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Author Bavidge, D. url  openurl
  Title Leadership: Further perspectives Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Vision: A Journal of Nursing Abbreviated Journal Available online from Eastern Institute of Technology  
  Volume 14 Issue 1 Pages 20-22  
  Keywords Leadership; Feminist critique; Nursing philosophy  
  Abstract This paper uses two perspectives, a feminist analysis and emancipatory leadership model, to analyse the practice and philosophy of leadership. It finds the important components of leadership include communicating understanding, developing a sense of community, and reconstituting the power relationships. This challenges traditional leadership perspectives which privilege individuals hierarchically appointed, or with deemed alienable qualities or traits.  
  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 1325 Serial 1309  
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Author Churcher, R.L.; Jones, M. openurl 
  Title Theatre nursing – some perceptions of practice. The peri-operative continuum: do we work within it? Type
  Year 1986 Publication Abbreviated Journal Nursing Studies, Massey University Palmerston Nort  
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  Abstract 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  
  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 133 Serial 133  
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Author Perry, J.(see also C.) openurl 
  Title Theory and practice in the induction of five graduate nurses: a reflexive critique Type
  Year 1985 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Abstract 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  
  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 134 Serial 134  
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Author Opie, A.; Allen, N.R.; Fulcher, L.; Hawke, G.R. openurl 
  Title There's nobody there: community care of confused older people Type
  Year 1992 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Abstract There's Nobody There, is a qualitative study of the practise of caring for confused elderly people. It examines the implications of community care for social policy. It presents an account of the everyday lives of twenty eight family members who care for people with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia. It shows that community care like other forms of care, carries a cost that the burden is largely borne by the carers themselves, rather than by the State  
  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 135 Serial 135  
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Author Keen, N. openurl 
  Title To live or let die: who decides and why? Type Miscellaneous
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  Abstract A survey of health professionals in a medium-sized regional hospital, examining attitudes and perceptions of clinical practice surrounding 'do not resuscitate' orders. Data collected using a questionnaire circulated to medical and nursing professionals currently practising in general medical and surgical areas. Reveals differences in what actually happens in clinical practice compared to what health professionals believe should happen. Using five brief case vignettes, agreement is shown in only two cases as to what resuscitation status should be. Shows that determining resuscitation status in dependent on the individual's values and belief systems  
  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 136 Serial 136  
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Author Butler, A.M. openurl 
  Title Towards a staffing formula: a staffing system for general and obstetric wards Type Journal Article
  Year 1980 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 73 Issue 3 Pages 8-10  
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  Abstract A system of staffing is described which can be used to distribute existing staff equitably throughout wards according to patient numbers and the degree of patient/ nurse dependency  
  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 137 Serial 137  
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Author Butler, A.M. openurl 
  Title Towards a staffing formula: home visit rating scales for community health nurses Type
  Year 1980 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal Auckland Hospital  
  Volume 73 Issue 9 Pages 9-14  
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  Abstract Reports the development of a set of Rating scales which can be used to measure the Home visiting part of the workload of Community Health Nurses. The scales provide a useful tool for the equitable distribution of Home visits among existing staff and can assist in the assessment of the total workload of the Community Health Nurses  
  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 138 Serial 138  
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Author Chappell, A.L. openurl 
  Title Towards hope: identifying the healing role of the nurse in promoting psychosocial adaptation in serious illness Type
  Year 1982 Publication Abbreviated Journal Department of Nursing Studies, Massey University  
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  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 139 Serial 139  
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Author McKillop, A.M. openurl 
  Title Native health nursing in New Zealand 1911-1930: A new work and a new profession for women Type
  Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library, Northland Polytechnic L  
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  Abstract 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  
  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 14 Serial 14  
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Author Fleming, V.E.M. openurl 
  Title Towards nursing advocacy: a socio-political process Type
  Year 1991 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library, Palmerston North  
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  Abstract 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  
  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 140 Serial 140  
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Author Perry, J.(see also C.) openurl 
  Title Transition from student to graduate: phase 1, profile of third year comprehensive nursing students (1986) Type Miscellaneous
  Year Publication Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract The aim of the first phase of this research was to collect simple survey data to describe in general terms the biographical and demographic characteristics of a national cohort of final year students in Comprehensive Nursing Courses  
  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 141 Serial 141  
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Author Perry, J.(see also C.) openurl 
  Title Transition from student to graduate: phase 2, profile of 1986 comprehensive graduates: first year graduation Type Miscellaneous
  Year Publication Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract The report contains biographical and demographic data from 255 Comprehensive Nursing graduates from the 1986 Cohort ( N= 1200) It is a follow up survey of Nurse Students who participated in the 1987 survey ( Phase 1) It describes these graduates' experiences on entry to the workforce  
  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 142 Serial 142  
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Author Perry, J.(see also C.) openurl 
  Title Transition from student to graduate: phase 3, interviews with first year comprehensive graduates (Cohort 1986) Type Miscellaneous
  Year Publication Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract This is the third and last phase of a research project following the careers of 30 of the (1986) cohort of Comprehensive Nursing Graduates. The report consists of interview extracts which allow these graduates to 'speak for themselves' about their post registration experience in the nursing workforce. This information should be of interest to those responsible for providing orientation and staff development programs  
  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 143 Serial 143  
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Author Kinross, D.N.J.; Joblin, I.A. openurl 
  Title Ward sister interaction in a public hospital: a field study Type Miscellaneous
  Year Publication Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract with D.Garrett, C. Hamilton and A. Williams  
  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 145 Serial 145  
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Author Dixon, D.A. openurl 
  Title What categories in the working environment can nurses isolate as contributing to their stress level Type Miscellaneous
  Year Publication Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract A student exercise using the qualitative research approach of Glaser and Strauss, commonly known as 'Grounded Theory'. The theory is generated from and grounded into data. Part One dealt with the advantages and disadvantages of qualitative research and its applicability as a methodology to add to Nursings' knowledge base. Part Two was a student learning exercise in the use of Grounded theory as a strategy for theory generation. Nurses identified three main categories that contributed to their perception of their stress level. 1. The degree of control Nurses perceived themselves as having on any given situation. 2. Their personal self image. 3. Their interpersonal skills and relationships with other people within the work environment  
  Call Number (up) NRSNZNO @ research @ 146 Serial 146  
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