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| Title | The youth health specialty in New Zealand: Collaborative practice and future development | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2007 | Publication | New Zealand Family Physician | Abbreviated Journal | The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners website |
| Volume | 34 | Issue | 3 | Pages | 162-167 |
| Keywords | Adolescents; Community health nursing; Primary health care; Nurse practitioners; School nursing | ||||
| Abstract | This paper details the workforce capacity of youth health nursing and medical staffing required for community-based and school-based youth health services. The author shows how youth health services seek to complement the care delivered by Primary Health Organisations (PHOs) and other allied health care services in the community. She outlines the development and operation at VIBE, a community-based youth health service in the Hutt Valley with school-based youth health services delivered at four low deciles secondary schools. She explains that developing workforce capacity for youth health services is a primary health care priority and an important means to address inequalities and to improve the health services of young people. | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ | Serial | 518 | ||
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Alcorn, G. | ||||
| Title | Giving voice to school nursing as a primary health care specialty | Type | |||
| Year | 2001 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal | ResearchArchive@Victoria | |
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| Keywords | School nursing; Primary health care; Cross-cultural comparison | ||||
| Abstract | The purpose of this thesis is to give voice to school nursing as a primary health care specialty, and to promote the development of school nursing in New Zealand. School nursing is an invisible practice specialty that is largely funded from within the education sector, to address the health needs of student clients. School nursing is a significant primary health care initiative that can positively influence student health outcomes. The author presents her own school nursing practice experience and philosophy, prior to reflecting upon the history of school nursing, and the health concerns present within the student population. The work then moves to review and critique school nursing literature from New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This thesis highlights the need for collaborative policy and practice development initiatives including a legislative requirement for school nurses, school nursing competencies and standards, school nurse to student ratios, postgraduate training, professional liaison, practice funding, and research. A discourse on the reflective topical autobiographical method introduces autobiographical poetry from school nursing practice and reflective inquiry, as the central research endeavour of this thesis. Autobiographical poetry is offered as a window to this specialty practice, and accompanying reflections allow access to a further layer of practice knowledge. | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1143 | ||
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