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Author Kupa, S. openurl 
  Title (down) Psychogeriatric nursing: A review of the literature Type
  Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Keywords Mental health; Older people; Geriatric nursing; Age factors  
  Abstract This paper is a literature review of the psychogeriatric specialty and describes the clinical role, practice and knowledge of the psychogeriatric nurse. Literature reviews provide a useful means for evaluating what is currently known and understood in a particular area of interest to help nurses' build current opinion into practice. Psychogeriatric nursing is a specialised field of practice that focuses on the mental health needs of people over the age of 65 (including younger people who have acquired needs that are similar in 'like' and age and 'interest'). The literature asserts the urgent need to develop the role and practice of the psychogeriatric nurse in order to address the complex needs of our ageing population in areas such as home care, hospitals, primary health, and long term care institutions. The findings highlight aspects of nursing care that are essential to the role and practice of the psychogeriatric nurse. Knowledge that is necessary for best practice in psychogeriatric nursing care is drawn mainly from the field of general psychiatry and gerontology but also from general medicine, psychology, neurology, and disability. Nurses' working with older adults affected by psychogeriatric conditions must possess a broad knowledge of physical and mental health issues that affect the elderly, including also knowledge and understanding of psychosocial risk factors that can also have an impact on the health and behaviour of older people and their carers. Despite these literal assertions however there appears to be a dearth of literature available to support the requirements for developing the psychogeriatric nursing specialty in clinical practice, research, and education. The author notes that authorities in this specialised field of practice generally agree that with an increasing aging population looming in the future more research in the field of “old age psychiatry” will be critical.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 775  
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Author Matheson, S. url  openurl
  Title (down) Psychiatric/mental health nursing: Positioning undergraduate education Type
  Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal ResearchArchive@Victoria  
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  Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; History of nursing; Nursing; Education  
  Abstract In this paper, the critique of the mental health component of comprehensive nursing education and the questions that it raises are explored from historical, structural and ideological perspectives. In order to locate the past and highlight its significance to where psychiatric/mental health nurses find themselves today some of the history of the asylum system and the development of psychiatric nursing in New Zealand within these structures are presented. Ideological changes to the way mental health was thought about, and responded to, have had considerable impact on where psychiatric nurses practiced, how they practised and what they were named. This created the need for a different kind of nurse and has led to changes in the education of nurses. The structural influences on the training and education of nurses are identified through relevant reports and their recommendations and significance in relation to psychiatric/mental health nursing are examined. Issues deriving from the critique of undergraduate psychiatric/mental health nursing education highlight the urgent nature of the crisis and draw out the multiple and competing discourses that inform the education of nurses. In acknowledging that the crisis can be viewed from multiple perspectives the need for responses from multiple levels involving the Nursing Council of New Zealand, the Ministry of Health, the Mental Health Commission and nurses in education and practice are recommended.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1146  
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Author Walsh, C. openurl 
  Title (down) Psychiatric nursing: a feminist perspective on nursing practice Type
  Year 1995 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 411 Serial 411  
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Author Beale, T.M. openurl 
  Title (down) Psychiatric nurses: the influence of their personal life experiences on therapeutic readiness Type
  Year 1995 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
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  Abstract This research investigates the impact of fifteen psychiatric nurses' personal experiences on their therapeutic relationships with clines. A hermeneutic phenomenological methodology informed by Heidegger is employed to gain an understanding of the human experience of these nurses in the context of the therapeutic relationship.The research illuminates the significant impact of these nurses' experiences on their relationships. Some experiences are found to enhance therapeutic readiness while the other personal experiences impede it, some impeding it to a degree that nurses are unable to work therapeutically with certain clients. The stories that describe the personal experiences that lead towards therapeutic readiness care special, as are the accounts of the professionalism and care that these nurses bring to their clients  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 256  
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Author Crowe, M. openurl 
  Title (down) Psychiatric diagnosis: Some implications for mental health nursing care Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 53 Issue 1 Pages 125-131  
  Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Diagnosis; Culture; Gender; Socioeconomic factors; Nursing models  
  Abstract This article explores some of the functions of psychiatric diagnosis and the implications this has for mental health nursing care. It critiques the psychiatric diagnosis as a categorisation process that maintains oppressive power relations within society, by establishing and enforcing normality through gender, culture and class biases. The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is used to illustrate some of the inherent biases in the diagnostic process. The author argues that mental health nursing practice needs to demonstrate an awareness of the power relations inherent in any diagnostic process and make attempts to redress these at both the individual and sociopolitical levels. To create a true patient-centred partnership in mental health nursing, the nursing focus should be on the patient's experience rather than the psychiatric diagnosis with which the experience is attributed. NB this is a reprint of article first published in Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2000 Mar; 31(3), 583-9.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 837  
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Author Green, M. openurl 
  Title (down) Psychiatric consultation liaison nurse: A model for practice Type
  Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal Otago Polytechnic library. A copy can be obtained by contacting pgnursadmin@tekotago.ac.nz  
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  Keywords Nursing models; Psychiatric Nursing  
  Abstract Psychiatric consultation liaison (PCL) nursing is an evolving specialist area of mental health nursing in the USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand. The aim of this dissertation is to explore models of PCL nursing practice in order to develop and discuss a PCL nursing model applicable to the New Zealand context. The role of the PCL nurse was of particular interest to the author as a new practitioner in this specialist area. While there have been PCL nurses in practice for over 50 years, the literature does not offer much clarity about models of PCL nursing. From a review of the literature, four themes were recurrent in the work of PCL nurses. These themes represent four functions which are vital to the role of the PCL nurse: partnership, expertise of the PCL nurse, therapeutic relationship and organisational consultation. The needs of the patient are the core of this model and the primary objective is to improve the quality of care of patients in the general hospital with co-existing physical and psychological problems. It is imperative that PCL nurses evaluate their practice and embark on research to investigate clinical outcomes, cost effectiveness and the impact of PCL nurse practice on patients and staff. This PCL nursing model provides a beginning for this process. It also clarifies and articulates the role of the PCL nurse which enables the service to be promoted to colleagues. This PCL nursing model represents a critique of the author's understanding of the role of the PCL nurse. As expertise develops, the model will continue to be tested and refined.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 608  
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Author Berry, R. openurl 
  Title (down) Psychiatric comorbidity and childhood adversity in women seeking treatment for alcohol and/or drug dependence Type
  Year 1999 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library, Dunedin  
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  Abstract Eighty alcohol and/or drug dependent women who were consecutive admissions to an outpatient alcohol and drug service were interviewed with the aim of gathering information regarding childhood adversity, psychiatric comorbidity and alcohol and drug history, including extent of treatment and alcohol and drug related criminality. A secondary aim of the study was to investigate associations between both the multiplicity of alcohol and drug dependence diagnosis and the presence of psychiatric comorbidity in relation to exposure to childhood adversity, including sexual, physical and emotional abuse.The data demonstrate that the study sample was a relatively severe group of alcohol and drug dependent women. A sizeable percentage came from backgrounds characterised by parental separation, conflict and alcohol and drug problems. Many were regularly exposed to physical abuse perpetrated by both parents or main parental figures and over two-thirds were exposed to some form of sexual abuse within their first 15 years. Sixty percent had been dependent on more than one psychoactive substance, with half having undergone previous alcohol and drug treatment. The women also presented with substantial histories of criminal convictions, with a quarter having served a prison sentence. The results indicate the presence of extensive psychiatric comorbidity in the sample. Two-thirds of the women met current DSM-IV criteria forat least one of the following Axis I disorders: major depressive syndrome, social phobia or bulimia nervosa, while nearly half had antisocial personality disorder. More importantly, significant associations were found regarding the presence of psychiatric comorbidity in relation to four measures of severe childhood adversity, i.e. childhood sexual, physical and emotional abuse and parental problems. Multiplicity of alcohol and drug dependence diagnosis was associated with severe emotional abuse, severe parental problems andpsychiatric comorbidity. Emotional abuse during childhood was the most pervasive indicator of comorbidity and multiplicity of alcohol and/or drug dependence. The main implication for clinical practice arising from the results of this study is the need for the development of a broader approach to alcohol and drug service provision. In order to achieve positive treatment outcomes, alcohol and drug service may need to routinely screen and plan treatment for unresolved childhood trauma, psychiatric disorder and other problems related to alcohol and drug use in all clients presenting for alcohol and drug treatment  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 210 Serial 210  
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Author Lakeman, R.M. openurl 
  Title (down) Psychiatric – mental health nurses on the internet Type Journal Article
  Year 1998 Publication Computers in Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 16 Issue 2 Pages 87-89  
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  Abstract This research began in 1995 with an e-mail survey of psychiatric / mental health (PMH) nurses who belonged to an e-mail discussion group. The original aims were to describe how PMH used and learned to use the internet, the benefits to their work, and how they saw the internet affecting their work in future. Data were analysed using content analysis techniques and findings published in a number of forums. In 1999 another survey using the same e-mail list was undertaken to explore how things had changed in terms of internet use and peoples visions of how the internet is likely to impact on nursing in the future. These data are the subject of continuing analysis  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 191 Serial 191  
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Author McCormick, Glen; Thompson, Sean R openurl 
  Title (down) Provision of palliative and end-of-life care by paramedics in New Zealand communities: a review of international practice and the New Zealand context Type Journal Article
  Year 2019 Publication Whitireia Journal of Nursing, Health and Social Services Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue 26 Pages 51-57  
  Keywords End-of-life (EOL) care; Palliative care; Paramedic; Emergency services  
  Abstract Reviews the international literature on paramedic preparedness to provide palliative and EOL care in in the community, and applies it to the NZ context. Finds that paramedics would like improved education and better integration with traditional care providers, encompassing patients, family, whanau and carers. and that they stress the psychological, spiritual and cultural needs of their patients.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1634  
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Author Hales, Caz; Amankwaa, Isaac; Gray, Lesley; Rook, Helen url  doi
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  Title (down) Providing care for older adults with extreme obesity in aged residential care facilities: an environmental scan Type Journal Article
  Year 2020 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 36 Issue 3 Pages 24-36  
  Keywords Aged residential care; Morbid obesity; Environmental scanning  
  Abstract Reports findings of an environmental scan undertaken as part of a larger study s to assess the current state of bariatric (extreme obesity) services within aged

residential care (ARC). Identifies bariatric-resident needs, and gaps in service provision to inform policy and service development.
 
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1680  
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Author Owen, Katie; Day, Liz; Yang, Diya openurl 
  Title (down) Promoting well-being for Chinese international students in an undergraduate nursing programme: reducing culture shock Type Journal Article
  Year 2017 Publication Whitireia Nursing and Health Journal Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue 24 Pages 13-20  
  Keywords International students; English as an additional language (EAL); Culture shock; Acculturation; Mental health  
  Abstract Reviews literature relating to the experience of international tertiary students, particularly Chinese students, undertaking nursing education. Reports that international students cite poorer mental and physical health outcomes than domestic students, and that students with English as an additional language (EAL) experience culture shock, frustration and stress. Suggests that tertiary institutions need to supply targeted interventions for international students in language and cultural adaptation to promote positive acculturation.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1546  
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Author Briscoe, Jeanette; Harding, Thomas openurl 
  Title (down) Promoting the use of the SOAP (IE) documentation framework in medical nurses' practice Type Journal Article
  Year 2020 Publication Kai Tiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 11 Issue 1 Pages 17-23  
  Keywords Nursing documentation; SOAP; SOAP(IE); Documetation frameworks  
  Abstract Promotes the use of the SOAP(IE) framework for nursing documentation. Conducts action research to identify areas within cycles of planning, implementation, evaluation and reflection in need of improvement. Undertakes three cycles of action research using audits, surveys and a focus group interview with RNs in two DHB medical wards. Increases the uptake of SOAP through education sessions and tools, and nurse champions.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1657  
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Author Scheibmair, Amanda url  openurl
  Title (down) Promoting New Zealand children's active participation in healthcare: Margaret May Blackwell Travel Fellowship 2015/2016 Report Type Report
  Year 2016 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 24 p.  
  Keywords Child health; Child health services; Child welfare  
  Abstract Cites children's right to participation in their own healthcare under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and describes the nature of their participation. Reports a study tour of the UK, Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands to learn perspectives, strategies and methods of including children in their own healthcare.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1503  
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Author Peri, K.; Kerse, N.; Kiata, L.; Wilkinson, T.; Robinson, E.; Parsons, J.; Willingale, J.; Parsons, M.; Brown, P.; Pearson, J.R.; von Randow, M.; Arroll, B. openurl 
  Title (down) Promoting independence in residential care: Successful recruitment for a randomized controlled trial Type Journal Article
  Year 2008 Publication Journal of the American Medical Directors Association Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 9 Issue 4 Pages 251-256  
  Keywords Research; Geriatric nursing; Rest homes; Evaluation; Attitude of health personnel  
  Abstract The aim of this study was to describe the recruitment strategy and association between facility and staff characteristics and success of resident recruitment for the Promoting Independence in Residential Care (PIRC) trial. A global impression of staff willingness to facilitate research was gauged by research nurses, facility characteristics were measured by staff interview. Forty-one (85%) facilities and 682 (83%) residents participated, median age was 85 years (range 65-101), and 74% were women. Participants had complex health problems. Recruitment rates were associated (but did not increase linearly) with the perceived willingness of staff, and were not associated with facility size. Design effects from the cluster recruitment differed according to outcome. The recruitment strategy was successful in recruiting a large sample of people with complex comorbidities and high levels of functional disability despite perceptions of staff reluctance. Staff willingness was related to recruitment success.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 803 Serial 787  
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Author Wong, G.; Sakulneya, A. openurl 
  Title (down) Promoting EAL nursing students' mastery of informal language Type Journal Article
  Year 2004 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 20 Issue 1 Pages 45-52  
  Keywords Communication; Asian peoples; Education; Nursing  
  Abstract This article describes the development, delivery and evaluation of a pilot programme designed to help nursing and midwifery students from Asian and non-English speaking backgrounds improve their conversational skills in practice settings. Many such students, although previously assessed as competent in English, find that communication with patients and their families, and other health professionals is difficult. The study was conducted in a large tertiary educational institution in a major metropolitan centre. Each week for a period of 11 weeks students participated in an interactive session. Content for these was based on areas highlighted by a needs assessment involving interviews with both students and lecturers, and was subject to ongoing modification in response to feedback from participants. Evaluation questionnaires completed at the conclusion of the series indicated that students perceived the impact as positive. Students who attended regularly and were actively involved in the practice activities described gains in communication skills. From this it was concluded that further development of the pilot scheme was warranted in order to benefit English as an additional language (EAL) students enrolled in nursing and midwifery courses  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 564 Serial 550  
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