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| Author | Therkleson, T. | ||||
| Title | A phenomenological study of ginger compress therapy for people with osteoarthritis | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2010 | Publication | The Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 10 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 1-10 |
| Keywords | Ginger compress therapy; osteoarthritis | ||||
| Abstract | This paper claims rigour and sensitivity for a methodology used to explore multiple sources of data and expose the essential characteristics of a phenomenon in the human sciences. A descriptive phenomenological methodology was applied in a study of the experience of ten people with osteoarthritis receiving ginger compress therapy. The application of the phenomenological attitude, with reduction, bracketing and imaginative variation, allowed multiple sources of data-written, pictorial and oral – to be explicated. The applied methodology used is described in this paper, with its six clearly defined illustrated by examples from the study. The findings demonstrate that phenomenological reduction enabled an indication of the potential benefits of ginger compress treatment as a therapy for people with osteoarthritis. | ||||
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NZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1344 | ||
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| Author | Therkleson, T; Sherwood, P. | ||||
| Title | Patients' experience of the external therapeutic application of ginger by anthroposophically trained nurses | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2004 | Publication | The Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 4 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 1-11 |
| Keywords | Anthroposophical therapy | ||||
| Abstract | There has been considerable public debate on the range of complementary health practices throughout the western world, perhaps especially in Australia, United States and Europe. Most often, the research critique of these practices is restricted to quantitative or non-user qualitative research methodologies. Consequently, there is a significant gap in the research profile of complementary health services that need to be addressed particularly in view of the rapid and ongoing increase in the use of complementary services, even in the face of sometimes adverse media publicity. This paper demonstrates the contribution that phenomenologically-based research can make to fill this lacuna by explicating, in detail, the client experience of a complementary health practice. The paper explores patient experience of a ginger compress, as applied by anthroposophically trained nurses, to demonstrate various therapeutic effects. Four key themes emerged including an increase in warmth and internal activity in the major organs of the body, changes in thought-life and sensory perception along with a greater sense of well-being and self-focus with the perception of clearer personal boundaries. These themes, emerging from a patient sample in New Zealand, compared favourably to the Filderklinik Study completed in 1992 in a large German state hospital. | ||||
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NZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1345 | ||
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| Author | Therkleson,T. | ||||
| Title | Ginger compress therapy for adults with osteoarthritis | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2010 | Publication | Journal of Advanced Nursing | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 66 | Issue | 10 | Pages | 2225?2233 |
| Keywords | Ginger compress therapy; Giorgi?s method; nursing; osteoarthritis | ||||
| Abstract | Abstract Aim. This paper is a report of a study to explicate the phenomenon of ginger compresses for people with osteoarthritis. Background. Osteoarthritis is claimed to be the leading cause of musculoskeletal pain and disability in Western society. Management ideally combines non-pharmacological strategies, including complementary therapies and pain-relieving medication. Ginger has been applied externally for over a thousand years in China to manage arthritis symptoms. Method. Husserlian phenomenological methodology was used and the data were collected in 2007. Ten purposively selected adults who had suffered osteoarthritis for at least a year kept daily diaries and made drawings, and follow-up interviews and telephone conversations were conducted. Findings. Seven themes were identified in the data: (1) Meditative-like stillness and relaxation of thoughts; (2) Constant penetrating warmth throughout the body; (3) Positive change in outlook; (4) Increased energy and interest in the world; (5) Deeply relaxed state that progressed to a gradual shift in pain and increased interest in others; (6) Increased suppleness within the body and (7) More comfortable, flexible joint mobility. The essential experience of ginger compresses exposed the unique qualities of heat, stimulation, anti-inflammation and analgesia. Conclusion. Nurses could consider this therapy as part of a holistic treatment for people with osteoarthritis symptoms. Controlled research is needed with larger numbers of older people to explore further the effects of the ginger compress therapy. |
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NZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1346 | ||
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| Author | Shih, Li-Chin | ||||
| Title | How does dialysis treatment affect the lives of rural Maori patients? | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2010 | Publication | Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 16 | Issue | 10 | Pages | 12-14 |
| Keywords | Renal disease; hemodialysis; maori | ||||
| Abstract | Research into the effects of dialysis treatment on Maori patients living in rural Northland has already brought changes to practice just one year after the research was completed. Li-Chin Shih completed a thesis entitled “Impact of Dialysis on Rurally Based Mäori Clients and Their Whänau” in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Nursing, The University of Auckland, 2009. This article in Kai Tiaki is based on this research. | ||||
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NZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1347 | ||
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| Author | Shih, Li-Chin | ||||
| Title | Impact of Dialysis on Rurally Based Mäori Clients and Their Whänau | Type | |||
| Year | 2009 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal | NZNO Library | |
| Volume | Issue | Pages | 105 pp | ||
| Keywords | renal disease; hemodialysis; maori | ||||
| Abstract | A research portfolio submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Nursing, The University of Auckland, 2009 This paper is a report of a study seeking to understand the experience of New Zealand rural dwelling Mäori clients with end-stage renal disease who receive haemodialysis. End stage renal disease (ESRD) is related to lifestyle, genetic factors and environment, and Mäori are at higher risk of renal disease which results of need for renal replacement therapy to sustain their lives. Dialysis clients are a group of ?silent? clients under the care of the dominant health professionals. Adherence with therapeutic regimes has been a main issue for health care professionals and service delivery, as it directly contributes to the efficacy of the treatment and cost effectiveness. Mäori clients? experience of living with haemodialysis has not been explored. Although there are a number of studies describing the experience of patients living on dialysis so far, no studies have yet focused specifically on the experience of Mäori clients towards their renal replacement therapy. The continual demands of dialysis treatment are significant and given the high proportion of Mäori having dialysis. It is timely to explore the experience of Mäori clients and their family/whänau in order to understand the need for quality of care and to promote Mäori health outcomes in chronic kidney disease management |
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NZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1348 | ||
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| Author | Hooker, M. | ||||
| Title | Implementing the rheumatic fever guidelines: Identifying the challenges and crossing the theory practice divide | Type | |||
| Year | 2010 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal | NZNO Library | |
| Volume | Issue | Pages | 122 pp | ||
| Keywords | Rheumatism; rheumatic fever | ||||
| Abstract | A research portfolio submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Health Sciences, The University of Auckland, 2010. Background: The 2006 New Zealand (NZ) Guidelines for Rheumatic Fever (RHF) (National Heart Foundation of New Zealand and Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2006) have an over-arching objective to support appropriate management of RHF to prevent recurrent attacks and reduce mortality and morbidity from RHF and Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) (Craig, Anderson, & Jackson, 2008; National Heart Foundation of New Zealand and Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2006). Aims: The aims of this study were to audit current practice and service provision associated with RHF programmes and initiatives in NZ District Health Boards (DHBs) against the 2006 NZ Guidelines for RHF and to identify the barriers and facilitators to clinicians meeting the guidelines. |
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NZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1349 | ||
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| Author | McClunie-Trust, P | ||||
| Title | Negotiating Boundaries: The Nurse Family Member Caring for Her Own Relative in Palliative Care | Type | |||
| Year | 2010 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal | Victoria University Library | |
| Volume | Issue | Pages | |||
| Keywords | Palliative care; boundaries; patient-family relations | ||||
| Abstract | This research illuminates the challenges of living well within one's own family as a nurse caring for her own relative who is dying of a cancer-related illness. Developing a deeper awareness of the consequences of this caring work has been the central focus for inquiry in this research. Nursing requires epistemologies that encompass new ways of understanding how we live within our own families and communities and practice as nurses. The theoretical framework that guides this research interprets the French Philosopher Michel Foucault's (1926-1984) critical history of thought as an ethical project for nursing. It uses conceptual tools developed in his later writing and interviews to draw attention to how discursive knowledge and practices constitute subjectivity in relations of truth, power and the self's relation to the self. The first aspect of the analysis, landscapes of care examines the techniques of discourse as relations of power and knowledge that constitute nurse family members as subjects who have relationships with their own families and other health professionals. The second aspect analyses care of the self and others as self work undertaken to form the self as a particular kind of subject and achieve mastery over one's thoughts and actions.As an exploration of the complex and contradictory subjectivities of the nurse family member, this research illuminates the forms and limits of nursing practice knowledge. It shows how nursing is practised, and the identity of the nurse is created, through intellectual, political and relational work, undertaken on the self in relation to others, as modes of ethical engagement. | ||||
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NZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1350 | ||
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| Author | Eden, S | ||||
| Title | An integrated literature review of the role of the nurse practitioner in the emergency department | Type | |||
| Year | 2011 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal | NZNO Library | |
| Volume | Issue | Pages | 115 pp | ||
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| Abstract | A dissertation in partial fulfilment of Master Health Sciences (Clinical)through University of Otago The nurse practitioner is one of the newest nursing health care professionals to be introduced to the New Zealand health system for many years. Eighty-six nurse practitioners are credentialed in New Zealand, with three working in urban Emergency Department settings. Nurse Practitioners are common internationally especially in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia. The purpose of this integrated literature review is to explore current research and literature in regards to the Emergency Department Nurse Practitioner, and their role within emergency settings. This review presents the growth and development of the nurse practitioner as an advanced practice nursing position. Four key themes emerge from the literature review; education of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner , how and who defined the Emergency Nurse Practitioner role, practice setting of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner, and what the barriers are to independent practice. The economic, legal and governance aspects of the Nurse Practitioner role are also portrayed. This integrated review documents the potential for further development and expansion of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner scope of practice to provide a broad range of patient care services within Emergency Departments, and emergency care settings. Future research is essential for the promotion of autonomous practice of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner within the international and New Zealand health care system. |
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NZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1352 | ||
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| Author | Rosieur, J. | ||||
| Title | An exploration of family partnership approaches to enhance care delivery and improve healthcare outcomes to young families within their communities | Type | Report | ||
| Year | 2010 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal | NZNO Library | |
| Volume | Issue | Pages | 127 pp | ||
| Keywords | Professional-family relations; family health; family nursing | ||||
| Abstract | Margaret May Blackwell Trust Travel Study Fellowship 2009/2010. This report is an exploration of some current international trends and tools in the delivery of services supporting families with young children that aim to utilise a partnership approach between health providers, families and their communities. The MMB scholarhsip for 2009/2010 included six weeks of international travel in order to consult with a range of people in realtion to services provided to parents with young children in their various communities. My proposal was to explore current policies supporting Family Partnership (FP)approaches in health services; trends relating to FP approaches in practice; tools supporting FP practice for clinicians; as well as recent FP training and initiatives. |
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NZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1353 | ||
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| Author | Rickard,D | ||||
| Title | Parents as experts: Partnership in the care of chronically ill children | Type | Report | ||
| Year | 1999 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal | Held by NZNO Library | |
| Volume | Issue | Pages | 65 pp | ||
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| Abstract | Margaret May Blackwell Travel Study Fellowship for Nurses of Young Children. This report discusses the partnership between parents and nurses and its relationship to delivering optimal care to the child. The author has a background in paediatric nursing in a hospital environment. |
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NZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1354 | ||
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| Author | Clendon, J; Walker, L | ||||
| Title | Characteristics and perceptions of younger nurses in New Zealand: Implications for retention | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2011 | Publication | Kai Tiaki Nursing Research | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 2 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 4-11 |
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NZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1355 | ||
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| Author | Crawford, R; Hedley, C; Marshall, B | ||||
| Title | Influences on Registered Nurses Having an annual influenza vaccination: Lessons from New Zealand | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2011 | Publication | Kai Tiaki Nursing Research | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 2 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 12-16 |
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| Abstract | The aim of this research was to explore what influences registered nurses (RNs) to have the annual influenza vaccine. In the past, influenza vaccination of health care workers has been identified as the primary method of preventing influenza transmission to at-risk groups that, by virtue of illness, congregate in and around hospitals. Findings showed that some RNs have confidence in the influenza vaccine being effective in preventing influenza infection; however there remained a high proportion of RNs who thought that the vaccine could or might cause influenza. Participants had incorrect knowledge and beliefs about the influenza vaccine, infection and cross infection. |
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NZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1356 | ||
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| Author | Lyneham, J; Byrne, H | ||||
| Title | Nurses' experience of what helped and hindered during the Christchurch Earthquake | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2011 | Publication | Kai Tiaki Nursing Research | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 2 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 17-20 |
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| Abstract | On September 3, 2010, the night nurses at Christchurch Hospital in New Zealand went to work unaware of the personal and professional challenges that were about to unfold in the following hours. This paper, derived from the results of a phenomenological research project, explores the issues that helped and hindered nurses during that night shift and in the three days following the 7.1 earthquake, which struck in the early morning of September 4, around 20km from the hospital. This narrative article allows the world to hear the voices of Christchurch nurses who were providing care in the first 24 hours and during the three days following that major seismic event. | ||||
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NZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1357 | ||
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| Author | Miskelly, P; Neal, P; Green, A | ||||
| Title | Communities of Practice: Supporting innovation to improve public health nurse and school community relationships | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2011 | Publication | Kai Tiaki Nursing Research | Abbreviated Journal | Held by NZNO Library |
| Volume | 2 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 21-26 |
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| Abstract | Public health nursing has been an integral part of health delivery services in New Zealand since the development of a public health service in the early 1900s. This paper details a qualitative study of a practice innovation undertaken by a group of nurses to reconnect with their school communities. Questions focused on whether the relationship between the public health nurses and their school communities improved as a result of the innovation and what impact, if any, the project had on the public health nurse team itself. Community of practice theory revealed the importance of collaboration and the benefits that can accrue from this approach for both nurse and school communities. |
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NZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1358 | ||
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| Author | Warren, B; Dovey, S; Griffin, F | ||||
| Title | The evidence behind more than a decade of policy recommending influenza vaccination for young New Zealanders with long term medical conditions | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2011 | Publication | Kai Tiaki Nursing Research | Abbreviated Journal | Held by NZNO Library |
| Volume | 2 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 27-32 |
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| Abstract | This article reviews the recent evidence underpinning the New Zealand Ministry of Health's recommendation to offer free annual influenza vaccination to people aged six months to 64 years who have certain chronic medical conditions (eligible younger people). These results show there is relatively limited research providing evidence underpinning recommendations for influenza vaccination among people aged <65 years. These results show that there is a need to increase nurses' awareness of the rationale behind the New Zealand influenza vaccination policy, that this may in turn increase their willingness to recommend influenza vaccine to more eligible younger people. | ||||
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