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Author Brown, M.B.
Title (down) The Auckland School of Nursing, 1883 – 1990: the rise and fall Type
Year 1991 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 312 Serial 312
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Author Neugebauer, A.F.
Title (down) The adult congenital heart disease service: An evidence-based development of a nurse specialist position Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Keywords Cardiovascular diseases; Nursing specialties; Nursing
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 482 Serial 469
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Author Howard, F.M.
Title (down) Staff – patient interaction patterns in hospital and community psychiatric facilities, a comparison Type
Year 1983 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 301 Serial 301
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Author Ratnasabapathy, P.
Title (down) Silent suffering: The 'lived experience' of women who have experienced early pregnancy loss and used the health services for their care Type
Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Keywords Pregnancy; Grief; Psychology
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 786 Serial 770
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Author McDonald, S.
Title (down) Registered nurses' perceptions of their role in acute inpatient care in New Zealand: A qualitative descriptive study Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland
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Keywords Mental health; Psychiatric Nursing
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 620 Serial 606
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Author MacManus, M.
Title (down) Reflective practice: teaching the practice of nursing Type
Year 1994 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 299 Serial 299
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Author Pearce, L.; Kirkham, S.; Cuthbertson, S.
Title (down) Quality of follow-up for self-poisoning patients after discharge from intensive care: 1996, one year later Type
Year 1996 Publication Abbreviated Journal DCCM, Auckland Hospital, P.O.Box 92024, Auckland
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Abstract In 1995 we conducted a retrospective audit on a prospectively collated database to find out which intensive care patients missed out on psychiatric care after self poisoning. Our results showed that 57 patients in 1995 may not have received psychiatric follow-up assessment. Department of Critical Care Medicine (DCCM) follow-up was also less successful for this particular group. It was recommended that on admission to intensive care, all self poisoning patients would be referred to the Liaison Psychiatry Service (LPS).In 1996 we reviewed the databases of DCCM and LPS to determine if the quality of psychiatric follow-up had improved after the initial 1995 audit. In 1996 124 patients had 149 admissions (85F, age range 14.6-85.3, median 35, median GCS 9, 99 ventilated, 3 deaths). Thirteen patients had 25 admissions within 6 months of their index admission , 7/13 had a major psychiatric disorder. Mixed poisoning remained common. Forty-five admissions took cyclic antidepressants, 21 sedatives, 52 other medications, 25 ethanol (median 43 mmol/l ), 30 carbon monoxide and 5 took various non-prescription poisons.Thirteen went home, 32 to other hospitals, 4 to psychiatric hospitals and 97 were transferred to wards within Auckland Hospital. Psychiatric follow-up assessment was successful in 96/97 patients prior to discharge from Auckland Hospital. Those discharged to other hospitals or home were referred and followed up by LPS teams or other Mental Health Services.DCCM follow-up 4-6 weeks post discharge was more successful for 1996 with 120/146 contacted of which 33/120 were receiving ongoing psychiatric care.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 207 Serial 207
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Author Whitehead, N.
Title (down) Quality and staffing: Is there a relationship in aged residential care Type
Year 2007 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Keywords Rest homes; Patient safety; Older people; Nursing specialties
Abstract This thesis reports a mixed methods study, longitudinal in nature, of consenting Age Related Residential Care (ARRC) hospitals in the upper half of the North Island, which was conducted to examine several factors, including AARC hospital efficiency at producing adverse event free days for residents. An interpretativist approach examined what best practice strategies were implemented by the ARRC hospitals that were identified to be most successful at producing adverse event free days for the residents.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1159
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Author Glasspoole, L.A.
Title (down) Psychotropic drug use with the elderly: nurse attitudes and knowledge levels Type
Year 1986 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 310 Serial 310
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Author Spence, D.
Title (down) Prejudice, paradox and possibility Type
Year 1999 Publication Abbreviated Journal Auckland
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Abstract This study explores the the experience of nursing a person, or people, form cultures other than one's own. Informed by the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics, and drawing specifically on some of the notions articulated by Hans-Georg Gadamer and Charles Taylor, it seeks to understand everyday nursing practices within their cultural and historical context.Against a background of Maori resurgence, nurses in New Zealand have been challenged in Aotearoa-New Zealand to recognise and address racism in their practice. Meeting the health needs of all people has long been important in nursing yet the curricular changes implemented in the early 1990s to enhance nursing's contribution to a more equitable health service created uncertainty and tension both within nursing, and between nursing and the wider community.In this study, I have interpreted the experiences of seventeen nurses practising in an increasingly ethnically diverse region. Personal understandings and those from relevant literature have been used to illuminate further the nature of cross-cultural experience from a nurse's perspective. The thesis asserts that the notions of prejudice, paradox and possibility can be used to describe the experience of nursing a person from another culture. Prejudice refers to the prior understandings that influence nursing action in both a positive and a negative sense. Paradox relates to the coexistence and necessary interplay of contradictory meanings and positions, while possibility points to the potential for new understandings to surface from the fusion of past with present, and between different interpretations. As New Zealand nurses negotiate the conflicts essential for ongoing development of their practice, the play of prejudice, paradox and possibility is evident at intra-personal and interpersonal levels as well as in relation to professional and other social discourses. This thesis challenges nurses to persist in working with the tensions inherent in cross-cultural practice. It encourages continuation of their efforts to understand and move beyond the prejudices that otherwise preclude the exploration of new possibilities.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 448 Serial 448
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Author Palmer, S.G.
Title (down) Positively positive: an experimental evaluation of the Wellness Programme, Burnett Centre Type
Year 1993 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 294 Serial 294
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Author Weidenbohm, K.
Title (down) Pioneering rural nursing practice: An impact evaluation of a preventive home visiting service for older people Type
Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Keywords Community health nursing; Rural health services; Older people; Home care; Preventive health services
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 579 Serial 565
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Author Dewes, C.A.
Title (down) Perceptions and expectations of a kaiawhina role Type
Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Keywords Maori; Students; Nursing
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 692 Serial 678
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Author Isaac, D.
Title (down) Passionate dedication: A qualitative descriptive study of nurses' and hospital play specialists' experiences on a children's burn ward Type
Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal Auckland University of Technology Library
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Keywords Children; Nursing specialties; Mentoring; Job satisfaction
Abstract A qualitative descriptive approach was undertaken to explore the experience of eight registered nurses and two hospital play specialists who care for children hospitalised with burn injuries. The research participants were recruited from a paediatric ward that offers centralised specialty care to children with burns. Emerging out of the data was the over-arching theme of 'passionate dedication' that shows the nurses and hospital play specialists genuine compassion and commitment to meet the needs of the children with burns. The findings of the study reveal that the participant's dedication is shaped and determined by a dynamic process that involves having professional integrity and in-depth knowledge of caring for children and burn management. The nurses and the hospital play specialists have a common understanding of what their role entails and the skills required to provide quality care and support to the children and the children's family. On a personal and professional level the participants encounter several challenges in this care context that are physically and emotionally overwhelming. Despite becoming overwhelmed the participants are revealed as being resourceful and resilient in their aptitude to find ways that enable them to cope and get through. The author suggests that this study supports international literature that suggests that caring for children with burns is equally rewarding, as much as it is physically and emotionally demanding. The author identifies that the implication in this study for the organisation is to seriously consider issues regarding productivity and efficiency of the workforce with acknowledgement that nurses and hospital play specialists cannot do this emotional work without effective systems of support in place.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 577 Serial 563
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Author Prebble, K.
Title (down) Ordinary men and uncommon women: A history of psychiatric nursing in New Zealand public mental hospitals, 1939-1972 Type
Year 2007 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
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Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Mental health; History; Gender
Abstract This social-cultural history explores the changing context, culture, and identity of psychiatric nurses working in New Zealand public mental hospitals between 1939 and 1972. Primary documentary sources and oral history interviews provided the data for analysis. The thesis is divided into two periods: 1939 to 1959 when asylum-type conditions shaped the culture of the institutional workforce, and 1960 to 1972 when mental health reform and nursing professionalisation challenged the isolation and distinct identity of mental hospital nurses. Between 1939 and 1959 the introduction of somatic treatments did not substantially change nursing practice in mental hospitals. Overcrowding, understaffing and poor resources necessitated the continuance of custodial care. The asylum-type institutions were dependent on a male attendant workforce to ensure the safety of disturbed male patients, and the maintenance of hospital farms, gardens, and buildings. Although female nurses provided all the care and domestic work on the female side, the belief that psychiatric nursing was physically demanding, potentially dangerous, and morally questionable, characterised the work as generally unsuitable for women. Introduction of psychiatric nursing registration which was a move toward professionalisation did little to change the dominance of a male, working-class culture. From 1960 to 1972 psychiatric nurses' identity was contested. New therapeutic roles created the possibility of the nurses becoming health professionals. Their economic security and occupational power, however, was tied to an identity as unionised, male workers. As psychiatric nurses were drawn closer to the female-dominated nursing profession through health service changes and nursing education reform, both men and women acted to protect both their working conditions and their patients' welfare. To achieve these ends, they employed working-class means of industrial action. By accepting the notion that psychiatric nurses' identity was socially constructed, this thesis provides an interpretation that goes beyond the assumption that nursing is a woman's profession. Instead, it presents psychiatric nursing as a changing phenomenon shaped by contested discourses of gender, class and professionalisation. Nursing in public mental hospitals attracted ordinary men and uncommon women whose collective identity was forged from the experience of working in a stigmatised role.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 763 Serial 749
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