|   | 
Details
   web
Records
Author McKelvie, R.
Title Partnership in paediatric nursing: A descriptive exploration of the concept and its practice Type
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Paediatric nursing; Parents and caregivers; Children; Relationships
Abstract A 50 point research project presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Nursing at Massey University.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 484 Serial 471
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Lui, D.M.K.
Title Nursing and midwifery attitudes towards withdrawal of care in a neonatal intensive care unit: Part 2. Survey results Type Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication Journal of Neonatal Nursing Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 9 Issue 3 Pages 91-96
Keywords Intensive care nursing; Paediatric nursing; Ethics; Attitude of health personnel
Abstract Discontinuation of life support measures for an extremely low birthweight or very premature baby is controversial and difficult for both the parents and the healthcare professional involved in caring for the infant. This study seeks to investigate the attitude of nurses and midwives to the withdrawal of care from sick neonates. Part 1 reviewed the literature on this subject. Part 2 reports the results of a survey carried out in a New Zealand NICU.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 966 Serial 950
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Ho, T.
Title Ethical dilemmas in neonatal care Type Journal Article
Year 2000 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 6 Issue 7 Pages 17-19
Keywords Intensive care nursing; Paediatric nursing; Ethics; Clinical decision making
Abstract The author explores possible approaches to the ethical dilemma confronting nurses of critically ill premature infants with an uncertain or futile outcome despite aggressive neonatal intensive care. A case history illustrates the issues. The morality of nursing decisions based on deontological and utilitarian principles is examined, as are the concepts of beneficence and non-maleficence. A fusion of virtue ethics and the ethic of care is suggested as appropriate for ethical decision-making in the neonatal intensive care environment.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1035 Serial 1019
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Coleman, R.; Sim, G.
Title The sacredness of the head: Cultural implications for neuroscience nurses Type Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication Australasian Journal of Neuroscience Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 16 Issue 2 Pages 20-22
Keywords Paediatric nursing; Transcultural nursing; Culture
Abstract The aim of this paper is to increase neuroscience nurses' awareness of how the head is perceived as sacred by some cultures. This article will outline a definition of culture, discussion around the sanctity of the head for some cultures, the cultural significance of common neuroscience interventions, the use of traditional healing methods, and prayer. Examples will be provided of how nursing interactions and interventions affect some cultures, looking primarily at a Maori and Pacific Island perspective. The focus of this paper is within a New Zealand paediatric setting.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1083 Serial 1068
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Chenery, K.
Title Family-centred care: Understanding our past Type Miscellaneous
Year 2004 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 20 Issue 3 Pages 4-12
Keywords History of nursing; Nurse-family relations; Paediatric nursing; Parents and caregivers
Abstract Oral history accounts of the care of the hospitalised child in the context of family are used to argue that current practice paradoxes in family-centred care are historically ingrained. The article looks at the post-war period, the intervening years, and current practice, centred on the changing concept of motherhood throughout that time. The conflict between clinical expediency versus family and child needs is explored.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1113 Serial 1098
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Wilson, H.V.
Title Paradoxical pursuits in child health nursing practice: Discourses of scientific mothercraft Type Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication Critical Public Health Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 13 Issue 3 Pages 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
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Horsburgh, M.; Smith, V.A.; Kivell, D.
Title South Auckland community paediatric nursing service: A framework for evaluation Type Journal Article
Year 2002 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 18 Issue 3 Pages 40-49
Keywords Paediatric nursing; Community health nursing; Evaluation research
Abstract This paper describes the Kidz First paediatric community homecare nursing team in South Auckland. While the service was not initially planned as an integrated approach to child health, its evolution reflects the move to more community based care delivery and the expansion of nurse-led initiatives in New Zealand. The components of a community paediatric home nursing team as described by Eaton (2000) are used to provide the framework with which to describe the service. A focus group held with the Kidz First paediatric community homecare nurses has enabled definition of the key nursing components provided to children and their families living in South Auckland.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 622
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Chenery, K.
Title Building child health nurses' confidence and competence Type Journal Article
Year 2007 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 13 Issue 5 Pages 26-38
Keywords Paediatric nursing; Nursing; Education; Evaluation
Abstract This article describes the development of the Generic Orientation Programme, Child Health Nursing and its perceived impact on practice after ten months, through two simultaneous evaluation surveys, seeking the views of programme participants and their nurse managers. The programme aims to equip the newly appointed RN in the child health cluster or the nurse working in a non-designated children's area with the knowledge and skills to safely care for children. These include basic anatomical and physiological differences; fluid and electrolyte management; safe administration of medication; pain management; recognition of the seriously ill child; and building partnerships with children and their families. A survey instrument eliciting qualitative and quantitative responses was used. The majority of nurse respondents believed they had gained new knowledge and described how they were incorporating it into everyday practice. Similarly, several nurse managers observed that nurses' clinical knowledge and skills had improved since attending the programme. In particular, responses from those working in non-designated children's areas suggested the programme had provided them with greater insight into the care of children.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 975
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Manning, J.
Title Building trust with families in neonatal intensive care units Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 12 Issue 6 Pages 18-20
Keywords Paediatric nursing; Neonatal nursing; Parents and caregivers; Communication
Abstract Establishing a trusting relationship is a key therapeutic intervention for nurses working with families of hospitalised children. This article is an exploration of the definition of trust. Specifically, it considers how parents come to trust (or not) nurses in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) helps to reveal the meaning of parent-nurse trust and how this affects nursing practice. Understanding and meeting parental needs is important in developing and sustaining trust. The medical model of care often dominates in NICU. This is a deficit model that focuses on illness and treatment. However, the use of a nursing framework, such as developmentally supportive family centred care, focuses on recognising and building on the strengths of the family, by fostering trust to equip the family with the capacity to manage their infant's health care.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 976
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Warren, B.L.
Title Using paracetamol before immunisation: Does it work? Type Journal Article
Year 2007 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 13 Issue 5 Pages 24-26
Keywords Immunisation; Paediatric nursing; Evidence-based medicine
Abstract The author presents a review of evidence on the prophylactic use of paracetamol prior to infant and child immunisation. The research was prompted when the Otago District Health Board was planning its Meningococcal B strategy. The evidence suggests that it was appropriate when the whole cell pertussis vaccine was used, but it was not recommended since the introduction of better vaccines such as acellular pertussis with fewer antigens and fewer side effects. Paracetamol may still be given orally to treat pain and fever that occasionally follows vaccination. Paracetamol pharmacology is presented, along with alternatives to paracetamol.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 998
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Christie, J.
Title Managing febrile children: When and how to treat Type Journal Article
Year 2002 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 8 Issue 4 Pages 15-17
Keywords Paediatric nursing; Evidence-based medicine; Children; Guidelines
Abstract The author describes the nursing of febrile children in a general paediatric ward at Tauranga Hospital. She focuses on the cooling methods used and their efficacy. Ward practice is compared with clinical trials and the literature to determine best practice and evidence-based guidelines. Also discussed are fans and clothes removal, tepid sponging, paracetamol, and brufen.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1006
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Wilson, H.V.
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 (up)
Volume 36 Issue 2 Pages 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
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Crawford, R.
Title Nutrition: Is there a need for nurses working with children and families to offer nutrition advice? Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Vision: A Journal of Nursing Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 7 Issue 13 Pages 10-15
Keywords Paediatric nursing; Community health nursing; Nurse-family relations; Socioeconomic factors; Diet
Abstract Using nursing and associated literature, the relevance of nutrition in the care of children and families is highlighted in this article. The role of a nurse in providing nutrition advice and interventions is examined, in the context of social and economic pressures on the provision of a healthy diet. Relevant examples of the provision of such advice is provided, along with competencies required to achieve this in practice.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1276
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Lichfield, M.
Title The paediatric nurse and the child in hospital Type Journal Article
Year 1974 Publication New Zealand Nursing Journal Abbreviated Journal (up)
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
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Rickard, Debbie
Title Parents as experts: partnership in the care of the chronically ill children : Margaret May Blackwell Travel Study, Fellowship for Nurses of Young Children, 1999 Type Report
Year 1999 Publication Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume Issue Pages 65p.
Keywords Chronically ill children – home care; Child health services; Paediatric nursing; Community health nursing; Reports
Abstract Visits paediatric community nursing services in the UK and Australia to report on how specialist and children's community nurses work with parents to deliver health care to children with asthma, diabetes and other endocrine disorders, cystic fibrosis, eczema, cardiac diseases, and liver transplants. Part of the Margaret May Blackwell Scholarship Reports series.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1414
Permanent link to this record