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Searle, J. |
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Title |
Gender bias: Women and heart disease |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Vision: A Journal of Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
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7 |
Issue |
12 |
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10-14 |
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Cardiovascular diseases; Gender; Nursing; Female |
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This article discusses the apparent gender bias prevalent in health care for women who experience cardiovascular disease. It considers how gender expectations and stereotypes affect health practices. Changes at the social, political and practice level necessary to achieve equitable care for women with cardiovascular disease are outlined. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1282 |
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Hughes, F. |
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Title |
Reconnecting with policy: Requirements for survival as a mental health nurse |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2006 |
Publication |
Journal of Psychosocial Nursing & Mental Health Services |
Abbreviated Journal |
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44 |
Issue |
8 |
Pages |
30-39 |
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Policy; Mental health; Nursing specialties |
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This article discusses the disconnection between mental health nurses and policy, and the importance of reconnecting such relationships. It is suggested this will benefit consumers, provide influence in health care policies and, ultimately, contribute to strategies to improve the health of our nation. In this article, the author draws on her own experiences and applies these to a discussion of how mental health nurses can influence and strengthen their relationships with nursing policy. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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938 |
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Foster, S. |
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Title |
The relationship of physical activity to health in elder adulthood |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Vision: A Journal of Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
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7 |
Issue |
12 |
Pages |
24-27 |
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Older people; Geriatric nursing; Health behaviour; Age factors |
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This article discusses the importance of physical activity in the health of older people, in the context of holistic perspectives of elder adulthood and theories of ageing and recent research. The wide ranging role of the gerontologic nurse specialist is explored. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1285 |
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Author |
Gallagher, P. |
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Title |
Preconceptions and learning to be a nurse |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2007 |
Publication |
Nurse Education Today |
Abbreviated Journal |
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27 |
Issue |
8 |
Pages |
878-884 |
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Keywords |
Nursing; Education; Attitude of health personnel; Theory |
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This article discusses the important role that preconceptions play in the process by which students learn to be nurses. The importance of preconceptions emerged from the analysis of data in a grounded theory study that sought to gain a greater understanding of how undergraduate student nurses in New Zealand experienced and responded to differences they perceived between the theory and the practice of nursing. It became clear that the preconceptions each student nurse held about the nature of nurses and nursing care were the standards against which the worth of the formal, practical and personal theories to which students were exposed during their nursing degree was evaluated. It was clear that preconceptions functioned as the mediator between the intentions of nursing education and the learning that eventuated for each student from practicum experiences. The implications for nursing education, for which preconceptions are not generally highly valued as a basis for learning about professional nursing, are that the individual experience and personal characteristics of each student receive significant focus when a nursing programme is planned. This means that the orthodox principles that underpin the design of nursing curricula should be reviewed and an overtly constructivist perspective adopted for nursing education for which the prior experiences of the student are the starting point. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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931 |
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Author |
Bland, M.F. |
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Title |
Patient observation in nursing home research: Who was that masked woman? [corrected] [published erratum appears in Contemporary Nurse 2002 Apr; 12(2): 135] |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2002 |
Publication |
Contemporary Nurse |
Abbreviated Journal |
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12 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
42-48 |
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Nursing research; Ethics; Rest homes; Nurse-patient relations |
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This article discusses the issues that one nurse researcher faced during participant observation in three New Zealand nursing homes. These include the complexity of the nurse researcher role, the blurring of role boundaries, and various ethical concerns that arose, including the difficulties of ensuring that all those who were involved in the study were kept informed as to the researcher's role and purpose. Strategies used to maintain ethical and role integrity are outlined, with further debate and discussion around fieldwork issues and experiences for nurse researchers called for. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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892 |
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Author |
Day, W. |
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Title |
Relaxation: A nursing therapy to help relieve cardiac chest pain |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2000 |
Publication |
Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
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18 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
40-44 |
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Keywords |
Alternative therapies; Nursing; Patient satisfaction; Cardiovascular diseases |
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This article discusses ways in which relaxation, when used as an adjunct to medical therapies, can be a useful nursing management tool for effectively relieving cardiac pain. The available literature suggests that although nurses place a lot of importance on cardiac patients being pain free, it is apparent this is often not achieved. Research and documented case studies suggest that relaxation can play an important role in the treatment and prevention of this distressing symptom. The author advocates for nurses to challenge nursing practice and help patients deal effectively with chest pain in a way that meets each individual's needs. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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841 |
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Milligan, K.; Neville, S.J. |
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Title |
Health assessment and its relationship to nursing practice in New Zealand |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Contemporary Nurse |
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10 |
Issue |
1/2 |
Pages |
7-11 |
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Keywords |
Nursing; Education; Professional competence; Nurse practitioners; Cross-cultural comparison |
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This article draws on Australian experience to gain insight to three specific areas of health assessment that are topical in New Zealand, which has recently introduced the concept into nursing training. The issues are annual registration based on evidence of competence to practice, a review of undergraduate curricula, and the development of nurse practitioner/advanced nurse practitioner roles. The meaning of the concept 'health assessment' is also clarified in order to provide consistency as new initiatives in nursing are currently being developed. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1090 |
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Carryer, J.B.; Gardner, G.; Dunn, S.; Gardner, A. |
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Title |
The core role of the nurse practitioner: Practice, professionalism and clinical leadership |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2007 |
Publication |
Journal of Clinical Nursing |
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16 |
Issue |
10 |
Pages |
1818-1825 |
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Keywords |
Professional competence; Nurse practitioners; Evaluation research; Cross-cultural comparison |
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This article draws on empirical evidence to illustrate the core role of nurse practitioners in Australia and New Zealand. A study jointly commissioned by both countries' Regulatory Boards developed information of the newly created nurse practitioner role, to develop shared competency and educational standards. This interpretive study used multiple data sources, including published and grey literature, policy documents, nurse practitioner programme curricula and interviews with 15 nurse practitioners from the two countries. The core role of the nurse practitioner was identified as having three components: dynamic practice, professional efficacy and clinical leadership. Nurse practitioner practice is dynamic and involves the application of high level clinical knowledge and skills in a wide range of contexts. The nurse practitioner demonstrates professional efficacy, enhanced by an extended range of autonomy that includes legislated privileges. The nurse practitioner is a clinical leader with a readiness and an obligation to advocate for their client base and their profession at the systems level of health care. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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932 |
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Jonsdottir, H.; Litchfield, M.; Pharris, M. |
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Title |
The relational core of nursing practice as partnership |
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Journal of Advanced Nursing |
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47 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
241-250 |
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Keywords |
Nurse-patient relations; Nursing philosophy; Nursing research |
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This article elaborates the meaning of partnership in practice for nurses practising in different and complementary way to nurses in specialist roles and medical practitioners. It positions partnership as the relational core of nursing practice. Partnership is presented as an evolving dialogue between nurse and patient, which is characterised by open, caring, mutually responsive and non-directive approaches. This partnership occurs within a health system that is dominated by technologically-driven, prescriptive, and outcome-oriented approaches. It is the second of a series of articles written as a partnership between nurse scholars from Iceland, NZ and USA. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1188 |
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1173 |
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Author |
Woods, M. |
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Title |
Balancing rights and duties in 'life and death' decision making involving children: A role for nurses? |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Nursing Ethics |
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8 |
Issue |
5 |
Pages |
397-408 |
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Parents and caregivers; Children; Ethics; Clinical decision making; Nurse-family relations; Chronically ill |
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This article examines a growing number of cases in New Zealand in which parents and guardians are required to make life and death ethical decisions on behalf of their seriously ill child. Increasingly, nurses and other practitioners are expected to more closely inform, involve and support the rights of parents or guardians in such situations. Differing moral and ethical values between the medical team and parents or guardians can lead to difficult decision making situations. The article analyses the moral parameters, processes, outcomes and ethical responses that must be considered when life and death ethical decisions involving children are made. It concludes with a recommendation that nurses should be recognised as perhaps the most suitable of all health care personnel when careful mediation is needed to produce an acceptable moral outcome in difficult ethical situations. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1086 |
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Author |
Smillie, A. |
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Title |
Historical investigations: Risk management in a New Zealand hospital, 1888-1904 |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2006 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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22 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
33-38 |
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Risk management; History; Patient safety |
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This article examines historical events within one hospital and compares them with contemporary risk management practices. The examples involve a nurse sustaining injury in the course of her work, a fire in the hospital and two instances of patient complaints – one concerning nursing care and the other relating to a time lag between admission to hospital and receiving medical attention. Analysis of the processes followed in investigating these occurrences reveals that these historic investigations were small in scale and less bureaucratic than contemporary practice, and were based on a culture of blame. This is contrasted with modern risk management practices which are more focused on understanding what can be learned from the incident with respect to preventing recurrence. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 539 |
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525 |
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Author |
Richardson, S. |
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Title |
Increasing patient numbers: The implications for New Zealand emergency departments |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
1999 |
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Accident & Emergency Nursing |
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7 |
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3 |
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158-163 |
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Emergency nursing; Organisational change |
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This article examines influences that impact on the work of the Emergency Departments (EDs). EDs are noticing increased attendance of patients with minor or non-urgent conditions. This increase in patient volume, together with on-going fiscal constraints and restructuring, has placed an added strain on the functioning of EDs. New Zealand nurses need to question the role currently given to EDs and identify the issues surrounding the increased use of these departments for primary health care. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1108 |
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1093 |
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Author |
Jacobs, S. |
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Title |
Credentialling: Setting standards for advanced nursing practice |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2000 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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15 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
38-46 |
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Keywords |
Scope of practice; Advanced nursing practice |
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This article examines professional regulation with particular reference to advanced practice. As well as providing an overview of credentialing and other aspects of professional regulation, including licensure, certification, registration, and titling, the question of how much regulation, and by whom, is explored. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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632 |
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Author |
Kennedy, W. |
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Title |
Professional supervision to enhance nursing practice |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2007 |
Publication |
Vision: A Journal of Nursing |
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Available online from Eastern Institute of Technology |
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14 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
3-6 |
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Professional development; Clinical supervision; Nursing; Education |
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This article examines the concept of clinical supervision as “professional supervision”. Professional supervision contains many elements, is structured and not without effort. Fundamentally it is about being safe and professional. 'Reflective learning' and 'Live/tutorial' models are reviewed in different contexts for assisting nurses work through everyday issues, conflicts and problems of their role. The author concludes that regardless of which model is used there are benefits for safety and professionalism. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1310 |
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Author |
Brinkman, A. |
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Title |
Occupational stress in hospitals: A nursing perspective |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2002 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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8 |
Issue |
6 |
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21-23 |
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Occupational health and safety; Stress; Nursing |
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This article examines the environmental stressors that cause occupational stress for many nurses, particularly the health reforms and the Employment Contracts Act (ECA). The concept of stress is reviewed and theories of occupational stress are described, including the demand-control theory and the transactional model. Nurses are advised to become aware of occupational stress in their workplaces, citing a study by the author showing high levels of stress among hospital nurses. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1025 |
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1009 |
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