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Author Naidu, A. openurl 
  Title Is scholarship an integral component of advanced nursing practice? Type Journal Article
  Year 2007 Publication Whitireia Nursing Journal Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume 14 Issue Pages 50-53  
  Keywords Advanced nursing practice; Professional development  
  Abstract This article defines scholarship and how it links to nursing. It explores how nurses perceive scholarship and how it can enhance their practice. While agreeing that scholarship plays a vital role in the image of nursing as a professional practice, the article's main focus is on scholarship as an integral component of advanced nursing practice.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1035  
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Author Miller, Jodi Shirlene url  openurl
  Title Workplace learning: exploring the context and culture in New Zealand Type Book Whole
  Year 2013 Publication Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume Issue Pages 234 p.  
  Keywords Workplace learning; Post-registration education; Postgraduate education; Professional development; Learning culture; Critical reflection; Mentoring  
  Abstract Explores the rationale underpinning the development of education programmes within urban district hospitals throughout the country, and ascertains how these workplaces develop education programmes, given that the majority of nurses in New Zealand have identified that they prefer to participate in workplace-based professional development. Cites a clear requirement to foster learning during a nurse's development post-registration, while considering how prepared nurse educators were to fulfil their roles as lifelong learning facilitators and mentors. Utilises the perspective of nurse educators employed in District Health Boards (DHBs) geographically isolated from universities providing post-registration learning.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1566  
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Author Houston, Gail url  openurl
  Title The impacts for the registered nurses of the New Entry to Specialty Practice Mental Health and Addiction Nursing Programme, of the programme, on their personal and professional development Type Book Whole
  Year 2018 Publication Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume Issue Pages 123 p.  
  Keywords Mental health nursing; Addicition nursing; Nursing education; Registered nurses; Professional development; Nurse Entry to Specialty Practice (NESP)  
  Abstract Explores the impact on nurses three to six years after completion of the New Entry to Specialty Practice (NESP) Programme. Thematically analyses in-depth, semi-structured interviews to identify the aspects of personal and professional development affected by the programme, using a qualitative descriptive approach. Focuses on four key themes: well set up; thinking differently; inter-connectedness; and reciprocation.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1641  
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Author Hawes, Philip C. url  openurl
  Title What educational and other experiences assist recently qualified nurses to understand and deal with clinical risk and patient safety? Type Book Whole
  Year 2016 Publication Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume Issue Pages 131 p.  
  Keywords Patient safety; Clinical risk; Graduate nurses; Professional development; Surveys  
  Abstract Interviews 9 nurses in their first year of clinical practice to investigate how newly-qualified nurses recognise and develop those skills relating to clinical risk and patient safety. Identifies workplace culture, clinical role models, exposure to the clinical environment, experiential learning, narrative sharing, debriefing and simulation as contributing to learning and understanding clinical risk and safe patient care. Considers strategies to facilitate professional development.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1696  
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Author Quiding, Janine url  openurl
  Title Improving assessment inter-rater reliability of a nursing ePortfolio: An Integrative Review Type Book Whole
  Year 2021 Publication Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume Issue Pages 66 p.  
  Keywords ePortfolios; Professional Development and Recognition Programmes (PDRP); Nursing assessment  
  Abstract Analyses 13 articles using an integrative review methodology framework and thematic analysis to support the data analysis process, seeking to clarify the inter-rater reliability of nursing ePortfolio assessment. Identifies two themes emerging from the data: the subjective nature of the assessor, and external factors due to the nature of nursing portfolio requirements. Considers how to minimise assessment variability due to subjective factors.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1749  
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Author Perkins, Zoe url  openurl
  Title The experiences of nurse managers navigating between two conceptual models of leadership in Aotearoa New Zealand Type Book Whole
  Year 2020 Publication Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume Issue Pages 95 p.  
  Keywords Leadership; Nurse managers; Professional Practice Model; Generic Management Model; Professional development  
  Abstract Confronts the inherent conflict for nurse managers (NM) in the dual nature of their leadership role, the Professional Practice Model (PPM) and the Generic Management Model (GMM). Examines the challenges for NMs in trying to balance the conflicting requirements of their roles. Surveys five NMs about their main challenges: role confusion, expectations, support, and professional development. Contributes to the ongoing evolution of the NM role.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1765  
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Author Heath, S.; Clendon, S.; Hunter, R. url  doi
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  Title Fit for educational purpose? : the findings of a mixed methods study of nurses' decisions to participate in professional development and recognition programmes Type Journal Article
  Year 2020 Publication SCOPE (Health and Wellbeing) Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume 5 Issue Pages 50-59  
  Keywords Professional Development and Recognition Programmes (PDRP); Nursing education  
  Abstract Reports findings from a mixed-methods study that examined nurses' decisions to participate in a PDRP. Considers the obstacles nurses face when making the decision to submit a portfolio and asks whether PDRP is still fit for purpose.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1775  
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Author Komene, Ebony; Sami, Lisa; Wiapo, Coral; Davis, Josephine; Adams, Sue url  doi
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  Title Whakaropu: an exemplar fostering professional development and cultural growth with a collective grouping of Maori and Pacific nurses Type Journal Article
  Year 2023 Publication Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume 39 Issue 2 Pages  
  Keywords Enrolled nurses; Maori nurses; Pacific nurses; Whakaropu; Professional development; Surveys  
  Abstract Reports on the experiences of five Maori and two Pacific nurses, and three senior indigenous nurse leaders, of being involved in a whakaropu (collective grouping) to attend and present at the National Enrolled Nurse Conference. Conducts face-to-face and online interviews with the members of the group to determine the value of the innovation to foster learning experiences for Maori and Pacific nurses.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1860  
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Author Grainger, J. url  openurl
  Title Mind shift: Creating change through narrative learning cycles: A qualitative interpretive study of clinical conversation as an appraisal process for sexual and reproductive health nurses Type
  Year 2007 Publication Abbreviated Journal (up) Auckland University of Technology Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Sexual and reproductive health; Nursing; Professional development  
  Abstract This thesis explores the process of an annual appraisal strategy, 'clinical conversation', from the perspective of seven nurses who were assessed using this technique. The findings demonstrate that clinical conversation is a strategy which facilitates reflection, both as a solitary exercise and with others, to ensure that learning from experience is optimised. The research used a qualitative interpretive approach informed by the model of Grounded Theory espoused by Strauss and Corbin. All eight nurses who were assessed using the clinical conversation strategy were advanced practitioners working within the scope of sexual and reproductive health. Two of the actual appraisals were observed and seven of the nurses were interviewed within eight weeks of being assessed. The outcome of the clinical conversation was primarily one of learning; the acquisition of new insights into self as practitioner. The learning was facilitated through the process of narration; telling the story of clinical practice. Three distinct narrative cycles were identified, each an experiential learning episode. The experience of undertaking a variety of assessment activities created a narrative with self and triggered an internal reflective thinking process; the experience of working with a peer created an additional narrative, a mutual dialogue reflecting back on practice; the experience of sharing practice with an assessor created a further and final narrative, a learning conversation. Each narrative can be seen as a catalyst for change. Primarily, the nurses felt differently about themselves in practice, the way they saw themselves had shifted. Such a change can be described as an alteration in perspective. These alterations in perspective led all nurses to identify ways in which they would change their actual clinical practice. In this way the nurses attempted to align their espoused beliefs about practice with their actual practice. The author notes that the study shows that each nurse responded differently to each narrative learning cycle: for some the conversation with the assessor was more of a catalyst for change than for others. In this way clinical conversation may be flexible enough to respond to a variety of differing learning styles. Learning was person specific which is an imperative for the continued professional development of already highly skilled clinicians. The implication of the research is that whilst clinical conversation was designed as a tool for appraising clinical competence, its intrinsic value lies in supporting the professional development of nurses.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 833 Serial 817  
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Author Watson, S.L. url  openurl
  Title Attitudinal shifting: A grounded theory of health promotion in coronary care Type
  Year 2007 Publication Abbreviated Journal (up) AUT University Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Health promotion; Policy; Professional development; Cardiovascular diseases; Nursing; Nurse-patient relations; Education  
  Abstract Current New Zealand health policy encourages collaborative health promotion in all sectors of health service delivery. The integrated approach to the acute management of coronary heart disease in a coronary care unit, combining medical therapy and lifestyle change, supports clinical health promotion. The aim of this study was to use the grounded theory approach to discover the main concerns of nurses' promoting health in an acute coronary care setting and to explain the processes that nurses used to integrate health promotional activities into their practice. Seventeen registered nurses from three coronary care units within a large metropolitan city in New Zealand were interviewed. Data were constantly compared and analysed using Glaser's emergent approach to grounded theory.The main concern for nurses promoting health within coronary care was ritualistic practice. In this study, ritualistic practice concerns the medically-based protocols, routines, language and technology that drives nursing practice in coronary care. This concern was resolved via the socio-cultural process of attitudinal shifting that occurs over time involving three stages. The three conceptual categories, environmental pressures, practice reality and responsive action are the main components of the theory of attitudinal shifting. In environmental pressures, nurses experience a tension between specialist medically-dominated nursing practice and the generalist nursing role of promoting health. In practice reality, nurses become aware that the individual needs of patients are not being met. This causes role conflict until the nurse observes colleagues who role model possibilities for practice, working with patients to promote health. Responsive action sees the nurse engaging in self-development, also focusing on the nurse-patient relationship, thereby enabling active patient involvement in individual health-promoting decisions. The author suggests that the findings from this research have implications for nursing practice and education. With the increasing specialisation in nursing practice, these findings may be of interest to nurses working in delegated medical roles where the reality of everyday practice precludes nurses from undertaking their essential nursing role. Health care facilities also need to ensure that there are opportunities for the personal and professional development of nursing staff. The place of health promotion within nursing undergraduate curricula needs to be examined, as many nurses found that they were ill prepared for undertaking health promotional activities.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 807  
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Author Kennedy, W. url  openurl
  Title Professional supervision to enhance nursing practice Type Journal Article
  Year 2007 Publication Vision: A Journal of Nursing Abbreviated Journal (up) Available online from Eastern Institute of Technology  
  Volume 14 Issue 2 Pages 3-6  
  Keywords Professional development; Clinical supervision; Nursing; Education  
  Abstract This article examines the concept of clinical supervision as “professional supervision”. Professional supervision contains many elements, is structured and not without effort. Fundamentally it is about being safe and professional. 'Reflective learning' and 'Live/tutorial' models are reviewed in different contexts for assisting nurses work through everyday issues, conflicts and problems of their role. The author concludes that regardless of which model is used there are benefits for safety and professionalism.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1310  
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Author Mackay, B. url  openurl
  Title Leadership strategies for role development in primary health care nursing Type Journal Article
  Year 2007 Publication Nursing Journal Northland Polytechnic Abbreviated Journal (up) coda, An Institutional Repository for the New Zealand ITP Sector  
  Volume 11 Issue Pages 31-39  
  Keywords Primary health care; Leadership; Professional development  
  Abstract This paper has been developed from part of the writer's doctoral thesis on forces influencing the development of innovative roles in primary health care nursing. The focus of this paper is leadership strategies designed to reduce the issue of poor professional identity and support.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1049 Serial 1033  
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Author Holloway, K. T.; Pearson, J.R. url  openurl
  Title Trailblazers: Primary health care programme evaluation Type Conference Article
  Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal (up) coda, An Institutional Repository for the New Zealand ITP Sector  
  Volume Paper presented June 2004 at Royal New Zealand Plu Issue Pages  
  Keywords New graduate nurses; Primary health care; Evaluation research; Professional development  
  Abstract This report is an evaluation of the academic journey undertaken by a group of newly graduated nurses who were sponsored by a New Zealand district health board to work in a variety of primary health care nursing settings. The impetus for this pilot employment option was the Ministry of Health's focus on primary health care nursing and workforce development for this sector and the Expert Advisory Committee for primary health care nursing's recommendations to district health boards regarding employment of graduate nurses and support for them to engage in post graduate study. Evaluation participants were primarily the graduate nurses who were interviewed at the end of their first year of practice which was following programme completion then again nine to ten months later. Findings include the nurses reflections on what supported them and what acted to impede as barriers to their learning success and practice development. The report concludes with five recommendations that can be used to ensure that the travels of future newly graduated nurses taking this pathway are supported, safe and successful.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1200  
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Author Clunie, S. url  openurl
  Title The current trend and importance of postgraduate education for nurses Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Nursing Journal Northland Polytechnic Abbreviated Journal (up) coda, An Institutional Repository for the New Zealand ITP Sector  
  Volume 10 Issue Pages 18-23  
  Keywords Nursing; Education; Professional development; Leadership; Policy  
  Abstract The purpose of this essay is to examine why postgraduate education has become so important, to examine some of the issues around mandatory continuing education and the practical effect of this on a nursing career. Four strategies from the Ministry of Health, designed to facilitate changing nurse education, are discussed. The importance of Professional Development Recognition programmes is discussed along with the need for strong nursing leadership.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1207  
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Author Dobbs, L. url  openurl
  Title Can evidence improve nursing practice? Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Nursing Journal Northland Polytechnic Abbreviated Journal (up) coda, An Institutional Repository for the New Zealand ITP Sector  
  Volume 10 Issue Pages 27-32  
  Keywords Evidence-based medicine; Nursing; Professional development  
  Abstract Evidenced Based Practice is aimed at providing safe, effective and cost-appropriate health care. The utilisation of EBP in nursing has proved to be valuable not only for patients and nurses, but also for other health professionals and the wider community. However, despite the recognised benefits of EBP, a significant gap between theory and practice exists. This paper explores some of the issues behind not implementing EBP, such as comfort with traditional practices, lack of engagement with EBP, and time constraints.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1226 Serial 1211  
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