Browsing Doctoral Theses by Thesis Supervisor "Spence, Deb"
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Critical Thinking in Nursing: A Critical Discourse Analysis of a Perpetual Paradox
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)The term ‘critical thinking’ has conflicting definitions in nursing. Controversy stems from debates about what is involved in the thinking process that makes it ‘critical’. For some, it is an analytical linear problem ... -
Everything Matters: Exposing the Complexity of Stakeholder Collaboration in Clinical Education for Undergraduate Nursing Students
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)The question asked in this study is how do stakeholders collaborate to support the development of clinical competence in undergraduate nursing students in the acute care setting? In 2015, a Bachelor of Health Science ... -
Exploring the teacher-student relationship in teacher education: a hermeneutic phenomenological inquiry
(Auckland University of Technology, 2008)The relationship between teacher and student has always been a central interest of the educational process. While the nature of this relationship can be understood from various theoretical frameworks, research that seeks ... -
A hermeneutic exploration of mindfulness psychology
(Auckland University of Technology, 2012)This thesis explores the theory and practice of mindfulness within the context of clinical psychology. Informed by philosophical hermeneutics, it seeks to understand (1) mindfulness, (2) how mindfulness works and (3) how ... -
How Are Post-birth Reflective Conversations Experienced by Those Involved?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This hermeneutic phenomenological study seeks to uncover the lived experiences of post-birth reflective conversations as experienced by midwives and women. Fourteen Lead Maternity Care (LMC) midwives along with twenty women ... -
It’s Always With You: The Experience of Being a 1970s Hospital Trained General Nursing Student
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This qualitative study articulates the meaning of being a general student nurse, trained within the 1970s apprenticeship system in New Zealand. It informs the present understandings of self, forty years hence . ... -
Living with dementia in New Zealand: an action research study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)The aim of this study was to undertake a systematic inquiry into the question of how people who live with dementia in the community can be supported to engage in daily activities. It is well known that dementia affects ... -
Sacred joy at birth: a hermeneutic phenomenology study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)There is an increasing secularisation of birth and reliance on technology in the western maternity context. Growing from a concern that something of significance at birth was being hidden or lost, this study explores the ... -
Success factors for community organisations in Tai Tokerau (Northland) New Zealand
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Teaching and Learning As Relating: A Transformational Experience
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)This study aims to add to the knowledge base for teachers of psychotherapy and other helping professions through the lens of the teacher’s subjectivity. The thesis cites research that indicates that the teacher’s way of ... -
A Way to Understand Interpreters Working With Refugees in New Zealand. Exploring the Meaning of Doing Interpreting
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)This study seeks to understand the ‘lived’ experience of interpreters and clinicians working with clients who are refugees. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological method, informed by Heidegger [1889-1976] and Gadamer ... -
What Are the Elements of Work Readiness of New Graduate Nurses in the New Zealand Context? A Professional Consensus
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Background: Preparation for practice as a Registered Nurse (RN) is an age-old concern, and the tension between nursing education and practice has been well described. There is increasing interest in work readiness of new ... -
What Enables Safeguards and Sustains Midwives Who Provide Labour Care in Primary Units in Aotearoa - New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)Primary maternity units hold an important place in contemporary Aotearoa-New Zealand and other high-income countries. Despite research evidence revealing that low-risk women have a greater chance of normal birth with fewer ... -
Within the web: the family/practitioner relationship in the context of chronic childhood illness
(Auckland University of Technology, 2004)This study explores the phenomenon of the relationships between practitioners and families who have a child with a chronic illness. Using a heremeneutic phenomenological method informed by the writings of Martin Heidegger ... -
Women's Experiences of Looking and Being Looked At
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)This thesis seeks to better understand women’s lived experiences of looking and being looked at. Unstructured interviews with 14 women were used to gather data. A hermeneutic-phenomenological methodology provided the ...