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Author (down) 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 NZNO Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Gender; Primary health care; Access; Male
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1138
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Author (down) Wiapo, Coral; Sami, Lisa; Komene, Ebony; Wilkinson, Sandra; Davis, Josephine; Cooper, Beth; Adams, Sue
Title From kaimahi to enrolled nurse: A successful workforce initiative to increase Maori nurses in primary health care Type Journal Article
Year 2023 Publication Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 39 Issue 1 Pages
Keywords Enrolled nurses; Kaimahi; Maori nurses; Kaupapa Maori; Primary health care
Abstract Describes a national initiative to increase the capacity and capability of the Maori health workforce by supporting kaimahi (unregulated health workers) to become enrolled nurses (EN) delivering care within their communities. Uses Kaupapa Maori principles to create a strengths-based framework, focusing on self-determination and validating Matauranga Maori (Maori knowledge). Outlines the key components of the Earn as you Learn model.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1830
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Author (down) Warren, Bronwen; Marugeesh, Carissa; Greaves, Kirsty
Title The management of immunisation decliners in Waikato general practices Type Journal Article
Year 2017 Publication Kai Tiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal
Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages 37-42
Keywords Immunisation; Decliners; Primary health care; Team approach; Practice nurses; Health targets; Resources; Internal processes
Abstract Identifies the processes used in those general practices that consistently reach the Ministry of Health 95 per cent immunisation target for eight-month-old infants. Considers how the practices manage parents and caregivers who are reluctant to immunise. Invites practices in a number of different community settings to participate in the study over a ten-week period, using a mixed-method approach. Analyses quantitative data from the National Immunisation Register using Excel, gathering qualitative date from face-to-face or phone interviews, and anysing these using both SSPS and NVivo 10.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1541
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Author (down) Vick, Margaret; Dannenfeldt Gudrun; Shaw, Bill
Title Do students training to be health-care workers have compassionate attributes? Type Journal Article
Year 2017 Publication Kai Tiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal
Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages 16-22
Keywords Compassion; Health care students; Surveys; Measurements
Abstract Measures the extent to which health-care students began their training with compassionate attributes. Defines compassion as an awareness of others and a desire to help, using a non-judgmental approach. Highlights the significance of compassion in health care. Provides a self-administered 'compassion to others' psychometric scale to measure compassionate attributes to 146 students enrolled in the first semester of nursing, midwifery and social work at the Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec). Analyses data using the SPSS and ANOVA for descriptive statistics and predictive information.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1538
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Author (down) Vernon, R.A.; Jacobs, S.; Papps, E.
Title An innovative initiative for advanced nursing practice roles Type Journal Article
Year 2007 Publication Vision: A Journal of Nursing Abbreviated Journal Available online from Eastern Institute of Technology
Volume 14 Issue 2 Pages 16-17
Keywords Advanced nursing practice; Primary health care; Nurse practitioners; Nursing models
Abstract This paper reports an initiative which is an example of partnership between education and health organisations resulting in the implementation of a jointly funded advanced nursing practice role. The model is for community based Nurse Practitioner-managed health care for primary health and disease management. The key partners in this project are the Eastern Institute of Technology, Hawke's Bay District Health Board, and a Primary Health Organisation (Tu Meke – First Choice). This article summarises the objectives, implementation, evaluation and benefits of the programme.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1311
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Author (down) Vernon, R.A.
Title Clinical case study: Acute traumatic head injury Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Vision: A Journal of Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7 Issue 12 Pages 3-9
Keywords Trauma; Emergency nursing; Nursing specialties; Quality of health care
Abstract This clinical case study takes an integrated approach to investigation and critical analysis of the complex physiological and pathophysiological treatment modalities instigated when a patient presents following acute traumatic head injury. A broad overview of the developmental physiology of the brain and an explanation of the mechanism of traumatic brain injury as it relates to alterations in cerebral blood flow, intracranial pressure and cerebral metabolism is presented. The author describes in narrative form the clinical presentation of a patient, her symptoms and initial treatment rationale. It concludes with analysis of the patients initial treatment priorities and symptom management during the first 48 hours of her care.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1281
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Author (down) Tustin-Payne, W.
Title Self esteem, competence assessment and nurses ability to write reflectively: Is there any connection? Type
Year 2008 Publication Abbreviated Journal Wintec Research Archive
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Professional competence; Nursing; Psychology; Quality of health care; Feminist critique
Abstract The Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 requires nurses to have evidence to support they are competent to practice. Many nurses have become distraught and / or angry at this prospect, and the researcher suggests that this response appears to be more commonly related to the expectation of undertaking reflective writing, which is a key component of the competence evidence. This study explores the predisposing factors relating to nursing, reflective writing and competence to determine how this may impact on a nurse's self esteem. Utilisation of Critical Social Theory informed by feminist framework allows for exploration of the historical, social, political and cultural factors that shape and form female nurses reality in practice. It is a theory that relates to oppression and power, with the primary intent being to raise consciousness in order to emancipate. Although no definitive findings were made, there are multiple factors relating to nurse's history, socialisation, political imperatives and cultural beliefs that have the potential to impact on their self esteem. Competence, competence assessment and reflective practice are complex, therefore presenting multiple challenges. In order for nurses to understand their contextual reality and opportunities for change there is a need for them to engage in critical reflection.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1198 Serial 1183
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Author (down) Thompson, L.E.
Title Profession and place: Contesting professional boundaries at the margins Type
Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal UC Research Repository
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Rural health services; Primary health care; Identity; Interprofessional relations
Abstract Based on qualitative research conducted in New Zealand and the Western Isles with rural primary care nurses and Family Health Nurses respectively, this thesis explores the ways that nurses construct flexible generalist professional identities that challenge traditional inter and intra-professional boundaries. Rhetoric of 'crisis' is often utilised to raise political awareness of the problematic, but in fact, rural general practitioner recruitment and retention has been documented for about a hundred years. For about the same length of time nurses have been providing primary health care services in rural and remote places, often working alone. In the New Zealand case, rural primary care nurses negotiate the boundaries between nursing and medicine, those within nursing itself, and also those between nursing a paramedic work. Nurses perform this boundary work by negotiating self-governing 'appropriate' and 'safe' professional identities. In the Western Isles case, the introduction of the newly developed role of Family Health Nurse serves to highlight the problematic nature of inserting an ostensibly generalist nursing role beyond the rural.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1177 Serial 1162
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Author (down) Taylor, Melanie; Budge, Claire; Hansen, Chiquita; Mar, Materoa; Fai, Folole
Title Written care plans and support for health goals: important components of long-term conditions care Type Journal Article
Year 2019 Publication Kai Tiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal
Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 29-38
Keywords Long-term conditions; Care plans; Health goals; Primary health care; General practice; Surveys
Abstract Measures the extent of care planning and support for health goals within a sample of Maori/non-Maori people with long-term conditions (LTC). Compares those with and without care plans, and those with and without support for health goals, with respect to health, and experiences with general practice. Patients enrolled in a MidCentral District Health Board regional LTC programme were recruited into the region's 'Talking about Health' study to explore LTC care from patient and provider perspectives by means of a questionnaire.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1622
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Author (down) Tautua, Pelei
Title Exploring primary health care nursing for child and family health (specifically targeting 0-5 year's age group). Margaret May Blackwell Travel Study Fellowship for Nurses of Young Children 2002 Type Report
Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 82 p.
Keywords Primary health care – Nursing; Pacific Islanders – Health; Child health services; Family health
Abstract Compares the delivery models used by primary health-care nurses in Auckland for follow-up services aimed at Pacific children discharged from hospital with preventable illnesses, with similar services and programmes in Tonga and Samoa. Also compares NZ and Pacific Island programmes to promote immunisation and breastfeeding. Part of the Margaret May Blackwell Scholarship Reports series.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1420
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Author (down) Strickland, A.
Title Nurse-initiated retinoblastoma service in New Zealand Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication Insight: The Journal of the American Society of Ophthalmic Registered Nurses Abbreviated Journal
Volume 31 Issue 1 Pages 8-10
Keywords Case studies; Nursing specialties; Children; Quality of health care; Evaluation
Abstract This article describes the implementation of a nurse-led, dedicated support network and service for children with a diagnosis of retinoblastoma and their families. Nurses with an interest in retinoblastoma at an Auckland Ophthalmology Department realised that the service provided was not meeting the needs of patients and families, particularly since the numbers had increased over the past two years. This article outlines the development of a cost-effective approach that improved the service.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 884
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Author (down) Sheridan, N.F.
Title Mapping a new future: Primary health care nursing in New Zealand Type
Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Primary health care; Chronic diseases; Community health nursing; Nursing models
Abstract The aim of the study was to determine the practice of nurses employed in integrated care projects in New Zealand from late 1999 to early 2001. Integrated care was a major health reform strategy that emphasised primary health care as a means to improve service provision between the health sectors. An investigation of nurses' practice sought to determine the extent to which primary health care principles had been adopted in practice, as a comprehensive primary health care approach has been advocated globally in the management of chronic conditions; the leading cause of disability throughout the world and the most expensive problems faced by health care systems. The philosophical basis of the research was postpositivism. The study employed a quantitative non-experimental survey design because it allowed numeric descriptions of the characteristics of integrated care projects to be gained for the purpose of identifying nurses' practice. The unit of inquiry was the integrated care project, and 80 comprised the study population. Data were obtained on projects from expert informants (n=27) by telephone survey using a structured interview questionnaire developed by the researcher. Data obtained from interviews were statistically analysed in two stages. First, data were produced to comprehensively describe the characteristics of integrated care projects and nurses practice. The 'Public health interventions model' was used as a framework to analyses the interventions (activities) and levels of population-based practice of nurses. Following this, the social values embedded in nurses' practice were determined using 'Beattie's model of health promotion' as a framework for analysis. A strong association was found between nurses' practice in projects and strategies used in integrated care, such as information sharing, guideline development and promotion, and case management, and projects with an ethnic focus, low income focus, chronic condition focus, and well-health focus. Whilst nurses undertook interventions most frequently at the individual practice level they were also strongly associated with the small proportion of interventions that were undertaken at the community level. The majority of interventions by nurses reflected the health promotion value of health persuasion, indicating a paternalist and individual-oriented philosophy. Nurses were engaged in two interventions that indicated a collective-oriented philosophy – coalition building and community development, the latter reflecting health promotion values of negotiation, partnership and empowerment. The study demonstrated that nurses' practice in projects was predominantly centred on individual-focused population-based practice suggesting the need for a framework to assist nurses to transition their practice to include more activity at the community and systems levels. Without a reorientation of practice, nurses will remain limited in their ability to achieve health gains for populations. In response to this conclusion, and drawing on research results and reviewed literature, a new model, The 'Primary Health Care interventions model' was constructed. Recommendations include advocacy for the acceptance of the model by the health funder, professional nursing bodies, health organisations, educational institutions, nurses, communities, and individuals.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 679 Serial 665
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Author (down) Shaw, S.
Title Constructing media images of nursing: How does the media represent nurses when reporting on nurse prescribing? Type Journal Article
Year 2007 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 13 Issue 1 Pages 16-18
Keywords Drug administration; Interprofessional relations; Professional competence; Nursing; Eucation; Quality of health care
Abstract This research presents a discourse analysis of articles published in the New Zealand Herald between October 1999 and September 2005. The terms “nurse prescribing” and “prescribing fights” identified seven articles published which referred specifically to this issue. They were predominantly editorial comments and statements attributed to senior doctors. Examples of comments from these articles are presented and discussed in this article, and three inter-related themes are identified – competence, responsibility and competition. Discussion on competence centred on education, skill and experience level of nurses, as described by editorial comment and senior doctors. Positive international research and experience of nurse prescribing did not feature. A number of comments in the articles analysed could be seen to represent concerns about competition between medicine and nursing. One interpretation of the comments contained in these articles is to see medical practitioner groups defending their status and desire to define and control nursing practice. The media has the power to select the information conveyed and, in these instances, appears to have demonstrated a bias towards the medical community's perspective.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 979
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Author (down) Ryan, Timothy
Title Exploring the experiences of Maori men in a culturally-enriched well-being programme Type Journal Article
Year 2019 Publication Kai Tiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal
Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 22-27
Keywords Maori men; Kaupapa Maori; Health education; Primary health care
Abstract Explores the experiences of participants in a health education programme designed specifically for Maori males, called Tane Takitu Ake, delivered by community health workers and a nurse. Employs a qualitative descriptive methodology with thematic analysis of data from a focus group cohort of Maori males aged 38 to 55 years referred to the programme via social and/or health services. Gathers data from during a 10-week kaupapa Maori programme.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1621
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Author (down) Ryan, Timothy
Title Comparing health outcomes of rural and urban diabetes patients: an audit of a Maori health provider Type Journal Article
Year 2021 Publication Kai Tiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal
Volume 12 Issue 1 Pages 60-62
Keywords Maori health care; Primary health care; Diabetes; Rural health services; Kaupapa Maori
Abstract Examines whether diabetes management is influenced by proximity to health-care providers for rural and urban patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Includes patients living beyond a 5km radius from their health-care provider. Compares a Maori health provider, with a contract to support diabetes patients, and which employs a practice nurse who organises support under a kaupapa Maori framework, with an urban Maori health practice.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1719
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