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Reynolds, Kate; Isaak, Dan; Woods, Heather; Stodart, Kathy; McClunie-Trust, Patricia |
| Title |
How to conduct a rigorous database search in 10 steps |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2022 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki Nursing Research |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
13 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
42-46 |
| Keywords |
Research methodology; Health research; PICO |
| Abstract |
Sets out the 10 steps involved in conducting a literature review: identifying a review question; determining the types of research sought; framing a research question using the PICO format (Population, Intervention, Comparison and Outcome); identifying which concepts to use; choosing databases; documenting the search process; and mapping search strategies. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1821 |
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| Author |
Woods, Heather |
| Title |
Oral history: a rich tapestry of information |
Type |
Journal Article |
| Year |
2023 |
Publication |
Kaitiaki Nursing Research |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
14 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
62-64 |
| Keywords |
Oral history; Interviewing; Oral history collections; Nursing Education and Research Foundation (NERF) |
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Explains oral history, its types and best practice. Introduces the Oral History and Sound Collection at Turnbull Library, focusing on the Nursing Education and Research Foundation (NERF) special collection of oral history interviews with nurses, which arose out of the NERF Oral History Project. Provides examples of three oral history interview records from the collection. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1853 |
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Blanchard, D.L. |
| Title |
Developing the place and role of family within the culture of critical care nursing: An action research approach |
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2006 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Relationships; Nurse-family relations; Intensive care nursing; Nursing research |
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This research examines how nurses negotiate the context of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) while working with families. The action research described in this thesis developed through a series of meetings and conversations where the conversations supported the reflexive intent of the research. In commissioning the research, the design of the meetings and conversations were as a series of overlapping actions. Data collection and data analysis occurred in the action research by meetings, reflective conversations, ad libitum observations, and in a research journal. Conceptual maps explain the progress and findings of the research in this thesis while categories distilled from the conversations also support the findings in the research. The Family Action Research Group that was established within this project proposed a Family Assessment Form for the family to provide an assessment of themselves and the patient. Implementing this assessment tool demonstrated that clear information was needed for the family in the ICU. Findings in this research focus on developing action research and family care in ICU. Findings also focused on the role of the researcher being of and not being of the context where action research is undertaken. Recommendations include staff examining relationships for potential asymmetries and seeking ways to address these to support families and staff. Suggested strategies for developing action research in a clinical context include detailed planning, clear focusing, transparency of data, and working to explain change initiatives through the research are also included. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 494 |
Serial |
480 |
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| Author |
Bolitho, S.; Huntington, A.D. |
| Title |
Experiences of Maori families accessing health care for their unwell children: A pilot study |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2006 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
22 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
23-32 |
| Keywords |
Maori; Qualiltative research; Access; Children; Parents and caregivers |
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The aim of this study was to explore with a small number of Maori families their experiences of accessing health care when their children were unwell with a respiratory condition. A qualitative research methodology was used in the study. Participating families were among those experiencing an admission to a children's ward between July and December 2003. Four families were interviewed. They discussed in depth their experience of accessing health care for their unwell children. Data were analysed using thematic analysis, and three common themes were evident: family resources, choice of health service provider and parents' feelings of vulnerability. The findings highlight that while socio-economic status plays a large part in determining the ease with which families can access the needed health care, there are other barriers within the health system which also pose difficulties for Maori. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 535 |
Serial |
521 |
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| Author |
Phibbs, S.; Curtis, B. |
| Title |
Gender, nursing and the PBRF |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2006 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
22 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
4-11 |
| Keywords |
Research; Sex discrimination; Administration; Education |
| Abstract |
The authors examine gender based disparities for academics with respect to remuneration, academic grading and Perfomance Based Research Fund (PBRF) scores, whereby women do less well than men in each of these areas. In this article individualised explanations for the failure of women to progress are set in the context of a critical exploration of the PBRF evaluation methodology. It is argued that both academia and the PBRF research assessment exercise embody a form of academic masculinity that systematically disadvantages women in general and nursing in particular. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 538 |
Serial |
524 |
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| Author |
Spence, D. |
| Title |
Advanced nursing practice through postgraduate education, part one |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2004 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
20 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
46-55 |
| Keywords |
Advanced nursing practice; Education; Professional development; Research |
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In New Zealand the clinically focused postgraduate papers and programmes, available through universities and polytechnics, are evaluated from an educational perspective but little evaluation of the implications for practice has been undertaken. This paper is Part One of a report on a study that sought to illuminate the impact of clinically focused postgraduate education on advancing nursing practice. Hermeneutic methodology provided a framework for analysing both the perspectives of nurses who had undergone such education and those who had directly employed and worked alongside these nurses. Emerging themes are described here. In a second article the findings will be discussed in relation to literature. Constraining factors will be identified and strategies designed to maximise the benefits of education for advancing nursing practice will be recommended. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 555 |
Serial |
541 |
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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 |
Gage, J.; Hornblow, A.R. |
| Title |
Development of the New Zealand nursing workforce: Historical themes and current challenges |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2007 |
Publication |
Nursing Inquiry |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
14 |
Issue |
4 |
Pages |
330-334 |
| Keywords |
History of nursing; Nursing research; Personnel; Interprofessional relations |
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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. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 946 |
Serial |
930 |
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| Author |
Brinkman, A.; Caughley, B. |
| Title |
Measuring on-the-job stress accurately |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2004 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
18 |
Issue |
8 |
Pages |
12-15 |
| Keywords |
Stress; Evaluation research; Workplace; Occupational health and safety |
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The authors discuss the usefulness of a generic tool to measure job stress in New Zealand workplaces, and report on a study using one such generic tool. The study involved sending questionnaires to all staff (193) who had worked at a regional women's health service for a minimum of six months. The mailed package contained the Job Stress Survey (JSS), the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12), demographic questions (including cultural safety), shift work questions, and a blank page for “qualitative comment”. Over 12,000 pieces of data were collected from the study but this article focuses only on the results of the JSS. The JSS can be used to determine a “job stress index” and can also be used to measure “job pressure” and “lack of organisational support”. For this study, job stress index scores were calculated and organised by occupational groupings. Midwives, nurses and doctors all cited inadequate or poor quality equipment, excessive paperwork, insufficient personal time, and frequent interruptions, as their top stressors. Three of these four stressors fall within the job pressure index. The results of the survey prompted organisational changes, including: extensive discussions; equipment being updated; management being made aware of the depth of concern felt by staff; the creation of a place for staff to have personal time; and coping intervention strategies were initiated. The authors suggest that no generic measure of job stress can fully evaluate stressors unique to a particular work setting. They support additional items being constructed and administered to assess stressors that are idiosyncratic to a particular occupational group. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1003 |
Serial |
987 |
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| Author |
Spence, D. |
| Title |
Experiencing difference in nursing |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
7 |
Issue |
5 |
Pages |
13-15 |
| Keywords |
Transcultural nursing; Nursing research |
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Draws on the author's doctoral thesis to examine the prejudices, paradoxes and possibilities inherent in nursing a person from a culture other than one's own. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1045 |
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1029 |
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| Author |
Webby, A. |
| Title |
Should non-Maori research and write about Maori? |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2008 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
14 |
Issue |
5 |
Pages |
20-21 |
| Keywords |
Maori; Nursing research |
| Abstract |
The author examines the complexities surrounding non-Maori nurse researchers working on Maori issues. She suggests that as long as respect and observation of Maori processes is shown, and work is undertaken collaboratively with Maori, then such a role is appropriate. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1046 |
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1030 |
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| Author |
Litchfield, M. |
| Title |
The nursing praxis of family health |
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Book Chapter |
| Year |
2005 |
Publication |
Picard, C & Jones, D., Giving voice to what we know (pp.73-82) |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Nursing research; Nursing philosophy; Nurse-family relations |
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The chapter explores the process of nursing practice and how it contributes to health, derived from research undertaken in New Zealand. It presents the nature of nursing research as if practice – the researcher as if practitioner – establishing a foundation for the development of nursing knowledge that would make a distinct contribution to health and health care. It includes the philosophy and practicalities of nursing through the use of a case study of nursing a family with complex health circumstances. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1185 |
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1170 |
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| Author |
Litchfield, M. |
| Title |
Practice wisdom |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
1999 |
Publication |
Advances in Nursing Science |
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| Volume |
22 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
62-73 |
| Keywords |
Nursing research; Nursing; Health knowledge |
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The paper is the report of two cumulative research projects studying the nature of nursing knowledge and methodology to develop it. They were undertaken as theses for masters and doctoral degrees at the University of Minnesota, USA. Nursing knowledge is depicted as relational: an evolving participatory process of research-as-if-practice of which 'health' (its meaning), dialogue, partnership and pattern recognition are threads inter-related around personal values of vision and community. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1186 |
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1171 |
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| Author |
Jonsdottir, H.; Litchfield, M.; Pharris, M. |
| Title |
The relational core of nursing practice as partnership |
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Journal Article |
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Publication |
Journal of Advanced Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
47 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
241-250 |
| Keywords |
Nurse-patient relations; Nursing philosophy; Nursing research |
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This article elaborates the meaning of partnership in practice for nurses practising in different and complementary way to nurses in specialist roles and medical practitioners. It positions partnership as the relational core of nursing practice. Partnership is presented as an evolving dialogue between nurse and patient, which is characterised by open, caring, mutually responsive and non-directive approaches. This partnership occurs within a health system that is dominated by technologically-driven, prescriptive, and outcome-oriented approaches. It is the second of a series of articles written as a partnership between nurse scholars from Iceland, NZ and USA. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1188 |
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1173 |
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| Author |
Phillips, B.N. |
| Title |
Possibilities for mental health nursing practice-based research |
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Report |
| Year |
2003 |
Publication |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Nursing research; Psychiatric Nursing |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1257 |
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1242 |
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