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Author Spence, D.
Title Hermeneutic notions augment cultural safety education Type Journal Article
Year 2005 Publication Journal of Nursing Education Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 44 Issue 9 Pages 409-414
Keywords Cultural safety; Nursing; Education; Transcultural nursing
Abstract In this article, the author integrates literature pertaining to the implementation of kawa whakaruruhau, or cultural safety, with the findings of a hermeneutic project that described the experience of nursing people from cultures other than one's own. It is argued that the Gadamerian notions of “horizon,” “prejudice,” and “play” can be used to facilitate understanding of the tensions and contradictions inherent in cross-cultural practice. Strategies are recommended that enable students to explore the prejudices, paradoxes, and possibilities experienced personally and professionally.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 704
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Author Spence, D.
Title Hermeneutic notions illuminate cross-cultural nursing experiences Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 35 Issue 4 Pages 624-630
Keywords Transcultural nursing; Nursing
Abstract The aim of this paper was to articulate selected hermeneutic notions for the purpose of extending current understanding of cross-cultural nursing practice, and build on the author's work in this area. The project asserted that the notions of prejudice, paradox and possibility portray a nursing view of this phenomenon. The emphasis in this paper, rather than being methodological, is on showing how specific hermeneutic notions contribute to deeper understanding of the nature of cross-cultural practice. It is argued that contact with, and the capacity to explore, the play of conflicting prejudices and possibilities enhances understanding of the complex and paradoxical nature of cross-cultural nursing.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 705
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Author Lim, A.G.; Honey, M.
Title Integrated undergraduate nursing curriculum for pharmacology Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication Nurse Education in Practice Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 6 Issue 3 Pages 163-168
Keywords Pharmacology; Curriculum; Nursing; Education
Abstract This article presents an integrated approach to pharmacology education for nurses aligned with constructivist learning theory, as taught at the School of Nursing, University of Auckland. The weaving of pharmacology through the three-year undergraduate curriculum is described, showing the development of a pharmacology curricula thread. The significance of supporting curricula content in areas such as communication skills, law and ethics, as well as sound biological science and physiology knowledge are highlighted.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 707
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Author Honey, M.; North, N.; Gunn, C.
Title Improving library services for graduate nurse students in New Zealand Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication Health Information & Libraries Journal Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 23 Issue 2 Pages 102-109
Keywords Nursing; Education; Evidence-based medicine; Teaching methods
Abstract This paper describes a collaboration between library staff and nurse educators, where information literacy skills are strengthened and embedded in the curriculum. A case-study approach was used with both quantitative and qualitative data. An anonymous questionnaire was distributed to all nurses enrolled in graduate courses in the second semester of 2002. Interviews were then undertaken with library staff. It was found that the university library services were not used by 43% of graduate nursing students . The library staff responded by developing a number of initiatives which aimed to improve awareness of services, access and provide education in a bid to improve literacy skills.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 708
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Author Gage, J.; Everrett, K.D.; Bullock, L.
Title Integrative review of parenting in nursing research Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication Journal of Nursing Scholarship Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 38 Issue 1 Pages 56-62
Keywords Parents and caregivers; Nursing research; Evaluation
Abstract The authors synthesise and critically analyse parenting research in nursing. They focused on studies published between 1993 and 2004 by nurse researchers in peer-reviewed journals. Data were organised and analysed with a sample of 17 nursing research studies from core nursing journals. The majority of parenting research has been focused on mothers, primarily about parenting children with physical or developmental disabilities. Research about fathers as parents is sparse. Parenting across cultures, parenting in the context of family, and theoretical frameworks for parenting research are not well developed. The authors conclude that the scope of nursing research on parenting is limited.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 709
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Author Nicol, M.J.; Manoharan, H.; Marfell-Jones, M.; Meha-Hoerara, K.; Milne, R.; O'Connell, M.; Oliver, J.D.; Teekman, B.
Title Issues in adolescent health: A challenge for nursing Type Journal Article
Year 2002 Publication Contemporary Nurse Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 12 Issue 2 Pages 155-163
Keywords Adolescents; Health education; Health promotion; Nursing; Risk factors; Suicide; Sexual health; Smoking; Mental health
Abstract This review provides an overview of the health issues for adolescents, and the implications for nursing practice, particularly around health promotion. It looks at the social context of adolescents including peer pressure, along with health issues such as suicide, mental health, sexual health, and smoking.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 712
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Author Friedel, J.; Treagust, D.F.
Title Learning bioscience in nursing education: Perceptions of the intended and the prescribed curriculum Type Journal Article
Year 2005 Publication Learning in Health & Social Care Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 4 Issue 4 Pages 203-216
Keywords Nursing; Education; Teaching methods
Abstract This study used a curriculum inquiry framework to investigate the perceptions of 184 nursing students and nurse educators in relation to bioscience in the nursing curriculum. Nursing students were found to have significantly more positive attitudes to bioscience in nursing education than nurse educators, and nurse educators were not found to have significantly better self-efficacy in bioscience than the students, although this might have been expected. The results of focus group discussions, used to investigate this in more depth, suggested that some nurse educators and clinical preceptors may not have sufficient science background or bioscience knowledge, to help nursing students apply bioscience knowledge to practice. As a result of this, it is suggested that the aims of the intended and prescribed nursing curricula are not being fulfilled in the implemented curriculum.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 713
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Author McBride-Henry, K.; Foureur, M.
Title Medication administration errors: Understanding the issues Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 23 Issue 3 Pages 33-41
Keywords Nursing; Patient safety; Medical errors; Drug administration; Quality assurance
Abstract This literature review focused on research that primarily addresses the issues related to medications that arise in tertiary care facilities. It finds that investigations into medication errors have primarily focused on the role of nurses, and tended to identify the nurse as deliverer of unsafe practice. Over the past few years a shift in how medication errors are understood has led to the identification of systems-related issues that contribute to medication errors. The author suggests that nurses should contribute to initiatives such as the 'Quality and Safe Use of Medicines' and develop nursing led research, to address some of the safety related issues with a view to enhancing patient safety.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 715
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Author Giddings, D.L.S.
Title Mixed-methods research: Positivism dressed in drag Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication Journal of Research in Nursing Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 11 Issue 3 Pages 195-203
Keywords Methodology; Nursing research
Abstract The author critiques the claim that mixed method research is a third methodology, and the implied belief that the mixing of qualitative and quantitative methods will produce the 'best of both worlds'. The author suggests that this assumption, combined with inherent promises of inclusiveness, takes on a reality and certainty in research findings that serves well the powerful nexus of economic restraint and evidence-based practice. The author argues that the use of the terms 'qualitative' and 'quantitative' as normative descriptors reinforces their binary positioning, effectively marginalising the methodological diversity within them. Ideologically, mixed methods covers for the continuing hegemony of positivism, albeit in its more moderate, postpositivist form. If naively interpreted, mixed methods could become the preferred approach in the teaching and doing of research. The author concludes that rather than the promotion of more co-operative and complex designs for increasingly complex social and health issues, economic and administrative pressures may lead to demands for the 'quick fix' that mixed methods appears to offer.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 717
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Author Walsh, K.; McAllister, M.; Morgan, A.; Thornhill, J.
Title Motivating change: Using motivational interviewing in practice development Type Journal Article
Year 2004 Publication Practice Development in Health Care Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 3 Issue 2 Pages 92-100
Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Hospitals; Motivation; Older people
Abstract The present paper draws on experiences and insights gained by a group of psychiatric nurse practice development facilitators whilst working with consumers, carers, clinicians and managers in the context of a practice development programme in a large metropolitan psychiatric hospital. The paper describes how the practice development facilitators were able to adapt techniques of motivational interviewing, commonly used in drug and alcohol treatment services, to help motivate change in an aged care setting. The lessons embedded within this experience are that people do want change, and that sustained change requires ownership and support. Practice development facilitators can assist in this process though the use of principles and strategies of motivational interviewing, which include increasing awareness of the need for change, supporting self-efficacy and managing resistance to change.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 718
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Author Horsburgh, M.; Lamdin, R.; Williamson, E.
Title Multiprofessional learning: The attitudes of medical, nursing and pharmacy students to shared learning Type Journal Article
Year 2001 Publication Medical Education Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 35 Issue 9 Pages 876-883
Keywords Nursing; Education; Students; Interprofessional relations
Abstract This study has sought to quantify the attitudes of first-year medical, nursing and pharmacy students' towards interprofessional learning, at course commencement. The Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale (RIPLS) (University of Liverpool, Department of Health Care Education), was administered to first-year medical, nursing and pharmacy students at the University of Auckland. Differences between the three groups were analysed. The majority of students reported positive attitudes towards shared learning. The benefits of shared learning, including the acquisition of teamworking skills, were seen to be beneficial to patient care and likely to enhance professional working relationships. However professional groups differed: nursing and pharmacy students indicated more strongly that an outcome of learning together would be more effective teamworking. Medical students were the least sure of their professional role, and considered that they required the acquisition of more knowledge and skills than nursing or pharmacy students.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 719
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title Thinking through diagnosis: Process in nursing practice Type Journal Article
Year 1986 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 1 Issue 4 Pages 9-12
Keywords Diagnosis; Nursing philosophy; Nursing research
Abstract A paper following on from the paper “Between the idea and reality” (Nursing Praxis in New Zealand 1(2), 17-29) proposing the focus for the discipline of nursing – practice and research – is diagnosis. For nursing practice, diagnosis is a practice that collapses “The Nursing Process”; for research to develop nursing practice, diagnosis is one continuous relational process that merges and makes the separate tasks od assessment, intervention and evaluation redundant.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1314
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title Knowledge embedded in practice Type Journal Article
Year 1989 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 82 Issue 10 Pages 24-25
Keywords Nursing research; diagnosis; Education; Nursing philosophy
Abstract A statement of the nature of research needed to distinguish the knowledge of nursing practice from knowledge developed by other disciplines. It orients to the interrelationship of practice and research as the foundation of the discipline of nursing.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1315
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title Nursing education: Direction with purpose Type Journal Article
Year 1991 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 84 Issue 7 Pages 22-24
Keywords Nursing education
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Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1316
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title Computers and the form of nursing to come Type Journal Article
Year 1992 Publication International Journal of Health Informatics Abbreviated Journal (up)
Volume 1 Issue 1 Pages 7-10
Keywords Computers; Nursing; Technology
Abstract An invited paper for the initial issue of the IJHI. Adapted from a paper presented at the annual conference of Nursing Informatics New Zealand, 1991 (subsequently incorporated into the collective organisation, Health Informatics, NZ.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1318
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