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Author Cowan, L.M.; Deering, D.; Crowe, M.; Sellman, D.; Futterman-Collier, A.; Adamson, S.
Title Alcohol and drug treatment for women: Clinicians' beliefs and practice Type (up) Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication International Journal of Mental Health Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 12 Issue 1 Pages 48-55
Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Substance abuse; Gender; Attitude of health personnel; Alcoholism; Drug abuse
Abstract The present paper reports on the results of a telephone survey of 217 alcohol and drug treatment clinicians on their beliefs and practice, in relation to service provision for women. Nurses comprised the second largest professional group surveyed. Seventy-eight percent of clinicians believed that women's treatment needs differed from men's and 74% reported a range of approaches and interventions, such as assisting with parenting issues and referral to women-only programmes. Several differences emerged in relation to approaches and interventions used, depending on clinician gender, work setting and proportion of women on clinicians' caseload. Implications for mental health nursing include the need to more systematically incorporate gender-based treatment needs into practice and undergraduate and postgraduate education and training programmes.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 652
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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.
Title Promoting independence in residential care: Successful recruitment for a randomized controlled trial Type (up) Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Journal of the American Medical Directors Association Abbreviated Journal
Volume 9 Issue 4 Pages 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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Author Spence, D.; Wood, E.E.
Title Registered nurse participation in performance appraisal interviews Type (up) Journal Article
Year 2007 Publication Journal of Professional Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 23 Issue 1 Pages 55-59
Keywords Registered nurses; Management; Professional development; Attitude of health personnel
Abstract This article presents the findings of an interpretive study that explored and documented the meaning and impact of nurse participation in performance appraisal interviews. Data gleaned from nine New Zealand registered nurses employed by a single district health board provide evidence that nurses are often disappointed by the process of performance appraisal. Although they believe in the potential value of performance appraisal interviews, they seldom experience the feedback, direction, and encouragement necessary for an effective appraisal process. It is suggested that changes to the current professional development program and its accompanying performance appraisal will require skilled commitment on the part of nurses, managers, and the employing organisation to improve and develop the assessment and promotion of nursing practice.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 840
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Author Lui, D.M.K.
Title Nursing and midwifery attitudes towards withdrawal of care in a neonatal intensive care unit: Part 1. Literature review Type (up) Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication Journal of Neonatal Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 9 Issue 2 Pages 45-47
Keywords Attitude of health personnel; Neonatal nursing; Ethics; Technology
Abstract This article seeks to investigate the attitude of nurses and midwives to the withdrawal of care from sick neonates. Advanced technology results in the survival of increasingly premature babies with extremely low birthweights and this has inevitably led to an increase in the ethical dilemmas faced by neonatal staff as to whether continued treatment is actually in the best interests of these infants. Part 1 reviews the literature on this subject. Part 2 describes the results of a survey carried out in a New Zealand NICU.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 906 Serial 890
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Author Richardson, S.; Allen, J.
Title Casualization of the nursing workforce: A New Zealand perspective on an international phenomenon Type (up) Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication International Journal of Nursing Practice Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7 Issue 2 Pages 104-108
Keywords Industrial relations; Organisational change; Nursing; Personnel staffing and scheduling
Abstract A discussion of the increased use of 'casual' nursing staff (those nurses employed on a casual or 'per diem' basis) is presented. Reference is made to related literature, together with consideration of the implications associated with this trend. This issue has international significance, with the increased use of casual staff being widely recognised. A New Zealand perspective is included, with the provision of nursing care at Christchurch Hospital presented to illustrate certain aspects of the discussion. The impact of changing health-care systems and increased emphasis on efficiency and accountability are identified. This change to workplace practice will inevitably affect nursing; possible future developments are considered.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 909 Serial 893
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Author Carryer, J.B.
Title Embodied largeness: A significant women's health issue Type (up) Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Nursing Inquiry Abbreviated Journal
Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages 90-97
Keywords Nurse-patient relations; Attitude of health personnel; Feminist critique
Abstract This paper describes a three-year long research project in which nine large-bodied women have engaged in a prolonged dialogue with the researcher about the experience of being 'obese'. The study involved an extensive review of the multidisciplinary literature that informs our understandings of body size. The literature review was shared with participants in order to support their critical understanding of their experience. The experience of participants raised questions as to how nursing could best provide health-care for large women. An examination of a wide range of literature pertinent to the area of study reveals widespread acceptance of the notion that to be thin is to be healthy and virtuous, and to be fat is to be unhealthy and morally deficient. According to the literature review, nurses have perpetuated an unhelpful and reductionist approach to their care of large women, in direct contradiction to nursing's supposed allegiance to a holistic approach to health-care. This paper suggests strategies for an improved response to women who are concerned about their large body size.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 941 Serial 925
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Author Gage, J.; Hornblow, A.R.
Title Development of the New Zealand nursing workforce: Historical themes and current challenges Type (up) Journal Article
Year 2007 Publication Nursing Inquiry Abbreviated Journal
Volume 14 Issue 4 Pages 330-334
Keywords History of nursing; Nursing research; Personnel; Interprofessional relations
Abstract This article reviews the development of the New Zealand nursing workforce, which has been shaped by social, political, scientific and interprofessional forces. The unregulated, independent and often untrained nurses of the early colonial period were succeeded in the early 1900s by registered nurses, with hospital-based training, working in a subordinate role to medical practitioners. In the mid/late 1900s, greater specialisation within an expanding workforce, restructuring of nursing education, health sector reform, and changing social and political expectations again reshaped nursing practice. Nursing now has areas of increasing autonomy, expanding opportunities for postgraduate education and leadership roles, and a relationship with medicine, which is more collaborative than in the past. Three current challenges are identified for nursing in New Zealand's rapidly evolving health sector; development of a nursing-focused knowledge culture, strengthening of research capacity, and dissemination of new nursing knowledge.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 946 Serial 930
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Author Gallagher, P.
Title Preconceptions and learning to be a nurse Type (up) Journal Article
Year 2007 Publication Nurse Education Today Abbreviated Journal
Volume 27 Issue 8 Pages 878-884
Keywords Nursing; Education; Attitude of health personnel; Theory
Abstract This article discusses the important role that preconceptions play in the process by which students learn to be nurses. The importance of preconceptions emerged from the analysis of data in a grounded theory study that sought to gain a greater understanding of how undergraduate student nurses in New Zealand experienced and responded to differences they perceived between the theory and the practice of nursing. It became clear that the preconceptions each student nurse held about the nature of nurses and nursing care were the standards against which the worth of the formal, practical and personal theories to which students were exposed during their nursing degree was evaluated. It was clear that preconceptions functioned as the mediator between the intentions of nursing education and the learning that eventuated for each student from practicum experiences. The implications for nursing education, for which preconceptions are not generally highly valued as a basis for learning about professional nursing, are that the individual experience and personal characteristics of each student receive significant focus when a nursing programme is planned. This means that the orthodox principles that underpin the design of nursing curricula should be reviewed and an overtly constructivist perspective adopted for nursing education for which the prior experiences of the student are the starting point.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 931
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Author Horsburgh, M.; Perkins, R.; Coyle, B.; Degeling, P.
Title The professional subcultures of students entering medicine, nursing and pharmacy programmes Type (up) Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication Journal of Interprofessional Care Abbreviated Journal
Volume 20 Issue 4 Pages 425-431
Keywords Interprofessional relations; Attitude of health personnel; Nurse managers; Nursing; Education; Organisational culture
Abstract This study sought to determine the attitudes, beliefs and values towards clinical work organisation of students entering undergraduate medicine, nursing and pharmacy programmes in order to frame questions for a wider study. University of Auckland students entering medicine, nursing and pharmacy programmes completed a questionnaire based on that used by Degeling et al. in studies of the professional subcultures working in the health system in Australia, New Zealand, England and elsewhere. Findings indicate that before students commence their education and training medical, nursing and pharmacy students as groups or sub-cultures differ in how they believe clinical work should be organised. Medical students believe that clinical work should be the responsibility of individuals in contrast to nursing students who have a collective view and believe that work should be systemised. Pharmacy students are at a mid-point in this continuum. There are many challenges for undergraduate programmes preparing graduates for modern healthcare practice where the emphasis is on systemised work and team based approaches. These include issues of professional socialisation which begins before students enter programmes, selection of students, attitudinal shifts and interprofessional education.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 937
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Author Giddings, D.L.S.
Title Health disparities, social injustice, and the culture of nursing Type (up) Journal Article
Year 2005 Publication Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal
Volume 54 Issue 5 Pages 304-312
Keywords Cross-cultural comparison; Racism; Attitude of health personnel; Feminist critique
Abstract The aim of this cross-cultural study was to collect stories of difference and fairness within nursing. The study used a life history methodology informed by feminist theory and critical social theory. Life story interviews were conducted with 26 women nurses of varying racial, cultural, sexual identity, and specialty backgrounds in the United States (n = 13) and Aotearoa New Zealand (n = 13). Participants reported having some understanding of social justice issues. They were asked to reflect on their experience of difference and fairness in their lives and specifically within nursing. Their stories were analysed using a life history immersion method. Nursing remains attached to the ideological construction of the “White good nurse.” Taken-for-granted ideals privilege those who fit in and marginalise those who do not. The nurses who experienced discrimination and unfairness, survived by living in two worlds, learned to live in contradiction, and worked surreptitiously for social justice. For nurses to contribute to changing the systems and structures that maintain health disparities, the privilege of not seeing difference and the processes of mainstream violence that support the construction of the “White good nurse” must be challenged. Nurses need skills to deconstruct the marginalising social processes that sustain inequalities in nursing and healthcare. These hidden realities-racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination-will then be made visible and open to challenge.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 943
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Author Giddings, D.L.S.
Title A theoretical model of social consciousness Type (up) Journal Article
Year 2005 Publication Advances in Nursing Science Abbreviated Journal
Volume 28 Issue 3 Pages 224-239
Keywords Attitude of health personnel; Feminist critique; Nursing models
Abstract The article presents a theoretical model of social consciousness developed from nurses' life histories. A 3-position dialectical framework (acquired, awakened, and expanded social consciousness) makes visible the way people respond to social injustice in their lives and in the lives of others. The positions coexist, are not hierarchical, and are contextually situated. A person's location influences her or his availability for social action. Nurses who could most contribute to challenging social injustices that underpin health disparities are relegated to the margins of mainstream nursing by internal processes of discrimination. The author suggests that more inclusive definitions of “a nurse” would open up possibilities for social change.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 944
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Author Rydon, S.E.
Title The attitudes, knowledge and skills needed in mental health nurses: The perspective of users of mental health services Type (up) Journal Article
Year 2005 Publication International Journal of Mental Health Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 14 Issue 2 Pages 78-87
Keywords Patient satisfaction; Psychiatric Nursing; Attitude of health personnel
Abstract In this study a qualitative descriptive methodology with focus group interviews was used to explore with users of mental health services, the attitudes, knowledge and skills that they need in mental health nurses. Users of mental health services valued the therapeutic work of mental health nurses, and identified positive attitudes towards users of mental health services as essential in mental health nurses. However, they did not consistently experience a therapeutic approach in their interactions with mental health nurses. In a sociopolitical climate where the views of users of mental health services are increasingly incorporated into education and the planning and delivery of services, there is a need for more research that reflects the perspective of users.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 961 Serial 945
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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 (up) Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication Journal of Neonatal Nursing Abbreviated Journal
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
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Author Curtis, K.; Donoghue, J.
Title The trauma nurse coordinator in Australia and New Zealand: A progress survey of demographics, role function, and resources Type (up) Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Journal of Trauma Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 15 Issue 2 Pages 34-42
Keywords Emergency nursing; Personnel; Nurse managers; Economics
Abstract An initial profile of the demographics and current practice of Australian trauma nurse coordinators (TNCs) was conducted in 2003. The study identified common and differing role components, provided information to assist with establishing national parameters for the role, and identified the resources perceived necessary to enable the role to be performed effectively. This article compares the findings of the 2003 study with a 2007 survey, expanded to include New Zealand trauma coordinators. Forty-nine people, identified as working in a TNC capacity in Australia and New Zealand, were invited to participate in February 2007. Participation in the research enabled an update of the previously compiled Australia/New Zealand trauma network list. Thirty-six surveys (71.5% response rate) were returned. Descriptive statistics were undertaken for each item, and comparisons were made among states, territories, and countries. Participants reported that most of their time was spent fulfilling the trauma registry component of the role (27% of total hours), followed by quality and clinical activities (19% of total hours), education, and administration. The component associated with the least amount of time was outreach (3% of total hours). Although the proportion of time has almost halved since 2003, TNCs still spend the most time maintaining trauma registries. Compared to the 2003 survey, Australian and New Zealand TNCs are working more unpaid overtime, spending more time performing quality and clinical activities and less time doing data entry. Despite where one works, the role components identified are fulfilled to a certain extent. However, the authors conclude that trauma centres need to provide the TNC with adequate resources if trauma care systems are to be optimally effective
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 964
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Author Goodyear-Smith, F.; Janes, R.
Title New Zealand rural primary health care workforce in 2005: More than just a doctor shortage Type (up) Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Australian Journal of Rural Health Abbreviated Journal
Volume 16 Issue 1 Pages 40-46
Keywords Personnel; Physicians; Rural health services; Nursing; Primary health care; Pharmacists
Abstract The aim of this study was to obtain a 2005 snapshot of the New Zealand rural primary health care workforce, specifically GPs, general practice nurses and community pharmacists. A postal questionnaire was distributed to rural general practice managers, GPs, nurses, community pharmacy managers and pharmacists in November 2005. The self-reported data included information on demographics, country of training, years in practice, business ownership, hours worked including on-call, and intention to leave rural practice.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 966
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