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Author Jonsdottir, H.; Litchfield, M.; Pharris, M.
Title Partnership in practice Type Journal Article
Year 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 Jull, Andrew
Title Becoming a clinical triallist: challenges and opportunities for nursing research Type Journal Article
Year 2023 Publication Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 39 Issue 2 Pages
Keywords Clinical trials; Nursing research; Systematic reviews; Evidence-based practice
Abstract Asks what is the value of randomised ccontrolled trials (RCT), and argues that different trial designs are appropriate for different types of question, e.g. intervention, aetiology, diagnosis, prognosis, therapy, and experience. Backgrounds the formation of the Cochrane Collaboration. Relates the author's own experience in becoming a clinical triallist and considers the barriers to nurses running RCTs. Explains the need and intent of the Australasian Nursing and Midwifery Clinical Trials Network (ANMCTN)
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1855
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Author Kidd, J.D.
Title What's going on? Mental health nursing in New Zealand Type
Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal Otago Polytechnic Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Nursing research
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1255
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Author Kirkham, S.; Smye, V.; Tang, S.; Anderson, J.; Blue, C.; Browne, A.; Coles, R.; Dyck, I.; Henderson, A.; Lynam, M.J.; Perry, J.(see also C.); Semeniuk, P.; Shapera, L.
Title Rethinking cultural safety while waiting to do fieldwork: Methodological implications for nursing research Type Journal Article
Year 2002 Publication Research in Nursing & Health Abbreviated Journal
Volume 25 Issue 3 Pages 222-232
Keywords Cultural safety; Hospitals; Health behaviour; Culture; Nursing research
Abstract The authors trace a series of theoretical explorations, centered on the concept of cultural safety, with corresponding methodological implications, engaged in during preparation for an intensive period of fieldwork to study the hospitalisation and help-seeking experiences of diverse ethnocultural populations.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1078
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Author Litchfield, M
Title To advance health care: The origins of nursing research in New Zealand Type Book Whole
Year 2009 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 129 pp
Keywords Nursing Research Section, New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Abstract This book examines in detail the confluence of personalities and professional and practice agendas, out of which emerged the research section, intent on placing research at the centre of the profession's evolution. It provides a fascinating look at how a group of women, utterly committed to nursing, drove their research agenda and it expands understandings of why nursing research is significant for the development of nursing. It also provides an insight into that web of relationships between the professional body, NZNA, the Department of Health, service delivery and education.

To order a copy:

Email: publications@nzno.org.nz

NZNO members: $25 (incl GST + p&p)

Non-NZNO members: $35 (incl GST + p&p)
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1341
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title Between the idea and reality Type Journal Article
Year 1986 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 1 Issue 2 Pages 17-29
Keywords Nursing research; Nursing philosophy; Diagnosis; Evaluation
Abstract 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.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1313
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title Thinking through diagnosis: Process in nursing practice Type Journal Article
Year 1986 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 1 Issue 4 Pages 9-12
Keywords Diagnosis; Nursing philosophy; Nursing research
Abstract 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.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1314
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title Knowledge embedded in practice Type Journal Article
Year 1989 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 82 Issue 10 Pages 24-25
Keywords Nursing research; diagnosis; Education; Nursing philosophy
Abstract 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.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1315
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title Priorities for research Type Journal Article
Year 1993 Publication kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 1 Issue 8 Pages 28-30
Keywords Nursing research
Abstract An article adapted from the author's contribution as an invited member of the International Panel of Nurse Researchers leading the Special Research Seminar of the 1993 International Council of Nurses Quadrennial Congress, Madrid, Spain. The priorities of nursing research in New Zealand were derived from the findings of a semi-structured survey of the opinions of nurses in academic settings.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1320
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title Viewpoint: Telling nursing stories Type Journal Article
Year 1994 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 2 Issue 4 Pages 28
Keywords Nursing research; Ethics; Patient rights
Abstract A brief critique and comment on the ethical implications of nurse researchers using methodology that involves soliciting personal experiences of patients and subsequently publishing them as stories.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1321
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title What is nursing research? Type Journal Article
Year 1998 Publication P. Watson & M.Woods (Eds.), Waiora: Nursing research in Aotearoa/New Zealand, evolving a shared sense of our future. Proceedings of the Nursing Research Section/Te Runanga O Aotearoa (New Zealand Nurses' Organisation) conference, Wellington 26-27 March. Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Nursing research; Nursing
Abstract This conference paper outlines the nature of nursing research developing the distinct knowledge for nursing practice. It is presented as a cumulative process of knowledge development about health, practice and service delivery. Nursing research is illustrated by tracing a personal trajectory of research over 25 years that addressed questions relating to and derived from the practice of nursing.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1326
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title Practice wisdom Type Journal Article
Year 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 Litchfield, M.
Title The nursing praxis of family health Type Book Chapter
Year 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.; Jonsdottir, H.
Title A practice discipline that's here and now Type Journal Article
Year 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 Little, S.
Title An exploration of vicarious traumatisation in emergency nurses Type
Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Emergency nursing; Occupational health and safety; Nursing research; Stress
Abstract This thesis explores the theoretical notions of suffering and caring within the nurse patient relationship in the context of emergency nursing. It includes a small pilot study that aimed to assess the feasibliity of a major research project, by describing the impact of vicarious traumatisation in emergency nurses, specifically in relation to their self capacities. This pilot study utilised a descriptive, correlational design. Data was collected by using the Inner Experience Questionnaire (IEQ) a twenty four-item questionnaire developed by Dr Pearlman (1995), and a profile sheet which identified demographic details. Twenty-seven emergency nurses participated in this pilot study. The IEQ was assessed for internal reliability by applying the Cronbachs alpha and utilising a focus group to gain insight into the usability and relevance of the questions. The internal reliability of the IEQ suggests that it may be an appropriate tool to measure disruption of self capacities in the population of emergency nurses. Although the results are limited, and conclusions cannot be drawn, findings suggest a correlation between the variables of age, experience, nursing qualifications and a history of personal trauma and the IEQ. There is evidence that emergency nurses are affected psychologically when caring for the victims of trauma in emergency departments and the IEQ has the potential as a tool to be integrated into future emergency nursing studies. A multidimensional methodological approach is recommended to capture the many contours of the complex phenomena of vicarious traumatisation and the emergency nurse.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1249
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