ERA Nursing Peer Reviewed Papers and Journal Articles Copyright (c) 2013 University of Notre Dame Australia All rights reserved. http://researchonline.nd.edu.au/era_nursing_article Recent documents in ERA Nursing Peer Reviewed Papers and Journal Articles en-us Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:34:28 PST 3600 Caring in a technological environment: how is this possible? http://researchonline.nd.edu.au/era_nursing_article/2 http://researchonline.nd.edu.au/era_nursing_article/2 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:02:21 PDT The purpose of this study was to develop a substantive theory explaining the process of nurse-patient interaction in the presence of technology. The grounded theory method was chosen to undertake this research. The study's informants consisted of nurses and patients.

The findings of the study indicated that the issue for nurses was that they were blocked in their person-centered interactions with patients in the presence of technology. This article will address one of the strategies nurses used to deal with this problem. This strategy was termed maximizing. Even after being blocked by various factors, nurses attempted to work within the constraints that caused them to be blocked, to achieve person-centered interactions. Maximizing was characterized by the nurses' added effort in trying to meet the humanistic needs of the patient in the presence of technology. The focus of the interaction was person-centred.

]]> Selma Alliex et al. Future perioperative registered nurses: an insight into a perioperative programme for undergraduate nursing students http://researchonline.nd.edu.au/era_nursing_article/1 http://researchonline.nd.edu.au/era_nursing_article/1 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:00:33 PST An Australian College of Operating Room Nurses (ACORN) submission (ACORN 2002-2008) recently stated that the specialities that suffered significantly from the transition of hospital-based nursing training to university training were the perioperative specialty, critical care and emergency. The main reason for this was that perioperative nursing was not included in the undergraduate nursing curriculum. Less than a handful of universities in Australia offer the subject as a compulsory unit. The University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA) is one of these universities. This paper will provide an insight into the perioperative nursing care unit embedded within the Bachelor of Nursing (BN) undergraduate curriculum.

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