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Thompson, J. (2000). Budgeting for nursing services. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: The author suggests that a nursing service would benefit by using the concept of budgets and budgeting control, in terms of management accounting and its applicability to a hospital based nursing service. The main objective of this study was to suggest a possible line of approach towards the construction of an information system designed to yield reliable and useful data, without which there can be little hope of any truly effective guide to the development of nursing services.
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Wenmoth, J. D. A. (2000). Involuntary unemployment: A grounded theory analysis of the experience of five nurses. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: This study outlines the use of grounded theory strategy to analyse the experience of nurses who become involuntarily unemployed. It then proceeds to develop a theoretical framework that explain the common patterns in this experience. Using the Glasser and Strauss (1967) Grounded Theory approach, empirical observation was undertaken expressly for the purpose of generating insights which may lead to new understanding of the subject of this study. Using two inter-related procedures known as theoretical sampling and constant comparative analysis, data is systematically collected, coordinated and subjected to an ongoing analysis. Theory is then 'grounded ' in the real world. The study involved in depth interviewing of five mid-career nurses who were involuntarily unemployed. The data was transcribed and analysed to yield theoretical concepts and categories that were integrated into propositions to explain common patterns. It will be argued that this experience is a grieving process that is more that just grieving a job loss. It is proposed that there are three phases – 1. Personal devastation due to losses experienced.. 2. A period of healing. 3. Recovery and re-establishment of the 'new' person.
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Nevatt, E. A. (2000). Occupational health care: An entrepreneurial venture in New Zealand.
Abstract: A description of the establishment and the first year's operation of an occupational health service set up as a limited liability company and offering contracted fee- for- service health care for employees of clients' businesses. The report tells how the two nurses established the company and how the company secured contracts, it describes the delivery of health care in the workplace. The nurses' perception of their work and the client managers' evaluation of the service are included.
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Paterson(now Fleming), B. L. (2000). The types of information nurses pass on to other nurses verbally regarding their patients, which is not discussed in the legal nursing record. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: This study was undertaken in a combined medical/surgical unit in an acute general hospital in New Zealand using the grounded theory research methodology. It aimed at identifying the types of information nurses pass on verbally regarding their patients, but which they do not document in the legal nursing record.
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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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Booth, W. (1997). Towards partnerships in praxis. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: This action research project explored the factors that helped or hindered student nurse clinical learning from the perspective of nurse educators, practitioners and students. Participant analysis of their own discussions identified both common and disparate views regarding the student's learning experience. Researcher analysis identified five practical and three organizational issues that influenced the development of more effective partnerships between these three stakeholder groups that would facilitate student clinical learning. The practical issues were how to deal with the 'problem' people in the learning process, how to clarify and develop the various roles in the learning context, how to generate more effective communication, how to respond more effectively to the impact of the changing environment, and how to maximize 'moments of learning'. The organizational issues were identified as the schisms between the disparate personal and organizational cultures that direct the way educators, practitioners and students, perceive, think, feel and act
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Beale, T. M. (1995). Psychiatric nurses: the influence of their personal life experiences on therapeutic readiness. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: This research investigates the impact of fifteen psychiatric nurses' personal experiences on their therapeutic relationships with clines. A hermeneutic phenomenological methodology informed by Heidegger is employed to gain an understanding of the human experience of these nurses in the context of the therapeutic relationship.The research illuminates the significant impact of these nurses' experiences on their relationships. Some experiences are found to enhance therapeutic readiness while the other personal experiences impede it, some impeding it to a degree that nurses are unable to work therapeutically with certain clients. The stories that describe the personal experiences that lead towards therapeutic readiness care special, as are the accounts of the professionalism and care that these nurses bring to their clients
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Clark, R. R. (1998). My fat arm: Living with lymphoedema following treatment for breast cancer. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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van Wissen, K. A., Litchfield, M., & Maling, T. (1998). Living with high blood pressure. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 27(3), 567–574.
Abstract: An interdisciplinary (nursing-medicine) collaboration in a qualitative descriptive research project undertaken in the Wellington School of Medicine with New Zealand Health Research Council funding. The purpose was to inform the practice of nursing and medical practitioners. A group of patients were interviewed in their homes. Their experience of having a diagnosis of hypertension and prescription of long-term treatment requiring adjustment in their lives and the lives of their families is presented as themes.
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Cook, D. (2006). Open visiting: does this benefit adult patients in intensive care units. Master's thesis, , .
Abstract: A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Nursing at Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand.
As the healthcare system moves toward a consumer-driven paradigm, visiting hours for family and significant others of the intensive care unit patient have become a topic of interest and discussion. Research since the 1970s has generated controversy and speculation over the ideal visiting practices in the adult intensive care unit. Analysis of the growing body of research can now be reviewed to enable existing visiting policies to be revised.
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Litchfield, M., Clarke, M., Edwards, R., Richardson, F., Tansley, R., & Woodman, K. (1995). A description of the needs of people with cancer and support people. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: The report of a research project commissioned by the Wellington Division of the New Zealand Cancer Society to provide a foundation for policy to give direction to development of its services. The research approach and methodology had an ecological theory foundation. It involved a survey and in-depth interviews with people with cancer and those caring for them to understand their experience. Needs were identified from the data and presented according to three distinct phases in the course of living with cancer. People moved from the shock of diagnosis, through the time of treatment when usual living was suspended and focus narrowed on the intensive fight against the disease, then into a very different phase of on-going ?wait-and-see? time requiring a new way of living with uncertainty for both patient and carers. The last phase was where most of the unmet needs lay. Recommendations were made for services to provide a continuous caring relationship for patients and carers with a knowledgeable person from the point of diagnosis.
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Litchfield, M. (1979). Survey of child health care in primary schools in the Wellington area (Vol. 75). Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: The study was undertaken as a project for the International Year of the Child. There was a need for information to identify what health care in needed in schools and to contribute to a review of the role of the nurses. Teachers and principals of all primary schools of the Wellington area were surveyed to describe the health care being provided and needed. Recommendations were made for school nurses who would support the health-related teaching by teachers, provide first aid and advice, and take an extended role for family health operating from a clinic in the school.
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Kent, B. (2008). Surgeon assistant's role within the New Zealand health care setting. Dissector, 36(1), 20–27.
Abstract: This article examines the role of the surgeon assistant, identifying and discussing the factors that have stimulated the development globally and the present situation within the New Zealand health care setting. This article offers thought-provoking material that aims to provide the perioperative nurse with a clearer direction and purpose to practice, and to what the future may hold.
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Trotter, A. (2003). Mary Potter's Little Company of Mary: The New Zealand experience, 1914-2002. Wellington: Bridget Williams.
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Lamb, J. (2009). The Effect of Cigarette Smoking On the Frequency of Colposcopy Visits, Treatments and Re-referrals. Master's thesis, , .
Abstract: Current research has confirmed that cigarette smoking is a risk factor for cervical cancer. The objective of this pilot study was to observe if women who smoked and were referred to the colposcopy department at Christchurch Women?s Hospital, required more follow up visits, treatments and re-referrals compared to non-smokers. New patients (n=494) who attended at the Christchurch Women?s Hospital colposcopy department in 2001 had their data observed for a six year period. The results identified that women who smoked were three times more likely to need a third follow up visit and twice more likely to need further treatments to remove abnormalities when compared to non-smokers. This pilot study also identified that 71% of Maori women attending the clinic were smokers compared to 44% of non-Maori women. The results are being used to highlight to health professionals that treatment has a greater chance of success if patients cease smoking. The results have also supported the maintenance and development of the smoking cessation clinic for colposcopy patients at Christchurch Women's Hospital where the link to cervical abnormalities and smoking is explained and behaviour modification is offered. We also found that Maori women were poor attendees for colposcopy when compared to non-Maori and these results identified a need for further research and development of strategies to improve attendance.
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