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| Author | Lauder, G.C. | ||||
| Title | Health in the workplace: An exploration of healthy options for an aged care setting | Type | |||
| Year | 2004 | Publication  |
Abbreviated Journal | Victoria University of Wellington Library | |
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| Keywords | Geriatric nursing; Health behaviour; Workplace | ||||
| Abstract | People working in aged care settings in New Zealand spend approximately 30% of their lives in their workplace. There is a challenge for workplaces to support people to maintain and improve their health status. This project investigated the question: How can workplaces support staff to maintain health in an aged care environment? The project concerned two considerations: primarily what people can do for themselves and how the organisation can assist their interest and maintain their investment in health based activities and secondly what workplaces can do to make the organisations more healthy. The philosophy and the realities of the workplace were reviewed and the project addressed the strategies that could be adopted by the workplace. The study identifies a series of practical activities and outcomes that aged care facilities can undertake for nurses/caregivers or other members of staff working in the workplace. The findings lead to recommendations about healthy outcomes and managing health and creating a positive climate for health within the workplace. | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ 605 | Serial | 591 | ||
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| Author | Schumacher, A.T. | ||||
| Title | More than meets the eye: Explicating the essence of gerontology nursing | Type | |||
| Year | 2001 | Publication |
Abbreviated Journal | ResearchArchive@Victoria | |
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| Keywords | Geriatric nursing; Nursing philosophy; Nursing specialties | ||||
| Abstract | The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological was to unveil a deeper meaning and understanding of gerontology nursing, thus contributing to its value and worth as a speciality area of nursing. Conversations with four gerontology nurses were taped, transcribed and then analysed using van Manen's (1990) approach to researching lived experience. From the analysis, four cardinal elements emerged: true acceptance, personal knowing, being present, and being alive. Those four cardinal elements were reworked and further analysed to reveal three central aspects or essences of gerontology nursing. These essences were the centrality of temporality, the interconnectedness of human relationships, and the significance of the lived body. Temporality is demonstrated by nursing application of objective, or clock time, as well as subjectively in regards to the lived time of the clients. Interconnectedness is the lived human relationship between nurse and client and is represented by commitment, presencing/giving of self, connecting, and knowing the client holistically. The third essence is corporeality, which is portrayed by the gerontology nurses' distinguishing characteristics and their perception of the lived body of the nursed. The final analysis unveiled caring for the body, the act of seeing, and the joy of care as emergent essences of gerontology nursing. Language of nursing in relationship to 'basic nursing care' is critiqued for its potential to devalue gerontology nursing and, by association, old people. | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ 1157 | Serial | 1142 | ||
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