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Trotter, A. |
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Mary Potter's Little Company of Mary: The New Zealand experience, 1914-2002 |
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Book Whole |
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2003 |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1048 |
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Gaskin, C.J.; O'Brien, A.P.; Hardy, D.J. |
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The development of a professional practice audit questionnaire for mental health nursing in Aotearoa/New Zealand |
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Journal Article |
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2003 |
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International Journal of Mental Health Nursing |
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12 |
Issue |
4 |
Pages |
259-270 |
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Professional competence; Psychiatric Nursing; Clinical decision making; Nursing research |
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This paper reports the three-stage development of a professional practice audit questionnaire for mental health nursing in Aotearoa/New Zealand. In Study 1, clinical indicator statements (n = 99) generated from focus group data, which were considered to be unobservable in the nursing documentation in consumer case notes, were included in a three-round Delphi process. Consensus of ratings occurred for the mental health nurse and academic participants (n = 7) on 83 clinical indicator statements. In Study 2, the clinical indicator statements (n = 67) that met importance and consensus criteria were incorporated into a questionnaire, which was piloted at a New Zealand mental health service. The questionnaire was then modified for use in a national field study. In Study 3, the national field study, registered mental health nurses (n = 422) from 11 New Zealand district health board mental health services completed the questionnaire. Five categories of nursing practice were identified: professional and evidence-based practice; consumer focus and reflective practice; professional development and integration; ethically and legally safe practice; and culturally safe practice. Analyses revealed little difference in the perceptions of nurses from different backgrounds regarding the regularity of the nursing practices. Further research is needed to calibrate the scores on each clinical indicator statement with behaviour in clinical practice. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1064 |
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Wilson, D. |
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The nurse's role in improving indigenous health |
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Journal Article |
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2003 |
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Contemporary Nurse |
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15 |
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3 |
Pages |
232-240 |
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Transcultural nursing; Maori; Health status |
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The health status of indigenous peoples is a global concern with mortality and hospitalisation data indicating that the health of indigenous groups falls below that of other ethnic groups within their countries. The preliminary findings of grounded theory research project undertaken with a group of 23 New Zealand Maori women about their health priorities and 'mainstream' health service needs provide the foundation for an exploration of issues impacting on the health status of indigenous people. The role that nursing and nurses have in improving access and use of health services by indigenous people is discussed. Strategies are suggested that nurses can utilise within their practice when working with local indigenous groups. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1065 |
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Crowe, M.; Carlyle, D. |
Title |
Deconstructing risk assessment and management in mental health nursing |
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Journal Article |
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2003 |
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Journal of Advanced Nursing |
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43 |
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1 |
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19-27 |
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Psychiatric Nursing; Risk management; Policy; Culture |
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The aims of the study were to provide a deconstructive analysis of the concepts of risk and risk management, and to explore the historical context of mental disorder and the concept of risk, the clinical context of risk assessment and management, the cultural, political and economic context of risk, and the impact on mental health nursing and consumers of mental health services. This is undertaken by providing a critical review of the history of mental illness and its relationship to risk, examination of government policy on clinical risk management, analysis of a risk assessment model and a discussion of the political and economic factors that have influenced the use of risk assessment and management in clinical practice. The concept of risk and its assessment and management have been employed in the delivery of mental health services as a form of contemporary governance. One consequence of this has been the positioning of social concerns over clinical judgement. The process employed to assess and manage risk could be regarded as a process of codification, commodification and aggregation. In the mental health care setting this can mean attempting to control the actions and behaviours of consumers and clinicians to best meet the fiscal needs of the organisation. The authors conclude that the mental health nursing profession needs to examine carefully its socially mandated role as guardians of those who pose a risk to others to ensure that its practice represents its espoused therapeutic responsibilities. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1069 |
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White, G.E.; Mortensen, A. |
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Counteracting stigma in sexual health care settings |
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Journal Article |
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2003 |
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Insight: The Journal of the American Society of Ophthalmic Registered Nurses |
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6 |
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1 |
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Sexual and reproductive health; Nursing specialties; Attitude to health |
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Sexual health clinics and the people who visit them commonly face stigma. Sexually transmitted infections have historically been used to divide people into “clean” and “dirty”. A grounded theory study of the work of sixteen nurses in six sexual health services in New Zealand was undertaken to explore the management of sexual health care. The study uncovered the psychological impact of negative social attitudes towards the people who visit sexual health services and to the staff who work there. Sexual health nurses manage the results of stigma daily and reveal in their interactions with clients a process of destigmatisation. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1071 |
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Polaschek, N. |
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Living on dialysis: Concerns of clients in a renal setting |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2003 |
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Journal of Advanced Nursing |
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41 |
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1 |
Pages |
44-52 |
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Nurse-patient relations; Psychology; Attitude to health; Terminal care |
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This article reports a study that sought to understand the experience of a group of Caucasian men with end stage renal failure managing their own haemodialysis therapy in their homes. The study used a critical interpretive methodology. The renal setting was critically viewed as a specialised health care context constituted by several interrelated discourses. Although established by the dominant professional discourse, it also includes a number of others, in particular an obscure client discourse that is a response to the dominant discourse. Initially, participants' own interpretations of their individual experiences were outlined. These were then collectively reinterpreted by contextualising them in terms of the critical view of the renal setting, in order to discern their own views as renal clients that were obscured by the language and ideas of the dominant discourse with which they had been enculturated. From an analysis of the set of accounts derived from interviews with six participants, four concerns of the renal client discourse were identified. These concerns were: (1) suffering from continuing symptoms of end stage renal failure and dialysis; (2) limitations resulting from negotiating dialysis into their lifestyle; (3) ongoingness and uncertainty of life on dialysis; and (4) altered relationship between autonomy and dependence inherent in living on dialysis. One specific implication of this study is that the distinctive potential of the nursing role in renal settings lies beyond the performance of a range of technical tasks, in addressing the experience of people living on dialysis, described here as the concerns of the renal client discourse. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1072 |
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Milligan, K.; Neville, S.J. |
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The contextualisation of health assessment |
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Journal Article |
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2003 |
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Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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19 |
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1 |
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23-31 |
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Cross-cultural comparison; Evaluation; Nursing |
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The authors defines health assessment and argue that it is a tool nurses should be using as a means of improving health outcomes for clients. The skills involved in health assessments are analysed, and four levels of data gathering are identified. The authors present an historical perspective, tracing the development of these skills as they have been incorporated in nursing practice in North America and Australia. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1095 |
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Speed, G. |
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Advanced nurse practice |
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Journal Article |
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2003 |
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Nursing dialogue: A Professional Journal for nurses |
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10 |
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6-12 |
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Nurse practitioners; Cross-cultural comparison; Law and legislation; Advanced nursing practice |
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The concept and characteristics of advanced nursing practice in New Zealand and overseas is compared with the nurse practitioner role. There is an international debate over definitions of advanced nursing and the range of roles that have developed. The rationale for the nurse practitioner role in New Zealand is examined, along with the associated legislation currently before Parliament. Job titles and roles of nurses within the Waikato Hospital intensive care unit are discussed and ways of developing the role of nurse practitioner are presented. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1096 |
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Kirkman, A.; Dixon, D.A. |
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Nurses at university: Negotiating academic, work and personal pathways |
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Book Chapter |
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2003 |
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Davey,J., Neale, J., Morris Mathews, K. , Living and learning: Experiences of university after age 40 (pp. 93-108) |
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Nursing; Education; Careers in nursing |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1160 |
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Jonsdottir, H.; Litchfield, M.; Pharris, M. |
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Partnership in practice |
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Journal Article |
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2003 |
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Research & Theory for Nursing Practice |
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17 |
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1 |
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51-63 |
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Nurse-patient relations; Nursing philosophy; Nursing research |
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This article presents a reconsideration of partnership between nurse and client as the core of the nursing discipline. It points to the significance of the relational nature of partnership, differentiating its features and form from the prevalent understanding associated with prescriptive interventions to achieve predetermined goals and outcomes. The meaning of partnership is presented within the nursing process where the caring presence of the nurse becomes integral to the health experience of the client as the potential for action. Exemplars provide illustration of this emerging view in practice and research. This is the first of a series of articles written as a partnership between nurse scholars from Iceland, New Zealand and the USA. The series draws on research projects that explored the philosophical, theoretical, ethical and practical nature of nursing practice and its significance for health and healthcare in a world of changing need. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1172 |
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Polaschek, N. |
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Negotiated care: A model for nursing work in the renal setting |
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Journal Article |
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2003 |
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Journal of Advanced Nursing |
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42 |
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4 |
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355-363 |
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Chronically ill; Nursing models; Nurse-patient relations; Communication |
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This article outlines a model for the nursing role in the chronic health care context of renal replacement therapy. Materials from several streams of literature are used to conceptualise the potential for nursing work in the renal setting as negotiated care. In order to present the role of the renal nurse in this way it is contextualised by viewing the renal setting as a specialised social context constituted by a dominant professional discourse and a contrasting client discourse. While performing specific therapeutic activities in accord with the dominant discourse, renal nurses can develop a relationship with the person living on dialysis, based on responsiveness to their subjective experience reflecting the renal client discourse. In contrast to the language of noncompliance prevalent in the renal setting, nurses can, through their relationship with renal clients, facilitate their attempts to negotiate the requirements of the therapeutic regime into their own personal life situation. Nurses can mediate between the dominant and client discourses for the person living on dialysis. Care describes the quality that nurses actively seek to create in their relationships with clients, through negotiation, in order to support them to live as fully as possible while using renal replacement therapy. The author concludes that within chronic health care contexts, shaped by the acute curative paradigm of biomedicine, the model of nursing work as negotiated care has the potential to humanise contemporary medical technologies by responding to clients' experiences of illness and therapy. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1186 |
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Author |
Kenny, Gerard |
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Fellowship report. Nursing Education and Ressearch Foundation. Margaret May Blackwell Fellowship [Prevention of child abuse and family violence] |
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Report |
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2003 |
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34 p. |
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Child abuse; Child health services; Domestic violence; Reports |
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Travels to the US, Europe, Canada and Australia to study services in the area of child abuse/child protection and family violence. Part of the Margaret May Blackwell Scholarship Reports series. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1419 |
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Macfie, Belinda |
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The exploration of primary health care nursing for child and family health : Margaret May Blackwell Travel Study Fellowship, 2002 |
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Report |
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2003 |
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103 |
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Primary health care – nursing; Child health services; Family health; Reports |
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Reports the approach to child and family health nursing in Canada, the US, and the UK. Divides the report into health policy, primary health care services, nursing education and the development of primary health care nurse practitioners, and nursing leadership in primary health care. Part of the Margaret May Blackwell Scholarship Reports series. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1424 |
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Carryer, J.B.; Boyd, M. |
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The myth of medical liability for nursing practice |
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Journal Article |
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2003 |
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Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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19 |
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4-12 |
Pages |
4-12 |
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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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Mortensen, A.; White, G.E. |
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The process of destigmatisation: The work of sexual health nurses |
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Journal Article |
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2003 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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19 |
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1 |
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32-39 |
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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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