. The intensity of the attributes' importance was less among home care nurses. Further research is needed to determine whether this set of organisational traits, measured using the NWI-R, is associated with positive nurse and patient outcomes in home care and district nursing practice, as has been shown in acute care settings. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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886 |
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