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Author Keene, J.M. openurl 
  Title (down) The role of the nurse in the outpatient setting Type
  Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Nursing; Nursing specialties  
  Abstract Outpatient nurses are often seen as nurses who are less important or skilled and can no longer physically cope with working in busy wards. This report is aimed to challenge this presumption and show that there are many educated and highly skilled nurses working in these departments. The diversity of the role of the nurse within the continued advancement of nursing practice in the outpatient department is evidence to disprove the perceptions other nurses have of the outpatient nurse. The purpose of this report was to discuss the changing role of the outpatient nurse from 'handmaiden' to 'autonomous practitioner', and secondly, to discuss nurse-led services and what experience and/or skills these nurses are expected to have to fulfill these roles. Literature was gathered to inform this report from the academic circles, policy from the Ministry of Health, the District Health Board website, and in relation to the author's own role with the outpatient department.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 493 Serial 479  
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Author Dyson, L. openurl 
  Title (down) The role of the lecturer in the preceptor model of clinical teaching Type Journal Article
  Year 2000 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 16 Issue 3 Pages 16-24  
  Keywords Teaching methods; Nursing; Education; Preceptorship  
  Abstract This article reports on a descriptive study undertaken within a school of nursing where the author was formerly employed. The study explored the role of the lecturer within the preceptorship model of clinical teaching. It uses an exploratory/descriptive, qualitative approach to interviewing 12 lecturers. The findings demonstrate the educational orientation of the lecturer role and also highlight the tension that continues to exist between the world of education and the world of practice.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 635  
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Author Mears, A. openurl 
  Title (down) The role of the clinical nurse co-ordinator Type Journal Article
  Year 2003 Publication Journal of the Australasian Rehabilitation Nurses Association Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6 Issue 3 Pages 24-25  
  Keywords Nursing; Nursing specialties; Older people  
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  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 907 Serial 891  
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Author O'Brien, A.J.; Kar, A. openurl 
  Title (down) The role of second health professionals under New Zealand mental health legislation Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 13 Issue 3 Pages 356-363  
  Keywords Scope of practice; Psychiatric Nursing; Nurse-patient relations  
  Abstract The development of generic statutory roles in mental health care has been the subject of discussion by New Zealand nurses for the past decade. One such role is that of second health professional in judicial reviews of civil commitment. Issues identified by New Zealand nurses have also been raised in England, where it seems that nurses are likely to assume the role of Approved Mental Health Worker under English mental health law. A survey of mental health nurses found that few had received any preparation for the role of second health professional and 45% did not feel adequately prepared for the role. Some of these issues are reflected in a New Zealand inquiry which resulted in the Ministry of Health developing a written report form for second health professionals. However, the form has the potential to reduce the mental health nursing role to a narrow legal role. Statutory roles such as that of second health professional challenge mental health nurses to critically reflect on the conceptual and ethical basis of their practice. While traditional concepts such as therapeutic relationships and advocacy need to be reviewed in light of these changes, nurses need to be vigilant in articulating the moral and clinical basis of their roles. The development of guidelines for the second health professional role is suggested as a way of supporting clinical practice in this area.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1045  
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Author Litchfield, M.; Ross, J. url  openurl
  Title (down) The role of rural nurses: National survey Type Report
  Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Online on the Ministry of Health's Centre for Rural Health pages  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Rural nursing; Personnel; Nursing specialties; Primary health care  
  Abstract A survey was used to reach as many nurses as possible involved with nursing in “rural” areas throughout New Zealand and to build a profile of nurses involved in the provision of healthcare beyond the urban centres. The contact also sought to inform nurses of the rural healthcare project and encourage them to contribute their experience to the development of health services in the new health service structure. Data is presented on the characteristics and employment conditions of nurses and access to resources including information technology. The inadequacy of information on the rural nurse workforce is identified: nurse roles are historically defined yet employment patterns are changing according to the workforce demands of new structures, and the existing definitions of rural health service design and delivery are only in terms of general medical practices and on-call coverage. Recommendations are made for definitions of “rurality” and “rural nurse” that will allow a more useful depiction of the nurse workforce.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1175  
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Author Hansen, G. openurl 
  Title (down) The role of massage in the care of the critically ill Type Journal Article
  Year 2002 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 8 Issue 7 Pages 14-16  
  Keywords Nursing; Alternative therapies; Intensive care nursing  
  Abstract This article looks at the research on the benefits of massage for alleviating the anxiety of patients in critical care. The author draws on her own experiences with cardiac patients and affirms the lasting psychological benefit of massage. She provides advice on which parts of the body to massage on patients in critical care, which to avoid and how to know when it is contraindicated.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1010  
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Author Kennedy, Barry url  openurl
  Title (down) The Relationships between empathy and burnout in nurses Type Book Whole
  Year 2013 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1v  
  Keywords Empathy; Burnout; Earthquakes; Acute nursing; Surveys  
  Abstract Surveys nurses at two hospitals during April and May of 2012. Uses bivariate correlations, group comparisons, analysis of variance and multiple regression to analyse the results. Notes that nurses were still experiencing negative emotional effects of the earthquakes and aftershocks of the preceding 18 months. Finds empathy levels and burnout levels were lower than the normative mean, and that empathy and burnout were negatively correlated with age and experience.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1565  
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Author Foster, S. openurl 
  Title (down) The relationship of physical activity to health in elder adulthood Type Journal Article
  Year 2001 Publication Vision: A Journal of Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 7 Issue 12 Pages 24-27  
  Keywords Older people; Geriatric nursing; Health behaviour; Age factors  
  Abstract This article discusses the importance of physical activity in the health of older people, in the context of holistic perspectives of elder adulthood and theories of ageing and recent research. The wide ranging role of the gerontologic nurse specialist is explored.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1285  
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Author Vallant, S.R.; Neville, S.J. openurl 
  Title (down) The relationship between student nurse and nurse clinician: Impact on student learning Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 22 Issue 3 Pages 23-33  
  Keywords Teaching methods; Students; Nursing  
  Abstract The purpose of this descriptive interpretive study was to explore relationships between student nurses and nurse clinicians. Eleven student nurses at the end of a three year Bachelor of Nursing programme in one institution participated in focus group interviews. Data gathered from the three focus groups were analysed using an inductive approach. Five categories, namely 'being invisible in the relationship', 'not stepping on toes', 'lost opportunities for learning', 'nurturance' and 'reciprocity' emerged from data analysis. These are presented with appropriate quotes to demonstrate the essence of participant experiences. Findings indicated that when students experienced relationships with clinicians as not being positive, this inhibited learning. Conversely, when students saw the clinician as participating actively and positively in the student/clinician relationship then student learning was enhanced. This evidence forms the basis for recommending further complementary research into the clinician's attitudes and perceptions related to their teaching role.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 529  
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Author Rayat, P. openurl 
  Title (down) The relationship between job satisfaction and professional development in nursing: A socio critical outlook Type
  Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Job satisfaction; Professional development; Nursing  
  Abstract Health reforms, reviews and restructuring are not new to New Zealand nursing. The author notes that changes in the environment have created many pressures on nursing as a profession. The profession is trying to deal with this turmoil in a responsible fashion. It is also trying to grow and develop at the same time. This research is focused on finding the relationship between job and professional development. It also highlights the factors that affect job satisfaction and professional development.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 570  
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Author Jonsdottir, H.; Litchfield, M.; Pharris, M. openurl 
  Title (down) The relational core of nursing practice as partnership Type Journal Article
  Year Publication Journal of Advanced Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 47 Issue 3 Pages 241-250  
  Keywords Nurse-patient relations; Nursing philosophy; Nursing research  
  Abstract This article elaborates the meaning of partnership in practice for nurses practising in different and complementary way to nurses in specialist roles and medical practitioners. It positions partnership as the relational core of nursing practice. Partnership is presented as an evolving dialogue between nurse and patient, which is characterised by open, caring, mutually responsive and non-directive approaches. This partnership occurs within a health system that is dominated by technologically-driven, prescriptive, and outcome-oriented approaches. It is the second of a series of articles written as a partnership between nurse scholars from Iceland, NZ and USA.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1188 Serial 1173  
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Author Clayton, J.R. openurl 
  Title (down) The recovery of hope: A personal journey through paradigms toward emancipatory practice Type
  Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Mental health; Teaching methods; Nursing philosophy  
  Abstract This study traces the author's transition from being a mental health nurse to becoming a facilitator of an education programme, the Health and Wellbeing course, for those in recovery from mental illnesses. Within this transition, she describes a journey from disease-focused paradigms toward emancipatory paradigms, evidenced by her application of the recovery approach to her teaching. The 'recovery approach' proposed by the Mental Health Commission in November 1998, and other models of health, are explored using the methodology of descriptive/interpretive philosophical inquiry, autobiographical narrative and a dialectical research design. The author draws from the philosophies of phenomenology and existentialism to present excerpts from her journals, exemplars, poetry and artwork which illuminate epiphanies occurring as she integrates health paradigms in the design of the Health and Wellbeing course. Within this process the recovery approach is revealed as being consistent with the teaching principles of the Health and Wellbeing course. The author goes on to say that the dialectical research design reveals paradoxes and transformations in nursing, medical, psychological, and humanistic paradigms within the New Zealand socio-political context from the 1970s to 2003. The way these are integrated into her practice as an educator, becomes evident in the dialectical research cycles of being, thinking, developing a project, the encounter of teaching, making sense and communication. These cycles reveal her being in the roles of nurse and educator and the thinking through of paradigms that lead to the design and philosophy of a Health and Wellbeing course, the encounter of teaching, and the communication of insights gained. The author's main objective is to show the importance of nurses and educators developing a reflective consciousness when working with sufferers of mental illness. This reflective consciousness involves three levels: The primary level, or raw experience; the social level, or our socio-political contexts and social values, and, the realised level, insights gained about knowledge and experience.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 854  
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Author Horsburgh, M.; Perkins, R.; Coyle, B.; Degeling, P. openurl 
  Title (down) The professional subcultures of students entering medicine, nursing and pharmacy programmes Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Journal of Interprofessional Care Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 20 Issue 4 Pages 425-431  
  Keywords Interprofessional relations; Attitude of health personnel; Nurse managers; Nursing; Education; Organisational culture  
  Abstract This study sought to determine the attitudes, beliefs and values towards clinical work organisation of students entering undergraduate medicine, nursing and pharmacy programmes in order to frame questions for a wider study. University of Auckland students entering medicine, nursing and pharmacy programmes completed a questionnaire based on that used by Degeling et al. in studies of the professional subcultures working in the health system in Australia, New Zealand, England and elsewhere. Findings indicate that before students commence their education and training medical, nursing and pharmacy students as groups or sub-cultures differ in how they believe clinical work should be organised. Medical students believe that clinical work should be the responsibility of individuals in contrast to nursing students who have a collective view and believe that work should be systemised. Pharmacy students are at a mid-point in this continuum. There are many challenges for undergraduate programmes preparing graduates for modern healthcare practice where the emphasis is on systemised work and team based approaches. These include issues of professional socialisation which begins before students enter programmes, selection of students, attitudinal shifts and interprofessional education.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 937  
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Author Peach, J. openurl 
  Title (down) The Professional Development Programme: Achievements and outcomes Type Journal Article
  Year 1999 Publication Professional Leader Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 5 Issue 1 Pages 6-9  
  Keywords Professional development; Evaluation; Nursing  
  Abstract This article backgrounds the professional development programme instigated at Auckland Hospital in 1988, and reviews the achievements of the past 10 years. It describes PDP and distinguishes it from a clinical career pathway. Specific indicators were used to assess the achievement of the programme, and these are presented. Overall the programme achieved it's outcomes and at a reasonable cost.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1289 Serial 1274  
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Author Mortensen, A.; White, G.E. openurl 
  Title (down) The process of destigmatisation: The work of sexual health nurses Type Journal Article
  Year 2003 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 19 Issue 1 Pages 32-39  
  Keywords Nursing specialties; Sexual and reproductive health; Attitude to health  
  Abstract The focus of this article is on the findings of a grounded theory study of sexual health nursing in New Zealand. Nurses' experiences of providing sexual health care are described and theoretical explanations generated. The emphasis in this article is on countering stigma which emerged as a recurrent problem for nurses in the study. A comparative analysis of the nurses' counter reactions with Gilmore and Somerville's (1994) model of stigmatised reactions towards people with sexually transmitted diseases was done. The model describes the processes of disidentification, depersonalisation, scapegoating, and discrimination, which characterise stigmatised reactions. Nurses' understandings of the impact of socioeconomic conditions and gender/power relations in society have an important role to play in how nurses manage care. The concept of destigmatisation, which seeks to counteract negative social attitudes, is discussed. The study showed that as a consequence of their work nurses in this study encountered professional stigma and marginalisation.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 626 Serial 612  
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