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Author Pirret, A.M. openurl 
  Title The level of knowledge of respiratory physiology articulated by intensive care nurses to provide rationale for their clinical decision-making Type Journal Article
  Year 2007 Publication Intensive & Critical Care Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 23 Issue 3 Pages (down) 145-155  
  Keywords Evaluation; Intensive care nursing; Clinical decision making; Nursing; Education  
  Abstract The objective of this paper is to outline a study firstly, assessing ICU nurses' ability in articulating respiratory physiology to provide rationale for their clinical decision-making and secondly, the barriers that limit the articulation of this knowledge. Using an evaluation methodology, multiple methods were employed to collect data from 27 ICU nurses who had completed an ICU education programme and were working in one of two tertiary ICUs in New Zealand. Quantitative analysis showed that nurses articulated a low to medium level of knowledge of respiratory physiology. Thematic analysis identified the barriers limiting this use of respiratory physiology as being inadequate coverage of concepts in some ICU programmes; limited discussion of concepts in clinical practice; lack of clinical support; lack of individual professional responsibility; nurses' high reliance on intuitive knowledge; lack of collaborative practice; availability of medical expertise; and the limitations of clinical guidelines and protocols. These issues need to be addressed if nurses' articulation of respiratory physiology to provide rationale for their clinical decision-making is to be improved.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 933  
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Author McKey, A.; Huntington, A.D. openurl 
  Title Obesity in pre-school children: Issues and challenges for community based child health nurses Type Journal Article
  Year 2004 Publication Contemporary Nurse Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 18 Issue 1-2 Pages (down) 145-151  
  Keywords Obesity; Children; Community health nursing; Parents and caregivers  
  Abstract In this paper, literature related to childhood obesity in New Zealand and internationally is explored to identify current issues, and the implications for nurses in community based child health practice are discussed. Themes that emerged from the literature relate to the measurement of obesity, links between childhood and adult obesity and issues for families. Studies that investigated maternal perceptions of childhood obesity found that mothers identified their child as being overweight or obese only when it imposed limitations on physical activity or when the children were teased rather than by referring to individual growth graphs. The implications for nursing in the area of child health practice are discussed. Understanding of the complex and emotive issues surrounding childhood obesity is required when devising health promotion strategies.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 946  
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Author Carter, Lynn J url  openurl
  Title Am I doing the right thing?: Plunket Nurses' experience in making decisions to report suspected child abuse and neglect Type Book Whole
  Year 2010 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (down) 144 p.  
  Keywords Child abuse; Child neglect; Community nursing; Plunket nurses; Ethics; Surveys  
  Abstract Studies the experiences of Plunket Nurses reporting suspected child abuse and/or neglect in uncertain situations, using hermeneutic phenomenology. Selects a purposeful sample to ensure participants could provide rich data through semi-structured, face-to-face and recorded telephone interviews. Guides data analysis using the framework developed by van Manen to formulate meaning from participant experiences.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1781  
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Author McKenna, B. openurl 
  Title Patient perception of coercion on admission to acute psychiatric services: the New Zealand experience Type Journal Article
  Year 1999 Publication International Journal of Law and Psychiatry Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 22 Issue 2 Pages (down) 143-153  
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  Abstract This study considers the influence of legal status, interactive processes, and mediating factors upon patient perception of coercion, within the context of admission to mental health services in New Zealand. The admission experiences of 69 involuntary inpatient psychiatric admissions and 69 informal admissions are compared using the MacArthur Admission Experience Survey. The influence of demographic, clinical and situational variables on the experience are considered. The results indicate there is a strong significant difference in the perception of coercion between involuntary and informal patients, with legal status having predictive value in relation to patient perception of coercion. Patient perception of procedural justice is strongly negatively correlated with perception of coercion. Perception of negative interactive processes is strongly felt by involuntary patients. This experience is not fully explained by identifiable incidents throughout the admission process. In the New Zealand context, there remains a need to highlight the aspects of procedural justice which could be improved in order to reduce patient perception of coercion. Current methodology focuses on the experience of admission rather than the expectation of that experience. This point needs to be considered in relation to the experience of Maori (the indigenous people of New Zealand)  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 443 Serial 443  
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Author Shaw-Brown, Helen Stewart url  openurl
  Title A survey of Canterbury nurses' perceptions of the activities, effectiveness and benefits of professional supervision Type Book Whole
  Year 2013 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (down) 143 p.  
  Keywords Professional supervision; Canterbury; Surveys  
  Abstract Aims to enrol all Canterbury nurses involved in professional supervision (PS) to describe their experiences, its effectiveness and the benefits they gained. Includes both nurse supervisees and nurse supervisors, with more than half coming from the mental health sector and the remainder coming from a variety of nursing specialities.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1570  
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Author O'Brien, A.J.; Hughes, F.; Kidd, J.D. openurl 
  Title Mental health nursing in New Zealand primary health care Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Contemporary Nurse Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages (down) 142-152  
  Keywords Mental health; Primary health care; Nursing specialties; Community health nursing  
  Abstract This article describes the move in mental health from institutional care to community arrangements. It draws on international literature and New Zealand health policy, which gives increased emphasis to the role of the primary health care sector in responding to mental health issues. These issues include the need for health promotion, improved detection and treatment of mild to moderate mental illness, and provision of mental health care to some of those with severe mental illness who traditionally receive care in secondary services. These developments challenge specialist mental health nurses to develop new roles which extend their practice into primary health care. In some parts of New Zealand this process has been under way for some time in the form of shared care projects. However developments currently are ad hoc and leave room for considerable development of specialist mental health nursing roles, including roles for nurse practitioners in primary mental health care.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 730 Serial 716  
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Author Smye, V.; Rameka, M.; Willis, E. openurl 
  Title Indigenous health care: Advances in nursing practice Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Contemporary Nurse Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 22 Issue 2 Pages (down) 142-154  
  Keywords Cultural safety; Transcultural nursing; Cross-cultural comparison; Nursing; Education  
  Abstract In this introduction to a special issue on nursing with indigenous peoples, the authors affirm the need for continued application of tools and strategies for thinking critically about issues of culture, history and race. Without these things, evidence of discriminatory policies and practices in the health system remain hidden to many health professionals. Attention to socio-political structures is as essential to promoting health and preventing illness as are nurses' activities with the individual clients. To develop critical consciousness in nursing requires educational strategies and frameworks that focus on the responsibilities and implications of practicing nursing in a postcolonial context where race and power continue to create patterns of inclusion and exclusion in health care settings. The authors suggest that many contemporary nursing programmes fail to provide such strategies and frameworks, and argue that nursing must view critical analyses of these issues as central aspects of nursing education, research, theory and practice. They go on to engage with the notion of cultural safety as a means of fostering a critical political and social consciousness in nursing to create an opportunity for social transformation.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1037  
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Author Deo, Lalesh url  openurl
  Title Parental needs and nursing response following SUFE Surgery; An interpretive descriptive study Type Book Whole
  Year 2021 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (down) 141 p.  
  Keywords Slipped Upper Femoral Epiphysis (SUFE); Parents and Caregivers; Child health; Maori children; Pacific children; Paediatric nurses  
  Abstract Examines the experiences of parents and nurses in caring for a child following invasive Slipped Upper Femoral Epiphysis (SUFE) repair. Conducts semi-structured interviews with parents of five children, predominantly Māori or Pacific, who underwent SUFE repair, and five paediatric nurses caring for the children and their families in the hospital ward. Offers two perspectives of the journey for these parents following such an injury, from the child's hospitalisation to caring for these children once they are home. Presents and contrasts these perspectives, revealing insights into the parents' ongoing need for support, information and planning for care, and nurses' efforts to meet these needs. Presents implications for nursing practice.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1741  
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Author Caygill, J. openurl 
  Title Professional care: structure, strategy and the moral career of the nurse in a psychiatric institution Type
  Year 1989 Publication New Zealand Sociology Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library  
  Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages (down) 137-165  
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  Abstract This thesis presents the job of psychiatric nursing from the nurse's point of view, as derived from the author's personal experience and from interviews with thirty five other staff within a particular psychiatric institution.The first part of the thesis is reconstructed narrative account of an afternoon and a day shift in an acute admission ward. In the second part, the basic situation on the ward and some of the exigencies of nurse-patient and nurse-staff relations are discussed from structuralist and strategic conduct perspectives.The discussion that follows Anthony Giddens' (1976, 1979, 1984) conceptual framework of power, legitimation and signification, with particular attention to the strategic implications of ward routines, nursing practices, and interpersonal relations, as well as the duality of clinical and moralistic interpretive themes. The third part of the thesis 'the nurse's progress' over time. Characteristic changes in understanding and awareness take place with the movement from the 'backwards' to the 'acute' area and from the student to staff nurse. This is portrayed as a 'moral career' analogous to that suggested by Goffman (1968) for psychiatric patients; marked by 'happenings' that generate revised conceptions of self and others, and including those experiences of duality and contradiction discussed in part Two. While acknowledging the diversity of nurses' attitudes and approaches, with variations according to individual temperament, past experiences and the current setting, the suggestion is made of a common and distinctive 'meta-awareness' that develops with the fob  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 223 Serial 223  
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Author O'Shea, M.; Reddy, L. openurl 
  Title Action change in New Zealand mental health nursing: One team's perspective Type Journal Article
  Year 2007 Publication Practice Development in Health Care Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6 Issue 2 Pages (down) 137-142  
  Keywords Experiential learning; Psychiatric Nursing; Communication; Community health nursing  
  Abstract This paper describes an attempt at effecting change with specific relevance to the discharge planning of clients from a New Zealand inpatient mental health unit to a community setting. It explores how a team of community mental health nurses, practising in an urban/rural area, used the concepts of practice development to endeavour to bring about change while still retaining a client-centred focus. It describes how, in their enthusiasm, they embarked on the road to practice change without undertaking some of the essential ground work, Although they did not achieve all they set out to achieve, much was learnt in the process. In this paper, the authors outline their key learning points concerning the importance of engagement, communication, consistency and cooperation to the process and outcomes of practice change.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 897 Serial 881  
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Author Henry, Amy url  openurl
  Title Staying at home: A qualitative descriptive study on Pacific palliative health Type Book Whole
  Year 2020 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (down) 137 p.  
  Keywords Palliative care; Pacific health; Community palliative care; Talanoa research methodology; Surveys  
  Abstract Develops an understanding of the experiences of, and barriers for Pacific peoples in Canterbury utilising palliative care services. Considers the strengths and enablers for Pacific peoples accessing palliative care services and how such services, including home based palliative care, could better serve this community. Undertakes interviews using a semi-structured question guide, with nine family members who had provided palliative care within the last three years.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1762  
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Author Muir-Cochrane, E.; Holmes, C.; Walton, J.A. openurl 
  Title Law and policy in relation to the use of seclusion in psychiatric hospitals in Australia and New Zealand Type Journal Article
  Year 2002 Publication Contemporary Nurse Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 13 Issue 2/3 Pages (down) 136-145  
  Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Law and legislation; Policy; Patient rights; Cross-cultural comparison  
  Abstract This paper discusses legal issues associated with the seclusion of acutely disturbed patients in psychiatric hospitals in Australia and New Zealand. There continues to be great variation in opinion and operational definition as to whether seclusion is a medical treatment, nursing intervention and management tool, or merely a form of situational restraint. Reflecting this lack of clarity, mental health acts and policies concerning the regulation and practice of seclusion lack consistency and focus across geographical boundaries and jurisdictions. Australian and New Zealand legislation and institutional policy is discussed in order to shed light on the contemporary issues highlighted by this controversial nursing practice. The authors note that mental health professionals must continue to review the practice of seclusion and to actively promote the use of acceptable alternatives. In addition nurses and other mental health professionals have a responsibility to understand current legislation and policy frameworks and to influence change where this is necessary to ensure the best practice possible in their clinical area.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1074  
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Author English, Wendy url  openurl
  Title The moments we meet : lived experiences of rapport for nurses, patients and families in palliative care Type Book Whole
  Year 2018 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (down) 135 p.  
  Keywords Palliative care; Patients; Palliative care nursing; Connectedness; Person-centred care  
  Abstract Undertakes 12 in-depth interviews with nurses, patients and families about their experiences of rapport and inter-connectedness in the context of palliative care. By means of thematic analysis identifies major themes and associated emotions deriving from connectedness or disconnectedness. Links rapport and connection to holistic care.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1644  
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Author Goodyear, Kathryn Ann url  openurl
  Title Talking about menopause: exploring the lived experience of menopause for nurses Type Book Whole
  Year 2018 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (down) 135 p.  
  Keywords Menopause; Ageing; Nurses; Surveys  
  Abstract Explores through semi-structured, in-depth interviews how 11 nurses working at Christchurch Hospital experienced menopause in the workplace and in their personal lives. Uses thematic analysis to highlight how the stigma surrounding menopause led to the nurses' fear of being treated as a menopausal woman, rather than as a professional.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1646  
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Author Davis, Rosalie url  openurl
  Title Nursing Narratives of assisted dying implementation in New Zealand Type Book Whole
  Year 2022 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (down) 135 p.  
  Keywords Assisted dying; Euthanasia; End-of-life care; Surveys  
  Abstract Explains how assisted dying legislation and subsequent implementation impacts upon practice and policy for nurses in NZ. Enrols 10 participants working in a range of end-of-life care settings to participate in qualitative research though narrative inquiry and grounded within a social constructivist paradigm. Conducts interviews two to three months prior to the enactment of the End-of-Life Choice Act.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1834  
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