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Author Woodgyer, A.R.
Title Living without the song of the tui: A nursing lecturer's experience in India facilitating a New Zealand degree programme for registered nurses Type
Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal (down) Victoria University of Wellington Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Curriculum; Nursing; Education; Culture
Abstract This research considers the issues raised by the transfer from New Zealand to India of a degree for registered nurses. In the context of globalisation and the continuing migration of nurses, many countries are actively facilitating the transfer of educational programmes from other countries into their own. This transfer brings with it particular challenges for educators establishing and implementing programmes in a new environment and culture. Based on the experience and reflections of one educator involved in such a transfer, this research considers pedagogical issues such as addressing cultural safety in course content and delivery, expectations of teaching and learning styles, as well as the ethical issues raised by transferring a programme to another country in order to facilitate nurses' migration from it.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1141
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Author Pearce, K.
Title Orientation: Reading the nurses map; what new Plunket Nurses need in an orientation programme Type
Year 2003 Publication Abbreviated Journal (down) Victoria University Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Plunket; Training; New graduate nurses; Curriculum; Community health nursing
Abstract The Plunket orientation programme, first implemented in 1994, aims to prepare new Plunket Nurses for autonomous practice within the complexity of community based nursing. This study seeks to identify what new Plunket Nurses feel are their orientation needs. An evaluation research approach was used. An examination of the literature explored how orientation is conducted and the needs of nurses in orientation. Key aspects in relation to orientation were identified as including socialisation, job change, new graduates, preceptorship, orientation frameworks and retention. A focus group followed by a postal survey were utilised to collect data from new Plunket Nurses nationwide to ascertain what they thought their orientation needs were. Data analysis was completed using descriptive statistics and thematic analysis. The results of the study identified key orientation needs for new Plunket Nurses. These were an orientation programme, preceptorship, clinical skills teaching, time in own area and beginning autonomous practice, administration needs and support needs. The participants recommended quality preceptorship and early clinical teaching from the Clinical Educator. There was a general dissatisfaction with orientation as it stands in preparing them for their role as a Plunket Nurse. Recommendations to the Plunket Management Team were made based on the results of this study.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1240
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Author Wilson, D.S.
Title Transforming nursing education: A legitimacy of difference Type
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal (down) UC Research Repository
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Nursing; Education; Teaching methods; Curriculum; Feminist critique
Abstract In 1973, two trial pre-registration nursing education programmes were piloted in New Zealand polytechnics. These represented an alternative to traditional hospital-sited schools of nursing. The establishment of nursing education in the tertiary sector marked a radical challenge to the cultural heritage of apprenticeship-style nursing training associated with paternal and medically-dominated health institutions. This thesis offers a Foucauldian and feminist poststructuralist analysis of discourses employed by fifteen senior nursing educators in the comprehensive registration programmes between 1973 and 1992. The women employed to teach in the comprehensive programmes faced unique challenges in establishing departments of nursing, in developing curricula that would promote a reorientation of nursing and in supporting candidates to attain their nursing registration. Through semi-structured interviews and discourse analysis methods, a set of unique characteristics shared by this group of early leading comprehensive nursing educators has emerged. The women's narratives were underpinned by discourses that centre around the valuing of education as a vehicle for emancipation and an upholding of a legitimacy of difference in nursing educators' work. The participants upheld the importance of clinical practice skills and drew on their own student nursing experiences as incentives for reforming nursing education. These nursing educators conceptualised an idealised type of graduate, and commonly employed an heroic metaphor to describe their experiences as senior comprehensive educators. Their engagement with such discourses and their shared characteristics demonstrate unique re-constitutions of power, knowledge and relations with their colleagues and clients throughout the education and health care sectors. The author proposes that these traits characterise the women as strategic and astute professionals who successfully negotiated the construction of comprehensive nursing programmes as a legitimate and transformative preparation for nursing registration.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1139
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Author Gardner, G.; Dunn, S.; Carryer, J.B.; Gardner, A.
Title Competency and capability: Imperative for nurse practitioner education Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal (down) The author-version of article, available online from Queensland University of Technology ePrints arc
Volume 24 Issue 1 Pages 8-14
Keywords Nursing; Education; Nurse practitioners; Curriculum
Abstract The objective of this study was to conduct research to inform the development of standards for nurse practitioner education in Australia and New Zealand and to contribute to the international debate on nurse practitioner practice. The research was conducted in all states of Australia where the nurse practitioner is authorised, and in New Zealand. The research was informed by multiple data sources including nurse practitioner programme curricula documents from relevant universities in Australia and New Zealand, interviews with academic convenors of these programmes and interviews with nurse practitioners. Findings include support for masters level of education as preparation for the nurse practitioner. These programs need to have a strong clinical learning component and in-depth education for the sciences of specialty practice. Additionally an important aspect of education for the nurse practitioner is the centrality of student directed and flexible learning models. This approach is well supported by the literature on capability.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 882
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Author Richardson, F
Title Editorial: Cultural Safety 20 Years On Time to Celebrate or Commiserate? Type Journal Article
Year 2012 Publication Whitireia Nursing Journal Abbreviated Journal (down) Available through NZNO library
Volume Issue 19 Pages 5-8
Keywords Cultural Safety -- Education; Curriculum; Education- Nursing
Abstract There needs to be more practice-focused research about how cultural safety is experienced by the recipient of care and how it is applied in nursing and healthcare delivery. [...]sociology, science, and knowledge developed from within northern hemisphere societies. Because the ground is different for knowledge arising from the New Zealand experience, theorising cultural safety must be different too.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1379
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Author Richardson, M.; Vernon, R.A.; Jacobs, S.
Title Implementing health assessment into the undergraduate nursing curriculum Type Journal Article
Year 2005 Publication Vision: A Journal of Nursing Abbreviated Journal (down) Available online from Eastern Institute of Technology
Volume 13 Issue 1 Pages 18-21
Keywords Nursing; Education; Curriculum
Abstract This article explores historical, philosophical and theoretical perspectives of health assessment, and discusses one institution's experiences developing and implementing undergraduate health assessment courses.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1306
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Author Papps, Elaine
Title Knowledge, power, and nursing education in New Zealand: a critical analysis of the construction of the nursing identity Type Book Whole
Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume Issue Pages 330 p.
Keywords Nursing education; Nursing identity; Michel Foucault; Curriculum; Governmentality
Abstract Describes and critically analyses the construction of the nursing identity through curriculum and social relations of power. Conducts a critical analysis using Foucault's power/knowledge problematic to unmask power relations positioning the nurse in the discourses of medicine and gender. Analyses the construction of the nursing identity through curriculum and the social relations of power, using the Foucauldian notion of governmentality.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 330
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Author Holloway, K. T.
Title Developing an evidence base for teaching nursing practice skills in an undergraduate nursing program Type Journal Article
Year 1999 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume 14 Issue 1 Pages 22-32
Keywords Nursing; Education; Curriculum; New graduate nurses; Evaluation
Abstract This research seeks to determine an evidence basis for selecting content for the clinical skills curriculum in an undergraduate programme. Thirty-three senior nurse clinicians from medical-surgical areas in 2 large hospitals offering student placements were asked to rate the frequency of performance of 77 skills for the beginning registered nurse. Those skills frequently used and rated over 65% were considers for inclusion in the undergraduate programme. Clinicians were asked to list the 10 most important skills and related level of competence expected from the newly-registered nurse.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 640
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Author Hardcastle, J.
Title 'Back to the bedside': Graduate level education in critical care Type Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Nurse Education in Practice Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages 46-53
Keywords Nursing specialties; Nursing; Education; Curriculum
Abstract This paper explores the relationships within teaching, learning and practice development in critical care nursing and questions the popular assumption that 'post graduate (Master's level) education fits all'. The need for critical care nurses to apply advanced knowledge and technical skills to complex and dynamic practice situations necessitates the development of critical thinking and a problem-solving approach to clinical practice that can be fostered through education and experience. Discussion focuses on the successful development and implementation of graduate level education for critical care nurses in the South Island of New Zealand and how this development is challenging existing approaches to the provision and evaluation of formal critical care education in New Zealand.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 656
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Author van Rooyen, P.; Dixon, D.A.; Dixon, G.; Wells, C.C.
Title Entry criteria as predictor of performance in an undergraduate nursing degree programme Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication Nurse Education Today Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume 27 Issue 7 Pages 593-600
Keywords Nursing; Education; Curriculum; Evaluation
Abstract This research explored the relationship between entry criteria and academic performance in the first and second year bioscience papers at Otago Polytechnic School of Nursing. The School's inclusion of a bioscience requirement varies from the Nursing Council criteria for acceptance into undergraduate nursing programmes. Six hundred and nineteen academic records of 1994-2002 graduates were sampled. Chi-square and correlational analyses found a relationship between entry qualifications and students' academic performance in the two papers. The entry criteria had a stronger relationship with the students' performance in the first year bioscience paper than the second year paper. Performance in the first year was predicative of second year performance. Age was also found to be a useful predictor of grades. These findings support the School's Bioscience entry criteria and provide important information for admission committees.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 693
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Author Rydon, S.E.; Rolleston, A.; Mackie, J.
Title Graduates and initial employment Type Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Nurse Education Today Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume 28 Issue 5 Pages 610-619
Keywords New graduate nurses; Curriculum; Work
Abstract This research project was undertaken to inform nurse educators in the Department of Nursing and Health Studies of Manukau Institute of Technology of the employment opportunities for new graduate nurses emerging from the three year degree and registration programme. Graduates from the programme for the previous three years were surveyed for their experiences in gaining employment. 89.8% of graduates were successful in gaining employment in the first three months post registration. The number of graduates employed within a district health board declined across the three years but there were no significant differences between cohorts. Overall, 73% of graduates were employed into new graduate positions. The majority of graduates felt that their nursing education prepared them well for their role as a registered nurse. The findings of the qualitative data identified a strong need for science throughout the degree; longer clinical blocks; increased hands on experience; more practice with skills and less theory in relation to practical experience.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 701
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Author Lim, A.G.; Honey, M.
Title Integrated undergraduate nursing curriculum for pharmacology Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication Nurse Education in Practice Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume 6 Issue 3 Pages 163-168
Keywords Pharmacology; Curriculum; Nursing; Education
Abstract This article presents an integrated approach to pharmacology education for nurses aligned with constructivist learning theory, as taught at the School of Nursing, University of Auckland. The weaving of pharmacology through the three-year undergraduate curriculum is described, showing the development of a pharmacology curricula thread. The significance of supporting curricula content in areas such as communication skills, law and ethics, as well as sound biological science and physiology knowledge are highlighted.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 707
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Author Harding, T.S.
Title New strategies in evidence based practice Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication Klinisk sygepleje Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume 20 Issue 3 Pages 4-11
Keywords Evidence-based medicine; Nursing; Education; Curriculum
Abstract This article considers wider organisational issues that impact on the implementation of evidence based practice. It describes the strategies adopted by the Auckland Area Health Board and Unitec New Zealand to implement the principles of evidence based practice in New Zealand. This has resulted in a collaboration with Auckland University and the Joanna Briggs Institute for Evidence Based Nursing and Midwifery to form the Centre for Evidence Based Nursing – Aotearoa. Evidence based nursing is a vital part of nursing education. Unitec New Zealand has developed and incorporated evidence based nursing into all courses in their undergraduate programme. Central to this is the use of evidence based practice in patient care and the integration of technology with evidence based nursing in clinical practice.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 778
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Author Spence, D.; Fielding, S.
Title Win-win-win: Collaboration advances critical care practice Type Journal Article
Year 2002 Publication Contemporary Nurse Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume 13 Issue 2/3 Pages 223-228
Keywords Nursing specialties; Rural nursing; Nursing; Education; Curriculum
Abstract This paper provides an overview of the structure and processes of an eighteen month, distance education course focused on developing advanced practice in the context of critical care nursing. Within the framework of a Master of Health Science, the postgraduate certificate (critical care nursing) was developed as a collaboration between Auckland University of Technology and two regional health providers. Students enrol in science and knowledge papers concurrently then, in the second half of the course, are supported within their practice environment to acquire advanced clinical skills and to analyse, critique and develop practice within their specialty. This course is set against a background of increasing interest in education post registration. The acquisition of highly developed clinical capabilities requires a combination of nursing experience and education. This requires collaboration between clinicians and nurse educators, and approaches to address accessibility of relevant educational opportunities for nurses outside the country's main centres.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 878
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Author Greenwood, S.; Wright, T.; Nielsen, H.
Title Conversations in context: Cultural safety and reflexivity in child and family health nursing Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication Journal of Family Nursing Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume 12 Issue 2 Pages 201-224
Keywords Cultural safety; Nursing; Education; Curriculum; Nursing philosophy; Teaching methods; Biculturalism
Abstract This article outlines some key aspects of the practice of a number of nurse educators and researchers, and their commitment to the needs of their specific region. The group has been based at the Waikato Institute of Technology (WINTEC) over the last decade and have worked collaboratively across primary health, cultural safety, and child and family health domains of the nursing curriculum. They share a common philosophy underpinned by notions of diversity and health equity. The philosophy informs their theoretical inquiry, practice and research interests, and pedagogical concerns. In this article, the nurse researchers begin by situating themselves within the region, its people, and influences before moving into a consideration of the wider political and policy environment. They then consider the destabilising effects of cultural safety education and the tension between biculturalism and multiculturalism in their context. Finally, they reflect on how these ideas inform their work with postgraduate child and family nurses.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 883
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