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Author Farrow, T. openurl 
  Title 'No suicide contracts' in community crisis situations: A conceptual analysis Type Journal Article
  Year 2003 Publication Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 10 Issue (up) 2 Pages 199-202  
  Keywords Mental health; Community health nursing; Psychology; Suicide  
  Abstract 'No suicide contracts' take the form of a 'guarantee of safety', along with a 'promise' to call specified persons if the suicidal ideation becomes unmanageable for the person concerned. They are commonly used in community crisis situations with suicidal people in New Zealand. This article describes and analyses the use of 'no suicide contracts' in these settings. It is argued that the theoretical base (transactional analysis) of the 'no suicide contract' is likely to be deleterious in the community crisis situation.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 779  
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Author Lesa, R.; Dixon, D.A. openurl 
  Title Physical assessment: Implications for nurse educators and nursing practice Type Journal Article
  Year 2007 Publication International Nursing Review Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 54 Issue (up) 2 Pages 166-172  
  Keywords Advanced nursing practice; Clinical assessment; Cardiovascular diseases; Nursing; Education  
  Abstract In New Zealand, the physical assessment of a patient has traditionally been the domain of the medical profession. Recent implementation of advanced practice roles has expanded the scope of practice and nurse practitioners may now be expected to perform physical assessments. The aim of this literature review was to discover what could be learnt from the experiences of Western countries. Nurses from the USA, Canada and Australia readily incorporate physical assessment skills into their nursing practice as a component of health assessment. The international literature identified that any change to the nurse's role in health assessment, to include physical assessment skills, requires strategies that involve the regulatory, educational and practice components of nursing.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 786  
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Author Holloway, K. T. openurl 
  Title The future for nursing education: UKCC review has relevance for New Zealand Type Journal Article
  Year 2000 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 16 Issue (up) 2 Pages 17-24  
  Keywords Nursing; Education; Recruitment and retention; Clinical assessment; Policy  
  Abstract The author reviews the report 'Fitness for Practice' by the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting (UKCC) noting many areas of relevance for New Zealand educators in outlining possible strategies for nursing education. Discussion of some of the recommendations is put in the context of a strategic review of undergraduate nursing education recently commissioned by the Nursing Council of New Zealand. Issues such as recruitment and access to education; retention; clinical assessment and placements; clinical skill acquisition and partnership are valid concerns for educators here also. Internationally, the author suggests, the commonalties in issues of concern lend validity to the concept of the global village and the necessity for a global perspective in health care workforce planning, including educational preparation.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 848  
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Author Evans, S. openurl 
  Title Improving nursing care of infants and children ventilated with uncuffed endotracheal tubes Type Journal Article
  Year 2003 Publication Pediatric Intensive Care Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 4 Issue (up) 2 Pages 7  
  Keywords Nursing specialties; Intensive care nursing; Equipment and Supplies  
  Abstract The author draws on her experience as the 'Paediatric Link Nurse' in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) within a metropolitan area in New Zealand to examine the proposed changes to ventilation practice. Currently, due to ventilator availability and medical and nursing practice, the usual mode of mechanical ventilation is volume-limited with pressure breath triggering. The author suggests this mode can compromise effective ventilation of paediatric patients, due to air leaks around the uncuffed endotracheal tubes of infants and small children. This air leak makes a guaranteed tidal volume almost impossible and can cause ventilator breath stacking and volutrauma. This can impact on the patient's comfort, sedation requirements and airway security, and affects how these patients are nursed. Thus the ventilation of these paediatric patients by the current volume-limiting mode may be not always be optimal for the infant/child. A new ventilator will be available to the unit, with a pressure-controlled, flow breath-triggering mode available. The author critiques the possibility of using this mode of ventilation, suggesting how this will impact on nursing practice in ICU, and of the education and knowledge that will be required. She suggests this change to ventilation practice may improve comfort and safety for the intubated child/infant, through the delivery of an optimal mode of ventilation.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 926  
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Author Stone, P.W.; Tourangeau, A.E.; Duffield, C.M.; Hughes, F.; Jones, C.A.; O'Brien-Pallas, L.; Shamian, J. openurl 
  Title Evidence of nurse working conditions: A global perspective Type Journal Article
  Year 2003 Publication Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 4 Issue (up) 2 Pages 120-130  
  Keywords Nursing; Recruitment and retention; Policy; Cross-cultural comparison; Nursing research  
  Abstract The purpose of this article is to review evidence about nurse workload, staffing, skill mix, turnover, and organisational characteristics' effect on outcomes; discuss methodological considerations in this research; discuss research initiatives currently under way; review policy initiatives in different countries; and make recommendations where more research is needed. Overall, an understanding of the relationships among nurse staffing and organisational climate to patient safety and health outcomes is beginning to emerge in the literature. Little is known about nursing turnover and more evidence is needed with consistent definitions and control of underlying patient characteristics. Research and policy initiatives in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States are summarised.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 951  
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Author O'Brien, A.P.; Boddy, J.M.; Hardy, D.J.; O'Brien, A.J. openurl 
  Title Clinical indicators as measures of mental health nursing standards of practice in New Zealand Type Journal Article
  Year 2004 Publication International Journal of Mental Health Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 13 Issue (up) 2 Pages 778-788  
  Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Professional competence; Administration; Quality of health care; Mental ealth  
  Abstract This paper discusses the utility of Consumer Notes Clinical Indicators (CNCI) as a means to monitor mental health nursing clinical practice against the Australian and New Zealand College of Mental Health Nurses' (ANZCMHN) Standards of Practice for mental health nursing in New Zealand. CNCI are statements describing pivotal mental health nursing behaviours for which evidence can be found in the nurses' case notes. This paper presents 25 valid and reliable CNCI that can be used to monitor mental health nursing practice against the ANZCMHN's Standards of Practice for mental health nursing in New Zealand. The bicultural clinical indicators were generated in focus groups of Maori and non-Maori mental health nurses, prioritised in a three-round reactive Delphi survey of expert mental health nurses and consumers, pilot tested, and applied in a national field study. This paper reports the development and validation of the CNCI, for which achievement is assessed by an audit of the nursing documentation in consumer case notes. The CNCI were tested in a national field study of 327 sets of consumer case notes at 11 district health board sites. The results of the national field study show wide variation in occurrence of individual indicators, particularly in the areas of informed consent, information about legal rights, and provision of culturally safe and recovery-focused care. The authors discuss the implications of using the CNCI to assess the professional accountability of mental health nurses to provide quality care. Recommendations are made regarding the application of the clinical indicators and future research required, determining appropriate benchmarks for quality practice. The CNCI could be adapted for application in other mental health nursing and other mental health professional clinical settings.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1059  
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Author Crowe, M. openurl 
  Title Reflexivity and detachment: A discursive approach to women's depression Type Journal Article
  Year 2002 Publication Nursing Inquiry Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 9 Issue (up) 2 Pages 126-132  
  Keywords Gender; Mental health; Psychiatric Nursing; Culture  
  Abstract This paper explores a discursive approach to understanding women's depression by presenting the results of research into women's narratives of their experiences. The discursive approach taken acknowledges women's immersion in cultural practices that determine the subject positions available to them and places a value on attributes of reflexivity and detachment that are not usually associated with their performance. The social and cultural context of the individual's experience is significant because if the focus is simply on the individual this supposes that the problem lies solely with the individual. An understanding of cultural expectations and their relation to mental distress is important to mental health nursing practice. The psychotherapeutic relationship that is fundamental to mental health nursing practice requires an understanding of the meaning of individual's responses in their cultural context in order to provide facilitative and meaningful care for the women that they nurse.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1077  
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Author Kennedy, W. url  openurl
  Title Professional supervision to enhance nursing practice Type Journal Article
  Year 2007 Publication Vision: A Journal of Nursing Abbreviated Journal Available online from Eastern Institute of Technology  
  Volume 14 Issue (up) 2 Pages 3-6  
  Keywords Professional development; Clinical supervision; Nursing; Education  
  Abstract This article examines the concept of clinical supervision as “professional supervision”. Professional supervision contains many elements, is structured and not without effort. Fundamentally it is about being safe and professional. 'Reflective learning' and 'Live/tutorial' models are reviewed in different contexts for assisting nurses work through everyday issues, conflicts and problems of their role. The author concludes that regardless of which model is used there are benefits for safety and professionalism.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1310  
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Author Manning, Liz; Neville, Stephen openurl 
  Title Work-role transition : from staff nurse to clinical nurse educator Type Journal Article
  Year 2009 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 25 Issue (up) 2 Pages 41-53  
  Keywords Transition; Leadership; Clinical nurse educator; Mentorship  
  Abstract Presents the findings of a study describing Clinical Nurse Educators' experiences, as they recall their transition from staff nurse to the Clinical Nurse Educator role, within a New Zealand District Health Board (DHB). Employs a qualitative descriptive methodology utilising transition theory as a conceptual framework. Interviews a sample of eight Clinical Nurse Educators about their transition from experienced staff nurse to inexperienced senior nurse. Analyses data using a general inductive approach.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1446  
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Author Mahoney, Laurie openurl 
  Title Children living with a mentally ill parent : the role of public health nurses Type Journal Article
  Year 2010 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 26 Issue (up) 2 Pages 4-13  
  Keywords Public health nurses; Parental mental illness; Advocacy; Assessment; Focus group  
  Abstract Aims to identify the public health nurses' role with regard to children who are living with a parent who is suffering from a mental illness. Uses a qualitative research design with 8 public health nurses working in rural and urban settings. Conducts focus groups from which data are gathered and analysed thematically using axial coding. Conducts further focus groups with 6 of the participants to evaluate the themes identified.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1454  
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Author Clendon, Jill; McBride-Henry, Karen openurl 
  Title History of the Child Health and Development Book : part 2: 1945-2000 Type Journal Article
  Year 2014 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 30 Issue (up) 2 Pages 5-17  
  Keywords Maternal and child health; History of nursing; Plunket, Child health and development record book  
  Abstract Highlights how women challenged the concept of 'medicalised mothering' during the period 1945-2000, and how these views affected the development of the Well Child/Tamariki Ora Health book, or Plunket book. Analyses how the language of the book reflects tensions between competing discourses and knowledge sources among mothers and health professionals.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1492  
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Author Cook, Catherine; Brunton, Margaret openurl 
  Title The influence of the Cartwright Report on gynaecological examinations and nurses' communication Type Journal Article
  Year 2014 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 30 Issue (up) 2 Pages 28-38  
  Keywords Cartwright Report; Communication; Sexual health; Women's health; Cervical screening  
  Abstract Reports findings from semi-structured interviews with 6 nurses and 7 women patients at a sexual health clinic where the women reported positive experiences of speculum examinations. Combines data with that from interviews with 16 patients and 16 clinicians regarding positive examinations, and analyses data to identify which clinical communication strategies were used, and how the women responded. Highlights the legacy of the Cartwright Report of the Cervical Cancer Inquiry of 1987/88.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1494  
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Author Jamieson, Isabel; Sims, Deborah; Casey, Michelle; Wilkinson, Katie; Osborne, Rachel openurl 
  Title Utilising the Canterbury Dedicated Education Unit model of teaching Type Journal Article
  Year 2017 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 33 Issue (up) 2 Pages 29-39  
  Keywords Dedicated Education Units; Graduate nurses; Recruitment and retention; Student support  
  Abstract Considers whether the Canterbury Dedicated Education Unit model of clinical teaching and learning can support graduate registered nurses in their first year of practice. Uses a descriptive exploratory case-study approach to gather data via three focus groups with a total of eleven participants. Undertakes thematic analysis to identify patterned meaning across the dataset from which two primary themes emerge: support, and recruitment and retention. Identifies five associated sub-themes: peer support, organisational support, liaison nurse support, team support for the graduate registered nurses, and team support for the staff. Reveals the significant contribution made by the Nurse Entry-to-Practice Programme Liaison Nurse as a conflict broker.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1535  
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Author Robertson, Sheree; Thompson, Shona url  openurl
  Title Nursing services in student health clinics in New Zealand tertiary education institutes Type Journal Article
  Year 2019 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 35 Issue (up) 2 Pages 7-17  
  Keywords Student health clinics; Tertiary students; Sexual health; Mental health; International students  
  Abstract Discovers which nursing services are available to students in health clinics in NZ tertiary education institutes and how the clinics are structured. Surveys nurses practising in 16 of 22 institutes with student health services, about the types of services offered. Identifies sexual health, mental health and health education as the primary services, with sexual health and mental health the most utilised. Notes the increasing use of student health services by international students.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1615  
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Author Marshall, Diane; Honey, Michelle url  openurl
  Title Simulated actor patients support clinical skill development in undergraduate nurses: a qualitative study Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 37 Issue (up) 2 Pages 35-44  
  Keywords Simulation education; Actor patients; Clinical skill development; Nursing students; Child health nursing  
  Abstract Explores volunteer actor patients' contribution to developing nursing students' clinical skills from the patient actors' perspective within a simulation learning environment. Describes how actor patients work with nursing students during simulation, providing feedback following each simulation. Conducts focus group interviews with four of these actor patients about their interactions with students, communication, the provision of realism, student engagement, and feedback to students.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1707  
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