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Author French, P.
Title Nursing registration: A time to celebrate? Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication (up) Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7 Issue 8 Pages 17-19
Keywords History of nursing; Interprofessional relations; Physicians; Nursing philosophy
Abstract This article examines the knowledge and power relationships between the medical profession and nurses during the first half of the twentieth century. It argues that the 1901 Nurses' Registration Act allowed doctors to exert control over the nursing profession and that the hierarchal structure of the profession contributes to the culture of control and surveillance.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1029 Serial 1013
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Author Horsburgh, M.; Lamdin, R.; Williamson, E.
Title Multiprofessional learning: The attitudes of medical, nursing and pharmacy students to shared learning Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication (up) Medical Education Abbreviated Journal
Volume 35 Issue 9 Pages 876-883
Keywords Nursing; Education; Students; Interprofessional relations
Abstract This study has sought to quantify the attitudes of first-year medical, nursing and pharmacy students' towards interprofessional learning, at course commencement. The Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale (RIPLS) (University of Liverpool, Department of Health Care Education), was administered to first-year medical, nursing and pharmacy students at the University of Auckland. Differences between the three groups were analysed. The majority of students reported positive attitudes towards shared learning. The benefits of shared learning, including the acquisition of teamworking skills, were seen to be beneficial to patient care and likely to enhance professional working relationships. However professional groups differed: nursing and pharmacy students indicated more strongly that an outcome of learning together would be more effective teamworking. Medical students were the least sure of their professional role, and considered that they required the acquisition of more knowledge and skills than nursing or pharmacy students.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 719
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Author Pullon, S.; McKinlay, E.M.
Title Interprofessional learning: The solution to collaborative practice in primary care Type Journal Article
Year 2007 Publication (up) New Zealand Family Physician Abbreviated Journal The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners website
Volume 34 Issue 6 Pages 404-408
Keywords Interprofessional relations; Education; Primary health care; Communication
Abstract In this paper the authors outline the basis of interprofessional education, which occurs when members of two or more professions are engaged in learning together. They describe its relationship to primary care clinical practice, where it can lead to collaborative problem-solving approaches, mutual decision making and interdisciplinary teamwork. A New Zealand model of postgraduate interprofessional education is presented. Barriers to the implementation of interprofessional education in New Zealand are identified along with possible solutions.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 458
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Author Minto, R.
Title The future of practice nursing Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication (up) New Zealand Family Physician Abbreviated Journal
Volume 33 Issue 3 Pages 169-172
Keywords Primary health care; Interprofessional relations; Professional development; Physicians; Practice nurses
Abstract The author describes and discusses the main barriers to practice nurses achieving their potential as a profession. She identifies key obstacles as the funding model, GP attitudes and the current employment model. Shared governance, the development of a patient-centred services, and new employment models are proposed as the basis of a new model of primary care delivery.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 537 Serial 523
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Author Richardson, S.; Ardagh, M.; Hider, P.
Title New Zealand health professionals do not agree about what defines appropriate attendance at an emergency department Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication (up) New Zealand Medical Journal Abbreviated Journal Access is free to articles older than 6 months, and abstracts.
Volume 119 Issue 1232 Pages
Keywords Hospitals; Clinical assessment; Interprofessional relations
Abstract This study aims to examine the concept of 'inappropriate' emergency department attendances in relation to the emergency department at Christchurch Hospital. It specifically seeks to determine whether there is a consensus opinion among healthcare providers regarding a definition of 'inappropriate'. An exploratory survey of health professionals involved with the referral, assessment, transport, and treatment of emergency department patients in Christchurch was carried out. A range of health professionals, including ambulance personnel, general practitioners, emergency department physicians, emergency nurses, and hospital managers were approached. A series of questions relating to definition and response to 'inappropriate' patients was asked, with an additional open-ended question relating to the definition of 'appropriateness'. The researchers found significant differences in the attitudes and perceptions of key health professionals involved in the referral, treatment, and admission of patients to the emergency department. This has implications for any interventions aimed at addressing emergency department 'overcrowding' that assume the presence of a consensus understanding of this concept.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 526
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Author Mackay, B.
Title General practitioners' perceptions of the nurse practitioner role: An exploratory study Type Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication (up) New Zealand Medical Journal Abbreviated Journal Access is free to articles older than 6 months, and abstracts.
Volume 116 Issue 1170 Pages
Keywords Nurse practitioners; Physicians; Interprofessional relations; Primary health care
Abstract This study explores perceptions of general practitioners in the Northland District Health Board (NDHB) regarding the nurse practitioner role, identifying their knowledge of and perceived problems with that role, and their experience of nurses in advanced practice. A purposive sample of all 108 general practitioners in NDHB was undertaken, with a response rate of 46.3%. General practitioners favourably viewed nurse practitioner functions traditionally associated with nursing, such as health teaching, home visiting, obtaining health histories, and taking part in evaluation of care, but less favourably viewed those functions associated with medicine, such as prescribing, ordering laboratory tests, and physical assessment. While expecting few problems with patient acceptance, the general practitioners felt that funding and doctors' acceptance would be problematic. Most general practitioners indicated they had knowledge of the nurse practitioner role and had experienced working with a nurse in advanced practice, but some uncertainty and lack of knowledge about the nurse practitioner role was evident. The author recommends more education and discussion with Northland general practitioners to ensure they are fully informed about the nurse practitioner role and its potential positioning in primary healthcare, to reduce uncertainty, minimise role confusion and promote collaboration between general practitioners and nurse practitioners.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 557
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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 (up) Nursing Inquiry Abbreviated Journal
Volume 14 Issue 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 Carryer, J.B.; Boyd, M.
Title The myth of medical liability for nursing practice Type Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication (up) Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 19 Issue 4-12 Pages 4-12
Keywords Interprofessional relations; Law and legislation; Nurse practitioners; Advanced nursing practice
Abstract This article explores the complex nature of liability in the case of standing orders and vicarious liability by employers, and also when nurses and doctors are in management roles. The authors address misconceptions about medico-legal responsibility for nursing practice with the advent of nurse prescribers and nurse practitioners. They refer to the submission made by the College of Nurses Aotearoa (NZ) on the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act (2003), and discuss practice liability and nurse-physician collaboration.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 624 Serial 610
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Author Brasell-Brian, R.; Vallance, E.
Title Clinical practice/education exchange: Bridging the theory-practice gap Type Journal Article
Year 2002 Publication (up) Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 18 Issue 1 Pages 17-26
Keywords Education; Interprofessional relations
Abstract This article positions clinical practice/education exchange (CPEE) within nursing literature and presents narrative accounts from a nurse educator and clinician who exchanged jobs for one year. This type of exchange, between education institutes and service areas where students are placed, is a new concept. The aim is to enhance student learning and facilitating meaningful links between theory and practice for them.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 613
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Author Jones, B.
Title Neonatal nurse practitioners: A model for expanding the boundaries of nursing culture in New Zealand Type Journal Article
Year 1999 Publication (up) Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 14 Issue 3 Pages 28-35
Keywords Advanced nursing practice; Neonatal nursing; Interprofessional relations
Abstract This article outlines the development of the neonatal nurse practitioner role in New Zealand as an example of one advanced practice nursing role. A model of how nursing culture changes to include roles that incorporate components that historically have been considered the domain of other health professionals is proposed. This article outlines some of the issues surrounding the neonatal nurse practitioner role, including the educational requirements for this role in New Zealand.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 659 Serial 645
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Author Dredge, A.
Title An insider's view of professional nursing and care management of the critically ill patient Type Journal Article
Year 1999 Publication (up) Vision: A Journal of Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 5 Issue 8 Pages 13-16
Keywords Intensive care nursing; Interprofessional relations; Registered nurses
Abstract This article explores the role of the registered nurse (RN) in the critical care environment. It presents the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) as a unique environment, with a specific relationship to technology, and a history that mirrors scientific development. It explores the tensions for a caring profession with a distinct culture practising in a highly medicalised, acute environment, and affirms the value of quality human care.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1302 Serial 1287
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