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Author Litchfield, M.; Jonsdottir, H. openurl 
  Title A practice discipline that's here and now Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2008 Publication Advances in Nursing Science Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 31 Issue 1 Pages 79-92  
  Keywords Nursing research; Policy; Nursing philosophy  
  Abstract The article is a collaborative writing venture drawing on research findings from New Zealand and Iceland to contribute to the international scholarship on the status and future direction of the nursing discipline. It takes an overview of the international historical trends in nursing knowledge development and proposes a framework for contemporary nursing research that accommodates the past efforts and paradigms of nurse scholars and reflects the changing thinking around the humanness of the health circumstance as the focus of the nursing discipline. It addresses contemporary challenges facing nurses as practitioners and researchers for advancement of practice and delivery of health services, and for influencing health policy.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1174  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title The innovation effort: ?Are you in or are you out?? Type Miscellaneous
  Year (down) 2007 Publication Abbreviated Journal http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/pagesmh/7696/$File/mlitchfield.pdf  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Nursing; Primary health care; Policy  
  Abstract A graphic presentation in PDF format (April 2007) of the findings and policy implications of the developmental evaluation research programme for the Turangi Primary Health Care Nursing Innovation.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1327  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title Towards a people-pivotal paradigm for healthcare: Report of the Turangi primary health care nursing innovation 2003-2006 Type Manuscript
  Year (down) 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal Held by the Ministry of Health, publication pending  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Evaluation; Community health nursing; Nursing models; Interprofessional relations  
  Abstract This report presents the findings of the developmental evaluation programme for the three-year innovation project. It includes the model of the integrative nursing service scheme with mobile whanau/family nurses as the hub of healthcare provision for a new paradigm of service design and delivery spanning primary-secondary-tertiary sectors. The form of healthcare the local people received, the nature of the nursing practice and role, service delivery and employment parameters required to support the nurses in practice are presented. The service configuration model subsequently gave the structure to Lake Taupo Primary Health Organisation with the hub of family nurses with a mobile comprehensive practice.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1178  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title The nursing praxis of family health Type Book Chapter
  Year (down) 2005 Publication Picard, C & Jones, D., Giving voice to what we know (pp.73-82) Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Nursing research; Nursing philosophy; Nurse-family relations  
  Abstract 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.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1185 Serial 1170  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title Achieving health in a rural community: A case study of nurse – community partnership Type Book Whole
  Year (down) 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal University and Polytechnic Libraries, NZNO Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Rural health services; Nursing models; Advanced nursing practice; Health promotion; Organisational change  
  Abstract This study describes rural, nurse-led health services provided by the Takapau Health Centre (Central Hawkes Bay) and its outreach, Norsewood & District Health Centre. The study looks at its model of service delivery through to 2002. It examines the establishment, development, funding and management of the service, along with the nursing practice and the healthcare people received. The book is a snapshot of nursing initiative and survival through a decade of change in health policy and service funding and delivery. The information was subsequently used to move the health centre service into the new paradigm of primary health care launched in the New Zealand Health Strategy.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1183 Serial 1168  
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Author Jonsdottir, H.; Litchfield, M.; Pharris, M. openurl 
  Title Partnership in practice Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2003 Publication Research & Theory for Nursing Practice Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 17 Issue 1 Pages 51-63  
  Keywords Nurse-patient relations; Nursing philosophy; Nursing research  
  Abstract This article presents a reconsideration of partnership between nurse and client as the core of the nursing discipline. It points to the significance of the relational nature of partnership, differentiating its features and form from the prevalent understanding associated with prescriptive interventions to achieve predetermined goals and outcomes. The meaning of partnership is presented within the nursing process where the caring presence of the nurse becomes integral to the health experience of the client as the potential for action. Exemplars provide illustration of this emerging view in practice and research. This is the first of a series of articles written as a partnership between nurse scholars from Iceland, New Zealand and the USA. The series draws on research projects that explored the philosophical, theoretical, ethical and practical nature of nursing practice and its significance for health and healthcare in a world of changing need.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1172  
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Author Litchfield, M. url  openurl
  Title The successful design and delivery of rural health services: The meaning of success Type Report
  Year (down) 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal Online on the Ministry of Health's Centre for Rural Health pages  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Evaluation; Rural health services; Primary health care  
  Abstract This is the report of the analysis of data from an in-depth survey designed by Sue Dawson, previously Rural Health Researcher in the Centre for Rural Health, and follow-up interviews. The study purpose was to construct a definition of “successful design and delivery of rural health services” as a step towards a measurement tool. Participants were grouped as general practitioners, nurses and community representatives. A format for a participatory approach to evaluation of rural health services is derived from the criteria of success identified, with its relevance for the implementation of the new Government primary health care strategy explicit. This format provided the basis for a subsequent evaluation case study undertaken in a small rural forestry township by the Centre for Rural Health.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1177  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title The successful design and delivery of rural health services: The meaning of success Type Report
  Year (down) 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal Accessible from www.moh.govt.nz  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Rural health services; Management; Primary health care  
  Abstract A report on the analysis of data from an in-depth survey designed by Sue Dawson, previously Rural Health Researcher in the Centre for Rural Health, and follow-up interviews. The study purpose was to construct a definition of ?successful design and delivery of rural health services? as a step towards a measurement tool. Participants were grouped as general practitioners (GPs), nurses and community representatives. A format for a participatory approach to evaluation of rural health services is derived from the criteria of success identified, with its relevance for the implementation of the new Government primary health care strategy explicit. This format provided the basis for a subsequent evaluation case study undertaken in a small rural forestry township by the Centre for Rural Health.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1328  
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Author Litchfield, M. url  openurl
  Title A framework of complementary models of nursing practice: A study of nursing roles and practice for a new era of healthcare provision in New Zealand Type Report
  Year (down) 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal Online on the Ministry of Health's Centre for Rural Health pages  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Nursing models; Rural nursing; Policy; Scope of practice  
  Abstract This is the second of a series of research projects undertaken to present the contemporary picture of the nurse workforce and their work in rural settings to inform policy for development of rural healthcare. The document presents the findings of telephone interviews with nurses in different work rural work settings around the country discussing their practice. The analysis identified a framework of four models of nursing practice: two traditional models defined by the institutions employing nurses, and two emerging models defined by the new positions requiring nurses to respond directly to health need.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1176  
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Author Litchfield, M.; Ross, J. url  openurl
  Title The role of rural nurses: National survey Type Report
  Year (down) 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Online on the Ministry of Health's Centre for Rural Health pages  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Rural nursing; Personnel; Nursing specialties; Primary health care  
  Abstract A survey was used to reach as many nurses as possible involved with nursing in “rural” areas throughout New Zealand and to build a profile of nurses involved in the provision of healthcare beyond the urban centres. The contact also sought to inform nurses of the rural healthcare project and encourage them to contribute their experience to the development of health services in the new health service structure. Data is presented on the characteristics and employment conditions of nurses and access to resources including information technology. The inadequacy of information on the rural nurse workforce is identified: nurse roles are historically defined yet employment patterns are changing according to the workforce demands of new structures, and the existing definitions of rural health service design and delivery are only in terms of general medical practices and on-call coverage. Recommendations are made for definitions of “rurality” and “rural nurse” that will allow a more useful depiction of the nurse workforce.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1175  
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Author Litchfield, M.; Laws, M. openurl 
  Title Achieving family health and cost-containment outcomes: Innovation in the New Zealand Health Sector Reforms Type Book Chapter
  Year (down) 1999 Publication Cohen,E. & De Back,V. (Eds.), The outcomes mandate: New roles, rules and relationships. Case management in health care today (pp. 306-316) Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Advanced nursing practice; Nurse managers; Teamwork; Nurse-family relations; Leadership; Health reforms  
  Abstract The chapter presents the research findings of the 1992-1993 Wellington Nurse Case Management Scheme Project as a distinct model of nurse case management, which introduced a role and form of practice of a family nurse and a diagram of the service delivery structure required for support and relevant for the New Zealand health system reforms.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1169  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title Practice wisdom Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 1999 Publication Advances in Nursing Science Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 22 Issue 2 Pages 62-73  
  Keywords Nursing research; Nursing; Health knowledge  
  Abstract 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.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1186 Serial 1171  
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Author van Wissen, K.A.; Litchfield, M.; Maling, T. openurl 
  Title Living with high blood pressure Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 1998 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 27 Issue 3 Pages 567-574  
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  Abstract An interdisciplinary (nursing-medicine) collaboration in a qualitative descriptive research project undertaken in the Wellington School of Medicine with New Zealand Health Research Council funding. The purpose was to inform the practice of nursing and medical practitioners. A group of patients were interviewed in their homes. Their experience of having a diagnosis of hypertension and prescription of long-term treatment requiring adjustment in their lives and the lives of their families is presented as themes.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 360  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title Case management and nurses Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 1998 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 26-35  
  Keywords Nursing; Care plans  
  Abstract The report of an exploratory study of current approaches to case management by nurses as requested by the College of Nurses Aotearoa New Zealand. It revealed different interpretations of nurse case management around New Zealand and in the US, UK and Australia. They differed according to the conceptualisation of health service design and delivery in the respective country. Case management in New Zealand in general presented nurse care management roles as an interface between the mangement of health service delivery and the peculiarities of the healthcare people received, holding the potential for achieving tailored, patient-centred care outcomes.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1323  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title Professional development: Developing a new model of integrated care Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 1998 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 4 Issue 9 Pages 23-25  
  Keywords Nursing models; Nurse practitioners; Policy; Nurse-family relations  
  Abstract An overview of the model of nursing practice and nurse roles derived through a programme of nursing research in the context of the policy and strategies directing developments in the New Zealand health system. The emphsis was on the health service configuration model presented diagrammatically to show the position of a new role of family nurse with a distinct form of practice forming the hub.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1324  
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