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Author (up) Hylton, J.A. openurl 
  Title Enrolled nurse transition to degree level study based at a rural satellite campus Type
  Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Nursing; Education; Enrolled nurses  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1248  
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Author (up) Kidd, J.D. openurl 
  Title What's going on? Mental health nursing in New Zealand Type
  Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal Otago Polytechnic Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Nursing research  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1255  
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Author (up) Kirkham, S.; Smye, V.; Tang, S.; Anderson, J.; Blue, C.; Browne, A.; Coles, R.; Dyck, I.; Henderson, A.; Lynam, M.J.; Perry, J.(see also C.); Semeniuk, P.; Shapera, L. openurl 
  Title Rethinking cultural safety while waiting to do fieldwork: Methodological implications for nursing research Type Journal Article
  Year 2002 Publication Research in Nursing & Health Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 25 Issue 3 Pages 222-232  
  Keywords Cultural safety; Hospitals; Health behaviour; Culture; Nursing research  
  Abstract The authors trace a series of theoretical explorations, centered on the concept of cultural safety, with corresponding methodological implications, engaged in during preparation for an intensive period of fieldwork to study the hospitalisation and help-seeking experiences of diverse ethnocultural populations.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1078  
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Author (up) Kyle, W. openurl 
  Title Dementia specific nursing in New Zealand: History and practice today Type Journal Article
  Year 2002 Publication Vision: A Journal of Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 8 Issue 14 Pages 3-9  
  Keywords Dementia; Nursing specialties  
  Abstract The author examines influences on contemporary dementia specific nursing practice. She addresses the current situation and future developments in this area.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1079  
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Author (up) Lally, E.J. url  openurl
  Title An exploration of language and nursing practice to improve communication in the context of ear syringing Type
  Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Communication; Practice nurses; Economics  
  Abstract This action research inquiry explores communication and nursing practice in an effort to improve practice and enhance patient care. Action research is a critical reflective process that involves spirals or cycles of planning, acting, reflecting/evaluating and replanning the next cycle. Using ear syringing as a procedure, in the general practice setting and at two separate surgeries, the author and another practice nurse co-researched this study during working hours. Twelve people consented to participate in the research that involved the audiotaping of each ear syringing interaction. Following each transcription of the recording, the researchers read their own and then each other's transcripts, and listened to the recordings. They discussed and reflected on their findings and planned the next cycle. Throughout the process, the researchers found a number of areas of practice to change or enhance. Changes included the use of technical language such as “contraindications” and “auditory meatus”, the side effects of syringing, improvements in communicating situations where ear syringing is not recommended and the options available, and post procedure information. These changes became a significant challenge, for example when both researchers forgot the changes, thus repeating previous errors and omissions. This factor highlighted the need to practise any changes prior to interactions, and to have a cue card on hand to facilitate recollection and to cement improvements into practice. Although time constraints limited this inquiry to three cycles, at the final meeting the researchers agreed to continue the reflective process they had begun to explore their practice.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1189  
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Author (up) Litchfield, M. url  openurl
  Title The successful design and delivery of rural health services: The meaning of success Type Report
  Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal Online on the Ministry of Health's Centre for Rural Health pages  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Evaluation; Rural health services; Primary health care  
  Abstract This is the report of the analysis of data from an in-depth survey designed by Sue Dawson, previously Rural Health Researcher in the Centre for Rural Health, and follow-up interviews. The study purpose was to construct a definition of “successful design and delivery of rural health services” as a step towards a measurement tool. Participants were grouped as general practitioners, nurses and community representatives. A format for a participatory approach to evaluation of rural health services is derived from the criteria of success identified, with its relevance for the implementation of the new Government primary health care strategy explicit. This format provided the basis for a subsequent evaluation case study undertaken in a small rural forestry township by the Centre for Rural Health.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1177  
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Author (up) Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title The successful design and delivery of rural health services: The meaning of success Type Report
  Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal Accessible from www.moh.govt.nz  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Rural health services; Management; Primary health care  
  Abstract A report on the analysis of data from an in-depth survey designed by Sue Dawson, previously Rural Health Researcher in the Centre for Rural Health, and follow-up interviews. The study purpose was to construct a definition of ?successful design and delivery of rural health services? as a step towards a measurement tool. Participants were grouped as general practitioners (GPs), nurses and community representatives. A format for a participatory approach to evaluation of rural health services is derived from the criteria of success identified, with its relevance for the implementation of the new Government primary health care strategy explicit. This format provided the basis for a subsequent evaluation case study undertaken in a small rural forestry township by the Centre for Rural Health.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1328  
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Author (up) Little, S. openurl 
  Title An exploration of vicarious traumatisation in emergency nurses Type
  Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Emergency nursing; Occupational health and safety; Nursing research; Stress  
  Abstract This thesis explores the theoretical notions of suffering and caring within the nurse patient relationship in the context of emergency nursing. It includes a small pilot study that aimed to assess the feasibliity of a major research project, by describing the impact of vicarious traumatisation in emergency nurses, specifically in relation to their self capacities. This pilot study utilised a descriptive, correlational design. Data was collected by using the Inner Experience Questionnaire (IEQ) a twenty four-item questionnaire developed by Dr Pearlman (1995), and a profile sheet which identified demographic details. Twenty-seven emergency nurses participated in this pilot study. The IEQ was assessed for internal reliability by applying the Cronbachs alpha and utilising a focus group to gain insight into the usability and relevance of the questions. The internal reliability of the IEQ suggests that it may be an appropriate tool to measure disruption of self capacities in the population of emergency nurses. Although the results are limited, and conclusions cannot be drawn, findings suggest a correlation between the variables of age, experience, nursing qualifications and a history of personal trauma and the IEQ. There is evidence that emergency nurses are affected psychologically when caring for the victims of trauma in emergency departments and the IEQ has the potential as a tool to be integrated into future emergency nursing studies. A multidimensional methodological approach is recommended to capture the many contours of the complex phenomena of vicarious traumatisation and the emergency nurse.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1249  
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Author (up) Lowe, L. openurl 
  Title Linking housing and health status Type Journal Article
  Year 2002 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 8 Issue 9 Pages 26-27  
  Keywords Health status; Public health; Nursing  
  Abstract The author examines the impact of poor housing on health, and looks at how the situation can be improved. Ways that nurses can work towards improving housing standards and thus health are discussed.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1021 Serial 1005  
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Author (up) Mackay, B. openurl 
  Title Leadership development: Supporting nursing in a changing primary health care environment Type Journal Article
  Year 2002 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 18 Issue 2 Pages 24-32  
  Keywords Leadership; Professional development; Primary health care; Nursing  
  Abstract The author argues that the involvement of nurses in the decision-making of health organisations is essential to maximise the contribution of nurses and promote positive outcomes for patients. She suggests that development of leadership skills will make nurses aware of power structures in the health system and allow them to become interdependent health professionals in primary health organisations (PHO). The particular competencies discussed are those proposed by Van Maurik (1997), namely ability to understand and manage organisational politics, work facilitatively with people and circumstances, and build a feeling of purpose.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 619  
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Author (up) Mason, B. openurl 
  Title An analysis of the role of the practice nurse in primary health care, 2000/2001 Type
  Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Primary health care; Practice nurses  
  Abstract In 1999 primary health care in New Zealand was in the process of change from the current personal health care model, which focuses on general practitioner based care, to a population and community based health care programme. Carryer, Dignam, Horsburgh, Hughes and Martin (1999) submitted a report to the National Health Commission entitled “Locating Nursing in Primary Health Care”. This report envisaged that nurses in primary health care would be part of interdisciplinary teams, act autonomously and undertake community consultation and education. The submission suggested that nurses, currently working in primary health care, were alraedy prepared and able to move across into the new form of primary health care, without further education or training.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1130  
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Author (up) Matheson, S. url  openurl
  Title Psychiatric/mental health nursing: Positioning undergraduate education Type
  Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; History of nursing; Nursing; Education  
  Abstract In this paper, the critique of the mental health component of comprehensive nursing education and the questions that it raises are explored from historical, structural and ideological perspectives. In order to locate the past and highlight its significance to where psychiatric/mental health nurses find themselves today some of the history of the asylum system and the development of psychiatric nursing in New Zealand within these structures are presented. Ideological changes to the way mental health was thought about, and responded to, have had considerable impact on where psychiatric nurses practiced, how they practised and what they were named. This created the need for a different kind of nurse and has led to changes in the education of nurses. The structural influences on the training and education of nurses are identified through relevant reports and their recommendations and significance in relation to psychiatric/mental health nursing are examined. Issues deriving from the critique of undergraduate psychiatric/mental health nursing education highlight the urgent nature of the crisis and draw out the multiple and competing discourses that inform the education of nurses. In acknowledging that the crisis can be viewed from multiple perspectives the need for responses from multiple levels involving the Nursing Council of New Zealand, the Ministry of Health, the Mental Health Commission and nurses in education and practice are recommended.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1146  
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Author (up) McCallum, C. openurl 
  Title Balancing technology with the art of caring Type Journal Article
  Year 2002 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 8 Issue 7 Pages 21-23  
  Keywords Technology; Nursing; Nurse-patient relations; Ethics  
  Abstract The author examines the role of technology in high dependency units, which can alienate nurses from patients. The ethical issues raised by technology are reviewed, particularly the allocation of expensive interventions, and the implications of life-sustaining technology on the application of informed consent. The author highlights the challenge facing nurses to bridge the gap between medical technology and humane caring.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1017 Serial 1001  
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Author (up) McEldowney, R.A. url  openurl
  Title Shape-shifting: Stories of teaching for social change in nursing Type
  Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Nursing philosophy; Teaching methods; Feminist critique; Qualiltative research  
  Abstract This research explores why and how nurse educators teach for social change. Critical feminist educators provide a useful framework for theorising about teaching for change that addresses issues of hegemony, agency, praxis, individual voice, difference, justice and equity. Six women Pakeha/Tauiwi nurse educators from throughout New Zealand volunteered to participate in this research and share their lived experiences of teaching for social change. In-depth conversations over two years unfolded new and rich material about how and why these six women continue to teach the evaded subjects, like mental health, women's health, community development and cultural safety. All teach in counter-hegemonic ways, opening students' eyes to the unseen and unspoken. Among the significant things to emerge during the research was the metaphorical construct of shape-shifting as an active process in teaching for social change. It revealed the connectedness and integrity between life as lived and the moral imperative that motivates the participants to teach for difference. Shape-shifting was also reflected in other key findings of the study. As change agents, the participants have had significant shape-shifting experiences in their lives; they live and work as shape-shifters within complex social and political structures and processes to achieve social justice; and, they deal with areas of health practice where clients are socially and politically displaced. The research also generated new methods for gathering life-stories and new processes for analysis and interpretation of life-stories. It is hoped that this research will open pathways for other nurse educators to become shape-shifters teaching for social change.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1193  
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Author (up) McKenna, B. openurl 
  Title Risk assessment of violence to others: Time for action Type Journal Article
  Year 2002 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 18 Issue 1 Pages 36-43  
  Keywords Mental health; Workplace violence; Risk management; Nursing; Nurse-patient relations; Psychiatric nursing  
  Abstract The author performs a literature search on the topics of risk assessment, dangerousness, aggression, and violence in order to determine an evidence-based approach to risk assessment of patient violence towards others. This is set in the context of possible expansion in the scope of practice of mental health nurses, and the prevalence of nurses being assaulted by patients. In the absence of reliable and valid nursing risk assessment measures, the approach suggested here focuses on the use of observation skills to detect behaviour antecedent to physical assault, and the ability to adapt evidence to specific clinical settings.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 621  
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