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Author Butler, A.M.
Title Nursing research in New Zealand – author index Type (up)
Year 1977 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library, Wellington
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 419 Serial 419
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Author Taua, C.
Title Revisiting the past: A focused ethnography of contemporary dual diagnosis nursing practice Type (up)
Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal Copy downloadable from the NZNO Library
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Keywords Psychiatric Nursing
Abstract As has been the case internationally, deinstitutionalisation of dual diagnosis (intellectual disability and mental illness) services has also occurred in New Zealand. Inpatient services have been redefined to respond to the more acute focus that has arisen out of this deinstitutionalisation process and nurses are having to redefine their roles in response. This study was undertaken to explore and describe the culture of nursing practice in a dual diagnosis inpatient unit in one psychiatric hospital. A focused ethnographic approach was used to triangulate data gathered from fieldwork observations, review of documents and semi-structured interviews. Schein's (1985) levels of culture model, was used to identify and explore the artifacts, values and assumptions evident in this nursing practice. Analysis presents three key themes categorised as 'communication', 'assessment' and 'safety'. While these key themes are shown to be evident in the everyday practice of the nurses, how these relate to the notion of 'dual diagnosis nursing' is not clear. Therefore, the author describes the major finding of this study as revealing a nursing culture holding tight to traditional psychiatric and psychopaedic nursing practices and struggling to develop a distinctive culture in the absence of a defined dual diagnosis knowledge base. The author concludes that these findings suggest an urgent need to provide nurses with support in gaining contemporary knowledge regarding dual diagnosis nursing. Support for nurses in advancing these areas then impacts on support for the patients. It is suggested that additional research is undertaken to assess the learning needs of the nurses in order to develop clinical practice guidelines for this area. Further recommendations are made to address system issues which are contributing to the gap in knowledge.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 674
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Author Garlick, A.
Title Determined to make a difference: A study of public health nursing practice with vulnerable families Type (up)
Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library, NZNO Library
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Keywords Public health; Children; Nurse-family relations
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 737 Serial 723
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Author Richardson, F.I.
Title What is it like to teach cultural safety in a New Zealand nursing education programme? Type (up)
Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library; NZNO Library
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Keywords Cultural safety; Nursing; Education; Transcultural nursing; Maori
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 872
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Author Grant-Mackie, D.
Title A literature review of competence in relation to speciality nursing Type (up)
Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library, NZNO Library
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Keywords Paediatric nursing; Nursing specialties; Professional competence; Nursing; Education
Abstract The original aim of the study was to find out through a questionnaire what child health/paediatric nurses in New Zealand/Aotearoa saw as their needs for post-registration education. Nurses were completing courses in the United Kingdom and returning to New Zealand/Aotearoa and realising that their nursing capabilities had improved. They became senior nurses with education responsibilities and exhibited political leadership among their colleagues in the field of child health/paediatric nursing. They were becoming increasingly concerned at the lack of any clinical courses in the specialty of child health/paediatric nursing to promote an appropriate standard of practice. It was intended that a research project about post-registration child health/paediatric education would assist concerned nurses to develop a programme. The time needed for such a project did not fit with a limited research paper. It was decided to reduce the project to a review of the literature on competence in nursing, with some comment on the specialty of child health/paediatric nursing. In order for nurses to find what they need to learn and know, an understanding of competence in nursing practice is required. Competence is defined as the ability of the nurse to carry out specific work in a designated area at a predetermined standard. Issues around competence, defining a scope of practice, development and assessment of competence, and regulation of nursing, are part of the context in which accountability for the practice of nurses sits.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1123
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Author Barton, J.
Title Pain knowledge and attitudes of nurses and midwives in a New Zealand context Type (up)
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library
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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 (up)
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library
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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 (up)
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library
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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 (up)
Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library
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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 (up)
Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library
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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 Miles, M.A.P.
Title A critical analysis of the relationships between nursing, medicine and the government in New Zealand 1984-2001 Type (up)
Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library, University of Otago Library
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Keywords Primary health care; Interprofessional relations; Policy
Abstract This thesis concerns an investigation of the tripartite arrangements between the government, the nursing and the medical sectors in New Zealand over the period 1984 to 2001 with a particular focus on primary health care. The start point is the commencement of the health reforms instituted by the Fourth New Zealand Labour Government of 1984. The thesis falls within a framework of critical inquiry, specifically, the methodology of depth hermeneutics (Thompson, 1990), a development of critical theory. The effects of political and economic policies and the methodologies of neo-liberal market reform are examined together with the concept of collaboration as an ideological symbolic form, typical of enterprise culture. The limitations of economic models such as public choice theory, agency theory and managerialism are examined from the point of view of government strategies and their effects on the relationships between the nursing and medical professions. The influence of American health care policies and their partial introduction into primary health care in New Zealand is traversed in some detail, together with the experiences of health reform in several other countries. Post election 1999, the thesis considers the effect of change of political direction consequent upon the election of a Labour Coalition government and concludes that the removal of the neo-liberal ethic by Labour may terminate entrepreneurial opportunities in the nursing profession. The thesis considers the effects of a change to Third Way political direction on national health care policy and on the medical and nursing professions. The data is derived from various texts and transcripts of interviews with 12 health professionals and health commentators. The histories and current relationships between the nursing and medical professions are examined in relation to their claims to be scientific discourses and it is argued that the issue of lack of recognition as a scientific discourse is at the root of nursing's perceived inferiority to medicine. This is further expanded in a discussion at the end of the thesis where the structure of the two professions is compared and critiqued. A conclusion is drawn that a potential for action exists to remedy the deficient structure of nursing. The thesis argues that this is the major issue which maintains nursing in the primary sector in a perceived position of inferiority to medicine. The thesis also concludes that the role of government in this triangular relationship is one of manipulation to bring about necessary fundamental change in the delivery of health services at the lowest possible cost without materially strengthening the autonomy of the nursing or the medical professions.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1146 Serial 1131
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Author Morgan, F.A.
Title Primary health care nurses supporting families parenting pre-term infants Type (up)
Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library, University of Otago Library
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Keywords Primary health care; Community health nursing; Paediatric nursing; Premature infants
Abstract This thesis reviews the role of primary health care nurses, who have an opportunity to play a unique role in teaching, touching and empowering families with newly discharged pre-term babies. Birth of a baby earlier than 37 weeks gestation ushers in a period of uncertainty and stress for parents. Uncertainties may centre on whether their infant will survive and what ongoing growth and developmental issues their infant will face.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1132
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Author O'Malley, J.
Title Critical social analysis of acute institutionally based mental health nursing following an action research project Type (up)
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library, Victoria University of Wellington Library
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Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Hospitals; Quality of health care
Abstract This study using action research involving twelve registered nurses worked toward improving nursing care in an acute mental health in-patient service. Following focus groups with consumers, families, nurses, doctors, and allied health professionals, the action research group developed projects over eighteen months to improve continuity and consistency of nursing care. There was a subsequent restructuring of nursing service to better define leadership, accountability and to strengthen care delivery. The second half of the thesis involves a critical social analysis of the research data and produces a theory of mental health nursing which, the author suggests, has wide application in practice.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1133
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Author Paton, B.I.
Title Unready-to-hand as adventure: Knowing within the practice wisdom of clinical nurse educators Type (up)
Year 2003 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library, Victoria University of Wellington Library
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Keywords Nursing; Education
Abstract This research aims to clarify the knowing and wisdom that inform clinical nurse educators' responses through unpredictable situations. The author referred to philosophical literature on the notions of tacit knowledge, practical wisdom, smooth activity and the Unready-to-Hand experience. She created an explanatory framework and utilised this in a thought experiment by reflecting on personal experiences. To add clarity to these reflections, two layers of interviewing with nurse educators teaching in practice were carried out. The first layer was an interview with eight clinical nurse educators who in their role experienced Unready-to-Hand situations. The second layer consisted of four clinical nurse educators who volunteered to be involved in more in-depth interviews. An interpretive analysis of these clinical nurse educators stories illuminated the “Unready-to Hand as Adventure”, highlighting the uncertainty and energy associated with opening in the adventure, not knowing what will unfold, yet committed to remaining engaged and doing the best they can. Through the process of attuning to difference, accessing and deciphering knowing, nurse educators create meanings of situational complexities. By preserving the ideals of good practice and engaged caring, nurse educators salvage learning by creating opportunities for learning and teaching.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1134
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Author Roberts, F.
Title The people the programme & the place: Nurses' perceptions of the Lakeland Health Professional Development Programme Type (up)
Year 1999 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library, Victoria University of Wellington Library
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Keywords Careers in nursing; Professional development; Registered nurses
Abstract This thesis concerns the Professional Development Programme at Lakeland Health. In New Zealand, such programmes were introduced as a mechanism to openly recognise the clinical expertise of nurses. Clinical Career Pathways were introduced to nursing in North America in the 1970's at a time of nursing shortage. Prior to their inception, nurses wishing to develop their careers had to move to administration, management or education. The programmes recognised and rewarded expertise in practice. A qualitative, descriptive approach (using focus groups) was used with Registered Nurses to gather their perceptions of what helps nurses enroll in the Professional Development Programme. The ideas and insights of nine Registered Nurses were clustered around three main categories: The People (fear; being struck; motivation; feedback; peer support; ways of learning); the Programme (relevance; flexibility; Bachelor's Degrees; implementation; supporting information; fairness); the Place (time; regular and accessible; support from nurse leaders; management). These perceptions are discussed in more detail in the context of nursing at Lakeland Health and of Clinical Career Pathways in New Zealand. The findings are helpful for the evaluation and future development of the Professional Development at Lakeland Health. The research contributes to our understanding of what helps nurses enroll in a Clinical Career Pathway, and emphasises the importance of the People, the Programme and the Place.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1150 Serial 1135
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