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Author (up) Anderson, M. openurl 
  Title Universal change – individual responses: women's experience of the menopause and of taking hormone replacement therapy Type
  Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 392 Serial 392  
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Author (up) Anderson, P.R. openurl 
  Title Determining competency for entry to nursing practice: A grounded theory study Type
  Year 2008 Publication Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria  
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  Keywords Professional competence; Clinical supervision; Nursing; Education  
  Abstract Critical Comparative Nursing Assessment (CCNA) is a theory about how the competence of completing Bachelor of Nursing students in New Zealand is determined. Semi-structured, audio-taped interviews and field notes were used to collect data from twenty-seven nurses with experience in undertaking competency assessment. A Glaserian grounded theory approach was used to guide the data collection and analysis. This utilised the processes of constant comparative analysis, theoretical sampling and saturation to generate a middle range substantive grounded theory. This is presented as a model consisting of four emergent categories that explain how nurses formulate professional judgements about competence. These are a) gathering, which describes the processes used to collect evidence of practice to inform decisions; b) weighing up, which explains how evidence is analysed using the processes of benchmarking and comparative analysis; c) judging brings into focus the tensions inherent in making professional judgements about competence and how nurses formulated these, and d) moderating, which describes the processes nurses use to validate decisions and ensure that professional responsibilities and public safety are upheld. The basic social psychological process of comparing integrates these categories to explain how nurses resolve the tensions associated with making decisions about competence. This research presents a new way of viewing and understanding how nurses assess competence. It identifies where the challengers and tensions related to the assessment of competence lie and suggests strategies that if implemented, the author suggests could further enhance the validity and reliability of assessment outcomes.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1182  
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Author (up) Anderson, P.R. openurl 
  Title Perceived level and sources of stress in beginning Bachelor of Nursing students Type
  Year 1997 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington  
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  Abstract A study to examine the effects of pre- information ( what a Nurse learns about a patient before they meet) on clinical inference and Nursing actions, in a simulated Nurse- Patient situation. It was hypothesized that the nature of the pre-information will influence the way the patient is perceived and the resulting Nursing actions. The research was conducted in an obstetrical setting. There were 55 subjects within three groups. Two groups comprised student midwives and the third group was of second year comprehensive Nursing students near completion of clinical experience in maternal and child health nursing. A 5 minute videotape sequence of a role played post natal patient was made for use in the research. All subjects were given the same initial pre-information, viewed the videotape and gave written description of what they saw on the videotape and their response ( as the Nurse in the situation). This data provided a base line for each subject. Subject were then given additional pre-information concerning the patient's physical condition, her baby's condition or formed part of the control group ( receiving no additional information) The procedure was repeated. These responses were then compared with the base line for each subject. Responses were coded by means of content analysis. Group data was analysed using multivariate one way analysis of variance graphical display. The results indicated support of the hypothesis that the nature of the pre-information does influence the way in which a Nurse perceives a patient and resulting Nursing actions. Implications of these findings for Nurses are discussed  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 110 Serial 110  
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Author (up) Andrew, Alexa; Foot-McKay, Aimee; Ritchie, Lorraine openurl 
  Title Staff perspectives of a cafe on the premises of an aged-care facility Type Journal Article
  Year 2017 Publication Kai Tiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages 43  
  Keywords Aged care; Facilities; Cafes; Person-centred care  
  Abstract Explores the value of a café on the premises of an aged-care facility. Undertakes a qualitative descriptive inquiry to examine participants' perception of the value of the café to staff and residents. Interviews nine staff members using a core set of five questions. Analyses interview data using thematic analysis according to the stages outlined by Marshall and Rossman.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1542  
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Author (up) Andrew, C. openurl 
  Title Optimising the human experience: the lived world of nursing the families of people who die in intensive care Type
  Year 1997 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 380 Serial 380  
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Author (up) Andrews, C.M. url  openurl
  Title Developing a nursing speciality: Plunket Nursing 1905 – 1920 Type
  Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria  
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  Keywords Plunket; History of nursing; Nursing specialties; Paediatric nursing  
  Abstract This paper focuses on the history of Plunket nursing and Truby King's ideology and other dominant ideologies, during the years 1905 – 1920. To provide a context, the paper explores the development of a new nursing speciality – Plunket nursing, that became part of the backbone of a fledgling health system and the New Zealand nursing profession. Correspondingly, Truby King presented the country with a vision for improving infant welfare underpinned by his eugenics view of the world and his experimentation with infant feeding. The author argues that nurses were drawn to the work of the newly created Plunket Society and that the Society had lasting influence on the development of nursing in New Zealand.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1167 Serial 1152  
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Author (up) Andrews, E. openurl 
  Title The living power of words Type
  Year 1996 Publication Abbreviated Journal E. I. T. Library, Gloucester Street, Taradale, Haw  
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  Abstract The experience of loneliness within a people-centered profession has supported nursings silencing and invisibility. A literature expedition through communication texts and journals led to an awareness of the paucity of literature which explores and acknowledges how we dialogue together, rather than the more fashionable focus on how we should communicate with others.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 158 Serial 158  
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Author (up) Andrews, Leigh; Crawford, Ruth; Arcus, Kerri openurl 
  Title Kia ora houora: guiding Maori secondary school students toward health careers Type Journal Article
  Year 2019 Publication Whitireia Journal of Nursing, Health and Social Services Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue 26 Pages 58-62  
  Keywords Kia Ora Hauora; Maori students; Secondary school students; Health careers; Vocational guidance  
  Abstract Collates and analyses evaluations of Central Region Kia Ora Hauora programmes from 2010-2017 to discovers what interventions in the programme were most effective for increasing the recruitment of Maori into health careers. Identifies Work-choice Day and Work Experience Day as the most effective interventions, and that meeting health professionals and taking part in simulated practice experiences were influential.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1635  
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Author (up) Apelu, J. url  openurl
  Title Pacific community mental health nurses' experiences of working for a district health board in New Zealand Type
  Year 2008 Publication Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria http://hdl.handle.net/10063/684  
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  Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Pacific peoples; Community health nursing; District Health Boards; Culture  
  Abstract This study explored the perspectives of Pacific nurses on what it is like for them to work in a Pacific community mental health (PCMH) service within a district health board. Five Pacific Island nurses who worked in the three Pacific community mental health services based in the Auckland region participated in the project. The study employed narrative inquiry to gather data through focused storytelling method. The results of the study have indicated that PCMH nursing is a unique nursing field as well as highlighting significant practice issues for nurses. Complex service infrastructure and language have been found to be the major contributing practice constraints. The findings suggest the need for district health board authorities, Pacific mental health service management, professional nursing education and development programs to consider addressing these practice issues to prevent further increase in the problem of PCMH nurses shortage and enhance recruitment and retention of these nurses.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1153  
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Author (up) Archer, L.K. openurl 
  Title We talk what we do: An exploration of the value, role and function of storytelling in nursing from one nurse's practice perspective Type
  Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Keywords Nursing; Palliative care; Professional development  
  Abstract The role of storytelling in any society fulfils multiple functions such as maintaining culture, holding history, teaching genealogical lessons, imparting wisdom, entertaining, passing on knowledge. The author suggests that nursing, historically described as a craft with an oral tradition, could be seen to be quietly moving away from the practice of storytelling. Or has it? She asked this question and began to realise that her practice and relationships with colleagues had always been based on stories and storying. To explore this phenomenon, she began to describe her day to day practice in story form, and began to position stories she had previously written. In her work of oncology palliative care nursing within a community setting in New Zealand, the stories proved crucial to her role as an educator, and companion of patients and their families. In this paper she examines how she uses story for her benefit, the patients' benefit, but mainly for the benefit of nursing. She examines from her own perspective, some underlying themes that reinforce the need to continue this ancient tradition and explore the role, value and function of storytelling within nursing.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 788  
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Author (up) Arcus, K.J. url  openurl
  Title Often wearisome, sometimes saddening, but always interesting: A hundred years of district nursing in Wellington, 1903-2003 Type
  Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Keywords District nursing; History  
  Abstract October 2003 marked the centenary of Wellington district nursing. Annie Holgate, a 'trained, professional' nurse, was employed to care for the sick poor in 1903. The Wellington St John Ambulance District Nursing Guild funded district nursing for over fifty years. The first president, Sarah Ann Rhodes, left a legacy of a solid financial and administrative base for the whole of the Guild's existence. From 1945 the Wellington Hospital Board assumed responsibility for district nursing and expanded the service to the greater Wellington region. In 1974 the Community Health Services were formed, with Pauline MacInnes as the nurse leader. Expansion of healthcare in the community ensued, with district nurses pivotal to client-centred, community-based, collaborative healthcare. This service was dismantled in the wake of health sector restructuring in 1989. The philosophy and operation of the Community Health Service of this period bears a striking resemblance to the current concept of Primary Health Care. Primary sources from Wellington St John, Kai Tiaki and data from official publications were used to compile this history. Emergent themes are the autonomy of district nurses' practice, the invisibility of district nursing and the impact of visionary leadership. All have implications for the future of district nursing. District nursing, initially dependent on philanthropy, has been publicly funded in New Zealand since 1944. District nursing is now an essential component of health care.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 851 Serial 835  
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Author (up) Arcus, K.J.; Wilson, D. openurl 
  Title Choosing Whitireia as a political act: Celebrating 20 years of a nurse education at Whitireia Community Polytechnic 1986-2006 Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Whitireia Nursing Journal Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 13 Issue Pages 12-24  
  Keywords Cultural safety; Curriculum; Nursing; Education  
  Abstract In 2006, Whitireia Community Polytechnic celebrates 20 years of tertiary education. Nursing was one of the first courses to start at the new Parumoana Community College in February 1986. Oral histories, gathered from the women who have been the leaders of the undergraduate nursing programme throughout these two decades, form the basis of this article.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1038  
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Author (up) Arcus, Kerri openurl 
  Title Editorial: 2020 -- the Year of the Nurse and the coronavirus pandemic Type Journal Article
  Year 2020 Publication Whitireia Journal of Nursing, Health and Social Services Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 27 Issue Pages 7-8  
  Keywords COVID-19; Pandemic; Year of the Nurse; Clinical Judgment Model  
  Abstract Reflects on how the global nursing response to the pandemic has highlighted the essential clinical skills of nursing as articulated in Tanner's Clinical Judgement Model.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1709  
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Author (up) Ardagh, M.; Wells, E.; Cooper, K.; Lyons, R.; Patterson, R.; O'Donovan, P. url  openurl
  Title Effect of a rapid assessment clinic on the waiting time to be seen by a doctor and the time spent in the department, for patients presenting to an urban emergency department: A controlled prospective trial Type Journal Article
  Year 2002 Publication New Zealand Medical Journal Abbreviated Journal Access is free to articles older than 6 months, and abstracts.  
  Volume 115 Issue 1157 Pages  
  Keywords Emergency nursing; Time factors; Clinical assessment; Clinical decision making  
  Abstract The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that triaging certain emergency department patients through a rapid assessment clinic (RAC) improves the waiting times, and times in the department, for all patients presenting to the emergency department. For ten weeks an additional nurse and doctor were rostered. On the odd weeks, these two staff ran a RAC and on even weeks, they did not, but simply joined the other medical and nursing staff, managing patients in the traditional way. During the five weeks of the RAC clinic a total of 2263 patients attended the emergency department, and 361 of these were referred to the RAC clinic. During the five control weeks a total of 2204 patients attended the emergency department. There was no significant difference in the distribution across triage categories between the RAC and non-RAC periods. The researchers found that the rapid management of patients with problems which do not require prolonged assessment or decision making, is beneficial not only to those patients, but also to other patients sharing the same, limited resources.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 617  
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Author (up) Armstrong, S.E. url  openurl
  Title Exploring the nursing reality of the sole on-call primary health care rural nurse interface with secondary care doctors Type Book Chapter
  Year 2008 Publication Jean Ross (Ed.), Rural nursing: Aspects of practice (pp. 225-46) Abbreviated Journal Ministry of Health publications page  
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  Keywords Interprofessional relations; Rural nursing; Primary health care  
  Abstract A qualitative framework was used to explore the nature and the quality of interactions between sole on-call primary health care rural nurses and secondary care doctors. This study is framed as investigating a specific component of rural nursing practice and as being representative of the primary-secondary care interface. The primary-secondary care interface is crucial for the delivery of patient-centered care, and there is an increased focus on preventive primary health care. The New Zealand government sees the repositioning of professional roles and increasing emphasis on collaboration as an opportunity to re-define and address the current constraints to nursing practice. This has resulted in tensions between the medical and nursing professions. These tensions are not new, with the relationship sometimes marred by conflict which has been attributed to historical medical dominance and nursing deference. This study explores some specific areas which affect collaboration and makes recommendations at the national, regional and individual level to address them.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 780 Serial 764  
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