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| Author | Brownie, S.M. | ||||
| Title | Management perspectives of the second evel nurse | Type | |||
| Year | 1993 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal  |
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| Abstract | This study presents information, obtained from health service managers, on the present use and possible future use of second level nurses within the region encompassing the Wanganui, Rangitikei, Manawatu, Tararua, Palmerston North City and Horowhenua districts. “ Second level nurses” are currently known as enrolled nurses and, in accordance with Section 53A of the 1983 Amendment to the Nurses Act, are required to work under the direction and supervision of registered nurses or medical practitioners. Enrolled nurses are usually allocated less responsibility for nursing assessment and judgement than registered nurses.Management perspectives, from seventy seven health workforce managers, were sought in relation to the future workforce need, the scope and boundaries of practice, and the alternatives for the future educational preparation of second level nurses. Seventy two percent of managers said that they thought enrolled nurses were essential to New Zealand's future nursing workforce. They predicted increased opportunities for enrolled nurses in care of the elderly and community care settings. Patterns in the current workforce utilization of enrolled nurses, however, did not support these views.In relation to the education of enrolled nurses, managers indicated that hospital-based training was the most preferred option. However, managers asserted that, in view of the current lack of employment opportunities no more enrolled nurses should be prepared at the present time.Although questions about education were focussed on the educational preparation of enrolled nurses, many of the respondent managers also expressed opinions about the educational preparation of comprehensive nurses. As a result, an evaluation of comprehensive nursing programmes is suggested.While the numbers of second level nurses being prepared and used is decreasing, there is a concomitant increase in the preparation and use of caregivers. This rapidly increasing group isfast becoming a “cheaper” second level workforce. The increase in the use of caregivers is seen to result from the pressure on healthcare employers to reduce spending within the current highly competitive, de-regulated economy. Managers asserted that enrolled nurses are not cost effective in comparison with either caregivers or registered nurses.The study concludes with thirteen recommendations which are made under the following four groups;1. Manawatu Polytechnic – provider of nursing education.2. Healthcare employers – users of nursing education.3. Enrolled nurses – participants in nursing education.4. Professional nursing bodies – guardians of nursing education | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ 407 | Serial | 407 | ||
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| Author | Trim, S.P. | ||||
| Title | Report on the pilot NZNO practice nurse accreditation programme March 1995 – April 1998 | Type | |||
| Year | 1998 | Publication | Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume | 4 | Issue | 7 | Pages | 26 |
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| Abstract | The New Zealand Nurses organsation agreed to become the accrediting body for nurses in NZ in 1994 and Susanne Trim, NZNO Professional Nursing Adviser, worked with the National Practice Nurse Section to develop and pilot a model for accreditation.A consultative process was used to develop a framework and process during 1995 and this was unanimously endorsed in the April 1996 National Practice Nurse Section AGM.Implementation occurred from May 1996 to March 1998 with a comprehensive evaluation of the model collection of data from practice nurse applicants, non-applicants, the Practice Nurse Accreditation Board, National PN Sections and the project co-ordinator.The number of applications received exceeded expectations 212 (14% NZNO practice nurse members). There was a high level of satisfaction expressed by applicants.A number of content issues were identified during the pilot as needing review, clarification and amendment. These were of a minor nature rather than recommended changes to the structure itself.The accreditation Board processes were modified part way through the implementation to improve efficiencies and were found to be satisfactory. The training model and timing were appropriate.Administrative support and central co-ordination through designated NZNO staff member proved to be time consuming but vital.Practice Nurses embraced accreditation however as a group they have some minor unique characteristics. This should caution NZNO to proceed gradually with accreditation of other Section Nurses and monitor progress closely | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ 340 | Serial | 340 | ||
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| Author | Cook, Deborah. | ||||
| Title | Open visiting: does this benefit adult patients in intensive care units | Type | |||
| Year | 2006 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume | Issue | Pages | 32 pp | ||
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| Abstract | A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Nursing at Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand. As the healthcare system moves toward a consumer-driven paradigm, visiting hours for family and significant others of the intensive care unit patient have become a topic of interest and discussion. Research since the 1970s has generated controversy and speculation over the ideal visiting practices in the adult intensive care unit. Analysis of the growing body of research can now be reviewed to enable existing visiting policies to be revised. |
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| Call Number | NZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1332 | ||
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| Author | Barton, J. | ||||
| Title | Pain knowledge and attitudes of nurses and midwives in a New Zealand context | Type | |||
| Year | 2001 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Keywords | Nursing; Pain management; Attitude of health personnel | ||||
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| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ 1140 | Serial | 1125 | ||
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| Author | Bland, M.F. | ||||
| Title | All the comforts of home? A critical ethnography of residential aged care in New Zealand | Type | |||
| Year | 2004 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Keywords | Rest homes; Older people; Patient satisfaction | ||||
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| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ 1141 | Serial | 1126 | ||
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| Author | Boyd, L. | ||||
| Title | “It could have just as easily been me”: Nurses working in mental health services who have experienced mental illness | Type | |||
| Year | 2001 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Keywords | Nursing; Mental health; Occupational health and safety | ||||
| Abstract | This research explores the issues and experiences of mental health nurses who experience or have experienced mental illness. This project was prompted by the author's concern for colleagues and friends in this situation. The research topic was approached using a mix of critical ethnography and action research principles. Five mental health nurses who all work for the same district health board were interviewed about their experiences of being mental health professionals with mental illness and the issues that arose from this. The themes that emerged from this research are: the reactions of nurse colleagues, the effects on participants' own mental health treatment, employer responses, professional experiences and issues and strategies for coping. Discussion and recommendations focus on the need for improvements to the responses that mental health nurses with experience of mental illness encounter in their workplace. Recommendations from this research encompass suggestions for both individual and organisational education, action and change. | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1127 | ||
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| Author | Lynch, T.M. | ||||
| Title | A qualitative descriptive study of youth with Crohn's disease | Type | |||
| Year | 2005 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Keywords | Diseases; Adolescents; Nursing | ||||
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| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ 1143 | Serial | 1128 | ||
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| Author | Mason, B. | ||||
| Title | An analysis of the role of the practice nurse in primary health care, 2000/2001 | Type | |||
| Year | 2002 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Keywords | Primary health care; Practice nurses | ||||
| Abstract | In 1999 primary health care in New Zealand was in the process of change from the current personal health care model, which focuses on general practitioner based care, to a population and community based health care programme. Carryer, Dignam, Horsburgh, Hughes and Martin (1999) submitted a report to the National Health Commission entitled “Locating Nursing in Primary Health Care”. This report envisaged that nurses in primary health care would be part of interdisciplinary teams, act autonomously and undertake community consultation and education. The submission suggested that nurses, currently working in primary health care, were alraedy prepared and able to move across into the new form of primary health care, without further education or training. | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1130 | ||
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| Author | Williams, H. | ||||
| Title | One for the boys: An evaluative study of primary health care access by men in Tairawhiti | Type | |||
| Year | 2006 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Keywords | Gender; Primary health care; Access; Male | ||||
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| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1138 | ||
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| Author | Woods, M. | ||||
| Title | Parental resistance. Mobile and transitory discourses: A discursive analysis of parental resistance towards medical treatment for a seriously ill child | Type | |||
| Year | 2008 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Keywords | Nurse-family relations; Parents and caregivers; Pacific peoples; Communication; Children; Chronically ill | ||||
| Abstract | This qualitative thesis uses discourse analysis to examine parental resistance towards medical treatment of critically ill children. It is an investigation of the 'mobile and transitory' discourses at play in instances of resistance between parents, physicians and nurses within health care institutions, and an examination of the consequences of resistance through providing alternative ways of perceiving and therefore understanding these disagreements. The philosophical perspectives, methodology and methods used in this thesis are underpinned by selected ideas taken from the works of Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu and supported by relevant literature in the fields of media, law, children, parenting, caring, serious childhood illness, medicine and nursing. It is argued that from an examination of interview based texts, parental resistance is an omnipresent but transitory occurrence that affects many of the interactions between the parents of seriously ill children and clinical staff. It is maintained that within these interactions, the seeds of this resistance are sown in both critical decision making situations and in everyday occurrences between doctors, nurses and parents within healthcare institutions. Contributing factors to parental resistance include the use of power games by staff, the language of medicine, forms of symbolic violence, the presence or absence of trust between parents and medical staff, the effects of medical habitus, and challenges to the parental role and identity. Overall, it is proposed in this thesis that parents who resist treatment for their seriously ill child are not exceptions to the normative patient-physician relationship. | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1140 | ||
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| Author | Water, T. | ||||
| Title | The meaning of being in dilemma in paediatric practice: A phenomenological study | Type | |||
| Year | 2008 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume | Issue | Pages | 259 pp | ||
| Keywords | Psychology; Paediatric nursing; Paedetric practice; Problem solving | ||||
| Abstract | This study explores the phenomenon of dilemma in paediatric practice. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological method informed by the writings of Heidegger [1889-1976] and Gadamer [1900-2002] this study provides an understanding of the meaning of 'being in dilemma' from the perspective of predominantly paediatric health care professionals but also families in New Zealand. Study participants include four families who had a child requiring health care and fifteen health care practitioners from the disciplines of medicine, nursing, physiotherapy, play specialist and occupational therapy who work with families and children requiring health care. Participants' narratives of their experiences of 'being in dilemma' were captured via audio taped interviewing. These stories uncover the everyday realities facing health professionals and families and provide an ontological understanding for the notion of dilemma. The findings of this study suggest that experience of dilemma for health professionals reveals a world that is uncertain and questionable where they are thrown into having to make uncomfortable choices and must live with the painful consequences of their actions. The consequences of being in such dilemma are having to find ways of living with the angst, or risk becoming too sensitive or desensitizing. For families the experience of dilemma reveals a similar phenomenon most evident in circumstances where they feel totalized by the impact of heath care encounters. This study has uncovered that the perspectives that health professionals and families bring to the experience of dilemma reveal different concerns and commitments and may be hidden from each other. This thesis proposes that health professionals and families need support in living with their own personal encounters of enduring experiences of dilemma. | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1234 | ||
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| Author | Mahoney, L. | ||||
| Title | Making the invisible visible: Public health nurses role with children who live with a parent with a mental illness | Type | |||
| Year | 2008 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Keywords | Public health; Children; Community health nursing; Scope of practice | ||||
| Abstract | This research uses focus group methodology to examine the public health nursing practice with children living with a mentally ill parent. These children are often neglected, yet are at increased risk of developing mental illnesses themselves. The research data identified the burgeoning impact on public health nurses of such care, and found their role to be primarily assessment and advocacy. | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ 1304 | Serial | 1289 | ||
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| Author | Bennison, C. | ||||
| Title | Emergency nurses' perceptions of the impact of postgraduate education on their practice in New Zealand | Type | |||
| Year | 2008 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Keywords | Emergency nursing; Nursing; Education | ||||
| Abstract | ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Emergency nursing is a specialty concerned with the care of people of all ages, with either perceived or actual unwellness presenting to the emergency department(ED) for assessment, resuscitation, investigation, treatment and review of their illness or injury. Emergency nurses apply specialty knowledge and expertise in the provision, delivery and evaluation of emergency nursing care. Over recent decades social, political and professional changes have affected nursing care delivery and nursing education. In particular the 21st century has witnessed the development of state funded postgraduate nursing education programmes, developing nurses specialty or advanced nursing knowledge, quality patient/client care and nursing practice within the tertiary education system. AIM: The aim of this study is to investigate emergency nurses? perceptions of the impact of postgraduate education on their practice in New Zealand (NZ). METHODS: This study utilises critical social theory as the overarching framework, informed by the writing of Jürgen Habermas (b.1929- ). It is the three phases of Habermas?s practical intent of critical social theory; namely enlightenment, empowerment and emancipation, that this study is concerned with. This descriptive research study employs both quantitative and qualitative methods and is therefore known as mixed-methods research. Data collection took place over 12 weeks, from August to November 2006, using a survey questionnaire obtained with permission from Ms Dianne Pelletier, Sydney, Australia. The sample included 105 emergency nurses from District Health Board (DHB) emergency departments in NZ, 10 respondents from this sample self-selected to be interviewed by telephone. Ethical approval for this study was obtained from the University of Otago Ethics Committee for research involving human participants. Data was analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). RESULTS: Two main themes arose from the thematic analysis; these being positive and negative, these themes were further divided into 10 sub-themes. The results indicate that postgraduate study (PGS) has increased nurses? perception of their knowledge; leadership and understanding on the quality of patient care delivered, increased their academic and research skills and increased their confidence/self-esteem and recognition by their colleagues and team. Therefore the majority of respondents perceive postgraduate education has been an instrument of liberation and a process of empowerment and emancipation. A smaller percentage of respondents perceived that PGS had no effect on various aspects of patient care and another significantly smaller percentage of respondents reported negative results from PGS. This research identified similarities between this study and that of Pelletier and colleagues? (2003; , 2005; , 1998a; , 1998b) Australian study. CONCLUSION: This study adds to the existing literature on postgraduate studies undertaken by nurses. No known study has previously investigated solely emergency nurses?perceptions of the effects of PGS, either nationally or internationally. The results of this study offer enlightening information regarding emergency nurses? perceptions of their PGS within NZ and offers a platform from which other studies may be undertaken. It also has the potential to inform nurses contemplating PGS and educators facilitating these programmes,as well as provide implications for policy development by the Nursing Council of NZ, NZ Universities, DHBs and the Ministry of Health. |
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| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1291 | ||
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| Author | Spackman, N. E. | ||||
| Title | Nurses' early experiences with patient death | Type | |||
| Year | 2008 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume | Issue | 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. | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1292 | ||
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| Author | McNamara, N. | ||||
| Title | The meaning of the experience for ICU nurses when a family member is critically ill: A hermeneutic phenomenologcial study | Type | |||
| Year | 2007 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Keywords | Intensive care nursing; Nurse-family relations | ||||
| Abstract | This study provides insight into the experience of being an ICU nurse and relative of a critically ill patient. Analysis of data from interviews of four ICU nurses who had experienced having a family member admitted to ICU brought up several themes. These included: a nurses' nightmare, knowing and not knowing, feeling torn, and gaining deeper insight and new meaning. Recommendations for organisational support for ICU nurse/relatives, and education for staff are made, based on the findings. | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ 1312 | Serial | 1296 | ||
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