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Author Officer, Tara N. url  openurl
  Title Nurse practitioners and pharmacist prescribers in primary health care: A realist evaluation of the New Zealand experience Type Book Whole
  Year 2018 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (down) 301 p.  
  Keywords Nurse practitioners; Primary health care; Advanced nursing practice; Pharmacist prescribers  
  Abstract Investigates how nurse practitioner and pharmacist prescriber roles are developing in NZ primary health care, and what is needed to better support the future development of these roles. Employs a qualitative research design involving semi-structured interviews of (1) policy, training, and advocacy stakeholders; (2) primary health-care nurse practitioners, pharmacist prescribers, and general practitioners; and (3) patients of advanced practitioners and carers of patients using such services.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1693  
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Author Wilson, H.V. openurl 
  Title Power and partnership: A critical analysis of the surveillance discourses of child health nurses Type Journal Article
  Year 2001 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 36 Issue 2 Pages (down) 294-301  
  Keywords Paediatric nursing; Nurse-family relations; Nursing philosophy; Plunket  
  Abstract The aim of this research was to explore surveillance discourses within New Zealand child health nursing and to identify whether surveillance practices have implications in this context for power relations. Five experienced and practising Plunket nurses were each interviewed twice. The texts generated by these semi-structured interviews were analysed using a Foucauldian approach to critical discourse analysis. In contrast with the conventional view of power as held and wielded by one party, this study revealed that, in the Plunket nursing context, power is exercised in various and unexpected ways. Although the relationship between the mother and the nurse cannot be said to operate as a partnership, it is constituted in the nurses' discourses as a dynamic relationship in which the mother is actively engaged on her own terms. The effect of this is that it is presented by the nurses as a precarious relationship that has significant implications for the success of their work.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1085  
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Author McKillop, A.M. openurl 
  Title Evaluation of the implementation of a best practice information sheet: Tracheal suctioning of adults with an artificial airway Type Journal Article
  Year 2004 Publication JBI Reports Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 2 Issue 9 Pages (down) 293-308  
  Keywords Evidence-based medicine; Nursing; Guidelines; Evaluation  
  Abstract This report presents an evaluation of the implementation of a best practice information sheet related to tracheal suctioning of adults with an artificial airway. The Centre for Evidence-Based Nursing Aotearoa, based in Auckland, conducted a systematic review of the evidence and produced the best practice information sheet. A survey of 105 nurses was conducted at three sites, in New Zealand and Australia. Using a before/after design, data were collected at the time of release of the information sheet and then approximately 12 months later. The study suggests a trend towards a modest uptake of best practice recommendations into nursing practice demonstrated by some behavioural changes within a 12-month period in the context of an implementation plan and the best practice information sheet.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 696  
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Author Alavi, C. openurl 
  Title Breaking-in bodies: Teaching, nursing, initiations or what's love got to do with it? Type Journal Article
  Year 2005 Publication Contemporary Nurse Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 18 Issue 3 Pages (down) 292-299  
  Keywords Nursing; Education; Psychology; Nurse-patient relations; Students  
  Abstract This paper discusses how students become able to work with sick patients for whom they may feel disgust or discomfort. It is a sustained engagement with the literature on abjection and disgust and is not the outcome of evaluation research. It considers the role of problem-based learning pedagogy in facilitating students' negotiation of their own discomfort and horror, and describes experiences which enable them to approach abject patients with more comfort and less disgust. The paper argues the importance of creating spaces where students can explore issues which are distressing and disturbing so that they will feel able to remain in nursing.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 658  
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Author Jamieson,I url  openurl
  Title What are the views of Generation Y New Zealand Registered Nurses towards nursing, work and career?: A descriptive exploratory study Type
  Year 2012 Publication Abbreviated Journal Available from the NZNO Library  
  Volume Issue Pages (down) 290 pp  
  Keywords Generation Y; Young nurses; Registered Nurses; Workforce planning; Attitudes to nursing; Surveys; Nursing shortages  
  Abstract The author has taken a broad approach to this research to explore the views of Generation Y New Zealand Registered Nurses towards the nursing profession, the work itself and their career plans. This study arose out of the author?s interest in health care workforce planning for nursing and in particular the retention of young nurses given the current national and global shortage of nurses. Because of the broad and descriptive nature of the research, a wide variety of topics are included in the literature reviewed.

Chapter one provides background to the study and an overview of generational cohorts.

Chapter two explores selected literature relevant to the concept of work and the characteristics of the Generation Y workforce.

Other topics included in this chapter include Herzberg?s work motivation hygiene/maintenance theory and a selection of literature about key workforce recruitment and retention issues.

A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Health Sciences
 
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1393  
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Author Wilson, H.V. openurl 
  Title Paradoxical pursuits in child health nursing practice: Discourses of scientific mothercraft Type Journal Article
  Year 2003 Publication Critical Public Health Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 13 Issue 3 Pages (down) 281-293  
  Keywords Plunket; Nurse-family relations; Paediatric nursing; Nursing philosophy  
  Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine the discourses of scientific mothercraft and their implications for the nurse-mother relationship, drawing on the author's recent research into surveillance and the exercise of power in the child health nursing context. The application of Foucauldian discourse analysis to the texts generated by interviews with five New Zealand child health nurses confirms that this paradoxical role has never been fully resolved. Plunket nurses primarily work in the community with the parents of new babies and preschool children. Their work, child health surveillance, is considered to involve routine and unproblematic practices generally carried out in the context of a relationship between the nurse and the mother. However, there are suggestions in the literature that historically the nurse's surveillance role has conflicting objectives, as she is at the same time an inspector and family friend.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1116 Serial 1101  
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Author Rook, Helen url  openurl
  Title Living nursing values: a collective case study Type Book Whole
  Year 2017 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (down) 278 p.  
  Keywords Nursing values; Value dissonance; Burn-out; Medical wards; Case studies  
  Abstract Explores the humanistic values of professional nurses practising in medical ward environments and how these values are lived in day-to-day nursing practice on three medical wards in NZ using observations, focus groups, interviews, a burn-out survey and theoretical application. Challenges the nursing profession to acknowledge and address the visibility of nursing values in contemporary practice, as well as acknowledge the dissonance that exists between the values of nursing and the values that drive healthcare delivery.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1694  
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Author Holloway, Kathy; Baker, Jacqueline; Lumby, Judy openurl 
  Title Specialist nursing famework for New Zealand: A missing link in workforce planning Type Journal Article
  Year 2009 Publication Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 10 Issue 4 Pages (down) 269-275  
  Keywords Workforce planning; Nursing workforce; Specialist nursing frameworks; Advanced practice nurses  
  Abstract Explores the NZ context underpinning adequate specialist nurse workforce supply, contending that effective workforce planning would be supported by the

development of a single unified framework for specialist nursing practice in NZ, with the potential to support accurate data collection and to enable service providers to identify and plan transparent and transferable pathways for specialist nursing service provision and development. Argues that advanced practice nursing frameworks assist in increasing productivity through building an evidence base about advanced practice, enhancing consistency and equity of expertise, supporting a reduction in role duplication, and enabling succession planning and sustainability.
 
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1826  
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Author Pirret, A.M. openurl 
  Title A preoperative scoring system to identify patients requiring postoperative high dependency care Type Journal Article
  Year 2003 Publication Intensive & Critical Care Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 19 Issue 5 Pages (down) 267-275  
  Keywords Hospitals; Quality of health care; Surgery; Nursing; Clinical assessment  
  Abstract The incidence of postoperative complications is reduced with early identification of at risk patients and improved postoperative monitoring. This study describes the development and effect of a nursing preoperative assessment tool to identify patients at risk of postoperative complications and to reduce the number of acute admissions to ICU/HDU. All surgical patients admitted to a surgical ward for an elective surgical procedure (n=7832) over a 23-month period were concurrently scored on admission using the preoperative assessment tool. During the time period studied, acute admissions to ICU/HDU reduced from 40.37 to 19.11%. Only 24.04% of patients who had a PAS >4 were identified by the surgeon and/or anesthetist as being at risk of a postoperative complication, or if identified, no provision was made for improved postoperative monitoring. This study supports the involvement of nurses in identifying preoperatively patients at risk of a postoperative complication and in need of improved postoperative monitoring. The postoperative monitoring requirements for the PAS >4 patients were relatively low technology interventions.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 904 Serial 888  
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Author Gilder, Eileen url  openurl
  Title To suction or not to suction; that is the question: Studies of endotracheal suction in post-operative cardiac patients Type Book Whole
  Year 2020 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (down) 261 p.  
  Keywords Endotracheal suction; Post-operative cardiac patients; Post-operative nursing; Patient safety  
  Abstract Assesses the safety of actively avoiding endotracheal suction in post-operative cardiac surgical patients ventilated for less than 12 hours. Describes local endotracheal suction practice, and elucidates patient experience of the endotracheal tube and endotracheal suction. Conducts an observational audit describing endotracheal sucion practice within the cardiothoracic and vascular intensive care unit in Auckland City Hospital. Undertakes a prospective, non-inferiority, randomised controlled trial investigating the safety of avoiding endotracheal suction.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1769  
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Author Gaskin, C.J.; O'Brien, A.P.; Hardy, D.J. openurl 
  Title The development of a professional practice audit questionnaire for mental health nursing in Aotearoa/New Zealand Type Journal Article
  Year 2003 Publication International Journal of Mental Health Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 12 Issue 4 Pages (down) 259-270  
  Keywords Professional competence; Psychiatric Nursing; Clinical decision making; Nursing research  
  Abstract This paper reports the three-stage development of a professional practice audit questionnaire for mental health nursing in Aotearoa/New Zealand. In Study 1, clinical indicator statements (n = 99) generated from focus group data, which were considered to be unobservable in the nursing documentation in consumer case notes, were included in a three-round Delphi process. Consensus of ratings occurred for the mental health nurse and academic participants (n = 7) on 83 clinical indicator statements. In Study 2, the clinical indicator statements (n = 67) that met importance and consensus criteria were incorporated into a questionnaire, which was piloted at a New Zealand mental health service. The questionnaire was then modified for use in a national field study. In Study 3, the national field study, registered mental health nurses (n = 422) from 11 New Zealand district health board mental health services completed the questionnaire. Five categories of nursing practice were identified: professional and evidence-based practice; consumer focus and reflective practice; professional development and integration; ethically and legally safe practice; and culturally safe practice. Analyses revealed little difference in the perceptions of nurses from different backgrounds regarding the regularity of the nursing practices. Further research is needed to calibrate the scores on each clinical indicator statement with behaviour in clinical practice.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1064  
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Author Water, T. url  openurl
  Title The meaning of being in dilemma in paediatric practice: A phenomenological study Type
  Year 2008 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library  
  Volume Issue Pages (down) 259 pp  
  Keywords Psychology; Paediatric nursing; Paedetric practice; Problem solving  
  Abstract This study explores the phenomenon of dilemma in paediatric practice. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological method informed by the writings of Heidegger [1889-1976] and Gadamer [1900-2002] this study provides an understanding of the meaning of 'being in dilemma' from the perspective of predominantly paediatric health care professionals but also families in New Zealand. Study participants include four families who had a child requiring health care and fifteen health care practitioners from the disciplines of medicine, nursing, physiotherapy, play specialist and occupational therapy who work with families and children requiring health care. Participants' narratives of their experiences of 'being in dilemma' were captured via audio taped interviewing. These stories uncover the everyday realities facing health professionals and families and provide an ontological understanding for the notion of dilemma. The findings of this study suggest that experience of dilemma for health professionals reveals a world that is uncertain and questionable where they are thrown into having to make uncomfortable choices and must live with the painful consequences of their actions. The consequences of being in such dilemma are having to find ways of living with the angst, or risk becoming too sensitive or desensitizing. For families the experience of dilemma reveals a similar phenomenon most evident in circumstances where they feel totalized by the impact of heath care encounters. This study has uncovered that the perspectives that health professionals and families bring to the experience of dilemma reveal different concerns and commitments and may be hidden from each other. This thesis proposes that health professionals and families need support in living with their own personal encounters of enduring experiences of dilemma.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1234  
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Author Ross, J. openurl 
  Title International perspective: The development of the advanced role of rural nurses in New Zealand Type Journal Article
  Year 1999 Publication Australian Journal of Rural Health Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 7 Issue 4 Pages (down) 253-257  
  Keywords Nursing; Education; Rural nursing; Advanced nursing practice  
  Abstract This paper offers an insight into the development of the advanced role of rural nursing practice in New Zealand. The concept of advanced nursing practice is discussed within the context of the interdisciplinary healthcare team. It is argued that as nurses take on advanced practice, it is essential they receive appropriate clinical and theoretical skills to ensure they are in a position to provide competent and clinically safe, effective health care in an ethical, efficient manner. A description of a survey, undertaken by the author, studying rural nurses' skills provides the recommendation for the development of an appropriate postgraduate course at Masters level, designed specifically for primary rural nurses for the advanced role.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 953  
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Author Drake, M. openurl 
  Title The sonata form of musical composition as a framework for thesis writing Type Journal Article
  Year 2004 Publication Contemporary Nurse Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 16 Issue 3 Pages (down) 252-258  
  Keywords Nursing research; Nursing; Education  
  Abstract This article introduces an innovation in writing master's level research and suggests that other structures may offer new and different frameworks for reporting nursing research. This is exemplified by reference to an example of nursing research which adopted the sonata form of musical composition as the framework for presentation of the thesis.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 876  
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Author Peri, K.; Kerse, N.; Kiata, L.; Wilkinson, T.; Robinson, E.; Parsons, J.; Willingale, J.; Parsons, M.; Brown, P.; Pearson, J.R.; von Randow, M.; Arroll, B. openurl 
  Title Promoting independence in residential care: Successful recruitment for a randomized controlled trial Type Journal Article
  Year 2008 Publication Journal of the American Medical Directors Association Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 9 Issue 4 Pages (down) 251-256  
  Keywords Research; Geriatric nursing; Rest homes; Evaluation; Attitude of health personnel  
  Abstract The aim of this study was to describe the recruitment strategy and association between facility and staff characteristics and success of resident recruitment for the Promoting Independence in Residential Care (PIRC) trial. A global impression of staff willingness to facilitate research was gauged by research nurses, facility characteristics were measured by staff interview. Forty-one (85%) facilities and 682 (83%) residents participated, median age was 85 years (range 65-101), and 74% were women. Participants had complex health problems. Recruitment rates were associated (but did not increase linearly) with the perceived willingness of staff, and were not associated with facility size. Design effects from the cluster recruitment differed according to outcome. The recruitment strategy was successful in recruiting a large sample of people with complex comorbidities and high levels of functional disability despite perceptions of staff reluctance. Staff willingness was related to recruitment success.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 803 Serial 787  
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