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Author (up) Beaver, Peter James
Title Contemporary patient safety and the challenges for New Zealand Type Book Whole
Year 2015 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 329 p.
Keywords Patient safety; Hospitals; Accidents; Risk; Surveys
Abstract 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.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1578
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Author (up) Connolly, Megan J
Title Clinical leadership of Registered Nurses working in an Emergency Department Type Book Whole
Year 2015 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 109 p.
Keywords Registered nurses; Clinical leadership; Empowerment; Emergency Departments; Surveys
Abstract Employs a non-experimental survey design to examine the psychological and structural empowerment, and clinical leadership of Registered Nurses (RNs) working in an adult emergency department (ED) in a large tertiary hospital in Auckland City. Includes qualitative questions relating to those factors that support or inhibit their clinical leadership at point of care.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1579
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Author (up) Hogan, Deborah
Title Transitioning difficulties of overseas trained nurses in New Zealand Type Book Whole
Year 2014 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 66 p.
Keywords Migrant nurses; Transition; Surveys
Abstract Explores the experiences of overseas-trained nurses (OTNs)who have migrated to NZ within the last two years. Focuses on OTNs' lived experiences and the difficulties they may have experienced when making the transition to practice in the NZ health system. Employs an exploratory, qualitative descriptive methodology to elucidate themes.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1580
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Author (up) Joyce, Sophie
Title Running some tests: essays on doctors, nurses and hospital health care Type Book Whole
Year 2013 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 242 p.
Keywords Demographics; Decision-making; Nursing hours; Patient outcomes; Caesarean sections; Health economics
Abstract Comprises three essays on the economics of health-care delivery in hospitals: considers the relationship between gender and/or ethnic concordance between a doctor and patient, and the number of diagnostic tests ordered during a hospital stay; estimates the impact of doctor-patient demographic concordance (where doctor and patient share the same ethnic group and/or gender) on a doctor's decision-making for diagnostic resources and medical treatments; calculates the relationship between ward-level nursing hours and a patient's health outcome, e.g. mortality and length of ward stay. Uses a detailed nursing-staff dataset, a novel instrumental variable for nursing hours (the amount of sick and bereavement leave taken by nurses on a ward) and the separate effect of nursing and patient hours in a ward, on a patient's health outcome.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1577
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Author (up) Zambas, Shelaine Iris
Title The consequences of using advanced assessment skills in medical and surgical nursing: keeping patients safe Type Book Whole
Year 2013 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 150 p.
Keywords Nursing skills; Patient safety; Surgical nursing; Surveys
Abstract 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.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1581
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