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Author Gare, L. url  openurl
  Title (up) Patient experience of joint replacement education: A joint venture Type
  Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Nurse-patient relations; Health education; Communication  
  Abstract The aim of this research was to explore patients' educational experiences and the usefulness and benefits of this health education in the rehabilitation period, when undertaking a total joint replacement. An exploratory, qualitative descriptive study method was used to describing patients' experiences of health education. Five participants, convenience sampled, were interviewed eight to twelve weeks post surgery following unilateral total joint replacement in a tertiary hospital. Participants valued the education they received pre operatively, which included written material, video and individual interaction with varied health professionals. Although this was provided in a timely manner, evidence showed limited post operative reinforcement and follow up of given education and preparation for discharge. Three 'partnership' themes were identified from data, Communicative, Subservient and Knowledge. 'Communicative Partnership' conceptualised the participants' experiences of the nurse-patient relationship, whilst 'Subservient Partnership' captured the participants' experiences of 'being' patients. 'Knowledge Partnership' combined the participants' ideas about knowledge and their retention of this knowledge to assist with their rehabilitation post surgery. The needs and experiences of patients after total joint replacement reflect on transitional change – changes in roles, behaviour, abilities and relationships. Educational contents need to reflect a realistic recovery process to assist with this transitional period, delivered by health care professionals in a manner best suited for patients.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1235 Serial 1220  
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Author Low, Tracy; Scott-Chapman, Sue; Forrest, Rachel url  doi
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  Title (up) Patient experiences of pictogram use during nurse-led rapid-access chest pain clinic consultations in regional Aotearoa New Zealand Type Journal Article
  Year 2020 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 36 Issue 2 Pages  
  Keywords Chest pain; Heart disease; Pictogram; Maori health  
  Abstract Performs a qualitative study exploring the use of a pictogram developed by nurses during a rapid-access chest pain clinic consultation, to assist patient communication about their chest pain. Interviews 10 patients, 5 Maori and 5 non-Maori, for their feedback on the pictogram's usefulness. Considers the utility of the pictogram for both patients and nurses leading the chest pain clinic.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1678  
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Author Jarvis, B.M. openurl 
  Title (up) Patient nurse dependency in community health Type
  Year 1981 Publication Abbreviated Journal Otago Hospital Board , Dunedin  
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  Abstract A study designed to, 1. Establish a Patient- Nurse dependency Rating for those under care by District Nursing Service in the Dunedin urban area. 2. Utilise the information gained in ensuring an equitable work load for each District Nurse  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 3 Serial 3  
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Author Bland, M.F. openurl 
  Title (up) Patient observation in nursing home research: Who was that masked woman? [corrected] [published erratum appears in Contemporary Nurse 2002 Apr; 12(2): 135] Type Journal Article
  Year 2002 Publication Contemporary Nurse Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 12 Issue 1 Pages 42-48  
  Keywords Nursing research; Ethics; Rest homes; Nurse-patient relations  
  Abstract This article discusses the issues that one nurse researcher faced during participant observation in three New Zealand nursing homes. These include the complexity of the nurse researcher role, the blurring of role boundaries, and various ethical concerns that arose, including the difficulties of ensuring that all those who were involved in the study were kept informed as to the researcher's role and purpose. Strategies used to maintain ethical and role integrity are outlined, with further debate and discussion around fieldwork issues and experiences for nurse researchers called for.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 892  
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Author McKenna, B. openurl 
  Title (up) Patient perception of coercion on admission to acute psychiatric services: the New Zealand experience Type Journal Article
  Year 1999 Publication International Journal of Law and Psychiatry Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 22 Issue 2 Pages 143-153  
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  Abstract This study considers the influence of legal status, interactive processes, and mediating factors upon patient perception of coercion, within the context of admission to mental health services in New Zealand. The admission experiences of 69 involuntary inpatient psychiatric admissions and 69 informal admissions are compared using the MacArthur Admission Experience Survey. The influence of demographic, clinical and situational variables on the experience are considered. The results indicate there is a strong significant difference in the perception of coercion between involuntary and informal patients, with legal status having predictive value in relation to patient perception of coercion. Patient perception of procedural justice is strongly negatively correlated with perception of coercion. Perception of negative interactive processes is strongly felt by involuntary patients. This experience is not fully explained by identifiable incidents throughout the admission process. In the New Zealand context, there remains a need to highlight the aspects of procedural justice which could be improved in order to reduce patient perception of coercion. Current methodology focuses on the experience of admission rather than the expectation of that experience. This point needs to be considered in relation to the experience of Maori (the indigenous people of New Zealand)  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 443 Serial 443  
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Author Malcolm, H. openurl 
  Title (up) Patient privacy in a shared hospital room: Right or luxury? Type Journal Article
  Year 2004 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 20 Issue 1 Pages 28-35  
  Keywords Patient rights; Law and legislation; Nursing; Hospitals  
  Abstract In this article the author discusses the New Zealand legislation aimed at protecting the individual's right to privacy and concludes that practice may place healthcare consumers' rights at risk. While patient privacy should be of concern to all health professionals, the focus here is on the nurse's role in relation to recently formulated competencies published by the Nursing Council of New Zealand, which includes the recommendation that care be seen to exhibit an awareness of healthcare consumers' rights to privacy alongside the expectation that nurses question practices that compromise patient privacy.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 562 Serial 548  
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Author Wynne-Jones, Jacqui; Martin-Babin, Margot; Hayward, Brooke; Villa, Luis openurl 
  Title (up) Patient safety leadership walk-rounds: lessons learrned from a mixed-methods evaluaion Type Journal Article
  Year 2020 Publication Kai Tiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 11 Issue 1 Pages 24-33  
  Keywords Patient safety; Nurse leaders; Walk-round; Evaluation  
  Abstract Assesses the impact of a patient safety leadership walk-rounds (PSLWR) programme in an Auckland hospital to provide recommendations for programme improvement. Involves senior leaders and other departmental representatives visiting wards to conduct staff and patient interviews to capture their experiences, and to assess the environment. Proposes recommendations for organisations intending to or currently implementing a PSLWR programme.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1658  
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Author Patel, Radhika url  openurl
  Title (up) Patient safety of older adults with cognitive impairment: Evaluation of a service improvement initiative Type Book Whole
  Year 2021 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 76 p.  
  Keywords Patient safety; Cognitive impairment; Dementia; Older adults; Hospital ward design  
  Abstract Assesses the impact of environmental changes on patient reportable events (falls and aggression) in older persons' wards, using the Kings Fund Healing the Healthy Environment tool to make small changes to a ward environment in order to create a more 'dementia-friendly' setting. Conducts a comparative analysis of incidents in the wards. Obtains staff perspectives on the changes, which included large-face clocks, identifiction of bed spaces, lavender oil diffusion, and viewing gardens.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1761  
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Author Kerse, A. openurl 
  Title (up) Patient satisfaction study Type Miscellaneous
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 4 Serial 4  
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Author Parkes, J. openurl 
  Title (up) Patients perception of nurses practice Type
  Year 1993 Publication Abbreviated Journal Otago Polytechnic Library. A personal soft bound copy can be obtained by contacting pgnursadmintekot  
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  Abstract This phenomenological study described the lived experience of patients within a surgical secondary care setting, and explored patients' perceptions of nurses' practice. The participants in the study were five adult patients who experienced a period of hospitalization within the surgical secondary care setting.This study was influenced by the work of Patricia Benner (1984) who entered the lived world of nurses' practice, through description of nurses' clinical exemplars. In this study, a qualitative research approach was used to enter the lived world of the patient within the surgical secondary setting.The research approach followed Max Van Manen's phenomenological hermeneutic method of 'Researching Lived Experience". This approach includes turning to a phenomenon of concern and interest to the researcher, investigating the experience as it is lived, reflecting on essential themes that emerge from the investigation, describing the phenomenon and bringing it to speech. The data that emerged from the participants stories of their experiences with the surgical secondary care setting, revealed four essential themes. These themes included 'feeling valued', 'human to human contact', 'two way communication', and 'feeling safe'. These themes provided insights into the participants' perceptions of nurses' practice.The participants' stories revealed a range of perceptions about nurses' practice, and the extent to which nurses in their practice valued the patient, had human to human contact, kept the patient informed and ensured patient safety. The themes revealed times when nurses' practice was perceived as dependent and powerless, in the face of, traditional views of womens' work, and the hierarchical and beurocratic constraints of the institution. At times it was also hidden from view, missed or misunderstood. Despite this, nurses' practice was seen as the central and pivotal point, from which the participants were able to make their recovery  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 166 Serial 166  
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Author Baur, P. openurl 
  Title (up) Patients who present to the emergency department but do not wait: An exploratory study Type
  Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Emergency nursing; Hospitals  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 849  
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Author Therkleson, T; Sherwood, P. url  openurl
  Title (up) 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.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1345  
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Author Blockley, Colette; Alterio, Maxine openurl 
  Title (up) Patients' experiences of interpersonal relationships during first time acute hospitalisation Type Journal Article
  Year 2008 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 24 Issue 2 (Jul) Pages p16-26.  
  Keywords Acute hospitalisation; Vulnerability; Support; Nurse-patient relationships  
  Abstract Examines the role of interpersonal relationships on patients' experiences during first time acute hospitalisation. Involving 12 first time acute medical and surgical admission patients, it was developed from a wider study exploring patients' overall experiences. Using a qualitative methodology with data collected by means of personal stories and semi-structured interviews findings suggest that patient vulnerability is reduced through supportive interpersonal relationships and that it is nurses who play a key role in developing and maintaining these relationships with patients.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1432  
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Author Neehoff, S.M. openurl 
  Title (up) Pedagogical possibilities for nursing Type
  Year 1999 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library  
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  Keywords Nursing; Nursing philosophy; Feminist critique  
  Abstract This thesis is about what the author terms the 'invisible bodies of nursing'. The physical body of the nurse, the body of practice, and the body of knowledge. The physical body of the nurse is absent in most nursing literature, it is sometimes inferred but seldom discussed. The contention is that the physical body of the nurse is invisible because it is tacit. Much nursing practice is invisible because it is perceived by many nurses to be inarticulable and is carried out within a private discourse of nursing, silently and secretly. Nursing knowledge is invisible because it is not seen as being valid or authoritative or sanctioned as a legitimate discourse by the dominant discourse. These issues are approach through an evolving 'specular' lens. Luce Irigaray's philosophy of the feminine and her deconstructing and reconstructing of psychoanalytic structures for women inform this work. Michel Foucault's genealogical approach to analysing discourses is utilized, along with Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. Nursing's struggle for recognition is ongoing. The author discusses strategies that nurses could use to make themselves more 'visible' in healthcare structures. The exploration of the embodied self of the nurse and through this the embodied knowledge of nursing is nascent.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1287 Serial 1272  
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Author McRae, B.H.T.K. openurl 
  Title (up) Peer review: organisational learning for nurses Type
  Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 190 Serial 190  
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