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Author |
Barton, J. |
Title |
Pain knowledge and attitudes of nurses and midwives in a New Zealand context |
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Year |
2001 |
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NZNO Library |
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Keywords |
Nursing; Pain management; Attitude of health personnel |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1140 |
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1125 |
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Author |
Bland, M.F. |
Title |
All the comforts of home? A critical ethnography of residential aged care in New Zealand |
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Year |
2004 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
NZNO Library |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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Keywords |
Rest homes; Older people; Patient satisfaction |
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Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1141 |
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1126 |
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Author |
Lynch, T.M. |
Title |
A qualitative descriptive study of youth with Crohn's disease |
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Year |
2005 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
NZNO Library |
Volume |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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Keywords |
Diseases; Adolescents; Nursing |
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Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1143 |
Serial |
1128 |
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Author |
Miles, M.A.P. |
Title |
A critical analysis of the relationships between nursing, medicine and the government in New Zealand 1984-2001 |
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Year |
2005 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
NZNO Library, University of Otago Library |
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Keywords |
Primary health care; Interprofessional relations; Policy |
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This thesis concerns an investigation of the tripartite arrangements between the government, the nursing and the medical sectors in New Zealand over the period 1984 to 2001 with a particular focus on primary health care. The start point is the commencement of the health reforms instituted by the Fourth New Zealand Labour Government of 1984. The thesis falls within a framework of critical inquiry, specifically, the methodology of depth hermeneutics (Thompson, 1990), a development of critical theory. The effects of political and economic policies and the methodologies of neo-liberal market reform are examined together with the concept of collaboration as an ideological symbolic form, typical of enterprise culture. The limitations of economic models such as public choice theory, agency theory and managerialism are examined from the point of view of government strategies and their effects on the relationships between the nursing and medical professions. The influence of American health care policies and their partial introduction into primary health care in New Zealand is traversed in some detail, together with the experiences of health reform in several other countries. Post election 1999, the thesis considers the effect of change of political direction consequent upon the election of a Labour Coalition government and concludes that the removal of the neo-liberal ethic by Labour may terminate entrepreneurial opportunities in the nursing profession. The thesis considers the effects of a change to Third Way political direction on national health care policy and on the medical and nursing professions. The data is derived from various texts and transcripts of interviews with 12 health professionals and health commentators. The histories and current relationships between the nursing and medical professions are examined in relation to their claims to be scientific discourses and it is argued that the issue of lack of recognition as a scientific discourse is at the root of nursing's perceived inferiority to medicine. This is further expanded in a discussion at the end of the thesis where the structure of the two professions is compared and critiqued. A conclusion is drawn that a potential for action exists to remedy the deficient structure of nursing. The thesis argues that this is the major issue which maintains nursing in the primary sector in a perceived position of inferiority to medicine. The thesis also concludes that the role of government in this triangular relationship is one of manipulation to bring about necessary fundamental change in the delivery of health services at the lowest possible cost without materially strengthening the autonomy of the nursing or the medical professions. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1146 |
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1131 |
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Author |
Roberts, F. |
Title |
The people the programme & the place: Nurses' perceptions of the Lakeland Health Professional Development Programme |
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Year |
1999 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
NZNO Library, Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Keywords |
Careers in nursing; Professional development; Registered nurses |
Abstract |
This thesis concerns the Professional Development Programme at Lakeland Health. In New Zealand, such programmes were introduced as a mechanism to openly recognise the clinical expertise of nurses. Clinical Career Pathways were introduced to nursing in North America in the 1970's at a time of nursing shortage. Prior to their inception, nurses wishing to develop their careers had to move to administration, management or education. The programmes recognised and rewarded expertise in practice. A qualitative, descriptive approach (using focus groups) was used with Registered Nurses to gather their perceptions of what helps nurses enroll in the Professional Development Programme. The ideas and insights of nine Registered Nurses were clustered around three main categories: The People (fear; being struck; motivation; feedback; peer support; ways of learning); the Programme (relevance; flexibility; Bachelor's Degrees; implementation; supporting information; fairness); the Place (time; regular and accessible; support from nurse leaders; management). These perceptions are discussed in more detail in the context of nursing at Lakeland Health and of Clinical Career Pathways in New Zealand. The findings are helpful for the evaluation and future development of the Professional Development at Lakeland Health. The research contributes to our understanding of what helps nurses enroll in a Clinical Career Pathway, and emphasises the importance of the People, the Programme and the Place. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1150 |
Serial |
1135 |
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Author |
Litchfield, M. |
Title |
Achieving health in a rural community: A case study of nurse – community partnership |
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Book Whole |
Year |
2004 |
Publication |
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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 |
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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 |
Mahoney, L. |
Title |
Making the invisible visible: Public health nurses role with children who live with a parent with a mental illness |
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Year |
2008 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
NZNO Library |
Volume |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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Keywords |
Public health; Children; Community health nursing; Scope of practice |
Abstract |
This research uses focus group methodology to examine the public health nursing practice with children living with a mentally ill parent. These children are often neglected, yet are at increased risk of developing mental illnesses themselves. The research data identified the burgeoning impact on public health nurses of such care, and found their role to be primarily assessment and advocacy. |
Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1304 |
Serial |
1289 |
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Author |
McNamara, N. |
Title |
The meaning of the experience for ICU nurses when a family member is critically ill: A hermeneutic phenomenologcial study |
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Year |
2007 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
NZNO Library |
Volume |
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Pages |
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Keywords |
Intensive care nursing; Nurse-family relations |
Abstract |
This study provides insight into the experience of being an ICU nurse and relative of a critically ill patient. Analysis of data from interviews of four ICU nurses who had experienced having a family member admitted to ICU brought up several themes. These included: a nurses' nightmare, knowing and not knowing, feeling torn, and gaining deeper insight and new meaning. Recommendations for organisational support for ICU nurse/relatives, and education for staff are made, based on the findings. |
Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1312 |
Serial |
1296 |
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