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Author Woods, M.
Title A nursing ethic: The moral voice of experienced nurses Type Journal Article
Year 1999 Publication Nursing Ethics Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6 Issue 5 Pages 423-433
Keywords Ethics; Nursing; Education
Abstract This article presents discussion on some of the main findings of a recently completed study on nursing ethics in New Zealand. An interpretation of a nurse's story taken from the study is offered and suggestions are made for nursing ethics education.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1092
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Author Milligan, K.
Title Aesthetic knowledge and the use of arts in nursing Type Journal Article
Year 2002 Publication Beginning Journeys: A Collection of Work Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7 Issue Pages 9-14
Keywords Nursing philosophy; Nursing; Education; Teaching methods
Abstract The author considers aesthetic knowing and the use of the arts in nursing. She identifies concepts that pertain to the art of nursing. The interrelationship of the moral sense and the art of nursing is explored. The author concludes that the mediums of non-fiction, fiction and poetry can provide valuable contributions to the aesthetic way of knowing in nursing education, practice and research.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1094
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Author Milligan, K.; Neville, S.J.
Title The contextualisation of health assessment Type Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 19 Issue 1 Pages 23-31
Keywords Cross-cultural comparison; Evaluation; Nursing
Abstract The authors defines health assessment and argue that it is a tool nurses should be using as a means of improving health outcomes for clients. The skills involved in health assessments are analysed, and four levels of data gathering are identified. The authors present an historical perspective, tracing the development of these skills as they have been incorporated in nursing practice in North America and Australia.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1095
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Author Speed, G.
Title Advanced nurse practice Type Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication Nursing dialogue: A Professional Journal for nurses Abbreviated Journal
Volume 10 Issue Pages 6-12
Keywords Nurse practitioners; Cross-cultural comparison; Law and legislation; Advanced nursing practice
Abstract The concept and characteristics of advanced nursing practice in New Zealand and overseas is compared with the nurse practitioner role. There is an international debate over definitions of advanced nursing and the range of roles that have developed. The rationale for the nurse practitioner role in New Zealand is examined, along with the associated legislation currently before Parliament. Job titles and roles of nurses within the Waikato Hospital intensive care unit are discussed and ways of developing the role of nurse practitioner are presented.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1096
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Author Whittle, R.
Title Decisions, decisions: Factors that influence student selection of final year clinical placements Type
Year 2007 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Clinical assessment; Nursing; Education; Students
Abstract Clinical practice is an essential and integral component of nursing education. The decision-making process involved in student selection of clinical placements is influenced by a range of factors which are internal or external to students. As there was little research that explored these factors and the influence they have on student decisions, the author sought to investigate this further. A mixed-method approach was used, using a questionnaire and focus group interview, to give breadth and depth to the research. This study found that students are particularly influenced by previous positive experiences, or an interest in a particular area of practice. Their personality will also influence their placement decisions. Nurse preceptors and clinical lecturers also provide a key support role to students in the clinical environment.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1103
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Author Gallagher, P.
Title Rethinking the gap: Investigating the theory-practice relationship in nursing Type
Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal Coda
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Nursing; Education; Nursing models; Nursing philosophy
Abstract A Grounded Theory approach was taken to explore the concept of the gap between theory and practice, whereby they are seen to be discrete entitites. For this study, the first phase of data collection was a series of computer mediated group discussions, and the second a number of individual interviews. In both sets of interviews participants were asked to describe how they experienced and managed differences they perceived between theory and practice in nursing. The participants referred to different types of theory relevant and central to effective nursing practice. The first was private theory; the second was formal theory and third was situational theory. For the students it was a conflict that produced uncomfortable emotions, distrust of others and personal self doubt. In an effort to reduce this discomfort the students sought an explanation for the differences between theory and practice, some of which challenged their key personal values. However, the most emotionally neutral explanation that also preserved the integrity of their key values was that there was a gap between the theory and the practice of nursing. The theory Negotiating Different Experiences has implications for the education of nurses in that personal knowledge and experiences must be incorporated in a programme of study and the feelings evoked by learning must be acknowledged as a catalyst to enhance learning. Further, the different forms of theory to which students will be exposed must be made explicit and nursing educators who must involve the individual student as an active partner in the mapping of a personalised programme, which includes the creation of individual assessment methods.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1104
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Author Stokes, G.
Title Who cares? Accountability for public safety in nurse education Type
Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal Online at Research Space @ Auckland University
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Nursing; Education; Accountability; Patient safety
Abstract The focus of this study is the management of unsafe nursing students within the tertiary education context. The moral dilemmas experienced by nurse educators, specifically linked to the issue of accountability for public safety, are explored. The theoretical framework for the thesis is informed by the two moral voices of justice and care identified by Gilligan and further developed using the work of Hekman and Lyotard. Case study methodology was used and data were collected from three schools of nursing and their respective educational organisations. Interviews were conducted with nurse educators and education administrators who had managed unsafe nursing students. Interviews were also conducted with representatives from the Nursing Council of New Zealand and the New Zealand Nurses Organisation to gain professional perspectives regarding public safety, nurse education and unsafe students. Transcripts were analysed using the strategies of categorical aggregation and direct interpretation. Issues identified in each of the three case studies were examined using philosophical and theoretical analyses. This thesis explores how students come to be identified as unsafe and the challenges this posed within three educational contexts. The justice and care moral voices of nurse educators and administrators and the ways in which these produced different ways of caring are made visible. Different competing and conflicting discourses of nursing and education are revealed, including the discourse of safety – one of the language games of nursing. The way in which participants positioned themselves and positioned others within these discourses are identified. Overall, education administrators considered accountability for public safety to be a specific professional, nursing responsibility and not a concern of education per se. This thesis provides an account of how nurse educators attempted to make the educational world safe for patients, students, and themselves. Participants experienced different tensions and moral dilemmas in the management of unsafe students, depending upon the moral language games they employed and the dominant discourse of the educational organisation. Nurse educators were expected to use the discourses of education to make their case and manage unsafe students. However, the discourses of nursing and education were found to be incommensurable and so the moral dilemmas experienced by nurse educators were detected as differends. This study bears witness to these differends.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1106
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Author Cobham, J.
Title Why do nurses stay in nursing? A test of social identity, equity sensitivity and expectancy theory Type
Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Nursing; Recruitment and retention; Identity
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Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1107
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Author Seton, K.M.
Title Diversity in action: Overseas nurses' perspectives on transition to nursing practice in New Zealand Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Nursing; Cross-cultural comparison; Education
Abstract
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1110
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Author Davenport, F.A.
Title Dying to know: A qualitative study exploring nurses' education in caring for the dying Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Nursing; Education; Terminal care
Abstract
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1111
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Author Doughty, L.
Title Evaluation of the 2002 Auckland District Health Board: First year of clinical practice programme Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Clinical supervision; Nursing; Education
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Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1113
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Author Williams, J.L.
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
Abstract
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1114
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Author Beveridge, S.
Title The development of critical thinking: A roller coaster ride for student and teacher in nursing education Type
Year 2003 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Waikato Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Nursing; Education; Critical thinking
Abstract
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1115
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Author Hardcastle, J.
Title What is the potential of distance education for learning and practice development in critical care nursing in the South Island of New Zealand? Type
Year 2003 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Intensive care nursing; Nursing; Education
Abstract
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1116
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Author Grant-Mackie, D.
Title A literature review of competence in relation to speciality nursing Type
Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library, NZNO Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Paediatric nursing; Nursing specialties; Professional competence; Nursing; Education
Abstract The original aim of the study was to find out through a questionnaire what child health/paediatric nurses in New Zealand/Aotearoa saw as their needs for post-registration education. Nurses were completing courses in the United Kingdom and returning to New Zealand/Aotearoa and realising that their nursing capabilities had improved. They became senior nurses with education responsibilities and exhibited political leadership among their colleagues in the field of child health/paediatric nursing. They were becoming increasingly concerned at the lack of any clinical courses in the specialty of child health/paediatric nursing to promote an appropriate standard of practice. It was intended that a research project about post-registration child health/paediatric education would assist concerned nurses to develop a programme. The time needed for such a project did not fit with a limited research paper. It was decided to reduce the project to a review of the literature on competence in nursing, with some comment on the specialty of child health/paediatric nursing. In order for nurses to find what they need to learn and know, an understanding of competence in nursing practice is required. Competence is defined as the ability of the nurse to carry out specific work in a designated area at a predetermined standard. Issues around competence, defining a scope of practice, development and assessment of competence, and regulation of nursing, are part of the context in which accountability for the practice of nurses sits.
Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1123
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