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Snelgar, D. W. (1981). Feasibility of integrated community based nursing services. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: A nurses working party was formed by the primary health care SSDG in 1979 to investigate the feasibility of integrated community based nursing services. A six month trial was held in a mainly urban area (population 5637) testing these ideas in 1980. Using the existing time of the four nursing services in the area a team approach was used with all nurses being responsible to a coordinating nurse. The present role of the public nurse and district nurse was integrated – this new nurse was called a community health nurse. These two nurses worked from a base located in te trial area. Liaison and coordination were established with the Plunket and practice nurse. The results of the trial enabled the primary health care SSDG to prepare a plan on community based nursing services
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Pybus, M. W., & Thomson, M. (1979). Health awareness and health actions of parents health. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: The parents of 238 children in standard one (7 – 8 year olds) in two localities in New Zealand (one group chosen randomly, the other a census of a small community) were interviewed about health matters. Objectives of the study were:1. To describe parents understanding of the nature of health.2. Their understanding of threats to their health.3. To describe actions they take to promote their own and their children's health.Few respondents describe health as being just the absence of illness: the concept of energy is important in many descriptions of health. Threats to the health of children are seen as coming more from the environment as compared with adults, for whom more threats are seen as having a physiological origin. Only 13% of adults thought that they put a lot of effort into keeping healthy. The underlying rationale is the recognition of the importance of people's own actions in the attainment and maintenance of health
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Butterfield, S. L. (1982). Helplessness or self care: a study of nursing practice with depressed patients in an In care setting. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: This study was conducted to investigate the practise of Nurses when working with depressed patients in an In Care setting. A survey of the literature shows that the role commonly prescribed for nurses who work in psychiatric settings is one that emphasises a one- on -one relationship based on models of psychotherapy and focuses on individual illness, pathology, systems and psycho dynamics. It is suggested that this is not a role which most Nurses working in New Zealand psychiatric settings would be able to implement in practise. Three perspective's of Nursing practise were explored in the study. What Nurses were seen to do in practice. What they thought they should do as evidenced in results of an exercise to rank different possible interventions, and what patients said were helpful Nursing interventions. A framework was developed for the study which depicts the process of helplessness(depression) as the negative 'mirror -image' of the process of self care. Results were analysed within this framework to determine whether or not Nurses tended to support behaviours which were indicative of movement towards helplessness or encourage those which indicated progress towards self care by their interventions. There was little evidence of positive reinforcement for independent or coping behaviours with patients in the study sample. Further, the nursing practise showed little relationship to the role prescribed in the literature. The Nurses did demonstrate a warm caring friendly approach that seemed to stem from a more traditional 'succouring, mothering' view of Nurses' role
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Takarangi, J. (1984). Historical review of written descriptions of community based nursing in New Zealand 1910 – 1980. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: Using the content analysis method all items published in the New Zealand nursing journal over 12 months every 10 years 1910 – 1980 were analysed. The focus was nursing in the community and data was gathered on categories of nurses mentioned, the contexts, categories of clients plus 68 nursing activity sub-categories. The data in analysed and discussed to show demands and patterns over time
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French, P. (1998). A study of the regulation of nursing in New Zealand 1901 – 1997. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Butler, A. M. In-depth study of ward management in a public hospital.
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Plenty, J., & Seers, R. (1984). Incidence of backstrain in nurses and orderlies working in a geriatric unit (138 beds). Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: In this study a questionnaire was designed to survey the incidence of back strain amongst staff members of a geriatric unit. This was completed by 71 staff members of a total of 99 forms issued. It would appear that back strain occurs in 70% of cases, but it is reported in only 8%. The causes of back strain in nursing are discussed and preventative measures outlined
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Sutherland, F. R. Incidence of phlebitis in intravenous infusions.
Abstract: Incidence of Phlebitis in association with the use of I.V. Infusions was studied. Patients in the I.C.U. with peripheral I.V. lines were studied over a 2.5 week period, a form being completed by the staff. The study established a 20% incidence of infusion phlebitis. The care and observations of intravenous therapy is a nursing responsibility requiring constant vigilance to detect early any complication that may arise
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King, B. E., & Westerdiep, A. R. (1978). Intensive nursing care units in public hospitals. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: The basic objective of the survey was to establish the proportion of the nursing staff employed in hospitals who were assigned to Intensive Nursing Care units. Twenty one different types of units were identified with a total of 118 units. Established in twenty four of the twenty nine hospitals throughout the country, Nearly 12 % of registered Nurses where ICU's were established were allocated to these units but the proportion s ranged from a low of 7% in one major Board area, to a high of 26% in another major Board area
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McTurk, M.(deceased 1985). (1977). Job satisfaction for nurses. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: Accent on Nursing services is on service to patients with job satisfaction of employees placed in a less worthy positions. Indices of low levels of Nurses' job satisfaction in some areas of our Hospitals in the Auckland Hospital Board indicate the established relationships between performance and morale is not always transformed into supervisory and management practise in the work situation. As recognition of job satisfaction needs is a prime factor in change, the research study is designed to measure through questionnaire and scaling methods the effect of a one week management training course on the attitudes of superiors to the job satisfaction needs of their subordinates
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Burrell, S. (1977). Kenepuru Hospital: nursing manpower. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: A study undertaken with the purpose of looking at Nursing manpower in Wellington Hospital Board, West Coast Region
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Parkinson, M. H. (1976). Learning the characteristics of a helping relationship: nurse – teacher genuineness and student nurse self disclosure. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Butler, A. M. Long stay patients: a study of their activities and use of facilities.
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Butterfield, S. L. (1978). More power to the patient: self-care within acute care situations. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: “A brief look at self-care and some of the issues relevant to nurses recognising it as a component of acute care”
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Lawton, M. M.(deceased), & Students,. Needs for ante-natal education.
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