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Author Lockett, Jessica url  openurl
  Title (down) Strategies and processes emergency department nurses consider important to safely manage during an influenza pandemic: a qualitative descriptive study Type Book Whole
  Year 2020 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 132 p.  
  Keywords Emergency departments; Emergency nursing; Infectious diseases; Epidemics; Strategic planning; Surveys  
  Abstract Explores what NZ Emergency Department (ED) nurses perceive as the biggest challenges to nursing care and staff safety during an influenza pandemic, in order to provide information on how to ensure the engagement of these nurses at the frontline of the pandemic response. Uses a qualitative descriptive design to allow an examination of the first-hand perspectives of ED nurses, gaining meaningful insights into a phenomenon little explored. Interviews 16 ED nurses about future pandemic planning at ED, DHB and government level.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1691  
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Author Roulston, E. openurl 
  Title (down) Storytelling: The story of my advancing rural nursing journey Type
  Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal Otago Polytechnic library. A copy can be obtained by contacting pgnursadmin@tekotago.ac.nz  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Rural nursing  
  Abstract The author tells a story to describe her advancing practice as a registered nurse practising in the rural context. Storytelling is a way to add to the growing knowledge of rural nursing practice in New Zealand. By sharing her rural nursing story through a storytelling framework, she suggests that other nurses may be in a position to utilise this framework and tell their own stories. She has adapted a formalised storytelling framework from McDrury and Alterio (2002). Concepts of the storytelling framework, including reflection, critical reflection and critiquing, can lead to new knowledge and understanding of nursing practice. Past experience is a component of this framework as are the concepts of surface and deep learning. In this way, nursing practice can be deconstructed then reconstructed for new knowledge to be obtained. The innermost thoughts and feelings of the nurse are an integral part of this whole process and need to be acknowledged. The author wanted to answer questions she asked of herself, namely, “how do I practise and how can I improve my practice for the benefit of my patients?” The rural context is expanded upon in her nursing story as this is where she practises as a registered nurse. Her various nursing roles, including advanced practice as a district nurse and rural nurse specialist, are described in depth as are the two areas where she has lived and worked as a rural nurse.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 737  
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Author Roulston, E. openurl 
  Title (down) Storytelling: The story of my advancing rural nursing journey Type Book Chapter
  Year 2008 Publication Jean Ross (Ed.), Rural nursing: Aspects of practice (pp. 57-65) Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Rural nursing; Nursing philosophy; Scope of practice  
  Abstract The author takes a storytelling approach to describe her advancing practice as a registered nurse in a rural context. She adapted a theoretical 'reflective learning through storytelling' framework, from McDrury and Alterio (2002). The framework includes the concepts of reflection, learning, knowledge and experience which is related to professional practice and one's self.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 751  
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Author Shanks, A. openurl 
  Title (down) Stories within stories: What are client stories and how do community mental health nurses work with them? Type
  Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Mental health; Psychiatric Nursing; Nurse-patient relations  
  Abstract There is limited nursing research as to how mental health nurses work with client stories. Furthermore mental health nurses have not been asked how they would define a client story within their practice. Client's stories allow promotion of the storyteller's experience leading to increased self awareness by supporting growth, and personal development of the individual through exploration of their experience. While listening and working with these stories, mental health nurses are able to interpret, reframe and validate the experiences and meanings disclosed over time. Three community mental health nurses were interviewed about how they identified client stories within their clinical practice. They explained how they created an environment for stories to be told, and worked to enhance meanings, and view alternative possibilities by 'carrying' the story until the client was ready to explore it. By working and understanding stories, mental health nurses were able to work collaboratively with the client to provide humanistic care. Themes of therapeutic relationship, purposeful use of self, and narrative as therapy were identified within the nurse's stories, providing an understanding of how mental health nurses practice. This study was framed by narrative inquiry and influenced by Riessman and Polkinghorne. Core stories are presented from the analysis of the nurses stories about how they defined 'story' and worked with the client stories.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 738  
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Author Giddings, D.L.S.; Smith, M.C. openurl 
  Title (down) Stories of lesbian in/visibility in nursing Type Journal Article
  Year 2001 Publication Nursing Outlook Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 49 Issue 1 Pages 14-19  
  Keywords Sexuality; Nursing; Identity; Work  
  Abstract A study of the life histories of five self-identified lesbian women in nursing is reported. A metastory of “In/Visibility” captured the essence of lesbians being the focus of intense scrutiny while at the same time feeling the pressure to keep their lifestyle and identity hidden from others. Seven story themes were elaborated: closeting of lesbianism in nursing, isolating and hiding from self and others, living a double-life, self-loathing and shame, experiencing discrimination from others, keeping safe, and threatening others who are closeted.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 844  
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Author Stewart, L. openurl 
  Title (down) Stories from Pacific Island nurses: Why do Pacific Island Bachelor of Nursing students not return to their own countries after being scholarship recipients? Type
  Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Pacific peoples; New graduate nurses; Students  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 618 Serial 604  
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Author Sadler, D. openurl 
  Title (down) Stigma, discrimination and a model for psychiatric mental health nursing practice Type
  Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Mental health; Psychiatric Nursing; Psychology  
  Abstract This paper seeks to understand the aetiology of stigma. The word stigma comes from the Greek language and refers to a brand, a mark of shame. Society has used this phenomenon to mark those who do not fit with the stereotypical virtual identity expected by a group. Stigma has persisted throughout the ages to enforce norms and sanction rules. Stigma is a term used to broadly define an attitude to negative attributes. It is a way of treating people that indicates to the individual, they are different from the norm. Research indicates the general population has discriminatory attitudes to those who have experienced mental illness. This discrimination impacts on the lives of those people. Their stories tell of shame, sadness and anguish. Families too, feel the ongoing effects of stigma. Psychiatric mental health professionals are said to perpetuate the discrimination arising from the stigma of mental illness. This is shown in the literature to persist through labelling and disempowering practices. The attitude of nurses in particular is critical to promoting healing environments. It is thought that a humanistic altruistic approach to nursing practice will help to eliminate discriminatory practice by nurses. It is hoped that this approach will create collaborative care that gives the individual the respect, response, choice and support they need to assist in recovering from mental illness.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 815 Serial 799  
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Author Idour, D.M.G. openurl 
  Title (down) Stepping beyond the known – the lived experience of returning registered nurse students: an interpretive descriptive study Type
  Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library, NZNO Library, UMI Disse  
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  Abstract A Heideggerian Hermeneutical Analysis (HHA) approach was used for a study of returning registered nurse students (RRNS) from a nursing/health management context. In essence a descriptive interpretive study the intent has been to unveil the common meanings embedded in the lived experience of RRNS return to formal (advanced) studies. The phenomenon or issue of interest was pursued in the form of a question: What is meaningful and significant for participant RRNS in their everyday world on re-engaging in formal (advanced) nursing studies?Research from the RRNS viewpoint is scarce, so the focus of the study was to understand what RRNS themselves found to be the highlights of the experience. Participants included RRNS coming from a management background and, therefore, very much at the cutting edge of rapid and continuing change in health care provision. In addition to personal and professional reasons for returning to study, what the narratives disclosed was the compelling need experienced by the RRNS to increase understanding of changing requirements in the workplace. They looked for new possibilities to transform management of nursing/health services and for learning experiences favorable to that purpose. A key aspect of their concern related to the interactive nature of their lived experience as a RRNS with the entire context of their everyday world, that is, with the connections and relations between the study-work-homespace.Fourteen RRNS from an established university nursing programme participated in an expended non-structured interviews lasting 60 – 90 minutes. The interviews were held during 1993 in places selected by participants, some in the home but mostly in the work setting. With the consent of the participants interviews were audiotaped and then transcribed. The texts (transcriptions) were analysed hermeneutically using Heideggerian phenomenology, a particular tradition of philosophy whose concern is the meaning of Being. The concern is to make visible participants' experience of their 'world'. In this instance, it was the everyday 'world' of the participant RRNS and the lived meanings of what they experienced on return to formal (advanced) studies. Hence everyday lived experience is the focus of attention in Heiedeggerian phenomenology. In this research approach what is sought is understanding not explanation. It is a premise of phenemenology that, in general, an understanding of the meaning and significance of the lived experience can be required from the 'things' (the phenomena under study) themselves. Approaching a participant as an expert by virtue of directly experiencing the phenomenon, is basic to phenomenology. Hermeneutic analysis of the texts of the participant RRNS affirmed the authenticity of those assumptions.The study revealed several common or major themes, two relational themes and one constitutive pattern were identified through the process of textual interpretation. The constitutive pattern expressing the full complexity of the relations and connections between the themes, was found to be present in all fourteen texts; the nature of a constitutive pattern being 'that it's always there'. The constitutive pattern 'Nursing is Dwelling in Thoughtful Concern as Context Calls Forth', emerged as the major finding of the study. This pattern witnesses to the pragmatism that is inherent in nursing and commonly found in nurses' responses to the challenges presented by continuing and rapid change. For the participant RRNS nursing had become a way of engaging their energies in the workplace as appropriate to a given place, time and culture. The two relational themes accent particular aspects of the constitutive pattern. 'Nursing' is a whole pile of things'; and 'Curriculum: Reflective Openness' reveal the inherent meanings of the constitutive pattern. Firstly, that nursing is diverse in practice and has many dimensions; and,, secondly, that a curriculum befitting the diversity of nursing requires us to constantly challenge ad test the learning experiences we provide for RRNS.The fourteen participants traversed diverse pathways to acquire the understanding and skills required for altered health care structures. Adopting new relationships and 'leaping-ahead' (Heidegger, 1962), to be able to see the whole picture of what was being experienced in nursing/health care, reveals the RRNS becoming-as interpreters for both colleagues and clients. Leaping-ahead is reflective of thoughtful concern as the pattern of responding to presenting need. This way of living a life transforms work. The participant RRNS disclose that, dwelling in such a way in nursing/health work opens up a future of possibilities which brings all the presenting needs into focus. Sharing the story of their lifeworld as RRNS, the participants have exemplified the ' reflective openness' Senge(1990) advocates, as being a pre-requisite for 'learning organisations'. Contemporary oganisations require us to challenge our own thinking as well as being free to speak our minds ('participant openness'). Since, however much we value our daily life practices and understandings, they need to be 'always subject to test and improvement'. In effect, what the participants have bestowed on us is that, within the framework of a curriculum for RRNS and the content learning of a given course, we must generate a process of learning amenable to both individual and group requirements  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 208 Serial 208  
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Author Lind, C.A. openurl 
  Title (down) Step by Step: the history of nursing education in Southland Type Miscellaneous
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 427 Serial 427  
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Author Davis, J.; Wiapo, C.; Rehana-Tait, H.; Clark, T.C.; Adams, S. url  openurl
  Title (down) Steadfast is the rock: Primary health care Maori nurse leaders discuss tensions, resistance, and their contributions to prioritise communities and whanau during COVID-19 Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 37 Issue 3 Pages 84-93  
  Keywords COVID-19; Primary health care; Maori nursing leadership; Maori communities  
  Abstract Recounts the experiences of 3 Maori nurses in a primary health entity in Northland, NZ as they negotiated with health providers and organisations to protect the health of Maori communities during the first lockdown, in 2020. Emphasises the role of matauranga Maori (Maori knowledge and tradition) in ensuring local Maori were prioritised in the pandemic response in the region.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1737  
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Author Henry, Amy url  openurl
  Title (down) Staying at home: A qualitative descriptive study on Pacific palliative health Type Book Whole
  Year 2020 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 137 p.  
  Keywords Palliative care; Pacific health; Community palliative care; Talanoa research methodology; Surveys  
  Abstract Develops an understanding of the experiences of, and barriers for Pacific peoples in Canterbury utilising palliative care services. Considers the strengths and enablers for Pacific peoples accessing palliative care services and how such services, including home based palliative care, could better serve this community. Undertakes interviews using a semi-structured question guide, with nine family members who had provided palliative care within the last three years.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1762  
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Author Vincent, N. openurl 
  Title (down) Starting late: problems and coping strategies of women who delay parenting until after the age of 40 years Type
  Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 401 Serial 401  
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Author Ha, I.; Huggard, P.; Huggard, J. openurl 
  Title (down) Staff support and quality of care provided by palliative care nurses: A systematic literature review Type Journal Article
  Year 2013 Publication Kai Tiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal Available through NZNO library  
  Volume 4 Issue 1 Pages 25-32  
  Keywords Hospice and palliative nursing; Systematic review; Staff support; Quality of health care  
  Abstract There is a considerable body of literature discussing the stressors experienced by nurses and other health professionals when caring for those who are terminally ill and dying. Also, a number of articles offer suggestions, including the views of staff, as to what type of professional and organisational support is required when working in this often demanding specialty. There are, however, very few reports of assessment of the effectiveness of such supportive interventions and in particular, the impact of such support on the quality of patient care. This literature review examines any reported relationships between the quality of nursing provided by palliative care nurses and the staff support received by those nurses.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1391  
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Author Andrew, Alexa; Foot-McKay, Aimee; Ritchie, Lorraine openurl 
  Title (down) Staff perspectives of a cafe on the premises of an aged-care facility Type Journal Article
  Year 2017 Publication Kai Tiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages 43  
  Keywords Aged care; Facilities; Cafes; Person-centred care  
  Abstract Explores the value of a café on the premises of an aged-care facility. Undertakes a qualitative descriptive inquiry to examine participants' perception of the value of the café to staff and residents. Interviews nine staff members using a core set of five questions. Analyses interview data using thematic analysis according to the stages outlined by Marshall and Rossman.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1542  
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Author Crisp, B.G. openurl 
  Title (down) Staff levels in a long term ward – are they adequate? Type Journal Article
  Year 1985 Publication New Zealand Nursing Journal Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 78 Issue 11 Pages 12-15  
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  Abstract In this article, the author will discuss the way in which the task of finding out whether staff levels were adequate in a long term ward was approached. Figures were collated using a patient dependency rating (described below) in use at the time of the article, estimated nursing hours per patient and staff numbers per day; the 3 sets of figures were kept over a 28 day period. The results gained were compared to results from articles and reports perused by the author and conclusions reached as to whether the staff levels were adequate or not. Following this, implications of lack of staff and possible solutions were discussed  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 101 Serial 101  
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