Jarden, A. J. (2018). Before-school check nurses' experiences of motivational interviewing during the weight-related referral process : an interpretive phenomenological study. Master's thesis, University of Canterbury, Christchurch. Retrieved July 4, 2020, from http://hdl.handle.net/10092/16678
Abstract: Investigates nurses' experiences of weight-related conversations with whanau, and their level of understanding and application of motivational interviewing, during the Before-School Check programme to identify 95% of high-weight children. Uses a questionnaire focussed on competencies in conjunction with recorded interviews concentrated on process-oriented accounts of the referral process.
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Pool, L., Day, L., & Ridley, S. (2019). Mountain climbing: the journey for students with English as an additional language in a concept-based nursing curriculum. Whitireia Journal of Nursing, Health and Social Services, (26), 28–36.
Abstract: Identifies the communication and learning needs of EAL students in undergraduate nursing education. Presents strategies for EAL students and others with diverse learning needs to comprehend the underlying concepts of cultural safety, praxis, professional nursing and leadership in Whitireia's BN integrated nursing curriculum. Reports findings from focus group discussions with 13 students involved in the three-way partnership comprising lecturers, learning support services and EAL students.
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Crawford, R. (2019). Using focused ethnography in nursing research. Kai Tiaki Nursing Research, 10(1), 63–67.
Abstract: Details how the author employed focused ethnography in her doctoral research to investigate nurses' and parents' experience of emotional communication in the context of a children's unit of a regional hospital in NZ. Interviews 10 parents and 10 nurses after the children were discharged. Validates the ethnographic method as a means of inspecting the hidden as well as observable aspects of nurse-parent interaction.
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Wraight, J. (2019). Assessing English language skills of internationally-qualified nurses in New Zealand. Kai Tiaki Nursing Research, 10(1), 59–60.
Abstract: Introduces the Clinical Communication Assessment Framework (CCAF), adapted by Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology from communication assessment guidelines developed in Australia to assess nursing students' English language proficiency. Uses this framework to assess nurses, before the competency assessment programme (CAP) four-week clinical nursing placement, for the first time in NZ.
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Brunton, M., Cook, C., Walker, L., & Clendon, J. (2017). Where are we?: workplace communication between RNs in culturally-diverse healthcare organisations; Analysis of a 2-phase, mixed-method study: a report prepared for the New Zealand Nursing Education and Research Foundation. Wellington: Massey University.
Abstract: Examines cultural influences on perceptions and practices of cross-cultural communication among registered nursing staff from diverse ethnicities in NZ. Employs an exploratory approach to obtain qualitative feedback by means of semi-structured interviews with 36 Internationally Qualified Nurses (IQN) and 17 NZ Registered Nurses (NZRN). Uses data from the interviews to construct a questionnaire survey to seek responses from a random national sample of RNs.
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