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Litchfield, M. |
| Title |
Viewpoint: Telling nursing stories |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
1994 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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2 |
Issue  |
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. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1321 |
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Litchfield, M.; Noroian, E. |
| Title |
Changes in selected pulmonary functions in patients diagnosed with myasthenia gravis |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
1989 |
Publication |
Journal of Neuroscience – Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
21 |
Issue |
6 |
Pages |
375-381 |
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| Abstract |
Patients with myisthenia gravis (MG) face major pulmary problems as a part of the disease process. In this descriptive study, changes in selected pulmonary functions (respiratory rate, negative inspiratory force, tidal volume and forced total capacity) in 14 patients diagnosed with mild or moderate MG were measured every two hours from 8.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. Females comprised 64% of the sample while 36% were males. All subjects received anticholnesterase medication, and some subjects received additional treatment modalities. Most of the subjects were non-smokers or previous smokers, but two subjects continued to smoke. Ninety-three recent of the sample had forced vital capacities less than 60% of their predicted values. Myasthenic forced vital capacities were significantly lower (p=.0000) than those predicted for normal subjects. The inspiratory force for the sample was low sat 8:00 a.m. as well as in females over 55 years of age. There was a wide variation in total volume to normal values derived from random tables and predicted equations ws not significant. Th major implications from this study are the need to assess pulmonary function in the hospitalized myasthenic every two hours, and the need for a program of coughing, deep breathing and sighing after medication administration when the muscles are strongest |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 370 |
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370 |
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| Author |
Litchfield, M. |
| Title |
Nursing education: Direction with purpose |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
1991 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
84 |
Issue |
7 |
Pages |
22-24 |
| Keywords |
Nursing education |
| Abstract |
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| Call Number |
NZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1316 |
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| Author |
Litchfield, M. |
| Title |
Priorities for research |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
1993 |
Publication |
kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
1 |
Issue |
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. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1320 |
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| Author |
Litchfield, M. |
| Title |
The process of nursing partnership in family health |
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1997 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
University of Minnesota Library |
| Volume |
4 |
Issue |
9 |
Pages |
23-25 |
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| Abstract |
The study reconceptualises the process of nursing practice where health is expanding consciousness. The praxis methodology and design derive from the findings of the previous study (Litchfield, 1993) through which a framework for personal practice was articulated. The philosophical premises were hermeneutic and dialogic reflecting a narrative orientation within a participatory paradigm. Ontology and epistemology merge and language is fundamental. The findings from this subsequent study depict the process of modeling practice as a tetrahedron to show inter-relatedness of four facets, each defined completely by the others: partnership, dialogue, pattern recognition and health as dialectic. Five young families with complex health circumstances were preferred by Plunket Nurses and visited at hole to talk about health and the family. Th e process of health patterning ended with indication of insight as the potential for action; the partnership ended as the closure of the initial contract to provide a summary text to the family. Transformative change in family living was identified. The continuous analysis of the scripts of the evolving conversations and summary text showed the relational, dialogic processes were identified as vision – finding purpose to act in the here-and-now against the backdrop of past and potential of the future; and community – a sense of being connected, participant and relevant in society. This process of research, as if practice, presented health and caring as synonymous and core of the discipline of nursing |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 385 |
Serial |
385 |
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| Author |
Litchfield, M. |
| Title |
Professional development: Developing a new model of integrated care |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
1998 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
4 |
Issue |
9 |
Pages |
23-25 |
| Keywords |
Nursing models; Nurse practitioners; Policy; Nurse-family relations |
| Abstract |
An overview of the model of nursing practice and nurse roles derived through a programme of nursing research in the context of the policy and strategies directing developments in the New Zealand health system. The emphsis was on the health service configuration model presented diagrammatically to show the position of a new role of family nurse with a distinct form of practice forming the hub. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1324 |
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