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Author Simon, V.N.
Title Characterising Maori nursing practice Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication (up) Contemporary Nurse Abbreviated Journal
Volume 22 Issue 2 Pages 203-213
Keywords Registered nurses; Maori; Nursing models; Culture
Abstract This paper summarises research which addresses the question What might constitute Maori nursing practice? The research design adopted was influenced by kaupapa Maori methodology and used a semi-structured, qualitative, in-depth interview process. It was found that by understanding the current experiences of Maori registered nurses, their reflections on their preparation for practice, and their current practice, it is possible to identify the present and future training and practice needs of Maori nurses. Maori nursing practice can be characterised as having five features: the promotion of cultural affirmation including cultural awareness and identity; the support of, and access to Maori networks; the adoption of Maori models of health; the enabling of visibility and pro-activity as Maori nurses; and, the validation of Maori nurses as effective health professionals. Three recommendations for promoting Maori nursing practice are made in relation to staff in the workplace and in nurse education programmes: all nursing staff need to be alert to: 1. the impact of western scientific models on Maori healthcare; 2. the (often passive) non-acceptance of Maori within mainstream institutions; and iii) the benefits of valuing indigenous nursing programmes.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 936
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Author Koorey, R.
Title Is there a place for clinical supervision in perioperative nursing? Type Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication (up) Dissector Abbreviated Journal
Volume 35 Issue 4 Pages 15-17
Keywords Nursing models; Clinical supervision; Nursing specialties
Abstract This article explores the concept of clinical supervision and outlines a brief history of implications for nursing practice. Models of clinical supervision are outlined and examples of how they may be applicable to the clinical setting of perioperative nursing are provided.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 928
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Author Bishop, D.; Ford-Bruins, I.
Title Nurses' perceptions of mental health assessment in an acute inpatient setting in New Zealand: A qualitative study Type Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication (up) International Journal of Mental Health Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 12 Issue 3 Pages 203-212
Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Clinical assessment; Attitude of health personnel; Nursing models
Abstract This qualitative study explores the perceptions of mental health nurses regarding assessment in an acute adult inpatient setting in Central Auckland. Fourteen mental health nurses took part in semi-structured interviews answering five open-ended questions. The analysis of data involved a general inductive approach, with key themes drawn out and grouped into four categories (roles, attitudes, skills and knowledge) in order to explore the meaning of information gathered. The outcome of the study acknowledged the importance of contextual factors such as the physical environment and bureaucratic systems, as well as values and beliefs present within the unit. The participants expressed concern that their input to assessment processes was limited, despite belief that 24-hour care and the nature of mental health nursing generally suggested that a crucial role should exist for nurses. In order for nurses to be established as central in the assessment process on the unit the study concludes that a nursing theoretical framework appropriate for this acute inpatient setting needs to be developed.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1082 Serial 1067
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Author Bishop, J.
Title Motivation: An essential element of learning Type Book Chapter
Year 2005 Publication (up) J. McDrury (Ed.), Nursing matters: A reader for teaching and learning in the clinical setting (pp. 83-100) Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Motivation; Nursing models; Nursing; Education
Abstract 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.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 768
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Author Howie, L.
Title Contextualised nursing practice Type Book Chapter
Year 2008 Publication (up) Jean Ross (Ed.), Rural nursing: Aspects of practice (pp. 33-49) Abbreviated Journal Ministry of Health publications page
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Rural nursing; Nursing models; Nursing research
Abstract This is the first of three chapters that describe nursing practice. The author presents the Rural Framework Wheel to elaborate aspects of the rural context. The Framework comprises four systems which describe aspects of rurality; being are socio-cultural, occupational, ecological, and health. These systems each comprise of subsystems, which provide a detailed analysis of the way nursing practice is particular in diverse rural settings. The Framework is presented as a work in progress, and is grounded in international nursing literature. It highlights rural nursing as a unique and challenging field, with the dominant themes of partnership and nursing emerging as underpinning the practice when nurses live and work in small, sometimes isolated communities.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 766 Serial 750
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Author Crowe, M.
Title Psychiatric diagnosis: Some implications for mental health nursing care Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication (up) Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 53 Issue 1 Pages 125-131
Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Diagnosis; Culture; Gender; Socioeconomic factors; Nursing models
Abstract This article explores some of the functions of psychiatric diagnosis and the implications this has for mental health nursing care. It critiques the psychiatric diagnosis as a categorisation process that maintains oppressive power relations within society, by establishing and enforcing normality through gender, culture and class biases. The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is used to illustrate some of the inherent biases in the diagnostic process. The author argues that mental health nursing practice needs to demonstrate an awareness of the power relations inherent in any diagnostic process and make attempts to redress these at both the individual and sociopolitical levels. To create a true patient-centred partnership in mental health nursing, the nursing focus should be on the patient's experience rather than the psychiatric diagnosis with which the experience is attributed. NB this is a reprint of article first published in Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2000 Mar; 31(3), 583-9.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 837
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Author Carter, H.; MacLeod, R.; Brander, P.; McPherson, K.
Title Living with a terminal illness: Patients' priorities Type Journal Article
Year 2004 Publication (up) Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 45 Issue 6 Pages 611-620
Keywords Terminal care; Quality of life; Nursing models; Cancer
Abstract The aim of this paper is to report on an exploratory, qualitative study exploring what people living with terminal illness considered were the areas of priority in their lives. Ten people living with terminal cancer were interviewed. Analysis of the interviews incorporated principles of narrative analysis and grounded theory. Over 30 categories were identified and collated into five inter-related themes (personal/intrinsic factors, external/extrinsic factors, future issues, perceptions of normality and taking charge) encompassing the issues of importance to all participants. Each theme focused on 'life and living' in relation to life as it was or would be without illness. Practical issues of daily living and the opportunity to address philosophical issues around the meaning of life emerged as important areas. The central theme, 'taking charge', concerned with people's levels of life engagement, was integrally connected to all other themes. The findings suggest that the way in which health professionals manage patients' involvement in matters such as symptom relief can impact on existential areas of concern. The findings challenge some aspects of traditional 'expert-defined' outcome measures. As this was an exploratory study, further work is needed to test and develop the model presented.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1061
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Author Polaschek, N.
Title Negotiated care: A model for nursing work in the renal setting Type Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication (up) Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 42 Issue 4 Pages 355-363
Keywords Chronically ill; Nursing models; Nurse-patient relations; Communication
Abstract This article outlines a model for the nursing role in the chronic health care context of renal replacement therapy. Materials from several streams of literature are used to conceptualise the potential for nursing work in the renal setting as negotiated care. In order to present the role of the renal nurse in this way it is contextualised by viewing the renal setting as a specialised social context constituted by a dominant professional discourse and a contrasting client discourse. While performing specific therapeutic activities in accord with the dominant discourse, renal nurses can develop a relationship with the person living on dialysis, based on responsiveness to their subjective experience reflecting the renal client discourse. In contrast to the language of noncompliance prevalent in the renal setting, nurses can, through their relationship with renal clients, facilitate their attempts to negotiate the requirements of the therapeutic regime into their own personal life situation. Nurses can mediate between the dominant and client discourses for the person living on dialysis. Care describes the quality that nurses actively seek to create in their relationships with clients, through negotiation, in order to support them to live as fully as possible while using renal replacement therapy. The author concludes that within chronic health care contexts, shaped by the acute curative paradigm of biomedicine, the model of nursing work as negotiated care has the potential to humanise contemporary medical technologies by responding to clients' experiences of illness and therapy.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1186
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Author Cook, N.; Phillips, B.N.; Sadler, D.
Title The Tidal Model as experienced by patients and nurses in a regional forensic unit Type Journal Article
Year 2005 Publication (up) Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 15 Issue 5 Pages 536-540
Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Nursing models; Evaluation; Nurse-patient relations
Abstract This study looks at the effect of implementing the Tidal Model at Rangipapa, a regional secure mental health forensic unit. A phenomenological study was undertaken to obtain reflective description of the nursing care experience from the perspective's of four registered nurses and four “special patients”. Five major themes were identified that appeared to capture the experiences of the participants. The themes show changes to the unit's unique culture and values following implementation of the model. These changes engendered a sense of hope, where nurses felt they were making a difference and patients were able to communicate in their own words their feelings of hope and optimism. Levelling was experienced as an effect emerging from individual and group processes whereby a shift in power enhanced a sense of self and connectedness in their relationships. These interpersonal transactions were noted by the special patients as being positive for their recovery. This enabled effective nurse-patient collaboration expressed simply as working together. The participants reported a feeling of humanity, so that there was a human face to a potentially objectifying forensic setting. Implications arising from this study are that the use of the model enables a synergistic interpersonal process wherein nurses are professionally satisfied and patients are validated in their experience supporting their recovery.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 941
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Author O'Brien, A.J.
Title The therapeutic relationship: Historical development and contemporary significance Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication (up) Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages 129-137
Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Nursing models; History of nursing; Nurse-patient relations
Abstract This article examines the therapeutic relationship, a concept held by many to be fundamental to the identity of mental health nurses. While the therapeutic relationship was given formal expression in nursing theory in the middle of the last century, its origins can be traced to attendants' interpersonal practices in the asylum era. The dominance of medical understandings of mental distress, and the working-class status of asylum attendants, prevented the development of an account of mental health nursing based on attendants' relationships with asylum inmates. It was left to Peplau and other nursing theorists to describe mental health nursing as a therapeutic relationship in the 1940s and later. Some distinctive features of colonial life in New Zealand suggest that the ideal of the attendant as the embodiment of bourgeoisie values seems particularly unlikely to have been realised in the New Zealand context. However, New Zealand literature from the 20th century shows that the therapeutic relationship, as part of a general development of a therapeutic discourse, came to assume a central place in conceptualisations of mental health nursing. While the therapeutic relationship is not by itself a sufficient basis for professional continuity, it continues to play a fundamental role in mental health nurses' professional identity. The way in which the therapeutic relationship is articulated in the future will determine the meaning of the therapeutic relationship for future generations of mental health nurses.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1088
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Author DeSouza, R.
Title Wellness for all: The possibilities of cultural safety and cultural competence in New Zealand Type Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication (up) Journal of Research in Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 125-135
Keywords Cultural safety; Nursing models; Cross-cultural comparison; Maori
Abstract The author contends that responses to cultural diversity in nursing need to consider the theory and practice developments of the profession, whilst also responding to broader social and historical process that prevent marginalised groups from utilising universal health services. A combination of approaches is suggested in this paper to meet these two imperatives. Cultural safety is one indigenous New Zealand nursing approach derived in response to inequalities for Maori, whereas cultural competence is an imported paradigm derived from a multicultural context. Furthermore, research and dialogue are required to examine points of complementarity and tension. This paper offers a beginning for this process.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 943 Serial 927
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Author Hughes, F.; Farrow, T.
Title Caring for obese patients in a culturally safe way Type Journal Article
Year 2007 Publication (up) Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 13 Issue 4 Pages 14-16
Keywords Nursing models; Obesity; Cultural safety
Abstract The authors review the contemporary notion of obesity and suggest that the nursing approach, with an emphasis on treatment, are shaped by a culture located within “western” views of ideal body shape. The biomedical framework regards obesity as disease and obese people as the cause of their own health problems. The authors note varying cultural interpretations of obesity, and suggest that by viewing obesity as a disease, the cultural, social or economic determinants of obesity are not acknowledged. Nursing needs to broaden the concept of the categories of difference to respond in a culturally safe way to obesity. Cultural safety asks that nurses care for people “regardful” of difference. This means nurses must reflect on the care given, so that the biomedical model is not just replicated. Nurse-led clinics offer an opportunity for practices based on nursing values of care and cultural safety. Such clinics are based on nursing's social model of health, rather than a biomedical, disease-focused model.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 994 Serial 978
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Author Tritschler, E.; Yarwood, J.
Title Relating to families through their seasons of life: An indigenous practice model Type Journal Article
Year 2007 Publication (up) Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 13 Issue 5 Pages 18-3
Keywords Parents and caregivers; Nursing models; Nurse-family relations; Communication
Abstract In this article the authors introduce an alternative way that nurses can be with families, using a relational process that can enhance nurses' responses when working with those transitioning to parenthood. Seasons of Life, a framework adapted from the Maori health model He Korowai Oranga, emerged from practice to offer a compassionate and encouraging stance, while at the same time respecting each family's realities and wishes. The model allows the exploration of the transition to parenthood within a wellness model, and takes a strengths-based approach to emotional distress. This approach provides a sense of “normality”, rather than of pathology, for the emotions experienced by new parents. The specific issues men may face are discussed, where despite recent culture change that allows men a more nurturing parental role, there is still no clear understanding of how men articulate their sense of pleasure or distress at this time. Practitioners are encouraged to examine their own assumptions, values and beliefs, and utilise tools such as reflective listening, respect, insight and understanding. The most significant aspect of relationship between nurse and parents is not the outcome, but how nurses engage with families. Examples from practice will demonstrate some of the differing ways this relational process framework has been effective.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1007 Serial 991
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Author Wright, R.
Title Linking theory with practice Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication (up) Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7 Issue 2 Pages 14-15
Keywords Intensive care nursing; Nurse-family relations; Nursing models
Abstract This article describes the care of a brain-dead intensive care unit patient. The human caring theory of Jean Watson is used to interpret the interactions between family, patient and nurse in this case study. Watson's concepts of care are examined as they relate to each stage of caring for the patient and his family.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1012
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Author Russell, D.
Title Changing public health nursing practice Type Journal Article
Year 1999 Publication (up) Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 5 Issue 11 Pages 18-19
Keywords Public health; Community health nursing; Nursing models; Teamwork
Abstract A new approach to public health nursing in the Otago region is described, which comprises of 3 distinct groups of nurses working in early childhood centres, primary schools and high schools. A family nursing assessment approach is used. The philosophical underpinnings of this approach are examined, which seeks to empower patients and engage them in their health care. Two public health nurses are interviewed about the new partnership model of nursing.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1041 Serial 1025
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