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Title Dementia care: A literature review Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Vision: A Journal of Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7 Issue 13 Pages 33-36
Keywords Dementia; Nurse-patient relations; Quality of health care; Nursing; Education
Abstract This article defines dementia, and explores recent trends in relation to why it is such a misunderstood condition in the health care setting. Within a theoretical framework of literature development, nurse client relationships, and quality of care and attitudes are analysed. Gaps, inconsistencies and consistencies are outlined, with the implications for nursing practice and education explored.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1279
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Author Adams, Sue
Title Nurse practitioners in rural primary health care in New Zealand : an institutional ethnography Type Book Whole
Year 2017 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 372 p.
Keywords Nurse practitioners; Rural primary health care; Rural health; Institutional ethnography; Surveys
Abstract Critically examines the work required to establish nurse practitioner (NP) services in rural primary health care in NZ, using the institutional ethnography approach to the inquiry. Explores the work and experiences that nurses undertook to become NPs delivering rural primary health care services. Considers how these were institutionally-shaped and coordinated. Conducts interviews with a total of 13 NPs and four NP candidates.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1810
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Author Adams, Sue; Boyd, Michal; Carryer, Jenny; Bareham, Corinne; Tenbensel, Tim
Title A survey of the NP workforce in primary healthcare settings in New Zealand. Type Journal Article
Year 2020 Publication New Zealand Medical Journal Abbreviated Journal
Volume 133 Issue 1523 Pages 29-40
Keywords Nurse practitioners; Primary health care; Surveys
Abstract Describes the demographics, distribution, clinical settings and employment arrangements of the NZ nurse practitioner (NP) workforce in primary healthcare settings, and organisational factors limiting their practice. Surveys 160 NPs and finds that general practice and aged residential care were the most common clinical settings.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1780
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Author Adams, Sue; Cook, Catherine; Jones, Mark
Title Jocelyn Keith's prescient question about the human right to health and healthcare Type Journal Article
Year 2021 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 37 Issue 1 Pages 14-18
Keywords Human rights; Health care; Health equity; Maori health
Abstract Reflects on a paper by Jocelyn Keith delivered at the conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, entitled 'The Right to Health or the Right to Health Care'. Places the article in the context of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2006, the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. 2007, and the WHO Sustainable Development Goals, 2015. Considers the need to redress disparities in health in relation to the Health and Disability Systems Review, 2020.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1684
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Author Adams, Sue; Oster, Sandy; Davis, Josephine
Title The training and education of nurse practitioners in Aotearoa New Zealand: Time for nationwide refresh [editorial] Type Journal Article
Year 2022 Publication Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 38 Issue 1 Pages 1-4
Keywords Nurse practitioners; Nursing education; Primary health care
Abstract Argues that the following measures must be taken to ensure the ongoing development and establishment of nurse practitioners (NP) across the health sector: review of NP competencies; support for NPs to undertake the nurse practitioner training programme

(NPTP); formation of nationally-consistent and funded NPTPs; mentoring novice NPs; and a national workforce plan for NPs.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1792
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Author Adams-Smith, P.H.
Title An exploration of issues of primary health services for Taranaki Te Atiawa children based on the expectations and perceptions of their female caregivers Type
Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal http://hdl.handle.net/10063/75
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Parents and caregivers; Primary health care; Access; Maori; Children
Abstract The intention of this research is, through collaborative discussion and selective conversations, to explore female caregivers' expectations and perceptions of primary health services for some Te Atiawa Maori children. The research process was developed in a partnership between the Maori women participants and the researcher. In addition, two local kuia actively participated in and supported the process. Emancipatory critical social theory underpinned and informed the project. Power relationships between the researcher and the participants can be overtly explored within this theoretical framework. In terms of this particular exploratory study, participatory research appeared to be applicable. The participants are female caregivers of Te Atiawa children. Data collection was done using group interactions and semi-structured interviews in the winter of the year 2000. A thematic analysis of the data was used, in which common themes were identified, compared and discussed. From the analysis of the data of the participants' conversations, key ideas were identified. The major findings have been identified within two main themes. These are: a concept of health is not the same for Pakeha as for Maori, and access issues are still problematic for the participants in this study. Many quotes from the interview participants are included in order to keep the focus of the project on the voices of the women interviewed. In terms of the significant contribution of this research, this study aims to allow voices of female caregivers of Te Atiawa Maori children to be heard. Individual and collaborative interactions offer insights into what is important to them in terms of Maori child health. Clearly, the primary health initiatives promoted by the New Zealand government are not reaching at least some of the people for whom they are intended. The research participants offered their ideas as to how these deficits could be remedied in their community.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1216
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Author Alcorn, G.
Title Giving voice to school nursing as a primary health care specialty Type
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria
Volume Issue Pages
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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Author Alcorn, G.
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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Author Andrews, Leigh; Crawford, Ruth; Arcus, Kerri
Title Kia ora houora: guiding Maori secondary school students toward health careers Type Journal Article
Year 2019 Publication Whitireia Journal of Nursing, Health and Social Services Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue 26 Pages 58-62
Keywords Kia Ora Hauora; Maori students; Secondary school students; Health careers; Vocational guidance
Abstract Collates and analyses evaluations of Central Region Kia Ora Hauora programmes from 2010-2017 to discovers what interventions in the programme were most effective for increasing the recruitment of Maori into health careers. Identifies Work-choice Day and Work Experience Day as the most effective interventions, and that meeting health professionals and taking part in simulated practice experiences were influential.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1635
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Author Armstrong, S.E.
Title Exploring the nursing reality of the sole on-call primary health care rural nurse interface with secondary care doctors Type Book Chapter
Year 2008 Publication Jean Ross (Ed.), Rural nursing: Aspects of practice (pp. 225-46) Abbreviated Journal Ministry of Health publications page
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Interprofessional relations; Rural nursing; Primary health care
Abstract A qualitative framework was used to explore the nature and the quality of interactions between sole on-call primary health care rural nurses and secondary care doctors. This study is framed as investigating a specific component of rural nursing practice and as being representative of the primary-secondary care interface. The primary-secondary care interface is crucial for the delivery of patient-centered care, and there is an increased focus on preventive primary health care. The New Zealand government sees the repositioning of professional roles and increasing emphasis on collaboration as an opportunity to re-define and address the current constraints to nursing practice. This has resulted in tensions between the medical and nursing professions. These tensions are not new, with the relationship sometimes marred by conflict which has been attributed to historical medical dominance and nursing deference. This study explores some specific areas which affect collaboration and makes recommendations at the national, regional and individual level to address them.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 780 Serial 764
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Author Bailey, A.M.
Title The New Zealand practice nurse in the primary health environment of the 21st century Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Policy; Practice nurses; Primary health care
Abstract This paper is a culmination of the author's inquiry, reflection and critical thinking on the transitional phase that practice nursing is currently undergoing as part of the New Zealand Primary Health Strategy. The paper utilises both reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action as well as reflection-before-action, as a process. The author's starting point for this inquiry was attending the New Zealand Nurses Organisation Primary Health Conference in Wellington and reading a report from the Expert Advisory Group on Primary Health Care Nursing. Knowing that practice nurses are the majority of nurses working in primary health, she was concerned that changes to primary health were being driven with little reference or participation by them. The paper explores how practice nursing evolved in New Zealand and the developments that have occurred in the 30 plus years since its inception. It describes the role and current work of practice nursing in general practice, and highlights the constraints that have held back development and continue to do so. The 2002 New Zealand Primary Health Strategy is shown to provide an opportunity for development and enhancement, if some of the constraints are removed. As part of looking to the future the possibilities for practice nurses to lead the way in primary health development are explored.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 831
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Author Bland, M.F.
Title Betwixt and between: A critical ethnography of comfort in New Zealand residential aged care Type Journal Article
Year 2007 Publication Journal of Clinical Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 16 Issue 5 Pages 937-944
Keywords Geriatric nursing; Rest homes; Patient satisfaction; Quality of health care
Abstract This research sought to explore the nature of comfort within the context of three New Zealand nursing homes and examine how nursing and other actions contribute to residents' comfort. A critical ethnographic approach was used and fieldwork included 90 days of participant observation, interviews with 27 residents and 28 staff and extensive document examination. Comfort was multidimensional, idiosyncratic, dynamic and context dependent, rather than merely the absence of discomfort. This multidimensional nature meant residents could be 'betwixt and between' comfort and discomfort simultaneously. The constraints of one-size-fits-all care delivery practices and the tensions inherent in communal living compounded residents' discomfort. The findings show that individualised care, based on comprehensive and accurate nursing assessment, is fundamental to the comfort of residents.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 657
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Author Cameron, Megan
Title Evaluation report of a postgraduate specialty programme: is a specialty nursing qualification delivering what it says it does? Type Journal Article
Year 2017 Publication Whitireia Nursing and Health Journal Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue 24 Pages 37-45
Keywords Evaluation; Primary health care; Nursing; Well Child/Tamariki Ora; Postgraduate study; Surveys
Abstract Examines whether a postgraduate programme for Well Child/Tamariki Ora (WCTO) nurses prepares nurses new to child health to understand primary health care, health promotion, community nursing and nursing theory. Uses on online survey devised by Plunket National Educators to evaluate the (WCTO) strand of the Postgraduate Certificate in Primary Health Care Specialty Nursing curriculum against the delivery of the programme. Assesses student experience and student perceptions of the impact of their learning on their nursing practice. Considers whether it enables nurses to consider the specific populations in their care, or to encourage individuals, families and communities to increase their skills in health-focused daily living. Seeks to ascertain whether the structure of the programme, based on the clinical integration approach, supports nursing practice and academic study.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1549
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Author Cavit, Larisa
Title Exploring factors that influence vaccination uptake for children with refugee backgrounds: An interpretive descriptive study of primary healthcare providers' perspectives Type Book Whole
Year 2021 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 160 p.
Keywords Immunisation; Refugee children; Primary health care; Practice nurses
Abstract Examines those factors associated with access to, and uptake of immunisation services. Conducts semi-structured interviews with primary healthcare nurses and GPs across seven resettlement locations. Proposes strategies to improve age-appropriate vaccination among refugee children after resettlement in NZ, based on five themes from the data: resettlement priorities; knowledge about refugees; learning to use the health system; communication between caregivers and health providers; culturally and linguistically appropriate services.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1757
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Author Clear, G.M.; Carryer, J.B.
Title Shadow dancing in the wings: Lesbian women talk about health care Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 17 Issue 3 Pages 27-39
Keywords Sexuality; Patient satisfaction; Nursing research; Quality of health care; Feminist critique
Abstract A participatory approach, grounded in both critical social and feminist research, was used in this study of seven women who claim being lesbian as part of their identity. With the objective of providing information to enhance safe care provision for this marginalised group, the study explored factors which hindered or facilitated these women's sense of safety related to health care. The findings indicate that barriers to receiving health care exist for these women. As there is little local or international research on lesbians and healthcare, this work offers a starting place for future New Zealand nursing research involving lesbians. The authors encourage other nurses to explore previously ignored sections of our society in order to strive for safety for all those whom nursing serves.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 843
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