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Carryer, J.B. |
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Title |
Embodied largeness: A significant women's health issue |
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Journal Article |
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2001 |
Publication |
Nursing Inquiry |
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Volume |
8 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
90-97 |
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Keywords |
Nurse-patient relations; Attitude of health personnel; Feminist critique |
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This paper describes a three-year long research project in which nine large-bodied women have engaged in a prolonged dialogue with the researcher about the experience of being 'obese'. The study involved an extensive review of the multidisciplinary literature that informs our understandings of body size. The literature review was shared with participants in order to support their critical understanding of their experience. The experience of participants raised questions as to how nursing could best provide health-care for large women. An examination of a wide range of literature pertinent to the area of study reveals widespread acceptance of the notion that to be thin is to be healthy and virtuous, and to be fat is to be unhealthy and morally deficient. According to the literature review, nurses have perpetuated an unhelpful and reductionist approach to their care of large women, in direct contradiction to nursing's supposed allegiance to a holistic approach to health-care. This paper suggests strategies for an improved response to women who are concerned about their large body size. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 941 |
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925 |
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Clendon, J.; White, G.E. |
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Title |
The feasibility of a nurse practitioner-led primary health care clinic in a school setting: A community needs analysis |
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Journal Article |
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2001 |
Publication |
Journal of Advanced Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
34 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
171-178 |
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Keywords |
Primary health care; Nurse managers; Advanced nursing practice; Community health nursing; School nursing |
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The aim of this study was to determine the feasibility of establishing a nurse practitioner-led, family focused, primary health care clinic within a New Zealand primary school environment as a means of addressing the health needs of children and families. A secondary aim was to ascertain whether public health nurses were the most appropriate nurses to lead such a clinic. Utilising a community needs analysis method, data were collected from demographic data, 17 key informant interviews and two focus group interviews. Analysis was exploratory and descriptive. Findings included the identification of a wide range of health issues. These included asthma management and control issues, the need to address poor parenting, and specific problems of the refugee and migrant population. Findings also demonstrated that participant understanding of the role of the public health nurse was less than anticipated and that community expectations were such that for a public health nurse to lead a primary health care clinic it would be likely that further skills would be required. Outcomes from investigating the practicalities of establishing a nurse practitioner-led clinic resulted in the preparation of a community-developed plan that would serve to address the health needs of children and families in the area the study was undertaken. Services that participants identified as being appropriate included health information, health education, health assessment and referral. The authors conclude that the establishment of a nurse practitioner-led, family focused, primary health care clinic in a primary school environment was feasible. While a public health nurse may fulfil the role of the nurse practitioner, it was established that preparation to an advanced level of practice would be required. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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952 |
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Author |
Johnstone, C. |
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Title |
Linking diet and respiratory distress |
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Journal Article |
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2001 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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Volume |
7 |
Issue |
5 |
Pages |
22-23 |
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Keywords |
Diet; Chronic diseases; District nursing |
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The author, a district nurse, describes the experiences of a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease requiring long-term oxygen therapy and characterised as a carbon dioxide retainer whose overall health was improved by a carbohydrate restricted diet. The literature on carbohydrate intake and respiratory disease is briefly reviewed. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1011 |
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Author |
Wright, R. |
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Title |
Linking theory with practice |
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Journal Article |
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2001 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
7 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
14-15 |
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Keywords |
Intensive care nursing; Nurse-family relations; Nursing models |
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This article describes the care of a brain-dead intensive care unit patient. The human caring theory of Jean Watson is used to interpret the interactions between family, patient and nurse in this case study. Watson's concepts of care are examined as they relate to each stage of caring for the patient and his family. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1012 |
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Author |
French, P. |
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Title |
Nursing registration: A time to celebrate? |
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Journal Article |
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2001 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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Volume |
7 |
Issue |
8 |
Pages |
17-19 |
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Keywords |
History of nursing; Interprofessional relations; Physicians; Nursing philosophy |
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This article examines the knowledge and power relationships between the medical profession and nurses during the first half of the twentieth century. It argues that the 1901 Nurses' Registration Act allowed doctors to exert control over the nursing profession and that the hierarchal structure of the profession contributes to the culture of control and surveillance. |
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Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1029 |
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1013 |
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Author |
Wilson, M. |
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Title |
Organisational psychopaths and our health culture |
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Journal Article |
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2001 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
7 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
27-29 |
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Keywords |
Nursing; Leadership; Organisational change |
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The author discusses recent research on organisational psychopaths, and suggests it offers an explanation for the state of the health system since managerialism was ushered in through health reforms. She identifies personality traits of organisational psychopaths and of aberrant self-promoters. The author gives her experience of changes to the structure of nursing at a North Island metropolitan public hospital over an 8-year period. |
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Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1030 |
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1014 |
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Author |
Skadiang, K. |
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Researching post-tonsillectomy bleeding |
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Journal Article |
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2001 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
7 |
Issue |
4 |
Pages |
22-23 |
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Keywords |
Surgery; Health status; Nursing |
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This article reports findings from an audit of post-tonsillectomy haemorrhage among patients at South Auckland Health from October 1998 to April 1999. All patients who underwent tonsillectomy or adenotonsillectomy were contacted by telephone, after the 14th day and before the 21st day following surgery. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1015 |
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Author |
Prentice, D.; Hathaway, M. |
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Title |
Responding to a death from meningococcal disease: A case study |
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Journal Article |
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2001 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
7 |
Issue |
5 |
Pages |
16-18 |
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Keywords |
Infectious diseases; Public health; Infection control |
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The public health nurses present a case study on adapting meningococcal disease public health protocols to work with the situation of a Cook Island family following the death of a member from meningococcal disease. They discuss the meningococcal disease epidemic in New Zealand and outline the signs and symptoms of the disease. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1016 |
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Author |
McKenna, B.; Poole, S. |
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Title |
Debating forensic mental health nursing [corrected] |
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Miscellaneous |
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2001 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
7 |
Issue |
6 |
Pages |
18-20 |
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Keywords |
Psychiatric Nursing; Law and legislation; Cross-cultural comparison; History of nursing |
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Forensic mental health nursing roles have developed along different lines in the United States and the United Kingdom. The authors suggest that New Zealand nurses consider the evolution of such roles here. |
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Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1043 |
Serial |
1027 |
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Author |
Webby, A. |
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Title |
Developing safe nursing practice for Maori |
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Journal Article |
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2001 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
7 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
16-17 |
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Keywords |
Maori; Psychiatric Nursing; Nursing models |
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A safe mental health nursing practice for Maori is defined as one that includes Maori ways of knowing. The author also notes that Maori mental health nurses must be given the ability to create their own practice to best meet their clients' needs. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1028 |
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Author |
Spence, D. |
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Title |
Experiencing difference in nursing |
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Journal Article |
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2001 |
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Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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Volume |
7 |
Issue |
5 |
Pages |
13-15 |
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Transcultural nursing; Nursing research |
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Draws on the author's doctoral thesis to examine the prejudices, paradoxes and possibilities inherent in nursing a person from a culture other than one's own. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1045 |
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1029 |
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Author |
Rameka, M. |
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Title |
Perioperative nursing practice & cultural safety |
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Journal Article |
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2001 |
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Dissector |
Abbreviated Journal |
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29 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
21-23 |
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Keywords |
Nursing specialties; Surgery; Cultural safety |
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This article is from a conference paper presented to the 12th World Conference on Surgical Patient Care. It presents cultural safety, as differentiated from transcultural nursing, and investigates how it relates to perioperative nursing. Examples are presented of how nurses can adhere to medical requirements, and address the cultural needs of Maori patients. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1084 |
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Author |
Wilson, H.V. |
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Title |
Power and partnership: A critical analysis of the surveillance discourses of child health nurses |
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Journal Article |
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2001 |
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Journal of Advanced Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
36 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
294-301 |
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Keywords |
Paediatric nursing; Nurse-family relations; Nursing philosophy; Plunket |
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The aim of this research was to explore surveillance discourses within New Zealand child health nursing and to identify whether surveillance practices have implications in this context for power relations. Five experienced and practising Plunket nurses were each interviewed twice. The texts generated by these semi-structured interviews were analysed using a Foucauldian approach to critical discourse analysis. In contrast with the conventional view of power as held and wielded by one party, this study revealed that, in the Plunket nursing context, power is exercised in various and unexpected ways. Although the relationship between the mother and the nurse cannot be said to operate as a partnership, it is constituted in the nurses' discourses as a dynamic relationship in which the mother is actively engaged on her own terms. The effect of this is that it is presented by the nurses as a precarious relationship that has significant implications for the success of their work. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1085 |
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Author |
Woods, M. |
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Title |
Balancing rights and duties in 'life and death' decision making involving children: A role for nurses? |
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Journal Article |
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2001 |
Publication |
Nursing Ethics |
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Volume |
8 |
Issue |
5 |
Pages |
397-408 |
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Keywords |
Parents and caregivers; Children; Ethics; Clinical decision making; Nurse-family relations; Chronically ill |
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This article examines a growing number of cases in New Zealand in which parents and guardians are required to make life and death ethical decisions on behalf of their seriously ill child. Increasingly, nurses and other practitioners are expected to more closely inform, involve and support the rights of parents or guardians in such situations. Differing moral and ethical values between the medical team and parents or guardians can lead to difficult decision making situations. The article analyses the moral parameters, processes, outcomes and ethical responses that must be considered when life and death ethical decisions involving children are made. It concludes with a recommendation that nurses should be recognised as perhaps the most suitable of all health care personnel when careful mediation is needed to produce an acceptable moral outcome in difficult ethical situations. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1086 |
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Author |
Crowe, M.; O'Malley, J.; Gordon, S. |
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Title |
Meeting the needs of consumers in the community: A working partnership in mental health in New Zealand |
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Journal Article |
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2001 |
Publication |
Journal of Advanced Nursing |
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Volume |
35 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
88-96 |
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Keywords |
Community health nursing; Psychiatric Nursing; Patient satisfaction; Mental health |
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The aim of this study was to evaluate whether the services that community mental health nurses provide are meeting the needs of consumers in the community. This was a joint project between nurses and consumers. It was a service-specific descriptive research project utilising qualitative methods of data collection and analysis that provides a model for working in partnership. The results of this research identify collaboration in planning care and sharing information as two areas of concern but generally the consumers were very satisfied with the care provided by community mental health nurses. The analysis of the data suggests that consumers value nursing care because nurses provide support in their own home; they help consumers develop strategies for coping with their illness and their life; they provide practical assistance when it is required; they are vigilant about any deterioration or improvement; and they are available and accessible. The results of this study have demonstrated that nurses will remain critical to the success of community-based care because of their ability and willingness to be flexible to the demands of their own organisation and the users of services. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1087 |
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