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Author Hardy, D.J.; O'Brien, A.P.; Gaskin, C.J.; O'Brien, A.J.; Morrison-Ngatai, E.; Skews, G.; Ryan, T.; McNulty, N.
Title Practical application of the Delphi technique in a bicultural mental health nursing study in New Zealand Type Journal Article
Year 2004 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 46 Issue 1 Pages (up) 95-109
Keywords Clinical assessment; Biculturalism; Professional competence; Psychiatric Nursing; Maori
Abstract The aim of this paper is to detail the practical application of the Delphi technique as a culturally and clinically valid means of accessing expert opinion on the importance of clinical criteria. Reference is made to a bicultural New Zealand mental health nursing clinical indicator study that employed a three-round reactive Delphi survey. Equal proportions of Maori and non-Maori nurses (n = 20) and consumers (n = 10) rated the importance of 91 clinical indicator statements for the achievement of professional practice standards. Additional statements (n = 21) suggested by Delphi participants in round 1 were included in subsequent rounds. In round 2, participants explained the rating they applied to statements that had not reached consensus in round 1, and summarised responses were provided to participants in round 3. Consensus was considered to have been achieved if 85% of round 3 ratings lay within a 2-point bracket on the 5-point Likert-scale overall, or in one of the Maori nurse, non-Maori nurse, or consumer groups. A mean rating of 4.5 after round 3 was set as the importance threshold. Consensus occurred overall on 75 statements, and within groups on another 24. Most statements (n = 86) reached the importance benchmark. The authors conclude that when rigorous methods of participant selection, group composition, participant feedback, and determination of consensus and importance are employed, the Delphi technique is a reliable, cost-effective means of obtaining and prioritising experts' judgements.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1060
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Author Polaschek, L.; Polaschek, N.
Title Solution-focused conversations: A new therapeutic strategy in Well Child health nursing telephone consultations Type Journal Article
Year 2007 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 59 Issue 2 Pages (up) 111-119
Keywords Telenursing; Communication; Evaluation
Abstract This paper reports a study to explore Well Child nurses' perceptions of outcomes resulting from the use of solution-focused conversations in their telephone consultations with clients. The standard problem-solving approach used to address physical issues is less effective for various non-physical concerns, where different communication strategies may be helpful. In this qualitative, action-oriented study, a small group of Well Child telenurses in New Zealand was introduced to a specific communication strategy, called 'solution-focused conversations', during 2005. They applied this approach in their practice and then reflected together on their experiences in focus groups. The nurses considered that the solution-focused conversations enabled clients to: recognise the nature of the parenting issue of concern that had motivated their call; identify more effective parenting practices to address specific issues with their child; increase their confidence in their own parenting capabilities. This study suggested the value of learning a specific communication strategy for the practice of a group of Well Child telenurses.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 973
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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 (up) 125-131
Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Diagnosis; Culture; Gender; Socioeconomic factors; Nursing models
Abstract 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.; 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 (up) 171-178
Keywords Primary health care; Nurse managers; Advanced nursing practice; Community health nursing; School nursing
Abstract 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 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 (up) 241-250
Keywords Nurse-patient relations; Nursing philosophy; Nursing research
Abstract 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 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 (up) 260-268
Keywords Workplace; Occupational health and safety; Registered nurses
Abstract 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 Wilson, H.V.
Title Power and partnership: A critical analysis of the surveillance discourses of child health nurses Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 36 Issue 2 Pages (up) 294-301
Keywords Paediatric nursing; Nurse-family relations; Nursing philosophy; Plunket
Abstract The aim of this research was to explore surveillance discourses within New Zealand child health nursing and to identify whether surveillance practices have implications in this context for power relations. Five experienced and practising Plunket nurses were each interviewed twice. The texts generated by these semi-structured interviews were analysed using a Foucauldian approach to critical discourse analysis. In contrast with the conventional view of power as held and wielded by one party, this study revealed that, in the Plunket nursing context, power is exercised in various and unexpected ways. Although the relationship between the mother and the nurse cannot be said to operate as a partnership, it is constituted in the nurses' discourses as a dynamic relationship in which the mother is actively engaged on her own terms. The effect of this is that it is presented by the nurses as a precarious relationship that has significant implications for the success of their work.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1085
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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 (up) 355-363
Keywords Chronically ill; Nursing models; Nurse-patient relations; Communication
Abstract 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 Neville, S.J.; Henderson, H.M.
Title Perceptions of lesbian, gay and bisexual people of primary healthcare services Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 55 Issue 4 Pages (up) 407-415
Keywords Sexuality; Attitude of health personnel; Primary health care
Abstract This paper reports a study exploring people's perceptions of disclosure about lesbian, gay and bisexual identity to their primary healthcare providers. Disclosure of sexual identity to healthcare professionals is integral to attending to the health needs of lesbian, gay and bisexual populations, as non-disclosure has been shown to have a negative impact on the health of these people. From April to July 2004, a national survey of lesbian, gay and bisexual persons was carried out in New Zealand. Participants were recruited through mainstream and lesbian, gay and bisexual media and venues, and 2269 people completed the questionnaire, either electronically or via hard copy. The 133-item instrument included a range of closed-response questions in a variety of domains of interest. In this paper, we report results from the health and well-being domain. More women than men identified that the practitioner's attitude toward their non-heterosexual identity was important when choosing a primary healthcare provider. Statistically significantly more women than men reported that their healthcare provider usually or always presumed that they were heterosexual and in addition more women had disclosed their sexual identity to their healthcare provider. The authors advise that nurses reconsider their approach to all users of healthcare services by not assuming everyone is heterosexual, integrating questions about sexual identity into health interviews and ensuring that all other aspects of the assessment process are appropriate and safe for lesbian, gay and bisexual people.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1059 Serial 1043
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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 (up) 557-565
Keywords Chronic diseases; Age factors; Gender; Nursing
Abstract 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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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 (up) 558-565
Keywords Evaluation research; Nurse managers; Qualiltative research; Patient satisfaction
Abstract 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 van Wissen, K.A.; Litchfield, M.; Maling, T.
Title Living with high blood pressure Type Journal Article
Year 1998 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 27 Issue 3 Pages (up) 567-574
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Abstract An interdisciplinary (nursing-medicine) collaboration in a qualitative descriptive research project undertaken in the Wellington School of Medicine with New Zealand Health Research Council funding. The purpose was to inform the practice of nursing and medical practitioners. A group of patients were interviewed in their homes. Their experience of having a diagnosis of hypertension and prescription of long-term treatment requiring adjustment in their lives and the lives of their families is presented as themes.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 360
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Author Horsburgh, M.
Title Graduate nurses' adjustment to initial employment Type
Year 1987 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland, Auckland Institute of Te
Volume 14 Issue Pages (up) 610-617
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Abstract An ethnographic study which attempts to understand what initial employment means to graduates from a comprehensive nursing course. The researcher participated in the first 3-4 months of the nurses' employment in general hospital settings. Five major themes emerge from the study indicating that the rhetoric practice of the school of nursing is different from the rhetoric and practice within general hospital settings. The reality of initial employment for the new graduated conflicts with the values and ideals of nursing promulgated by the comprehensive nursing course. The educational program stressed patient centred nursing, where nurses accepted responsibility for the continuing care of individuals. In contrast the hospital settings stress nursing as management of tasks across different patients. This conflict was a major source of frustration for the 'beginning' nurses. Ultimately they accept the reality of nursing as the management of tasks, but not without some personal cost. Orientation programs and the early employment period focus on 'fitting in to the system'. A significant determinant of the practice of new graduates are context effects such the time of their shift and the availability of experienced nurses. A number of management practices foster and maintain a beginning level of practice and new graduates have no opportunity to practice as autonomous nurses within a multi disciplinary health care team. Beginning practice is identified in new graduates through their difficulties in coping with unplanned or unexpected events. The initial employment period is dominated by shift work, resulting tiredness and adjustment to social activities.It is argued that management practices which support the ideals of comprehensive nursing courses and totally qualified nursing workforce have yet to occur. There are implications in this study for nursing education and nursing practice
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 59 Serial 59
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Author Carter, H.; MacLeod, R.; Brander, P.; McPherson, K.
Title Living with a terminal illness: Patients' priorities Type Journal Article
Year 2004 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 45 Issue 6 Pages (up) 611-620
Keywords Terminal care; Quality of life; Nursing models; Cancer
Abstract The aim of this paper is to report on an exploratory, qualitative study exploring what people living with terminal illness considered were the areas of priority in their lives. Ten people living with terminal cancer were interviewed. Analysis of the interviews incorporated principles of narrative analysis and grounded theory. Over 30 categories were identified and collated into five inter-related themes (personal/intrinsic factors, external/extrinsic factors, future issues, perceptions of normality and taking charge) encompassing the issues of importance to all participants. Each theme focused on 'life and living' in relation to life as it was or would be without illness. Practical issues of daily living and the opportunity to address philosophical issues around the meaning of life emerged as important areas. The central theme, 'taking charge', concerned with people's levels of life engagement, was integrally connected to all other themes. The findings suggest that the way in which health professionals manage patients' involvement in matters such as symptom relief can impact on existential areas of concern. The findings challenge some aspects of traditional 'expert-defined' outcome measures. As this was an exploratory study, further work is needed to test and develop the model presented.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1061
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Author Spence, D.
Title Hermeneutic notions illuminate cross-cultural nursing experiences Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 35 Issue 4 Pages (up) 624-630
Keywords Transcultural nursing; Nursing
Abstract The aim of this paper was to articulate selected hermeneutic notions for the purpose of extending current understanding of cross-cultural nursing practice, and build on the author's work in this area. The project asserted that the notions of prejudice, paradox and possibility portray a nursing view of this phenomenon. The emphasis in this paper, rather than being methodological, is on showing how specific hermeneutic notions contribute to deeper understanding of the nature of cross-cultural practice. It is argued that contact with, and the capacity to explore, the play of conflicting prejudices and possibilities enhances understanding of the complex and paradoxical nature of cross-cultural nursing.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 705
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