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Milligan, K. |
| Title |
Aesthetic knowledge and the use of arts in nursing |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2002 |
Publication |
Beginning Journeys: A Collection of Work |
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| Volume |
7 |
Issue |
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Pages |
9-14 |
| Keywords |
Nursing philosophy; Nursing; Education; Teaching methods |
| Abstract |
The author considers aesthetic knowing and the use of the arts in nursing. She identifies concepts that pertain to the art of nursing. The interrelationship of the moral sense and the art of nursing is explored. The author concludes that the mediums of non-fiction, fiction and poetry can provide valuable contributions to the aesthetic way of knowing in nursing education, practice and research. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1094 |
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| Author |
Milligan, K.; Neville, S.J. |
| Title |
The contextualisation of health assessment |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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| Volume |
19 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
23-31 |
| Keywords |
Cross-cultural comparison; Evaluation; Nursing |
| Abstract |
The authors defines health assessment and argue that it is a tool nurses should be using as a means of improving health outcomes for clients. The skills involved in health assessments are analysed, and four levels of data gathering are identified. The authors present an historical perspective, tracing the development of these skills as they have been incorporated in nursing practice in North America and Australia. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1095 |
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| Author |
Speed, G. |
| Title |
Advanced nurse practice |
Type |
Journal Article |
| Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Nursing dialogue: A Professional Journal for nurses |
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| Volume |
10 |
Issue |
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Pages |
6-12 |
| Keywords |
Nurse practitioners; Cross-cultural comparison; Law and legislation; Advanced nursing practice |
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The concept and characteristics of advanced nursing practice in New Zealand and overseas is compared with the nurse practitioner role. There is an international debate over definitions of advanced nursing and the range of roles that have developed. The rationale for the nurse practitioner role in New Zealand is examined, along with the associated legislation currently before Parliament. Job titles and roles of nurses within the Waikato Hospital intensive care unit are discussed and ways of developing the role of nurse practitioner are presented. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1096 |
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| Author |
Whittle, R. |
| Title |
Decisions, decisions: Factors that influence student selection of final year clinical placements |
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2007 |
Publication |
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| Keywords |
Clinical assessment; Nursing; Education; Students |
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Clinical practice is an essential and integral component of nursing education. The decision-making process involved in student selection of clinical placements is influenced by a range of factors which are internal or external to students. As there was little research that explored these factors and the influence they have on student decisions, the author sought to investigate this further. A mixed-method approach was used, using a questionnaire and focus group interview, to give breadth and depth to the research. This study found that students are particularly influenced by previous positive experiences, or an interest in a particular area of practice. Their personality will also influence their placement decisions. Nurse preceptors and clinical lecturers also provide a key support role to students in the clinical environment. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1103 |
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| Author |
Cobham, J. |
| Title |
Why do nurses stay in nursing? A test of social identity, equity sensitivity and expectancy theory |
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| Year |
2005 |
Publication |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Nursing; Recruitment and retention; Identity |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1107 |
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| Author |
Kirkman, A.; Dixon, D.A. |
| Title |
Nurses at university: Negotiating academic, work and personal pathways |
Type |
Book Chapter |
| Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Davey,J., Neale, J., Morris Mathews, K. , Living and learning: Experiences of university after age 40 (pp. 93-108) |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Nursing; Education; Careers in nursing |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1160 |
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| Author |
Barratt, Ruth |
| Title |
Behind barriers: patients' perceptions of hospital isolation for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) |
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2008 |
Publication |
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Pages |
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Infection control; Patient satisfaction; Nursing specialties; Hospitals |
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This study explored the experiences of hospitalised patients in methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolation in New Zealand and the meaning that those patients made of those experiences. The research question of this study was 'What is the lived experience of patients in MRSA isolation?' An interpretive phenomenological approach was undertaken for this research, informed by the philosophical hermeneutic tenets of Heidegger (1927/1962). Audio-taped, semi-structured interviews were used to collect data from a purposive sample of ten adults who were in MRSA isolation in various wards in a large acute care hospital in the central North Island. Three salient themes emerged from the data. The first, 'being MRSA positive', summarises the meaning of having an identity of being MRSA positive. The second theme, 'being with others', is concerned with the effect that being in isolation for MRSA has on interpersonal relations. 'Living within four walls' is the third theme and reveals the significance that the physical environment of the MRSA isolation room has on the experience of MRSA isolation. Within the discussion of these themes, excerpts from the interviews are provided to illuminate the meanings and interpretations made. Recommendations are made for nursing practice and education. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1167 |
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| Author |
Litchfield, M.; Laws, M. |
| Title |
Achieving family health and cost-containment outcomes: Innovation in the New Zealand Health Sector Reforms |
Type |
Book Chapter |
| Year |
1999 |
Publication |
Cohen,E. & De Back,V. (Eds.), The outcomes mandate: New roles, rules and relationships. Case management in health care today (pp. 306-316) |
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Pages |
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Advanced nursing practice; Nurse managers; Teamwork; Nurse-family relations; Leadership; Health reforms |
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The chapter presents the research findings of the 1992-1993 Wellington Nurse Case Management Scheme Project as a distinct model of nurse case management, which introduced a role and form of practice of a family nurse and a diagram of the service delivery structure required for support and relevant for the New Zealand health system reforms. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1169 |
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| Author |
Jonsdottir, H.; Litchfield, M.; Pharris, M. |
| Title |
Partnership in practice |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Research & Theory for Nursing Practice |
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| Volume |
17 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
51-63 |
| Keywords |
Nurse-patient relations; Nursing philosophy; Nursing research |
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This article presents a reconsideration of partnership between nurse and client as the core of the nursing discipline. It points to the significance of the relational nature of partnership, differentiating its features and form from the prevalent understanding associated with prescriptive interventions to achieve predetermined goals and outcomes. The meaning of partnership is presented within the nursing process where the caring presence of the nurse becomes integral to the health experience of the client as the potential for action. Exemplars provide illustration of this emerging view in practice and research. This is the first of a series of articles written as a partnership between nurse scholars from Iceland, New Zealand and the USA. The series draws on research projects that explored the philosophical, theoretical, ethical and practical nature of nursing practice and its significance for health and healthcare in a world of changing need. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1172 |
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| Author |
Litchfield, M.; Jonsdottir, H. |
| Title |
A practice discipline that's here and now |
Type |
Journal Article |
| Year |
2008 |
Publication |
Advances in Nursing Science |
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| Volume |
31 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
79-92 |
| Keywords |
Nursing research; Policy; Nursing philosophy |
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The article is a collaborative writing venture drawing on research findings from New Zealand and Iceland to contribute to the international scholarship on the status and future direction of the nursing discipline. It takes an overview of the international historical trends in nursing knowledge development and proposes a framework for contemporary nursing research that accommodates the past efforts and paradigms of nurse scholars and reflects the changing thinking around the humanness of the health circumstance as the focus of the nursing discipline. It addresses contemporary challenges facing nurses as practitioners and researchers for advancement of practice and delivery of health services, and for influencing health policy. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1174 |
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| Author |
Polaschek, N. |
| Title |
Negotiated care: A model for nursing work in the renal setting |
Type |
Journal Article |
| Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Journal of Advanced Nursing |
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| Volume |
42 |
Issue |
4 |
Pages |
355-363 |
| Keywords |
Chronically ill; Nursing models; Nurse-patient relations; Communication |
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This article outlines a model for the nursing role in the chronic health care context of renal replacement therapy. Materials from several streams of literature are used to conceptualise the potential for nursing work in the renal setting as negotiated care. In order to present the role of the renal nurse in this way it is contextualised by viewing the renal setting as a specialised social context constituted by a dominant professional discourse and a contrasting client discourse. While performing specific therapeutic activities in accord with the dominant discourse, renal nurses can develop a relationship with the person living on dialysis, based on responsiveness to their subjective experience reflecting the renal client discourse. In contrast to the language of noncompliance prevalent in the renal setting, nurses can, through their relationship with renal clients, facilitate their attempts to negotiate the requirements of the therapeutic regime into their own personal life situation. Nurses can mediate between the dominant and client discourses for the person living on dialysis. Care describes the quality that nurses actively seek to create in their relationships with clients, through negotiation, in order to support them to live as fully as possible while using renal replacement therapy. The author concludes that within chronic health care contexts, shaped by the acute curative paradigm of biomedicine, the model of nursing work as negotiated care has the potential to humanise contemporary medical technologies by responding to clients' experiences of illness and therapy. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1186 |
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| Author |
McLauchlan, M.F. |
| Title |
Mobile computing in a New Zealand Bachelor of nursing programme |
Type |
Book Chapter |
| Year |
2006 |
Publication |
Consumer-Centered Computer-Supported Care for Healthy People. Studies in health technology and informatics, 122 (pp. 605-608) |
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Technology; Curriculum; Nursing; Education; Professional competence |
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Mobile computing is rapidly becoming a reality in New Zealand health care settings. Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) are the most frequently used of these mobile technologies, giving nurses access to clinical learning resources, including drug references, medical encyclopaedias and diagnostic information. The implementation of mobile computing at Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec) will ensure graduates of our Bachelor of Nursing Programme are able to meet health care service demands for knowledge in contemporary information technologies as well as the information technology requirements defined by the Nursing Council of New Zealand and the Health Practitioners Competency Assurance Act 2003 for registration as a nurse in New Zealand. This paper presents strategies for the implementation of mobile computing as a core element of the curriculum for the Bachelor of Nursing Programme at Wintec in Hamilton. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1192 |
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| Author |
Litchfield, M. |
| Title |
The nation's health and our response |
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Conference Article |
| Year |
1992 |
Publication |
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Keynote address at the 1992 NERF/NZNZ National Nur |
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Nursing; Health reforms; Nurse-family relations |
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An analysis of the challenges for the nursing profession of the Government's health reforms. The findings of the 10-month Wellington Nurse Case Management Project 1991-1992, including the description of family nursing practice, what it achieved for health and the service delivery model that would position family nurses in the health reforms were used to provide an exemplar for the nuyrising contribution to health policy for the health reforms. The paper identified a vacum for the reorientating of health care provision to patients/clients and health need and the call to nursesw to take leadership in goving direction to the reorientation. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1319 |
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| Author |
Crawford, R. |
| Title |
Nutrition: Is there a need for nurses working with children and families to offer nutrition advice? |
Type |
Journal Article |
| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Vision: A Journal of Nursing |
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| Volume |
7 |
Issue |
13 |
Pages |
10-15 |
| Keywords |
Paediatric nursing; Community health nursing; Nurse-family relations; Socioeconomic factors; Diet |
| Abstract |
Using nursing and associated literature, the relevance of nutrition in the care of children and families is highlighted in this article. The role of a nurse in providing nutrition advice and interventions is examined, in the context of social and economic pressures on the provision of a healthy diet. Relevant examples of the provision of such advice is provided, along with competencies required to achieve this in practice. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1276 |
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| Title |
Dementia care: A literature review |
Type |
Journal Article |
| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Vision: A Journal of Nursing |
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| Volume |
7 |
Issue |
13 |
Pages |
33-36 |
| Keywords |
Dementia; Nurse-patient relations; Quality of health care; Nursing; Education |
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This article defines dementia, and explores recent trends in relation to why it is such a misunderstood condition in the health care setting. Within a theoretical framework of literature development, nurse client relationships, and quality of care and attitudes are analysed. Gaps, inconsistencies and consistencies are outlined, with the implications for nursing practice and education explored. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1279 |
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