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Author Warren, B; Dovey, S; Griffin, F openurl 
  Title The evidence behind more than a decade of policy recommending influenza vaccination for young New Zealanders with long term medical conditions Type Journal Article
  Year 2011 Publication Kai Tiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal Held by NZNO Library  
  Volume 2 Issue 1 Pages 27-32  
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  Abstract This article reviews the recent evidence underpinning the New Zealand Ministry of Health's recommendation to offer free annual influenza vaccination to people aged six months to 64 years who have certain chronic medical conditions (eligible younger people). These results show there is relatively limited research providing evidence underpinning recommendations for influenza vaccination among people aged <65 years. These results show that there is a need to increase nurses' awareness of the rationale behind the New Zealand influenza vaccination policy, that this may in turn increase their willingness to recommend influenza vaccine to more eligible younger people.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial (down) 1359  
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Author Crawford, R; Hedley, C; Marshall, B openurl 
  Title Influences on Registered Nurses Having an annual influenza vaccination: Lessons from New Zealand Type Journal Article
  Year 2011 Publication Kai Tiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 2 Issue 1 Pages 12-16  
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  Abstract The aim of this research was to explore what influences registered nurses (RNs) to have the annual influenza vaccine. In the past, influenza vaccination of health care workers has been identified as the primary method of preventing influenza transmission to at-risk groups that, by virtue of illness, congregate in and around hospitals.

Findings showed that some RNs have confidence in the influenza vaccine being effective in preventing influenza infection; however there remained a high proportion of RNs who thought that the vaccine could or might cause influenza. Participants had incorrect knowledge and beliefs about the influenza vaccine, infection and cross infection.
 
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Author Clendon, J; Walker, L openurl 
  Title Characteristics and perceptions of younger nurses in New Zealand: Implications for retention Type Journal Article
  Year 2011 Publication Kai Tiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 2 Issue 1 Pages 4-11  
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  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial (down) 1355  
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Author Rickard,D openurl 
  Title Parents as experts: Partnership in the care of chronically ill children Type Report
  Year 1999 Publication Abbreviated Journal Held by NZNO Library  
  Volume Issue Pages 65 pp  
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  Abstract Margaret May Blackwell Travel Study Fellowship for Nurses of Young Children.

This report discusses the partnership between parents and nurses and its relationship to delivering optimal care to the child.

The author has a background in paediatric nursing in a hospital environment.
 
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Author Eden, S openurl 
  Title An integrated literature review of the role of the nurse practitioner in the emergency department Type
  Year 2011 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library  
  Volume Issue Pages 115 pp  
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  Abstract A dissertation in partial fulfilment of Master Health Sciences (Clinical)through University of Otago

The nurse practitioner is one of the newest nursing health care professionals to be introduced to the New Zealand health system for many years. Eighty-six nurse practitioners are credentialed in New Zealand, with three working in urban Emergency Department settings. Nurse Practitioners are common internationally especially in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia. The purpose of this integrated literature review is to explore current research and literature in regards to the Emergency Department Nurse Practitioner, and their role within emergency settings. This review presents the growth and development of the nurse practitioner as an advanced practice nursing position. Four key themes emerge from the literature review; education of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner , how and who defined the Emergency Nurse Practitioner role, practice setting of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner, and what the barriers are to independent practice. The economic, legal and governance aspects of the Nurse Practitioner role are also portrayed. This integrated review documents the potential for further development and expansion of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner scope of practice to provide a broad range of patient care services within Emergency Departments, and emergency care settings. Future research is essential for the promotion of autonomous practice of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner within the international and New Zealand health care system.
 
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Author Therkleson, T; Sherwood, P. url  openurl
  Title Patients' experience of the external therapeutic application of ginger by anthroposophically trained nurses Type Journal Article
  Year 2004 Publication The Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 4 Issue 1 Pages 1-11  
  Keywords Anthroposophical therapy  
  Abstract There has been considerable public debate on the range of complementary health practices throughout the western world, perhaps especially in Australia, United States and Europe. Most often, the research critique of these practices is restricted to quantitative or non-user qualitative research methodologies. Consequently, there is a significant gap in the research profile of complementary health services that need to be addressed particularly in view of the rapid and ongoing increase in the use of complementary services, even in the face of sometimes adverse media publicity. This paper demonstrates the contribution that phenomenologically-based research can make to fill this lacuna by explicating, in detail, the client experience of a complementary health practice. The paper explores patient experience of a ginger compress, as applied by anthroposophically trained nurses, to demonstrate various therapeutic effects. Four key themes emerged including an increase in warmth and internal activity in the major organs of the body, changes in thought-life and sensory perception along with a greater sense of well-being and self-focus with the perception of clearer personal boundaries. These themes, emerging from a patient sample in New Zealand, compared favourably to the Filderklinik Study completed in 1992 in a large German state hospital.  
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Author Litchfield, M url  isbn
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  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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Author Hayward, S. url  openurl
  Title Evaluation of a change programme: model of nursing care delivery Type
  Year 2009 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 78 pp  
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  Abstract A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment for the degree of Master of Health Sciences.

Primary nursing as a framework within which nurses deliver patient care has been a nursing care delivery system of choice in New Zealand for the last two decades. A number of studies have been carried out, with a review of the literature suggesting inconclusive support for this delivery system over other functional nursing care models. However, there is support for the philosophy underpinning this model, with documented evidence that this framework can help nurses achieve a degree of professional development and autonomous practice that other models cannot. Using documented information created during the move from one model of nursing care to another this work evaluates what were the drivers for the change, how it was managed and what the outcomes were.

Findings indicated that this change project was a success. Analysis of the data collected pre and post implementation indicated some positive shifts, but more importantly it was the information gathered from both patients and nurses that gave creditability to the new model of nursing care.
 
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial (down) 1336  
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Author Clendon, Dr. J url  openurl
  Title Motherhood and the 'Plunket Book': A social history Type
  Year 2009 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 306 pp  
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  Abstract The Well Child/Tamariki Ora Health Book (the Plunket book) is a small booklet given to New Zealand mothers on the birth of a child. Although use of the book has decreased since it?s inception in 1920, it is frequently kept within the family and handed on from mother to child. Utilising an oral history approach, this study has traced the development of the Plunket book over time and explored the experiences of a group of 34 women and one man who have reflected on their ownership of, or involvement with, Plunket books. The study found that the book remains an effective clinical tool for mothers and nurses. Nurses use the book as a tool to help develop a relationship with a mother and her family, and to identify and build on strengths. Mothers have used the book as a tool to link past with present, to maintain kinship ties across generations, to deal with change intergenerationally, and in a manner that contributes to their self-identity as woman and mother. The study recommends that nurses and other health professionals continue to use the Plunket book as a clinical tool mindful of the fact that the book remains in use beyond the health professional?s immediate involvement with the mother and child, playing an important role in the context of the New Zealand family across generations.  
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Author Cook, Deborah. url  openurl
  Title Open visiting: does this benefit adult patients in intensive care units Type
  Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library  
  Volume Issue Pages 32 pp  
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  Abstract A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Nursing at Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand.

As the healthcare system moves toward a consumer-driven paradigm, visiting hours for family and significant others of the intensive care unit patient have become a topic of interest and discussion. Research since the 1970s has generated controversy and speculation over the ideal visiting practices in the adult intensive care unit. Analysis of the growing body of research can now be reviewed to enable existing visiting policies to be revised.
 
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title The successful design and delivery of rural health services: The meaning of success Type Report
  Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal Accessible from www.moh.govt.nz  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Rural health services; Management; Primary health care  
  Abstract A report on 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 (GPs), 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.  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title The innovation effort: ?Are you in or are you out?? Type Miscellaneous
  Year 2007 Publication Abbreviated Journal http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/pagesmh/7696/$File/mlitchfield.pdf  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Nursing; Primary health care; Policy  
  Abstract A graphic presentation in PDF format (April 2007) of the findings and policy implications of the developmental evaluation research programme for the Turangi Primary Health Care Nursing Innovation.  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title What is nursing research? Type Journal Article
  Year 1998 Publication P. Watson & M.Woods (Eds.), Waiora: Nursing research in Aotearoa/New Zealand, evolving a shared sense of our future. Proceedings of the Nursing Research Section/Te Runanga O Aotearoa (New Zealand Nurses' Organisation) conference, Wellington 26-27 March. Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Nursing research; Nursing  
  Abstract This conference paper outlines the nature of nursing research developing the distinct knowledge for nursing practice. It is presented as a cumulative process of knowledge development about health, practice and service delivery. Nursing research is illustrated by tracing a personal trajectory of research over 25 years that addressed questions relating to and derived from the practice of nursing.  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title The scope of advancing nursing practice Type Journal Article
  Year 1998 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 13 Issue 3 Pages 13-24  
  Keywords Nursing specialties; Nursing  
  Abstract An overview of the model of nursing practice and nurse roles derived through a programme of nursing research in the context of the changing New Zealand health system. The emphasis is on the complementary nature of the practice of family nurses taking a generic integrative service delivery hub role and the practice of other nurses advancing in specialist roles. Nursing care is presented as a professional, collective practice of registered nurses spread across all health service sectors and employment settings. Nurse roles are differentiated according to the interplay of two factors influencing the extent of practice autonomy the nurses assume (educationally supported) in responding to health need. A diagram depicts the interrelationship of competency and scope for the inclusive three different career trajectories of nurses advancing in practice. NOTE: This paper was published with an error in the title of the article (stated correctly on the journal contents page). An apology from the journal editor with an explanation of the importance of the use of the term ?advancing? and not ?advanced? was published in the subsequent issue (Nursing Praxis in NZ,14(1)).  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  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 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.  
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