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Author Litchfield, M.
Title Priorities for research Type Journal Article
Year 1993 Publication kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 1 Issue (down) 8 Pages 28-30
Keywords Nursing research
Abstract An article adapted from the author's contribution as an invited member of the International Panel of Nurse Researchers leading the Special Research Seminar of the 1993 International Council of Nurses Quadrennial Congress, Madrid, Spain. The priorities of nursing research in New Zealand were derived from the findings of a semi-structured survey of the opinions of nurses in academic settings.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1320
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Author Tielemans, W.
Title Encouraging young women to have regular smear tests Type Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 14 Issue (down) 7 Pages 16-18
Keywords Nursing research; Sexual and reproductive health; Screening; Attitude to health; Cancer
Abstract The author presents the results of a study carried out as part of a research project with two nurse researchers from Maastricht University in the Netherlands. The aim of this study was to examine awareness among female students aged 18 to 25 about cervical cancer and to identify factors associated with their decision or intention to enter the cervical screening programme. Students aged 18-25 were recruited from four tertiary institutions in the Wellington region. A questionnaire was available online and distributed by student health centres and the researchers. Questions covered the following areas: intentions, attitude, knowledge, awareness, modelling, and support systems and efficacy. Data was analysed using descriptive statistics, multiple regression and independent t-tests. The findings are presented, and factors associated with intention and participation in cervical screening are discussed. The results indicate that the information concerning the national screening programme needs to be adjusted for the different age groups.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 984
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Author Spence, D.
Title Experiencing difference in nursing Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7 Issue (down) 5 Pages 13-15
Keywords Transcultural nursing; Nursing research
Abstract Draws on the author's doctoral thesis to examine the prejudices, paradoxes and possibilities inherent in nursing a person from a culture other than one's own.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1045 Serial 1029
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Author Webby, A.
Title Should non-Maori research and write about Maori? Type Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 14 Issue (down) 5 Pages 20-21
Keywords Maori; Nursing research
Abstract The author examines the complexities surrounding non-Maori nurse researchers working on Maori issues. She suggests that as long as respect and observation of Maori processes is shown, and work is undertaken collaboratively with Maori, then such a role is appropriate.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1046 Serial 1030
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title Thinking through diagnosis: Process in nursing practice Type Journal Article
Year 1986 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 1 Issue (down) 4 Pages 9-12
Keywords Diagnosis; Nursing philosophy; Nursing research
Abstract A paper following on from the paper “Between the idea and reality” (Nursing Praxis in New Zealand 1(2), 17-29) proposing the focus for the discipline of nursing – practice and research – is diagnosis. For nursing practice, diagnosis is a practice that collapses “The Nursing Process”; for research to develop nursing practice, diagnosis is one continuous relational process that merges and makes the separate tasks od assessment, intervention and evaluation redundant.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1314
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Author Gage, J.; Hornblow, A.R.
Title Development of the New Zealand nursing workforce: Historical themes and current challenges Type Journal Article
Year 2007 Publication Nursing Inquiry Abbreviated Journal
Volume 14 Issue (down) 4 Pages 330-334
Keywords History of nursing; Nursing research; Personnel; Interprofessional relations
Abstract This article reviews the development of the New Zealand nursing workforce, which has been shaped by social, political, scientific and interprofessional forces. The unregulated, independent and often untrained nurses of the early colonial period were succeeded in the early 1900s by registered nurses, with hospital-based training, working in a subordinate role to medical practitioners. In the mid/late 1900s, greater specialisation within an expanding workforce, restructuring of nursing education, health sector reform, and changing social and political expectations again reshaped nursing practice. Nursing now has areas of increasing autonomy, expanding opportunities for postgraduate education and leadership roles, and a relationship with medicine, which is more collaborative than in the past. Three current challenges are identified for nursing in New Zealand's rapidly evolving health sector; development of a nursing-focused knowledge culture, strengthening of research capacity, and dissemination of new nursing knowledge.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 946 Serial 930
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Author Gaskin, C.J.; O'Brien, A.P.; Hardy, D.J.
Title The development of a professional practice audit questionnaire for mental health nursing in Aotearoa/New Zealand Type Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication International Journal of Mental Health Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 12 Issue (down) 4 Pages 259-270
Keywords Professional competence; Psychiatric Nursing; Clinical decision making; Nursing research
Abstract This paper reports the three-stage development of a professional practice audit questionnaire for mental health nursing in Aotearoa/New Zealand. In Study 1, clinical indicator statements (n = 99) generated from focus group data, which were considered to be unobservable in the nursing documentation in consumer case notes, were included in a three-round Delphi process. Consensus of ratings occurred for the mental health nurse and academic participants (n = 7) on 83 clinical indicator statements. In Study 2, the clinical indicator statements (n = 67) that met importance and consensus criteria were incorporated into a questionnaire, which was piloted at a New Zealand mental health service. The questionnaire was then modified for use in a national field study. In Study 3, the national field study, registered mental health nurses (n = 422) from 11 New Zealand district health board mental health services completed the questionnaire. Five categories of nursing practice were identified: professional and evidence-based practice; consumer focus and reflective practice; professional development and integration; ethically and legally safe practice; and culturally safe practice. Analyses revealed little difference in the perceptions of nurses from different backgrounds regarding the regularity of the nursing practices. Further research is needed to calibrate the scores on each clinical indicator statement with behaviour in clinical practice.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1064
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Author Paton, B.; Martin, S.; McClunie-Trust, P.; Weir, N.
Title Doing phenomenological research collaboratively Type Journal Article
Year 2004 Publication Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing Abbreviated Journal Wintec Research Archive
Volume 35 Issue (down) 4 Pages 176-181
Keywords Qualiltative research; Nursing research; New graduate nurses
Abstract The purpose of this article is twofold. The first is to clarify some of the challenges experienced while conducting collaborative research and describe the steps taken to ensure consistency between the purpose of the research and the phenomenological research design used to explore the learning that nursing students acquire in their final clinical practicum. Second, it was thought that by illuminating this learning, registered nurses working as preceptors and those supporting new graduates could gain insight into the complexities of learning the skills of safe and competent practice from the student's perspective. This insight is essential in creating a strategy between education and practice to minimise the duplication of learning opportunities and lessen the cost of supporting newly registered nurses, which may be at the expense of investment in the professional development of experienced registered nurses.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1202
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title Viewpoint: Telling nursing stories Type Journal Article
Year 1994 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 2 Issue (down) 4 Pages 28
Keywords Nursing research; Ethics; Patient rights
Abstract A brief critique and comment on the ethical implications of nurse researchers using methodology that involves soliciting personal experiences of patients and subsequently publishing them as stories.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1321
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Author Giddings, D.L.S.
Title Mixed-methods research: Positivism dressed in drag Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication Journal of Research in Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 11 Issue (down) 3 Pages 195-203
Keywords Methodology; Nursing research
Abstract The author critiques the claim that mixed method research is a third methodology, and the implied belief that the mixing of qualitative and quantitative methods will produce the 'best of both worlds'. The author suggests that this assumption, combined with inherent promises of inclusiveness, takes on a reality and certainty in research findings that serves well the powerful nexus of economic restraint and evidence-based practice. The author argues that the use of the terms 'qualitative' and 'quantitative' as normative descriptors reinforces their binary positioning, effectively marginalising the methodological diversity within them. Ideologically, mixed methods covers for the continuing hegemony of positivism, albeit in its more moderate, postpositivist form. If naively interpreted, mixed methods could become the preferred approach in the teaching and doing of research. The author concludes that rather than the promotion of more co-operative and complex designs for increasingly complex social and health issues, economic and administrative pressures may lead to demands for the 'quick fix' that mixed methods appears to offer.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 717
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Author Clear, G.M.; Carryer, J.B.
Title Shadow dancing in the wings: Lesbian women talk about health care Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 17 Issue (down) 3 Pages 27-39
Keywords Sexuality; Patient satisfaction; Nursing research; Quality of health care; Feminist critique
Abstract A participatory approach, grounded in both critical social and feminist research, was used in this study of seven women who claim being lesbian as part of their identity. With the objective of providing information to enhance safe care provision for this marginalised group, the study explored factors which hindered or facilitated these women's sense of safety related to health care. The findings indicate that barriers to receiving health care exist for these women. As there is little local or international research on lesbians and healthcare, this work offers a starting place for future New Zealand nursing research involving lesbians. The authors encourage other nurses to explore previously ignored sections of our society in order to strive for safety for all those whom nursing serves.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 843
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Author Drake, M.
Title The sonata form of musical composition as a framework for thesis writing Type Journal Article
Year 2004 Publication Contemporary Nurse Abbreviated Journal
Volume 16 Issue (down) 3 Pages 252-258
Keywords Nursing research; Nursing; Education
Abstract This article introduces an innovation in writing master's level research and suggests that other structures may offer new and different frameworks for reporting nursing research. This is exemplified by reference to an example of nursing research which adopted the sonata form of musical composition as the framework for presentation of the thesis.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 876
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Author Kirkham, S.; Smye, V.; Tang, S.; Anderson, J.; Blue, C.; Browne, A.; Coles, R.; Dyck, I.; Henderson, A.; Lynam, M.J.; Perry, J.(see also C.); Semeniuk, P.; Shapera, L.
Title Rethinking cultural safety while waiting to do fieldwork: Methodological implications for nursing research Type Journal Article
Year 2002 Publication Research in Nursing & Health Abbreviated Journal
Volume 25 Issue (down) 3 Pages 222-232
Keywords Cultural safety; Hospitals; Health behaviour; Culture; Nursing research
Abstract The authors trace a series of theoretical explorations, centered on the concept of cultural safety, with corresponding methodological implications, engaged in during preparation for an intensive period of fieldwork to study the hospitalisation and help-seeking experiences of diverse ethnocultural populations.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1078
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Author Jonsdottir, H.; Litchfield, M.; Pharris, M.
Title The relational core of nursing practice as partnership Type Journal Article
Year Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 47 Issue (down) 3 Pages 241-250
Keywords Nurse-patient relations; Nursing philosophy; Nursing research
Abstract This article elaborates the meaning of partnership in practice for nurses practising in different and complementary way to nurses in specialist roles and medical practitioners. It positions partnership as the relational core of nursing practice. Partnership is presented as an evolving dialogue between nurse and patient, which is characterised by open, caring, mutually responsive and non-directive approaches. This partnership occurs within a health system that is dominated by technologically-driven, prescriptive, and outcome-oriented approaches. It is the second of a series of articles written as a partnership between nurse scholars from Iceland, NZ and USA.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1188 Serial 1173
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Author Lockett, Jessica
Title Emergency Department pandemic preparedness: Putting research into action Type Journal Article
Year 2021 Publication Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 37 Issue (down) 3 Pages 20-21
Keywords COVID-19; Emergency department; Pandemic planning; Nursing research
Abstract Reflects on the introduction of COVID-19 screening protocols for all patients and visitors accessing the Emergency Department (ED) of the hospital where the author was on the senior leadership team. Having just completed research into the perspectives of emergency nurses on pandemic preparedness, shows how these perspectives were incorporated into the protocols.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1727
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