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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 (down) 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.

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Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1341
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title Priorities for research Type Journal Article
Year 1993 Publication kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 1 Issue 8 Pages 28-30
Keywords (down) Nursing research
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.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1320
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title A framework of complementary models of nursing practice: A study of nursing roles and practice for a new era of healthcare provision in New Zealand Type Report
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal Online on the Ministry of Health's Centre for Rural Health pages
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords (down) Nursing models; Rural nursing; Policy; Scope of practice
Abstract This is the second of a series of research projects undertaken to present the contemporary picture of the nurse workforce and their work in rural settings to inform policy for development of rural healthcare. The document presents the findings of telephone interviews with nurses in different work rural work settings around the country discussing their practice. The analysis identified a framework of four models of nursing practice: two traditional models defined by the institutions employing nurses, and two emerging models defined by the new positions requiring nurses to respond directly to health need.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1176
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title Professional development: Developing a new model of integrated care Type Journal Article
Year 1998 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 4 Issue 9 Pages 23-25
Keywords (down) Nursing models; Nurse practitioners; Policy; Nurse-family relations
Abstract An overview of the model of nursing practice and nurse roles derived through a programme of nursing research in the context of the policy and strategies directing developments in the New Zealand health system. The emphsis was on the health service configuration model presented diagrammatically to show the position of a new role of family nurse with a distinct form of practice forming the hub.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1324
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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 (down) 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.
Title Nursing education: Direction with purpose Type Journal Article
Year 1991 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 84 Issue 7 Pages 22-24
Keywords (down) Nursing education
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Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1316
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Author Jonsdottir, H.; Litchfield, M.; Pharris, M.
Title Partnership in practice Type Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication Research & Theory for Nursing Practice Abbreviated Journal
Volume 17 Issue 1 Pages 51-63
Keywords (down) Nurse-patient relations; Nursing philosophy; Nursing research
Abstract This article presents a reconsideration of partnership between nurse and client as the core of the nursing discipline. It points to the significance of the relational nature of partnership, differentiating its features and form from the prevalent understanding associated with prescriptive interventions to achieve predetermined goals and outcomes. The meaning of partnership is presented within the nursing process where the caring presence of the nurse becomes integral to the health experience of the client as the potential for action. Exemplars provide illustration of this emerging view in practice and research. This is the first of a series of articles written as a partnership between nurse scholars from Iceland, New Zealand and the USA. The series draws on research projects that explored the philosophical, theoretical, ethical and practical nature of nursing practice and its significance for health and healthcare in a world of changing need.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1172
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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 (down) 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.
Title The language of nursing practice in hospitals Type Conference Article
Year 1997 Publication Abbreviated Journal held by NZNO Library and author
Volume Proceedings of the National Nursing Informatics Co Issue Pages
Keywords (down) Hospitals; Nurse managers; Advanced nursing practice; Nurse-patient relations; Care plans
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.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1322
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title The successful design and delivery of rural health services: The meaning of success Type Report
Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal Online on the Ministry of Health's Centre for Rural Health pages
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords (down) Evaluation; Rural health services; Primary health care
Abstract This is the report of the analysis of data from an in-depth survey designed by Sue Dawson, previously Rural Health Researcher in the Centre for Rural Health, and follow-up interviews. The study purpose was to construct a definition of “successful design and delivery of rural health services” as a step towards a measurement tool. Participants were grouped as general practitioners, nurses and community representatives. A format for a participatory approach to evaluation of rural health services is derived from the criteria of success identified, with its relevance for the implementation of the new Government primary health care strategy explicit. This format provided the basis for a subsequent evaluation case study undertaken in a small rural forestry township by the Centre for Rural Health.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1177
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title Towards a people-pivotal paradigm for healthcare: Report of the Turangi primary health care nursing innovation 2003-2006 Type Manuscript
Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal Held by the Ministry of Health, publication pending
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords (down) Evaluation; Community health nursing; Nursing models; Interprofessional relations
Abstract This report presents the findings of the developmental evaluation programme for the three-year innovation project. It includes the model of the integrative nursing service scheme with mobile whanau/family nurses as the hub of healthcare provision for a new paradigm of service design and delivery spanning primary-secondary-tertiary sectors. The form of healthcare the local people received, the nature of the nursing practice and role, service delivery and employment parameters required to support the nurses in practice are presented. The service configuration model subsequently gave the structure to Lake Taupo Primary Health Organisation with the hub of family nurses with a mobile comprehensive practice.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1178
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title Thinking through diagnosis: Process in nursing practice Type Journal Article
Year 1986 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 1 Issue 4 Pages 9-12
Keywords (down) Diagnosis; Nursing philosophy; Nursing research
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.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1314
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title Computers and the form of nursing to come Type Journal Article
Year 1992 Publication International Journal of Health Informatics Abbreviated Journal
Volume 1 Issue 1 Pages 7-10
Keywords (down) Computers; Nursing; Technology
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.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1318
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Author Litchfield, M.; Laws, M.
Title Achieving family health and cost-containment outcomes: Innovation in the New Zealand Health Sector Reforms Type Book Chapter
Year 1999 Publication Cohen,E. & De Back,V. (Eds.), The outcomes mandate: New roles, rules and relationships. Case management in health care today (pp. 306-316) Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords (down) Advanced nursing practice; Nurse managers; Teamwork; Nurse-family relations; Leadership; Health reforms
Abstract The chapter presents the research findings of the 1992-1993 Wellington Nurse Case Management Scheme Project as a distinct model of nurse case management, which introduced a role and form of practice of a family nurse and a diagram of the service delivery structure required for support and relevant for the New Zealand health system reforms.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1169
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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
Keywords (down)
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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