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Action Research: Improving My Music Therapy Practice with Hospitalised Adolescents through Building Relationships and Meeting their Developmental Needs

Wang, Tzu-ya (Lisa) (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

This study examines the researcher's music therapy intervention with hospitalised adolescents within a paediatric hospital The hospital is located in a New Zealand city serving a broad multicultural population of mainly ...
Acute Hypercarbia in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): Presentations to a New Zealand Emergency Department

Turnwald, Anton Brett (Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is the presence of chronic bronchitis or emphysema, which causes a progressive airway obstruction, characterised by airway hyperactivity (Palm & Decker 2003). In New Zealand ...
Adolescent Interrupted: the Experience of Adolescents Living with Ostomy

Garthwaite, Susan Carole (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

This study explores the experiences of four adults who reflect upon their experiences, retrospectively, of being an adolescent living with an ostomy. A narrative research approach guided the collection and analysis of ...
Advocating Practice: the Role of the Community Oncology Nurse

Southgate, Deborah G (Victoria University of Wellington, 2002)

The oncology nurse, along with many other expert practitioners, has a vital role within the community, and due to the many changes within the health system, it will be an even more crucial role in the future. Little is ...
As a Nurse in the Family: Three Women's Stories of What it Means for a Female Nurse to be a Caregiver to a Family Member Who is Ill, Elderly or with an Enduring Illness

Rochford, Nola Marie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2004)

In this research three female registered nurses relived their experiences of being caregiver to a family member who was ill, elderly or with an enduring illness and explored whether they chose, or felt obligated, to assume ...
Autoethnographic Journey to Discover the Heart and Art of My Nursing Practice

Kimble, Peter John (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

This thesis presents an autoethnographic study of the concept of 'compassionate listening' within my general and palliative care practice. I examined my care for people in critical life course moments to gain insight ...
The Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative Implementing the Process in New Zealand

Jackson, Christine (Victoria University of Wellington, 2005)

The Baby Friendly Initiative is a global initiative jointly with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations (UNICEF). The Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative has become the primary intervention strategy for ...
"Back From the Edge of the World": Re-Authoring a Story of Practice with Stress and Trauma Using Gestalt Theories and Narrative Approaches

Pack, Margaret (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

The aim of this article is to offer an ongoing reflection of the difficulties of working with trauma survivors within mental health agencies which provide brief models of intervention. The dilemma of how to work safely, ...
Becoming a Homebirther, Smooth Sailing or Rocky Road? An Exploration of Pakeha Women's Experience on the Path to Homebirth

Ozturk, Kassandra Jane Littlejohn (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

This study explores the experiences of primiparous women on the path to planning the homebirth of their first child. There are many challenges along the way and although there are many supports, society does not generally ...
Being and Becoming an Exemplary Nurse - an Authentic Journey

Noble-Adams, Rae (Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)

The aims of this study were to illuminate the joint constructions of exemplary nurses and their lived experiences of being and becoming one. Inherent in being ‘exemplary’ was the notion of ‘becoming’, which involved the ...
Being confident in practice: A study on the influences on confidence in new graduate nurses

Greenlees-Rae, Joanne (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

The purpose of this study was to understand influences on new graduate nurses’ confidence in their nursing practice. Confidence is a self-belief that an affirmative outcome will be achieved in a situation, and is influenced ...
The Benefits and Challenges of One New Zealand Nursing Undergraduate Clinical Education Model: a Case Study

Sims, Deborah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2004)

This research project has utilised a case study approach to give ward managers a voice in the literature, by exploring and describing from their perspective the benefits and challenges of one particular nursing undergraduate ...
Blood, Sweat and Tears: Women as Nurses Nursing Women in the Gynaecology Ward - a Feminist Interpretive Study

Huntington, Annette Diana (Victoria University of Wellington, 1999)

This feminist study is an exploration of the subjectivity of women working as nurses within the gynaecological ward. Gynaecology has a long history as a unique area of concern to the health practitioners of any given period. ...
Body Boundaries and Discursive Practices in Life Threatening Illness: Narratives of the Self

McClunie-Trust, Patricia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2000)

This thesis tells a story from within and between the boundaries of my professional work as a nurse and my private life as the wife of a patient with life threatening illness. The events related in the thesis are told using ...
'Can Mummy Come Too?' Rhetoric and Realities of 'Family-Centred Care' in One New Zealand Hospital, 1960-1990.

Chenery, Kim Therese (Victoria University of Wellington, 2001)

The development of ‘family-centred care’ began in the United Kingdom during the 1950s and 1960s in response to ‘expert’ concern for the child as an ‘emotional’ being. John Bowlby’s maternal deprivation thesis suggested ...
Caring and Bioethics: Perspectives, Predicaments and Possibilities

Cleary, Helen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2001)

This thesis presents an explorative study of the place of caring in bioethics. Through the examination of various sources of literature from the disciplines of nursing, feminist theory and ethics, and bioethics, a case is ...
Caring for People with Mental Health Problems Who Present at the Emergency Department: a Nurse Educator's Journey

Thompson, Charlotte (Victoria University of Wellington, 2005)

The New Zealand Emergency Department (ED) nurse is faced daily with the challenge of caring for patients of all ages with a wide variety of presenting complaints. Courses are available for ED specialty work such as trauma ...
Change, Choice and Difference: the Case of RN to BN Degree Programmes for Registered Nurses

Smith, Tina Lynette (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

Bachelor of Nursing (BN) programmes for Registered Nurses (RNs) were developed in New Zealand in the 1990s. With the introduction of pre-registration degree programmes, transition arrangements that recognised the prior ...
Childbirth: a Momentous Occasion Muslim Women's Childbirth Experiences

Mitchell, Khurshid (Victoria University of Wellington, 2001)

This thesis explores the perception of three Muslim women’s experience of childbirth, in a setting surrounded by health professionals who largely have little understanding of their needs and experience of being in the ...
Chosen Moments: a Reflective Journey Illustrating Terminally Ill Patients Choosing the Moment to Die

Maries, Viona Jane (Victoria University of Wellington, 2004)

In this project the author reveals how she is observing and thinking as she cares for people who are dying. She records her reflections and insights and most profoundly reveals that there is life right up to the moment of ...