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Blair, K.M. |
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Recognising the sick patient: An emergency nurses view: A research paper |
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2006 |
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Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Emergency nursing; Patient safety; Diagnosis; Training; Clinical decision making |
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This paper reports on a literature review that examines how health professionals (mainly nurses) recognise the signs of physical deterioration in their patients. It includes discussion of how nurses' clinical decision making skills influence how physical deterioration is identified and determines what changes in the delivery of care could have an impact on emergency department patients at risk of life threatening deterioration. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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467 |
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Crowe, M. |
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Psychiatric diagnosis: Some implications for mental health nursing care |
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Journal Article |
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2006 |
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Journal of Advanced Nursing |
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53 |
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1 |
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125-131 |
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Psychiatric Nursing; Diagnosis; Culture; Gender; Socioeconomic factors; Nursing models |
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This article explores some of the functions of psychiatric diagnosis and the implications this has for mental health nursing care. It critiques the psychiatric diagnosis as a categorisation process that maintains oppressive power relations within society, by establishing and enforcing normality through gender, culture and class biases. The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is used to illustrate some of the inherent biases in the diagnostic process. The author argues that mental health nursing practice needs to demonstrate an awareness of the power relations inherent in any diagnostic process and make attempts to redress these at both the individual and sociopolitical levels. To create a true patient-centred partnership in mental health nursing, the nursing focus should be on the patient's experience rather than the psychiatric diagnosis with which the experience is attributed. NB this is a reprint of article first published in Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2000 Mar; 31(3), 583-9. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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837 |
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Hamer, H.P.; McCallin, A. |
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Cardiac pain or panic disorder? Managing uncertainty in the emergency department |
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2006 |
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Nursing & Health Sciences |
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8 |
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4 |
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224-230 |
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Emergency nursing; Clinical assessment; Diagnosis |
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This paper presents research findings from a New Zealand study that explored emergency nurses' differentiation of non-cardiac chest pain from panic disorder and raised significant issues in the nursing assessment and management of such clients. The data were gathered from focus group interviews and were analysed thematically. Three themes, prioritising time, managing uncertainty and ambiguity, and the life-threatening lens, were identified. The findings confirm that a panic disorder is not always diagnosed when biomedical assessment is used in isolation from a psychosocial assessment. Emergency nurses are pivotal in reversing the cycle of repeat presenters with non-cardiac chest pain. Recommendations for assessing and managing this complex condition are presented. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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689 |
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Harun, Inayah; Trimmer, Wendy; Thompson, Sean R. |
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Identifying and managing the pre-hospital presentation of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures: a literature review |
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2019 |
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Whitireia Journal of Nursing, Health and Social Services |
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26 |
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73-80 |
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Pseudo-seizure; Psychogenic non-epileptic serzure; Paramedic; Diagnosis; Somatic; Psychological distress |
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Performs a review of the literature on the topic to assist paramedics to identify and manage patients with psychogenic, non-epileptic seizures (PNES). Explores current pre-hospital practice in NZ and makes recommendations to improve health-care and outcomes in such patients. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1636 |
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Litchfield, M. |
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Knowledge embedded in practice |
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Journal Article |
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1989 |
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Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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82 |
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10 |
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24-25 |
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Nursing research; diagnosis; Education; Nursing philosophy |
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A statement of the nature of research needed to distinguish the knowledge of nursing practice from knowledge developed by other disciplines. It orients to the interrelationship of practice and research as the foundation of the discipline of nursing. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1315 |
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Litchfield, M. |
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Title |
Thinking through diagnosis: Process in nursing practice |
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1986 |
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Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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1 |
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4 |
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9-12 |
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Diagnosis; Nursing philosophy; Nursing research |
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A paper following on from the paper “Between the idea and reality” (Nursing Praxis in New Zealand 1(2), 17-29) proposing the focus for the discipline of nursing – practice and research – is diagnosis. For nursing practice, diagnosis is a practice that collapses “The Nursing Process”; for research to develop nursing practice, diagnosis is one continuous relational process that merges and makes the separate tasks od assessment, intervention and evaluation redundant. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1314 |
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Litchfield, M. |
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Between the idea and reality |
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Journal Article |
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1986 |
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Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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1 |
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2 |
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17-29 |
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Nursing research; Nursing philosophy; Diagnosis; Evaluation |
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A paper presented as one of the four “Winter Lecture Series” hosted by the Nursing Studies unit of the Department of Education, Victoria University of Wellington. It is a critique of “ The Nursing Process” referred to commonly in nursing education programmes. It challenges the usefulness for nursing of the linear sequence of steps of assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention and evaluation. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1313 |
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Matthews, Tamyra Marie |
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Breaking bad news about cancer: The experience of patients, patients' family/whanau members and healthcare professionals |
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Book Whole |
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2020 |
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258 p. |
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Cancer nurses; Cancer patients; Diagnosis; Prognosis; Surveys |
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Explores the subjective experiences of patients, patients' family/whanau members, and health-care professionals (HCP) when bad news was delivered to patients about their cancer within the surgical departments of MidCentral District Health Board. Gathers and compares multiple perspectives and makes recommendations for practice that align with the goals of those involved in the project. Utilises a qualitative approach with the epistemological and methodological basis informed by interpretative phenomenological analysis. Collects data through semi-structured interviews with 10 patients, 6 family members, 5 surgeons and 6 nurses. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1771 |
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McPherson, G.; Horsburgh, M.; Tracy, C. |
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A clinical audit of a nurse colposcopist: Colposcopy, cytology, histology correlation |
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Journal Article |
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2005 |
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Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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21 |
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3 |
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13-23 |
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Nurse practitioners; Professional competence; Diagnosis; Advanced nursing practice |
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A clinical audit was undertaken to assess the diagnostic skills of the nurse colposcopist measuring colposcopy: histology: cytology correlation. At National Women's Health the first New Zealand nurse colposcopist training programme was developed in 2000. A retrospective audit of the colposcopy clinical records was performed during the nurse's training programme between July 2000 and March 2002. An 82% (82/100) histology: cytology: colposcopy correlation was achieved by the nurse in the third phase of her training programme. The results are comparable with other reported studies involving medical and nurse colposcopists. Expertise in colposcopy examination can be incorporated into the broader role of a Nurse Practitioner working in the area of women's health. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 548 |
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534 |
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