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Author Litchfield, M.
Title Achieving health in a rural community: A case study of nurse – community partnership Type Book Whole
Year 2004 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal University and Polytechnic Libraries, NZNO Library
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Keywords Rural health services; Nursing models; Advanced nursing practice; Health promotion; Organisational change
Abstract This study describes rural, nurse-led health services provided by the Takapau Health Centre (Central Hawkes Bay) and its outreach, Norsewood & District Health Centre. The study looks at its model of service delivery through to 2002. It examines the establishment, development, funding and management of the service, along with the nursing practice and the healthcare people received. The book is a snapshot of nursing initiative and survival through a decade of change in health policy and service funding and delivery. The information was subsequently used to move the health centre service into the new paradigm of primary health care launched in the New Zealand Health Strategy.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1183 Serial 1168
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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 Type
Year 2008 Publication (up) 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.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1195 Serial 1180
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Author Trenberth, D.
Title New Zealand families' beliefs about what constitutes successful management of unsupervised childcare Type
Year 2008 Publication (up) 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.
Call Number 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 Type
Year 2004 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal ScholarlyCommons@AUT
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Keywords Nurse-family relations; Chronically ill; Children
Abstract 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.
Call Number 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 Type
Year 2003 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal Victoria University Library
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Keywords History of nursing; Careers in nursing; Nursing philosophy
Abstract 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.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1258 Serial 1243
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Author Chick, D.N.P.
Title Rural district nurses as rehabilitationists Type
Year 2003 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library
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Keywords Rural nursing
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Call Number 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 Type
Year 2002 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
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Keywords Community health nursing; Paediatric nursing
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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 Type
Year 2002 Publication (up) 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 Type
Year 2001 Publication (up) 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 Type Report
Year 2001 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal
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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 Type
Year 2000 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal Massey University, Palmerston North, Library
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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 Type Report
Year 2000 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal
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Keywords Registered nurses; Hospitals; Psychiatric Nursing
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1283 Serial 1268
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Author Churcher, R.L.; Bowden, J.; Grogan, J.; Grofski, H.; Parker, J.; Berry, A.
Title Recovery room nursing – conditions and practice Type
Year 2000 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal NZNA P. O. Box 2128 Wellington
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Abstract This report is the results of a national survey to establish base-line information about recovery room nursing. Factors addressed are: general statistics, physical conditions, staffing, orientation and education, support networks and procedure performed
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 11
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Author Wenmoth, J.D.A.
Title Involuntary unemployment: A grounded theory analysis of the experience of five nurses Type
Year 2000 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal
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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.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 69
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Author Churcher, R.L.; Bowden, J.; Grogan, J.; Grofski, H.; Parker, R.; Berry, A.
Title Trends in theatre nurse education Type
Year 2000 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal Theatre Nurses Section, NZNO
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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.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 144
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