Perry, J.(see also C.). (1985). Theory and practice in the induction of five graduate nurses: a reflexive critique. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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
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Opie, A., Allen, N. R., Fulcher, L., & Hawke, G. R. (1992). There's nobody there: community care of confused older people. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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
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Keen, N. To live or let die: who decides and why?.
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
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Chappell, A. L. (1982). Towards hope: identifying the healing role of the nurse in promoting psychosocial adaptation in serious illness. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Fleming, V. E. M. (1991). Towards nursing advocacy: a socio-political process. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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
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Perry, J.(see also C.). Transition from student to graduate: phase 1, profile of third year comprehensive nursing students (1986).
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
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Perry, J.(see also C.). Transition from student to graduate: phase 2, profile of 1986 comprehensive graduates: first year graduation.
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
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Perry, J.(see also C.). Transition from student to graduate: phase 3, interviews with first year comprehensive graduates (Cohort 1986).
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
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Churcher, R. L., Bowden, J., Grogan, J., Grofski, H., Parker, R., & Berry, A. (2000). Trends in theatre nurse education. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: This reports the results of a national survey to ascertain what direction education of theatre nursing personnel is taking. It includes method and content preselection, orientation and in service education/ staff development phases of education. Options for the future are also addressed.
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Kinross, D. N. J., & Joblin, I. A. Ward sister interaction in a public hospital: a field study.
Abstract: with D.Garrett, C. Hamilton and A. Williams
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Dixon, D. A. What categories in the working environment can nurses isolate as contributing to their stress level.
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
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Henderson, H. M. What is the public image of the nurse?.
Abstract: Taxes et al (1965) suggested that “people are characterised in terms of their vocations. We form an image of an occupation early in life and tend to maintain this image.” My research project used a descriptive methodology using a postal questionnaire for 100 subjects within the Wellington region. A 60% return eventuated and results interpreted as positive /negative response, grouped and discussed. The sample constituted a cross section of the publics view on the image of a Nurse. This research was performed as a requirement for an academic experience as part of a Post Graduate Diploma
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Miles, M. A. P. (1997). Why they leave: a Heideggerian hermeneutic study of the reasons why ten registered nurses left nursing practice to enter the professions of medicine or law. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: The purpose of the study was to research the reasons for the dissatisfaction experienced by ten professional nurse-practitioners who chose to leave nursing to join the professions of law or medicine. The mnotivation for professional nurses to chose entry to these particular professions may in some way throw light upon the difficulties being experienced in attempts to bring about changes of an emancipatory nature in the nursing profession (Habermas, 1974). The approach for the study is hermeneutic phenomenology (Gadamer, 1975 – ; Heidegger, 1962)
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Williams, H., Cuthbertson, S., Newby, L., & Streat, S. J. (1998). A follow-up service improves bereavement care in an intensive care unit. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Harraway, M. A. (1992). End of an era: history of nursing education at Sunnyside Hospital 1904-1987. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: The original purpose of this work was to put some notes together about nurse training at Sunnyside for the hospitals 150th anniversary celebrations. When the celebrations were cancelled, the author continued with the project out of personal interest.A variety of historical research methods were used to collect data for the project. These included a literature search of historical publications related to the subject and the period; gathering documents and statistical records from a variety of sources; writing letters to previous students and tutors, requesting photographs anecdotes and opinions; and a number of prearranged interviews.The resultant brief history, published finally in 1992 is a collection of records, anecdotes, reproduced documents and photographs, interspersed with referenced information from the literature and the writers comments.Past and present staff of this once large psychiatric institution have been able to look at their training in a historical and social context, and in many cases, to see their names in print in the class lists. Others who are undertaking a historical study of Mental Health Nursing in New Zealand may find it useful as a reference work
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