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Author |
Davies, B. |
Title |
Same person different nurse: A study of the relationship between nurse and patient based on the experience of shifting from secondary care to home-based nursing |
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Year |
2008 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Research Archive at Wintec |
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Keywords |
Nurse-patient relations; Communication; Hospitals; Home care |
Abstract |
This study focuses on power themes in the nurse-patient relationship. The study is a critical reflection of the author's practice using a humanistic perspective from Hartrick Doane and Varcoe's (2005) model of relational family practice. It reviews the literature relating to power relationships in communication between nurses and patients and compares the ability to provide relational care in the home with hospital care. Practice examples demonstrate the shift in power relationships that the author had noticed since changing roles from hospital based to home care nursing. This is related to cultural, socio-environmental, historical and traditional influences on power in communication. The study is based on her reflection of the paradigm shift in her practice. Her practice moved from a problem solving approach to an empowerment, strengths based approach within partnership. The ethical challenges of discussing her practice in relation to clients has been managed by scrambling patient data so that it is not related to a single person and is focused on the author's nursing practice. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1195 |
Serial |
1180 |
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Author |
Dobbs, L. |
Title |
Can evidence improve nursing practice? |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2006 |
Publication |
Nursing Journal Northland Polytechnic |
Abbreviated Journal |
coda, An Institutional Repository for the New Zealand ITP Sector |
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10 |
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Pages |
27-32 |
Keywords |
Evidence-based medicine; Nursing; Professional development |
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Evidenced Based Practice is aimed at providing safe, effective and cost-appropriate health care. The utilisation of EBP in nursing has proved to be valuable not only for patients and nurses, but also for other health professionals and the wider community. However, despite the recognised benefits of EBP, a significant gap between theory and practice exists. This paper explores some of the issues behind not implementing EBP, such as comfort with traditional practices, lack of engagement with EBP, and time constraints. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1226 |
Serial |
1211 |
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Author |
Trenberth, D. |
Title |
New Zealand families' beliefs about what constitutes successful management of unsupervised childcare |
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Year |
2008 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
ResearchArchive@Victoria |
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Keywords |
Children; Parents and caregivers |
Abstract |
This study explored what some New Zealand families believe constitutes the successful management of unsupervised childcare. It was designed to increase social understanding and practitioner knowledge of the issue by exploring families' beliefs, practices and perspectives. The researcher was concerned with the professional role nurses may play with this group of children. A qualitative descriptive approach was used to obtain a straight description of successful unsupervised childcare, using the everyday language of the participating families. Data was collected in semi structured interviews with five family groups, and subjected to content and thematic analysis. Findings suggest unsupervised childcare is both choice and solution, though parents are fearful of the legal and social consequences of using it. Context of the care is important, with the child's preference, community context and availability of adults through distal supervision critical components of its success. Trust between parent and child, the use of rules and boundaries to regulate child behaviour, the teaching of skills and strategies to build child competency, and parental support of children while unsupervised are identified by parents as factors linked to success. Parents identify increasing child independence and self responsibility as positive outcomes from the successful use of unsupervised childcare. This study has helped to identify positive factors resulting in good outcomes from which successful interventions could be developed, provides information that will be of particular interest to practitioners and policy makers, and provides a platform to launch larger studies into the issue of unsupervised children. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1252 |
Serial |
1237 |
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Author |
Dickinson, A.R. |
Title |
Within the web: The family/practitioner relationship in the context of chronic childhood illness |
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Year |
2004 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
ScholarlyCommons@AUT |
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Keywords |
Nurse-family relations; Chronically ill; Children |
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This study explores the phenomenon of the relationships between practitioners and families who have a child with a chronic illness. Using a heremeneutic phenomenological method informed by the writings of Martin Heidegger [1889-1976] and Hans-Georg Gadamer [1900-2002], this study provides an understanding of the meaning of 'being in relationship' from the perspective of both families and practitioners. Study participants include ten family groups who have a child with a chronic illness and twelve practitioners from the disciplines of nursing, medicine, dietetics, physiotherapy and speech therapy who work with children with chronic illness. Narrative audio-taped interviewing was the means by which the participants told their stories about times that relationships worked well and when they did not. These stories uncover the every day realities of 'being in relationship' and provide another understanding of the relationship between family and practitioner.The findings of this thesis suggest that chronic childhood illness 'throws' families and practitioners together into a web of relationships that must work for the sake of the child. The relationship is primarily conducted between adults. Children are usually excluded. In order to understand and manage the child's illness, practitioners and families 'go around' and act 'in-between' relationships. While the quality of the relationship from the family perspective is not essential to the chronic illness journey, relationships are more successful when practitioners recognise the uniqueness of each family web. The nature of the relationship is often simple, yet it co-exists with complexity. This thesis proposes that a 'companion relationship' between practitioners and family may offer a more effective and satisfying way of working. It also challenges practitioners to consider the voice of children within health care relationships. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1253 |
Serial |
1238 |
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Author |
Adams, K. |
Title |
A postmodern/poststructural exploration of the discursive formation of professional nursing in New Zealand 1840 – 2000 |
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Year |
2003 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University Library |
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Pages |
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Keywords |
History of nursing; Careers in nursing; Nursing philosophy |
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This study examines the discursive formation of professional nursing in one country, as revealed by the history of nursing in New Zealand. Michel Foucault's approach to historical research signifies a different level of analysis from conventional approaches, focusing not on the history of ideas but on an understanding of the present, a history of the present. A genealogical method derived from Foucauldian poststructuralism reveals how different understandings of nursing have occurred and have governed nursing practices and scholarship in different historical contexts. The archaeological investigation in this study reveals two moments of epistemic transformation, that is, two intervals of mutation and discontinuity. The Nightingale era in the 1880s precipitated the first epistemic shift – premodernism to modernism. The transfer of nursing education from hospital based training to the tertiary education sector, followed by the introduction of the baccalaureate degree, precipitated the second epistemic shift in the 1990s, the advent of postmodernism. Encompassing these two epistemes, six historical contexts are identified, where significant disruptions to the nursing discourses overturned previously held assumptions about what constituted a nurse. Each historical context is identified by specific discursive constructs. The first is colonial caring, the second the Nightingale ethos and the third heroic, disciplined obedience. In the fourth context, nursing is framed by, and within, discourses of skilled, humanistic caring, in the fifth, scientific, task focused managerialism, and in the 1990s, the sixth context, by multiple realities in an age of uncertainty. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1258 |
Serial |
1243 |
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Author |
Chick, D.N.P. |
Title |
Rural district nurses as rehabilitationists |
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Year |
2003 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
University of Otago Library |
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Keywords |
Rural nursing |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1259 |
Serial |
1244 |
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Author |
Woodbridge, M. |
Title |
From child savers to child activists: A participatory action research project with community child health nurses |
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Year |
2002 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Keywords |
Community health nursing; Paediatric nursing |
Abstract |
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Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1266 |
Serial |
1251 |
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Author |
DeSouza, R. |
Title |
Walking upright here: Countering prevailing discourses through reflexivity and methodological pluralism |
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Year |
2002 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Massey University Library |
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Keywords |
Transcultural nursing; Childbirth |
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Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1269 |
Serial |
1254 |
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Author |
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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Year |
2001 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Massey University, Palmerston North, Library |
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Keywords |
Registered nurses; Personnel; Interprofessional relations |
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Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1274 |
Serial |
1259 |
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Author |
Walsh, C.; Boyd, L.; Baker, P.; Gavriel, A.; McClusky, N.; Puckey, T.C.; Sadler, D.; Stidworthy, A. |
Title |
It was time for me to leave: A participatory action research study into discharge planning from an acute mental health setting |
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Report |
Year |
2001 |
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Pages |
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Keywords |
Psychiatric Nursing; Patient satisfaction; Hospitals; Administration |
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Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1275 |
Serial |
1260 |
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Author |
Davidson, L. |
Title |
Family-centred care perceptions and practice: A pilot study |
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Year |
2000 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Massey University, Palmerston North, Library |
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Pages |
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Keywords |
Nurse-family relations; Paediatric nursing |
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Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1281 |
Serial |
1266 |
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Author |
McDonald, S. |
Title |
A study to investigate the role of the registered nurse in an acute mental health inpatient setting in New Zealand: Perceptions versus reality |
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Report |
Year |
2000 |
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Pages |
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Keywords |
Registered nurses; Hospitals; Psychiatric Nursing |
Abstract |
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Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1283 |
Serial |
1268 |
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Author |
Lindsay, L. |
Title |
Atrocity tales: The language of terrorism in nursing |
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Year |
2004 |
Publication |
Whitireia Nursing Journal |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
11 |
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Pages |
27-35 |
Keywords |
Gender; Male nurses; Culture |
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In this paper, the author explores the concept of 'professional terrorism'. He exposes discrimination against male nurses as being a form of professional terrorism, primarily as it is enacted through use of language. He presents the concept of horizontal violence as a way to understand why nurses, as a marginalised group, perform oppressive acts towards male nurses, who are similarly oppressed. He outlines the cost of such a culture on nursing practice and presents strategies for change. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1310 |
Serial |
1294 |
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