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Herd, C.M.F. |
| Title |
Is it a dangerous game? Registered nurses' experiences of working with care assistants in a public hospital setting |
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2001 |
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Massey University, Palmerston North, Library |
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Registered nurses; Personnel; Interprofessional relations |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1274 |
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1259 |
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Gilmour, J.A. |
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On the margins: Nurses and the intermittent care of people with dementia: A discourse analysis |
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2001 |
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Massey University, Palmerston North, Library |
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Older people; Dementia; Nursing |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1276 |
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1261 |
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Turner, C.L.E. |
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A process evaluation of a shared leadership model in an intensive care unit |
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Massey University, Palmerston North, Library |
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Leadership; Intensive care nursing; Nursing models |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1277 |
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1262 |
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| Author |
Davidson, L. |
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Family-centred care perceptions and practice: A pilot study |
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2000 |
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Massey University, Palmerston North, Library |
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Nurse-family relations; Paediatric nursing |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1281 |
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1266 |
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Churcher, R.L.; Jones, M. |
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Theatre nursing – some perceptions of practice. The peri-operative continuum: do we work within it? |
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1986 |
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Nursing Studies, Massey University Palmerston Nort |
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This research project looked at the extent to which affective nursing is practised in operating theatres from an organisational climate point of view. Theatre nurses self image was also studied. The results suggest that even in moderately restrictive organisation; climates affective nursing care can and is being practised. The move towards the perioperative nursing role is practical in these circumstances |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 133 |
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133 |
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Perry, J.(see also C.) |
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Theory and practice in the induction of five graduate nurses: a reflexive critique |
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1985 |
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Massey University Library |
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This study investigates the induction of comprehensive Nurses into a professional culture during their polytechnic education and the first year of Hospital practise. A critical theory framework combined with case study method is used to demonstrate the ways in which social forces constrain individual and professional action. It is argued that a more socially critical approach to the design of Nursing curricula might begin to transform some of the social structures which presently inhibit and constrain the professional choices and actions of student and graduate Nurse |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 134 |
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134 |
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Chappell, A.L. |
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Towards hope: identifying the healing role of the nurse in promoting psychosocial adaptation in serious illness |
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1982 |
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Department of Nursing Studies, Massey University |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 139 |
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139 |
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McKillop, A.M. |
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Native health nursing in New Zealand 1911-1930: A new work and a new profession for women |
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1998 |
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Massey University Library, Northland Polytechnic L |
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The focus of this thesis is the practice of the nurses employed in the Native Health Nursing Scheme in New Zealand from 1911 to 1930. These nurses were a vanguard movement for change in community nursing services as they established a new role and developed innovative ways of practicing nursing while claiming greater autonomy and accountability for nurses who worked in community settings. Consequently they contributed to an increase in status for nurses in New Zealand.The Native Health Nursing Scheme was established by the Health Department to replace the Maori Health Nursing Scheme, an initiative by Maori leaders for Maori nurses to provide nursing care for their own people. The original scheme had foundered amid under-resourcing, a lack of support from hospital boards and administrative chaos. Government policy for Maori health was openly assimilationist and the mainly non-Maori Native Health nurses carried out this policy, yet paradoxically adapting their practice in order to be culturally acceptable to Maori.Their work with the Maori people placed the Native Health nurses in a unique position to claim professional territory in a new area of practice. As they took up the opportunities for an expanded nursing role, they practiced in a manner which would develop the scope and status of nursing. The geographical isolation of their practice setting provided the nurses with the challenge of practicing in an environment of minimal administrative and professional support, while also offering them the opportunity for independence and relative autonomy. Obedience, duty and virtue, qualities highly valued in women of the day, were expected especially in nurses. These expectations were in direct contrast to the qualities necessary to perform the duties of the Native Health nurse. The conditions under which these nurses worked and lived, the decisions they were required to make, and the partnerships they needed to establish to be effective in the communities in which they worked, required courage, strength, organizational ability and commitment |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 14 |
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14 |
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Fleming, V.E.M. |
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Towards nursing advocacy: a socio-political process |
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1991 |
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Massey University Library, Palmerston North |
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This thesis provides a reflexive critique of the power structures which constrain nursing actions in the practice setting, an abortion clinic, of the registered nurses who participated in this study. The development of abortion services, like other health services for women, has been based on a medical ideology of health which has created many ethical dilemmas for nurses. One of the most complex of these is the extent to which nurses should fulfil the role of client advocate. While the literature on nursing advocacy has been prolific, published research in this area is scant.The theoretical assumptions of critical social science, provide the basis for the methodological approach of action research adapted in this study. In depth, unstructured interviews involving exchange of dialogue amongst the participants with the researcher focused on the participants' experiences of their own nursing practice, with a view to uncoveing and removing restrasints, which had prevented them fulfililng an advocacy role. Diaries were also kept and used as supplementary research tools.The analysis of the data demonstrates the ways in which nurses interpret their own practice world as a system independent of their own actions. It shows how the shared understandings of the participants were 'ideologically frozen' and power relations inherent in the health care system are deep rooted and subtle, coming to be treated as natural by the nurses, and so denying them their own ability to make changes.It is suggested that opportunities for nurses coming together and engaging in such critically reflexive dialogue may provide a basis for future emancipation from traditional power structures. In this way effective and satisfying nursing practice dependent on emancipatory knowledge and a reinterpretation of power structures may result in an advocacy role for nurses |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 140 |
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140 |
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Wenmoth, J.D.A. |
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A phenomenological study examining the experience of nausea, vomiting and retching associated with pregnancy |
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1997 |
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Massey University Library |
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This paper outlines a phenomenological study carried out to explore the experience of nausea, vomiting and retching associated with pregnancy. These phenomena lack Nursing research and are debilitating symptoms which effect the quality of life for 50-75% of all pregnant women. Madjar ( 1991) indicates that the communication of such experiences can deepen our understanding of human life and coping. It is importance for Nurses to develop an understanding of lived experiences so that they can make more effective interventions. This study explores the essential humanness of life experiences as they are for those who live them. It involved collecting data from those experiencing the phenomena and analysing it. It focuses on the study of phenomena not as separate entities in themselves but as they are perceived as they are experienced. A 'purposeful sample' was required for this study. The aim was to include women who had direct knowledge of the phenomena of nausea, vomiting and retching associated with pregnancy. The study involved in depth interviewing of six women, the interviews were taped and independently transcribed, the transcripts were analysed to determine the meaning of the experience and to identify common themes. The experiences of the women are discussed in relation to what van Manen (1990) describes as four main life world existentials; the lived body, the lived other, lived space and lived time |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 15 |
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15 |
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Watson, P.B. |
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An understanding of family in the context of families facing the diagnosis of childhood cancer |
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1998 |
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Massey University Library, Manawatu Polytechnic Li |
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The diagnosis of childhood cancer has a profound impact on the family. How nurses understand family affects their practice with families facing the diagnosis of childhood cancerShaped by Heideggerian phenomenology, van Manens methodology for hermeneutic phenomenology was used to construct an understanding of family from the experiences of family members facing the diagnosis of childhood cancer. Seven family members from two families, one mother, two fathers, two siblings, and two grandparents were interviewed about their experience of facing the diagnosis of childhood cancer.From the participants experience the meaning of family was interpreted as being-with-others, for-the-sake-of-others, who one might not distinguish from oneself. This understanding of family is recognisable, yet different from traditional definitions of family and may help nurses and family members to act more thoughtfully and tactfully with each other |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 153 |
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153 |
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Batten, L. |
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The casual nurse: an enigma? |
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1995 |
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Massey University Library |
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The experiences of nurses employed on casual contracts were explored using grounded theory methodology. Data analysis showed that the experience of casual nursing is constituted by interwoven processes of discontinuity and marginality with an overall theme and processes of compromise to obtain a sense of balance by the casual nurse. Implications for permanent staff, casual nurses and organizations are developed |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 159 |
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159 |
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Bland, M.F. |
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Challenging the myths: the lived experience of chronic leg ulcers |
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1994 |
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Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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Massey University Library |
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2 |
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3 |
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13-14 |
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This phenomenological study explored the experiences of five men and four women whose lives have been shaped by chronic leg ulcers. It reveals the suffering that accompanies these wounds, and challenges health professionals to move from a focus on wound management to understanding the realities of chronic illness experience |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 160 |
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160 |
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Gasquoine, S.E. |
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Constant vigilance: the lived experience of mothering a hospitalised child with acute illness or injury |
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1996 |
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Massey University Library |
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This phenomenological study describes the lived experience of mothering a child hospitalised with acute illness or injury. Seven mothers who had experienced this crisis within twelve months of our first interview agreed to share their stories with me. The resulting data were analysed and interpreted using van Manen's interpretation of Heideggerian phenomenology.Four phenomenological themes emerged from this study. Mothers have a special kind of knowing. They have a need to do with and for their child. Handing over to or leaving their child in the care of strangers and waiting for their child to be returned to their care are very difficult things for mothers to do. Their constant vigilance is enabled by their special kind of knowing and their need to do. The difficulty of handing over, leaving and waiting is emphasised by mothers' constant vigilance.Personal experiences during the course of my study presented significant challenges to my ability to offer an effective phenomenological description of the phenomenon under study. Continuous reflection aided by dialogue with fellow phenomenological researchers has resulted in a meaningful narrative.This description of mothering in a context of crisis is useful in the potential contribution it makes to nurses' understanding of mothers' experience of the hospitalisation of their children. It supports the philosophy of family-centered care and highlights the ability of individual nurses to make a positive difference to a very stressful experience |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 168 |
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168 |
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O'Sullivan, M. |
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Maximising, optimising, empowering: the work of the public health nurse in a college setting |
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1997 |
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Massey University Library |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 169 |
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169 |
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