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Author (down) Tabakakis, Costantinos; McAllister, Margaret; Bradshaw, Julie openurl 
  Title Burnout in New Zealand resgistered nurses: the role of workplace factors Type Journal Article
  Year 2020 Publication Kai Tiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 11 Issue 1 Pages 9-16  
  Keywords Burnout; Harassment; Workplace stress; Registered nurses; Surveys  
  Abstract Investigates the impact of workplace factors on burnout in NZ RNs. Conducts a cross-sectional survey among 480 RNs in which burnout, practice environment and negative acts in the workplace were self-reported by means of the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI), the Practice Environment Scale (PES), and the Negative Acts Questionnaire (NAQ).  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1656  
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Author (down) Sylvester, M.R. openurl 
  Title First antenatal visit: meeting now for the future: a grounded theory study of the meeting between the independent midwife and the pregnant woman Type
  Year 1999 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 398 Serial 398  
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Author (down) Sye, J. url  openurl
  Title A fine balance Type
  Year 2008 Publication Abbreviated Journal AUT University Library  
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  Keywords Paediatric nursing; Community health nursing; Nurse-patient relations; Children; Patient rights  
  Abstract The aim of this study is to analyse the discourses drawn upon by community paediatric nurses in relation to children's rights to health. The philosophy of Michel Foucault has been used to underpin the analysis of the interviews and exemplars of five experienced community nurses, revealing conflicting power relationships and discourses. Rights are formalised morality and so from a children's rights perspective, discourses reflect both the moral and ethical positions of the nurses. Children are constructed as developing human beings whose moral status gradually changes and who, through a lack of developmental autonomy, entrust their decision-making to their representatives (parents and caregivers) as their trustees. Rights are correlative with the obligations and duties toward children by both families and society. Society constructs legislative and politically organised structures to govern raising children because children are an intrinsic social concern. Whilst representing society's interest in children's rights to health, nurses in the home act as a conduit for multiple governing structures. The nurses in this study construct their “truths” and knowledge about children's health rights from nursing, medicine, law, education, and social policy. However, the values of individual parents can conflict with universal values for children's health and wellbeing. Therefore representing society positions nurses as “agents of the state”, a role that potentially holds power over parents and children and leads to the epithet of “the health police”. Within the institution of the family, and in the privacy of the home, there are also mechanisms of power that can resist the mechanisms of the state and its representatives. Therefore the discourse “it takes a village to raise a child” competes with the “my home is my castle” discourse. Nurses negotiate a fine balance between these power relations. Nurses are challenged with using power productively to promote children's rights whilst respecting the role of parents and families. The author argues that children's rights are central to the moral and ethical work of nurses but that such work is often obscured and invisible. She proposes that children's community nurses are excellent at negotiating networking and connecting at a micro level, but need to create a more sophisticated and cohesive entity at a macro level to become fully political children's rights advocates.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 911 Serial 895  
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Author (down) Sutton, D.M. openurl 
  Title An analysis of the application of Christensen's Nursing Partnership Model in vascular nursing: A case study approach Type
  Year 2007 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Nursing specialties; Nursing models; Cardiovascular diseases  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 822 Serial 806  
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Author (down) Sutton, D.M. openurl 
  Title Nurses have an important role in managing intermittent claudication Type Journal Article
  Year 2008 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 14 Issue 4 Pages 20-22  
  Keywords Diseases; Nursing; Quality of life  
  Abstract The author reviews the diagnosis, treatment, and management of intermittent claudation. She uses a case study to illustrate successful management of the condition.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1006 Serial 990  
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Author (down) Sutherland, F.R. openurl 
  Title Incidence of phlebitis in intravenous infusions Type Miscellaneous
  Year Publication Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Incidence of Phlebitis in association with the use of I.V. Infusions was studied. Patients in the I.C.U. with peripheral I.V. lines were studied over a 2.5 week period, a form being completed by the staff. The study established a 20% incidence of infusion phlebitis. The care and observations of intravenous therapy is a nursing responsibility requiring constant vigilance to detect early any complication that may arise  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 67 Serial 67  
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Author (down) Sutherland, F.R. openurl 
  Title Sleep in the intensive care unit Type Miscellaneous
  Year Publication Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Extensive treatment requirements for patients in I.C.U. frequently result in interruption of their sleep. Sleep interruption can become sleep deprivation with physiological and psychological effects. To determine the amount of sleep patients in the I.C.U. received, a brief study was done in the form of a questionnaire to nursing staff. Noise levels in the I.C.U. were recorded over a period of time. From the study it was concluded the majority of patients were sleep deprived  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 98 Serial 98  
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Author (down) Surtees, R. openurl 
  Title Developing a therapeutic alliance in an eating disorders unit Type Journal Article
  Year 2007 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 13 Issue 10 Pages 14-16  
  Keywords Nursing specialties; Multidisciplinary care teams; Psychiatric Nursing; Nurse-patient relations; Anorexia nervosa  
  Abstract The author presents the approach of a nursing team at Christchurch's Princess Margaret Hospital, in the regional specialist service for people with anorexia nervosa. This unit provides the only specialist inpatient unit in the country, consisting of a six or seven-bed facility that shares a unit with a mother and baby unit. A multidisciplinary team of psychiatric nurses, dietitians, occupational therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers all make significant contributions. The Christchurch unit uses a cognitive-behavioural therapy model (CBT) across the disciplines, a multidimensional approach incorporating psychotherapeutic, psychoeducational, biomedical and behaviourist paradigms. This occurs within a “lenient flexible approach”. Within the Unit, the eight nurses constitute what could be seen as an “intra”-disciplinary team within the wider “inter”-disciplinary or MDT team. They apply an evidence-based nursing approach with a commitment to partnership and advocacy with their patients. They use collaborative techniques for defining shared goals, and the careful management of the introduction of food. As one of the team members, the author envisages that the job of specialised nurses is to form a therapeutic alliance with patients, which takes account of the dynamic ways that patients may negotiate their own complex understandings of health, care, and recovery.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 982  
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Author (down) Surtees, R. url  openurl
  Title Midwifery as Feminist Praxis in Aotearoa/New Zealand Type
  Year 2003 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library  
  Volume Issue Pages 323 pp  
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  Abstract A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree

of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY 2003.

This thesis highlights the ways in which the practices of contemporary midwives in

Aotearoa/New Zealand are caught within the intersection of an array of competing discourses. The context for this is the reconstruction of midwifery in Aotearoa/New Zealand as an autonomous feminist profession founded on partnership with women. Interviews and participant observation with midwives, based mainly in one New Zealand city, are the basis of an analysis of the complexity of midwives? praxis as professionals. The analysis draws on insights from critical and feminist approaches to Foucault?s theories of discourse, power and the subject. It includes discussion of the conditions which came to produce and authorise the concept of ?partnership?. Which subjects can speak about partnership, and when? What claims

are made about it? What challenges it?
 
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1403  
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Author (down) Sundarajoo, Sarathambal url  openurl
  Title The Lived Experience of Person-Centred Care in Residential Homes in New Zealand and Singapore: the perspectives of residents, frontline caregivers and family members Type Book Whole
  Year 2017 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 232 p.  
  Keywords Person-centred care; Aged care; Residential care; Phenomenology; Lived experience; Hermeneutics; Singapore  
  Abstract Employs the life-world hermeneutic phenomenology of Van Manen to examine perspectives on person-centred care in residential homes in both NZ and Singapore. Conducts interviews with 30 residents, 10 family members and 10 caregivers at 2 residential facilities. Records the interviews and analyses data using Van Manen's 6-step research process.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1563  
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Author (down) Sue, Kim; Lee, Tae W; Kim, Gwang S. and others url  doi
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  Title Nurses in advanced roles as a strategy for equitable access to healthcare in the WHO Western Pacific region: a mixed methods study Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Human Resources for Health Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 19 Issue 1 Pages 1-9  
  Keywords Advanced nursing practice; Health promotion; Western Pacific; Surveys  
  Abstract Investigates current responsibilities of nurses in advanced roles (NAR) in the Western Pacific. Uses a Delphi survey to identify key barriers and challenges for enhancing role development within the country and the region. Conducts semi-structured individual interviews with 55 national experts from clinical, academic and/or governmental backgrounds in 18 countries, to identify strategies for establishing nurses in advanced roles to improve equitable access to healthcare in the region.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1777  
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Author (down) Stuart, J. url  openurl
  Title How can nurses address generalist/specialist/nursing requirements of the urban/rural population of Southland Type
  Year 2003 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Keywords Nursing specialties; Policy; Technology; Scope of practice; Community health nursing  
  Abstract This study, which is undertaken in the Southland area, explores the effect of the increasing specialisation of nursing services in what is a rural/urban environment. It is indicated in the literature that systemic changes in health, such as the health reforms, and the increase in the use of technology have meant that nurses are required to function in disease oriented roles rather than according to their more traditional generalist roots. A significant event, which also affected nursing scope of practice, was the transfer of nurse education to the tertiary education institutions environment from the hospitals in the mid 1970s. The traditional nursing hierarchy and its nurse leadership role disappeared and the adoption of specialist nurse titles increased, and identified with a disease or disorder, for example 'diabetes' nurse. The increase in specialist categories for patients contributed to the nurse shortage by reducing the available numbers of nurses in the generalist nursing pool. The nurses in this rural/urban environment require generalist nurse skills to deliver their nursing services because of the geographical vastness of the area being a barrier to specialist nurses. Workforce planning for nurses in the rural/urban then must focus on how to reshape the nursing scope of practice to utilise the existing resources. This study explores how key areas of health services could be enhanced by reclaiming the nurse role in its holistic approach, in mental health, public health, geriatric services and psychiatric services.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 885 Serial 869  
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Author (down) Strochnetter, K.T. openurl 
  Title Influences on nurses' pain management practices within institutions: A constructivist approach Type
  Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Keywords Interprofessional relations; Pain management; Nursing  
  Abstract Alleviating patient suffering, providing comfort and pain relief are all central to the philosophical caring position nurses have always espoused. Despite this, patients continue to suffer pain although we have the means to provide pain relief. The author notes that research has identified that nurses have a knowledge deficit regarding pain and its management, as well an erroneous attitudes, which combined are blamed for an inability to make significant progress in this area. This study was undertaken to uncover the contextual aspects of working within a New Zealand health care institution that affect nurses' ability to manage their patient' pain effectively. It highlights the difficulties and the complicated nature of working within an institution in the 1990's health care environment, where accountability for pain is absent and where pain is often under-assessed and under-treated. By using focus group of nurses, the author notes she was able to uncover constructions on nursing practice, which, she suggests, have been missing from the literature, but prevent nurses from implementing their knowledge. Using a constructivist research, she used nurse's stories and current literature to argue one way forward in, what she terms, the pain management debacle. This study revealed a diverse range of contextual factors that prevent nurses from using their knowledge. Many of the constraints on nursing practice are the results of complex organisational structures within health reform, which have significantly affected the nurse's ability to provide quality-nursing care. One of the most important factors limiting the management of the patient' pain is the inability of the nurse to autonomously initiate analgesia. While nurses are largely responsible for the assessment of pain, they are usually powerless to access necessary analgesia, without a medical prescription. The author argues that once an initial medical diagnosis has been made, nurses are usually left responsible for patient comfort and the management of pain. To do so effectively, nurses need to able to prescribe both pharmacological and non-pharmacological measures for the patient. Presently nurses are prescribing using a variety of illegitimate mechanisms, needing the endorsement of a doctor. To fulfil this role, nurses must be adequately prepared educationally and given the authority to either prescribe autonomously, of provided with extensive “standing orders”. While legislative changes in New Zealand in 1999 extended prescribing right to a few nurses within certain areas of care, the ward nurse is unlikely to gain prescribing rights in the near future. The author concludes that a way forward may be to encourage and further develop the use of protocols for managing pain via standing orders. Standing orders are common place within nursing practice today, have the support of the Nursing Council of New Zealand and are currently under-going legislative review. An institutional commitment to developing pain protocols for nurses would recognise the nurses active role and expertise in the management of pain and facilitate expedient relief for the patient.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 909  
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Author (down) Strickland, A. openurl 
  Title Nurse-initiated retinoblastoma service in New Zealand Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Insight: The Journal of the American Society of Ophthalmic Registered Nurses Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 31 Issue 1 Pages 8-10  
  Keywords Case studies; Nursing specialties; Children; Quality of health care; Evaluation  
  Abstract This article describes the implementation of a nurse-led, dedicated support network and service for children with a diagnosis of retinoblastoma and their families. Nurses with an interest in retinoblastoma at an Auckland Ophthalmology Department realised that the service provided was not meeting the needs of patients and families, particularly since the numbers had increased over the past two years. This article outlines the development of a cost-effective approach that improved the service.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 884  
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Author (down) Street, A.; Walsh, C. openurl 
  Title Not just a rubber stamp! mental health nurses as Duly Authorised Officers Type
  Year 1995 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
  Volume 10 Issue 3 Pages 16-23  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 266 Serial 266  
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