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Giddings, D.L.S.; Smith, M.C. |
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Stories of lesbian in/visibility in nursing |
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2001 |
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Nursing Outlook |
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49 |
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1 |
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14-19 |
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Sexuality; Nursing; Identity; Work |
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A study of the life histories of five self-identified lesbian women in nursing is reported. A metastory of “In/Visibility” captured the essence of lesbians being the focus of intense scrutiny while at the same time feeling the pressure to keep their lifestyle and identity hidden from others. Seven story themes were elaborated: closeting of lesbianism in nursing, isolating and hiding from self and others, living a double-life, self-loathing and shame, experiencing discrimination from others, keeping safe, and threatening others who are closeted. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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844 |
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Day, W. |
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Relaxation: A nursing therapy to help relieve cardiac chest pain |
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Year |
2000 |
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Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing |
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18 |
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1 |
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40-44 |
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Alternative therapies; Nursing; Patient satisfaction; Cardiovascular diseases |
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This article discusses ways in which relaxation, when used as an adjunct to medical therapies, can be a useful nursing management tool for effectively relieving cardiac pain. The available literature suggests that although nurses place a lot of importance on cardiac patients being pain free, it is apparent this is often not achieved. Research and documented case studies suggest that relaxation can play an important role in the treatment and prevention of this distressing symptom. The author advocates for nurses to challenge nursing practice and help patients deal effectively with chest pain in a way that meets each individual's needs. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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841 |
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Spence, D.; Wood, E.E. |
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Registered nurse participation in performance appraisal interviews |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2007 |
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Journal of Professional Nursing |
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23 |
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1 |
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55-59 |
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Registered nurses; Management; Professional development; Attitude of health personnel |
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This article presents the findings of an interpretive study that explored and documented the meaning and impact of nurse participation in performance appraisal interviews. Data gleaned from nine New Zealand registered nurses employed by a single district health board provide evidence that nurses are often disappointed by the process of performance appraisal. Although they believe in the potential value of performance appraisal interviews, they seldom experience the feedback, direction, and encouragement necessary for an effective appraisal process. It is suggested that changes to the current professional development program and its accompanying performance appraisal will require skilled commitment on the part of nurses, managers, and the employing organisation to improve and develop the assessment and promotion of nursing practice. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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840 |
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Walsh, K.; Moss, C.; Lawless, J.; McKelvie, R.; Duncan, L. |
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Puzzling practice: A strategy for working with clinical practice issues |
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Journal Article |
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2008 |
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International Journal of Law and Psychiatry |
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14 |
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2 |
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94-100 |
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Nursing philosophy; Clinical decision making; Problem solving |
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The authors share the evolution of innovative ways to explore, 'unpack' and re-frame clinical issues that exist in everyday practice. The elements of these processes, which they call 'puzzling practice', and the techniques associated with them, were delineated over a two year period by the authors using action theory based processes. The authors have evolved several different frameworks for 'puzzling practice' which they draw on and use in their practice development work and in research practice. This paper pays attention to a particular form of puzzling practice that they found to be useful in assisting individual clinicians and teams to explore and find workable solutions to practice issues. In this example 'puzzling practice' uses seven different elements; naming the issue; puzzling the issue; testing the puzzle; exploring the heart of out practice; formulating the puzzle question; visualising the future; and generating new strategies for action. Each of the elements is illustrated by the story and the key foundations and ideas behind each element is explored. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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838 |
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Codlin, K.C. |
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Mental health nurses and clinical supervision: A naturalistic comparison study into the effect of group clinical supervision on minor psychological disturbance, job satisfaction and work-related stress |
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2004 |
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University of Otago Library |
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Psychiatric Nursing; Clinical supervision; Stress; Job satisfaction; Mental health |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 845 |
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829 |
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Daniels, Anne |
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Listening to New Zealand nurses: A survey of intent to leave, job satisfaction, job stress, and burnout |
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2004 |
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Stress; Job satisfaction; Nursing |
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This study aims to identify work related factors contributing to New Zealand nurses' intent to leave the job. Two hundred and seventy five surveys (response rate = 68.8%) from a random sample of 400 nurses employed in one district health board were used to explore intent to leave the job. Three research questions directed the description of levels of job satisfaction, job stress, and burnout found in nurse participants, correlations between the three variables, and the identification of variables predicting intent to leave the job through regression analyses. The survey found levels of job satisfaction were high, job stress was low, and burnout was average. Specifically, lack of opportunity to participate in organisational decision making, control over work conditions, control over what goes on in the work setting (key Magnet Hospital characteristics) were not evident, and with pay rates, were the main sources of job dissatisfaction. Workload was the most frequently experienced source of stress by nurse participants. Twenty-five per cent of nurse participants reported high levels of intent to leave the job. Correlations suggested that reductions in job satisfaction influenced increases in job stress and burnout. Job stress was associated with increases in emotional exhaustion. Emotional exhaustion was influenced by eight job satisfaction, job stress, and burnout subscales. Five subscales (professional opportunities, praise and recognition, interaction opportunities, extrinsic rewards, lack of support) explained 26.2% of the variance in nurse participant's intent to leave. The author concludes that issues of power and control were associated with job dissatisfaction, job stress and burnout in nursing practice. However, predictors of intent to leave the job suggest a growing realisation by nurse participants that postgraduate education and nursing research may provide the tools to create positive change in the health care environment and make nursing visible, valued and appropriately rewarded. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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826 |
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Maxwell-Crawford, K. |
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Huarahi whakatu: Maori mental health nursing career pathway |
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Report |
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2004 |
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(Trm/04/15) |
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Professional development; Careers in nursing; Maori; Psychiatric nursing; Mental Health |
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Huarahi whakatu describes a pathway for recognising the expertise of nurses working in kaupapa Maori mental health services and recommends a professional development programme that can lead to advancement along the pathway. An emphasis on dual competencies – cultural and clinical – underlies the rationale for regarding kaupapa Maori mental health nursing as a sub-specialty. Eight levels of cultural competencies and twelve levels of clinical competencies are used to differentiate career stages and it is recommended that movement from one level to another should be matched by increased remuneration. The report also contains a recommended professional development programme to support the operationalisation of the career pathway. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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824 |
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Bridgen, A.F. |
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A heuristic journey of discovery: Exploring the positive influence of the natural environment on the human spirit |
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2007 |
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Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Spirituality; Nursing; Nursing philosophy |
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The intention of this heuristic study was to explore and discover the essence of the positive influence of the natural environment on the human spirit. The study quest was identified as a central concern that evolved from the author's personal experience of spiritual awakening in the natural environment and an interest in the concept of connectedness in nursing care and practice. The study also focused on the self of the nurse and the qualities of holistic nursing care. Guided by heuristic methodology developed by Moustakas (1990) the thesis traces a journey of discovery. Using conversational interviews, six nurses were asked to describe their experiences of their spirit being positively influenced in the natural environment. These nurses were also asked if these beneficial experiences had any flow-on effect to their nursing practice. From these interviews various commonalities of experience were identified as well as some experiences unique to the individual participants. The participant knowing was articulated using Reed's (1992) dimensions of relatedness in spirituality as a framework. Reed describes these dimensions as being able to be experienced intrapersonally, interpersonally and transpersonally. A substantive body of nursing and non-nursing literature was explored to support the participant knowing and provide strength to the discussion. The study discovered that the human spirit is positively influenced in the natural environment. The three actions of personal healing and wellbeing in the natural environment, knowing self – knowing others and sustaining self in nursing practice were valued by the participants as contributing to the quality of their nursing care. In bringing together spirituality, the natural environment and nursing, holism was discovered to be the significant and connecting constituent. The study has some implications for the discipline of nursing that are also discussed by the author. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 831 |
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815 |
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Bigwood, S. |
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Got to be a soldier: Mental health nurses experiences of physically restraining patients |
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2007 |
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University of Otago Library |
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Psychiatric Nursing; Workplace violence; Mental health; Stress |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 829 |
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813 |
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Sutton, D.M. |
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An analysis of the application of Christensen's Nursing Partnership Model in vascular nursing: A case study approach |
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2007 |
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University of Otago Library |
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Nursing specialties; Nursing models; Cardiovascular diseases |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 822 |
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806 |
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Rydon, S.E. |
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Attitudes, skills and knowledge of mental health nurses: The perception of users of mental health services |
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2001 |
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Massey University Library |
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Mental health; Psychiatric Nursing; Patient satisfaction; Attitude of health personnel |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 819 |
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803 |
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Rochford, N.M. |
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As a nurse in the family: Three women's stories of what it means for a female nurse to be caregiver to a family member who is ill, elderly or with an enduring illness |
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2004 |
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Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Nurse-family relations |
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In this research, three female registered nurses relived their experiences of being caregiver to a family member who was ill, elderly or had an enduring illness and explored whether they chose, or felt obligated, to assume the role of caregiver because they were nurses. This research was an exploratory descriptive study utilising narrative as inquiry and the method of story-telling. It is women-centered, taking into account the unpaid role of caregiving within families most often fulfilled by women. Four main themes were identified and renamed to highlight research findings – these were the culture of nursing, silence of the nurses, emotional cloudiness, and the natural role of the nurse. Through this study it is hoped that nurses will be more aware of the impact their caregiving roles have had on their lives. The importance in acknowledging the effects of caregiving, relevance of informing employers to promote supportiveness, implications for workforce development and recognising the loss of objectivity in caring when emotions are involved, are identified in this research. The author suggests that further indepth research about these concepts would be a valuable contribution to the nursing profession and ideas for future research have been identified. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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802 |
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Sadler, D. |
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Stigma, discrimination and a model for psychiatric mental health nursing practice |
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2000 |
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Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Mental health; Psychiatric Nursing; Psychology |
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This paper seeks to understand the aetiology of stigma. The word stigma comes from the Greek language and refers to a brand, a mark of shame. Society has used this phenomenon to mark those who do not fit with the stereotypical virtual identity expected by a group. Stigma has persisted throughout the ages to enforce norms and sanction rules. Stigma is a term used to broadly define an attitude to negative attributes. It is a way of treating people that indicates to the individual, they are different from the norm. Research indicates the general population has discriminatory attitudes to those who have experienced mental illness. This discrimination impacts on the lives of those people. Their stories tell of shame, sadness and anguish. Families too, feel the ongoing effects of stigma. Psychiatric mental health professionals are said to perpetuate the discrimination arising from the stigma of mental illness. This is shown in the literature to persist through labelling and disempowering practices. The attitude of nurses in particular is critical to promoting healing environments. It is thought that a humanistic altruistic approach to nursing practice will help to eliminate discriminatory practice by nurses. It is hoped that this approach will create collaborative care that gives the individual the respect, response, choice and support they need to assist in recovering from mental illness. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 815 |
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799 |
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Lidiard, B. |
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Implementing the Rating Scale for Aggressive Behaviours in the elderly: Can it make a difference to nursing management of aggressive behaviours in elderly patients with dementia? |
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2006 |
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ResearchArchive@Victoria |
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Geriatric nursing; Dementia; Workplace violence; Older people |
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The Rating Scale for Aggressive Behaviours in the Elderly (RAGE) is a twenty-one item rating scale, designed specifically to measure aggressive behaviours in the elderly in the psychogeriatric inpatient setting. The purpose of the scale is to qualify the aggressive behaviour, note any changes in the behaviour, and record intervention and/or treatments. This study combines both qualitative and quantitative methods with exploratory and descriptive designs to explore nurses' experiences of using a consistent tool for monitoring, measuring and managing aggressive behaviours. Data gathered over a three month period of implementing RAGE aimed to provide a 'snapshot' of the prevalence, extent and type of aggressive behaviours within the inpatient setting, providing evidence to nurses in developing strategies for the management of aggression. Focus group interviews were used to enable nurses to discuss their experiences of utilising a clinically validated tool in their practice and how this made a difference to their practice. Findings from this research indicate that nurses within the setting found that RAGE is a consistent tool with which nurses can record, measure and monitor aggressive behaviours. Responses from nurses' experiences of utilising RAGE in their practice were varied, with some being unable to articulate how RAGE had made a difference to their practice. Despite this there was an overwhelming positive response for the continued use of RAGE within the setting as a clinically validated tool by which to measure, record and manage aggressive behaviours. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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798 |
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Author |
Crawford, R. |
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An exploration of nurses' understanding of parenting in hospital |
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2000 |
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Massey University Library |
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Nurse-family relations; Children; Hospitals; Parents and caregivers |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 812 |
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796 |
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