Blair, S. (1999). The human cost of 'caring' care for registered nurses in clinical practice. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: This research utilized a focus group methodology to discover what nurses in clinical practice considered 'caring' care meant for them. Six registered nurses volunteered to participate in the project. They practiced over a wide variety of real settings within the public hospital, which provided both acute and elective surgical and medical services, including an extensive elderly population. Taking these important 'caring' statements, I then explored with the group what factors in their work environment hindered of enhanced their identified 'caring' care in clinical practice as did their overseas counterparts. This study also highlighted the impact the health reforms had on the individual clinical practice at this hospital. The effects of the institutional changes in response to the health reforms were far reaching at both the personal and professional level. Caring is an important concept found in nursing practice. It has been widely documented By nurse scholars, researchers and nurse authors that care is at the core of nursing practice.Some have even referred to care as being the heart of nursing. The finding from the present research indicates the importance nurses place on caring in their day to day encounters with patients. It also demonstrates how nurses express their care and their perceptions of the importance of care has in the clinical practice
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Doole, P. L. (1996). Getting on with life: the lived experience of four adults with cystic fibrosis. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Enslow, B. A. (1991). Bonded caring: health care choices of women with dependent children. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: The question for this study arose from the observation that health care often does not match the client's self-determined needs and desires, and hence is wasted care. As a result, the study proposed to discover what elements are involved when women with dependent children make health care choices and what they want in the way of health care.The exploratory study was conducted using strategies of grounded theory. Fourteen in-depth interviews, involving eleven women, were conducted. The selection of participants and of the questions for the interviews was basef on theoretical sampling. Constant comparative analysis and integrative diagramming were used to analyse the data.The theory that emerged from the data was Bonded Caring and its two essential categories; Interconnectedness and Caring. Bonded Caring requires an intimate and ongoing relationship in which there is development of in-depth knowledge of the unique characteristics of the person(s) involved. It is characterised by a strong and enduring effective quality, and by a concern, worry and serious attention to the needs of the person(s) involved. This concern necessitates the gathering of information about the nature of the needs, and making the best possible choices concerning their management.During this research for knowledge and skills needed to carry out health care, women assess their own knowledge and experience; the level(s) of health care needed by each individual; the availability, competence and expected response of the resource person or health care consultant; the perception of risk associated with a health concern; and the family's culture and life style. The women considered these elements within a structural framework of finite material and personal resources. The women juggled the distribution of these resources in a way that allowed them to select the avenues of health care that provided the best degree of safety and protection of development within the context of their circumstances
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Cornish, M. E. (1995). The creation and development of an integrated nursing service within a rural commmunity health team: an action research study. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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De Vore, C. A. (1995). Independent midwifery practice: a critical social approach. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Kinross, D. N. J., Nevatt, E. A., Boddy, J. M., & North, N. (1987). A nurse in an urban community: a process study. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Paterson(now Fleming), B. L. (1989). Making a difference: the lived world of nursing practice in an acute care setting. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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
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Forbes, H. I. (1990). Nursing students' perceptions of their education. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Fowlie, L. G. (1997). Gastric tube placement in neonates. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Beale, T. M. (1995). Psychiatric nurses: the influence of their personal life experiences on therapeutic readiness. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: This research investigates the impact of fifteen psychiatric nurses' personal experiences on their therapeutic relationships with clines. A hermeneutic phenomenological methodology informed by Heidegger is employed to gain an understanding of the human experience of these nurses in the context of the therapeutic relationship.The research illuminates the significant impact of these nurses' experiences on their relationships. Some experiences are found to enhance therapeutic readiness while the other personal experiences impede it, some impeding it to a degree that nurses are unable to work therapeutically with certain clients. The stories that describe the personal experiences that lead towards therapeutic readiness care special, as are the accounts of the professionalism and care that these nurses bring to their clients
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Wilson, K. F. (1995). Professional closure: the case of the professional development of nursing in Rotorua 1840 – 1934 (Vol. 13). Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Gallaher, L. (1997). Expert public health nursing practice: a complex tapestry. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Glen, J. (1996). The having-been-ness and the being-in-the-world of twin survivors. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Glick, C. L. (1988). An independent nurse practitioner in occupational health: is it feasible for New Zealand? Ph.D. thesis, , .
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McSherry, M. A. (1986). Childbirth in the Manawatu: women's perspectives. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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