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Spackman, N. E. |
| Title |
Nurses' early experiences with patient death |
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| Year |
2008 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
NZNO Library |
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Issue |
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Pages |
156 pp |
| Keywords |
New graduate nurses; Terminal care |
| Abstract |
Chronic stress and 'burnout' have been extensively researched in nursing populations, but very little is known about the impact of specific acutely stressful or significant events. A novice nurse's first encounter with patient death may pose considerable cognitive, emotional and clinical challenges. Using a mixed methods design, this study explored the clinical circumstances, impact and challenges and rewards of nurses' early experiences with patient death. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1292 |
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Dawson, A.L. |
| 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 |
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2008 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Held by Lakes DHB Library (ROM) |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Nursing. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1370 |
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| Author |
Brinkman, A.; Wilson-Salt, R.; Walker, L. |
| Title |
Education survey report: Implications for practice |
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Report |
| Year |
2008 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
http://www.nzno.org.nz |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Professional development; Professional Competence; Nursing |
| Abstract |
Professional development is an ongoing requirement of nurses as a result of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act. The Act?s principal purpose is to protect the health and safety of the public by ensuring health practitioners are fit and competent to practise. This survey was designed to explore the avenues nurses have taken, and would prefer to take, for their professional development. The questionnaire was sent to a random sample of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation's registered and enrolled nurse members. Nurses overwhelmingly favoured professional development in the workplace. More than half the respondents reported a conflict with other time commitments, while a number of respondents wrote of their desire for work-life balance. The cost of fees, ability to take time off work, and time and travelling distance were all hurdles to professional development. Nurses cited information technology, conflict resolution, managing challenging behaviour, and dealing with rostered & rotating shifts as aspects of their current work for which their nursing education (pre and post) had not adequately prepared them. Nurses also indicated that their pre-registration education in health systems and political processes was inadequate for their current work. As nurses aged, their interest in professional development increased, though many still preferred workplace options. The authors conclude that, in order for professional development opportunities to be accessible and relevant, resources and time must be made available. This is vital to achieve ongoing education of nurses and improved patient outcomes. Management support, combined with effective assessment of learning needs guiding professional development opportunities, are fundamental to ensuring nurse competence. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1329 |
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| Author |
Brinkman, A. |
| Title |
Collating for collaboration: Tertiary education funding structures |
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Report |
| Year |
2008 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Available from http://www.nzno.org.nz |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Nursing; Education; Policy |
| Abstract |
The nursing education environment is complex and varied, and is affected by both the education and health systems. This report backgrounds the funding systems that underwrite the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) processes. The two primary objectives that have guided this collation are: to stimulate awareness and discussion of the issues around funding nursing education in New Zealand; and to promote understanding of the complex funding structures currently in place in New Zealand by students, nurses, nurse educators and nurse managers. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1330 |
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| Author |
Wilson, S.; Carryer, J.B. |
| Title |
Emotional competence and nursing education : A New Zealand study |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2008 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
24 |
Issue |
1 (Mar) |
Pages |
36-47 |
| Keywords |
Teaching methods; Communication; Nursing; Education; Nursing models |
| Abstract |
Explores the challenges encountered by nurse educators who seek to assess aspects related to emotional competence in nursing students. This emotional competence includes nurses managing their own emotional life along with the skill to relate effectively to the multiple colleagues and agencies that nurses work alongside. The research was designed to explore the views of nurse educators about the challenges they encounter when seeking to assess a student's development of emotional competence during the three year bachelor of nursing degree. Focus groups were used to obtain from educators evidence of feeling and opinion as to how theory and practice environments influence student nurses' development of emotional competence. The process of thematic analysis was utilised and three key themes arose as areas of importance to the participants. These were personal and social competence collectively comprises emotional competence in nursing; emotional competence is a key component of fitness to practise; and transforming caring into practice. The findings of the study indicate a need for definition of what emotional competence is in nursing. It is argued that educators and practicing nurses, who work alongside students, must uphold the expectation that emotional competence is a requisite ability and should themselves be able to role model emotionally competent communication. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
451 |
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| Author |
Jacobs, S.; Boddy, J.M. |
| Title |
The genesis of advanced nursing practice in New Zealand: Policy, politics and education |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2008 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
24 |
Issue |
1 (Mar) |
Pages |
11-22 |
| Keywords |
Nurse practitioners; History of nursing; Policy; Scope of practice |
| Abstract |
This contemporary historical study examines the health sector environment of the 1990s and the turn of the 21st century, and assesses the policy initiatives undertaken to advance nursing in New Zealand during that period. The authors look at the conditions and forces that saw nursing achieve a new emphasis on advanced and expanded scope of nursing practice, less than a decade after the commencement of New Zealand's first pre-registration nursing degrees. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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452 |
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| Author |
Hoare, K.; Fairhurst-Winstanley, W.; Horsburgh, M.; McCormack, R. |
| Title |
Nurse employment in primary care: UK and New Zealand |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2008 |
Publication |
New Zealand Family Physician |
Abbreviated Journal |
The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners website |
| Volume |
35 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
4-10 |
| Keywords |
Primary health care; Scope of practice; Nursing models |
| Abstract |
The researchers evaluate and compare the organisation of general practice in the UK and New Zealand. A key aim of the Primary Health Care Strategy is a reduction in health inequalities. Locally, some nurse leaders suggest that changing nurse practice employment from general practitioners to Primary Health Organisations will achieve this aim. The authors take lessons from the UK and suggest that nurses organising themselves into peer groups, remuneration of general practices for the attainment of positive patient outcomes, and a statutory duty of clinical governance, all contributed to the development of practice nurses' roles and expansion of numbers of nurse practitioners in general practice. Nurses have become partners with general practitioners in general practice in the UK, which the authors suggest is a much preferable alternative for some than employment by a Primary Health Organisation. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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453 |
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| Author |
Horsburgh, M.; Goodyear-Smith, F.; Yallop, J. |
| Title |
Nursing initiatives in primary care: An approach to risk reduction for cardiovascular disease and diabetes |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2008 |
Publication |
New Zealand Family Physician |
Abbreviated Journal |
The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners website |
| Volume |
35 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
176-182 |
| Keywords |
Cardiovascular diseases; Diabetes Type 2; Risk factors; Nursing models |
| Abstract |
The authors evaluated a nurse-led cardiovascular disease and diabetes (CVD) management project. The Ministry of Health funded the project to implement models of nurse service delivery, with care pathways for risk reduction of CVD and diabetes based on national guidelines, with quality assurance, audit and nurse leadership. The paper presents the components required to implement and sustain a nurse CVD risk assessment and management service, which were identified and clarified through the action research process. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 527 |
Serial |
513 |
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| Author |
Horsburgh, M.; Goodyear-Smith, F.; Yallop, J.; O'Connor, S. |
| Title |
Implementation of a nursing initiative in primary care: A case report, cardiovascular disease risk reduction |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2008 |
Publication |
New Zealand Family Physician |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
35 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
183-186 |
| Keywords |
Multidisciplinary care teams; Cardiovascular diseases; Case studies; Primary health care |
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The aim was to report on implementation of a nursing initiative of cardiovascular disease (CVD) screening risk assessment at the Mornington Health Centre, Dunedin, with initial outcomes after six months. The practice aim was 80% of their eligible population assessed within three to four years, particularly targeting high-risk groups. The audit indicates that in their first six months, Mornington Health Centre had screened 42% of their eligible patients. This is described as very successful progress towards their goal of 80%. A number of key organisational factors are identified that are likely to have contributed to the development and success of the nurse CVD risk assessment programme at Mornington Health Centre. The authors suggest that this case study demonstrates how organisational change, where the practice nurse role in the multidisciplinary team is clear, can facilitate a practice to meet a population-based goal. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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514 |
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| Author |
Harding, T.S. |
| Title |
Men's clinical career pathways: Widening the understanding |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2008 |
Publication |
Klinisk sygepleje |
Abbreviated Journal |
Coda: An institutional repository for the New Zealand ITP sector |
| Volume |
22 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
48-57 |
| Keywords |
Male nurses; Gender; Careers in nursing |
| Abstract |
This article, drawn from a larger study, reports on the factors that have influenced the choice of a group of New Zealand male nurses' clinical career pathways. Using discourse analysis, interview data from 18 participants were analysed and related to existing literature on male nurses. The analysis revealed that the predominance of men in selected areas of nursing can be attributed to multiple factors including: socialisation pressures that are grounded on gender stereotyping, a desire for challenge, homosocial tendencies, and the belief that multiple work experience equips them to be better nurses. The results challenge essentialist readings of masculinity within the context of nursing and identifies challenges for nursing education and the profession to enable men to contribute more widely to nursing. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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646 |
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| Author |
Hardcastle, J. |
| Title |
'Back to the bedside': Graduate level education in critical care |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2008 |
Publication |
Nurse Education in Practice |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
8 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
46-53 |
| Keywords |
Nursing specialties; Nursing; Education; Curriculum |
| Abstract |
This paper explores the relationships within teaching, learning and practice development in critical care nursing and questions the popular assumption that 'post graduate (Master's level) education fits all'. The need for critical care nurses to apply advanced knowledge and technical skills to complex and dynamic practice situations necessitates the development of critical thinking and a problem-solving approach to clinical practice that can be fostered through education and experience. Discussion focuses on the successful development and implementation of graduate level education for critical care nurses in the South Island of New Zealand and how this development is challenging existing approaches to the provision and evaluation of formal critical care education in New Zealand. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
656 |
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| Author |
Rydon, S.E.; Rolleston, A.; Mackie, J. |
| Title |
Graduates and initial employment |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2008 |
Publication |
Nurse Education Today |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
28 |
Issue |
5 |
Pages |
610-619 |
| Keywords |
New graduate nurses; Curriculum; Work |
| Abstract |
This research project was undertaken to inform nurse educators in the Department of Nursing and Health Studies of Manukau Institute of Technology of the employment opportunities for new graduate nurses emerging from the three year degree and registration programme. Graduates from the programme for the previous three years were surveyed for their experiences in gaining employment. 89.8% of graduates were successful in gaining employment in the first three months post registration. The number of graduates employed within a district health board declined across the three years but there were no significant differences between cohorts. Overall, 73% of graduates were employed into new graduate positions. The majority of graduates felt that their nursing education prepared them well for their role as a registered nurse. The findings of the qualitative data identified a strong need for science throughout the degree; longer clinical blocks; increased hands on experience; more practice with skills and less theory in relation to practical experience. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
701 |
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| Author |
Wilson, D.; Neville, S.J. |
| Title |
Nursing their way not our way: Working with vulnerable and marginalised populations |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2008 |
Publication |
Contemporary Nurse |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
27 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
165-176 |
| Keywords |
Maori; Geriatric nursing; Nurse-patient relations |
| Abstract |
This paper uses the findings of two studies to explore the nature of nurses' practice when working with vulnerable and marginalised populations, particularly with regard to the attributes of holism and individualised care. The first study was with the elderly with delirium and used a critical gerontological methodology informed by postmodernism and Foucault's understanding of discourse. The other study with indigenous Maori women utilised Glaserian grounded theory informed by a Maori-centred methodology. The findings show that a problem focussed approach to health care is offered to patients that does not incorporate individual health experiences. In addition, the social context integral to people's lives outside of the health care environment is ignored. Consequently, the foundations of nursing practice, that of holism, is found to be merely a rhetorical construct. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 799 |
Serial |
783 |
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Peri, K.; Kerse, N.; Kiata, L.; Wilkinson, T.; Robinson, E.; Parsons, J.; Willingale, J.; Parsons, M.; Brown, P.; Pearson, J.R.; von Randow, M.; Arroll, B. |
| Title |
Promoting independence in residential care: Successful recruitment for a randomized controlled trial |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2008 |
Publication |
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
9 |
Issue |
4 |
Pages |
251-256 |
| Keywords |
Research; Geriatric nursing; Rest homes; Evaluation; Attitude of health personnel |
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The aim of this study was to describe the recruitment strategy and association between facility and staff characteristics and success of resident recruitment for the Promoting Independence in Residential Care (PIRC) trial. A global impression of staff willingness to facilitate research was gauged by research nurses, facility characteristics were measured by staff interview. Forty-one (85%) facilities and 682 (83%) residents participated, median age was 85 years (range 65-101), and 74% were women. Participants had complex health problems. Recruitment rates were associated (but did not increase linearly) with the perceived willingness of staff, and were not associated with facility size. Design effects from the cluster recruitment differed according to outcome. The recruitment strategy was successful in recruiting a large sample of people with complex comorbidities and high levels of functional disability despite perceptions of staff reluctance. Staff willingness was related to recruitment success. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 803 |
Serial |
787 |
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| Author |
Walsh, K.; Moss, C.; Lawless, J.; McKelvie, R.; Duncan, L. |
| Title |
Puzzling practice: A strategy for working with clinical practice issues |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2008 |
Publication |
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
14 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
94-100 |
| Keywords |
Nursing philosophy; Clinical decision making; Problem solving |
| Abstract |
The authors share the evolution of innovative ways to explore, 'unpack' and re-frame clinical issues that exist in everyday practice. The elements of these processes, which they call 'puzzling practice', and the techniques associated with them, were delineated over a two year period by the authors using action theory based processes. The authors have evolved several different frameworks for 'puzzling practice' which they draw on and use in their practice development work and in research practice. This paper pays attention to a particular form of puzzling practice that they found to be useful in assisting individual clinicians and teams to explore and find workable solutions to practice issues. In this example 'puzzling practice' uses seven different elements; naming the issue; puzzling the issue; testing the puzzle; exploring the heart of out practice; formulating the puzzle question; visualising the future; and generating new strategies for action. Each of the elements is illustrated by the story and the key foundations and ideas behind each element is explored. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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838 |
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