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Author (up) Howorth, Georgina E. Gilpin; Sculley, De'arna openurl 
  Title Socioeconomic factors and the impact on health and social outcomes for mental-health consumers: a literature review Type Journal Article
  Year 2020 Publication Whitireia Journal of Nursing, Health and Social Services Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 27 Issue Pages 9-15  
  Keywords Socioeconomic factors  
  Abstract Explores the role of socioeconomic deprivation in determining mental health. Applies literature review findings to the case study of a middle-aged male Maori who has had several periods of imprisonment and multiple compulsory admissions to mental health inpatient units. Discusses deprivation, anti-social behaviour and criminal offending in the context of Mills's concept of the sociological imagination.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1710  
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Author (up) Hughes, F.; Duke, J.; Bamford-Wade, A.; Moss, C. openurl 
  Title Enhancing nursing leadership through policy, politics, and strategic alliances Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Nurse Leader Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 4 Issue 2 Pages 24-27  
  Keywords Policy; Nursing; Leadership  
  Abstract This paper looks at the links between nursing roles and health policy in New Zealand. Strategic alliances between key professional leaders in different nursing roles can help the profession by directly influencing policy development and implementation. This form of policy entrepreneurship is an important component of professional leadership.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 955 Serial 939  
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Author (up) Hughes, Kerri-Ann; Carryer, Jennifer; Boldy, Duncan; Jones, Mark; Gower, Shelley url  openurl
  Title Attributes of an effective nurse manager in New Zealand: An analysis of nurse manager perceptions Type Journal Article
  Year 2018 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 34 Issue 2 Pages 27-37  
  Keywords Nurse manager; Skills and attributes; Managerial effectiveness  
  Abstract Analyses nurse managers' perceptions of those attributes they consider important to achieve managerial effectiveness in the New Zealand context. Conducts a quantitative study using a pre-coded survey questionnaire with 149 nurse managers. Identifies managerial effectiveness attributes using an effectiveness dimensions ranking tool, comprising four groups of co-dependent skill dimensions.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1604  
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Author (up) Hughes, Margaret; Kirk, Ray; Dixon, Alison openurl 
  Title Direction and delegation for New Zealand nurses Type Journal Article
  Year 2018 Publication Kai Tiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 9 Issue 1 Pages 36-37  
  Keywords Direction; Delegation; Enrolled nurses; Registered nurses  
  Abstract Investigates how enrolled nurses (EN) and registered nurses (RN) perceive their experiences of direction and delegation. Employs narrative enquiry to describe communication during direction and delegation interactions.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1598  
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Author (up) Hughes, Margaret; Kirk, Ray; Dixon, Alison url  openurl
  Title New Zealand nurses' storied experiences of direction and delegation Type Journal Article
  Year 2018 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 34 Issue 3 Pages 32-45  
  Keywords Direction; Delegation; Teamwork; Enrolled Nurses; Registered Nurses  
  Abstract Explores nurses' perceptions about their everyday direction and delegation interactions using a narrative inquiry approach. Invites Registered Nurses (RN)and Enrolled Nurses (EN) who hold a practising certificate, are employed in Canterbury, and registered with the Nursing Council, to participate in this research. Presents 8 narratives that highlight the nature of teamwork, the importance of communication, and the need for a delegation relationship.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1607  
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Author (up) Hunt, G.; Verstappen, A.; Stewart, Lisa; Kool, Bridget; Slark, Julia url  openurl
  Title Career interests of undergraduate nursing students: A ten-year longitudinal study Type Journal Article
  Year 2020 Publication Nurse Education in Practice Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 43 Issue Pages 1-5  
  Keywords Career choice; Nursing students; Surveys  
  Abstract Describes career interests of over 500 undergraduate nursing students in New Zealand over a ten-year period. Invites all Bachelor of Nursing cohorts commencing between 2006 and 2016 to complete a questionnaire which includes questions about their career interests. Identifies emergency care and child health as strongest career interests at entry, with child health and surgery the prevailing interests at exit.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1776  
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Author (up) Hunter, Kiri; Roberts, Jennifer; Foster, Mandie; Jones, Shelley url  doi
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  Title Dr Irihapeti Ramsden's powerful petition for cultural safety Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 37 Issue 1 Pages 25-28  
  Keywords Cultural safety; Kawa whakaruruhau; Health equity; Maori health  
  Abstract Revisits the concepts addressed in Ramsden's speech to nursing graduands in 1990, 'Moving On'. Places the speech in the context of her later articles on cultural safety, in 1993 and 2000. Maintains that the concept is critically relevant in 2021 due to health disparities for Maori.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1688  
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Author (up) Huntington, A.D. openurl 
  Title Blood, sweat and tears: Women as nurses nursing women in the gynaecology ward: A feminist interpretive study Type
  Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Feminist critique; Nursing specialties; Methodology  
  Abstract This feminist study is an exploration of the subjectivity of women working as nurses within the gynaecological ward. Gynaecology has a long history as a unique area of concern to the health practitioners of any given period. However, the author suggests, recently with the development of modern gynaecology, this specialty has become based on male knowledge and male texts, women either as patients or nurses appear voiceless within this canon. Major tests within nursing mirror a medical construction of gynaecology, with the women involved in the discourse again absent from the literature. To explore the nurses' reality within the gynaecological ward, the author has undertaken a feminist interpretive study. To contribute to this debate the author drew on certain specific notions from feminist and postmodern epistemologies. These notions of the Other, difference, the body and discourse provided a unique way of viewing the practice of the nurses in this gynaecological setting. These epistemological concepts were then interwoven with feminist strategies to undertake the research. Through the process of feminist praxis, which included the author working alongside the nurses and conducting in-depth interviews, three areas of general concern to the nurses emerged. Firstly the relationships, that is their relationships with each other as nurses and with their women patients. Secondly, the difficulties inherent in nurses' practice in this setting due to the nature of the experiences of the women they were nursing. These difficulties arose in relation to two particular situations, nursing women experiencing a mid-trimester termination and nursing women with cancer. Thirdly, the relationship with/in the medical discourse and individual doctors which, according to nurses, had a major impact on their work. This study contributes to nursing knowledge by providing a forum for the voices of women as nurses, who nurse women in the gynaecological ward, to be heard. The author concludes that nursing and feminism have much to offer each other and share an emancipatory goal of positive action to support and assist people in their lives.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 484  
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Author (up) Huntington, A.D.; Gilmour, J.A. openurl 
  Title A life shaped by pain: Women and endometriosis Type Journal Article
  Year 2005 Publication Journal of Clinical Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 14 Issue 9 Pages 1124-1132  
  Keywords Female; Diseases; Nurse practitioners; Pain management; Endometriosis; Feminist critique  
  Abstract The research aim was to explore women's perceptions of living with endometriosis, its effects on their lives and the strategies used to manage their disease. A qualitative research design informed by feminist research principles was chosen for this project. Eighteen women agreed to take part in the research. The individual, audio taped interviews were semi-structured and interactive. The interviews were analysed using a thematic analysis approach. The dominant feature of data from the interviews was the experience of severe and chronic pain impacting on all aspects of life. Analysis related to pain resulted in four themes: manifestations of pain, the pain trajectory, intractable pain and controlling pain. The diagnostic process typically took 5-10 years indicating that primary health care practitioners need higher levels of 'suspicion' for this condition. Case studies and problem-based scenarios focusing on endometriosis in health professional education programmes would enhance diagnostic skills and knowledge development. No formal pain management follow up after diagnosis and treatment meant women actively sought information from other sources as they made major lifestyle changes in the areas of activity and nutrition. Pain management services specifically for women with endometriosis would provide much needed support with this neglected aspect of the disease. The authors conclude this is an area for the development of the nurse practitioner role which, also drawing on the considerable collective expertise of women with endometriosis, could provide significant information and support for women as they manage this highly complex condition.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 940  
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Author (up) Hutchinson, Rosie; Adams, Sue; Cook, Catherine url  doi
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  Title From regulation to practice: Mapping the organisational readiness for registered nurse prescribers in a specialty outpatient clinic setting Type Journal Article
  Year 2020 Publication Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 36 Issue 1 Pages 31-40  
  Keywords Registered nurses; Community nursing; Primary health care; Sexual health services; Nurse precsribing; Institutional ethnography  
  Abstract Asserts that registered-nurse (RN) prescribing could improve equitable access and care delivery for patients. Uses a mapping tool to reflect how one RN qualified to deliver prescribing services in a sexual health clinic. Emphasises the need for organisational readiness to employ RN prescribers.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1674  
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Author (up) Idour, D.M.G. openurl 
  Title Stepping beyond the known – the lived experience of returning registered nurse students: an interpretive descriptive study Type
  Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library, NZNO Library, UMI Disse  
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  Abstract A Heideggerian Hermeneutical Analysis (HHA) approach was used for a study of returning registered nurse students (RRNS) from a nursing/health management context. In essence a descriptive interpretive study the intent has been to unveil the common meanings embedded in the lived experience of RRNS return to formal (advanced) studies. The phenomenon or issue of interest was pursued in the form of a question: What is meaningful and significant for participant RRNS in their everyday world on re-engaging in formal (advanced) nursing studies?Research from the RRNS viewpoint is scarce, so the focus of the study was to understand what RRNS themselves found to be the highlights of the experience. Participants included RRNS coming from a management background and, therefore, very much at the cutting edge of rapid and continuing change in health care provision. In addition to personal and professional reasons for returning to study, what the narratives disclosed was the compelling need experienced by the RRNS to increase understanding of changing requirements in the workplace. They looked for new possibilities to transform management of nursing/health services and for learning experiences favorable to that purpose. A key aspect of their concern related to the interactive nature of their lived experience as a RRNS with the entire context of their everyday world, that is, with the connections and relations between the study-work-homespace.Fourteen RRNS from an established university nursing programme participated in an expended non-structured interviews lasting 60 – 90 minutes. The interviews were held during 1993 in places selected by participants, some in the home but mostly in the work setting. With the consent of the participants interviews were audiotaped and then transcribed. The texts (transcriptions) were analysed hermeneutically using Heideggerian phenomenology, a particular tradition of philosophy whose concern is the meaning of Being. The concern is to make visible participants' experience of their 'world'. In this instance, it was the everyday 'world' of the participant RRNS and the lived meanings of what they experienced on return to formal (advanced) studies. Hence everyday lived experience is the focus of attention in Heiedeggerian phenomenology. In this research approach what is sought is understanding not explanation. It is a premise of phenemenology that, in general, an understanding of the meaning and significance of the lived experience can be required from the 'things' (the phenomena under study) themselves. Approaching a participant as an expert by virtue of directly experiencing the phenomenon, is basic to phenomenology. Hermeneutic analysis of the texts of the participant RRNS affirmed the authenticity of those assumptions.The study revealed several common or major themes, two relational themes and one constitutive pattern were identified through the process of textual interpretation. The constitutive pattern expressing the full complexity of the relations and connections between the themes, was found to be present in all fourteen texts; the nature of a constitutive pattern being 'that it's always there'. The constitutive pattern 'Nursing is Dwelling in Thoughtful Concern as Context Calls Forth', emerged as the major finding of the study. This pattern witnesses to the pragmatism that is inherent in nursing and commonly found in nurses' responses to the challenges presented by continuing and rapid change. For the participant RRNS nursing had become a way of engaging their energies in the workplace as appropriate to a given place, time and culture. The two relational themes accent particular aspects of the constitutive pattern. 'Nursing' is a whole pile of things'; and 'Curriculum: Reflective Openness' reveal the inherent meanings of the constitutive pattern. Firstly, that nursing is diverse in practice and has many dimensions; and,, secondly, that a curriculum befitting the diversity of nursing requires us to constantly challenge ad test the learning experiences we provide for RRNS.The fourteen participants traversed diverse pathways to acquire the understanding and skills required for altered health care structures. Adopting new relationships and 'leaping-ahead' (Heidegger, 1962), to be able to see the whole picture of what was being experienced in nursing/health care, reveals the RRNS becoming-as interpreters for both colleagues and clients. Leaping-ahead is reflective of thoughtful concern as the pattern of responding to presenting need. This way of living a life transforms work. The participant RRNS disclose that, dwelling in such a way in nursing/health work opens up a future of possibilities which brings all the presenting needs into focus. Sharing the story of their lifeworld as RRNS, the participants have exemplified the ' reflective openness' Senge(1990) advocates, as being a pre-requisite for 'learning organisations'. Contemporary oganisations require us to challenge our own thinking as well as being free to speak our minds ('participant openness'). Since, however much we value our daily life practices and understandings, they need to be 'always subject to test and improvement'. In effect, what the participants have bestowed on us is that, within the framework of a curriculum for RRNS and the content learning of a given course, we must generate a process of learning amenable to both individual and group requirements  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 208 Serial 208  
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Author (up) Idour, D.M.G. openurl 
  Title The social context and the relevance of nursing curricula Type
  Year 1981 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
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  Abstract The relevance of Nursing Curricula and the degree of effectiveness of their outcomes for the 'consumer' ( clients, students, a given society) are seen as commiserate to the degree that a curriculum is developed with due regard for the 'social realities' of a society. "Social realities' are defined as the actual conditions, pressures, disabilities and abilities, limitations and resources that exist in the lifespan of people and form the environment within which Nursing practices. A Curriculum relevancy process ( CRP) has been developed for use as the main analytical tool of the study. CRP has been designated as an information seeking, problem solving and evaluative process. It consists of three phases with a major emphasis on the first phase, information seeking. Information has been gathered about contemporary social realities ( the year of 1979) and related Socio- health disorders. Information has been gathered and analysed from official ad voluntary sources and the findings related to curricular choices for Nursing education  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 127 Serial 127  
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Author (up) Isaac, D. url  openurl
  Title Passionate dedication: A qualitative descriptive study of nurses' and hospital play specialists' experiences on a children's burn ward Type
  Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal Auckland University of Technology Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Children; Nursing specialties; Mentoring; Job satisfaction  
  Abstract A qualitative descriptive approach was undertaken to explore the experience of eight registered nurses and two hospital play specialists who care for children hospitalised with burn injuries. The research participants were recruited from a paediatric ward that offers centralised specialty care to children with burns. Emerging out of the data was the over-arching theme of 'passionate dedication' that shows the nurses and hospital play specialists genuine compassion and commitment to meet the needs of the children with burns. The findings of the study reveal that the participant's dedication is shaped and determined by a dynamic process that involves having professional integrity and in-depth knowledge of caring for children and burn management. The nurses and the hospital play specialists have a common understanding of what their role entails and the skills required to provide quality care and support to the children and the children's family. On a personal and professional level the participants encounter several challenges in this care context that are physically and emotionally overwhelming. Despite becoming overwhelmed the participants are revealed as being resourceful and resilient in their aptitude to find ways that enable them to cope and get through. The author suggests that this study supports international literature that suggests that caring for children with burns is equally rewarding, as much as it is physically and emotionally demanding. The author identifies that the implication in this study for the organisation is to seriously consider issues regarding productivity and efficiency of the workforce with acknowledgement that nurses and hospital play specialists cannot do this emotional work without effective systems of support in place.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 577 Serial 563  
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Author (up) Jacobs, S.; Boddy, J.M. openurl 
  Title The genesis of advanced nursing practice in New Zealand: Policy, politics and education Type Journal Article
  Year 2008 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 24 Issue 1 (Mar) Pages 11-22  
  Keywords Nurse practitioners; History of nursing; Policy; Scope of practice  
  Abstract This contemporary historical study examines the health sector environment of the 1990s and the turn of the 21st century, and assesses the policy initiatives undertaken to advance nursing in New Zealand during that period. The authors look at the conditions and forces that saw nursing achieve a new emphasis on advanced and expanded scope of nursing practice, less than a decade after the commencement of New Zealand's first pre-registration nursing degrees.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 452  
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Author (up) Jamieson, Isabel; Andrew, Cathy; King, Jacinda url  openurl
  Title Keeping our borders safe: The social stigma of nursing in managed isolation and quarantine border facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 37 Issue 3 Pages 53-61  
  Keywords COVID-19; Isolation and quarantine; Nurses -- Job Stress  
  Abstract Reports a qualitative, single-centre descriptive study of the experiences of nurses

working in managed isolation and quarantine facilities (MIQFs)in Aotearoa New Zealand. Conducts 14 semi-structured interviews, via Zoom, with registered nurses working in MIQFs, focusing on the personal and social impacts on the nurses. Identifies four themes: protecting the community while being a risk to the community; social stigma; families and social connections; being part of, but apart from, other health professionals. Underlines the importance for employers, colleagues, and the wider community of supporting nurses during a pandemic.
 
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1734  
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