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Litchfield, M.; McCombie, M.-L. |
Title  |
The introduction of an advanced nurse practitioner role in mental health: report of the evaluation research undertaken for the Mental Health Service of Capital Coast Health Ltd |
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1994 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Chief Nurse Advisor, Ministry of Health, PO Box 50 |
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The study was commissioned to define the role of Advanced Nurses Practitioner to inform the establishment of a clinical career pathway. Four new, loosely defined ANP positions were created and the role evolution over three months was described. The impact on the multidisciplinary team functioning was to be given particular attention. The research design was developed in collaboration with the ANP Project Team of the service. Data were derived from surveys of nurses in the units and other staff before and at the end of the 3 months period; interviews with the ANPs and official client advocates; daily journals and weekly logs kept by the ANPs; statistical records of patient loads and staffing. The findings presented the role as the interface of unit management and direct client care, with the ANPs orchestrating the activities of the unit. The ANPs developed the role differently according to quite distinct conceptualisations of nursing which influenced whether direct client care was pivotal or peripheral to the role. This had an effect on whether the strains of the service were seen as inhibitory of focal to the development of the ANP practice. There was little change in unit staff satisfaction. Attempts to incorporate client advocacy to determine change in client satisfaction were unsuccessful. The ANPs used the research as a process of role development |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 386 |
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386 |
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| Author |
Litchfield, M. |
| Title |
The innovation effort: ?Are you in or are you out?? |
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Miscellaneous |
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2007 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/pagesmh/7696/$File/mlitchfield.pdf |
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Nursing; Primary health care; Policy |
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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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NZNO @ research @ |
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1327 |
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| Author |
Litchfield, M. |
| Title |
Survey of child health care in primary schools in the Wellington area |
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1979 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
Author, New Zealand Nurses Association Library, We |
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75 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
18-20 |
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The study was undertaken as a project for the International Year of the Child. There was a need for information to identify what health care in needed in schools and to contribute to a review of the role of the nurses. Teachers and principals of all primary schools of the Wellington area were surveyed to describe the health care being provided and needed. Recommendations were made for school nurses who would support the health-related teaching by teachers, provide first aid and advice, and take an extended role for family health operating from a clinic in the school. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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388 |
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| Author |
Litchfield, M. |
| Title |
Professional development: Developing a new model of integrated care |
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Journal Article |
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1998 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
4 |
Issue |
9 |
Pages |
23-25 |
| Keywords |
Nursing models; Nurse practitioners; Policy; Nurse-family relations |
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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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NZNO @ research @ |
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1324 |
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| Author |
Litchfield, M. |
| Title |
Priorities for research |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
1993 |
Publication |
kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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1 |
Issue |
8 |
Pages |
28-30 |
| Keywords |
Nursing research |
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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. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1320 |
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| Author |
Litchfield, M. |
| Title |
Practice wisdom |
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Journal Article |
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1999 |
Publication |
Advances in Nursing Science |
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| Volume |
22 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
62-73 |
| Keywords |
Nursing research; Nursing; Health knowledge |
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The paper is the report of two cumulative research projects studying the nature of nursing knowledge and methodology to develop it. They were undertaken as theses for masters and doctoral degrees at the University of Minnesota, USA. Nursing knowledge is depicted as relational: an evolving participatory process of research-as-if-practice of which 'health' (its meaning), dialogue, partnership and pattern recognition are threads inter-related around personal values of vision and community. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1186 |
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1171 |
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| Author |
Jonsdottir, H.; Litchfield, M.; Pharris, M. |
| Title |
Partnership in practice |
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Journal Article |
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2003 |
Publication |
Research & Theory for Nursing Practice |
Abbreviated Journal |
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17 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
51-63 |
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Nurse-patient relations; Nursing philosophy; Nursing research |
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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. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1172 |
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| Author |
Litchfield, Merian |
| Title |
Nursing is -- and has -- a methodology: a nursing voice |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2021 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki Nursing Research |
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12 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
66-72 |
| Keywords |
Nursing knowldege; Nursing voice; Nursing methodology |
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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. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1721 |
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| Author |
Litchfield, M. |
| Title |
Nursing education: Direction with purpose |
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Journal Article |
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1991 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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84 |
Issue |
7 |
Pages |
22-24 |
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Nursing education |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1316 |
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van Wissen, K.A.; Litchfield, M.; Maling, T. |
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Living with high blood pressure |
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Journal Article |
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1998 |
Publication |
Journal of Advanced Nursing |
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27 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
567-574 |
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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. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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360 |
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| Author |
Litchfield, M. |
| Title |
Knowledge embedded in practice |
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Journal Article |
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1989 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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82 |
Issue |
10 |
Pages |
24-25 |
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Nursing research; diagnosis; Education; Nursing philosophy |
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A statement of the nature of research needed to distinguish the knowledge of nursing practice from knowledge developed by other disciplines. It orients to the interrelationship of practice and research as the foundation of the discipline of nursing. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1315 |
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Litchfield, M.; Connor, M.; Eathorne, T.; Laws, M.; McCombie, M.-L.; Smith, S. |
| Title |
Family nurse practice in a nurse management scheme: a pilot service study for the health reforms |
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1994 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Centre for Initiative in Nursing & Health Care, P. |
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The independently funded 10 month pilot project demonstrated the autonomy of nursing practice for a new role family nurse. The findings were presented as the health experience of families in strife with complex health circumstances, a description of a beginning model for the nursing practice that addressed the needs of these families as their circumstances changed over time, and its cost-effectiveness. A caseload of nineteen families was found to be optimum. The evaluation research continued throughout as a form of praxis expressed as health patterning, a methodology developed in previous research (Litchfield, 1993). The family nurse'spractice demonstrated qualities common to all nurses: the caring relationship and fiscal responsibility. The unique practice was characterised by a professional partnership of limited duration: the families referred to the service in a predicament of strife, trapped in the immediate present, gained a view to a future, moved towards assuming control over health circumstances, seeking and using services with discernment, and increasing community as family/group members and citizens. Cost containment was achieved through: a) development of a co-operative approach amongst family members, between families and professionals, and amongst all health workers, and b) the families discerning use of services by anticipating a future. Through one family case, cost of saving over the 7 months with the family nurse was estimated as $4000, a possible saving of $16000 over 13 months if the family nurse had been involved earlier, and projected savings in the long term of over a million dollars. The satisfaction of clients, nurses and professionals was shown. The service was positioned within the new health system of health reforms |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 389 |
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389 |
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Litchfield, M.; Connor, M.; Eathorne, T.; Laws, M.; McCrombie,; Smith, S. |
| Title |
Direction for nursing practice and service delivery in the New Zealand health reforms. Report of the pilot study of the Wellington professional nurse care management project |
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1993 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Nursing Library. Victoria University, Wellington |
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Nursing practice as the process of health patterning with families in complex health circumstances was made explicit through a method of research praxis. Findings include cost in relation to quality of Nursing care. The research provides direction for development of integrated health care with the introduction of the family Nurse in a Nurse Care Management Scheme |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 48 |
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48 |
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| Author |
Litchfield, M. |
| Title |
Computers and the form of nursing to come |
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Conference Article |
| Year |
1992 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Held by NZNO Library and author |
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Proceedings of the Inaugural National Nursing Info |
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81-90 |
| Keywords |
Nursing: Computers; Technology |
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A paper presented at the annual conference of Nursing Informatics New Zealand (subsequently incorporated into the collective organisation, Health Informatics NZ). |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1317 |
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| Author |
Litchfield, M. |
| Title |
Computers and the form of nursing to come |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
1992 |
Publication |
International Journal of Health Informatics |
Abbreviated Journal |
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1 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
7-10 |
| Keywords |
Computers; Nursing; Technology |
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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. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1318 |
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