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Author Dent, G.W. url  openurl
  Title (up) Mental health nurses' knowledge and views on talking therapies in clinical practice Type
  Year 2008 Publication Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria http://hdl.handle.net/10063/675  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Attitude of health personnel; Evidence-based medicine; Professional development  
  Abstract Using a qualitative descriptive research design, this study explored nurses' knowledge and views on their talking therapy training and skills in practice. The study examined the use of talking therapies, or specialised interpersonal processes, embodied within the Te Ao Maramatanga: New Zealand College of Mental Health Nurses Inc (2004) Standards of Practice for Mental Health Nurses in New Zealand. A survey questionnaire was sent to 227 registered nurses from a district health hoard mental health service and a sample of eight nurses participated in a semi-structured interview. Content analysis based on the headings “knowledge views, skill acquisition and skill transfer” established the major themes from the data collection processes. The findings confirmed that nurses believe their knowledge and skills in evidence-based talking therapies to be vitally important in mental health nursing practice. Nurses identified that talking therapy training courses needed to be clinically relevant and that some learning strategies were advantageous. The identification of some knowledge gaps for, nurses with limited post graduate experience, and for nurses who currently work in inpatient areas suggests that further consideration must be given to ensure that a cohesive, sustainable approach is ensured for progression of workforce development projects relevant to training in talking therapies for mental health nurses in New Zealand.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1151  
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Author Wilkinson, Jillian Ann openurl 
  Title (up) Ministerial Taskforce on Nursing : a struggle for control Type Journal Article
  Year 2008 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 24 Issue 3 Pages 5-16  
  Keywords Nurse practitioner; Politics; Autonomy; Unionism  
  Abstract Traces the constitution and work of the Taskforce, along with the struggle that arose between nursing groups for power to control the future of advanced nursing practice. Backgrounds the factors that led to the withdrawal of the NZ Nurses' Organisation (NZNO) from the Taskforce.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1435  
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Author Trenberth, D. url  openurl
  Title (up) New Zealand families' beliefs about what constitutes successful management of unsupervised childcare Type
  Year 2008 Publication Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Children; Parents and caregivers  
  Abstract This study explored what some New Zealand families believe constitutes the successful management of unsupervised childcare. It was designed to increase social understanding and practitioner knowledge of the issue by exploring families' beliefs, practices and perspectives. The researcher was concerned with the professional role nurses may play with this group of children. A qualitative descriptive approach was used to obtain a straight description of successful unsupervised childcare, using the everyday language of the participating families. Data was collected in semi structured interviews with five family groups, and subjected to content and thematic analysis. Findings suggest unsupervised childcare is both choice and solution, though parents are fearful of the legal and social consequences of using it. Context of the care is important, with the child's preference, community context and availability of adults through distal supervision critical components of its success. Trust between parent and child, the use of rules and boundaries to regulate child behaviour, the teaching of skills and strategies to build child competency, and parental support of children while unsupervised are identified by parents as factors linked to success. Parents identify increasing child independence and self responsibility as positive outcomes from the successful use of unsupervised childcare. This study has helped to identify positive factors resulting in good outcomes from which successful interventions could be developed, provides information that will be of particular interest to practitioners and policy makers, and provides a platform to launch larger studies into the issue of unsupervised children.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1252 Serial 1237  
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Author Goodyear-Smith, F.; Janes, R. openurl 
  Title (up) New Zealand rural primary health care workforce in 2005: More than just a doctor shortage Type Journal Article
  Year 2008 Publication Australian Journal of Rural Health Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 16 Issue 1 Pages 40-46  
  Keywords Personnel; Physicians; Rural health services; Nursing; Primary health care; Pharmacists  
  Abstract The aim of this study was to obtain a 2005 snapshot of the New Zealand rural primary health care workforce, specifically GPs, general practice nurses and community pharmacists. A postal questionnaire was distributed to rural general practice managers, GPs, nurses, community pharmacy managers and pharmacists in November 2005. The self-reported data included information on demographics, country of training, years in practice, business ownership, hours worked including on-call, and intention to leave rural practice.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 966  
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Author Hoare, K.; Fairhurst-Winstanley, W.; Horsburgh, M.; McCormack, R. url  openurl
  Title (up) Nurse employment in primary care: UK and New Zealand Type Journal Article
  Year 2008 Publication New Zealand Family Physician Abbreviated Journal The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners website  
  Volume 35 Issue 1 Pages 4-10  
  Keywords Primary health care; Scope of practice; Nursing models  
  Abstract The researchers evaluate and compare the organisation of general practice in the UK and New Zealand. A key aim of the Primary Health Care Strategy is a reduction in health inequalities. Locally, some nurse leaders suggest that changing nurse practice employment from general practitioners to Primary Health Organisations will achieve this aim. The authors take lessons from the UK and suggest that nurses organising themselves into peer groups, remuneration of general practices for the attainment of positive patient outcomes, and a statutory duty of clinical governance, all contributed to the development of practice nurses' roles and expansion of numbers of nurse practitioners in general practice. Nurses have become partners with general practitioners in general practice in the UK, which the authors suggest is a much preferable alternative for some than employment by a Primary Health Organisation.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 453  
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Author Pedersen, C. url  openurl
  Title (up) Nurse-led telephone triage service in a secondary rural hospital Type Book Chapter
  Year 2008 Publication Jean Ross (Ed.), Rural nursing: Aspects of practice (pp. 99-110) Abbreviated Journal Ministry of Health publications page  
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  Keywords Rural nursing; Telenursing; Evaluation  
  Abstract This chapter describes the development of a nurse-led after-hours telephone triage service in a rural secondary hospital in the Hawke's Bay District Health Board area. This service was a response to the health restructuring in the 1990s, which had led to the shift of secondary services out of the rural areas, and workforce recruitment issues. Secondly, it discusses the process and findings of a research project undertaken to identify and describe telephone callers' reported outcomes after using the service. The study found a high level of satisfaction amongst callers and a high level of compliance to advice.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 770 Serial 754  
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Author Sutton, D.M. openurl 
  Title (up) 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 Spackman, N. E. openurl 
  Title (up) Nurses' early experiences with patient death Type
  Year 2008 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library  
  Volume Issue Pages 156 pp  
  Keywords New graduate nurses; Terminal care  
  Abstract Chronic stress and 'burnout' have been extensively researched in nursing populations, but very little is known about the impact of specific acutely stressful or significant events. A novice nurse's first encounter with patient death may pose considerable cognitive, emotional and clinical challenges. Using a mixed methods design, this study explored the clinical circumstances, impact and challenges and rewards of nurses' early experiences with patient death.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1292  
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Author Yarwood, Judy openurl 
  Title (up) Nurses' view of family nursing in community contexts: an exploratory study Type Journal Article
  Year 2008 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 24 Issue 2 (Jul) Pages 41-51  
  Keywords Family; Family nursing; Community Nurses; Relationships  
  Abstract Explores, through the use of focus groups, ways in which community based nurses interact with family as a whole. Identifies Public health, Practice, District, Well child health and rural nurses as all having an integral role in building relationships with family to ensure child and family health. Suggests the findings point to a need for the establishment of a recognised family/family health nursing role.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1433  
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Author Horsburgh, M.; Goodyear-Smith, F.; Yallop, J. url  openurl
  Title (up) Nursing initiatives in primary care: An approach to risk reduction for cardiovascular disease and diabetes Type Journal Article
  Year 2008 Publication New Zealand Family Physician Abbreviated Journal The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners website  
  Volume 35 Issue 3 Pages 176-182  
  Keywords Cardiovascular diseases; Diabetes Type 2; Risk factors; Nursing models  
  Abstract The authors evaluated a nurse-led cardiovascular disease and diabetes (CVD) management project. The Ministry of Health funded the project to implement models of nurse service delivery, with care pathways for risk reduction of CVD and diabetes based on national guidelines, with quality assurance, audit and nurse leadership. The paper presents the components required to implement and sustain a nurse CVD risk assessment and management service, which were identified and clarified through the action research process.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 527 Serial 513  
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Author Wilson, D.; Neville, S.J. openurl 
  Title (up) Nursing their way not our way: Working with vulnerable and marginalised populations Type Journal Article
  Year 2008 Publication Contemporary Nurse Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 27 Issue 2 Pages 165-176  
  Keywords Maori; Geriatric nursing; Nurse-patient relations  
  Abstract This paper uses the findings of two studies to explore the nature of nurses' practice when working with vulnerable and marginalised populations, particularly with regard to the attributes of holism and individualised care. The first study was with the elderly with delirium and used a critical gerontological methodology informed by postmodernism and Foucault's understanding of discourse. The other study with indigenous Maori women utilised Glaserian grounded theory informed by a Maori-centred methodology. The findings show that a problem focussed approach to health care is offered to patients that does not incorporate individual health experiences. In addition, the social context integral to people's lives outside of the health care environment is ignored. Consequently, the foundations of nursing practice, that of holism, is found to be merely a rhetorical construct.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 799 Serial 783  
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Author Hale, R. url  openurl
  Title (up) Older patient perceptions of transitional care Type Book Chapter
  Year 2008 Publication Jean Ross (Ed.), Rural nursing: Aspects of practice (pp. 147-152) Abbreviated Journal Ministry of Health publications page  
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  Keywords Older people; Rural health services; Community health nursing; Evaluation  
  Abstract The author describes transitional care as undertaken within the Waikato District Health Board health care environment. Transitional care supports people moving between acute health care (inpatient) and primary health care (home). It is a rehabilitative model based in smaller, predominantly rural communities to enable the older person to actively work towards recovery of functional ability within their own environment. Research indicates this rehabilitation model is applicable to the rural situation and satisfaction levels of the patients and caregivers tends to be positive.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 774 Serial 758  
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Author Thompson, R. url  openurl
  Title (up) On call but not rostered Type Book Chapter
  Year 2008 Publication Jean Ross (Ed.), Rural nursing: Aspects of practice (pp. 67-78) Abbreviated Journal Ministry of Health publications page  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Rural nursing; Ethics; Registered nurses  
  Abstract In this chapter the author uses storytelling to explore the legal and ethical issues she experiences as a rural volunteer registered nurse. She describes the relationship between the nurse and community embodied in areas such as the public perception of nurses, and discusses aspects of her practice in the light of the particular legal and ethical context of rural areas.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 768 Serial 752  
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Author Apelu, J. url  openurl
  Title (up) 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 Woods, M. url  openurl
  Title (up) Parental resistance. Mobile and transitory discourses: A discursive analysis of parental resistance towards medical treatment for a seriously ill child Type
  Year 2008 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Nurse-family relations; Parents and caregivers; Pacific peoples; Communication; Children; Chronically ill  
  Abstract This qualitative thesis uses discourse analysis to examine parental resistance towards medical treatment of critically ill children. It is an investigation of the 'mobile and transitory' discourses at play in instances of resistance between parents, physicians and nurses within health care institutions, and an examination of the consequences of resistance through providing alternative ways of perceiving and therefore understanding these disagreements. The philosophical perspectives, methodology and methods used in this thesis are underpinned by selected ideas taken from the works of Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu and supported by relevant literature in the fields of media, law, children, parenting, caring, serious childhood illness, medicine and nursing. It is argued that from an examination of interview based texts, parental resistance is an omnipresent but transitory occurrence that affects many of the interactions between the parents of seriously ill children and clinical staff. It is maintained that within these interactions, the seeds of this resistance are sown in both critical decision making situations and in everyday occurrences between doctors, nurses and parents within healthcare institutions. Contributing factors to parental resistance include the use of power games by staff, the language of medicine, forms of symbolic violence, the presence or absence of trust between parents and medical staff, the effects of medical habitus, and challenges to the parental role and identity. Overall, it is proposed in this thesis that parents who resist treatment for their seriously ill child are not exceptions to the normative patient-physician relationship.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1140  
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