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Author (up) Wilkinson, J.A. openurl 
  Title A mantle of protection? A critical analysis of the personal safety of district nurses Type Journal Article
  Year 2002 Publication Whitireia Nursing Journal Abbreviated Journal Whitireia Community Polytechnic and Massey University libraries  
  Volume 9 Issue 30-6 Pages 30-36  
  Keywords Occupational health and safety; Workplace violence; District nursing  
  Abstract This qualitative inquiry, informed by Critical Social Theory, explored the personal safety experiences of district nurses in a New Zealand city.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1083  
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Author (up) Wilkinson, J.A.; Huntington, A.D. openurl 
  Title The personal safety of district nurses: A critical analysis Type Journal Article
  Year 2004 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 20 Issue 3 Pages 31-44  
  Keywords District nursing; Occupational health and safety; Organisational culture; Risk factors  
  Abstract A workplace safety study of district nurses in New Zealand was conducted to explore personal safety experiences. A qualitative methodology informed by Critical Social Theory was employed. This paper details the findings and implications derived from data collected from six district nurses in two urban New Zealand health services who recalled incidents in which they felt their personal safety was compromised. Data were collected through individual interviews and a focus group discussion with the participants. Data analysis revealed two-fold risks to nurse safety; these were associated with client behaviour as well as risks embedded in the organisational structure. The findings suggest a number of practical issues involving basic security measures require urgent attention. The complex power relationships that shape the experience of nursing in a community impinged on the ability of the nurses in this study to confidently and safely fulfil their role. An organisational commitment to a culture of safety would help address the powerlessness experienced by district nurses.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 549  
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Author (up) Wilkinson, Jill url  doi
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  Title Marking 50 years of nurse education in the tertiary sector Type Journal Article
  Year 2023 Publication Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 39 Issue 1 Pages  
  Keywords Nursing education; Tertiary education  
  Abstract Reflects on the past 50 years of nursing education in light of the author's own experience of making the transition from hospital training to polytechnic education and then undertaking an RN to BN programme. Considers the challenges to nurse educators for the future education of nurses.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1828  
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Author (up) Wilkinson, Jillian Ann url  openurl
  Title The New Zealand nurse practitioner polemic : a discourse analysis : a thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand Type Book Whole
  Year 2007 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 308 pp.  
  Keywords Nurse practitioners; Nursing history; Advanced nursing practice; Nursing identity; Discourse analysis; Nursing regulation; Surveys  
  Abstract Traces the development of the nurse practitioner role in NZ since its establishment in 2001, using a discourse analytical approach to examine those discourses that have defined the role. Employs both textual and discursive analysis of texts from published literature and from nine interviews with individuals influential in the evolution of the role. Examines political perspectives and disciplinary practices dating back to the Nurses Registration Act of 1901. Considers the implications of an autonomous nursing profession in both practice and regulation.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1614  
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Author (up) Willers, Shona; Jowsey, Tanisha; Chen, Yan url  doi
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  Title How do nurses promote critical thinking in acute care? A scoping literature review Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Nurse Education in Practice Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 53 Issue Pages 1-12  
  Keywords Nursing education; Critical thinking; Acute care  
  Abstract Employs Arksey and O'Malley's framework to undertake a scoping literature review to find out how critical thinking is promoted among nursing learners such as students and junior nurses in acute care.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1774  
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Author (up) Williams, B.G. url  openurl
  Title The primacy of the nurse in New Zealand 1960s-1990s: Attitudes, beliefs and responses over time Type
  Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Nursing; History; Registered nurses  
  Abstract Exploring the past, and pulling ideas through to the present, to inform the future can make a valuable contribution to nurses and nursing in New Zealand. By gaining some understanding of the attitudes and beliefs nurses held, and how these influenced their responsiveness, we can learn what active responses might help inform our future. Nurses in New Zealand, as individuals and within the profession as a whole, reveal the primacy of the nurse – nurses who have made and can continue to make a difference to the health of the peoples of New Zealand. A hermeneutic process was used to interpret material, from international texts, national texts and public records over four decades, the 1960s to 1990s. This was supplemented and contrasted with material from twelve oral history participants. Analysis of the material led to the emergence of four themes: Nurses' decision-making: changes over time; An emerging understanding of autonomy and accountability; Nurses as a driving force; and Creating a nursing future. These four themes revealed an overall pattern of attitudes, beliefs and responses of the New Zealand registered nurse. The themes surfaced major revelations about the primacy of the nurse in New Zealand, nurses confident in their ability to take the opportunity, seize the moment, and effect change. The author suggests that the contribution this thesis makes to the discipline of nursing is an understanding of how the nurse actively constructs the scope of a professional response to the context. The author notes that the thesis demonstrates how nurses can learn from the past, that the attitudes and beliefs that underpin our active responses can either move us forward, or retard our progress. As nurses we can also learn that to move forward we need particular attitudes, beliefs and responses, that these are identifiable, and are key factors influencing our future, thus ensuring the continued primacy of the nurse.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 905  
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Author (up) Williams, J.L. openurl 
  Title The Cummins model: An adaption to assist foreign nursing students in New Zealand Type
  Year 2003 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Nursing; Education; Students  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1114  
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Author (up) Williams, P. openurl 
  Title The experience of being new in the role of Charge Nurse Type
  Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Auckland University of Technology Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Nursing  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 608 Serial 594  
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Author (up) Wilson, B. openurl 
  Title Maintaining equilibrium: The community mental health nurse and job satisfaction Type
  Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Community health nursing; Mental health; Job satisfaction; Stress  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 681 Serial 667  
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Author (up) Wilson, D. openurl 
  Title The nurse's role in improving indigenous health Type Journal Article
  Year 2003 Publication Contemporary Nurse Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 15 Issue 3 Pages 232-240  
  Keywords Transcultural nursing; Maori; Health status  
  Abstract 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.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1065  
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Author (up) Wilson, D.; McBride-Henry, K.; Huntington, A.D. openurl 
  Title Family violence: Walking the tight rope between maternal alienation and child safety Type Journal Article
  Year 2005 Publication Contemporary Nurse Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 18 Issue 1-2 Pages 85-96  
  Keywords Nursing; Domestic violence; Nurse-patient relations; Children  
  Abstract This paper discusses the complexity of family violence for nurses negotiating the 'tight rope' between the prime concern for the safety of children and further contributing to maternal alienation, within a New Zealand context. The premise that restoration of the mother-child relationship is paramount for the long-term wellbeing of both the children and the mother provides the basis for discussing implications for nursing practice. Evidence shows that when mothers are supported and have the necessary resources there is a reduction in the violence and abuse she and her children experience; this occurs even in situations where the mother is the primary abuser of her children. The family-centred care philosophy, which is widely accepted as the best approach to nursing care for children and their families, creates tension for nurses caring for children who are the victims of abuse as this care generally occurs away from the context of the family.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 698  
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Author (up) Wilson, D.; Neville, S.J. openurl 
  Title Nursing their way not our way: Working with vulnerable and marginalised populations Type Journal Article
  Year 2008 Publication Contemporary Nurse Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 27 Issue 2 Pages 165-176  
  Keywords Maori; Geriatric nursing; Nurse-patient relations  
  Abstract This paper uses the findings of two studies to explore the nature of nurses' practice when working with vulnerable and marginalised populations, particularly with regard to the attributes of holism and individualised care. The first study was with the elderly with delirium and used a critical gerontological methodology informed by postmodernism and Foucault's understanding of discourse. The other study with indigenous Maori women utilised Glaserian grounded theory informed by a Maori-centred methodology. The findings show that a problem focussed approach to health care is offered to patients that does not incorporate individual health experiences. In addition, the social context integral to people's lives outside of the health care environment is ignored. Consequently, the foundations of nursing practice, that of holism, is found to be merely a rhetorical construct.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 799 Serial 783  
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Author (up) Wilson, D.S. url  openurl
  Title Transforming nursing education: A legitimacy of difference Type
  Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal UC Research Repository  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Nursing; Education; Teaching methods; Curriculum; Feminist critique  
  Abstract In 1973, two trial pre-registration nursing education programmes were piloted in New Zealand polytechnics. These represented an alternative to traditional hospital-sited schools of nursing. The establishment of nursing education in the tertiary sector marked a radical challenge to the cultural heritage of apprenticeship-style nursing training associated with paternal and medically-dominated health institutions. This thesis offers a Foucauldian and feminist poststructuralist analysis of discourses employed by fifteen senior nursing educators in the comprehensive registration programmes between 1973 and 1992. The women employed to teach in the comprehensive programmes faced unique challenges in establishing departments of nursing, in developing curricula that would promote a reorientation of nursing and in supporting candidates to attain their nursing registration. Through semi-structured interviews and discourse analysis methods, a set of unique characteristics shared by this group of early leading comprehensive nursing educators has emerged. The women's narratives were underpinned by discourses that centre around the valuing of education as a vehicle for emancipation and an upholding of a legitimacy of difference in nursing educators' work. The participants upheld the importance of clinical practice skills and drew on their own student nursing experiences as incentives for reforming nursing education. These nursing educators conceptualised an idealised type of graduate, and commonly employed an heroic metaphor to describe their experiences as senior comprehensive educators. Their engagement with such discourses and their shared characteristics demonstrate unique re-constitutions of power, knowledge and relations with their colleagues and clients throughout the education and health care sectors. The author proposes that these traits characterise the women as strategic and astute professionals who successfully negotiated the construction of comprehensive nursing programmes as a legitimate and transformative preparation for nursing registration.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1139  
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Author (up) Wilson, H.V. openurl 
  Title Paradoxical pursuits in child health nursing practice: Discourses of scientific mothercraft Type Journal Article
  Year 2003 Publication Critical Public Health Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 13 Issue 3 Pages 281-293  
  Keywords Plunket; Nurse-family relations; Paediatric nursing; Nursing philosophy  
  Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine the discourses of scientific mothercraft and their implications for the nurse-mother relationship, drawing on the author's recent research into surveillance and the exercise of power in the child health nursing context. The application of Foucauldian discourse analysis to the texts generated by interviews with five New Zealand child health nurses confirms that this paradoxical role has never been fully resolved. Plunket nurses primarily work in the community with the parents of new babies and preschool children. Their work, child health surveillance, is considered to involve routine and unproblematic practices generally carried out in the context of a relationship between the nurse and the mother. However, there are suggestions in the literature that historically the nurse's surveillance role has conflicting objectives, as she is at the same time an inspector and family friend.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1116 Serial 1101  
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Author (up) Wilson, H.V. openurl 
  Title Power and partnership: A critical analysis of the surveillance discourses of child health nurses Type Journal Article
  Year 2001 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 36 Issue 2 Pages 294-301  
  Keywords Paediatric nursing; Nurse-family relations; Nursing philosophy; Plunket  
  Abstract The aim of this research was to explore surveillance discourses within New Zealand child health nursing and to identify whether surveillance practices have implications in this context for power relations. Five experienced and practising Plunket nurses were each interviewed twice. The texts generated by these semi-structured interviews were analysed using a Foucauldian approach to critical discourse analysis. In contrast with the conventional view of power as held and wielded by one party, this study revealed that, in the Plunket nursing context, power is exercised in various and unexpected ways. Although the relationship between the mother and the nurse cannot be said to operate as a partnership, it is constituted in the nurses' discourses as a dynamic relationship in which the mother is actively engaged on her own terms. The effect of this is that it is presented by the nurses as a precarious relationship that has significant implications for the success of their work.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1085  
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