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Author Neville, S.J. url  openurl
  Title Delirium in the older adult: A critical gerontological approach Type
  Year (up) Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Geriatric nursing; Older people  
  Abstract The purpose of this thesis has been to explore the discursive production of delirium in people over the age of 65 years. The philosophical approaches underpinning the study were derived from the field of critical gerontology, postmodernism and the utilisation of a Foucauldian understanding of discourse and power/knowledge. Data sources included published documents on delirium, interviews with people over the age of 65 years who had been delirious (as well as their clinical notes), family members, registered nurses and a doctor. Textual analysis revealed the presence of two contesting and contradictory discourses that impacted on being an older person who had delirium. These were identified as the discourse of delirium as a syndrome and a personal discourse of delirium. The discourse of delirium as a syndrome is underpinned by the biomedicalisation of the ageing process. This process utilises scientific methods as the foundation from which to understand, research and provide a health service to older people with delirium. Any personal perspectives on delirium are rendered unimportant and relegated to marginalised positions. Nursing through its vicarious relationship to medicine is interpellated into deploying the discourse of delirium as a syndrome and has largely ignored the personal dimensions associated with this phenomenon. Consequently, the older delirious 'body' is known and inscribed as unruly, problematic, physically unwell, cognitively impaired and at risk. Conversely, a personal discourse of delirium privileges the individual narratives of people who have been delirious and provides a different perspective of delirium. The deployment of a personal discourse of delirium offers another position that views this group of older people as bringing to the health care setting a rich tapestry of life experiences that are more than a cluster of signs and symptoms. It is these varied life experiences that need to be included as a legitimate source of knowledge about delirium. This thesis demonstrates how nursing needs to espouse a critical gerontological position when working with older people who have delirium. Critical gerontology provides nurses with the theoretical tools to challenge the status quo and uncover the multiple, varied, contradictory and complex representations of delirium in older people.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 598 Serial 584  
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Author Jonsdottir, H.; Litchfield, M.; Pharris, M. openurl 
  Title The relational core of nursing practice as partnership Type Journal Article
  Year (up) Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 47 Issue 3 Pages 241-250  
  Keywords Nurse-patient relations; Nursing philosophy; Nursing research  
  Abstract This article elaborates the meaning of partnership in practice for nurses practising in different and complementary way to nurses in specialist roles and medical practitioners. It positions partnership as the relational core of nursing practice. Partnership is presented as an evolving dialogue between nurse and patient, which is characterised by open, caring, mutually responsive and non-directive approaches. This partnership occurs within a health system that is dominated by technologically-driven, prescriptive, and outcome-oriented approaches. It is the second of a series of articles written as a partnership between nurse scholars from Iceland, NZ and USA.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1188 Serial 1173  
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Author Turner, C.L.E. openurl 
  Title A process evaluation of a shared leadership model in an intensive care unit Type
  Year (up) Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University, Palmerston North, Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Leadership; Intensive care nursing; Nursing models  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1277 Serial 1262  
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Author McArthur, J. openurl 
  Title Discursive understanding of knowledge within advanced nursing practice roles: A co-operative inquiry in an acute health care organisation Type
  Year (up) Publication Abbreviated Journal Auckland University of Technology Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Advanced nursing practice; Organisational culture  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1280 Serial 1265  
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Author Lichfield, M. openurl 
  Title The paediatric nurse and the child in hospital Type Journal Article
  Year (up) 1974 Publication New Zealand Nursing Journal Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 67 Issue 11 Pages  
  Keywords Paediatric nursing; Nurse-family relations; Nurse managers  
  Abstract A paper intended to inform paediatric nurses and influence service policy and management, adapted from a presentation at an inservice education study day for nurses at Wellington Hospital. The paper grew out of the findings of a small research project undertaken by the author as part of nursing practice in a paediatric ward of Wellington Hospital. The observations of the stress in the experience of infants and parents and the ambiguities inherent in the relationships between parents and nurses were the basis for arguing for changes in nursing practice and ward management.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1312  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title Thinking through diagnosis: Process in nursing practice Type Journal Article
  Year (up) 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. openurl 
  Title Between the idea and reality Type Journal Article
  Year (up) 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. openurl 
  Title Knowledge embedded in practice Type Journal Article
  Year (up) 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. openurl 
  Title Nursing education: Direction with purpose Type Journal Article
  Year (up) 1991 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 84 Issue 7 Pages 22-24  
  Keywords Nursing education  
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  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1316  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title Computers and the form of nursing to come Type Conference Article
  Year (up) 1992 Publication Abbreviated Journal Held by NZNO Library and author  
  Volume Proceedings of the Inaugural National Nursing Info Issue Pages 81-90  
  Keywords Nursing: Computers; Technology  
  Abstract A paper presented at the annual conference of Nursing Informatics New Zealand (subsequently incorporated into the collective organisation, Health Informatics NZ).  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1317  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title Computers and the form of nursing to come Type Journal Article
  Year (up) 1992 Publication International Journal of Health Informatics Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 1 Issue 1 Pages 7-10  
  Keywords Computers; Nursing; Technology  
  Abstract An invited paper for the initial issue of the IJHI. Adapted from a paper presented at the annual conference of Nursing Informatics New Zealand, 1991 (subsequently incorporated into the collective organisation, Health Informatics, NZ.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1318  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title The nation's health and our response Type Conference Article
  Year (up) 1992 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Keynote address at the 1992 NERF/NZNZ National Nur Issue Pages  
  Keywords Nursing; Health reforms; Nurse-family relations  
  Abstract An analysis of the challenges for the nursing profession of the Government's health reforms. The findings of the 10-month Wellington Nurse Case Management Project 1991-1992, including the description of family nursing practice, what it achieved for health and the service delivery model that would position family nurses in the health reforms were used to provide an exemplar for the nuyrising contribution to health policy for the health reforms. The paper identified a vacum for the reorientating of health care provision to patients/clients and health need and the call to nursesw to take leadership in goving direction to the reorientation.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1319  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title Priorities for research Type Journal Article
  Year (up) 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 Diack, Aileen openurl 
  Title Innovations in home care for infants and young children with long-term illness (observations of care provision in United States of America and England) Type Report
  Year (up) 1993 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 33 p.  
  Keywords Child health services; Long-term care; Domiciliary nursing; Reports  
  Abstract Visits the US and the UK to observe paediatric nursing services for chronically-ill children at home. Discusses the concepts that enable children with long-term illness to be cared for in the home, how staff are chosen and trained and the degree to which the family is involved in setting objectives and directing the focus of care. Part of the Margaret May Blackwell Scholarship Reports series.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1418  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title Viewpoint: Telling nursing stories Type Journal Article
  Year (up) 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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