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Author Clendon, J.; White, G.E.
Title The feasibility of a nurse practitioner-led primary health care clinic in a school setting: A community needs analysis Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 34 Issue 2 Pages 171-178
Keywords Primary health care; Nurse managers; Advanced nursing practice; Community health nursing; School nursing
Abstract (up) The aim of this study was to determine the feasibility of establishing a nurse practitioner-led, family focused, primary health care clinic within a New Zealand primary school environment as a means of addressing the health needs of children and families. A secondary aim was to ascertain whether public health nurses were the most appropriate nurses to lead such a clinic. Utilising a community needs analysis method, data were collected from demographic data, 17 key informant interviews and two focus group interviews. Analysis was exploratory and descriptive. Findings included the identification of a wide range of health issues. These included asthma management and control issues, the need to address poor parenting, and specific problems of the refugee and migrant population. Findings also demonstrated that participant understanding of the role of the public health nurse was less than anticipated and that community expectations were such that for a public health nurse to lead a primary health care clinic it would be likely that further skills would be required. Outcomes from investigating the practicalities of establishing a nurse practitioner-led clinic resulted in the preparation of a community-developed plan that would serve to address the health needs of children and families in the area the study was undertaken. Services that participants identified as being appropriate included health information, health education, health assessment and referral. The authors conclude that the establishment of a nurse practitioner-led, family focused, primary health care clinic in a primary school environment was feasible. While a public health nurse may fulfil the role of the nurse practitioner, it was established that preparation to an advanced level of practice would be required.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 952
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Author Crowe, M.; O'Malley, J.; Gordon, S.
Title Meeting the needs of consumers in the community: A working partnership in mental health in New Zealand Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 35 Issue 1 Pages 88-96
Keywords Community health nursing; Psychiatric Nursing; Patient satisfaction; Mental health
Abstract (up) The aim of this study was to evaluate whether the services that community mental health nurses provide are meeting the needs of consumers in the community. This was a joint project between nurses and consumers. It was a service-specific descriptive research project utilising qualitative methods of data collection and analysis that provides a model for working in partnership. The results of this research identify collaboration in planning care and sharing information as two areas of concern but generally the consumers were very satisfied with the care provided by community mental health nurses. The analysis of the data suggests that consumers value nursing care because nurses provide support in their own home; they help consumers develop strategies for coping with their illness and their life; they provide practical assistance when it is required; they are vigilant about any deterioration or improvement; and they are available and accessible. The results of this study have demonstrated that nurses will remain critical to the success of community-based care because of their ability and willingness to be flexible to the demands of their own organisation and the users of services.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1087
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Author Budge, C.; Carryer, J.B.; Wood, S.
Title Health correlates of autonomy, control and professional relationships in the nursing work environment Type Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 42 Issue 3 Pages 260-268
Keywords Workplace; Occupational health and safety; Registered nurses
Abstract (up) The aim of this study was to examine nursing in New Zealand and to see whether aspects of the work environment are associated with health status. A total of 225 registered nurses in a general hospital completed the Revised Nursing Work Index (NWI-R) and Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36). Ratings indicated that the New Zealand hospital environment was characterized by less autonomy and control and better nurse-physician relations than in USA hospitals. Results of correlations demonstrated that more positive ratings of the three workplace attributes were associated with better health status amongst the nurses. The results of regression analyses were indicative either of a confounding relationship or of a mediating relationship such that nurses' relations with physicians, administration and other departments mediate the associations between autonomy, control and health status.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 703
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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 19-27
Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Risk management; Policy; Culture
Abstract (up) 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 McKenna, B.; Smith, N.A.; Poole, S.; Coverdale, J.
Title Horizontal violence: Experiences of registered nurses in their first year of practice Type Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 42 Issue 1 Pages 90-96
Keywords New graduate nurses; Workplace violence; Occupational health and safety
Abstract (up) The aims of this study were to determine the prevalence of horizontal violence, or bullying, experienced by nurses in their first year of practice; to describe the characteristics of the most distressing incidents experienced; to determine the consequences, and measure the psychological impact, of such events; and to determine the adequacy of training received to manage horizontal violence. An anonymous survey was mailed to 1169 nurses in New Zealand who had registered in the year prior to November 2000 with a response rate of 47%. Many new graduates experienced horizontal violence across all clinical settings. Absenteeism from work, the high number of respondents who considered leaving nursing, and scores on the Impact of Event Scale all indicated the serious impact of interpersonal conflict. Nearly half of the events described were not reported, only 12% of those who described a distressing incident received formal debriefing, and the majority of respondents had no training to manage the behaviour.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 706
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Author Gardner, G.; Dunn, S.; Carryer, J.B.; Gardner, A.
Title Competency and capability: Imperative for nurse practitioner education Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal The author-version of article, available online from Queensland University of Technology ePrints arc
Volume 24 Issue 1 Pages 8-14
Keywords Nursing; Education; Nurse practitioners; Curriculum
Abstract (up) The objective of this study was to conduct research to inform the development of standards for nurse practitioner education in Australia and New Zealand and to contribute to the international debate on nurse practitioner practice. The research was conducted in all states of Australia where the nurse practitioner is authorised, and in New Zealand. The research was informed by multiple data sources including nurse practitioner programme curricula documents from relevant universities in Australia and New Zealand, interviews with academic convenors of these programmes and interviews with nurse practitioners. Findings include support for masters level of education as preparation for the nurse practitioner. These programs need to have a strong clinical learning component and in-depth education for the sciences of specialty practice. Additionally an important aspect of education for the nurse practitioner is the centrality of student directed and flexible learning models. This approach is well supported by the literature on capability.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 882
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Author Day, W.
Title Relaxation: A nursing therapy to help relieve cardiac chest pain Type Journal Article
Year 2000 Publication Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 18 Issue 1 Pages 40-44
Keywords Alternative therapies; Nursing; Patient satisfaction; Cardiovascular diseases
Abstract (up) This article discusses ways in which relaxation, when used as an adjunct to medical therapies, can be a useful nursing management tool for effectively relieving cardiac pain. The available literature suggests that although nurses place a lot of importance on cardiac patients being pain free, it is apparent this is often not achieved. Research and documented case studies suggest that relaxation can play an important role in the treatment and prevention of this distressing symptom. The author advocates for nurses to challenge nursing practice and help patients deal effectively with chest pain in a way that meets each individual's needs.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 841
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Author Jonsdottir, H.; Litchfield, M.; Pharris, M.
Title The relational core of nursing practice as partnership Type Journal Article
Year Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 47 Issue 3 Pages 241-250
Keywords Nurse-patient relations; Nursing philosophy; Nursing research
Abstract (up) This article elaborates the meaning of partnership in practice for nurses practising in different and complementary way to nurses in specialist roles and medical practitioners. It positions partnership as the relational core of nursing practice. Partnership is presented as an evolving dialogue between nurse and patient, which is characterised by open, caring, mutually responsive and non-directive approaches. This partnership occurs within a health system that is dominated by technologically-driven, prescriptive, and outcome-oriented approaches. It is the second of a series of articles written as a partnership between nurse scholars from Iceland, NZ and USA.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1188 Serial 1173
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Author Crowe, M.
Title Psychiatric diagnosis: Some implications for mental health nursing care Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 53 Issue 1 Pages 125-131
Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Diagnosis; Culture; Gender; Socioeconomic factors; Nursing models
Abstract (up) This article explores some of the functions of psychiatric diagnosis and the implications this has for mental health nursing care. It critiques the psychiatric diagnosis as a categorisation process that maintains oppressive power relations within society, by establishing and enforcing normality through gender, culture and class biases. The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is used to illustrate some of the inherent biases in the diagnostic process. The author argues that mental health nursing practice needs to demonstrate an awareness of the power relations inherent in any diagnostic process and make attempts to redress these at both the individual and sociopolitical levels. To create a true patient-centred partnership in mental health nursing, the nursing focus should be on the patient's experience rather than the psychiatric diagnosis with which the experience is attributed. NB this is a reprint of article first published in Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2000 Mar; 31(3), 583-9.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 837
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Author Clendon, J.
Title Nurse-managed clinics: Issues in evaluation Type Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 44 Issue 6 Pages 558-565
Keywords Evaluation research; Nurse managers; Qualiltative research; Patient satisfaction
Abstract (up) This article explores the importance of evaluation of nurse-managed clinics using the Mana Health Clinic in Auckland, as an example. Fourth generation evaluation is offered as an appropriate methodology for undertaking evaluation of nurse-managed clinics. Fourth generation evaluation actively seeks involvement of clients in the process and outcome of the evaluation, resulting in participation and empowerment of stakeholders in the service – a precept often forgotten in traditional evaluation strategies and of vital importance in understanding why people use nurse-managed clinics. The method proposed here also incorporates the need for quantitative data. The main argument is that a combination of qualitative and quantitative data sources is likely to give the greatest understanding of nurse-managed clinics' utilisation.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 949
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Author Polaschek, N.
Title Negotiated care: A model for nursing work in the renal setting Type Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 42 Issue 4 Pages 355-363
Keywords Chronically ill; Nursing models; Nurse-patient relations; Communication
Abstract (up) This article outlines a model for the nursing role in the chronic health care context of renal replacement therapy. Materials from several streams of literature are used to conceptualise the potential for nursing work in the renal setting as negotiated care. In order to present the role of the renal nurse in this way it is contextualised by viewing the renal setting as a specialised social context constituted by a dominant professional discourse and a contrasting client discourse. While performing specific therapeutic activities in accord with the dominant discourse, renal nurses can develop a relationship with the person living on dialysis, based on responsiveness to their subjective experience reflecting the renal client discourse. In contrast to the language of noncompliance prevalent in the renal setting, nurses can, through their relationship with renal clients, facilitate their attempts to negotiate the requirements of the therapeutic regime into their own personal life situation. Nurses can mediate between the dominant and client discourses for the person living on dialysis. Care describes the quality that nurses actively seek to create in their relationships with clients, through negotiation, in order to support them to live as fully as possible while using renal replacement therapy. The author concludes that within chronic health care contexts, shaped by the acute curative paradigm of biomedicine, the model of nursing work as negotiated care has the potential to humanise contemporary medical technologies by responding to clients' experiences of illness and therapy.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1186
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Author Polaschek, N.
Title Living on dialysis: Concerns of clients in a renal setting Type Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 41 Issue 1 Pages 44-52
Keywords Nurse-patient relations; Psychology; Attitude to health; Terminal care
Abstract (up) This article reports a study that sought to understand the experience of a group of Caucasian men with end stage renal failure managing their own haemodialysis therapy in their homes. The study used a critical interpretive methodology. The renal setting was critically viewed as a specialised health care context constituted by several interrelated discourses. Although established by the dominant professional discourse, it also includes a number of others, in particular an obscure client discourse that is a response to the dominant discourse. Initially, participants' own interpretations of their individual experiences were outlined. These were then collectively reinterpreted by contextualising them in terms of the critical view of the renal setting, in order to discern their own views as renal clients that were obscured by the language and ideas of the dominant discourse with which they had been enculturated. From an analysis of the set of accounts derived from interviews with six participants, four concerns of the renal client discourse were identified. These concerns were: (1) suffering from continuing symptoms of end stage renal failure and dialysis; (2) limitations resulting from negotiating dialysis into their lifestyle; (3) ongoingness and uncertainty of life on dialysis; and (4) altered relationship between autonomy and dependence inherent in living on dialysis. One specific implication of this study is that the distinctive potential of the nursing role in renal settings lies beyond the performance of a range of technical tasks, in addressing the experience of people living on dialysis, described here as the concerns of the renal client discourse.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1072
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Author McBride-Henry, K.; Foureur, M.
Title Medication administration errors: Understanding the issues Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 23 Issue 3 Pages 33-41
Keywords Nursing; Patient safety; Medical errors; Drug administration; Quality assurance
Abstract (up) This literature review focused on research that primarily addresses the issues related to medications that arise in tertiary care facilities. It finds that investigations into medication errors have primarily focused on the role of nurses, and tended to identify the nurse as deliverer of unsafe practice. Over the past few years a shift in how medication errors are understood has led to the identification of systems-related issues that contribute to medication errors. The author suggests that nurses should contribute to initiatives such as the 'Quality and Safe Use of Medicines' and develop nursing led research, to address some of the safety related issues with a view to enhancing patient safety.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 715
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Author Harding, T.S.
Title The construction of men who are nurses as gay Type Journal Article
Year 2007 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal Coda: An institutional repository for the New Zealand ITP sector
Volume 60 Issue 6 Pages 636-644
Keywords Male nurses; Prejudice; Sexuality
Abstract (up) This paper is a report of a study to determine the construction of male nurses as gay, and to describe how this discourse impacts on a group of New Zealand male nurses. This social constructionist study drew on data collected from existing texts on men, nursing and masculinity and interviews with 18 New Zealand men conducted in 2003-2004. Discourse analysis, informed by masculinity theory and queer theory, was used to analyse the data. Despite the participants' beliefs that the majority of male nurses are heterosexual, the stereotype persists. A paradox emerged between the 'homosexual' general nurse and the 'heterosexual' pyschiatric nurse. The stigma associated with homosexuality exposes male nurses to homophobia in the workplace. The heterosexual men employed strategies to avoid the presumption of homosexuality; these included: avoiding contact with gay colleagues and overt expression of their heterosexuality. These stigmatising discourses create a barrier to caring and, aligned with the presence of homophobia in the workplace, deter men's entry into the profession and may be important issues with respect to their retention.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 647
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Author Giddings, D.L.S.; Roy, D.E.; Predeger, E.
Title Women's experience of ageing with a chronic condition Type Journal Article
Year 2007 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 58 Issue 6 Pages 557-565
Keywords Chronic diseases; Age factors; Gender; Nursing
Abstract (up) This paper is a report of a study to explore the experiences of 'almost old' women as they grow older while living with a chronic condition. Little is known about the contextual effects of ageing and how it shapes and is shaped by a woman's chronic illness experience. Seven women aged between 50 and 58 years participated in this interpretive descriptive study that explored the issues of ageing with a chronic condition. Three focus groups were held between March 2003 and March 2004. Transcriptions were analysed after each focus group. Participants were given the opportunity to respond to the findings as the analysis progressed. The experience of living with a chronic illness foreshadowed what was to come with ageing and embodied the ageing process: it was just part of their lives. Alongside this, the women now felt less out of place. Their peers were catching up and beginning to experience aspects of participants' everyday reality. The women, however, experienced double jeopardy because ageing amplified the ongoing vulnerabilities of living with a chronic condition. The authors conclude that nurses who recognise the resourcefulness and expertise of women who live with a chronic condition can effectively be co-strategists in helping them to age well.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 880
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