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Am I doing the right thing? Plunket nurses' experience in making decisions to report suspected child abuse and neglect
Full text linkSuspected child abuse and neglect is not a new phenomenon in community nursing. Child abuse and/or neglect is prevalent globally and is a major community concern. Plunket Nurses have a primary responsibility to protect the health and well being of the women and children with whom they come into contact. Detecting suspected child abuse and/or neglect and making decisions to report to Child, Youth and Family, New Zealand’s Statutory Agency, is difficult. There are professional, legal, ethical and moral complexities in this work. Boyne (2003) states that there has not been enough research about what it is like to work with and manage risks in child protection work. This study set out to report these experiences in view of understanding them and finding possible gaps in literature, policy, and education.
Hermeneutic phenomenology was the methodology thought most appropriate to study the experiences of Plunket Nurses making decisions to report suspected child abuse and/or neglect in uncertain situations. A purposeful sample was selected to ensure participants were able to provide rich data that was captured in semi-structured, face to face and telephone recorded interviews. Data analysis was guided by the framework developed by van Manen (1990) to formulate meaning from participant experiences. Four major themes developed.
Ethical considerations were extensively explored due to the sensitive nature of the study. Management of possible ethical situation have been described, with a planned approach to an ongoing consent process throughout the data collection. The results have identified gaps in the literature, Plunket policy and the educational needs of Plunket Nurses. Opportunities for future research are suggested
'Plunket plus common sense': women and the Plunket Society, 1940 - 1960
No full textThis thesis examines the involvement of women in the Plunket Society between 1940 and 1960. Women's involvement in the Society has often been submerged in discussions of the Plunket Society. An emphasis on the writings of Truby King has taken much of the focus away from the women of the Society who were involved in it on a day to day level. This thesis examines in turn the relationship between the Society and women as mothers, committee members, nurses, administrators and professionals.
At the beginning of the period Plunket Nurses saw 78 per cent of European babies; by the end of the period this number had risen to almost 90 per cent. This thesis attempts to explain how and why the Society achieved such an exceptional coverage during this period.
The thesis has looked at the Society primarily through the eyes of the women involved with it, and uses both oral history and contemporary comment to examine how the Society worked and the impact that it had on women's lives, families and communities.
This thesis will argue that women had agency in the way they experienced the Society: mothers negotiated the messages they received from the Plunket Society; committee members, nurses and the women at the national level of the organisation changing and altering the Society and the message that it delivered to those mothers. This thesis will argue that the Plunket Society was not something 'done to', or imposed on, women. Women did not simply react, enthusiastically or otherwise, to the institution of Plunket, they were the Plunket Society
Negotiating infant welfare : the Plunket Society in the interwar period
Full text linkvi, 139 leaves :ill. ; 30 cm. Bibliography: leaves [134]-139.This thesis considers the Plunket Society during the interwar period. The Plunket Society, a voluntary infant welfare organisation in New Zealand, was established in 1907 to 'help the mothers and save the babies'. Plunket pushed motherhood into the public sphere, providing advice on 'scientific motherhood' through a home visiting scheme, mother and baby care centres and advice literature. This thesis is concerned with the process by which the Plunket Society became the contested domain of infant welfare reformers, nurses, the medical profession and the Health Department in the interwar period.
This thesis provides an institutional history of the Plunket Society within three intertwining themes: the Society's relationships with the state, the medical profession, and the development of its own organisational structures. It studies the impact of the Government's endorsement of the Plunket Society in the 1920s and 1930s, particularly the benefits and limits of closer relations with the Health Department. From its establishment the Society relied on Truby King's authority and this thesis traces the internal politics of the Plunket Society in a period of transition from the charismatic leadership of its founder to a more bureaucratic system by the end of the 1930s. At the same time - and complicating the period of transition - medical research on infant health developed rapidly and New Zealand's child-health specialists challenged the Society's artificial infant feeding prescriptions and dominance over infant welfare in the interwar period. King's methods had become institutionalised by the 1930s and this, combined with the limits of its internal structures, shaped the Society’s response to pressure from the medical profession to modernise its methods.
This thesis concludes that despite considerable internal upheaval, and external pressure from the Health Department and the medical profession, the Plunket Society's prescriptions and services changed little over the interwar period. Despite constant challenges the Plunket Society grew into a truly nationwide organisation which dominated infant welfare in New Zealand in the interwar years
Negotiating infant welfare : the Plunket Society in the interwar period
No full textvi, 139 leaves :ill. ; 30 cm. Bibliography: leaves [134]-139.This thesis considers the Plunket Society during the interwar period. The Plunket Society, a voluntary infant welfare organisation in New Zealand, was established in 1907 to 'help the mothers and save the babies'. Plunket pushed motherhood into the public sphere, providing advice on 'scientific motherhood' through a home visiting scheme, mother and baby care centres and advice literature. This thesis is concerned with the process by which the Plunket Society became the contested domain of infant welfare reformers, nurses, the medical profession and the Health Department in the interwar period.
This thesis provides an institutional history of the Plunket Society within three intertwining themes: the Society's relationships with the state, the medical profession, and the development of its own organisational structures. It studies the impact of the Government's endorsement of the Plunket Society in the 1920s and 1930s, particularly the benefits and limits of closer relations with the Health Department. From its establishment the Society relied on Truby King's authority and this thesis traces the internal politics of the Plunket Society in a period of transition from the charismatic leadership of its founder to a more bureaucratic system by the end of the 1930s. At the same time - and complicating the period of transition - medical research on infant health developed rapidly and New Zealand's child-health specialists challenged the Society's artificial infant feeding prescriptions and dominance over infant welfare in the interwar period. King's methods had become institutionalised by the 1930s and this, combined with the limits of its internal structures, shaped the Society’s response to pressure from the medical profession to modernise its methods.
This thesis concludes that despite considerable internal upheaval, and external pressure from the Health Department and the medical profession, the Plunket Society's prescriptions and services changed little over the interwar period. Despite constant challenges the Plunket Society grew into a truly nationwide organisation which dominated infant welfare in New Zealand in the interwar years
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