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Author McKillop, A.M.
Title (down) Native health nursing in New Zealand 1911-1930: A new work and a new profession for women Type
Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library, Northland Polytechnic L
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Abstract The focus of this thesis is the practice of the nurses employed in the Native Health Nursing Scheme in New Zealand from 1911 to 1930. These nurses were a vanguard movement for change in community nursing services as they established a new role and developed innovative ways of practicing nursing while claiming greater autonomy and accountability for nurses who worked in community settings. Consequently they contributed to an increase in status for nurses in New Zealand.The Native Health Nursing Scheme was established by the Health Department to replace the Maori Health Nursing Scheme, an initiative by Maori leaders for Maori nurses to provide nursing care for their own people. The original scheme had foundered amid under-resourcing, a lack of support from hospital boards and administrative chaos. Government policy for Maori health was openly assimilationist and the mainly non-Maori Native Health nurses carried out this policy, yet paradoxically adapting their practice in order to be culturally acceptable to Maori.Their work with the Maori people placed the Native Health nurses in a unique position to claim professional territory in a new area of practice. As they took up the opportunities for an expanded nursing role, they practiced in a manner which would develop the scope and status of nursing. The geographical isolation of their practice setting provided the nurses with the challenge of practicing in an environment of minimal administrative and professional support, while also offering them the opportunity for independence and relative autonomy. Obedience, duty and virtue, qualities highly valued in women of the day, were expected especially in nurses. These expectations were in direct contrast to the qualities necessary to perform the duties of the Native Health nurse. The conditions under which these nurses worked and lived, the decisions they were required to make, and the partnerships they needed to establish to be effective in the communities in which they worked, required courage, strength, organizational ability and commitment
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 14 Serial 14
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Author Butterfield, S.L.
Title (down) More power to the patient: self-care within acute care situations Type
Year 1978 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Abstract “A brief look at self-care and some of the issues relevant to nurses recognising it as a component of acute care”
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 75 Serial 75
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Author Hedwig, J.A.
Title (down) Midwives: preparation and practice Type
Year 1990 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 267 Serial 267
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Author Hotchin, C.L.
Title (down) Midwives' use of unorthodox therapies: a feminist perspective Type
Year 1996 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 269 Serial 269
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Author Moloney, J.A.
Title (down) Midwifery practice: unfettered or shackled? Type
Year 1992 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 280 Serial 280
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Author Bassett-Smith, J.L.
Title (down) Midwifery practice: authenticating the experience of childbirth Type
Year 1988 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Abstract The purpose of this grounded theory study was to identify, describe and provide a conceptual explanation of the process of care offered by midwives and the effects of that care on women's experiences of childbirth on hospital. Ten couple participants and their attendant midwives provided the major source of data. The primary data collection methods used in this study were participant observation during each couple's experience of labour and birthing, antenatal, hospital and postnatal interviews with couples along with formal and informal interviews with midwives.Constant comparative analysis of data eventuated in the identification, in the context of this study denotes a process that is engaged in by both midwives and birthing women in order to establish practice, and the experience of giving birth, as being individually genuine and valid.Authenticating is multifaceted and is seen to include the intertwined and simultaneously occurring phases of 'making sense', 'reframing', 'balancing' an 'mutually engaging'.The process of authenticating is proposed as a possible conceptual framework for midwifery practice. It identifies the unique contribution the midwife can make to a couple's experience of childbirth and serves in a conceptual way to unite the technical and interpersonal expertness of the midwife. The conceptual framework of authenticating legitimizes 'being with' women in childbirth and facilitates a women-centred approach to care with consequent implications for practice, education and research
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 222 Serial 222
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Author O'Sullivan, M.
Title (down) Maximising, optimising, empowering: the work of the public health nurse in a college setting Type
Year 1997 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 169 Serial 169
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Author Chick, D.N.P.; Pybus, M.W.
Title (down) Massey nursing studies' student follow-up survey Type
Year 1982 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 244 Serial 244
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Author Dickinson, A.R.
Title (down) Managing it: a mother's perspective of managing their pre-school child's acute asthma episode Type
Year 1997 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 367 Serial 367
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Author Calvert, S.
Title (down) Making decisions: focusing on my baby's well-being: a grounded theory study exploring the way that decisions were made in the midwife-woman relationship Type
Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 393 Serial 393
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Author Paterson(now Fleming), B.L.
Title (down) Making a difference: the lived world of nursing practice in an acute care setting Type
Year 1989 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Abstract This study examines the practice world of twenty two registered nurses working in medical and surgical wards of an acute general hospital in New Zealand. It is argued that nursing practice is a complex, context-specific, activity and needs to be studied using methods that do not assume an objective, context-free reality.The work of Patricia Benner (1984) guided this study which utilized a qualitative research approach to enter the lived world of nursing practice. Through descriptions of work days and a sharing of clinical exemplars, an understanding of the broader context of nursing practice was gained, areas of skilled performance in nursing emerged, and the meaning of making a difference for the nurses in the study examined. The central role of mutual advice and support in facilitating significant incidents in practice was apparent.An examination of the types of experiences which challenge current practice and change it in some way provided insight into the importance of experience in developing clinical expertise and the vital role of local knowledge in facilitating practice. Nursing practice emerged as crucial to patient welfare and safety in the acute care setting
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 252 Serial 252
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Author Woods, M.
Title (down) Maintaining the nursing ethic: a grounded theory of the moral practice of experienced nurses Type
Year 1997 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library, Palmerston North
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Abstract This thesis presents a study of the every-day moral decision making of experienced nurses. Eight experienced registered nurses participated in the completed research that is based on data gathered through interviews, document audit and literature review. A grounded theory approach was used to analyse the extensive data gathered for the study. This methodology generated a theoretical description involving the antecedents, processes and consequences of nursing moral decision making.Nursing practice has moral content, if not an entirely moral purpose, and moral decision making is the central component of this practice, yet the ethical aspects of nursing practice remain a comparatively recent field of study. It is therefore essential to nurses and their patients that this process is adequately studied and theorised. To date, very few studies have been undertaken in this area in New Zealand. This study aims to at least partially redress this situation by offering insights through conceptualisation and theoretical description of nursing moral decision making.The findings of the study reveal that antecedents such as personal moral development, upbringing and social experiences, contribute to a 'nursing ethic' in the moral decision making of experienced nurses. Furthermore, the study shows that the context and individual and shared perceptions of moral events influence the degree of nursing involvement in ethical situations. Finally, the study maintains that an intrinsic and persistent nursing ethic guides ethical decision making in nursing. This ethic is an undeniable phenomenon of considerable significance to nursing practice and education
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 187 Serial 187
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Author Murphy, M.
Title (down) Maintaining a loving vigil: parents' lived experience of having a baby in a neonatal unit Type
Year 1997 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 282 Serial 282
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Author Morrison-Ngatai, E.
Title (down) Mai i muri ka haere whakahaere: Maori woman in mental health nursing Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Keywords Mental health; Maori; Female; Psychiatric Nursing
Abstract Contents: Chapter 1 Kupu whakataki – introduction; Chapter 2 Raranga mohiotanga – literature review; Chapter 3 To te wahine mana tuku iho – theoretical framework; Chapter 4 Tahuri ki te rangahau – research methodology; Chapter 5 Whakaaturanga whakaoho – beginnings; Chapter 6 Kia pakari – positioning and contesting; Chapter 7 E ara ki runga wahine toa – standing and enduring; Chapter 8 Kua takoto te whariki.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 828
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Author Jackson, H.
Title (down) Lost in the normality of birth: a study in grounded theory exploring the experiences of mothers who had unplanned abdominal surgery at the time of birth Type
Year 1996 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 270 Serial 270
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