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Author Holdaway, Maureen Ann
Title A Maori model of primary health care nursing Type Book Whole
Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages (down) 192 p.
Keywords Primary health care nursing; Maori women's health; Maori model of health; Kaupapa Maori research; Health reforms; Health policy; Surveys
Abstract Identifies how traditional nursing practice in Maori communities may be enhanced. Highlights the need for nursing to broaden concepts of health, community, and public health nursing, to focus on issues of capacity-building, community needs, and a broader understanding of the social, political, cultural, and economic contexts of the communities primary health-care nurses serve. Explores how health is experienced by Maori women during in-depth interviews using critical ethnographic method, underpinned by a Maori-centred approach. Articulates a model of health that is a dynamic process based on the restoration and maintenance of cultural integrity, derived from the principle of self-determination.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1809
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Author Muir-Cochrane, E.; Holmes, C.; Walton, J.A.
Title Law and policy in relation to the use of seclusion in psychiatric hospitals in Australia and New Zealand Type Journal Article
Year 2002 Publication Contemporary Nurse Abbreviated Journal
Volume 13 Issue 2/3 Pages (down) 136-145
Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Law and legislation; Policy; Patient rights; Cross-cultural comparison
Abstract This paper discusses legal issues associated with the seclusion of acutely disturbed patients in psychiatric hospitals in Australia and New Zealand. There continues to be great variation in opinion and operational definition as to whether seclusion is a medical treatment, nursing intervention and management tool, or merely a form of situational restraint. Reflecting this lack of clarity, mental health acts and policies concerning the regulation and practice of seclusion lack consistency and focus across geographical boundaries and jurisdictions. Australian and New Zealand legislation and institutional policy is discussed in order to shed light on the contemporary issues highlighted by this controversial nursing practice. The authors note that mental health professionals must continue to review the practice of seclusion and to actively promote the use of acceptable alternatives. In addition nurses and other mental health professionals have a responsibility to understand current legislation and policy frameworks and to influence change where this is necessary to ensure the best practice possible in their clinical area.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1074
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Author Stone, P.W.; Tourangeau, A.E.; Duffield, C.M.; Hughes, F.; Jones, C.A.; O'Brien-Pallas, L.; Shamian, J.
Title Evidence of nurse working conditions: A global perspective Type Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice Abbreviated Journal
Volume 4 Issue 2 Pages (down) 120-130
Keywords Nursing; Recruitment and retention; Policy; Cross-cultural comparison; Nursing research
Abstract The purpose of this article is to review evidence about nurse workload, staffing, skill mix, turnover, and organisational characteristics' effect on outcomes; discuss methodological considerations in this research; discuss research initiatives currently under way; review policy initiatives in different countries; and make recommendations where more research is needed. Overall, an understanding of the relationships among nurse staffing and organisational climate to patient safety and health outcomes is beginning to emerge in the literature. Little is known about nursing turnover and more evidence is needed with consistent definitions and control of underlying patient characteristics. Research and policy initiatives in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States are summarised.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 951
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Author Hughes, F.
Title Nurses at the forefront of innovation Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication International Nursing Review Abbreviated Journal
Volume 53 Issue 2 Pages (down) 94-101
Keywords Organisational culture; Technology; Policy; Nursing
Abstract This paper explores the concept of innovation in nursing, the inherent set of characteristics that need to be present in order for innovations to succeed, and the barriers that impede innovation from occurring. Successful innovations developed and implemented by nurses are featured, and organisational factors necessary to support innovation are described. This paper is based on a presentation given by the author at the 23rd Quadrennial ICN Congress and 7th International Regulation Congress in Taipei in May 2005.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 796 Serial 780
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Author Litchfield, M.; Jonsdottir, H.
Title A practice discipline that's here and now Type Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Advances in Nursing Science Abbreviated Journal
Volume 31 Issue 1 Pages (down) 79-92
Keywords Nursing research; Policy; Nursing philosophy
Abstract The article is a collaborative writing venture drawing on research findings from New Zealand and Iceland to contribute to the international scholarship on the status and future direction of the nursing discipline. It takes an overview of the international historical trends in nursing knowledge development and proposes a framework for contemporary nursing research that accommodates the past efforts and paradigms of nurse scholars and reflects the changing thinking around the humanness of the health circumstance as the focus of the nursing discipline. It addresses contemporary challenges facing nurses as practitioners and researchers for advancement of practice and delivery of health services, and for influencing health policy.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1174
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Author Honeyfield, Margy
Title The necessity of effective nursing leadership for the retention of professional hospital nurses Type
Year 2008 Publication Abbreviated Journal Otago Polytechnic library. A copy can be obtained by contacting pgnursadmin@tekotago.ac.nz
Volume Issue Pages (down) 64
Keywords Recruitment and retention; Leadership; Nursing; Policy
Abstract The author notes that it is widely accepted that there is a global shortage of nurses, and there are many studies in the health workforce literature about the negative aspects of nurse work environments, nursing workloads, decreased job satisfaction of nurses and the impact these have on patient health outcomes. In the past five years there has also been international and New Zealand-specific research into the effects of health restructuring on nursing leadership, retention of nurses, and on patient care. Much of this research has shown that countries with very different health care systems have similar problems, not only with retention of qualified nursing staff due to high levels of job dissatisfaction, but also with work design and the provision of good quality patient care in hospitals. This dissertation explores the many detrimental effects on nurses and nursing leadership, of extensive, and continuing, public health restructuring in New Zealand. The context of this dissertation is New Zealand public hospitals, with references pertaining to medical and surgical areas of nursing practice. Health reforms have negatively impacted on patient care delivery systems, patient health outcomes, and retention of educated nurses in the workforce. In order to resolve these issues, coordinated efforts are required in New Zealand district health boards to develop and sustain effective nursing leaders, who will promote and assist in the development of strong, healthy organisational cultures to retain and support professional nurses and the ways in which they wish to practise.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 868
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Author Hughes, F.
Title Reconnecting with policy: Requirements for survival as a mental health nurse Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication Journal of Psychosocial Nursing & Mental Health Services Abbreviated Journal
Volume 44 Issue 8 Pages (down) 30-39
Keywords Policy; Mental health; Nursing specialties
Abstract This article discusses the disconnection between mental health nurses and policy, and the importance of reconnecting such relationships. It is suggested this will benefit consumers, provide influence in health care policies and, ultimately, contribute to strategies to improve the health of our nation. In this article, the author draws on her own experiences and applies these to a discussion of how mental health nurses can influence and strengthen their relationships with nursing policy.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 938
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Author Hughes, F.; Duke, J.; Bamford-Wade, A.; Moss, C.
Title Enhancing nursing leadership through policy, politics, and strategic alliances Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication Nurse Leader Abbreviated Journal
Volume 4 Issue 2 Pages (down) 24-27
Keywords Policy; Nursing; Leadership
Abstract This paper looks at the links between nursing roles and health policy in New Zealand. Strategic alliances between key professional leaders in different nursing roles can help the profession by directly influencing policy development and implementation. This form of policy entrepreneurship is an important component of professional leadership.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 955 Serial 939
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title Professional development: Developing a new model of integrated care Type Journal Article
Year 1998 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 4 Issue 9 Pages (down) 23-25
Keywords Nursing models; Nurse practitioners; Policy; Nurse-family relations
Abstract An overview of the model of nursing practice and nurse roles derived through a programme of nursing research in the context of the policy and strategies directing developments in the New Zealand health system. The emphsis was on the health service configuration model presented diagrammatically to show the position of a new role of family nurse with a distinct form of practice forming the hub.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1324
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Author Woods, M.
Title Dissecting a brave new nursing world Type Journal Article
Year 2002 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 8 Issue 10 Pages (down) 20-22, 36
Keywords Nursing; Education; Nursing Council of New Zealand; Policy
Abstract This article critiques the 'Strategic Review of Undergraduate Education' commissioned by the Nursing Council. The premise of the review is examined, along with the foundations of nursing practice and the role of nursing education.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1003
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Author Crowe, M.; Carlyle, D.
Title Deconstructing risk assessment and management in mental health nursing Type Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 43 Issue 1 Pages (down) 19-27
Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Risk management; Policy; Culture
Abstract The aims of the study were to provide a deconstructive analysis of the concepts of risk and risk management, and to explore the historical context of mental disorder and the concept of risk, the clinical context of risk assessment and management, the cultural, political and economic context of risk, and the impact on mental health nursing and consumers of mental health services. This is undertaken by providing a critical review of the history of mental illness and its relationship to risk, examination of government policy on clinical risk management, analysis of a risk assessment model and a discussion of the political and economic factors that have influenced the use of risk assessment and management in clinical practice. The concept of risk and its assessment and management have been employed in the delivery of mental health services as a form of contemporary governance. One consequence of this has been the positioning of social concerns over clinical judgement. The process employed to assess and manage risk could be regarded as a process of codification, commodification and aggregation. In the mental health care setting this can mean attempting to control the actions and behaviours of consumers and clinicians to best meet the fiscal needs of the organisation. The authors conclude that the mental health nursing profession needs to examine carefully its socially mandated role as guardians of those who pose a risk to others to ensure that its practice represents its espoused therapeutic responsibilities.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1069
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Author Clunie, S.
Title The current trend and importance of postgraduate education for nurses Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication Nursing Journal Northland Polytechnic Abbreviated Journal coda, An Institutional Repository for the New Zealand ITP Sector
Volume 10 Issue Pages (down) 18-23
Keywords Nursing; Education; Professional development; Leadership; Policy
Abstract The purpose of this essay is to examine why postgraduate education has become so important, to examine some of the issues around mandatory continuing education and the practical effect of this on a nursing career. Four strategies from the Ministry of Health, designed to facilitate changing nurse education, are discussed. The importance of Professional Development Recognition programmes is discussed along with the need for strong nursing leadership.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1207
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Author Holloway, K. T.
Title The future for nursing education: UKCC review has relevance for New Zealand Type Journal Article
Year 2000 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 16 Issue 2 Pages (down) 17-24
Keywords Nursing; Education; Recruitment and retention; Clinical assessment; Policy
Abstract The author reviews the report 'Fitness for Practice' by the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting (UKCC) noting many areas of relevance for New Zealand educators in outlining possible strategies for nursing education. Discussion of some of the recommendations is put in the context of a strategic review of undergraduate nursing education recently commissioned by the Nursing Council of New Zealand. Issues such as recruitment and access to education; retention; clinical assessment and placements; clinical skill acquisition and partnership are valid concerns for educators here also. Internationally, the author suggests, the commonalties in issues of concern lend validity to the concept of the global village and the necessity for a global perspective in health care workforce planning, including educational preparation.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 848
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Author Donovan, Donna; Diers, Donna; Carryer, Jenny
Title Perceptions of policy and political leadership in nursing in New Zealand Type Journal Article
Year 2012 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 28 Issue 2 Pages (down) 15-25
Keywords Nursing leadership; Policy and politics; Nursing organisations; Qualitative study; NZ nursing
Abstract Describes a qualitative study of 18 nurse leaders interviewed about issues affecting their will to participate in political action, leadership, and policy work. Asks the nurses to describe their personal stages of political development, how they view NZ nurses' and nursing organisations' political development, and their views on increasing the role of nursing in healthcare policy development. Analyses the interviews to identify major themes.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1474
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Author Jacobs, S.; Boddy, J.M.
Title The genesis of advanced nursing practice in New Zealand: Policy, politics and education Type Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 24 Issue 1 (Mar) Pages (down) 11-22
Keywords Nurse practitioners; History of nursing; Policy; Scope of practice
Abstract This contemporary historical study examines the health sector environment of the 1990s and the turn of the 21st century, and assesses the policy initiatives undertaken to advance nursing in New Zealand during that period. The authors look at the conditions and forces that saw nursing achieve a new emphasis on advanced and expanded scope of nursing practice, less than a decade after the commencement of New Zealand's first pre-registration nursing degrees.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 452
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