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Author |
Mitchell, D.F. |
Title |
Is it possible to care for the “difficult” male? A study exploring the interface between gender issues, nursing practice and men's health |
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Year |
1999 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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Keywords |
Male; Nurse-patient relations; Gender |
Abstract |
This thesis is about caring for males, especially those males who could be considered “difficult” to care for through their use of behaviours such as silence, anger or defensive humour. This thesis is positioned in the view that these behaviours are often expressions of distress, which typically distance males from those who attempt to care for them. The author suggests that the word “distress” more accurately reflects the theme of the thesis, and it is used throughout the work. This thesis explores the interface between gender issues, nursing practice and caring for males. It is informed by a review of relevant literature and data gathered from a focus group of nine registered nurses. The analysis is framed by questions that are developed from a series of reflections on my personal and professional life. Critical social theory, with its emphases on dominant dialogue, power and emancipation is used to inform and guide this analysis. What is most obvious is the contrast between themes arising from the literature and those arising from the focus group. It appears that the literature, in the main, is critical of males in regard to concepts of masculinity, issues related to gender, and men's health. Males are portrayed as arbitrators of their own misfortune, as deliberately choosing a lifestyle that reflects poorly on their health, their self-expression, and communication with others. Concepts such as power and control over others, both at a societal and individual level, often feature. Conversely, the literature is noticeably lacking in regard to information about the health related experiences of males and about caring for males. In contrast, the participants of the focus group frame their discussion in the positive. For example, they suggest that males are interested in their health but require an environment that supports this expression of interest. They support this by identifying a range of behaviours they believe are effective in caring for males. The participants also suggest that it is the registered nurse rather than the male who manages issues to do with power and control. The thesis concludes that creating and sustaining an environment supportive of, and sensitive to the needs of males, is an activity that requires considerable thought, skill and experience. These areas are not adequately addressed in academic dialogue, research activity, or in the education of registered nurses. The thesis suggests that this situation is inconsistent with an ethic of care and that nursing should make a priority of broadening its research and knowledge base to better understand and care for males. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 503 |
Serial |
489 |
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Author |
Miskelly, P; Neal, P; Green, A |
Title |
Communities of Practice: Supporting innovation to improve public health nurse and school community relationships |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2011 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki Nursing Research |
Abbreviated Journal |
Held by NZNO Library |
Volume |
2 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
21-26 |
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Abstract |
Public health nursing has been an integral part of health delivery services in New Zealand since the development of a public health service in the early 1900s.
This paper details a qualitative study of a practice innovation undertaken by a group of nurses to reconnect with their school communities. Questions focused on whether the relationship between the public health nurses and their school communities improved as a result of the innovation and what impact, if any, the project had on the public health nurse team itself. Community of practice theory revealed the importance of collaboration and the benefits that can accrue from this approach for both nurse and school communities. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1358 |
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Author |
Minton, Claire; Burrow, Marla; Manning, Camille; Van der Krogt, Shelley |
Title |
Cultural safety and patient trust: the Hui Process to initiate the nurse-patient relationship |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
2022 |
Publication |
Contgemporary Nurse |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
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Issue |
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Pages |
9 p. |
Keywords |
Hui Process; Fundamentals of Care; Nursing education; Cultural safety; Maori patients |
Abstract |
Argues that the Hui Process, being a model informed by Maori values on connection, serves the aim of the Fundamentals of Care framework for nursing students, to learn relationship-based nursing through culturally-safe practice and communication. Explains the Hui Process which comprises four steps: mihi, whakawhanaungatanga, kaupapa and poroporoaki. Examines how the process leads to culturally-safe patient-centred care. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1798 |
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Author |
Minton, Claire Maree |
Title |
A multicase study of a prolonged critical illness in the Intensive Care Unit : patient, family and nurses' trajectories |
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Book Whole |
Year |
2017 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
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Issue |
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Pages |
279 p. |
Keywords |
Critical care; Intensive Care Units; Chronic Illness Trajectory Framework; Surveys |
Abstract |
Examines the experiences of the patient, their family and healthcare professionals during the trajectory of a prolonged critical illness in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Conducts a qualitative, instrumental, multi-case study informed by the Chronic Illness Trajectory Framework. Analyses data from six linked cases (patient, family and clinicians) in four ICUs over a two-year period. Argues that identifying the sub-phases of a prolonged critical illness trajectory allows targeted interventions for each sub-phase. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1814 |
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Author |
Minto, R. |
Title |
The future of practice nursing |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
2006 |
Publication |
New Zealand Family Physician |
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Volume |
33 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
169-172 |
Keywords |
Primary health care; Interprofessional relations; Professional development; Physicians; Practice nurses |
Abstract |
The author describes and discusses the main barriers to practice nurses achieving their potential as a profession. She identifies key obstacles as the funding model, GP attitudes and the current employment model. Shared governance, the development of a patient-centred services, and new employment models are proposed as the basis of a new model of primary care delivery. |
Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 537 |
Serial |
523 |
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Author |
Minchin, I. |
Title |
Advanced nursing in the operating theatre: The New Zealand perspective |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
2004 |
Publication |
Dissector |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
32 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
30-35 |
Keywords |
Operating theatre; Nursing specialties |
Abstract |
This article presents a literature review of current research on perioperative nursing. Research studies are summarised. Overall findings include that there is a lack of exposure to perioperative nursing in undergraduate level, that expert nurses in the operating theatre make a positive economic and social contribution to patient outcomes, and there are barriers to registered nurses expanding their role in operating theatres. |
Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1072 |
Serial |
1057 |
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Author |
Milligan, K.; Neville, S.J. |
Title |
Health assessment and its relationship to nursing practice in New Zealand |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Contemporary Nurse |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
10 |
Issue |
1/2 |
Pages |
7-11 |
Keywords |
Nursing; Education; Professional competence; Nurse practitioners; Cross-cultural comparison |
Abstract |
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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Author |
Milligan, K.; Neville, S.J. |
Title |
The contextualisation of health assessment |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
19 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
23-31 |
Keywords |
Cross-cultural comparison; Evaluation; Nursing |
Abstract |
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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Author |
Milligan, K. |
Title |
Aesthetic knowledge and the use of arts in nursing |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2002 |
Publication |
Beginning Journeys: A Collection of Work |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
7 |
Issue |
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Pages |
9-14 |
Keywords |
Nursing philosophy; Nursing; Education; Teaching methods |
Abstract |
The author considers aesthetic knowing and the use of the arts in nursing. She identifies concepts that pertain to the art of nursing. The interrelationship of the moral sense and the art of nursing is explored. The author concludes that the mediums of non-fiction, fiction and poetry can provide valuable contributions to the aesthetic way of knowing in nursing education, practice and research. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1094 |
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Author |
Miller, N.R. |
Title |
The problems experienced by graduates of student based comprehensive nursing programs as they provide nursing care in general hospitals |
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Year |
1978 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
University of Auckland Library |
Volume |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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Keywords |
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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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NRSNZNO @ research @ 120 |
Serial |
120 |
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Author |
Miller, Jodi Shirlene |
Title |
Workplace learning: exploring the context and culture in New Zealand |
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Book Whole |
Year |
2013 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
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Issue |
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Pages |
234 p. |
Keywords |
Workplace learning; Post-registration education; Postgraduate education; Professional development; Learning culture; Critical reflection; Mentoring |
Abstract |
Explores the rationale underpinning the development of education programmes within urban district hospitals throughout the country, and ascertains how these workplaces develop education programmes, given that the majority of nurses in New Zealand have identified that they prefer to participate in workplace-based professional development. Cites a clear requirement to foster learning during a nurse's development post-registration, while considering how prepared nurse educators were to fulfil their roles as lifelong learning facilitators and mentors. Utilises the perspective of nurse educators employed in District Health Boards (DHBs) geographically isolated from universities providing post-registration learning. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1566 |
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Author |
Miles, M.A.P. |
Title |
Why they leave: a Heideggerian hermeneutic study of the reasons why ten registered nurses left nursing practice to enter the professions of medicine or law |
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Year |
1997 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
University of Otago Library, Bill Robertson Library |
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Pages |
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Keywords |
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Abstract |
The purpose of the study was to research the reasons for the dissatisfaction experienced by ten professional nurse-practitioners who chose to leave nursing to join the professions of law or medicine. The mnotivation for professional nurses to chose entry to these particular professions may in some way throw light upon the difficulties being experienced in attempts to bring about changes of an emancipatory nature in the nursing profession (Habermas, 1974). The approach for the study is hermeneutic phenomenology (Gadamer, 1975 – ; Heidegger, 1962) |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 148 |
Serial |
148 |
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Author |
Miles, M.A.P. |
Title |
A critical analysis of the relationships between nursing, medicine and the government in New Zealand 1984-2001 |
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Year |
2005 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
University of Otago Library |
Volume |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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Keywords |
Policy; Nursing |
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. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 596 |
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582 |
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Author |
Miles, M.A.P. |
Title |
A critical analysis of the relationships between nursing, medicine and the government in New Zealand 1984-2001 |
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Year |
2005 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
NZNO Library, University of Otago Library |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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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. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1146 |
Serial |
1131 |
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Author |
Miles, Aimee; Lesa, Raewyn; Ritchie, Lorraine |
Title |
Nurses' experiences of providing care in an environment with decentralised nursing stations |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2021 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki Nursing Research |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
12 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
25-31 |
Keywords |
Decentralised nursing stations; Pod nursing; Hospital design; Collegiality |
Abstract |
Evaluates nurses' experiences of working in decentralised work stations in NZ hospital wards, in order to explore the interesection between the physical environment and nursing care. Backgrounds the shift away from centralised nursing stations to satellite work stations within wards. Identifies the unintended challenges of the design for nurses. Conducts two focus groups of 7 nurses each about the benefits and disadvantages of such nursing stations. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1715 |
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