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Author Sibley, Elyse; Mercer, Christine openurl 
  Title Management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD): an integrative review Type Journal Article
  Year 2023 Publication Kaitiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 14 Issue (down) 1 Pages 41-49  
  Keywords Dementia; Behaviour; Psychology; Non-pharmacological interventions  
  Abstract Describes the behavioural and psychological symptoms associated with dementia, including depression, agitation, psychosis, hallucinations, delusions and apathy. Employs an integrative review to investigate why care-givers resort to anti-psychotic medication in the first instance instead of non-pharmacological interventions to manage such symptoms. Identifies three themes: low staff-to-patient ratios, insufficient specialised staff; inadequate understanding of the manifestations of dementia.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1850  
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Author Oda, Keiko; Bakri, Noor; Majeed, Sarah; Ferguson, Catherine; Bartlett, Shennae; Holden, Rachel; Thomson, W Murray; Parsons, John; Boyd, Michal; Smith, Moira openurl 
  Title Improving nursing oral care practice for care-dependent older adults though inter-professional collaboration: a study protocol Type Journal Article
  Year 2023 Publication Kaitiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 14 Issue (down) 1 Pages 50-57  
  Keywords Oral care; Dependent older adults; Inter-professional collaboration; Geriatric nursing; Oral care protocols  
  Abstract Aims to establish evidence-based oral care guidelines for nurses, in order to improve oral care for dependent adults. Considers how interprofessional collaboration and education (IPC/IPE) might improve nursing oral care practice. Intends to use guidelines in a pilot programme with community nurses caring for older adults living at home or in aged residential care.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1851  
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Author Weber, Heidi openurl 
  Title Deciding on a safe site for intramuscular injections in an acute mental health setting Type Journal Article
  Year 2023 Publication Kaitiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 14 Issue (down) 1 Pages 58-61  
  Keywords Intramuscular injections; Mental health patients  
  Abstract Aims to provide practical guidance for health-care providers to ensure the safe and effective administration of intramuscular injections, when there is the potential for violence and agitation, as well as during personal restraint. Undertakes a realist review of the evidence comparing the dorsogluteal and ventrogluteal sites.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1852  
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Author Woods, Heather openurl 
  Title Oral history: a rich tapestry of information Type Journal Article
  Year 2023 Publication Kaitiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 14 Issue (down) 1 Pages 62-64  
  Keywords Oral history; Interviewing; Oral history collections; Nursing Education and Research Foundation (NERF)  
  Abstract Explains oral history, its types and best practice. Introduces the Oral History and Sound Collection at Turnbull Library, focusing on the Nursing Education and Research Foundation (NERF) special collection of oral history interviews with nurses, which arose out of the NERF Oral History Project. Provides examples of three oral history interview records from the collection.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1853  
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Author Lesa, Raewyn url  openurl
  Title The contribution of simulation in the development of clinical judgement: Students' perspectives Type Book Whole
  Year 2019 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue (down) Pages 181 p.  
  Keywords Simulation; Clinical judgement; Nursing students; Pre-registration; Surveys  
  Abstract Conducts an exploratory case study investigating the experiences of third-year undergraduate nursing students in simulations, collecting stories about their experiences in the clinical environment, and highlighting the potential use of simulation as an alternate learning environment to foster the development of clinical judgement in nursing students. Considers two research questions: how do nursing students experience simulation as an environment for learning, and how do nursing students' learning experiences in simulation and clinical practice influence their development of clinical judgement skills? Conducts one-to-one interviews and observes simulations in the course of an exploratory case study.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1652  
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Author Moke, Karen url  openurl
  Title Finding the balance: Family inclusive practice in adult community mental health Type Book Whole
  Year 2019 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue (down) Pages 110 p.  
  Keywords Mental health nurses; Clinical managers; Adult community mental health services; Family-inclusive practice; Surveys  
  Abstract Explores family-inclusive practice in Adult Community Mental Health in a District Health Board. Focuses on what adult community mental health nurses and clinical managers consider to be barriers and facilitators to family-inclusive practice. Explores community mental health nurses' and clinical managers' perspectives of family-inclusive practice through semi-structured interviews using a descriptive qualitative design.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1653  
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Author Joyce, Sophie url  openurl
  Title Running some tests: essays on doctors, nurses and hospital health care Type Book Whole
  Year 2013 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue (down) Pages 242 p.  
  Keywords Demographics; Decision-making; Nursing hours; Patient outcomes; Caesarean sections; Health economics  
  Abstract Comprises three essays on the economics of health-care delivery in hospitals: considers the relationship between gender and/or ethnic concordance between a doctor and patient, and the number of diagnostic tests ordered during a hospital stay; estimates the impact of doctor-patient demographic concordance (where doctor and patient share the same ethnic group and/or gender) on a doctor's decision-making for diagnostic resources and medical treatments; calculates the relationship between ward-level nursing hours and a patient's health outcome, e.g. mortality and length of ward stay. Uses a detailed nursing-staff dataset, a novel instrumental variable for nursing hours (the amount of sick and bereavement leave taken by nurses on a ward) and the separate effect of nursing and patient hours in a ward, on a patient's health outcome.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1577  
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Author Beaver, Peter James url  openurl
  Title Contemporary patient safety and the challenges for New Zealand Type Book Whole
  Year 2015 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue (down) Pages 329 p.  
  Keywords Patient safety; Hospitals; Accidents; Risk; Surveys  
  Abstract Outlines the history, emergence, necessity, challenges, and strategies of the patient safety movement. Explores the challenges for staff working to reduce harm and implement safety improvement in NZ hospitals. Considers medical harm as a persistent and expensive threat to public health. Analyses health policy in the US, England and NZ using the theory of countervailing powers, and a shift from medical to managerial dominance. Reviews theories of accidents and risk, and the safety improvement literature. Provides staff perspectives from NZ by means of interviews with doctors, nurses and managers in two hospitals.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1578  
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Author Connolly, Megan J url  openurl
  Title Clinical leadership of Registered Nurses working in an Emergency Department Type Book Whole
  Year 2015 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue (down) Pages 109 p.  
  Keywords Registered nurses; Clinical leadership; Empowerment; Emergency Departments; Surveys  
  Abstract Employs a non-experimental survey design to examine the psychological and structural empowerment, and clinical leadership of Registered Nurses (RNs) working in an adult emergency department (ED) in a large tertiary hospital in Auckland City. Includes qualitative questions relating to those factors that support or inhibit their clinical leadership at point of care.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1579  
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Author Hogan, Deborah url  openurl
  Title Transitioning difficulties of overseas trained nurses in New Zealand Type Book Whole
  Year 2014 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue (down) Pages 66 p.  
  Keywords Migrant nurses; Transition; Surveys  
  Abstract Explores the experiences of overseas-trained nurses (OTNs)who have migrated to NZ within the last two years. Focuses on OTNs' lived experiences and the difficulties they may have experienced when making the transition to practice in the NZ health system. Employs an exploratory, qualitative descriptive methodology to elucidate themes.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1580  
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Author Zambas, Shelaine Iris url  openurl
  Title The consequences of using advanced assessment skills in medical and surgical nursing: keeping patients safe Type Book Whole
  Year 2013 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue (down) Pages 150 p.  
  Keywords Nursing skills; Patient safety; Surgical nursing; Surveys  
  Abstract Examines the impact of advanced assessment skills on patients in medical and surgical wards through nurses' stories of using these skills. Highlights the use of auscultation, palpation and percussion by nurses for complex patient presentations within a wide range of clinical situations. Conducts 12 interviews with five nurses from paediatric and adult medical and surgical wards in a large urban hospital in NZ.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1581  
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Author Golding, Cherie url  openurl
  Title Clinical supervision for general nurses in NZ: the imperative of finding a way forward -- nurses perceptions of professional/clinical supervision Type Book Whole
  Year 2012 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue (down) Pages 63 p.  
  Keywords Clinical supervision; Professional supervision; Documentation  
  Abstract Focuses on two broad themes: perceptions and attitudes of general nurses in in-patient hospital settings towards clinical supervision and how they have found such support to be of benefit to themselves or their practice; organisational documentation policies and procedures available to nurses in order to understand their contribution to, and valuing of, clinical supervision. Seeks to discover whether there is evidence of other factors influencing the provision of, or access to, clinical supervision by general nurses, which influences attitudes and perceptions.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1582  
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Author Cadigan, Karen url  openurl
  Title Supporting the struggling nursing student in clinical practice : a qualitative descriptive study Type Book Whole
  Year 2017 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue (down) Pages 97 p.  
  Keywords Nursing students; Clinical placement; Clinical practice; Clinical Lecturers; Nursing education  
  Abstract Utilises a descriptive design methodology to explore the experiences of 14 clinical lecturers who work alongside student nurses in the clinical practice component of the nursing education programme. Highlights issues facing students in the clinical environment. Identifies potential strategies to support struggling student nurses in clinical practice.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1583  
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Author Song, Wen Jie url  openurl
  Title Teaching Ethics in Nursing Education – A case study of teaching in a New Zealand tertiary education context Type Book Whole
  Year 2017 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue (down) Pages 104 p.  
  Keywords Ethics; Nursing Education; Nursing Curriculum; Nursing Educators  
  Abstract Explores what experiences and challenges nursing educators face teaching ethics content and identifies the difficulties encountered in classroom practice. Interviews a self-selecting sample of 7 nursing educators working at a large NZ tertiary institution in the North Island. Outlines the seven dominant themes to emerge from the inductive data analysis process.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1584  
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Author Jones, Bernadette Doris url  openurl
  Title Achieving equitable asthma services for Maori Type Book Whole
  Year 2017 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue (down) Pages 1v  
  Keywords Asthma; Maori children; Primary healthcare; Kaupapa Maori; Maori health; Pou Ora; Maori-centred research  
  Abstract Undertakes a qualitative, phenomenological study to explore the experiences of practitioners delivering asthma services to tamariki Maori and their whanau in primary healthcare. Employs a kaupapa Maori methodology in order to provide a Maori perspective to the research. Uses an equity framework in the analysis and interpretation of the results, to ensure alignment with Maori values and aspirations. Interviews 15 doctors and nurses from Maori, mainstream and Very-Low-Cost-Access providers of asthma services. Presents the results using the Pou Ora framework with four main themes: Hauora, Toi Ora, Whanau Ora, and Mauri Ora.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1585  
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