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Farrow, T.; McKenna, B.; O'Brien, A.J. |
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Initiating committal proceedings 'just in case' with voluntary patients: A critique of nursing practice |
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2002 |
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Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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18 |
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2 |
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15-23 |
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Patient rights; Law and legislation; Mental health; Nurse-patient relations |
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The authors report a clinical audit that, combined with anecdotal evidence, verifies the practice of putting section 8B medical certificates on the files of voluntary mental health patients at the time of admission. This is seen as a strategy to balance the requirement to support and promote the autonomy of voluntary patients with the need to protect those patients or other people. A conceptual analysis of these issues indicates that such a practice is both legally questionable and ethically inappropriate. The authors suggest an alternative framework for practice that is legally and ethically preferable for both nurses and patients. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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618 |
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Crawford, R; Hedley, C; Marshall, B |
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Influences on Registered Nurses Having an annual influenza vaccination: Lessons from New Zealand |
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2011 |
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Kai Tiaki Nursing Research |
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2 |
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1 |
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12-16 |
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The aim of this research was to explore what influences registered nurses (RNs) to have the annual influenza vaccine. In the past, influenza vaccination of health care workers has been identified as the primary method of preventing influenza transmission to at-risk groups that, by virtue of illness, congregate in and around hospitals.
Findings showed that some RNs have confidence in the influenza vaccine being effective in preventing influenza infection; however there remained a high proportion of RNs who thought that the vaccine could or might cause influenza. Participants had incorrect knowledge and beliefs about the influenza vaccine, infection and cross infection. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1356 |
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Strochnetter, K.T. |
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Influences on nurses' pain management practices within institutions: A constructivist approach |
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2000 |
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Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Interprofessional relations; Pain management; Nursing |
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Alleviating patient suffering, providing comfort and pain relief are all central to the philosophical caring position nurses have always espoused. Despite this, patients continue to suffer pain although we have the means to provide pain relief. The author notes that research has identified that nurses have a knowledge deficit regarding pain and its management, as well an erroneous attitudes, which combined are blamed for an inability to make significant progress in this area. This study was undertaken to uncover the contextual aspects of working within a New Zealand health care institution that affect nurses' ability to manage their patient' pain effectively. It highlights the difficulties and the complicated nature of working within an institution in the 1990's health care environment, where accountability for pain is absent and where pain is often under-assessed and under-treated. By using focus group of nurses, the author notes she was able to uncover constructions on nursing practice, which, she suggests, have been missing from the literature, but prevent nurses from implementing their knowledge. Using a constructivist research, she used nurse's stories and current literature to argue one way forward in, what she terms, the pain management debacle. This study revealed a diverse range of contextual factors that prevent nurses from using their knowledge. Many of the constraints on nursing practice are the results of complex organisational structures within health reform, which have significantly affected the nurse's ability to provide quality-nursing care. One of the most important factors limiting the management of the patient' pain is the inability of the nurse to autonomously initiate analgesia. While nurses are largely responsible for the assessment of pain, they are usually powerless to access necessary analgesia, without a medical prescription. The author argues that once an initial medical diagnosis has been made, nurses are usually left responsible for patient comfort and the management of pain. To do so effectively, nurses need to able to prescribe both pharmacological and non-pharmacological measures for the patient. Presently nurses are prescribing using a variety of illegitimate mechanisms, needing the endorsement of a doctor. To fulfil this role, nurses must be adequately prepared educationally and given the authority to either prescribe autonomously, of provided with extensive “standing orders”. While legislative changes in New Zealand in 1999 extended prescribing right to a few nurses within certain areas of care, the ward nurse is unlikely to gain prescribing rights in the near future. The author concludes that a way forward may be to encourage and further develop the use of protocols for managing pain via standing orders. Standing orders are common place within nursing practice today, have the support of the Nursing Council of New Zealand and are currently under-going legislative review. An institutional commitment to developing pain protocols for nurses would recognise the nurses active role and expertise in the management of pain and facilitate expedient relief for the patient. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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909 |
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Chiyesu, William; Rasmussen, Shayne |
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Influence of a pulmonary rehabilitation education programme on health outcimes for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) |
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2021 |
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Kai Tiaki Nursing Research |
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12 |
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1 |
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49-59 |
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); Rehabilitation; Self-management; Patient education |
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Considers whether the education component in a pulmonary rehabilitation programme (PRP) influences health outcomes for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients. Performs an integrative review of literature to integrate results from qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods articles. Highlights the following concepts: disease knowledge, knowledge in relation to self-management, and the relationship between knowledge and education. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1718 |
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Stodart, Jo |
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Infection prevention and control clinical governance in New Zealand District Health Boards |
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Book Whole |
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2017 |
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62 |
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Infection control; Standards; Clinical governance; Hospitals; Surveys |
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Explores the current climate of infection prevention control (IPC) clinical governance in NZ. Audits IPC management plans in NZ District Health Boards (DHB) to evaluate which clinical governance factors facilitate or hinder IPC best practice. Employs a mixed-method, exploratory, qualitative study design to conduct semi-structured interviews with ten IPC nurses across NZ. Seeks to understand their perceptions of the IPC Standard, how it is implemented in their DHB, how the IPC risks are managed, and which barriers hinder IPC engagement. Analyses IPC documentation from all 20 DHBs to examine IPC clinical governance in each DHB. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1593 |
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Smith, Abel; Fereti, Safaato'a; Adams, Sue |
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Inequities and perspectives from the COVID-Delta outbreak: the imperative for strengthening the Pacific nursing workforce in Aotearoa New Zealand |
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Journal Article |
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2021 |
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Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand |
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37 |
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3 |
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94-103 |
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COVID-19; Inequity; Pacific Island nurses; Pacific communities; Nursing workforce |
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Provides an overview of the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to Pacific communities, in order to identify the lessons for the health system and the Pacific nursing workforce. Cites data to show inequities for Pacific communities before and during the pandemic, to highlight the opportunities missed for prioritising them in the pandemic response. Reflects on the nursing response to COVID-19 in those Pacific communities, particularly the contribution of Pacific nurses, and how to strengthen the Pacific nursing workforce in the future. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1738 |
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Dodd, J.E.L. |
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Individual privacy and the public good of health research |
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1995 |
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This is a piece of philosophy research and covers the following matters; the nature of privacy, Why it is morally significant, nature of health research, the privacy issues in health research and finally some suggestions as to ways privacy in health research may be preserved |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 305 |
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305 |
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Brockie, Teresa; Clark, Terryann C; Best, Odette; Power, Tamara; Bourque Bearskin, Lisa; Kurtz, Donna LM; Lowe, John; Wilson, Denise |
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Indigenous social exclusion to inclusion: Case studies on Indigenous nursing leadership in four high income countries. |
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2021 |
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Journal of Clinical Nursing |
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1-15 |
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Nursing leadership; Indigenous nurses; Nursing workforce; Indigenous health; Kaupapa Maori research methodology |
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Maintains that achieving health equity for indigenous populations requires indigenous nursing leadership to develop and implement new systems of care delivery. Develops a consensus among indigenous nurse academics from Australia, Canada, NZ and the US on the three themes of nursing leadership, to redress colonial injustices, to contribute to models of care and to enhance the indigenous workforce. Highlights five indigenous strategies for influencing outcomes: nationhood and reconcilation as levers for change; nursing leadership; workforce strategies; culturally-safe practices and models of care; nurse activism. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1773 |
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Smye, V.; Rameka, M.; Willis, E. |
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Indigenous health care: Advances in nursing practice |
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Journal Article |
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2006 |
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Contemporary Nurse |
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22 |
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2 |
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142-154 |
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Cultural safety; Transcultural nursing; Cross-cultural comparison; Nursing; Education |
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In this introduction to a special issue on nursing with indigenous peoples, the authors affirm the need for continued application of tools and strategies for thinking critically about issues of culture, history and race. Without these things, evidence of discriminatory policies and practices in the health system remain hidden to many health professionals. Attention to socio-political structures is as essential to promoting health and preventing illness as are nurses' activities with the individual clients. To develop critical consciousness in nursing requires educational strategies and frameworks that focus on the responsibilities and implications of practicing nursing in a postcolonial context where race and power continue to create patterns of inclusion and exclusion in health care settings. The authors suggest that many contemporary nursing programmes fail to provide such strategies and frameworks, and argue that nursing must view critical analyses of these issues as central aspects of nursing education, research, theory and practice. They go on to engage with the notion of cultural safety as a means of fostering a critical political and social consciousness in nursing to create an opportunity for social transformation. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1037 |
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De Vore, C.A. |
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Independent midwifery practice: a critical social approach |
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1995 |
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Massey University Library |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 250 |
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250 |
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Richardson, S. |
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Increasing patient numbers: The implications for New Zealand emergency departments |
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1999 |
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Accident & Emergency Nursing |
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7 |
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3 |
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158-163 |
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Emergency nursing; Organisational change |
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This article examines influences that impact on the work of the Emergency Departments (EDs). EDs are noticing increased attendance of patients with minor or non-urgent conditions. This increase in patient volume, together with on-going fiscal constraints and restructuring, has placed an added strain on the functioning of EDs. New Zealand nurses need to question the role currently given to EDs and identify the issues surrounding the increased use of these departments for primary health care. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1108 |
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1093 |
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Richardson, S. |
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Incorporation of research into clinical practice: The development of a clinical nurse researcher position |
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2005 |
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Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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21 |
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1 |
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33-42 |
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Emergency nursing; Nursing research; Hospitals |
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The author backgrounds the development of the role of an innovative Nurse Researcher (Emergency Medicine) role at Christchurch Hospital. She describes the emergency department and the factors leading to the creation of the role. Specific nursing research projects are reviewed, and the nature of nursing in relation to research is discussed. The author argues that the nurse researcher is integral to the expansion of evidence-based nursing, and that the role of Clinical Nurse Researcher in the emergency department has resulted in a higher profile for research, and the gradual integration of research as a clinical skill with direct practical relevance. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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536 |
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King, B.E. |
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Income maintenance and health care provisions for the aged: a comparative study of two societies, the United States and New Zealand |
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1981 |
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University of Canterbury Library |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 323 |
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323 |
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Sutherland, F.R. |
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Incidence of phlebitis in intravenous infusions |
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Incidence of Phlebitis in association with the use of I.V. Infusions was studied. Patients in the I.C.U. with peripheral I.V. lines were studied over a 2.5 week period, a form being completed by the staff. The study established a 20% incidence of infusion phlebitis. The care and observations of intravenous therapy is a nursing responsibility requiring constant vigilance to detect early any complication that may arise |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 67 |
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67 |
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Plenty, J.; Seers, R. |
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Incidence of backstrain in nurses and orderlies working in a geriatric unit (138 beds) |
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1984 |
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North Shore Hospital (now Waitemata Health) |
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In this study a questionnaire was designed to survey the incidence of back strain amongst staff members of a geriatric unit. This was completed by 71 staff members of a total of 99 forms issued. It would appear that back strain occurs in 70% of cases, but it is reported in only 8%. The causes of back strain in nursing are discussed and preventative measures outlined |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 66 |
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66 |
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