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Moir, Chris; Taylor, Peta; Seaton, Philippa; Snell, Helen; Wood, Susan |
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Title |
Changes noticed following a pressure-injury link-nurse programme |
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2023 |
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Kaitiaki Nursing Research |
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14 |
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1 |
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19-24 |
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Pressure injuries; Link nurses; Patient safety; Quality improvement |
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Identifies changes that link nurses noticed in their practice areas as a result of participating in a pressure-injury prevention programme. Uses three nurse focus groups to collect data about changes in pressure-injury prevention within their practice areas following implementation of a link-nurse programme. Talks to 22 nurses about increasing awareness of pressure injury prevention, use of assessment tools and documentation, and acquisition of injury prevention equipment. |
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1848 |
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Patel, Radhika |
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Patient safety of older adults with cognitive impairment: Evaluation of a service improvement initiative |
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2021 |
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76 p. |
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Patient safety; Cognitive impairment; Dementia; Older adults; Hospital ward design |
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Assesses the impact of environmental changes on patient reportable events (falls and aggression) in older persons' wards, using the Kings Fund Healing the Healthy Environment tool to make small changes to a ward environment in order to create a more 'dementia-friendly' setting. Conducts a comparative analysis of incidents in the wards. Obtains staff perspectives on the changes, which included large-face clocks, identifiction of bed spaces, lavender oil diffusion, and viewing gardens. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1761 |
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Ingram, Lisette |
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There is more than one way of nursing : new graduate nurses' experiences of their first year of practice |
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2021 |
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133 p. |
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Nurse entry-to-practice programme (NETP); New Graduate Registered Nurses (NGRN); Biculturalism; Patient safety |
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Undertakes to explain the experiences of new graduate registered nurses (NGRN) undertaking a nurse entry-to-practice programme (NETP). Uses focus group data to construct a theory of NGRN experience, utilising constructivist grounded theory method. Interviews NGRNs in the Waikato DHB NETP, which uses a bicultural model. Concludes that NGRNs value culture in assessing patient need. Identifies barriers to valuing patients' culture from short staffing, stress and fear, work pressuress, and lack of insight into the cultural needs of patients from team members. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1800 |
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Wynne-Jones, Jacqui; Martin-Babin, Margot; Hayward, Brooke; Villa, Luis |
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Title |
Patient safety leadership walk-rounds: lessons learrned from a mixed-methods evaluaion |
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2020 |
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Kai Tiaki Nursing Research |
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11 |
Issue |
1 |
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24-33 |
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Patient safety; Nurse leaders; Walk-round; Evaluation |
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Assesses the impact of a patient safety leadership walk-rounds (PSLWR) programme in an Auckland hospital to provide recommendations for programme improvement. Involves senior leaders and other departmental representatives visiting wards to conduct staff and patient interviews to capture their experiences, and to assess the environment. Proposes recommendations for organisations intending to or currently implementing a PSLWR programme. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1658 |
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Eton, Sarah Jane |
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Clinical handover from the operating theatre nurse to the post anaesthetic care unit nurse: a New Zealand perspective |
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2020 |
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125 p. |
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Clinical handover; Operating theatre nurse; Post-anaesthetic care nurse; Patient safety; Surveys |
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Presents findings from a study of nurse-to-nurse handover in the perioperative care setting. Describes current practices in nurse handover and surveys theatre and post-anaesthetic-care nurses from around NZ about their satisfaction with handover and whether it affects patient outcomes. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1666 |
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Gilder, Eileen |
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To suction or not to suction; that is the question: Studies of endotracheal suction in post-operative cardiac patients |
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2020 |
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261 p. |
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Endotracheal suction; Post-operative cardiac patients; Post-operative nursing; Patient safety |
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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. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1769 |
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Teunissen, C., Burrell, B.; Maskill, V. |
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Effective surgical teams: an integrative literature review |
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Year |
2020 |
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Western Journal of Nursing Research |
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42 |
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1 |
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61-75 |
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Perioperative nurses; Surgical teams; Teamwork; Patient safety |
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Evaluates the aids and barriers for perioperative teams in functioning effectively, preventing adverse events, and fostering a culture of safety. Undertakes an integrative review of the literature. Highlights the role of theatre nurses in situational awareness (SA), running the theatre and assuming leadership of the team. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1789 |
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McKelvie, Rhonda |
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Where we are and how we got here: an institutional ethnography of the Nurse Safe Staffing Project in New Zealand |
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2019 |
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289 p. |
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Safe staffing; Short staffing; Frontline nurses; Patient safety; Care Capacity Demand Programme; Nurse Safe Staffing Project; Trendcare; Institutional ethnography; Surveys |
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Charts a detailed description and analysis of how aspects of the strategies of the Nurse Safe Staffing Project work in everyday hospital settings. Argues that nurses' situated knowledge and work are being organised and overridden by competing institutional knowledge and priorities in a competitive institutional environment. Demonstrates the consequences for nurses, patients and staffing strategies. Conducts 30 interviews with 26 participants, including frontline nurses and participants in safe staffing projects. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1651 |
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Green, Cheryl |
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Medication simulation: enhancing nursing students' clinical environmental awareness through self-care and promotion of patient safety |
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2018 |
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Whitireia Nursing and Health Journal |
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25 |
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37-51 |
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Nursing students; Patient safety; Medication error; Stress; Anxiety; Distraction; Simulation; Aromatherapy; Exercise; Sleep; Nutrition; Positive affirmations |
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Undertakes an evidence-based practice pilot project to examine the effectiveness of simulation-based learning in teaching nursing students to become aware of the role of stress, anxiety and distraction in medication errors. Stresses the importance of medication-error prevention at the pre-licensure level, by increasing awareness of patient safety culture. Notes the need to teach nursing students self-awareness of the distractions and stresses within the clinical environment and therefore the need for self-care to avoid medication error. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1612 |
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Hawes, Philip C. |
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What educational and other experiences assist recently qualified nurses to understand and deal with clinical risk and patient safety? |
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2016 |
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131 p. |
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Patient safety; Clinical risk; Graduate nurses; Professional development; Surveys |
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Interviews 9 nurses in their first year of clinical practice to investigate how newly-qualified nurses recognise and develop those skills relating to clinical risk and patient safety. Identifies workplace culture, clinical role models, exposure to the clinical environment, experiential learning, narrative sharing, debriefing and simulation as contributing to learning and understanding clinical risk and safe patient care. Considers strategies to facilitate professional development. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1696 |
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Wailling, Joanna |
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How healthcare professionals in acute care environments describe patient safety: a case study |
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2016 |
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169 p. |
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Patient safety; Acute care; Safety capability; Case studies |
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Explores how patient safety is described from the perspective of clinicians and organisational managers in a NZ acute-care hospital, using embedded case study design. Conducts three interviews with health-care managers and 6 focus groups, comprising 19 doctors and 19 nurses. Develops the theoretical concept of safety capability: the ability to provide safe patient care based on resilient culture, anticipation and vigilance, along a continuum of safety levels. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1698 |
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Beaver, Peter James |
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Contemporary patient safety and the challenges for New Zealand |
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2015 |
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329 p. |
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Patient safety; Hospitals; Accidents; Risk; Surveys |
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Outlines the history, emergence, necessity, challenges, and strategies of the patient safety movement. Explores the challenges for staff working to reduce harm and implement safety improvement in NZ hospitals. Considers medical harm as a persistent and expensive threat to public health. Analyses health policy in the US, England and NZ using the theory of countervailing powers, and a shift from medical to managerial dominance. Reviews theories of accidents and risk, and the safety improvement literature. Provides staff perspectives from NZ by means of interviews with doctors, nurses and managers in two hospitals. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1578 |
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Lim, Anecita Gigi; North, Nicola; Shaw, John |
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Nurse prescribing : the New Zealand context |
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2014 |
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Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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30 |
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2 |
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18-27 |
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Nurse prescribing; Authorised prescribing; Nurse practitioner; Patient safety; Prescribing education |
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Examines the introduction of nurse prescribing in NZ with respect to the level of knowledge and skills required of practitioners for safe prescribing. Compares experiences in NZ with those in the US, UK, and Canada. Critiques the higher educational model as the standard for preparation to prescribe, while supporting alternative models for extending prescribing rights. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1493 |
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Zambas, Shelaine Iris |
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The consequences of using advanced assessment skills in medical and surgical nursing: keeping patients safe |
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2013 |
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150 p. |
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Nursing skills; Patient safety; Surgical nursing; Surveys |
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Examines the impact of advanced assessment skills on patients in medical and surgical wards through nurses' stories of using these skills. Highlights the use of auscultation, palpation and percussion by nurses for complex patient presentations within a wide range of clinical situations. Conducts 12 interviews with five nurses from paediatric and adult medical and surgical wards in a large urban hospital in NZ. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1581 |
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Winters, Rosie; Neville, Stephen |
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Registered nurse perspectives on delayed or missed nursing cares in a New Zealand hospital |
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2012 |
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Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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28 |
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1 |
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19-28 |
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Missed care; Rationing nursing care; Patient care outcomes; Patient safety |
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Explores the concept of 'missed care' using a qualitative descriptive approach. Interviews 5 registered nurses within a NZ hospital about fluctuations in nursing-skill mix and staffing levels, inconsistent availability of equipment and supplies, and higher patient acuity. Identifies two main categories of missed care and nurses' resulting moral distress |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1471 |
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