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Author Betts, J.A. openurl 
  Title Establishing and evaluating a nurse practitioner leg ulcer clinic: The journey Type
  Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Nurse practitioners; Community health nursing  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 684 Serial 670  
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Author Pirret, A.M. openurl 
  Title The use of knowledge of respiratory physiology in critical care nurses' clinical decision-making Type
  Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Intensive care nursing; Clinical decision making  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 686 Serial 672  
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Author Ross, M.E. openurl 
  Title A study into the effects of the New Zealand health reforms of the 1990's on the role of the nurse manager Type
  Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Nurse managers; History; Policy  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 687 Serial 673  
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Author Ratnasabapathy, P. openurl 
  Title Silent suffering: The 'lived experience' of women who have experienced early pregnancy loss and used the health services for their care Type
  Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Pregnancy; Grief; Psychology  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 786 Serial 770  
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Author Bland, M.F. openurl 
  Title The challenge of feeling 'at home' in residential aged care in New Zealand Type Journal Article
  Year 2005 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 21 Issue 3 Pages 4-12  
  Keywords Rest homes; Older people; Patient satisfaction; Nursing; Identity  
  Abstract In this research report, a resident reveals the challenges associated with firstly becoming a nursing home resident, and then trying to establish a new sense of 'home'. The story supports a conclusion that nurses' knowledge of the unique 'admission story' of each resident, and their individual understandings of home, is essential in promoting their ongoing comfort. Although approximately 30,000 older adults live in residential aged care, little research has been done on their experience.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 862 Serial 846  
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Author Rydon, S.E. openurl 
  Title The attitudes, knowledge and skills needed in mental health nurses: The perspective of users of mental health services Type Journal Article
  Year 2005 Publication International Journal of Mental Health Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 14 Issue 2 Pages 78-87  
  Keywords Patient satisfaction; Psychiatric Nursing; Attitude of health personnel  
  Abstract In this study a qualitative descriptive methodology with focus group interviews was used to explore with users of mental health services, the attitudes, knowledge and skills that they need in mental health nurses. Users of mental health services valued the therapeutic work of mental health nurses, and identified positive attitudes towards users of mental health services as essential in mental health nurses. However, they did not consistently experience a therapeutic approach in their interactions with mental health nurses. In a sociopolitical climate where the views of users of mental health services are increasingly incorporated into education and the planning and delivery of services, there is a need for more research that reflects the perspective of users.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 961 Serial 945  
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Author Flint, V. openurl 
  Title The place of ECT in mental health care Type Journal Article
  Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 11 Issue 9 Pages 18-20  
  Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Trauma; Mental health  
  Abstract The author reviews the controversial treatment of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) which has re-emerged as a safe and effective treatment for major depressive disorders. She first addresses the popular conceptions of ECT, which are based on early misuse of the treatment when it was delivered unmodified, or forcefully and without anaesthetic. She then uses a case study to illustrate the benefits of ECT for catatonia and catatonic states. Diagnostic criteria for catatonia include motoric immobility, excessive motor activity, extreme negativism or mutism, peculiarities of voluntary movement, and echolalia or echopraxia. The treatment of a patient is detailed, and the role of the ECT nurse is outlined. The ECT nurse is a co-ordinator, an educator, liaises with other services and families, and is a point of contact about ECT within the mental health service generally and in the ECT unit in particular. The case study showed successful use of ECT. A series of eight ECT treatments were administered to the catatonic patient, after which he was discharged home with minor depression and showing signs of enjoying life once again.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1011 Serial 995  
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Author Wareham, P.; McCallin, A.; Diesfeld, K. openurl 
  Title Advance directives: The New Zealand context Type Journal Article
  Year 2005 Publication Nursing Ethics Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 12 Issue 4 Pages 349-359  
  Keywords Law and legislation; Patient rights; Nursing; Ethics  
  Abstract Advance directives convey consumers' wishes about accepting or refusing future treatment if they become incompetent. There are associated ethical issues for health practitioners and this article considers the features that are relevant to nurses. In New Zealand, consumers have a legal right to use an advance directive that is not limited to life-prolonging care and includes general health procedures. Concerns may arise regarding a consumer's competence and the document's validity. Nurses need to understand their legal and professional obligations to comply with an advance directive. What role does a nurse play and what questions arise for a nurse when advance directives are discussed with consumers? This article considers the cultural dimensions, legal boundaries, consumers' and providers' perspectives, and the medical and nursing positions in New Zealand.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1069 Serial 1054  
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Author Crowe, M.; Luty, S. openurl 
  Title Recovery from depression: A discourse analysis of interpersonal psychotherapy Type Journal Article
  Year 2005 Publication Nursing Inquiry Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 12 Issue 1 Pages 43-50  
  Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Mental health; Nurse-patient relations  
  Abstract This paper describes a discourse analysis of the process of interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) in the recovery from depression. It demonstrates how IPT is an effective treatment strategy for mental health nurses to utilise in the treatment of depression. The discourse analysis highlights how the development of more meaningful subject positions enables one woman to recover from her depression. The process of recovery is underpinned by an understanding of women's depression as promoted by contemporary social and cultural expectations for detachment and reflexivity. This paper shows how IPT provides an opportunity for recovery from depression for one woman by facilitating a reconstruction of her subject positions in relation to others. The discourse analysis revealed that the therapist facilitated this through the use of a range of techniques: seeking information, exploring beliefs/values/assumptions, exploring communication patterns, exploring affective responses and exploring alternative subject positions.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1070 Serial 1055  
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Author Roddick, J.A. openurl 
  Title When the flag flew at half mast: Nursing and the 1918 influenza epidemic in Dunedin Type
  Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords History of nursing; Public health  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1120 Serial 1105  
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Author Reilly, S. openurl 
  Title Barriers to evidence based practice by nurses in the clinical environment Type
  Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Evidence-based medicine; Nursing  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1123 Serial 1108  
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Author Neehoff, S.M. openurl 
  Title The invisible bodies of nursing Type
  Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Nursing philosophy  
  Abstract In this thesis, the author explores what she terms 'invisible bodies of nursing', which are the physical body of the nurse, the body of practice, and the body of knowledge. She argues that the physical body of the nurse is absent in most nursing literature. Her contention is that the physical body of the nurse is invisible because it is tacit and much nursing practice is invisible because it is perceived by many nurses to be inarticulable and is carried out within a private discourse of nursing, silently and secretly. Nursing knowledge is invisible because it is not seen as being valid or authoritative or sanctioned as a legitimate discourse by the dominant discourse. This analysis is informed by Luce Irigaray's philosophy of the feminine, Michel Foucault's genealogical approach to analysing, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. The author discusses strategies that nurses could use to make themselves more 'visible' in healthcare structures.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1124 Serial 1109  
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Author Lynch, T.M. openurl 
  Title A qualitative descriptive study of youth with Crohn's disease Type
  Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Diseases; Adolescents; Nursing  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1143 Serial 1128  
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Author Miles, M.A.P. openurl 
  Title A critical analysis of the relationships between nursing, medicine and the government in New Zealand 1984-2001 Type
  Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library, University of Otago Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Primary health care; Interprofessional relations; Policy  
  Abstract This thesis concerns an investigation of the tripartite arrangements between the government, the nursing and the medical sectors in New Zealand over the period 1984 to 2001 with a particular focus on primary health care. The start point is the commencement of the health reforms instituted by the Fourth New Zealand Labour Government of 1984. The thesis falls within a framework of critical inquiry, specifically, the methodology of depth hermeneutics (Thompson, 1990), a development of critical theory. The effects of political and economic policies and the methodologies of neo-liberal market reform are examined together with the concept of collaboration as an ideological symbolic form, typical of enterprise culture. The limitations of economic models such as public choice theory, agency theory and managerialism are examined from the point of view of government strategies and their effects on the relationships between the nursing and medical professions. The influence of American health care policies and their partial introduction into primary health care in New Zealand is traversed in some detail, together with the experiences of health reform in several other countries. Post election 1999, the thesis considers the effect of change of political direction consequent upon the election of a Labour Coalition government and concludes that the removal of the neo-liberal ethic by Labour may terminate entrepreneurial opportunities in the nursing profession. The thesis considers the effects of a change to Third Way political direction on national health care policy and on the medical and nursing professions. The data is derived from various texts and transcripts of interviews with 12 health professionals and health commentators. The histories and current relationships between the nursing and medical professions are examined in relation to their claims to be scientific discourses and it is argued that the issue of lack of recognition as a scientific discourse is at the root of nursing's perceived inferiority to medicine. This is further expanded in a discussion at the end of the thesis where the structure of the two professions is compared and critiqued. A conclusion is drawn that a potential for action exists to remedy the deficient structure of nursing. The thesis argues that this is the major issue which maintains nursing in the primary sector in a perceived position of inferiority to medicine. The thesis also concludes that the role of government in this triangular relationship is one of manipulation to bring about necessary fundamental change in the delivery of health services at the lowest possible cost without materially strengthening the autonomy of the nursing or the medical professions.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1146 Serial 1131  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title The nursing praxis of family health Type Book Chapter
  Year 2005 Publication Picard, C & Jones, D., Giving voice to what we know (pp.73-82) Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Nursing research; Nursing philosophy; Nurse-family relations  
  Abstract The chapter explores the process of nursing practice and how it contributes to health, derived from research undertaken in New Zealand. It presents the nature of nursing research as if practice – the researcher as if practitioner – establishing a foundation for the development of nursing knowledge that would make a distinct contribution to health and health care. It includes the philosophy and practicalities of nursing through the use of a case study of nursing a family with complex health circumstances.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1185 Serial 1170  
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