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Author Rydon, S.E. openurl 
  Title The attitudes, knowledge and skills needed in mental health nurses: The perspective of users of mental health services Type Journal Article
  Year 2005 Publication International Journal of Mental Health Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 14 Issue 2 Pages 78-87  
  Keywords Patient satisfaction; Psychiatric Nursing; Attitude of health personnel  
  Abstract In this study a qualitative descriptive methodology with focus group interviews was used to explore with users of mental health services, the attitudes, knowledge and skills that they need in mental health nurses. Users of mental health services valued the therapeutic work of mental health nurses, and identified positive attitudes towards users of mental health services as essential in mental health nurses. However, they did not consistently experience a therapeutic approach in their interactions with mental health nurses. In a sociopolitical climate where the views of users of mental health services are increasingly incorporated into education and the planning and delivery of services, there is a need for more research that reflects the perspective of users.  
  Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 961 Serial 945  
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Author Wenn, J. openurl 
  Title Self competency ratings: learning experience in research Type Miscellaneous
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  Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 96 Serial 96  
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Author 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 (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 955 Serial 939  
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Author Wilkinson, A. openurl 
  Title New age informatics & the management of perioperative nursing documentation Type Journal Article
  Year 2007 Publication Dissector Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 35 Issue 1 Pages 20-23  
  Keywords Nursing; Administration  
  Abstract Investigates the requirements for documentation by nurses. Research by Millar & Araquiza (1999) suggests that nurses spend an estimated 30% of their time documenting patient care.  
  Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 950 Serial 934  
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Author Butler, A.M. openurl 
  Title School of nursing: tutorial staff survey Type Miscellaneous
  Year Publication Abbreviated Journal  
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  Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 95 Serial 95  
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Author Gage, J.; Hornblow, A.R. openurl 
  Title Development of the New Zealand nursing workforce: Historical themes and current challenges Type Journal Article
  Year 2007 Publication Nursing Inquiry Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 14 Issue 4 Pages 330-334  
  Keywords History of nursing; Nursing research; Personnel; Interprofessional relations  
  Abstract This article reviews the development of the New Zealand nursing workforce, which has been shaped by social, political, scientific and interprofessional forces. The unregulated, independent and often untrained nurses of the early colonial period were succeeded in the early 1900s by registered nurses, with hospital-based training, working in a subordinate role to medical practitioners. In the mid/late 1900s, greater specialisation within an expanding workforce, restructuring of nursing education, health sector reform, and changing social and political expectations again reshaped nursing practice. Nursing now has areas of increasing autonomy, expanding opportunities for postgraduate education and leadership roles, and a relationship with medicine, which is more collaborative than in the past. Three current challenges are identified for nursing in New Zealand's rapidly evolving health sector; development of a nursing-focused knowledge culture, strengthening of research capacity, and dissemination of new nursing knowledge.  
  Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 946 Serial 930  
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Author Gardner, A.; Hase, S.; Gardner, G.; Dunn, S.; Carryer, J.B. url  openurl
  Title From competence to capability: A study of nurse practitioners in clinical practice Type Journal Article
  Year 2008 Publication Journal of Clinical Nursing Abbreviated Journal Author copy available 12 months after publication from QUT ePrints  
  Volume 17 Issue 2 Pages 250-258  
  Keywords Nurse practitioners; Professional competence; Advanced nursing practice; Evaluation  
  Abstract This research aimed to understand the level and scope of practice of the nurse practitioner in Australia and New Zealand further using a capability framework. The original study, from which the present paper was developed, sought to identify competency standards for the extended role of the nurse practitioner in Australia and New Zealand. In doing so the researchers became aware that while competencies described many of the characteristics of the nurse practitioner they did not manage to tell the whole story. In a search of the literature, the concept of capability appeared to provide a potentially useful construct to describe the attributes of the nurse practitioner that went beyond competence. A secondary analysis of data obtained from the interviews with 15 nurse practitioners working in Australia and New Zealand was undertaken. The analysis showed that capability and its dimensions is a useful model for describing the advanced level attributes of nurse practitioners. Thus, nurse practitioners described elements of their practice that involved: using their competences in novel and complex situations as well as the familiar; being creative and innovative; knowing how to learn; having a high level of self-efficacy; and working well in teams. This study suggests dimensions of capability need to be considered in the education and evaluation of nurse practitioners.  
  Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 945 Serial 929  
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Author DeSouza, R. openurl 
  Title Wellness for all: The possibilities of cultural safety and cultural competence in New Zealand Type Journal Article
  Year 2008 Publication Journal of Research in Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 125-135  
  Keywords Cultural safety; Nursing models; Cross-cultural comparison; Maori  
  Abstract The author contends that responses to cultural diversity in nursing need to consider the theory and practice developments of the profession, whilst also responding to broader social and historical process that prevent marginalised groups from utilising universal health services. A combination of approaches is suggested in this paper to meet these two imperatives. Cultural safety is one indigenous New Zealand nursing approach derived in response to inequalities for Maori, whereas cultural competence is an imported paradigm derived from a multicultural context. Furthermore, research and dialogue are required to examine points of complementarity and tension. This paper offers a beginning for this process.  
  Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 943 Serial 927  
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Author Carryer, J.B. openurl 
  Title Embodied largeness: A significant women's health issue Type Journal Article
  Year 2001 Publication Nursing Inquiry Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages 90-97  
  Keywords Nurse-patient relations; Attitude of health personnel; Feminist critique  
  Abstract This paper describes a three-year long research project in which nine large-bodied women have engaged in a prolonged dialogue with the researcher about the experience of being 'obese'. The study involved an extensive review of the multidisciplinary literature that informs our understandings of body size. The literature review was shared with participants in order to support their critical understanding of their experience. The experience of participants raised questions as to how nursing could best provide health-care for large women. An examination of a wide range of literature pertinent to the area of study reveals widespread acceptance of the notion that to be thin is to be healthy and virtuous, and to be fat is to be unhealthy and morally deficient. According to the literature review, nurses have perpetuated an unhelpful and reductionist approach to their care of large women, in direct contradiction to nursing's supposed allegiance to a holistic approach to health-care. This paper suggests strategies for an improved response to women who are concerned about their large body size.  
  Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 941 Serial 925  
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Author Englefield, R. openurl 
  Title Research into Nelson health services Type
  Year 1975 Publication Abbreviated Journal Nelson Branch, NZNA.  
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  Abstract A telephone survey on peoples' perceptions of health services in the Nelson district. Conducted in conjunction with Graeme Taylor (Psychologist) and other members of NZNA,  
  Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 94 Serial 94  
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Author Ainge, N. openurl 
  Title Report on the pilot implementation of the clinical career pathway for nurses ( CAHB) Type
  Year 1993 Publication Abbreviated Journal Mary Lambie Collection Canterbury Medical Library  
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  Abstract During 1992, two hundred Registered Nurses ( RN's) participated in the Pilot Implementation of the Clinical Career Pathway for Nurses. This was conducted according to terms for the Proposal (Shepherd et al 1991) prepared by Nurses throughout the Canterbury Area Health Board.Ten services had a participating ward/ unit. All were volunteers. The framework for a Clinical Career Pathway (CAHB) has six steps. During 1992 attention was focused on the two levels beyond basic functional competency. Nurse Practitioner II, Nurse Specialist. An open system was piloted. There was no change to remuneration. Advancement was- self initiated; by peer review ( the RN was required to meet the performance criteria set by the Unit Nurse Managers.) There was no constraint to numbers advancing. Forty seven RN's advanced to Nurse practitioner II level,nine advanced to Nurse Specialist level.Evaluation covered four areas-1. Qualitative benefits and initiatives to improves patient care. 2. Nurses perception of the project. 3. Benefits of peer review. 4. Secondary gains  
  Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 93 Serial 93  
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Author Connor, M. openurl 
  Title Courage and complexity in chronic illness: Reflective practice in nursing Type Book Whole
  Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
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  Keywords Asthma; Nurse-patient relations; Nurse-family relations; Community health nursing; District nursing; Chronically ill  
  Abstract This book presents the reflective account of an actual nursing practice situation (a woman living with chronic asthma).The author provides a descriptive narrative and then delves deeper into the narrative to obtain greater understanding of what she calls “strife” in chronic illness and the best nursing practice to assist its resolution.  
  Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 926 Serial 910  
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Author Taylor, K. openurl 
  Title Report of a survey undertaken to determine factors that may affect the registered nurses' desire to participate in continuing education Type
  Year 1987 Publication Abbreviated Journal Inservice Educaton Department, Middlemore Hospital  
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  Abstract Nurses at a New Zealand Metropolitan Hospital were surveyed to determine whether the following factors affected their desire to participate in continuing education. Age, Family responsibilities, reading of Journals/Health literature related to Nursing, attendance of in service/staff development programs, careers aims and intended number of years to remain in Nursing. 30 Nurses were requested to participate in the research project. They were either registered General and Obstetric Nurses or Registered Comprehensive Nurses and 15 worked full time while 15 worked part time. Null hypotheses were formulated and tested because it is recognised that Nurses have a professional responsibility to maintain their knowledge and expertise and to do this in a Health Care system and society that is continually changing there must be a commitment to life long continuing education. Therefore , I thought it would be of interest to determine whether certain factors influenced Nurses' desire to participate in continuing education. With the factors of Age, Family responsibilities, hours of work, number of years registered reading of Journals/Health literature related to Nursing, and intended number of years to remain in Nursing there was no significant difference (p> 0.10) in the desire to participate in continuing education, as was Nurses basic qualification (p< 0.05) With the factor of attendance of in service/ Staff development programs there doesn't appear to be any significant difference and with career plans the sample expected frequencies were too small for statistical analysis  
  Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 92 Serial 92  
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Author Jones, B. openurl 
  Title Saving lives and changing dirty nappies: Illuminating nursing in the neonatal nurse practitioner role: The New Zealand experience Type
  Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Neonatal nursing; Nurse practitioners  
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  Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 919 Serial 903  
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Author O'Brien, A.J. openurl 
  Title The therapeutic relationship: Perceptions of mental health nurses Type
  Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Mental health; Nurse-patient relations  
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  Call Number (down) NRSNZNO @ research @ 914 Serial 898  
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