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Jarvis, B. M. (1981). Patient nurse dependency in community health. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: A study designed to, 1. Establish a Patient- Nurse dependency Rating for those under care by District Nursing Service in the Dunedin urban area. 2. Utilise the information gained in ensuring an equitable work load for each District Nurse
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Kerse, A. Patient satisfaction study.
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Thomson, M., Kinross, D. N. J., Chick, D. N. P., Corry, M. F., & Dowland, J. (1977). People in hospital: a surgical ward. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: A study of work patterns on a surgical ward
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Green, D. E. (1976). Prediction of academic success and attrition on nursing students. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Kapoor, S. D. (1983). A time for health: a study into the collaboration of professional, non-professionals and the public to promote better health. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: An exploratory study of the functioning of four multi disciplinary health care teams ( HCT) in the New Zealand services and possible implications foe Health personnel education. This research seeks to 1. establish form structure and functioning of the HCT in the relation to the delivery of comprehensive primary health care. 2. Determine what collaborative skills are being used, the extent of interdependence and these factors which inhibit the use of these skills in providing primary health care. 3. Identify the key requirements for, and these factors which limit the successful functioning of the HCT in the provision of comprehensive primary health care. Data has been collected through structured interviews and observations. The analysis will compare and contrast the functioning of the social groups in the different settings in terms of their responses to both HCT index and appropriate contextual variables such that differences and similarities are delineated
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Takarangi, J. Primary health care: implications for nursing workforce planning in New Zealand.
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Pybus, M. W. (1993). Public health nurses and families under stress: promoting children's health in complex situations. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: A description of the interaction between Public Health Nurses and stressed families that include children. It includes the perspective on the relationship of both the Nurses and the families ending with a classification of the goals of the service
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Butler, A. M. Registered community nurse deployment in Auckland.
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Ainge, N. (1993). Registered nurses participation in a professional recognition program. Their responses to nine job related factors. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: A simple descriptive longitudinal survey monitoring self- reported incidence of satisfaction/ dissatisfaction to nine job related factors. The two hundred RN's participating in the pilot implementation of the Clinical Career Pathway (Canterbury Area Health Board) were surveyed in June 1992 and February 1993. This was a time of change in New Zealand's Health service
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McKillop, A. M. (1998). Native health nursing in New Zealand 1911-1930: A new work and a new profession for women. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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
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Wenmoth, J. D. A. (1997). A phenomenological study examining the experience of nausea, vomiting and retching associated with pregnancy. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: 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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Christensen, D. J. C. A study of female behaviour in a crisis situation.
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Nevatt, E. A. (1981). A study of individual health beliefs and practices in relation to propensity for self care. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: The concepts of self care of health (the goal of self care) are explored in relation to the self care nursing model. It is a basic premise of this model that the client be involved to the fullest possible extent in regarding or developing self care skills. It is proposed that individuals differ in respect to their readiness of such involvement and effort in their own health work and, hence, inability to benefit from the application of the self care nursing model. The study aimed at developing a means of identifying and predicting these differences. It was hypothesised that the individuals perceptions and beliefs about heath, his attribution about the location of blame for illness and the extent to which he perceives himself as having control over the contingencies of his behaviour, would all systematically influence his readiness to engage in self care. A health questionnaire designed to obtain data on individual health related beliefs and practices was constructed. This was mailed to a random sample of non-academic staff from one of the universities. A combination of univariate and multivariate analyses of the 86 completed questionnaires showed four major variables to be significantly interrelated. The pattern of relationships which emerge between responses to other items in the questionnaire cast further light on the complex determinants of health behaviour. Of particular interest is the suggestion that the way health is defined is a crucial factor. Use of the principal axes method of factor allowed a shortened version of the original questionnaire to be produced. The profile yielded by scores on this instrument, not only describes the client in terms of four major health related variables, but can also be used to predict readiness to benefit from a self care nursing approach
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Thomson, M. (1974). A study of the position of staff-sister in a New Zealand public hospital with special focus on supervision. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: This study examines demographic data on the primary subject, the staff sister. Data on trainee nurses was also used to give meaning by comparing the two positions and to describe both sides of the staff-sister; trainee nurse relationship. Data on the staff sister's job, her present and future orientations, satisfaction and problems are included
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King, B. E. (1969). A study of the selection, achievement and loss of student nurses from one school of nursing in New Zealand. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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