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Author Lynes, H. openurl 
  Title Partnership or collaboration? Exploring professional relationships between public health nurses and school staff in Otago, New Zealand Type
  Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Otago Polytechnic library. A copy can be obtained by contacting pgnursadmin@tekotago.ac.nz  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords (down) Public health; Nursing; Nurse-family relations; School nursing  
  Abstract School staff are a conduit by which children and families can access the public health nursing service and the public health nurses can access children and their families. The author notes that, to benefit children, public health nurses need more than knowledge of health issues; they need to understand how to work well with staff from the education sector. A good professional relationship between public health nurses and school staff will therefore ultimately result in a benefit to children's health. This thesis reviews the literature using an interpretive lens to examine the position of public health nurses and schools. It argues that public health nurses need to access expertise from other sources besides nursing in order to develop and sustain the skills of relating professionally to staff from the education sector. It proposes collaboration as a model of public health nursing practice with school staff but recognises that further research on inter-sectorial collaboration is necessary.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 836  
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Author Heap, J. openurl 
  Title Enuresis in children and young people: A public health nurse approach in New Zealand Type Journal Article
  Year 2004 Publication Journal of Child Health Care Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages 92-101  
  Keywords (down) Public health; Nursing specialties; Children; Adolescents  
  Abstract This article discusses a child/adolescent-centred primary nocturnal enuresis program and service that is administered by a group of public health nurses in South Auckland. Enuresis is the involuntary passing of urine. Many children and adolescents who are nocturnal enuretics exhibit behaviours such as low self-esteem, withdrawal, less ambition and increased anxiety. These children are often low achievers within the school system and become a problem for their family and school.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 708 Serial 694  
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Author Hansen, C. openurl 
  Title Professional practice attributes within public health nursing Type
  Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords (down) Public health; Nursing  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 868 Serial 852  
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Author O'Brien, A.P.; Boddy, J.M.; Hardy, D.J.; O'Brien, A.J. openurl 
  Title Clinical indicators as measures of mental health nursing standards of practice in New Zealand Type Journal Article
  Year 2004 Publication International Journal of Mental Health Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 778-788  
  Keywords (down) Psychiatric Nursing; Professional competence; Administration; Quality of health care; Mental ealth  
  Abstract This paper discusses the utility of Consumer Notes Clinical Indicators (CNCI) as a means to monitor mental health nursing clinical practice against the Australian and New Zealand College of Mental Health Nurses' (ANZCMHN) Standards of Practice for mental health nursing in New Zealand. CNCI are statements describing pivotal mental health nursing behaviours for which evidence can be found in the nurses' case notes. This paper presents 25 valid and reliable CNCI that can be used to monitor mental health nursing practice against the ANZCMHN's Standards of Practice for mental health nursing in New Zealand. The bicultural clinical indicators were generated in focus groups of Maori and non-Maori mental health nurses, prioritised in a three-round reactive Delphi survey of expert mental health nurses and consumers, pilot tested, and applied in a national field study. This paper reports the development and validation of the CNCI, for which achievement is assessed by an audit of the nursing documentation in consumer case notes. The CNCI were tested in a national field study of 327 sets of consumer case notes at 11 district health board sites. The results of the national field study show wide variation in occurrence of individual indicators, particularly in the areas of informed consent, information about legal rights, and provision of culturally safe and recovery-focused care. The authors discuss the implications of using the CNCI to assess the professional accountability of mental health nurses to provide quality care. Recommendations are made regarding the application of the clinical indicators and future research required, determining appropriate benchmarks for quality practice. The CNCI could be adapted for application in other mental health nursing and other mental health professional clinical settings.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1059  
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Author Joyce, M. url  openurl
  Title The Strengths Perspective: Relevance and application to mental health nursing and crisis resolution work Type
  Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords (down) Psychiatric Nursing; Nursing models; Evidence-based medicine  
  Abstract This research paper aims to explore the contribution of the Strengths Perspective to mental health nursing practice. The Strengths Perspective emerged from the area of social work and is primarily concerned with emphasising the strengths and resources of the person, as they define them. The premise is that if a person is able to identify and call on those strengths then he or she is able to improve the quality of their life. The paper outlines the historical, philosophical and moral foundations of the Strengths Perspective and discusses the humanistic approach to mental health nursing. The aim is to demonstrate that the Strengths Perspective and mental health nursing have a strong alignment, particularly with regard to a person-centred approach to care. The influence and constraints of the biomedical model on both mental health nursing and strengths based practice is a theme of the paper. The contention is that the biomedical or pathological approach to care can often disable, not enable consumers of health care, whereas an approach that centres on a person and their strengths is more likely to empower and liberate. The paper concludes with a discussion of themes that emerged from reflection on the literature and propositions are then made about how mental health nurses might orientate their thinking and practice to utilise the Strengths Perspective to augment their clinical work.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1185  
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Author Clayton, J.R. openurl 
  Title The recovery of hope: A personal journey through paradigms toward emancipatory practice Type
  Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords (down) Psychiatric Nursing; Mental health; Teaching methods; Nursing philosophy  
  Abstract This study traces the author's transition from being a mental health nurse to becoming a facilitator of an education programme, the Health and Wellbeing course, for those in recovery from mental illnesses. Within this transition, she describes a journey from disease-focused paradigms toward emancipatory paradigms, evidenced by her application of the recovery approach to her teaching. The 'recovery approach' proposed by the Mental Health Commission in November 1998, and other models of health, are explored using the methodology of descriptive/interpretive philosophical inquiry, autobiographical narrative and a dialectical research design. The author draws from the philosophies of phenomenology and existentialism to present excerpts from her journals, exemplars, poetry and artwork which illuminate epiphanies occurring as she integrates health paradigms in the design of the Health and Wellbeing course. Within this process the recovery approach is revealed as being consistent with the teaching principles of the Health and Wellbeing course. The author goes on to say that the dialectical research design reveals paradoxes and transformations in nursing, medical, psychological, and humanistic paradigms within the New Zealand socio-political context from the 1970s to 2003. The way these are integrated into her practice as an educator, becomes evident in the dialectical research cycles of being, thinking, developing a project, the encounter of teaching, making sense and communication. These cycles reveal her being in the roles of nurse and educator and the thinking through of paradigms that lead to the design and philosophy of a Health and Wellbeing course, the encounter of teaching, and the communication of insights gained. The author's main objective is to show the importance of nurses and educators developing a reflective consciousness when working with sufferers of mental illness. This reflective consciousness involves three levels: The primary level, or raw experience; the social level, or our socio-political contexts and social values, and, the realised level, insights gained about knowledge and experience.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 854  
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Author Walsh, K.; McAllister, M.; Morgan, A.; Thornhill, J. openurl 
  Title Motivating change: Using motivational interviewing in practice development Type Journal Article
  Year 2004 Publication Practice Development in Health Care Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 3 Issue 2 Pages 92-100  
  Keywords (down) Psychiatric Nursing; Hospitals; Motivation; Older people  
  Abstract The present paper draws on experiences and insights gained by a group of psychiatric nurse practice development facilitators whilst working with consumers, carers, clinicians and managers in the context of a practice development programme in a large metropolitan psychiatric hospital. The paper describes how the practice development facilitators were able to adapt techniques of motivational interviewing, commonly used in drug and alcohol treatment services, to help motivate change in an aged care setting. The lessons embedded within this experience are that people do want change, and that sustained change requires ownership and support. Practice development facilitators can assist in this process though the use of principles and strategies of motivational interviewing, which include increasing awareness of the need for change, supporting self-efficacy and managing resistance to change.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 718  
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Author Codlin, K.C. openurl 
  Title Mental health nurses and clinical supervision: A naturalistic comparison study into the effect of group clinical supervision on minor psychological disturbance, job satisfaction and work-related stress Type
  Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords (down) Psychiatric Nursing; Clinical supervision; Stress; Job satisfaction; Mental health  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 845 Serial 829  
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Author Maxwell-Crawford, K. url  openurl
  Title Huarahi whakatu: Maori mental health nursing career pathway Type Report
  Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (Trm/04/15) Issue Pages  
  Keywords (down) Professional development; Careers in nursing; Maori; Psychiatric nursing; Mental Health  
  Abstract Huarahi whakatu describes a pathway for recognising the expertise of nurses working in kaupapa Maori mental health services and recommends a professional development programme that can lead to advancement along the pathway. An emphasis on dual competencies – cultural and clinical – underlies the rationale for regarding kaupapa Maori mental health nursing as a sub-specialty. Eight levels of cultural competencies and twelve levels of clinical competencies are used to differentiate career stages and it is recommended that movement from one level to another should be matched by increased remuneration. The report also contains a recommended professional development programme to support the operationalisation of the career pathway.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 824  
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Author Clendon, J. openurl 
  Title Demonstrating outcomes in a nurse-led clinic: How primary health care nurses make a difference to children and their families Type Journal Article
  Year 2004 Publication Contemporary Nurse Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 18 Issue 1-2 Pages 164-176  
  Keywords (down) Primary health care; School nursing; Nurse managers  
  Abstract The study outlined here explored outcomes from the provision of primary health care to children aged 5-13 years in a nurse-led clinic based in a primary school in Auckland. This multi-faceted study collected both qualitative and quantitative data, however it is the results of the quantitative arm of the study that are presented here. Data were collected from a variety of sources concerning conditions seen, age and ethnicity of users, types of services provided and impact on hospital usage. Findings demonstrate that the provision of comprehensive primary health care by the nurse at the clinic impacts positively on hospital visitation by children from the area where the clinic is located.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 947  
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Author Heese, Norma openurl 
  Title Report: Margaret May Blackwell Travel Fellowship 2004 Type Report
  Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 45p.  
  Keywords (down) Primary health care; Child health services; Reports  
  Abstract Covers the placements the author visited and the topics learned whilst undertaking travel in the UK after being awarded the 2003 Margaret May Blackwell Travel Study Fellowship. Of specific interest was Well Child Care in Primary Health. Part of the Margaret May Blackwell Scholarship Reports series.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1412  
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Author Bailey, A.M. openurl 
  Title The New Zealand practice nurse in the primary health environment of the 21st century Type
  Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords (down) Policy; Practice nurses; Primary health care  
  Abstract This paper is a culmination of the author's inquiry, reflection and critical thinking on the transitional phase that practice nursing is currently undergoing as part of the New Zealand Primary Health Strategy. The paper utilises both reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action as well as reflection-before-action, as a process. The author's starting point for this inquiry was attending the New Zealand Nurses Organisation Primary Health Conference in Wellington and reading a report from the Expert Advisory Group on Primary Health Care Nursing. Knowing that practice nurses are the majority of nurses working in primary health, she was concerned that changes to primary health were being driven with little reference or participation by them. The paper explores how practice nursing evolved in New Zealand and the developments that have occurred in the 30 plus years since its inception. It describes the role and current work of practice nursing in general practice, and highlights the constraints that have held back development and continue to do so. The 2002 New Zealand Primary Health Strategy is shown to provide an opportunity for development and enhancement, if some of the constraints are removed. As part of looking to the future the possibilities for practice nurses to lead the way in primary health development are explored.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 831  
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Author Malcolm, H. openurl 
  Title Patient privacy in a shared hospital room: Right or luxury? Type Journal Article
  Year 2004 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 20 Issue 1 Pages 28-35  
  Keywords (down) Patient rights; Law and legislation; Nursing; Hospitals  
  Abstract In this article the author discusses the New Zealand legislation aimed at protecting the individual's right to privacy and concludes that practice may place healthcare consumers' rights at risk. While patient privacy should be of concern to all health professionals, the focus here is on the nurse's role in relation to recently formulated competencies published by the Nursing Council of New Zealand, which includes the recommendation that care be seen to exhibit an awareness of healthcare consumers' rights to privacy alongside the expectation that nurses question practices that compromise patient privacy.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 562 Serial 548  
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Author Cavanagh, C. url  openurl
  Title Dignity and palliative care: A search to discover the true meaning of the concept of “dying with dignity” Type
  Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords (down) Palliative care; Nursing; Case studies; Nurse-patient relations; Terminal care  
  Abstract This paper presents an exploration of a foundational goal of palliative care nursing which is to help patients die with dignity. The paper presents this practice exploration as a journey to gain understanding of the concept of dignity; the author notes that it does not avoid the difficulties encountered in practice situations because dying with dignity is unique and curiously also invisible and different for everyone. Much of human life is conducted through stories and much of nursing involves telling and listening to stories. Many of our social institutions are comprised almost entirely of opportunities for telling and retelling stories. Nurses are constantly listening to patients telling them what is going on in their lives and because of this the stories related here are written bold and raw. The three stories explore and reveal in-depth details of nursing practice that evolved and changed after reflection. The paper also reveals and explores the untold and often painful stories that challenge nurses' capacity to offer dignified care. To deepen the exploration towards discovering ways to articulate the complexity of dignity, the author reflected on the nature of the practice changes documented in the stories and then used a range of diverse literature and her love of the paintings and philosophy of a New Zealander, Ralph Hotere, to support her ideas that dignity is indeed a complex phenomenon.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 595  
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Author Falleni, P.M. openurl 
  Title Whakaata ikei runga manaaki: Reflection on caring Type Journal Article
  Year 2004 Publication International Journal of Palliative Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 10 Issue 8 Pages 390-392  
  Keywords (down) Palliative care; Nursing  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1073 Serial 1058  
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