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Stewart, A. (1997). A study of families' experiences of assisting a member into residential care. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Somerville, A. M. (1979). Acute respiratory distress in asthma. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Smythe, E. (1998). Being safe in childbirth: a hermeneutic interpretation of the narratives of women and practitioners. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Simpson, J. (1998). Hospice nurses responses to patient non-acceptance of treatment or care. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: Hospice nurses in New Zealand provide supportive care to patients of settings. In doing so, the hospice nurse and team are likely to have an ideal of a “good death” that guides their practice.A 'good death“ is one where symptons are well controlled without over medicalisation, where there is an acceptance of death by the patient and loved ones and where appropriatepreparation and completion of unfinished business has occurred. The death itself is peaceful and the loved ones are present. However, patients or their families do not always accept the treatment or care that the nurses offer to facilitate the best quality of life and a ”good death“ for the patient. This may leave the nurses involved feeling distressed and confused, as they are confronted with the conflict between the patients' path and the nurses' ideals.This study employs critical incident technique to explore how nurses respond and feel when the patients decline the treatment or care the nurse feels will improve their quality of life and eventually lead to a ”good death“. The findings illustrate a broad range of treatment or care that is declined by either patients or their families in the first instance. This study uncovers a number of action responses nurses use in these situations, which demonstrate acceptance of patient choice but also need to help the patient experience a ”good death". In addition it demonstrates that nurses experience a gamut of emotional responses to such situations, some of which are painful for the nurse and have the potential to cause stress. Recommendations are made which may assist nurses limit the distress they experience when patients of their families decline the treatment or care, and empower nurses with further strategies to use in such situations
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Sherrard, I. M. (1996). Living with a damaged body. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: Grounded theory was used to investigate the lives of quadriplegic people living in the community. The model indicates that people move between dependence and independence according to several factors
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Seccombe, J. (2004). Nursing students and people with disabilities: Changing curriculum, changing attitudes?.
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Seaton, P. (1998). The experiences of registered nurses in polytechnic baccalaureate degree programmes: an interpretive phenomenological study. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Scott, S., Johnson, Y., & Caughley, B. (2003). An evaluation of the new graduate orientation programme: Introduced at Capital Coast District Health Board's Wellington Hospital in March 1998. [Wellington]: Massey University.
Abstract: This report presents a longitudinal research study which evaluated the effectiveness of the twelve months New Graduate Orientation Programme introduced at Capital Coast District Health Board's Wellington Hospital in March 1998. The programme was implemented to assist new nursing graduate's transition into the role of registered nurse. The evaluation project took place over a three-year period. Three annual intakes of new graduates enrolled in the New Graduate Orientation Programme were surveyed by questionnaire on their completion of the programme.
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Sakulneya, A. (1986). Breast-feeding: personal and social influences. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Rydon, S. E. (2001). Attitudes, skills and knowledge of mental health nurses: The perception of users of mental health services. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Russell, L. (1993). Fostering nursing through management: a critical approach. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Russell, G. R. (1987). Evaluation of a service delivery programme. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Rummel, L. (1993). The proving ground: a phenomenological study of pre-registration comprehensive nursing students in acute care settings. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: This research focuses upon the lived experience of Diploma of Comprehensive Nursing Students in their final clinical experience. It is generated from the narrative of the students, how they experience their practise, how they make clinical judgements and how they prepare themselves for their graduate practise. Twenty one participants were each interviewed three times throughout a 6-8 week clinical experience in an acute care setting
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Rummel, L. (2001). Safeguarding the practices of nursing: The lived experience of being-as preceptor to undergraduate student nurses in acute care settings. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: This thesis used a Heideggerian Hermeneutic approach to explore the experiences of registered nurses who act as preceptors to undergraduate student nurses. The researcher interviewed fifteen volunteer registered nurses twice as preceptors to investigate their experience. The data generated was audio-taped and analysed. Four dominant themes emerged. The first, 'Becoming attuned – the call', related to registered nurses responding to the call to be preceptors to students in their clinical placement. The second, “The emerging identity of being-as preceptor: keeping the student in mind”, related to preceptors cultivating their own identity as preceptors as they worked with students in the world of nursing practice. The third, 'Assessing where the student is at: the preceptor and preceptee working and growing together', related to a constant evaluation by preceptors of students' knowledge, readiness to learn, and the provision of learning opportunities. The fourth, 'Preceptors as builders of nursing practice through teaching reality nursing', facilitated the preceptee's experience of the real world of nursing practice. An overall constitutive theme: 'Preceptors as the safeguarders of the practices of nursing', emerged as the essence of the experience.
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