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0000-0001-9472-818X
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University of South Australia
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-1993
DOI: 10.5172/CONU.2.2.68
Abstract: An exploration of the ersity and complexity of perspectives from which holism and care can legitimately be constructed. The preparation of a document for accreditation of a proposed pre-registration Bachelor of Nursing award was the impetus for this exploration. School members deemed holism and care to be central to our philosophy of nursing statement, however, difficulty arose in determining a shared understanding of these notions. Through reflective deliberation and a review of the literature, the authors attempted to unravel the range of meanings given to these problematic terms.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-08-2018
DOI: 10.1002/AJS4.50
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2007
DOI: 10.1016/S1322-7696(08)60542-9
Abstract: There is substantial evidence that Specialist Breast Nurses (SBNs) make an important contribution to improved outcomes for women with breast cancer, by providing information and support and promoting continuity of care. However, a recent study has identified significant variation in how the role functions across in idual nurses and settings, which is likely to contribute to varied outcomes for women with breast cancer. The project reported in this paper illustrates how a set of competency standards for SBNs were developed by the National Breast Cancer Centre. The competency standards were developed through a review of published literature and consultation with key stakeholders. The resulting SBN Competency Standards reflect the core domains and elements of SBN practice seen as integral to achieving optimal outcomes for women with breast cancer. This project identifies the SBN as a registered nurse who applies advanced knowledge of the health needs, preferences and circumstances of women with breast cancer to optimise the in idual's health and well-being at various phases across the continuum of care, including diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, follow-up and palliative care. The five core domains of practice identified are: Supportive care Collaborative care Coordinated care Information provision and education and Clinical leadership. A variety of education programs are currently available for nurses who wish to learn about breast cancer nursing. The majority of stakeholders consulted in this project agreed that a Graduate Diploma level of education is required at minimum in order for an SBN to develop the minimum level of competence required to perform the role. The evidence supports the view that as an advanced role, nurses practising as SBNs require high-quality programs of sufficient depth and scope to achieve the required level of competence.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-1997
DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-2648.1997.1997025668.X
Abstract: Policy is an integral part of nursing. At the organisational level, policies are constantly developed in a seemingly endless quest to provide more effective and efficient nursing services and outcomes. Such an increasing generation of policy appears to rest on the taken-for-granted assumption by nurses that policy is essential for good nursing practice. However, is it necessarily the case that the generation of policy documents advances the practice of nursing? Rather, does the apparent uncritical adoption of the role of policy by nurses actually serve to further regulate, control, and even limit the practice of nursing? This paper uses a critical perspective to explore nursing policy. In so doing it exposes the effect of policy on the construction and maintenance of everyday understandings of nursing practice.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2005
DOI: 10.1080/13561820400021742
Abstract: This paper presents findings from a project conducted to recommend a national framework for mentoring for general practice nurses in Australia. The first phase identified challenges and key issues the second and third phases (reported here) engaged practice nurses and general medical practitioners in discussion to advance thinking on the topic. Outcomes revolved around seven core areas: role confusion and ersity of practice nursing lack of a defined career pathway for practice nurses professional isolation of practice nurses need for general practitioner support expectations of mentoring importance of resourcing and infrastructure and roles, skills and qualities of mentors. Implications of these for the development of a systemic approach to supporting nurses in general practice are discussed, taking into account the inter-professional context and special working relationship between nurses and doctors. Findings revealed keen support for the idea of mentoring for nurses in general practice and indicate success will depend on appropriate resourcing and infrastructure through national, state and local coordination processes.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2005
DOI: 10.1016/S1322-7696(08)60488-6
Abstract: This paper reports the findings of a research project designed to identify national issues impacting on the development of a mentoring framework for nurses in general practice in Australia. The project comprised the first phase of a three-phase study commissioned by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing to develop a contemporary, flexible and sustainable mentoring framework that enhances the capacity of nurses to contribute to general practice outcomes. Key stakeholders and influential informants from around Australia were brought together via a national teleconference to identify issues surrounding the development of such a framework. Outcomes focussed on major themes concerning choice, relationships, structures and resources. Here, we consider the issues and challenges identified in light of some contemporary case studies from outside the field of nursing in the hope of sparking new ideas and strategies. A case study from an Australian practice nurse is included. No research has been conducted on mentoring for nurses in general practice in Australia to date, highlighting an urgent need for new models and their evaluation.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-1996
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2001
DOI: 10.1046/J.1440-1800.2001.00098.X
Abstract: Medication management is a part of everyday nursing practice. In carrying out this aspect of their role, nurses are subject to a range of practices and procedures, which are dictated through legal, management and medical requirements to ensure safe administration of medications. The literature addresses a range of areas related to the nurse's role in medication management, including knowledge required by nurses, practices and procedures related to administration, procedures for identifying and reducing errors and measuring error rates, and professional and ethical issues. The literature is a part of the discursive ensemble of nursing - as a written text it contributes to how nurses and colleagues construct and view nursing practice. This paper presents a discursive reading of that literature, exploring how nurses are positioned in relation to medication errors. I argue that the voice of nursing is mostly heard through discourses of biomedical science, law and management and draw on the work of Michel Foucault to illustrate some of the ways in which these discourses shape nursing practice.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-1996
DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-2648.1996.02435.X
Abstract: Collaborative research has much to offer nursing. However, the collaborative research process is fraught with issues arising from the 'politics of collaboration'. Such politics operate at the in idual and institutional levels and can have debilitating effects on the research enterprise if they are not dealt with. This paper explores what is meant by collaboration and the politics of collaboration. Drawing on a critical perspective, it uses Brookfield's themes of impostorship, cultural suicide and roadrunning as the theoretical framework for the analysis. The paper uses an actual collaborative research project to ground the discussion provided.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 19-11-2012
Abstract: Drawing from a wider study exploring the role of registered nurses (RNs) in managing hospital care of older people, I present an analysis of some discursive mechanisms through which an enterprising nursing subjectivity was cultivated in RNs working in an Australian hospital. Data comprised information from the hospital Web site, policy documents, job descriptions, and interviews with 26 RNs. The analysis highlighted how texts such as nursing vision statements and job descriptions were not neutral or innocuous, but mechanisms that in idually and collectively specified norms of enterprising conduct for RNs working in that hospital. Although the findings detailed how entrepreneurial rationalities and discourses governing health care actively transformed the meaning and practice of nursing, they also illustrated how factors such as role location and ward culture diluted the take up of enterprise discourses, suggesting that it was not possible to guarantee RNs as particular kinds of enterprising subjects.
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