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Author O'Brien, A.J.; Hughes, F.; Kidd, J.D. openurl 
  Title (up) Mental health nursing in New Zealand primary health care Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Contemporary Nurse Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages 142-152  
  Keywords Mental health; Primary health care; Nursing specialties; Community health nursing  
  Abstract This article describes the move in mental health from institutional care to community arrangements. It draws on international literature and New Zealand health policy, which gives increased emphasis to the role of the primary health care sector in responding to mental health issues. These issues include the need for health promotion, improved detection and treatment of mild to moderate mental illness, and provision of mental health care to some of those with severe mental illness who traditionally receive care in secondary services. These developments challenge specialist mental health nurses to develop new roles which extend their practice into primary health care. In some parts of New Zealand this process has been under way for some time in the form of shared care projects. However developments currently are ad hoc and leave room for considerable development of specialist mental health nursing roles, including roles for nurse practitioners in primary mental health care.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 730 Serial 716  
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Author Darkins, Tina url  openurl
  Title (up) Merging health and social day care: report on a New Zealand-based model of holistic day care service for the elderly, frail and those with disabilities Type Report
  Year 2016 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 73 p.  
  Keywords Aged care -- New Zealand  
  Abstract Highlights the service innovation model that establishes a new community relationship between health and nursing services, and day-care providers to the elderly, frail and those with disabilities. Performs a literature review of research on the topic, outlining the goals of adult day care, and describing the Forget Me Not (FMN) programme used at the FMN Centre in Whangarei. Highlights the levels of care within the programme and the proposed outcomes.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1504  
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Author Davies, B. openurl 
  Title (up) Midwifery competencies: students' stories Type
  Year 1997 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 326 Serial 326  
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Author Hedwig, J.A. openurl 
  Title (up) Midwives: preparation and practice Type
  Year 1990 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 267 Serial 267  
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Author Giddings, D.L.S. openurl 
  Title (up) Mixed-methods research: Positivism dressed in drag Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Journal of Research in Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 11 Issue 3 Pages 195-203  
  Keywords Methodology; Nursing research  
  Abstract The author critiques the claim that mixed method research is a third methodology, and the implied belief that the mixing of qualitative and quantitative methods will produce the 'best of both worlds'. The author suggests that this assumption, combined with inherent promises of inclusiveness, takes on a reality and certainty in research findings that serves well the powerful nexus of economic restraint and evidence-based practice. The author argues that the use of the terms 'qualitative' and 'quantitative' as normative descriptors reinforces their binary positioning, effectively marginalising the methodological diversity within them. Ideologically, mixed methods covers for the continuing hegemony of positivism, albeit in its more moderate, postpositivist form. If naively interpreted, mixed methods could become the preferred approach in the teaching and doing of research. The author concludes that rather than the promotion of more co-operative and complex designs for increasingly complex social and health issues, economic and administrative pressures may lead to demands for the 'quick fix' that mixed methods appears to offer.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 717  
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Author Hales, Caz; Curran, Nicky; Vries, Kay de url  openurl
  Title (up) Morbidly obese patients' experiences of mobility during hospitalisation Type Journal Article
  Year 2018 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 34 Issue 1 Pages 20-31  
  Keywords Morbid Obesity; Mobility; Bariatric care; Hospitalisation; Rehabilitation  
  Abstract Examines the mobility experiences and needs of morbidly-obese patients before and during hospital admission. Undertakes semi-structured interviews with seven morbidly obese patients. Identifies two categories of mobility problems: 'compromised pre-existing mobility', with a subcategory of 'accessing services prior to admission' and 'mobilisation difficulties during hospitalisation', with a subcategory of 'dissonance between dependency and need for assistance'. Recommends bariatric-care pathways for the morbidly-obese patient.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1591  
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Author Butterfield, S.L. openurl 
  Title (up) More power to the patient: self-care within acute care situations Type
  Year 1978 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library  
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  Abstract “A brief look at self-care and some of the issues relevant to nurses recognising it as a component of acute care”  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 75 Serial 75  
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Author Clendon, Dr. J url  openurl
  Title (up) 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.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1335  
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Author Pool, Leanne; Day, Liz; Ridley, Susan openurl 
  Title (up) Mountain climbing: the journey for students with English as an additional language in a concept-based nursing curriculum Type Journal Article
  Year 2019 Publication Whitireia Journal of Nursing, Health and Social Services Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue 26 Pages 28-36  
  Keywords English as an additional language (EAL); Student support; Nursing education; Communication  
  Abstract Identifies the communication and learning needs of EAL students in undergraduate nursing education. Presents strategies for EAL students and others with diverse learning needs to comprehend the underlying concepts of cultural safety, praxis, professional nursing and leadership in Whitireia's BN integrated nursing curriculum. Reports findings from focus group discussions with 13 students involved in the three-way partnership comprising lecturers, learning support services and EAL students.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1633  
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Author Horsburgh, M.; Lamdin, R.; Williamson, E. openurl 
  Title (up) Multiprofessional learning: The attitudes of medical, nursing and pharmacy students to shared learning Type Journal Article
  Year 2001 Publication Medical Education Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 35 Issue 9 Pages 876-883  
  Keywords Nursing; Education; Students; Interprofessional relations  
  Abstract This study has sought to quantify the attitudes of first-year medical, nursing and pharmacy students' towards interprofessional learning, at course commencement. The Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale (RIPLS) (University of Liverpool, Department of Health Care Education), was administered to first-year medical, nursing and pharmacy students at the University of Auckland. Differences between the three groups were analysed. The majority of students reported positive attitudes towards shared learning. The benefits of shared learning, including the acquisition of teamworking skills, were seen to be beneficial to patient care and likely to enhance professional working relationships. However professional groups differed: nursing and pharmacy students indicated more strongly that an outcome of learning together would be more effective teamworking. Medical students were the least sure of their professional role, and considered that they required the acquisition of more knowledge and skills than nursing or pharmacy students.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 719  
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Author Meldrum, L.B.B. openurl 
  Title (up) Navigating the final journey: Dying in residential aged care in Aotearoa New Zealand Type
  Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Keywords Palliative care; Older people; Rest homes  
  Abstract New Zealand statistics project that the aging population of people aged 65 years and over will more than double in the next decade. This has implications for palliative care providers including hospices and hospitals because long-term inpatient care is not generally provided by hospitals and hospices. When dying patients need long-term care, residential settings become an option. The level of palliative care in these facilities is dependent on staff training and numbers. In general, staff are not trained in palliative care, neither do they provide the multidisciplinary facets that define palliative care as undertaken by hospices. This paper describes a practice development initiative using storytelling as the vehicle for introducing the concept of the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) for the dying patient into residential aged care settings. With the emergence of a reflective paradigm in nursing the concept of storytelling as a teaching/learning tool has grown. Many staff in residential care settings come from diverse ethnic backgrounds where for some, English is their second language. Storytelling therefore can be a useful approach for learning because it can increase their communication skills. The author suggests that the Liverpool Care Pathway for the dying patient is a model that can be translated across care settings, hospice, hospital, and community. It can demonstrate a framework that facilitates multiprofessional communication and documentation and embraces local needs, culture and language to empower health care workers to deliver high quality care to dying patients and their family/whanau and carers. This paper also explores the role of a facilitator as an agent of change and discusses how the interplay of evidence, context and facilitation can result in the successful implementation of the LCP into residential aged care settings.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 683  
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Author Lawton, M.M.(deceased); Students, openurl 
  Title (up) Needs for ante-natal education Type Miscellaneous
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 76 Serial 76  
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Author Harding, T.S. openurl 
  Title (up) New strategies in evidence based practice Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Klinisk sygepleje Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 20 Issue 3 Pages 4-11  
  Keywords Evidence-based medicine; Nursing; Education; Curriculum  
  Abstract This article considers wider organisational issues that impact on the implementation of evidence based practice. It describes the strategies adopted by the Auckland Area Health Board and Unitec New Zealand to implement the principles of evidence based practice in New Zealand. This has resulted in a collaboration with Auckland University and the Joanna Briggs Institute for Evidence Based Nursing and Midwifery to form the Centre for Evidence Based Nursing – Aotearoa. Evidence based nursing is a vital part of nursing education. Unitec New Zealand has developed and incorporated evidence based nursing into all courses in their undergraduate programme. Central to this is the use of evidence based practice in patient care and the integration of technology with evidence based nursing in clinical practice.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 778  
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Author Trenberth, D. url  openurl
  Title (up) New Zealand families' beliefs about what constitutes successful management of unsupervised childcare Type
  Year 2008 Publication Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Children; Parents and caregivers  
  Abstract This study explored what some New Zealand families believe constitutes the successful management of unsupervised childcare. It was designed to increase social understanding and practitioner knowledge of the issue by exploring families' beliefs, practices and perspectives. The researcher was concerned with the professional role nurses may play with this group of children. A qualitative descriptive approach was used to obtain a straight description of successful unsupervised childcare, using the everyday language of the participating families. Data was collected in semi structured interviews with five family groups, and subjected to content and thematic analysis. Findings suggest unsupervised childcare is both choice and solution, though parents are fearful of the legal and social consequences of using it. Context of the care is important, with the child's preference, community context and availability of adults through distal supervision critical components of its success. Trust between parent and child, the use of rules and boundaries to regulate child behaviour, the teaching of skills and strategies to build child competency, and parental support of children while unsupervised are identified by parents as factors linked to success. Parents identify increasing child independence and self responsibility as positive outcomes from the successful use of unsupervised childcare. This study has helped to identify positive factors resulting in good outcomes from which successful interventions could be developed, provides information that will be of particular interest to practitioners and policy makers, and provides a platform to launch larger studies into the issue of unsupervised children.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1252 Serial 1237  
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Author Richardson, S.; Ardagh, M.; Hider, P. url  openurl
  Title (up) New Zealand health professionals do not agree about what defines appropriate attendance at an emergency department Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication New Zealand Medical Journal Abbreviated Journal Access is free to articles older than 6 months, and abstracts.  
  Volume 119 Issue 1232 Pages  
  Keywords Hospitals; Clinical assessment; Interprofessional relations  
  Abstract This study aims to examine the concept of 'inappropriate' emergency department attendances in relation to the emergency department at Christchurch Hospital. It specifically seeks to determine whether there is a consensus opinion among healthcare providers regarding a definition of 'inappropriate'. An exploratory survey of health professionals involved with the referral, assessment, transport, and treatment of emergency department patients in Christchurch was carried out. A range of health professionals, including ambulance personnel, general practitioners, emergency department physicians, emergency nurses, and hospital managers were approached. A series of questions relating to definition and response to 'inappropriate' patients was asked, with an additional open-ended question relating to the definition of 'appropriateness'. The researchers found significant differences in the attitudes and perceptions of key health professionals involved in the referral, treatment, and admission of patients to the emergency department. This has implications for any interventions aimed at addressing emergency department 'overcrowding' that assume the presence of a consensus understanding of this concept.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 526  
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