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Shanks, A. |
Title |
Stories within stories: What are client stories and how do community mental health nurses work with them? |
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2006 |
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Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Mental health; Psychiatric Nursing; Nurse-patient relations |
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There is limited nursing research as to how mental health nurses work with client stories. Furthermore mental health nurses have not been asked how they would define a client story within their practice. Client's stories allow promotion of the storyteller's experience leading to increased self awareness by supporting growth, and personal development of the individual through exploration of their experience. While listening and working with these stories, mental health nurses are able to interpret, reframe and validate the experiences and meanings disclosed over time. Three community mental health nurses were interviewed about how they identified client stories within their clinical practice. They explained how they created an environment for stories to be told, and worked to enhance meanings, and view alternative possibilities by 'carrying' the story until the client was ready to explore it. By working and understanding stories, mental health nurses were able to work collaboratively with the client to provide humanistic care. Themes of therapeutic relationship, purposeful use of self, and narrative as therapy were identified within the nurse's stories, providing an understanding of how mental health nurses practice. This study was framed by narrative inquiry and influenced by Riessman and Polkinghorne. Core stories are presented from the analysis of the nurses stories about how they defined 'story' and worked with the client stories. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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738 |
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Lindsay, N.M. |
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Skeletal attraction: Childcare provisions and the recruitment and retention of orthopaedic nurses in New Zealand |
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2006 |
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Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Recruitment and retention; Nursing specialties |
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New Zealand's ageing population is predicted to have increasing degenerative musculoskeletal changes affecting both mobility and morbidity. In response, the New Zealand government is supporting a one hundred per cent increase in the number of elective joint replacements performed across the country from 2004 to 2008. However, like other specialties, orthopaedic nursing is experiencing shortages. In order to improve the recruitment and retention of orthopaedic nurses, as with other nursing specialties, childcare is offered as a strategy for consideration. In 2005, New Zealand parents indicated in an online survey, that in order for them to work, they needed affordable, quality and conveniently located childcare. Nurses have similarly indicated the importance of childcare when considering and managing a balance between their work and home lives. This paper explores contextual work and home life balance dialogues in relationship to nursing recruitment and retention issues and New Zealand nursing. Childcare as a recruitment and retention strategy, is explored in the context of New Zealand nursing and compared with the childcare strategies employed for nurses by Britain and Australia – New Zealand's major competitors for New Zealand nurses. The author concludes that, in light of the international shortage of nurses, childcare is an important recruitment and retention strategy which is currently absent in many of New Zealand's district health boards. Recommendations are offered to support the balance between work and home life for nurses and reconcile orthopaedic nurses to the clinical setting in order to provide the quality and efficient care that is needed for New Zealand's ageing society. |
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740 |
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Evans, S. |
Title |
Silence kills: Communication around adverse events in ICU |
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2006 |
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Otago Polytechnic library. A copy can be obtained by contacting pgnursadmin@tekotago.ac.nz |
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Intensive care nursing; Communication; Interprofessional relations |
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The aim of this dissertation is to assess the preventability or reduction of adverse events in the intensive care unit (ICU) through a literature review. Research shows the ICU is at high risk for errors, nevertheless there is a huge gap between knowing something should be done and applying this knowledge to practice. That being the case, this dissertation identifies and discusses several proven and transferable quality improvement proposals. These include: instituting anonymous error reporting; documentation of a daily goal-of-care; a nurse as ICU team co-ordinator; conflict resolution processes and communication training for all ICU staff. NThe author concludes that nurse-doctor collaboration requires the support of medicine, with recognition of the unique contribution nurses make to patient safety. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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741 |
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Gray, L.-M. |
Title |
Should I stay or should I go? An examination into the Plunket Nurses' perception of the employment environment |
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2006 |
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Unitec Library |
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Recruitment and retention; Community health nursing; Plunket |
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Participants for this study consisted of six Plunket Nurses from three Plunket operations areas within the North Island, varying in experiences from two to twenty three years, working with both urban and rural communities. |
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742 |
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Farr, A.M. |
Title |
Satisfaction in nursing: Reality in a secondary hospital in New Zealand |
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2006 |
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Otago Polytechnic library. A copy can be obtained by contacting pgnursadmin@tekotago.ac.nz |
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Job satisfaction; Nursing; Hospitals |
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The focus for this research was nursing culture satisfaction and intent to remain working within a secondary hospital in the New Zealand public healthcare system. A specific group of 117 registered and enrolled nurses were surveyed to identify what issues would encourage them to remain working within the organisation. Descriptive data derived from the Nursing Culture Satisfaction Questionnaire found higher levels of job satisfaction and intention to stay from the staff in operating theatre, compared to other surveyed areas. Factors reported as contributing to job satisfaction included supportive, friendly staff, teamwork, and organisation size. Important issues regarding recruitment and retention include pay parity, personal satisfaction, conditions of employment, the valuing of staff and poor nurse patient ratios. Findings suggest that hospital management should foster positive work environments and respect, to promote job satisfaction and discourage nurses leaving the organisation. While pay parity was a large issue at the time of the questionnaire, the inclusion of the district health board in the nurse Multi Employer Collective Agreement may have reduced this as a contributing factor. |
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743 |
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Author |
Howie, L. |
Title |
Rural nursing practice in context |
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2006 |
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Otago Polytechnic library. A copy can be obtained by contacting pgnursadmin@tekotago.ac.nz |
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Rural nursing |
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Although it is accepted in rural nursing literature that the context shapes nursing practice there is limited opportunity to gain an understanding of how this occurs. This dissertation addresses this issue. Firstly, by employing a social geographical lens to define and examine the dynamic, evolving rural context and secondly, by considering the nursing concepts that arise from those contextual factors that relate directly to rural societal health needs. Defining 'rural' is essential when describing or debating rural nursing practice in context. However, there remains no universally accepted definition of 'rural'. Despite this and even though each location is individually specific, there are socio-cultural, occupational, ecological and health aspects that are common and bespeak rural society. These aspects have been developed into a Rural Framework Wheel as a visual reference to demonstrate the substantial influences which impact on nursing practice within the rural context. The framework encapsulates the distinctive dimensions that are hallmarks of rural nursing practice. Nurses can therefore use the framework to express concisely their individualised practice and competence by employing the two broad themes that have emerged from the literature; that of 'nursing per se' and 'partnership'. The Rural Framework Wheel is recommended as a paradigm to critique the practice of rural nurses from an educational, employment, research and political perspective. It is advocated that this framework be used by rural nurses to describe their practice and therefore to express the distinctiveness of the rural nursing identity. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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744 |
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Medlin, E. |
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Practice nursing: An autoethnography: Changes, developments and influences |
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2006 |
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Otago Polytechnic library. A copy can be obtained by contacting pgnursadmin@tekotago.ac.nz |
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Practice nurses; Community health nursing |
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Practice nurses work in general practice providing an increasingly autonomous service to consumers of primary health care. Autoethnography is a biographical method of research that describes personal experience in terms of society and culture and is the theoretical foundation of personal narratives and storytelling. Throughout history, stories have been used as a means of communicating and learning which with reflection, allows new meanings to develop for all participants. This autoethnography is the author's story of practice nursing and it discusses her experience of being a practice nurse over the past 12 years. It is autobiographical and reflexive and charts the changes that she has found in her practice during this time. Some of these changes have arisen from influences personal to her practice, others because of influences on practice nursing in general, but all are intertwined. Education and professional development, leadership and government policies are identified as the major influences on her practice. A discussion of these influences enables recognition of the changes, advancement and expansion of services thereby allowing others to share the experience and find meaning within it. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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745 |
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Dorofaeff, M.J. |
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Shared status and advocating practices: Nurses who work with clients who have a co-existing intellectual disability and mental health problem |
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2007 |
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Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Mental health; Psychiatric Nursing |
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This research is informed by the interpretive phenomenology of van Manen, and explores the lived experience of nursing from the perspective of nurses who provide care for people with a co-existing intellectual disability and mental health problem. Although nursing research is commonly informed by phenomenology, there is a dearth of literature of any description written from the perspective of nurses who provide care for people with intellectual disabilities and mental health problems. As a result of the closure of many large institutions in New Zealand there are not many nurses who work with people who have intellectual disabilities and co-existing mental health problems. The study participants were four nurses purposefully selected because they provided care for people with intellectual disabilities and mental health problems. Data was collected using semi-structured interviews, and the researcher identified and wrote about the recurring themes in the transcribed interview data, which best captured the lived experience of the participants. The themes were: criticism of services, holistic caring, working with the client, issues of status, need for specialist knowledge, enduring relationships, diagnostic issues, advocating, modelling good practice; and working alongside. After further analysis the themes were encompassed within the larger interrelated themes of “Status and positioning” and “Advocating practices”, and finally within a single theme of: “The status and positioning of the nurse and the client leads to advocating practices.” These themes were found to be consistent with the nursing literature and with the researcher's own lived experience as a nurse who works in a specialist mental health intellectual disability service. The findings of this research have implications for a number of groups in New Zealand. Among the author's conclusions are that input is required from the Nursing Council of New Zealand, the nursing profession, nurse educators and the government to raise the status of clients with co-existing intellectual disabilities and mental health problems and the nurses who work with this client group. In addition, the roles for nurses who work with this client group are emerging and are likely to be diverse and there is a need for further research to capture the different experiences of these nurses. |
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747 |
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Author |
Roulston, E. |
Title |
Storytelling: The story of my advancing rural nursing journey |
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2008 |
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Jean Ross (Ed.), Rural nursing: Aspects of practice (pp. 57-65) |
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Rural nursing; Nursing philosophy; Scope of practice |
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The author takes a storytelling approach to describe her advancing practice as a registered nurse in a rural context. She adapted a theoretical 'reflective learning through storytelling' framework, from McDrury and Alterio (2002). The framework includes the concepts of reflection, learning, knowledge and experience which is related to professional practice and one's self. |
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751 |
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Horner, C. |
Title |
Emergency health provision and maintaining competency |
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Book Chapter |
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2008 |
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Jean Ross (Ed.), Rural nursing: Aspects of practice (pp. 125-136) |
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Ministry of Health publications page |
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Rural nursing; Professional competence; Emergency nursing |
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This chapter focuses on issues associated with rural nursing and the provision of emergency care for patient(s) located remotely from secondary hospital services. All emergencies have diverse characteristics, but the rural practitioner also contends with having sole practice, professional and geographical isolation, and the lack of regular experience. The chapter reviews the PRIME (Primary Response in Medical Emergency) recommendations and training, and looks in particular at the issues around the maintenance of competency for the rural nurse providing emergency on call health care that includes managing medical and accident emergencies in the absence of a medical practitioner. |
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756 |
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Robertson, A.M. |
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Rural women and maternity services |
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Book Chapter |
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2008 |
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Jean Ross (Ed.), Rural nursing: Aspects of practice (pp. 179-97) |
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Ministry of Health publications page |
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Midwifery; Rural nursing; Professional competence; History of nursing |
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The author discusses the roles that nurses undertake in response to rural communities' health needs, focusing on the provision of maternity service. The author reviews structural changes such as the 1990 Amendment to the Nurses Act 1977 which, the author suggests, introduced a climate of professional rivalry, changes in funding that cut back general practitioners in the field, and the development of Lead Maternity Carers. Despite controversial developments, New Zealand maternity services have evolved to include a unique and internationally respected model of midwifery care. However, the author highlights several areas that limit the positive contribution of rural nurses and midwives. These include workforce recruitment and retention, equity of access, and issues around maintaining competency and education. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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761 |
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Hennephof, R. |
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Preceptorship and mentoring |
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Book Chapter |
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2005 |
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J. McDrury (Ed.), Nursing matters: A reader for teaching and learning in the clinical setting (pp. 27-45) |
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Preceptorship; Mentoring; Nursingp; Education |
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This paper reviews international and local nursing literature on preceptorship and mentoring. This includes an exploration of ways in which these two terms are defined, a discussion of the essential qualities needed to undertake such roles, and an examination of appropriate preparation and exploration of the ways in which registered nurses can be supported when engaged in providing these roles. At the end of the chapter, discussion questions are provided by Joc Parkes. |
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765 |
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Manning, J. |
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Formative assessment: Using feedback to enhance learning |
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Book Chapter |
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2005 |
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J. McDrury (Ed.), Nursing matters: A reader for teaching and learning in the clinical setting (pp. 47-65) |
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Evaluation; Teaching methods; Nursing; Education |
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This paper explores the literature surrounding the development, definition, process and value of formative feedback. In particular, this review considers how formative assessment can be used by a clinical educator in the practice setting. At the end of the chapter, discussion questions are provided by Rebecca Hennephof. |
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766 |
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Author |
Latta, L. |
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Reflective storytelling to enhance learning from practice experience |
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Book Chapter |
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2005 |
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J. McDrury (Ed.), Nursing matters: A reader for teaching and learning in the clinical setting (pp.67-82). |
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Terminal care; Palliative care; Teaching methods; Nursing |
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The author looks at the value of using reflective storytelling as a teaching/learning tool in the hospice setting and examines constructs that provide a theoretical underpinning. She also outlines processes that support the implementation of storytelling practice and the creation of a safe space for storytelling. At the end of the chapter, discussion questions are provided by Janice McDrury. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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767 |
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Bishop, J. |
Title |
Motivation: An essential element of learning |
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Book Chapter |
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2005 |
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J. McDrury (Ed.), Nursing matters: A reader for teaching and learning in the clinical setting (pp. 83-100) |
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Motivation; Nursing models; Nursing; Education |
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The author defines extrinsic and intrinsic motivators, describes motivational theories, and introduces Wlodkowski's Motivational Framework, which is specifically developed for adult learners. She goes on to explore the implementation of this model within a nursing education context. At the end of the chapter, discussion questions are provided by Janice McDrury. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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768 |
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