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Author Rickard, Debbie openurl 
  Title Parents as experts: partnership in the care of the chronically ill children : Margaret May Blackwell Travel Study, Fellowship for Nurses of Young Children, 1999 Type Report
  Year 1999 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 65p.  
  Keywords Chronically ill children – home care; Child health services; Paediatric nursing; Community health nursing; Reports  
  Abstract (down) Visits paediatric community nursing services in the UK and Australia to report on how specialist and children's community nurses work with parents to deliver health care to children with asthma, diabetes and other endocrine disorders, cystic fibrosis, eczema, cardiac diseases, and liver transplants. Part of the Margaret May Blackwell Scholarship Reports series.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1414  
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Author Crawford, R. openurl 
  Title Nutrition: Is there a need for nurses working with children and families to offer nutrition advice? Type Journal Article
  Year 2001 Publication Vision: A Journal of Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 7 Issue 13 Pages 10-15  
  Keywords Paediatric nursing; Community health nursing; Nurse-family relations; Socioeconomic factors; Diet  
  Abstract (down) Using nursing and associated literature, the relevance of nutrition in the care of children and families is highlighted in this article. The role of a nurse in providing nutrition advice and interventions is examined, in the context of social and economic pressures on the provision of a healthy diet. Relevant examples of the provision of such advice is provided, along with competencies required to achieve this in practice.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1276  
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Author Morgan, F.A. openurl 
  Title Primary health care nurses supporting families parenting pre-term infants Type
  Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library, University of Otago Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Primary health care; Community health nursing; Paediatric nursing; Premature infants  
  Abstract (down) This thesis reviews the role of primary health care nurses, who have an opportunity to play a unique role in teaching, touching and empowering families with newly discharged pre-term babies. Birth of a baby earlier than 37 weeks gestation ushers in a period of uncertainty and stress for parents. Uncertainties may centre on whether their infant will survive and what ongoing growth and developmental issues their infant will face.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1132  
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Author Water, T. url  openurl
  Title The meaning of being in dilemma in paediatric practice: A phenomenological study Type
  Year 2008 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library  
  Volume Issue Pages 259 pp  
  Keywords Psychology; Paediatric nursing; Paedetric practice; Problem solving  
  Abstract (down) This study explores the phenomenon of dilemma in paediatric practice. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological method informed by the writings of Heidegger [1889-1976] and Gadamer [1900-2002] this study provides an understanding of the meaning of 'being in dilemma' from the perspective of predominantly paediatric health care professionals but also families in New Zealand. Study participants include four families who had a child requiring health care and fifteen health care practitioners from the disciplines of medicine, nursing, physiotherapy, play specialist and occupational therapy who work with families and children requiring health care. Participants' narratives of their experiences of 'being in dilemma' were captured via audio taped interviewing. These stories uncover the everyday realities facing health professionals and families and provide an ontological understanding for the notion of dilemma. The findings of this study suggest that experience of dilemma for health professionals reveals a world that is uncertain and questionable where they are thrown into having to make uncomfortable choices and must live with the painful consequences of their actions. The consequences of being in such dilemma are having to find ways of living with the angst, or risk becoming too sensitive or desensitizing. For families the experience of dilemma reveals a similar phenomenon most evident in circumstances where they feel totalized by the impact of heath care encounters. This study has uncovered that the perspectives that health professionals and families bring to the experience of dilemma reveal different concerns and commitments and may be hidden from each other. This thesis proposes that health professionals and families need support in living with their own personal encounters of enduring experiences of dilemma.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1234  
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Author Chenery, K. url  openurl
  Title 'Can mummy come too?' Rhetoric and realities of 'family-centred care' in one New Zealand hospital, 1960-1990 Type
  Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Nurse-family relations; Policy; Hospitals; History of nursing; Paediatric nursing  
  Abstract (down) This study explores the development of 'family-centred care' in New Zealand as part of an international movement advanced by 'experts' in the 1950s concerned with the psychological effects of mother-child separation. It positions the development of 'family-centred care' within the broader context of ideas and beliefs about mothering and children that emerged in New Zealand society between 1960 and 1980 as a response to these new concerns for children's emotional health. It examines New Zealand nursing, medical and related literature between 1960 and 1990 and considers both professional and public response to these concerns. The experiences of some mothers and nurses caring for children in one New Zealand hospital between 1960 and 1990 illustrate the significance of these responses in the context of one hospital children's ward and the subsequent implications for the practice of 'family-centred care'. This study demonstrates the difference between the professional rhetoric and the parental reality of 'family-centred care' in the context of one hospital children's ward between 1960 and 1990. The practice of 'family-centred care' placed mothers and nurses in contradictory positions within the ward environment. These contradictory positions were historically enduring, although they varied in their enactment.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1206  
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Author Smart, S. url  openurl
  Title Post-operative pain management knowledge and attitude of paediatric nurses: A New Zealand regional view Type
  Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Pain management; Paediatric nursing; Hospitals; Pharmacology  
  Abstract (down) This research explored the knowledge and attitudes towards paediatric post-operative pain, within the New Zealand context of small regional hospitals. It established how nurses working in these areas obtain and update their paediatric pain management knowledge, and what is it that influences their paediatric post-operative pain management practices. A questionnaire survey of registered nurses working in three small paediatric units (5 to 12 beds), in regional secondary service hospitals was undertaken. The survey had a 79% (n=33) response rate. Findings corroborate many findings in previously published literature including that nurses do well in questions related to assessment. However pharmacological knowledge continues to be lacking. Results also indicated that while nurses have a good understanding about who is the best person to rate pain, this wasn't carried through in the clinical scenarios provided. Education is clearly an important factor in improving the knowledge and attitudes needed in clinical practice. While this survey was somewhat limited, both in size and in that a clear correlation between the results and actual clinical practice could not be made, results are significant for the areas surveyed and for the development of pain education for nurses.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1194 Serial 1179  
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Author Andrews, C.M. url  openurl
  Title Developing a nursing speciality: Plunket Nursing 1905 – 1920 Type
  Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Plunket; History of nursing; Nursing specialties; Paediatric nursing  
  Abstract (down) This paper focuses on the history of Plunket nursing and Truby King's ideology and other dominant ideologies, during the years 1905 – 1920. To provide a context, the paper explores the development of a new nursing speciality – Plunket nursing, that became part of the backbone of a fledgling health system and the New Zealand nursing profession. Correspondingly, Truby King presented the country with a vision for improving infant welfare underpinned by his eugenics view of the world and his experimentation with infant feeding. The author argues that nurses were drawn to the work of the newly created Plunket Society and that the Society had lasting influence on the development of nursing in New Zealand.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1167 Serial 1152  
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Author Horsburgh, M.; Smith, V.A.; Kivell, D. openurl 
  Title South Auckland community paediatric nursing service: A framework for evaluation Type Journal Article
  Year 2002 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 18 Issue 3 Pages 40-49  
  Keywords Paediatric nursing; Community health nursing; Evaluation research  
  Abstract (down) This paper describes the Kidz First paediatric community homecare nursing team in South Auckland. While the service was not initially planned as an integrated approach to child health, its evolution reflects the move to more community based care delivery and the expansion of nurse-led initiatives in New Zealand. The components of a community paediatric home nursing team as described by Eaton (2000) are used to provide the framework with which to describe the service. A focus group held with the Kidz First paediatric community homecare nurses has enabled definition of the key nursing components provided to children and their families living in South Auckland.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 622  
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Author Gasquoine, S.E. url  openurl
  Title Mothering a hospitalized child: It's the 'little things' that matter Type Journal Article
  Year 2005 Publication Journal of Child Health Care Abbreviated Journal coda, An Institutional Repository for the New Zealand ITP Sector  
  Volume 9 Issue 3 Pages 186-195  
  Keywords Nurse-family relations; Parents and caregivers; Paediatric nursing; Children  
  Abstract (down) This article reports one aspect of a phenomenological study that described the lived experience of mothering a child hospitalised with acute illness or injury. The significance for mothers that nurses do the 'little things' emerged in considering the implications of this study's findings for nurses in practice. Seven mothers whose child had been hospitalised in the 12 months prior to the first interview agreed to share their stories. The resulting data were analysed and interpreted using van Manen's interpretation of phenomenology. This description of mothering in a context of crisis is useful in the potential contribution it makes to nurses' understanding of mothers' experience of the hospitalisation of their children. It supports the philosophy of family-centred care and highlights the ability of individual nurses to make a positive difference to a very stressful experience by acknowledging and doing 'little things', because it is the little things that matter to the mothers of children in hospital.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1053  
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Author Chenery, K. openurl 
  Title Building child health nurses' confidence and competence Type Journal Article
  Year 2007 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 13 Issue 5 Pages 26-38  
  Keywords Paediatric nursing; Nursing; Education; Evaluation  
  Abstract (down) This article describes the development of the Generic Orientation Programme, Child Health Nursing and its perceived impact on practice after ten months, through two simultaneous evaluation surveys, seeking the views of programme participants and their nurse managers. The programme aims to equip the newly appointed RN in the child health cluster or the nurse working in a non-designated children's area with the knowledge and skills to safely care for children. These include basic anatomical and physiological differences; fluid and electrolyte management; safe administration of medication; pain management; recognition of the seriously ill child; and building partnerships with children and their families. A survey instrument eliciting qualitative and quantitative responses was used. The majority of nurse respondents believed they had gained new knowledge and described how they were incorporating it into everyday practice. Similarly, several nurse managers observed that nurses' clinical knowledge and skills had improved since attending the programme. In particular, responses from those working in non-designated children's areas suggested the programme had provided them with greater insight into the care of children.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 975  
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Author Wilson, H.V. openurl 
  Title Paradoxical pursuits in child health nursing practice: Discourses of scientific mothercraft Type Journal Article
  Year 2003 Publication Critical Public Health Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 13 Issue 3 Pages 281-293  
  Keywords Plunket; Nurse-family relations; Paediatric nursing; Nursing philosophy  
  Abstract (down) The purpose of this paper is to examine the discourses of scientific mothercraft and their implications for the nurse-mother relationship, drawing on the author's recent research into surveillance and the exercise of power in the child health nursing context. The application of Foucauldian discourse analysis to the texts generated by interviews with five New Zealand child health nurses confirms that this paradoxical role has never been fully resolved. Plunket nurses primarily work in the community with the parents of new babies and preschool children. Their work, child health surveillance, is considered to involve routine and unproblematic practices generally carried out in the context of a relationship between the nurse and the mother. However, there are suggestions in the literature that historically the nurse's surveillance role has conflicting objectives, as she is at the same time an inspector and family friend.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1116 Serial 1101  
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Author Grant-Mackie, D. openurl 
  Title A literature review of competence in relation to speciality nursing Type
  Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library, NZNO Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Paediatric nursing; Nursing specialties; Professional competence; Nursing; Education  
  Abstract (down) The original aim of the study was to find out through a questionnaire what child health/paediatric nurses in New Zealand/Aotearoa saw as their needs for post-registration education. Nurses were completing courses in the United Kingdom and returning to New Zealand/Aotearoa and realising that their nursing capabilities had improved. They became senior nurses with education responsibilities and exhibited political leadership among their colleagues in the field of child health/paediatric nursing. They were becoming increasingly concerned at the lack of any clinical courses in the specialty of child health/paediatric nursing to promote an appropriate standard of practice. It was intended that a research project about post-registration child health/paediatric education would assist concerned nurses to develop a programme. The time needed for such a project did not fit with a limited research paper. It was decided to reduce the project to a review of the literature on competence in nursing, with some comment on the specialty of child health/paediatric nursing. In order for nurses to find what they need to learn and know, an understanding of competence in nursing practice is required. Competence is defined as the ability of the nurse to carry out specific work in a designated area at a predetermined standard. Issues around competence, defining a scope of practice, development and assessment of competence, and regulation of nursing, are part of the context in which accountability for the practice of nurses sits.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1123  
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Author Warren, B.L. openurl 
  Title Using paracetamol before immunisation: Does it work? Type Journal Article
  Year 2007 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 13 Issue 5 Pages 24-26  
  Keywords Immunisation; Paediatric nursing; Evidence-based medicine  
  Abstract (down) The author presents a review of evidence on the prophylactic use of paracetamol prior to infant and child immunisation. The research was prompted when the Otago District Health Board was planning its Meningococcal B strategy. The evidence suggests that it was appropriate when the whole cell pertussis vaccine was used, but it was not recommended since the introduction of better vaccines such as acellular pertussis with fewer antigens and fewer side effects. Paracetamol may still be given orally to treat pain and fever that occasionally follows vaccination. Paracetamol pharmacology is presented, along with alternatives to paracetamol.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 998  
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Author Ho, T. openurl 
  Title Ethical dilemmas in neonatal care Type Journal Article
  Year 2000 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6 Issue 7 Pages 17-19  
  Keywords Intensive care nursing; Paediatric nursing; Ethics; Clinical decision making  
  Abstract (down) The author explores possible approaches to the ethical dilemma confronting nurses of critically ill premature infants with an uncertain or futile outcome despite aggressive neonatal intensive care. A case history illustrates the issues. The morality of nursing decisions based on deontological and utilitarian principles is examined, as are the concepts of beneficence and non-maleficence. A fusion of virtue ethics and the ethic of care is suggested as appropriate for ethical decision-making in the neonatal intensive care environment.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1035 Serial 1019  
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Author Christie, J. openurl 
  Title Managing febrile children: When and how to treat Type Journal Article
  Year 2002 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 8 Issue 4 Pages 15-17  
  Keywords Paediatric nursing; Evidence-based medicine; Children; Guidelines  
  Abstract (down) The author describes the nursing of febrile children in a general paediatric ward at Tauranga Hospital. She focuses on the cooling methods used and their efficacy. Ward practice is compared with clinical trials and the literature to determine best practice and evidence-based guidelines. Also discussed are fans and clothes removal, tepid sponging, paracetamol, and brufen.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1006  
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