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Author McEldowney, R.A. openurl 
  Title Critical resistance in nursing education: a nurse educator's story Type
  Year (down) 1995 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Waikato Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 300 Serial 300  
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Author Dodd, J.E.L. openurl 
  Title Individual privacy and the public good of health research Type
  Year (down) 1995 Publication Abbreviated Journal Author  
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  Abstract This is a piece of philosophy research and covers the following matters; the nature of privacy, Why it is morally significant, nature of health research, the privacy issues in health research and finally some suggestions as to ways privacy in health research may be preserved  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 305 Serial 305  
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Author Litchfield, M.; Clarke, M.; Edwards, R.; Richardson, F.; Tansley, R.; Woodman, K. openurl 
  Title A description of the needs of people with cancer and support people Type
  Year (down) 1995 Publication Abbreviated Journal Author, Wellington Division of the Cancer Society  
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  Abstract The report of a research project commissioned by the Wellington Division of the New Zealand Cancer Society to provide a foundation for policy to give direction to development of its services. The research approach and methodology had an ecological theory foundation. It involved a survey and in-depth interviews with people with cancer and those caring for them to understand their experience. Needs were identified from the data and presented according to three distinct phases in the course of living with cancer. People moved from the shock of diagnosis, through the time of treatment when usual living was suspended and focus narrowed on the intensive fight against the disease, then into a very different phase of on-going ?wait-and-see? time requiring a new way of living with uncertainty for both patient and carers. The last phase was where most of the unmet needs lay. Recommendations were made for services to provide a continuous caring relationship for patients and carers with a knowledgeable person from the point of diagnosis.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 387  
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Author Blanchard, D.L. openurl 
  Title Nursing practice in the changing health care environment “just keep going until you see it right” Type
  Year (down) 1995 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 410 Serial 410  
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Author Bland, M.F. openurl 
  Title Challenging the myths: the lived experience of chronic leg ulcers Type
  Year (down) 1994 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
  Volume 2 Issue 3 Pages 13-14  
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  Abstract This phenomenological study explored the experiences of five men and four women whose lives have been shaped by chronic leg ulcers. It reveals the suffering that accompanies these wounds, and challenges health professionals to move from a focus on wound management to understanding the realities of chronic illness experience  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 160 Serial 160  
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Author Rodgers, J.A. openurl 
  Title A paradox of power and marginality: New Zealand nurses' professional campaign during war, 1900 – 1920 Type
  Year (down) 1994 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 176 Serial 176  
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Author Woods, M. openurl 
  Title Nursing ethics education and contemporary concerns: a reflective report Type
  Year (down) 1994 Publication Abbreviated Journal Manawatu Polytechnic Library; Massey University Li  
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  Abstract This report builds upon previous research undertaken in 1992 entitled 'the ethical preparation and practice of nurses: a pilot research project'. The overall aim was to compare new data with the results and tentative conclusions of the earlier research. Following two years of data gathering and analysis and discussions with diverse groups of experienced nurses, the conclusions of the earlier study were re-appraised in light of the contemporary developments in nursing ethics. The main conclusion of the research was that several nurses already possessed an ethic that was appropriate for their practice, but that it was unrecognised by other health professionals  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 186 Serial 186  
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Author Boyle, S.D. openurl 
  Title Nursing education in New Zealand: a case study of experiential learning Type
  Year (down) 1994 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library & Welli  
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  Abstract This thesis presents a study of a nursing 'practicum' from the perspectives of nursing students and staff 'buddies'. A grounded theory approach was used to interview six nursing students during their transition placement, the final practicum of their Diploma in Nursing programme. Five staff nurse buddies selected by the students were also interviewed. An informal, conversational interview was used and data was analysed from an experiential learning perspective.This study differs from others because it focuses on the clinical experience component of nursing education, 'practicum', and includess practitioners viewpoints. At present there is a re-evaluing of experience within nursing education with a new emphasis on practice-based learning. Experience-based learning is becoming increasingly acceptable within academia as a 'seamless' education system evolves.I identified three learning stages which students' experience during practicum – initiation, exploration and consolidation. The key stage for learning through experience was exploration. Learning during this stage was predominantly buddy-directed which contradicted the self-directed curriculum design. Students and staff nurses however agreed that communication between them during this stage enabled the development of 'competence'.The learning /teaching approach used by the students and staff nurses made it difficult for students to translate their 'all-round' competencies during practicum. It is argued that it is the useof such competencies during practicum which enable nursing students to become autonomous in the attitudinal and epistemological sense. The predominantly 'technical training' approach adopted was understood by students and staff nurses to be reinforced by 'silence' from tutors.Restructuring gives the opportunity for nursing to develop an ';investigative', enquiry-based approach in practice. There will increasingly be an emphasis on practice-based research as a result of the implementation of degree and post-graduate programmes in nursing. This study highlights some aspects of nursing education and it's relationship with practice which can assist the development of such an approach  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 339 Serial 339  
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Author van Wissen, K.A.; Woodman, K. openurl 
  Title Nurses' attitudes and concerns to HIV/AIDS: a focus group approach Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 1994 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 20 Issue 6 Pages 1141-1147  
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  Abstract An exploratory qualitative study was investigated to further identify nurses'' attitudes to the care of people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodefiency syndrome (AIDS). This follows as a sequel to a study using questionnaire. Data collected from nine focus groups attended by a total of 29 nurses at a hospital within a new Zealand regional health authority. The principal findings suggest that nurses' attitudes to this patient group are varied and depend on social influences, personal experiences and the extent of knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS. Other concerns raised included nurses' rights to choose to care for HIV-positive patients and the issue of universal precautions. Theses findings may have implications for further educational initiatives and information of hospital policy  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 356 Serial 356  
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Author Litchfield, M.; McCombie, M.-L. openurl 
  Title The introduction of an advanced nurse practitioner role in mental health: report of the evaluation research undertaken for the Mental Health Service of Capital Coast Health Ltd Type
  Year (down) 1994 Publication Abbreviated Journal Chief Nurse Advisor, Ministry of Health, PO Box 50  
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  Abstract The study was commissioned to define the role of Advanced Nurses Practitioner to inform the establishment of a clinical career pathway. Four new, loosely defined ANP positions were created and the role evolution over three months was described. The impact on the multidisciplinary team functioning was to be given particular attention. The research design was developed in collaboration with the ANP Project Team of the service. Data were derived from surveys of nurses in the units and other staff before and at the end of the 3 months period; interviews with the ANPs and official client advocates; daily journals and weekly logs kept by the ANPs; statistical records of patient loads and staffing. The findings presented the role as the interface of unit management and direct client care, with the ANPs orchestrating the activities of the unit. The ANPs developed the role differently according to quite distinct conceptualisations of nursing which influenced whether direct client care was pivotal or peripheral to the role. This had an effect on whether the strains of the service were seen as inhibitory of focal to the development of the ANP practice. There was little change in unit staff satisfaction. Attempts to incorporate client advocacy to determine change in client satisfaction were unsuccessful. The ANPs used the research as a process of role development  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 386 Serial 386  
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Author Litchfield, M.; Connor, M.; Eathorne, T.; Laws, M.; McCombie, M.-L.; Smith, S. openurl 
  Title Family nurse practice in a nurse management scheme: a pilot service study for the health reforms Type
  Year (down) 1994 Publication Abbreviated Journal Centre for Initiative in Nursing & Health Care, P.  
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  Abstract The independently funded 10 month pilot project demonstrated the autonomy of nursing practice for a new role family nurse. The findings were presented as the health experience of families in strife with complex health circumstances, a description of a beginning model for the nursing practice that addressed the needs of these families as their circumstances changed over time, and its cost-effectiveness. A caseload of nineteen families was found to be optimum. The evaluation research continued throughout as a form of praxis expressed as health patterning, a methodology developed in previous research (Litchfield, 1993). The family nurse'spractice demonstrated qualities common to all nurses: the caring relationship and fiscal responsibility. The unique practice was characterised by a professional partnership of limited duration: the families referred to the service in a predicament of strife, trapped in the immediate present, gained a view to a future, moved towards assuming control over health circumstances, seeking and using services with discernment, and increasing community as family/group members and citizens. Cost containment was achieved through: a) development of a co-operative approach amongst family members, between families and professionals, and amongst all health workers, and b) the families discerning use of services by anticipating a future. Through one family case, cost of saving over the 7 months with the family nurse was estimated as $4000, a possible saving of $16000 over 13 months if the family nurse had been involved earlier, and projected savings in the long term of over a million dollars. The satisfaction of clients, nurses and professionals was shown. The service was positioned within the new health system of health reforms  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 389 Serial 389  
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Author Henderson, A.P. openurl 
  Title Nursing a colonial hangover: towards bicultural planning in New Zealand Type
  Year (down) 1994 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 409 Serial 409  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title Viewpoint: Telling nursing stories Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 1994 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 2 Issue 4 Pages 28  
  Keywords Nursing research; Ethics; Patient rights  
  Abstract A brief critique and comment on the ethical implications of nurse researchers using methodology that involves soliciting personal experiences of patients and subsequently publishing them as stories.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1321  
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Author Litchfield, M.; Connor, M.; Eathorne, T.; Laws, M.; McCrombie,; Smith, S. openurl 
  Title Direction for nursing practice and service delivery in the New Zealand health reforms. Report of the pilot study of the Wellington professional nurse care management project Type
  Year (down) 1993 Publication Abbreviated Journal Nursing Library. Victoria University, Wellington  
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  Abstract Nursing practice as the process of health patterning with families in complex health circumstances was made explicit through a method of research praxis. Findings include cost in relation to quality of Nursing care. The research provides direction for development of integrated health care with the introduction of the family Nurse in a Nurse Care Management Scheme  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 48 Serial 48  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title The process of health patterning in families with young children who have been repeatedly hospitalised Type
  Year (down) 1993 Publication Abbreviated Journal Author, University of Minnesota Library  
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  Abstract An exploration of the nature of nursing knowledge in practice. The praxis methodology was inspired by the Newman's theory of health as expanding consciousness and evolved through the process of the research. The methodology was eventually presented as both the process of research and practice. Five families were visited in their homes five times to talk about what was going on for them. All were experiencing a time of great upheaval in family life. After three visits a summary text was constructed merging researcher statements and parent quotes and given to the families. Through the subsequent reflective discussion significant insights into family pattern were shown in statements of intended action to change how health matters were managed with greater facility in family living. The process was presented as five themes with descriptors representing a non-linear, discontinuous progression: A moment of partnership: parameters of entry and closure, a timing of upheaval in family life, and an in-forming capacity through the bringing together of family story-telling and researcher's theory. An evolving dialogue: a progressive flow of enfolding and unfolding, and its embeddedness in contexts of socio-economic status, gender and health care culture. Recognising pattern: incidental revelations and an all-encompassing insight as the potential for action. Expanding horizon: moving from being on a treadmill trapped in the present without vision to having a view to a future, the presence of past and future. Increasing connectedness: a sense of inclusion, inter-dependence and generally, transformation in family life. This was a framework for personal practice  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 121 Serial 121  
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