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Author Farr, A.M. openurl 
  Title Satisfaction in nursing: Reality in a secondary hospital in New Zealand Type
  Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal Otago Polytechnic library. A copy can be obtained by contacting pgnursadmin@tekotago.ac.nz  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords (up) Job satisfaction; Nursing; Hospitals  
  Abstract 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.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 743  
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Author Tewin, Maureen Heather url  openurl
  Title Exploring the impact of the lung cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist role on patient care in a regional hospital in New Zealand Type Book Whole
  Year 2015 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 193 p.  
  Keywords (up) Lung cancer; Clinical nurse specialist; Patient care; Standards of care; Hospitals  
  Abstract Distributes a questionnaire to 50 members of the multidisciplinary team within a regional lung cancer service to investigate the impact of an advanced nursing role within the team. Performs an audit of five months of clinical data relating to patients cared for by the lung cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist as judged against the MOH Standards of Service Provision for Lung Cancer Patients in New Zealand .  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1576  
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Author Lyford, S.; Cook, P. openurl 
  Title The Whanaungatanga model of care Type Journal Article
  Year 2005 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 21 Issue 2 Pages 26-36  
  Keywords (up) Maori; Hospitals; Nursing models  
  Abstract The authors introduce the Kaupapa nursing service at Te Puna Hauora, Tauranga Hospital. It implements an indigenous health model, the Whanaungatanga Model of Care, to guide nursing practice. This paper describes the concept of care it applies to serving its Maori population and the role of the Kaiawhina Social Worker. The authors highlights the interface between primary and secondary care after patients are discharged. The authors address the shortfall of Maori practitioners in the nursing service and the aims of a year-long pre-entry Kaupapa Health Professional Programme.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 538  
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Author Barber, A.; Charleston, A.; Anderson, N.; Spriggs, D.; Bennett, D.; Bennett, P.; Thomas, K.; Baker, Y. url  openurl
  Title Changes in stroke care at Auckland Hospital between 1996 and 2001 Type Journal Article
  Year 2004 Publication New Zealand Medical Journal Abbreviated Journal Access is free to articles older than 6 months  
  Volume 117 Issue 1190 Pages  
  Keywords (up) Multidisciplinary care teams; Nursing specialties; Hospitals  
  Abstract The researchers repeat the 1996 audit of stroke care in Auckland Hospital to assess changes in stroke management since the introduction of a mobile stroke team. The audit prospectively recorded information for all patients with stroke from 1 June to 30 September 2001. They describe the work of the stroke team physician and the specialist stroke nurse and allied health staff who coordinate the multidisciplinary care of patients. Variables examined include time to arrival and medical assessment, investigations, acute management, inpatient rehabilitation, and stroke outcome. The researchers then describe recent developments in stroke care and the impact of the stroke service on patient management.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 544  
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Author Scott, S.; Johnson, Y.; Caughley, B. openurl 
  Title An evaluation of the new graduate orientation programme: Introduced at Capital Coast District Health Board's Wellington Hospital in March 1998 Type Report
  Year 2003 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords (up) New graduate nurses; Hospitals  
  Abstract This report presents a longitudinal research study which evaluated the effectiveness of the twelve months New Graduate Orientation Programme introduced at Capital Coast District Health Board's Wellington Hospital in March 1998. The programme was implemented to assist new nursing graduate's transition into the role of registered nurse. The evaluation project took place over a three-year period. Three annual intakes of new graduates enrolled in the New Graduate Orientation Programme were surveyed by questionnaire on their completion of the programme.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1156  
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Author Seldon, Lucy A url  openurl
  Title Non-pharmacological Methods in Relieving Children's Pain in Hospital: a pilot study Type Book Whole
  Year 2017 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 72 p.  
  Keywords (up) Non-pharmacological; Pain relief; Pain; Hospitals; Paediatric nurses; Children  
  Abstract Adapts the questionnaire used in three international studies of the utilisation of non-pharmacological methods of post-operative pain management for paediatric surgical patients, and distributes it to registered nurses working in a paediatric surgical ward in one district health board (DHB) hospital. Discusses the non-pharmacological methods used and how they correlate with international literature.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1559  
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Author Gray, H.J. openurl 
  Title Clinician or manager: An exploration of duty management in New Zealand hospitals Type
  Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords (up) Nurse managers; Administration; Scope of practice; Hospitals  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 741 Serial 727  
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Author Crawford, R. openurl 
  Title An exploration of nurses' understanding of parenting in hospital Type
  Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords (up) Nurse-family relations; Children; Hospitals; Parents and caregivers  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 812 Serial 796  
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Author Chenery, K. url  openurl
  Title 'Can mummy come too?' Rhetoric and realities of 'family-centred care' in one New Zealand hospital, 1960-1990 Type
  Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords (up) Nurse-family relations; Policy; Hospitals; History of nursing; Paediatric nursing  
  Abstract This study explores the development of 'family-centred care' in New Zealand as part of an international movement advanced by 'experts' in the 1950s concerned with the psychological effects of mother-child separation. It positions the development of 'family-centred care' within the broader context of ideas and beliefs about mothering and children that emerged in New Zealand society between 1960 and 1980 as a response to these new concerns for children's emotional health. It examines New Zealand nursing, medical and related literature between 1960 and 1990 and considers both professional and public response to these concerns. The experiences of some mothers and nurses caring for children in one New Zealand hospital between 1960 and 1990 illustrate the significance of these responses in the context of one hospital children's ward and the subsequent implications for the practice of 'family-centred care'. This study demonstrates the difference between the professional rhetoric and the parental reality of 'family-centred care' in the context of one hospital children's ward between 1960 and 1990. The practice of 'family-centred care' placed mothers and nurses in contradictory positions within the ward environment. These contradictory positions were historically enduring, although they varied in their enactment.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1206  
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Author Davies, B. url  openurl
  Title Same person different nurse: A study of the relationship between nurse and patient based on the experience of shifting from secondary care to home-based nursing Type
  Year 2008 Publication Abbreviated Journal Research Archive at Wintec  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords (up) Nurse-patient relations; Communication; Hospitals; Home care  
  Abstract This study focuses on power themes in the nurse-patient relationship. The study is a critical reflection of the author's practice using a humanistic perspective from Hartrick Doane and Varcoe's (2005) model of relational family practice. It reviews the literature relating to power relationships in communication between nurses and patients and compares the ability to provide relational care in the home with hospital care. Practice examples demonstrate the shift in power relationships that the author had noticed since changing roles from hospital based to home care nursing. This is related to cultural, socio-environmental, historical and traditional influences on power in communication. The study is based on her reflection of the paradigm shift in her practice. Her practice moved from a problem solving approach to an empowerment, strengths based approach within partnership. The ethical challenges of discussing her practice in relation to clients has been managed by scrambling patient data so that it is not related to a single person and is focused on the author's nursing practice.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1195 Serial 1180  
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Author Hunt, M. openurl 
  Title Nurses can enhance the pre-operative assessment process Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 12 Issue 10 Pages 20-22  
  Keywords (up) Nursing specialties; Clinical assessment; Hospitals; Surgery  
  Abstract This reports on an initiative at Whakatane Hospital, where a Nurse-Led pre-assessment (NLPA) was delivered at an outpatients clinic. NLPA involves taking a comprehensive medical history, a nursing assessment, physical examination, airway assessment, ordering appropriate investigations and carefully documenting the process and results. More valuably, it provides an opportunity for the patient to participate in planning their care. The aim of this initative was to short circuit delays and congestion in existing pre-assessment clinics, streamline the pre-assessment process and reduce the number of patient visits to hospital. Reducing cancellations of surgery (often on the day of surgery) and “did not appear” (DNA) numbers were also objectives. After a small pilot, a six-month trial was funded by the Ministry of Health. Over the six-month trial, 373 patients attended NLPA; 178 patients required anaesthetist review before surgery, and 198 could proceed directly to surgery following NLPA. An anonymous postal survey was made of patients, who indicated satisfaction with the service. Other outcomes are discussed, and the trial was deemed successful. Follow up plans have been disrupted by restructuring at the hospital and the clinic has yet to be implemented.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1005 Serial 989  
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Author Buisman, B. openurl 
  Title Nursing 2020: How will 'Magnet' hospitals fit in? Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Nursing Journal Northland Polytechnic Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 10 Issue Pages 33-41  
  Keywords (up) Nursing; Leadership; Hospitals  
  Abstract Nursing shortages, technology, advances in genetics and the knowledge explosion are trends that have an influence on the nursing profession in the future. This article will examine these trends and give an overview of what it may be like to nurse in an acute-care hospital in the year 2020. The impact of leadership, management and political influences will also be discussed. The American concept of 'Magnet' hospitals will be described as one possible solution to the issues that affect the nursing profession in New Zealand.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1209 Serial 1194  
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Author Mossop, M.D. openurl 
  Title Older patients' perspectives of being cared for by first year nursing students Type
  Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords (up) Older people; Nurse-patient relations; New graduate nurses; Hospitals  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1135 Serial 1120  
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Author Manning, J. openurl 
  Title Skin-to-skin care of the very low birth weight infant: Taking a risk and making it happen Type
  Year 2007 Publication Abbreviated Journal Otago Polytechnic library. A copy can be obtained by contacting pgnursadmin@tekotago.ac.nz  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords (up) Paediatric nursing; Premature infants; Nursing; Hospitals  
  Abstract Parent-infant skin-to-skin care has become an advocated aspect of care in neonatal intensive care units nationally within New Zealand and internationally. However the implementation of this care by nurses can be limited by a number of factors within the practice environment. This dissertation presents a critical analysis of literature alongside reflection on the author's own practice experience to explore factors that may be constraining the use of skin-to-skin care with the very low birth weight infant in the neonatal intensive care unit. These factors are examined through a lens of risk taking behaviour underpinned by the grounded theory work of Dobos (1992). The concept of risk is explored in order to develop an understanding of why, in the author's view, the practice of skin-to-skin care of very low birth weight infants may have declined in recent years. For neonatal nurses skin-to-skin care of the very low birth weight infant presents challenges related to the environment, physiological stability of the infant and changes over the past 10 years in the clinical management of very low birth weight infants. As progress is made toward the design, development and eventual move to a new unit in Dunedin recommendations pertaining to the change in physical space, the introduction of a structured model for nursing care and implications for nursing practice development in relation to skin-to-skin care are described.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 800  
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Author Smart, S. url  openurl
  Title Post-operative pain management knowledge and attitude of paediatric nurses: A New Zealand regional view Type
  Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords (up) Pain management; Paediatric nursing; Hospitals; Pharmacology  
  Abstract This research explored the knowledge and attitudes towards paediatric post-operative pain, within the New Zealand context of small regional hospitals. It established how nurses working in these areas obtain and update their paediatric pain management knowledge, and what is it that influences their paediatric post-operative pain management practices. A questionnaire survey of registered nurses working in three small paediatric units (5 to 12 beds), in regional secondary service hospitals was undertaken. The survey had a 79% (n=33) response rate. Findings corroborate many findings in previously published literature including that nurses do well in questions related to assessment. However pharmacological knowledge continues to be lacking. Results also indicated that while nurses have a good understanding about who is the best person to rate pain, this wasn't carried through in the clinical scenarios provided. Education is clearly an important factor in improving the knowledge and attitudes needed in clinical practice. While this survey was somewhat limited, both in size and in that a clear correlation between the results and actual clinical practice could not be made, results are significant for the areas surveyed and for the development of pain education for nurses.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1194 Serial 1179  
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