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| Author | Litchfield, M. | ||||
| Title | Practice wisdom | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1999 | Publication | Advances in Nursing Science | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 22 | Issue | 2 | Pages  |
62-73 |
| Keywords | Nursing research; Nursing; Health knowledge | ||||
| Abstract | The paper is the report of two cumulative research projects studying the nature of nursing knowledge and methodology to develop it. They were undertaken as theses for masters and doctoral degrees at the University of Minnesota, USA. Nursing knowledge is depicted as relational: an evolving participatory process of research-as-if-practice of which 'health' (its meaning), dialogue, partnership and pattern recognition are threads inter-related around personal values of vision and community. | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ 1186 | Serial | 1171 | ||
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| Author | Litchfield, Merian | ||||
| Title | Nursing is -- and has -- a methodology: a nursing voice | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2021 | Publication | Kai Tiaki Nursing Research | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 12 | Issue | 1 | Pages |
66-72 |
| Keywords | Nursing knowldege; Nursing voice; Nursing methodology | ||||
| Abstract | Argues that a nursing paradigm identifies and differentiates the nursing perspective on health, and reinterprets practical expertise. Posits that nurse researchers present their findings as practice wisdom. Suggests that the significance of nursing lies in its knowledgeable practitioners and that the nursing voice is a collective one. Emphasises the need for a distinctly nursing perspective on health in NZ. | ||||
| Call Number | NZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1721 | ||
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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 | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 31 | Issue | 1 | Pages |
79-92 |
| Keywords | Nursing research; Policy; Nursing philosophy | ||||
| Abstract | 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. | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1174 | ||
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| Author | Litchfield, M. | ||||
| Title | Computers and the form of nursing to come | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 1992 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal | Held by NZNO Library and author | |
| Volume | Proceedings of the Inaugural National Nursing Info | Issue | Pages |
81-90 | |
| Keywords | Nursing: Computers; Technology | ||||
| Abstract | A paper presented at the annual conference of Nursing Informatics New Zealand (subsequently incorporated into the collective organisation, Health Informatics NZ). | ||||
| Call Number | NZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1317 | ||
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| Author | Litchfield, M | ||||
| Title | To advance health care: The origins of nursing research in New Zealand | Type | Book Whole | ||
| Year | 2009 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal | ||
| Volume | Issue | Pages |
129 pp | ||
| Keywords | Nursing Research Section, New Zealand Nurses Organisation | ||||
| Abstract | This book examines in detail the confluence of personalities and professional and practice agendas, out of which emerged the research section, intent on placing research at the centre of the profession's evolution. It provides a fascinating look at how a group of women, utterly committed to nursing, drove their research agenda and it expands understandings of why nursing research is significant for the development of nursing. It also provides an insight into that web of relationships between the professional body, NZNA, the Department of Health, service delivery and education. To order a copy: Email: publications@nzno.org.nz NZNO members: $25 (incl GST + p&p) Non-NZNO members: $35 (incl GST + p&p) |
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| Call Number | NZNO @ research @ | Serial | 1341 | ||
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| Author | Jonsdottir, H.; Litchfield, M.; Pharris, M. | ||||
| Title | The relational core of nursing practice as partnership | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | Publication | Journal of Advanced Nursing | Abbreviated Journal | ||
| Volume | 47 | Issue | 3 | Pages |
241-250 |
| Keywords | Nurse-patient relations; Nursing philosophy; Nursing research | ||||
| Abstract | This article elaborates the meaning of partnership in practice for nurses practising in different and complementary way to nurses in specialist roles and medical practitioners. It positions partnership as the relational core of nursing practice. Partnership is presented as an evolving dialogue between nurse and patient, which is characterised by open, caring, mutually responsive and non-directive approaches. This partnership occurs within a health system that is dominated by technologically-driven, prescriptive, and outcome-oriented approaches. It is the second of a series of articles written as a partnership between nurse scholars from Iceland, NZ and USA. | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ 1188 | Serial | 1173 | ||
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| Author | Litchfield, M.; Noroian, E. | ||||
| Title | Changes in selected pulmonary functions in patients diagnosed with myasthenia gravis | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1989 | Publication | Journal of Neuroscience – Nursing | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 21 | Issue | 6 | Pages |
375-381 |
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| Abstract | Patients with myisthenia gravis (MG) face major pulmary problems as a part of the disease process. In this descriptive study, changes in selected pulmonary functions (respiratory rate, negative inspiratory force, tidal volume and forced total capacity) in 14 patients diagnosed with mild or moderate MG were measured every two hours from 8.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. Females comprised 64% of the sample while 36% were males. All subjects received anticholnesterase medication, and some subjects received additional treatment modalities. Most of the subjects were non-smokers or previous smokers, but two subjects continued to smoke. Ninety-three recent of the sample had forced vital capacities less than 60% of their predicted values. Myasthenic forced vital capacities were significantly lower (p=.0000) than those predicted for normal subjects. The inspiratory force for the sample was low sat 8:00 a.m. as well as in females over 55 years of age. There was a wide variation in total volume to normal values derived from random tables and predicted equations ws not significant. Th major implications from this study are the need to assess pulmonary function in the hospitalized myasthenic every two hours, and the need for a program of coughing, deep breathing and sighing after medication administration when the muscles are strongest | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ 370 | Serial | 370 | ||
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| Author | van Wissen, K.A.; Litchfield, M.; Maling, T. | ||||
| Title | Living with high blood pressure | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1998 | Publication | Journal of Advanced Nursing | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 27 | Issue | 3 | Pages |
567-574 |
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| Abstract | An interdisciplinary (nursing-medicine) collaboration in a qualitative descriptive research project undertaken in the Wellington School of Medicine with New Zealand Health Research Council funding. The purpose was to inform the practice of nursing and medical practitioners. A group of patients were interviewed in their homes. Their experience of having a diagnosis of hypertension and prescription of long-term treatment requiring adjustment in their lives and the lives of their families is presented as themes. | ||||
| Call Number | NRSNZNO @ research @ | Serial | 360 | ||
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