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Author Sargison, P.A. openurl 
  Title Essentially a woman's work: A history of general nursing in New Zealand, 1830-1930 Type
  Year 2002 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords History of nursing; Gender  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1127 Serial 1112  
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Author Hamilton, C. openurl 
  Title Nursing care delivery Type
  Year 2001 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Nursing  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1133 Serial 1118  
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Author Simon, V.N. openurl 
  Title Characterising Maori nursing practice Type
  Year 2000 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal University of Waikato Library  
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  Keywords Maori; Nursing; Culture  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1134 Serial 1119  
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Author Thompson, L. url  openurl
  Title Suctioning adults with an artifical airway: A systematic review Type Book Whole
  Year 2000 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal Subscriber access at the Joanna Briggs Institute  
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  Keywords Evidence-based medicine; Nursing research  
  Abstract This systematic review was conducted by the New Zealand Centre for Evidence Based Nursing, a collaborating centre of The Joanna Briggs Institute for Evidence Based Nursing and Midwifery. The aim was to present the best available evidence on interventions, which are effective in preventing or reducing the prevalence of complications associated with suctioning, in hospitalised adult patients with an artificial airway who are breathing spontaneously or are artificially ventilated and who require suctioning. The specific questions addressed were as follows: Which methods of suctioning reduce the prevalence of mucosal trauma or mucosal dysfunction, and promote the removal of respiratory secretions? Which techniques or methods are effective in reducing the occurrence of suctioning -induced hypoxaemia, during or following the suctioning procedure? Which techniques or methods are effective in minimising the haemodynamic or pulmonary complications associated with the suctioning procedure?  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1136 Serial 1121  
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Author Trout, F. openurl 
  Title Health needs assessment within the ecology of caring Type
  Year 1999 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Community health nursing  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1137 Serial 1122  
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Author Barton, J. openurl 
  Title Pain knowledge and attitudes of nurses and midwives in a New Zealand context Type
  Year 2001 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library  
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  Keywords Nursing; Pain management; Attitude of health personnel  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1140 Serial 1125  
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Author Lynch, T.M. openurl 
  Title A qualitative descriptive study of youth with Crohn's disease Type
  Year 2005 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Diseases; Adolescents; Nursing  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1143 Serial 1128  
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Author Roberts, F. openurl 
  Title The people the programme & the place: Nurses' perceptions of the Lakeland Health Professional Development Programme Type
  Year 1999 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library, Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Keywords Careers in nursing; Professional development; Registered nurses  
  Abstract This thesis concerns the Professional Development Programme at Lakeland Health. In New Zealand, such programmes were introduced as a mechanism to openly recognise the clinical expertise of nurses. Clinical Career Pathways were introduced to nursing in North America in the 1970's at a time of nursing shortage. Prior to their inception, nurses wishing to develop their careers had to move to administration, management or education. The programmes recognised and rewarded expertise in practice. A qualitative, descriptive approach (using focus groups) was used with Registered Nurses to gather their perceptions of what helps nurses enroll in the Professional Development Programme. The ideas and insights of nine Registered Nurses were clustered around three main categories: The People (fear; being struck; motivation; feedback; peer support; ways of learning); the Programme (relevance; flexibility; Bachelor's Degrees; implementation; supporting information; fairness); the Place (time; regular and accessible; support from nurse leaders; management). These perceptions are discussed in more detail in the context of nursing at Lakeland Health and of Clinical Career Pathways in New Zealand. The findings are helpful for the evaluation and future development of the Professional Development at Lakeland Health. The research contributes to our understanding of what helps nurses enroll in a Clinical Career Pathway, and emphasises the importance of the People, the Programme and the Place.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1150 Serial 1135  
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Author Schumacher, A.T. url  openurl
  Title More than meets the eye: Explicating the essence of gerontology nursing Type
  Year 2001 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria  
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  Keywords Geriatric nursing; Nursing philosophy; Nursing specialties  
  Abstract The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological was to unveil a deeper meaning and understanding of gerontology nursing, thus contributing to its value and worth as a speciality area of nursing. Conversations with four gerontology nurses were taped, transcribed and then analysed using van Manen's (1990) approach to researching lived experience. From the analysis, four cardinal elements emerged: true acceptance, personal knowing, being present, and being alive. Those four cardinal elements were reworked and further analysed to reveal three central aspects or essences of gerontology nursing. These essences were the centrality of temporality, the interconnectedness of human relationships, and the significance of the lived body. Temporality is demonstrated by nursing application of objective, or clock time, as well as subjectively in regards to the lived time of the clients. Interconnectedness is the lived human relationship between nurse and client and is represented by commitment, presencing/giving of self, connecting, and knowing the client holistically. The third essence is corporeality, which is portrayed by the gerontology nurses' distinguishing characteristics and their perception of the lived body of the nursed. The final analysis unveiled caring for the body, the act of seeing, and the joy of care as emergent essences of gerontology nursing. Language of nursing in relationship to 'basic nursing care' is critiqued for its potential to devalue gerontology nursing and, by association, old people.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1157 Serial 1142  
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Author Andrews, C.M. url  openurl
  Title Developing a nursing speciality: Plunket Nursing 1905 – 1920 Type
  Year 2001 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria  
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  Keywords Plunket; History of nursing; Nursing specialties; Paediatric nursing  
  Abstract This paper focuses on the history of Plunket nursing and Truby King's ideology and other dominant ideologies, during the years 1905 – 1920. To provide a context, the paper explores the development of a new nursing speciality – Plunket nursing, that became part of the backbone of a fledgling health system and the New Zealand nursing profession. Correspondingly, Truby King presented the country with a vision for improving infant welfare underpinned by his eugenics view of the world and his experimentation with infant feeding. The author argues that nurses were drawn to the work of the newly created Plunket Society and that the Society had lasting influence on the development of nursing in New Zealand.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1167 Serial 1152  
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Author Cullens, V. openurl 
  Title Not just a shortage of girls: The shortage of nurses in post World War 2 New Zealand 1945-1955 Type
  Year 2001 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal Victoria University Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Recruitment and retention; Nursing; History of nursing  
  Abstract This thesis explores the shortage of general hospital nurses in post World War II New Zealand between 1945 and 1955. Historical inquiry is used to identify the causes of the shortage and the response to the shortage by the Health Department, hospital boards and nurse leaders. Christchurch Hospital, administered by the North Canterbury Hospital Board, is used to illustrate the situation at one large, public, general hospital. Primary sources provided the majority of material which informed this thesis. Two themes emerge regarding the causes of the shortage of nurses: those that were readily acknowledged by nurse leaders and other health professionals at the time, and those which were less widely discussed, but which contributed to the nature of nursing work appearing less attractive to potential recruits. In response to the shortage the Health Department, hospital boards and the New Zealand Registered Nurses Association mounted several recruitment campaigns throughout the decade. As the shortage showed no sign of abatement the focus turned from recruitment to retention of nurses. While salaries, conditions and training were improved, nurse leaders also gave attention to establishing what nurses' work was and what it was not. Nurse leaders and others promoted nursing as a profession that could provide young women with a satisfying lifelong career. Due to these efforts, by 1955, this episode in the cycle of demand and supply of nurses had begun to improve.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1169 Serial 1154  
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Author MacDonald, L.M. url  openurl
  Title Nurse talk: Features of effective verbal communication used by expert district nurses Type
  Year 2003 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria  
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  Keywords Communication; Nurse-patient relations; District nursing  
  Abstract This thesis represents an appreciative enquiry to identify features of effective verbal communication between nurses and patients. Using a method developed by the Language in the Workplace Project (Stubbe 1998) two nurse participants recorded a small sample of their conversations with patients as they occurred naturally in clinical practice. These six conversations constitute the main body of raw data for the study. The data was analysed using a combination of discourse and ethnographic analysis. Experience in nursing, particularly insider knowledge of the context of district nursing, helped me to uncover the richness of meaning in the conversations. The subtle interconnections and nuances could easily have been missed by an outside observer. The study has shown that in their interactions with patients, expert nurses follow a pattern in terms of the structure and content of the conversations and it is possible to identify specific features of effective nurse-patient communication within these conversations. The most significant of these are the repertoire of linguistic skills available to nurses, the importance of small talk and the attention paid by nurses to building a working relationship with patients, in part, through conversation. The findings have implications for nursing education and professional development.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1180 Serial 1165  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title Achieving health in a rural community: A case study of nurse – community partnership Type Book Whole
  Year 2004 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal University and Polytechnic Libraries, NZNO Library  
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  Keywords Rural health services; Nursing models; Advanced nursing practice; Health promotion; Organisational change  
  Abstract This study describes rural, nurse-led health services provided by the Takapau Health Centre (Central Hawkes Bay) and its outreach, Norsewood & District Health Centre. The study looks at its model of service delivery through to 2002. It examines the establishment, development, funding and management of the service, along with the nursing practice and the healthcare people received. The book is a snapshot of nursing initiative and survival through a decade of change in health policy and service funding and delivery. The information was subsequently used to move the health centre service into the new paradigm of primary health care launched in the New Zealand Health Strategy.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1183 Serial 1168  
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Author Smart, S. url  openurl
  Title Post-operative pain management knowledge and attitude of paediatric nurses: A New Zealand regional view Type
  Year 2005 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria  
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  Keywords Pain management; Paediatric nursing; Hospitals; Pharmacology  
  Abstract This research explored the knowledge and attitudes towards paediatric post-operative pain, within the New Zealand context of small regional hospitals. It established how nurses working in these areas obtain and update their paediatric pain management knowledge, and what is it that influences their paediatric post-operative pain management practices. A questionnaire survey of registered nurses working in three small paediatric units (5 to 12 beds), in regional secondary service hospitals was undertaken. The survey had a 79% (n=33) response rate. Findings corroborate many findings in previously published literature including that nurses do well in questions related to assessment. However pharmacological knowledge continues to be lacking. Results also indicated that while nurses have a good understanding about who is the best person to rate pain, this wasn't carried through in the clinical scenarios provided. Education is clearly an important factor in improving the knowledge and attitudes needed in clinical practice. While this survey was somewhat limited, both in size and in that a clear correlation between the results and actual clinical practice could not be made, results are significant for the areas surveyed and for the development of pain education for nurses.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1194 Serial 1179  
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Author Tustin-Payne, W. url  openurl
  Title Self esteem, competence assessment and nurses ability to write reflectively: Is there any connection? Type
  Year 2008 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal Wintec Research Archive  
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  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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