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Author French, P.
Title Nursing registration: A time to celebrate? Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 7 Issue 8 Pages 17-19
Keywords History of nursing; Interprofessional relations; Physicians; Nursing philosophy
Abstract This article examines the knowledge and power relationships between the medical profession and nurses during the first half of the twentieth century. It argues that the 1901 Nurses' Registration Act allowed doctors to exert control over the nursing profession and that the hierarchal structure of the profession contributes to the culture of control and surveillance.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1029 Serial 1013
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Author Wilson, M.
Title Organisational psychopaths and our health culture Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 7 Issue 3 Pages 27-29
Keywords Nursing; Leadership; Organisational change
Abstract The author discusses recent research on organisational psychopaths, and suggests it offers an explanation for the state of the health system since managerialism was ushered in through health reforms. She identifies personality traits of organisational psychopaths and of aberrant self-promoters. The author gives her experience of changes to the structure of nursing at a North Island metropolitan public hospital over an 8-year period.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1030 Serial 1014
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Author Ho, T.
Title Ethical dilemmas in neonatal care Type Journal Article
Year 2000 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 6 Issue 7 Pages 17-19
Keywords Intensive care nursing; Paediatric nursing; Ethics; Clinical decision making
Abstract The author explores possible approaches to the ethical dilemma confronting nurses of critically ill premature infants with an uncertain or futile outcome despite aggressive neonatal intensive care. A case history illustrates the issues. The morality of nursing decisions based on deontological and utilitarian principles is examined, as are the concepts of beneficence and non-maleficence. A fusion of virtue ethics and the ethic of care is suggested as appropriate for ethical decision-making in the neonatal intensive care environment.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1035 Serial 1019
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Author Perry, I.
Title Identifying the 'norms' of nursing culture Type Journal Article
Year 2000 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 6 Issue 9 Pages 20-22
Keywords Nursing; Nursing philosophy
Abstract The author investigates the premises that form the basis of nursing practice in acute care. Assumptions about patients and caregiving are often at odds with each other. The origins of these tenets are mapped from Florence Nightingale through to present nursing theorists. Overlapping areas of nursing and medical care in the acute care setting are examined, and the conflict that can arise between traditional nursing care and the expected medical nursing role is examined. He argues that the challenge for acute care nurses is to find a balance between normative nursing and the medical model.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1036 Serial 1020
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Author Lewer, D.
Title Analysing the Mental Health Act Type Journal Article
Year 1999 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 5 Issue 8 Pages 14-16
Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Mental health; Law and legislation; Ethics
Abstract Changes brought by the Mental Health Act (MHA) to clinical practice, and some of the problems it has created for nurses, are examined in this article. Compulsory assessment and treatment orders (CATO) and the role of Duly Authorised Officers (DAO), and moral dilemmas that can arise as a consequence of CATOs used by DAOs are examined. The requirement for DAOs to act as patient advocates and to safeguard cultural beliefs are highlighted. The MHA promotes self responsibility and a treatment philosophy rather than detention of the mentally ill.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1039 Serial 1023
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Author Russell, D.
Title Changing public health nursing practice Type Journal Article
Year 1999 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 5 Issue 11 Pages 18-19
Keywords Public health; Community health nursing; Nursing models; Teamwork
Abstract A new approach to public health nursing in the Otago region is described, which comprises of 3 distinct groups of nurses working in early childhood centres, primary schools and high schools. A family nursing assessment approach is used. The philosophical underpinnings of this approach are examined, which seeks to empower patients and engage them in their health care. Two public health nurses are interviewed about the new partnership model of nursing.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1041 Serial 1025
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Author McKenna, B.; Poole, S.
Title Debating forensic mental health nursing [corrected] Type Miscellaneous
Year 2001 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 7 Issue 6 Pages 18-20
Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Law and legislation; Cross-cultural comparison; History of nursing
Abstract Forensic mental health nursing roles have developed along different lines in the United States and the United Kingdom. The authors suggest that New Zealand nurses consider the evolution of such roles here.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1043 Serial 1027
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Author Spence, D.
Title Experiencing difference in nursing Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 7 Issue 5 Pages 13-15
Keywords Transcultural nursing; Nursing research
Abstract Draws on the author's doctoral thesis to examine the prejudices, paradoxes and possibilities inherent in nursing a person from a culture other than one's own.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1045 Serial 1029
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Author Webby, A.
Title Should non-Maori research and write about Maori? Type Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 14 Issue 5 Pages 20-21
Keywords Maori; Nursing research
Abstract The author examines the complexities surrounding non-Maori nurse researchers working on Maori issues. She suggests that as long as respect and observation of Maori processes is shown, and work is undertaken collaboratively with Maori, then such a role is appropriate.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1046 Serial 1030
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Author Barber, M.
Title Exploring the complex nature of rural nursing Type Journal Article
Year 2007 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 13 Issue 10 Pages 22-23
Keywords Rural nursing; Scope of practice; Community health nursing
Abstract This article reports the results of a research study undertaken to examine how nurses manage their professional and personal selves while working in small rural communities. The participants were a small group of rural nurses on the West Coast. The rationale for the study was the long-term sustainability and viability of the service to this remote area. The research showed that the rural nurse specialists' role is a complex and challenging one, performed within the communities in which nurses live.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1212 Serial 1197
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title Knowledge embedded in practice Type Journal Article
Year 1989 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 82 Issue 10 Pages 24-25
Keywords Nursing research; diagnosis; Education; Nursing philosophy
Abstract A statement of the nature of research needed to distinguish the knowledge of nursing practice from knowledge developed by other disciplines. It orients to the interrelationship of practice and research as the foundation of the discipline of nursing.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1315
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title Nursing education: Direction with purpose Type Journal Article
Year 1991 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 84 Issue 7 Pages 22-24
Keywords Nursing education
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Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1316
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Author Powell, J.
Title Caring for patients after an ICU admission Type Journal Article
Year 2002 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 8 Issue 7 Pages 24-25
Keywords Intensive care nursing; Nurse-patient relations; Trauma; Communication
Abstract The author presents research on nursing strategies that reduce the psychological effects of critical illness and prevent the intensive care unit (ICU) atmosphere from adversely affecting the nurse-patient relationship. Post-traumatic stress disorder and other phobic anxiety syndromes are noted as a risk among former ICU patients. Four interventions to put in place for discharge are presented: patient-centred nursing, communication, multidisciplinary care, and patient/family education.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 954
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Author Murphy, R.
Title A day in the life of an acute hospital psychiatric nurse Type Journal Article
Year 2005 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 11 Issue 9 Pages 24-25
Keywords Nursing; Psychiatric Nursing; Interprofessional relations; Mental health; Multidisciplinary care teams
Abstract A nurse presents a personal account of a typical day at Middlemore Hospital's 50-bed acute inpatient mental health unit Tiaho Mai. The article covers aspects of shift handover, working with multidisciplinary teams, developing care plans, working with families, and responding to emergencies.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 957
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Author Macfie, B.
Title Assessing health needs and identifying risk factors Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 12 Issue 6 Pages 16-18
Keywords Infants; Parents and caregivers; Clinical assessment; Risk factors; Plunket
Abstract In 2004, Plunket nurses from eight areas around New Zealand participated in collecting data for a research project on health needs assessment practices. This project aimed to examine risk factors identified by Plunket nurses, what areas of health need considered to be priorities; grading of health needs; and how closely the results of health need assessment aligned with the individual clients' deprivation score. The researchers examine the assessment of health needs against the use of the Deprivation Index, which indicates a specific population in a specific area, as a funding model. This study appeared to show there are two distinct groups of clients assessed as high needs: those with risk factors such as family violence and severe parental mental illness, and who may live in an area of 1-7 deprivation; and those with multiple risk factors which include poverty, low education, and/or reluctance to access services and support, and who usually live in dep 8-10 areas. This research supports the anecdotal evidence that significant health needs exist outside the lower deprivation areas.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 974
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