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Author Marshall, Dianne url  openurl
  Title Surgical nurses' non-technical skills: A human factors approach Type Book Whole
  Year 2016 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (up) 256 p.  
  Keywords Surgical nurses; Non-technical skills (NTS); Adverse patient events; Taxonomy; Surveys  
  Abstract Explores the social and cognitive non-technical skills (NTS) required of nurses practising in general surgical wards, a taxonomy of NTS for general surgical nurses, and identifies the differences in levels of performance of the NTS between experienced and less experienced nurses, by means of applied cognitive task analysis (ACTA). Highlights the association between poor performance of NTS with adverse patient events. Conducts the study in four surgical wards in a metropolitan hospital, using observation and semi-structured interviews with RNs.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1844  
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Author Matthews, Tamyra Marie url  openurl
  Title Breaking bad news about cancer: The experience of patients, patients' family/whanau members and healthcare professionals Type Book Whole
  Year 2020 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (up) 258 p.  
  Keywords Cancer nurses; Cancer patients; Diagnosis; Prognosis; Surveys  
  Abstract Explores the subjective experiences of patients, patients' family/whanau members, and health-care professionals (HCP) when bad news was delivered to patients about their cancer within the surgical departments of MidCentral District Health Board. Gathers and compares multiple perspectives and makes recommendations for practice that align with the goals of those involved in the project. Utilises a qualitative approach with the epistemological and methodological basis informed by interpretative phenomenological analysis. Collects data through semi-structured interviews with 10 patients, 6 family members, 5 surgeons and 6 nurses.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1771  
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Author Gilder, Eileen url  openurl
  Title To suction or not to suction; that is the question: Studies of endotracheal suction in post-operative cardiac patients Type Book Whole
  Year 2020 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (up) 261 p.  
  Keywords Endotracheal suction; Post-operative cardiac patients; Post-operative nursing; Patient safety  
  Abstract Assesses the safety of actively avoiding endotracheal suction in post-operative cardiac surgical patients ventilated for less than 12 hours. Describes local endotracheal suction practice, and elucidates patient experience of the endotracheal tube and endotracheal suction. Conducts an observational audit describing endotracheal sucion practice within the cardiothoracic and vascular intensive care unit in Auckland City Hospital. Undertakes a prospective, non-inferiority, randomised controlled trial investigating the safety of avoiding endotracheal suction.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1769  
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Author Lally, Elsa url  openurl
  Title Symbiotic relationships in patients' engagements with practice nurses Type Book Whole
  Year 2014 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (up) 262 p.  
  Keywords Practice nurses; Patients; Symbiotic relationships; Primary health care; Surveys  
  Abstract Records from patient perspectives the nature of the engagements patients have with practice nurses which influence patients' health and well-being. Posits this mutually-beneficial close association as a form of symbiosis. Surveys 15 patients from seven rural and urban general practices in NZ about aspects of the participants' relationships and engagements with nurses, analysing the results using Narrative Inquiry methodology.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1699  
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Author Holloway, Kathy; Baker, Jacqueline; Lumby, Judy openurl 
  Title Specialist nursing famework for New Zealand: A missing link in workforce planning Type Journal Article
  Year 2009 Publication Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 10 Issue 4 Pages (up) 269-275  
  Keywords Workforce planning; Nursing workforce; Specialist nursing frameworks; Advanced practice nurses  
  Abstract Explores the NZ context underpinning adequate specialist nurse workforce supply, contending that effective workforce planning would be supported by the

development of a single unified framework for specialist nursing practice in NZ, with the potential to support accurate data collection and to enable service providers to identify and plan transparent and transferable pathways for specialist nursing service provision and development. Argues that advanced practice nursing frameworks assist in increasing productivity through building an evidence base about advanced practice, enhancing consistency and equity of expertise, supporting a reduction in role duplication, and enabling succession planning and sustainability.
 
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1826  
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Author Kussmaul, Joerg url  openurl
  Title An investigation of occupational health and safety workplaces and working conditions in comparison to nursing care quality in residential aged care facilities (RACFs) in New Zealand Type Book Whole
  Year 2020 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (up) 270 p.  
  Keywords Residential Aged Care Facilities; Ocuupational health and safety; Working conditions; InterRAI; Clinical Assessment Protocols Job stress; Registered nurses; Enrolled nurses; Healthcare assistants  
  Abstract Identifies critical factors related to the occupational health and safety of workplaces and working conditions in residential aged-care facilities (RACF), from the perspective of nursing staff. Correlates quality indicators for occupational health and safety for workplaces and in working conditions with nursing care quality based on the InterRAI Clinical Assessment Protocols (CAP). Uses a mixed-method approach to conduct an audit of workplace health and safety and environmental conditions in 17 RACFs. Surveys 398 registered nurses (RN), enrolled nurses (EN), and Healthcare Assistants (HCA) about the mental and physical stressors in their work.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1655  
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Author Mustafa, Maher; Adams, Sue; Bareham, Corinne; Carryer, Jenny url  doi
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  Title Employing nurse practitioners in general practice: an exploratory survey of the perspectives of managers Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Journal of Primary Health Care Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 13 Issue 3 Pages (up) 274-282  
  Keywords Nurse practitioners; Primary health care; Models of care; Surveys  
  Abstract Explores the perspectives of practice managers on employing nurse practitioners (NP) in general practice. Uses an electronic survey to collect demographic and numerical data, which were analysed descriptively and analytically using SPSS (version 26). Written answers to open-ended questions were analysed qualitatively.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1779  
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Author Rook, Helen url  openurl
  Title Living nursing values: a collective case study Type Book Whole
  Year 2017 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (up) 278 p.  
  Keywords Nursing values; Value dissonance; Burn-out; Medical wards; Case studies  
  Abstract Explores the humanistic values of professional nurses practising in medical ward environments and how these values are lived in day-to-day nursing practice on three medical wards in NZ using observations, focus groups, interviews, a burn-out survey and theoretical application. Challenges the nursing profession to acknowledge and address the visibility of nursing values in contemporary practice, as well as acknowledge the dissonance that exists between the values of nursing and the values that drive healthcare delivery.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1694  
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Author Minton, Claire Maree url  openurl
  Title A multicase study of a prolonged critical illness in the Intensive Care Unit : patient, family and nurses' trajectories Type Book Whole
  Year 2017 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (up) 279 p.  
  Keywords Critical care; Intensive Care Units; Chronic Illness Trajectory Framework; Surveys  
  Abstract Examines the experiences of the patient, their family and healthcare professionals during the trajectory of a prolonged critical illness in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Conducts a qualitative, instrumental, multi-case study informed by the Chronic Illness Trajectory Framework. Analyses data from six linked cases (patient, family and clinicians) in four ICUs over a two-year period. Argues that identifying the sub-phases of a prolonged critical illness trajectory allows targeted interventions for each sub-phase.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1814  
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Author McKelvie, Rhonda url  openurl
  Title Where we are and how we got here: an institutional ethnography of the Nurse Safe Staffing Project in New Zealand Type Book Whole
  Year 2019 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (up) 289 p.  
  Keywords Safe staffing; Short staffing; Frontline nurses; Patient safety; Care Capacity Demand Programme; Nurse Safe Staffing Project; Trendcare; Institutional ethnography; Surveys  
  Abstract Charts a detailed description and analysis of how aspects of the strategies of the Nurse Safe Staffing Project work in everyday hospital settings. Argues that nurses' situated knowledge and work are being organised and overridden by competing institutional knowledge and priorities in a competitive institutional environment. Demonstrates the consequences for nurses, patients and staffing strategies. Conducts 30 interviews with 26 participants, including frontline nurses and participants in safe staffing projects.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1651  
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Author Manning, Elizabeth url  openurl
  Title Self-employed registered nurses: The impact of liminality and gender on professional identities and spaces Type Book Whole
  Year 2022 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (up) 289 p.  
  Keywords Self-employed nurses; Focused ethnography  
  Abstract Explores the experiences of self-employed registered nurses (RN) in NZ working in the practice area of professional advice and policy. Enrols 13 home-based participants and conducts interviews about their practice scopes and limitations from the perspectives of liminality and gender theories, with a feminist post-structuralist lens.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1837  
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Author Zwimpfer, Lucy Annabelle url  openurl
  Title Being with Babies: Vocal soothing for preterm infants during painful procedures in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Type Book Whole
  Year 2017 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (up) 290 p.  
  Keywords Pain management; Premture infants; Infant mental health; NICU; Vocal soothing  
  Abstract Investigates the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) nurse-infant relationship, with a focus on vocal soothing. Undertakes two observational studies to record the use of voice by NICU nurses during painful and non-painful procedures. Develops a model of vocal soothing and tests it for its ability to provide comfort to pre-term infants undergoing painful procedures. Measures pain using the Premature Infant Pain Profile Revised.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1562  
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Author Mackle, Diane url  openurl
  Title Oxygen management in New Zealand and Australian intensive care units: A knowledge translation study Type Book Whole
  Year 2021 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (up) 299 p.  
  Keywords Oxygen therapy; Intensive Care Units (ICU); Intensive care nurses; ICU patients  
  Abstract Investigates the effects of participation in the Intensive Care Unit Randomised Trial Comparing Two Approaches to Oxygen therapy (ICU-ROX) randomised controlled trial, on attitudes and practices in relation to ICU oxygen therapy. Distributes a practitioner attitudes survey to 112 specialist doctors and 153 ICU nurses. Performs both inception and retrospective cohort studies using the Australian and NZ ICU adult patient database before, and post-publication of the ICU-ROX trial results.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1766  
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Author Officer, Tara N. url  openurl
  Title Nurse practitioners and pharmacist prescribers in primary health care: A realist evaluation of the New Zealand experience Type Book Whole
  Year 2018 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (up) 301 p.  
  Keywords Nurse practitioners; Primary health care; Advanced nursing practice; Pharmacist prescribers  
  Abstract Investigates how nurse practitioner and pharmacist prescriber roles are developing in NZ primary health care, and what is needed to better support the future development of these roles. Employs a qualitative research design involving semi-structured interviews of (1) policy, training, and advocacy stakeholders; (2) primary health-care nurse practitioners, pharmacist prescribers, and general practitioners; and (3) patients of advanced practitioners and carers of patients using such services.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1693  
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Author Wilkinson, Jillian Ann url  openurl
  Title The New Zealand nurse practitioner polemic : a discourse analysis : a thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand Type Book Whole
  Year 2007 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (up) 308 pp.  
  Keywords Nurse practitioners; Nursing history; Advanced nursing practice; Nursing identity; Discourse analysis; Nursing regulation; Surveys  
  Abstract Traces the development of the nurse practitioner role in NZ since its establishment in 2001, using a discourse analytical approach to examine those discourses that have defined the role. Employs both textual and discursive analysis of texts from published literature and from nine interviews with individuals influential in the evolution of the role. Examines political perspectives and disciplinary practices dating back to the Nurses Registration Act of 1901. Considers the implications of an autonomous nursing profession in both practice and regulation.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1614  
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