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Author Davies, B. url  openurl
  Title Same person different nurse: A study of the relationship between nurse and patient based on the experience of shifting from secondary care to home-based nursing Type
  Year 2008 Publication Abbreviated Journal Research Archive at Wintec  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Nurse-patient relations; Communication; Hospitals; Home care  
  Abstract This study focuses on power themes in the nurse-patient relationship. The study is a critical reflection of the author's practice using a humanistic perspective from Hartrick Doane and Varcoe's (2005) model of relational family practice. It reviews the literature relating to power relationships in communication between nurses and patients and compares the ability to provide relational care in the home with hospital care. Practice examples demonstrate the shift in power relationships that the author had noticed since changing roles from hospital based to home care nursing. This is related to cultural, socio-environmental, historical and traditional influences on power in communication. The study is based on her reflection of the paradigm shift in her practice. Her practice moved from a problem solving approach to an empowerment, strengths based approach within partnership. The ethical challenges of discussing her practice in relation to clients has been managed by scrambling patient data so that it is not related to a single person and is focused on the author's nursing practice.  
  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 1195 Serial 1180  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title The process of health patterning in families with young children who have been repeatedly hospitalised Type
  Year 1993 Publication Abbreviated Journal Author, University of Minnesota Library  
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  Abstract An exploration of the nature of nursing knowledge in practice. The praxis methodology was inspired by the Newman's theory of health as expanding consciousness and evolved through the process of the research. The methodology was eventually presented as both the process of research and practice. Five families were visited in their homes five times to talk about what was going on for them. All were experiencing a time of great upheaval in family life. After three visits a summary text was constructed merging researcher statements and parent quotes and given to the families. Through the subsequent reflective discussion significant insights into family pattern were shown in statements of intended action to change how health matters were managed with greater facility in family living. The process was presented as five themes with descriptors representing a non-linear, discontinuous progression: A moment of partnership: parameters of entry and closure, a timing of upheaval in family life, and an in-forming capacity through the bringing together of family story-telling and researcher's theory. An evolving dialogue: a progressive flow of enfolding and unfolding, and its embeddedness in contexts of socio-economic status, gender and health care culture. Recognising pattern: incidental revelations and an all-encompassing insight as the potential for action. Expanding horizon: moving from being on a treadmill trapped in the present without vision to having a view to a future, the presence of past and future. Increasing connectedness: a sense of inclusion, inter-dependence and generally, transformation in family life. This was a framework for personal practice  
  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 121 Serial 121  
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Author Dobbs, L. url  openurl
  Title Can evidence improve nursing practice? Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Nursing Journal Northland Polytechnic Abbreviated Journal coda, An Institutional Repository for the New Zealand ITP Sector  
  Volume 10 Issue Pages 27-32  
  Keywords Evidence-based medicine; Nursing; Professional development  
  Abstract Evidenced Based Practice is aimed at providing safe, effective and cost-appropriate health care. The utilisation of EBP in nursing has proved to be valuable not only for patients and nurses, but also for other health professionals and the wider community. However, despite the recognised benefits of EBP, a significant gap between theory and practice exists. This paper explores some of the issues behind not implementing EBP, such as comfort with traditional practices, lack of engagement with EBP, and time constraints.  
  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 1226 Serial 1211  
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Author Zandvoort, C.W. openurl 
  Title The role of the registered community nurse Type
  Year 1970 Publication Abbreviated Journal unavailable  
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  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 125 Serial 125  
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Author Trenberth, D. url  openurl
  Title New Zealand families' beliefs about what constitutes successful management of unsupervised childcare Type
  Year 2008 Publication Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria  
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  Keywords Children; Parents and caregivers  
  Abstract This study explored what some New Zealand families believe constitutes the successful management of unsupervised childcare. It was designed to increase social understanding and practitioner knowledge of the issue by exploring families' beliefs, practices and perspectives. The researcher was concerned with the professional role nurses may play with this group of children. A qualitative descriptive approach was used to obtain a straight description of successful unsupervised childcare, using the everyday language of the participating families. Data was collected in semi structured interviews with five family groups, and subjected to content and thematic analysis. Findings suggest unsupervised childcare is both choice and solution, though parents are fearful of the legal and social consequences of using it. Context of the care is important, with the child's preference, community context and availability of adults through distal supervision critical components of its success. Trust between parent and child, the use of rules and boundaries to regulate child behaviour, the teaching of skills and strategies to build child competency, and parental support of children while unsupervised are identified by parents as factors linked to success. Parents identify increasing child independence and self responsibility as positive outcomes from the successful use of unsupervised childcare. This study has helped to identify positive factors resulting in good outcomes from which successful interventions could be developed, provides information that will be of particular interest to practitioners and policy makers, and provides a platform to launch larger studies into the issue of unsupervised children.  
  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 1252 Serial 1237  
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Author Dickinson, A.R. url  openurl
  Title Within the web: The family/practitioner relationship in the context of chronic childhood illness Type
  Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal ScholarlyCommons@AUT  
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  Keywords Nurse-family relations; Chronically ill; Children  
  Abstract This study explores the phenomenon of the relationships between practitioners and families who have a child with a chronic illness. Using a heremeneutic phenomenological method informed by the writings of Martin Heidegger [1889-1976] and Hans-Georg Gadamer [1900-2002], this study provides an understanding of the meaning of 'being in relationship' from the perspective of both families and practitioners. Study participants include ten family groups who have a child with a chronic illness and twelve practitioners from the disciplines of nursing, medicine, dietetics, physiotherapy and speech therapy who work with children with chronic illness. Narrative audio-taped interviewing was the means by which the participants told their stories about times that relationships worked well and when they did not. These stories uncover the every day realities of 'being in relationship' and provide another understanding of the relationship between family and practitioner.The findings of this thesis suggest that chronic childhood illness 'throws' families and practitioners together into a web of relationships that must work for the sake of the child. The relationship is primarily conducted between adults. Children are usually excluded. In order to understand and manage the child's illness, practitioners and families 'go around' and act 'in-between' relationships. While the quality of the relationship from the family perspective is not essential to the chronic illness journey, relationships are more successful when practitioners recognise the uniqueness of each family web. The nature of the relationship is often simple, yet it co-exists with complexity. This thesis proposes that a 'companion relationship' between practitioners and family may offer a more effective and satisfying way of working. It also challenges practitioners to consider the voice of children within health care relationships.  
  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 1253 Serial 1238  
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Author Adams, K. openurl 
  Title A postmodern/poststructural exploration of the discursive formation of professional nursing in New Zealand 1840 – 2000 Type
  Year 2003 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University Library  
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  Keywords History of nursing; Careers in nursing; Nursing philosophy  
  Abstract This study examines the discursive formation of professional nursing in one country, as revealed by the history of nursing in New Zealand. Michel Foucault's approach to historical research signifies a different level of analysis from conventional approaches, focusing not on the history of ideas but on an understanding of the present, a history of the present. A genealogical method derived from Foucauldian poststructuralism reveals how different understandings of nursing have occurred and have governed nursing practices and scholarship in different historical contexts. The archaeological investigation in this study reveals two moments of epistemic transformation, that is, two intervals of mutation and discontinuity. The Nightingale era in the 1880s precipitated the first epistemic shift – premodernism to modernism. The transfer of nursing education from hospital based training to the tertiary education sector, followed by the introduction of the baccalaureate degree, precipitated the second epistemic shift in the 1990s, the advent of postmodernism. Encompassing these two epistemes, six historical contexts are identified, where significant disruptions to the nursing discourses overturned previously held assumptions about what constituted a nurse. Each historical context is identified by specific discursive constructs. The first is colonial caring, the second the Nightingale ethos and the third heroic, disciplined obedience. In the fourth context, nursing is framed by, and within, discourses of skilled, humanistic caring, in the fifth, scientific, task focused managerialism, and in the 1990s, the sixth context, by multiple realities in an age of uncertainty.  
  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 1258 Serial 1243  
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Author Chick, D.N.P. openurl 
  Title Rural district nurses as rehabilitationists Type
  Year 2003 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library  
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  Keywords Rural nursing  
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  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 1259 Serial 1244  
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Author Woodbridge, M. openurl 
  Title From child savers to child activists: A participatory action research project with community child health nurses Type
  Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Keywords Community health nursing; Paediatric nursing  
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  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 1266 Serial 1251  
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Author DeSouza, R. openurl 
  Title Walking upright here: Countering prevailing discourses through reflexivity and methodological pluralism Type
  Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Keywords Transcultural nursing; Childbirth  
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  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 1269 Serial 1254  
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Author Idour, D.M.G. openurl 
  Title The social context and the relevance of nursing curricula Type
  Year 1981 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Abstract The relevance of Nursing Curricula and the degree of effectiveness of their outcomes for the 'consumer' ( clients, students, a given society) are seen as commiserate to the degree that a curriculum is developed with due regard for the 'social realities' of a society. "Social realities' are defined as the actual conditions, pressures, disabilities and abilities, limitations and resources that exist in the lifespan of people and form the environment within which Nursing practices. A Curriculum relevancy process ( CRP) has been developed for use as the main analytical tool of the study. CRP has been designated as an information seeking, problem solving and evaluative process. It consists of three phases with a major emphasis on the first phase, information seeking. Information has been gathered about contemporary social realities ( the year of 1979) and related Socio- health disorders. Information has been gathered and analysed from official ad voluntary sources and the findings related to curricular choices for Nursing education  
  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 127 Serial 127  
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Author Herd, C.M.F. openurl 
  Title Is it a dangerous game? Registered nurses' experiences of working with care assistants in a public hospital setting Type
  Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University, Palmerston North, Library  
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  Keywords Registered nurses; Personnel; Interprofessional relations  
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  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 1274 Serial 1259  
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Author Walsh, C.; Boyd, L.; Baker, P.; Gavriel, A.; McClusky, N.; Puckey, T.C.; Sadler, D.; Stidworthy, A. openurl 
  Title It was time for me to leave: A participatory action research study into discharge planning from an acute mental health setting Type Report
  Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
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  Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Patient satisfaction; Hospitals; Administration  
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  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 1275 Serial 1260  
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Author Davidson, L. openurl 
  Title Family-centred care perceptions and practice: A pilot study Type
  Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University, Palmerston North, Library  
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  Keywords Nurse-family relations; Paediatric nursing  
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  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 1281 Serial 1266  
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Author McDonald, S. openurl 
  Title A study to investigate the role of the registered nurse in an acute mental health inpatient setting in New Zealand: Perceptions versus reality Type Report
  Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
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  Keywords Registered nurses; Hospitals; Psychiatric Nursing  
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  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 1283 Serial 1268  
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