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Burrow, M., Gilmour, J., & Cook, C. (2017). Healthcare assistants and aged residential care: A challenging policy and contractual environment. Nursing Praxis in New Zealand, 33(2), http://www.nursingpraxis.org.
Abstract: Examines NZ policy and care demands in aged residential care. Maintains that registered nurses need to understand the socio-political, economic and educational factors that influence care delivery in aged residential care. Presents an overview of the current role of healthcare assistants (HCAs)in aged residential care, based on a review of the existing grey literature, current national policy, DHB contract agreements and NZNO collective agreements.
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Chittick, H., Manhire, K., & Roberts, J. (2019). Supporting success for Maori undergraduate nursing students in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Kai Tiaki Nursing Research, 10(1), 15–21.
Abstract: Identifies those factors that help Maori to succeed in bachelor of nursing education programmes, based on previous identification of barriers to Maori success in tertiary education. Examines the experiences of Maori graduate nurses in 2017 via semi-structured interviews. Analyses the data using thematic methods to describe common themes.
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Lowe, L. (2002). Linking housing and health status. Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand, 8(9), 26–27.
Abstract: The author examines the impact of poor housing on health, and looks at how the situation can be improved. Ways that nurses can work towards improving housing standards and thus health are discussed.
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Bradshaw, W. (2007). Helping clients move towards health change. Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand, 13(7), 16–18.
Abstract: The author reflects on his use of the American psychotherapist James Prochaska's stages of change theory. This model deals with individuals and how they move towards change, through stages of pre-contemplation to maintenance of changed behaviours. He presents examples of his use of the model with clients, when dealing with issues of smoking cessation and weight loss. He analyses his practice and interactions with clients, and affirms that stages of change model can be a useful tool to bring about change within clients. He suggests it gives clients the opportunity to contemplate change and gives nurses working in health promotion the opportunity to be part of the change process.
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Watson, S. L. (2007). Attitudinal shifting: A grounded theory of health promotion in coronary care. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: Current New Zealand health policy encourages collaborative health promotion in all sectors of health service delivery. The integrated approach to the acute management of coronary heart disease in a coronary care unit, combining medical therapy and lifestyle change, supports clinical health promotion. The aim of this study was to use the grounded theory approach to discover the main concerns of nurses' promoting health in an acute coronary care setting and to explain the processes that nurses used to integrate health promotional activities into their practice. Seventeen registered nurses from three coronary care units within a large metropolitan city in New Zealand were interviewed. Data were constantly compared and analysed using Glaser's emergent approach to grounded theory.The main concern for nurses promoting health within coronary care was ritualistic practice. In this study, ritualistic practice concerns the medically-based protocols, routines, language and technology that drives nursing practice in coronary care. This concern was resolved via the socio-cultural process of attitudinal shifting that occurs over time involving three stages. The three conceptual categories, environmental pressures, practice reality and responsive action are the main components of the theory of attitudinal shifting. In environmental pressures, nurses experience a tension between specialist medically-dominated nursing practice and the generalist nursing role of promoting health. In practice reality, nurses become aware that the individual needs of patients are not being met. This causes role conflict until the nurse observes colleagues who role model possibilities for practice, working with patients to promote health. Responsive action sees the nurse engaging in self-development, also focusing on the nurse-patient relationship, thereby enabling active patient involvement in individual health-promoting decisions. The author suggests that the findings from this research have implications for nursing practice and education. With the increasing specialisation in nursing practice, these findings may be of interest to nurses working in delegated medical roles where the reality of everyday practice precludes nurses from undertaking their essential nursing role. Health care facilities also need to ensure that there are opportunities for the personal and professional development of nursing staff. The place of health promotion within nursing undergraduate curricula needs to be examined, as many nurses found that they were ill prepared for undertaking health promotional activities.
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Lapana, S. (2007). Pa hi atu health model: A Tokelau perspective. Whitireia Nursing Journal, 14, 35–39.
Abstract: In this article, the author describes a health model aimed at providing health practitioners with a better understanding of Tokelau health concepts and values.
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Pearson, J. R. (2003). A discussion of the principles of health promotion and their application to nursing. Whitireia Nursing Journal, 10, 23–34.
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Scott, S. (2011). A tripartite learning partnership in health promotion. Nursing Praxis in New Zealand, 27(2), 16–23.
Abstract: Describes a partnership between a NZ nursing programme and a community trust whereby nursing students enrolled with youth at a local high school that promoted health. Argues that the strategy contributes to the students' acquisition of the collaborative skills required to develop nursing partnerships within communities.
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Mathew, B. R. (2021). Systematic literature review of the major themes in New Zealand health informatics research. Master's thesis, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland. Retrieved July 6, 2024, from http://hdl.handle.net/10292/14628
Abstract: Uses a systematic literature review to identify the following themes in health informatics research: conceptualisation of health informatics; big data analytics (BDA) in health informatics; types of health information systems; history of health informatics; and teaching nursing informatics. Concentrates on devices, methods, and interventions needed to promote the attainment of big-data analytics in health informatics and its use in medical and health decision-making.
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Janssen, J. (2006). Fat simple: A nursing tool for client education. Nursing Praxis in New Zealand, 22(2), 21–32.
Abstract: This article summarises the current level of knowledge regarding dietary effects on serum cholesterol. Information from a literature review was used to design a table that identifies how changes in diet and activity can alter components of a person's lipid profile. Nurses can use the resulting table as a simple tool to give clients targeted education based on their individual cholesterol results. This tool illustrates that not all dietary recommendations to the public are beneficial to serum cholesterol levels and it also explains why popular diets such as the Atkins, Mediterranean, and glycaemic index / load can produce more cardio-protective profiles than the traditional low fat diet.
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Stodart, K., & Woods, H. (2021). How international databases take Kai Tiaki Nursing Research to the world. Kai Tiaki Nursing Research, 12(1), 77–78.
Abstract: Explains how the journal receives international exposure through the databases in which it is indexed: AcademicOnefile, Informit, and the Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL). Details which articles were downloaded most frequently.
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Fielden, J. (2003). Grief as a transformative experience: Weaving through different lifeworlds after a loved one has completed suicide. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 12(1), 74–85.
Abstract: This research is an exploration and interpretation of the lived experiences of family members since they lost a close family member to suicidal death. The findings have implications for nurses and counsellors working in the area of suicide bereavement. Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology was utilised and informed by van Manen's and Benner's work. Data from in-depth interviews with six participants, the researcher's journal entries and published literature were analysed. Findings gave rise to a grief model where suicide survivors moved through four modes of being-in-the-world characterized by 13 lifeworlds or themes. Surviving suicide was a transformative process that in time enabled survivors to discover new ways of understanding and relating to the world.
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Stewart, A. (2000). When an infant grandchild dies: Family matters. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: This research undertaken by a nurse working with bereaved families, aimed to explore how grandparents, parents and health/bereavement professionals constructed grandparent bereavement when an infant grandchild died unexpectedly. The 26 participants, living in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, included 16 grandparents and 6 parents from 11 families, in addition to three health/bereavement professionals. A constructivist inquiry informed by writings on nursing, storying and postmodernism was used. Through an exploration of the methodological and ethical issues that arose and were addressed during the study, this work adds to knowledge of how constructivist inquiry can be used in nursing and bereavement research. In addition, the context of this research as a partnership with multiple family members contributes to the ongoing debate about whether participation in bereavement research may be harmful or therapeutic. Conversations in this research formed a series of interviews and letters, which led to the development of a joint construction and each individual's story. A grandchild's death was constructed as a challenge which grandparents faced, responded to and then managed the changes that arose from the challenge. The context of their bereavement was seen as underpinned by their relationship as “parents of the adult parents” of the grandchild who died. This meant that grandparents placed their own pain second to their wish to support and “be with” the parents. Outside the family was where many grandparents found friends, colleagues or their community forgot, or chose not to acknowledge, their bereavement. This work shows how some grandparents help to create a space within the family which maintains a continuing relationship with the grandchild who died.
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Scott, S.(and others). (2011). The graduate nursing workforce : does an international perspective have relevance for New Zealand? Nursing Praxis in New Zealand, 27(3), 4–12.
Abstract: Reviews studies of nursing graduates that use local, regional or national populations of graduates to explore reasons for turnover over periods of time longer than the first twelve months of transition to practice. Identifies the reasons for mobility within nursing and out of the profession altogether.
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Ogden, E. (2018). Is it ACE? The influence of the Advanced Choice of Employment scheme on new graduates' decisions to accept a position in the Nurse Entry to Specialist Practice in Mental Health and Addiction programme. Master's thesis, University of Otago, Dunedin. Retrieved July 6, 2024, from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/7907
Abstract: Uses an instrumental case study to explore the role of Advanced Choice of Employment (ACE) on the decision to enter the Nurse Entry to Specialised Practice (NESP). Examines the NESP programme in one DHB in which 14 participants who had accepted positions on NESP without specifying the specialty were given semi-structured interviews, as was the NESP coordinator about the employer experience of NESP. Suggests how education providers and DHBs can prepare ACE applicants for the recruitment process.
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