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Ripekapaia Gloria Ryan; Wilson, Denise |
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Nga tukitanga mai koka ki tona ira : Maori mothers and child to mother violence |
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2010 |
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Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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26 |
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3 |
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25-35 |
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Indigenous women; Maori mothers; Child-to-mother violence; Kaupapa Maori; Support agencies |
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Explores the experiences of Maori mothers who have been abused by a son or daughter using a qualitative descriptive research design based on kaupapa Maori methodology. Conducts semi-structured interviews with five Maori mothers, recording their experiences of abuse by a child, and its impact on the whanau/family. Analyses the interview transcripts for common themes. Highlights the importance of nurses in facilitating whanau ora (family wellbeing). |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1459 |
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Crogan, Patricia Ann |
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Title |
Nurses' perceptions of their role in quality improvement change |
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2010 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
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156 p. |
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Quality control; Quality assurance; Registered Nurses; Hospitals; Surveys |
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Explores how nurses perceive quality improvement (QI) change, determines what is needed for nursing to further contribute to QI change and identifies the potential disconnect between the two. Undertakes a sequential, mixed-methods approach, using a questionnaire followed by a focus group representing 10 per cent of RNs at Middlemore Hospital. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1823 |
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Powell, Samantha |
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Title |
The older nurse in the workplace: retention or retirement |
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2010 |
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79 p. |
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Retention; Retirement; Older nurses; Aging workforce |
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Examines the issues facing the older nurse in NZ. Recruits two groups of Clinical/Charge Nurse Managers (CNM) in two District Health Boards (DHB) to interview about the issues confronting older nurses and the strategies they use to retain them. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1700 |
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Paddy, Ann |
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Ageing at work: the phenomenon of being an older experienced health professional |
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2010 |
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235 p. |
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Ageing; Employment; Older nurses; Nurse managers; Surveys |
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Interviews 14 participants, 10 older and experienced health professionals, and four managers. Describes the lived experience of health professionals ageing at work, and of the managers interacting with them. Demonstrates that the ability of older practitioners to adapt to meet the ongoing physical demands of practice and their shifting workplace environment determines whether they will be valued at work and remain in their roles. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1803 |
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Therkleson,T. |
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Title |
Ginger compress therapy for adults with osteoarthritis |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2010 |
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Journal of Advanced Nursing |
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66 |
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10 |
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2225?2233 |
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Ginger compress therapy; Giorgi?s method; nursing; osteoarthritis |
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Abstract
Aim. This paper is a report of a study to explicate the phenomenon of ginger
compresses for people with osteoarthritis.
Background. Osteoarthritis is claimed to be the leading cause of musculoskeletal
pain and disability in Western society. Management ideally combines non-pharmacological
strategies, including complementary therapies and pain-relieving
medication. Ginger has been applied externally for over a thousand years in China
to manage arthritis symptoms.
Method. Husserlian phenomenological methodology was used and the data were
collected in 2007. Ten purposively selected adults who had suffered osteoarthritis
for at least a year kept daily diaries and made drawings, and follow-up interviews
and telephone conversations were conducted.
Findings. Seven themes were identified in the data: (1) Meditative-like stillness
and relaxation of thoughts; (2) Constant penetrating warmth throughout the
body; (3) Positive change in outlook; (4) Increased energy and interest in the
world; (5) Deeply relaxed state that progressed to a gradual shift in pain and
increased interest in others; (6) Increased suppleness within the body and (7)
More comfortable, flexible joint mobility. The essential experience of ginger
compresses exposed the unique qualities of heat, stimulation, anti-inflammation
and analgesia.
Conclusion. Nurses could consider this therapy as part of a holistic treatment for
people with osteoarthritis symptoms. Controlled research is needed with larger
numbers of older people to explore further the effects of the ginger compress
therapy. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1346 |
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McClunie-Trust, P |
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Title |
Negotiating Boundaries: The Nurse Family Member Caring for Her Own Relative in Palliative Care |
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2010 |
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Victoria University Library |
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Palliative care; boundaries; patient-family relations |
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This research illuminates the challenges of living well within one's own family as a nurse caring for her own relative who is dying of a cancer-related illness. Developing a deeper awareness of the consequences of this caring work has been the central focus for inquiry in this research. Nursing requires epistemologies that encompass new ways of understanding how we live within our own families and communities and practice as nurses. The theoretical framework that guides this research interprets the French Philosopher Michel Foucault's (1926-1984) critical history of thought as an ethical project for nursing. It uses conceptual tools developed in his later writing and interviews to draw attention to how discursive knowledge and practices constitute subjectivity in relations of truth, power and the self's relation to the self. The first aspect of the analysis, landscapes of care examines the techniques of discourse as relations of power and knowledge that constitute nurse family members as subjects who have relationships with their own families and other health professionals. The second aspect analyses care of the self and others as self work undertaken to form the self as a particular kind of subject and achieve mastery over one's thoughts and actions.As an exploration of the complex and contradictory subjectivities of the nurse family member, this research illuminates the forms and limits of nursing practice knowledge. It shows how nursing is practised, and the identity of the nurse is created, through intellectual, political and relational work, undertaken on the self in relation to others, as modes of ethical engagement. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1350 |
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Author |
Carter, Lynn J |
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Am I doing the right thing?: Plunket Nurses' experience in making decisions to report suspected child abuse and neglect |
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Year |
2010 |
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144 p. |
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Child abuse; Child neglect; Community nursing; Plunket nurses; Ethics; Surveys |
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Studies the experiences of Plunket Nurses reporting suspected child abuse and/or neglect in uncertain situations, using hermeneutic phenomenology. Selects a purposeful sample to ensure participants could provide rich data through semi-structured, face-to-face and recorded telephone interviews. Guides data analysis using the framework developed by van Manen to formulate meaning from participant experiences. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1781 |
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Author |
Therkleson, T. |
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Title |
A phenomenological study of ginger compress therapy for people with osteoarthritis |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2010 |
Publication |
The Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology |
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10 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
1-10 |
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Keywords |
Ginger compress therapy; osteoarthritis |
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This paper claims rigour and sensitivity for a methodology used to explore multiple sources of data and expose the essential characteristics of a phenomenon in the human sciences. A descriptive phenomenological methodology was applied in a study of the experience of ten people with osteoarthritis receiving ginger compress therapy. The application of the phenomenological attitude, with reduction, bracketing and imaginative variation, allowed multiple sources of data-written, pictorial and oral – to be explicated. The applied methodology used is described in this paper, with its six clearly defined illustrated by examples from the study. The findings demonstrate that phenomenological reduction enabled an indication of the potential benefits of ginger compress treatment as a therapy for people with osteoarthritis. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1344 |
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Author |
Gibbison, B. |
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Are we there yet?: Factors associated with, and experiences of, weight maintenance in the Adult Weight Management Programme in the Waikato |
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Year |
2010 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
NZNO Library |
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132 pp |
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Keywords |
Weight loss; Obesity |
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A research portfolio submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Nursing, the University of Auckland, 2010.
Sustained weight loss maintenance is a constant challenge, especially for morbidly obese individuals who have tried and failed repeatedly. Why is it then, that some individuals are successful whilst others are not so successful? This two-phase sequential, mixed methods study sought to identify and gain insight into the factors associated with successful weight loss maintenance for participants in an adult weight management programme in the Waikato. Success appeared to be independent of age, gender, ethnicity, domicile, employment status and the presence of co-morbities.
Four major themes emerged:
- “Actions speak louder than words – just do it” (Following a lower energy diet, having higher levels of physical activity, regular self weighing, and vigilance in adjusting their behaviours based on the results)
- Routines were also important in supporting the changed behaviours
- What's it worth to me
- Valuing the achievements associated with lesser weight was seen as another important factor of success |
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1342 |
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