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Horsburgh, M. (1987). Graduate nurses' adjustment to initial employment (Vol. 14). Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: An ethnographic study which attempts to understand what initial employment means to graduates from a comprehensive nursing course. The researcher participated in the first 3-4 months of the nurses' employment in general hospital settings. Five major themes emerge from the study indicating that the rhetoric practice of the school of nursing is different from the rhetoric and practice within general hospital settings. The reality of initial employment for the new graduated conflicts with the values and ideals of nursing promulgated by the comprehensive nursing course. The educational program stressed patient centred nursing, where nurses accepted responsibility for the continuing care of individuals. In contrast the hospital settings stress nursing as management of tasks across different patients. This conflict was a major source of frustration for the 'beginning' nurses. Ultimately they accept the reality of nursing as the management of tasks, but not without some personal cost. Orientation programs and the early employment period focus on 'fitting in to the system'. A significant determinant of the practice of new graduates are context effects such the time of their shift and the availability of experienced nurses. A number of management practices foster and maintain a beginning level of practice and new graduates have no opportunity to practice as autonomous nurses within a multi disciplinary health care team. Beginning practice is identified in new graduates through their difficulties in coping with unplanned or unexpected events. The initial employment period is dominated by shift work, resulting tiredness and adjustment to social activities.It is argued that management practices which support the ideals of comprehensive nursing courses and totally qualified nursing workforce have yet to occur. There are implications in this study for nursing education and nursing practice
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Shadbolt, Y. T. (1984). Curriculum innovation in a school of nursing – a case study. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: The study gives an account of curriculum development and innovation in a New Zealand school of nursing and focuses on some aspects of the basic diploma course. The study attempts, through the medium of case study, to illuminate the way in which significant curriculum decisions are made and ideas translated into institutional and technical form. Evidence is derived from the recorded perceptions of the participants, observations, and analyses of documented material. The findings confirm that the field of study is complex, multivariable and dynamic, and that translation of the curriculum on paper involves a multitude of deliberative and factual decisions by practicing teachers
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Miller, N. R. (1978). The problems experienced by graduates of student based comprehensive nursing programs as they provide nursing care in general hospitals. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: When professionals are employed in bureaucratic organisations they can expect to experience incongruence between their professional role conception and the bureaucratic demands of the organisation which lead to their experiencing role deprivation. Students of comprehensive Nursing programs during their preparation are socialised into a role consistent with their professional group when employed in Hospitals, are subjected to its bureaucratic administrative structure This study examines problems experienced by graduates of these programs, the way they cope with these problems and the extent of their role deprivation, 6 months after commencing employment in General hospitals. The result obtained by questionnaire and interview indicate the main problems are related to the provision of nursing Care, the organisation of Hospital and Communication. These problems prevent graduates from functioning as professional Nurses. Almost half considered they have been successful in resolving them. All graduates experienced a considerable magnitude of role deprivation. there are implications both for agencies and for those preparing Comprehensive Nurses
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McKegg, A. H. (1991). Ministering angels: the government backblock nursing service and the Maori health nurses, 1909 -1939. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Wallace, S. (1987). The professionalisation of nursing 1900-1930. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Morrison, M. (1994). Body-guarded: the social aesthetics of critical care. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Messervy, L. (1993). The rise of the independent nurse practitioner: a comparative study of independent nurse practitioners and nurses in traditional work places. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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MacManus, M. (1994). Reflective practice: teaching the practice of nursing. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Kerslake, M. T. (1994). The nurse practitioner in the South Pacific region: concerns about this innovation. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Hay, J. (1991). A needs assessment of and for people with head injuries in the greater Auckland area. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Glasspoole, L. A. (1986). Psychotropic drug use with the elderly: nurse attitudes and knowledge levels. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Caldwell, S. (1998). From “beloved imbecile” to critical thinker: producing the politicized nurse. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Brown, M. B. (1991). The Auckland School of Nursing, 1883 – 1990: the rise and fall. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Blue, R. G. (1995). A new net goes out fishing: options for change within the public health nursing service. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Alexander, S. M. (1989). Evaluation as an aged-care management tool: a case study. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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