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Cook, D. (2006). Open visiting: does this benefit adult patients in intensive care units. Master's thesis, , .
Abstract: A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Nursing at Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand.
As the healthcare system moves toward a consumer-driven paradigm, visiting hours for family and significant others of the intensive care unit patient have become a topic of interest and discussion. Research since the 1970s has generated controversy and speculation over the ideal visiting practices in the adult intensive care unit. Analysis of the growing body of research can now be reviewed to enable existing visiting policies to be revised.
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Coats, A., & Marshall, D. (2013). Inpatient hypoglycaemia : a study of nursing management. Nursing Praxis in New Zealand, 29(2), 15–24.
Abstract: Uses a retrospective audit of inpatient treatment and progress notes to examine nursing adherence to a hypoglycaemic protocol. Includes adult medical and surgical inpatients with type 1 or 2 diabetes who had experienced hypoglycaemia during a three-month period. Describes the treatment of hypoglycaemic episodes and variation from the established protocol. Identifies a high degree of recurrent and prolonged hypoglycaemia.
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Davidson, R., Bannister, E., & De Vries, K. (2013). Primary healthcare NZ nurses' experiences of advance directives : understanding their potential role. Nursing Praxis in New Zealand, 29(2), 26–33.
Abstract: Presents results of a qualitative study of the knowledge, attitudes, and experiences of advance directives among 13 senior primary health-care nurses. Analyses participants' understanding of their potential role in this area, supporting the need for open communication in the primary health-care setting.
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Gilmour, J.(and others). (2013). Nurses and heart failure education in medical wards. Nursing Praxis in New Zealand, 29(3), 5–17.
Abstract: Reports a study of medical nurses' education activities with heart failure patients. Surveys a random sample of 540 medical ward nurses via postal questionnaire. Describes the topics addressed and the resources they found most effective, using quantitative data to analyse their responses. Outlines nurses' suggestions to improve patient access to heart failure information.
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Litchfield, M. (1986). Thinking through diagnosis: Process in nursing practice. Nursing Praxis in New Zealand, 1(4), 9–12.
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.
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Litchfield, M. (1989). Knowledge embedded in practice. Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand, 82(10), 24–25.
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.
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Litchfield, M. (1991). Nursing education: Direction with purpose. Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand, 84(7), 22–24.
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Litchfield, M. (1992). Computers and the form of nursing to come. (Vol. Proceedings of the Inaugural National Nursing Info, pp. 81–90).
Abstract: A paper presented at the annual conference of Nursing Informatics New Zealand (subsequently incorporated into the collective organisation, Health Informatics NZ).
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Litchfield, M. (1992). Computers and the form of nursing to come. International Journal of Health Informatics, 1(1), 7–10.
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.
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Litchfield, M. (1992). The nation's health and our response. (Vol. Keynote address at the 1992 NERF/NZNZ National Nur).
Abstract: 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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Lichfield, M. (1974). The paediatric nurse and the child in hospital. New Zealand Nursing Journal, 67(11).
Abstract: A paper intended to inform paediatric nurses and influence service policy and management, adapted from a presentation at an inservice education study day for nurses at Wellington Hospital. The paper grew out of the findings of a small research project undertaken by the author as part of nursing practice in a paediatric ward of Wellington Hospital. The observations of the stress in the experience of infants and parents and the ambiguities inherent in the relationships between parents and nurses were the basis for arguing for changes in nursing practice and ward management.
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Litchfield, M. (1986). Between the idea and reality. Nursing Praxis in New Zealand, 1(2), 17–29.
Abstract: A paper presented as one of the four “Winter Lecture Series” hosted by the Nursing Studies unit of the Department of Education, Victoria University of Wellington. It is a critique of “ The Nursing Process” referred to commonly in nursing education programmes. It challenges the usefulness for nursing of the linear sequence of steps of assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention and evaluation.
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Litchfield, M. (1993). Priorities for research. kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand, 1(8), 28–30.
Abstract: An article adapted from the author's contribution as an invited member of the International Panel of Nurse Researchers leading the Special Research Seminar of the 1993 International Council of Nurses Quadrennial Congress, Madrid, Spain. The priorities of nursing research in New Zealand were derived from the findings of a semi-structured survey of the opinions of nurses in academic settings.
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Litchfield, M. (1994). Viewpoint: Telling nursing stories. Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand, 2(4), 28.
Abstract: A brief critique and comment on the ethical implications of nurse researchers using methodology that involves soliciting personal experiences of patients and subsequently publishing them as stories.
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Litchfield, M. (1997). The language of nursing practice in hospitals. (Vol. Proceedings of the National Nursing Informatics Co).
Abstract: A paper presenting the findings of a small research project involving a group of self-selected senior nurses of Wellington Hospital to explore the nature of nursing practice in the care and management of hospitalised patients and to formalise the language that would acknowledge its significance in the current effort of hospitals to define patient care pathways. The nature of hospital nursing practice was described in themes of a generic process of nurse-patient care that articulates a distinct specialism of hospital nursing, whatever the hospital department in which nurses hold positions.
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