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Author Clare, D.J.(see also P.) openurl 
  Title (down) Teaching and learning in nursing education: a critical approach Type
  Year 1991 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 232 Serial 232  
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Author Stewart, L. openurl 
  Title (down) Stories from Pacific Island nurses: Why do Pacific Island Bachelor of Nursing students not return to their own countries after being scholarship recipients? Type
  Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Keywords Pacific peoples; New graduate nurses; Students  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 618 Serial 604  
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Author Idour, D.M.G. openurl 
  Title (down) Stepping beyond the known – the lived experience of returning registered nurse students: an interpretive descriptive study Type
  Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library, NZNO Library, UMI Disse  
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  Abstract A Heideggerian Hermeneutical Analysis (HHA) approach was used for a study of returning registered nurse students (RRNS) from a nursing/health management context. In essence a descriptive interpretive study the intent has been to unveil the common meanings embedded in the lived experience of RRNS return to formal (advanced) studies. The phenomenon or issue of interest was pursued in the form of a question: What is meaningful and significant for participant RRNS in their everyday world on re-engaging in formal (advanced) nursing studies?Research from the RRNS viewpoint is scarce, so the focus of the study was to understand what RRNS themselves found to be the highlights of the experience. Participants included RRNS coming from a management background and, therefore, very much at the cutting edge of rapid and continuing change in health care provision. In addition to personal and professional reasons for returning to study, what the narratives disclosed was the compelling need experienced by the RRNS to increase understanding of changing requirements in the workplace. They looked for new possibilities to transform management of nursing/health services and for learning experiences favorable to that purpose. A key aspect of their concern related to the interactive nature of their lived experience as a RRNS with the entire context of their everyday world, that is, with the connections and relations between the study-work-homespace.Fourteen RRNS from an established university nursing programme participated in an expended non-structured interviews lasting 60 – 90 minutes. The interviews were held during 1993 in places selected by participants, some in the home but mostly in the work setting. With the consent of the participants interviews were audiotaped and then transcribed. The texts (transcriptions) were analysed hermeneutically using Heideggerian phenomenology, a particular tradition of philosophy whose concern is the meaning of Being. The concern is to make visible participants' experience of their 'world'. In this instance, it was the everyday 'world' of the participant RRNS and the lived meanings of what they experienced on return to formal (advanced) studies. Hence everyday lived experience is the focus of attention in Heiedeggerian phenomenology. In this research approach what is sought is understanding not explanation. It is a premise of phenemenology that, in general, an understanding of the meaning and significance of the lived experience can be required from the 'things' (the phenomena under study) themselves. Approaching a participant as an expert by virtue of directly experiencing the phenomenon, is basic to phenomenology. Hermeneutic analysis of the texts of the participant RRNS affirmed the authenticity of those assumptions.The study revealed several common or major themes, two relational themes and one constitutive pattern were identified through the process of textual interpretation. The constitutive pattern expressing the full complexity of the relations and connections between the themes, was found to be present in all fourteen texts; the nature of a constitutive pattern being 'that it's always there'. The constitutive pattern 'Nursing is Dwelling in Thoughtful Concern as Context Calls Forth', emerged as the major finding of the study. This pattern witnesses to the pragmatism that is inherent in nursing and commonly found in nurses' responses to the challenges presented by continuing and rapid change. For the participant RRNS nursing had become a way of engaging their energies in the workplace as appropriate to a given place, time and culture. The two relational themes accent particular aspects of the constitutive pattern. 'Nursing' is a whole pile of things'; and 'Curriculum: Reflective Openness' reveal the inherent meanings of the constitutive pattern. Firstly, that nursing is diverse in practice and has many dimensions; and,, secondly, that a curriculum befitting the diversity of nursing requires us to constantly challenge ad test the learning experiences we provide for RRNS.The fourteen participants traversed diverse pathways to acquire the understanding and skills required for altered health care structures. Adopting new relationships and 'leaping-ahead' (Heidegger, 1962), to be able to see the whole picture of what was being experienced in nursing/health care, reveals the RRNS becoming-as interpreters for both colleagues and clients. Leaping-ahead is reflective of thoughtful concern as the pattern of responding to presenting need. This way of living a life transforms work. The participant RRNS disclose that, dwelling in such a way in nursing/health work opens up a future of possibilities which brings all the presenting needs into focus. Sharing the story of their lifeworld as RRNS, the participants have exemplified the ' reflective openness' Senge(1990) advocates, as being a pre-requisite for 'learning organisations'. Contemporary oganisations require us to challenge our own thinking as well as being free to speak our minds ('participant openness'). Since, however much we value our daily life practices and understandings, they need to be 'always subject to test and improvement'. In effect, what the participants have bestowed on us is that, within the framework of a curriculum for RRNS and the content learning of a given course, we must generate a process of learning amenable to both individual and group requirements  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 208 Serial 208  
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Author Vincent, N. openurl 
  Title (down) Starting late: problems and coping strategies of women who delay parenting until after the age of 40 years Type
  Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 401 Serial 401  
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Author Bird, A. openurl 
  Title (down) Social withdrawal among early patients in a long-stay psychiatric ward Type
  Year 1979 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 216 Serial 216  
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Author Walton, J.A. openurl 
  Title (down) Schizophrenia, a way of being-in-the-world Type
  Year 1995 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 180 Serial 180  
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Author Walton, J.A. openurl 
  Title (down) Schizophrenia, a way of being-in-the-world Type
  Year 1995 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Abstract This phenomenological study describes what it is like to live with a schizophrenic illness and relates the understanding gained from this description to implications for nursing practice. The participants in the study were ten adults who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia, who take regular medication and who are living independant lives in the community. Over a period of sixteen months they were interviewed about effects of the illness on their everyday lives. During this time they explained the challenges and difficulties which have faced them, both during and long after the resolution of acute illness. As they describe it schizophrenia is a part of who they are.The narrative contained in this thesis presents the participants' stories in aggregated form, setting their experiences alongside ideas from the early work of Martin Heidegger, whose phenomenological writing informed the analysis and interpretation of the data. As the participants explain, schizophrenia has touched every aspect of their lives. Living with schizophrenia is shown to affect their whole being-in-the-world. It incorporates Being-with-others, living carefully and taking a stand on life. While hoping for a cure, their reality is of living with a chroinic ilness which has major effects on their lives. At the same time the participants are shown to define themselves not in terms of their illness and treatment, but in respect of their hopes and dreams and the stance each is taking on his or her own life. In this way their existential predicament is highlighted in the study. Participants are on the one hand very much like all people, while on the other hand they have to contend with very different concerns than do most others.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 446 Serial 446  
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Author Jones, B. openurl 
  Title (down) Saving lives and changing dirty nappies: Illuminating nursing in the neonatal nurse practitioner role: The New Zealand experience Type
  Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Keywords Neonatal nursing; Nurse practitioners  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 919 Serial 903  
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Author Teekman, B. openurl 
  Title (down) Reflective thinking in nursing practice Type
  Year 1997 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 400 Serial 400  
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Author Pybus, M.W. openurl 
  Title (down) Public health nurses and families under stress: promoting children's health in complex situations Type
  Year 1993 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Abstract A description of the interaction between Public Health Nurses and stressed families that include children. It includes the perspective on the relationship of both the Nurses and the families ending with a classification of the goals of the service  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 10 Serial 10  
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Author Hansen, C. openurl 
  Title (down) Professional practice attributes within public health nursing Type
  Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Keywords Public health; Nursing  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 868 Serial 852  
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Author Euswas, P.W. openurl 
  Title (down) Professional nurses' view of caring in nursing practice: two preliminary studies in New Zealand Type
  Year 1991 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
  Volume 5 Issue 3 Pages 42  
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  Abstract Two convenience samples of 90 NZ registered nurses responded to two structured questionnaires designed to explore nurses views of caring in nursing practice.The studies demonstrate that nurses see caring as a central concept in their practice. From the response the meaning of caring was found to be multi dimensional, consisting of six components: value, expressive, action, relationship, knowledge and purpose. The value dimension includes areas such as humanistic value and professional value. The expressive component consists of empathy, compassion, trust, concern, sharing and willingness. Action components are helping, comforting, being there, empowering, advocacy, nurturing, advising, touching and performing nursing procedures. The major relationship component is partnership. An important part of the knowledge component is clinical expertise and the purposive component of caring consists of meeting health needs and promoting healing and welfare. The meaning of caring begins to emerge from these studies. However, they do not provide full understanding of caring phenomena. A further in-depth study of actual nursing practice is still in progress  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 9 Serial 9  
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Author Wilson, K.F. openurl 
  Title (down) Professional closure: the case of the professional development of nursing in Rotorua 1840 – 1934 Type
  Year 1995 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
  Volume 13 Issue 1 Pages 12-22  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 257 Serial 257  
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Author Davies, D.C. openurl 
  Title (down) Practice nurses' perceptions of their contribution to the care of individuals with chronic health conditions Type
  Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Keywords Primary health care; Chronic diseases; Patient satisfaction; Nursing  
  Abstract Table of Contents: 1. Background and overview; 2. Research design and method; 3. Literature review; 4. Preparation of the individual for an appointment at the general practice; 5. Care provided by the practice nurse at the general practice; 6. The giving of information; 7. A discussion of the dualities of the contribution of practice nurses to the care of individuals with chronic conditions; 8. Study summary and conclusions.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 492 Serial 478  
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Author Monro, J.A. openurl 
  Title (down) Person-environment imbalance in an occupational setting: a comparative study of nursing stress in several hospital wards Type
  Year 1985 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 281 Serial 281  
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