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Author |
Litchfield, M. |
Title |
Thinking through diagnosis: Process in nursing practice |
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Journal Article |
Year |
1986 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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Volume |
1 |
Issue |
4 |
Pages |
9-12 |
Keywords |
Diagnosis; Nursing philosophy; Nursing research |
Abstract |
A paper following on from the paper “Between the idea and reality” (Nursing Praxis in New Zealand 1(2), 17-29) proposing the focus for the discipline of nursing – practice and research – is diagnosis. For nursing practice, diagnosis is a practice that collapses “The Nursing Process”; for research to develop nursing practice, diagnosis is one continuous relational process that merges and makes the separate tasks od assessment, intervention and evaluation redundant. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1314 |
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Author |
Litchfield, M. |
Title |
Knowledge embedded in practice |
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Journal Article |
Year |
1989 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
82 |
Issue |
10 |
Pages |
24-25 |
Keywords |
Nursing research; diagnosis; Education; Nursing philosophy |
Abstract |
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 @ |
Serial |
1315 |
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Author |
Litchfield, M. |
Title |
Nursing education: Direction with purpose |
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Journal Article |
Year |
1991 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
84 |
Issue |
7 |
Pages |
22-24 |
Keywords |
Nursing education |
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NZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1316 |
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Author |
Litchfield, M. |
Title |
Computers and the form of nursing to come |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
1992 |
Publication |
International Journal of Health Informatics |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
1 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
7-10 |
Keywords |
Computers; Nursing; Technology |
Abstract |
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 @ |
Serial |
1318 |
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Author |
Litchfield, M. |
Title |
Practice wisdom |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
1999 |
Publication |
Advances in Nursing Science |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
22 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
62-73 |
Keywords |
Nursing research; Nursing; Health knowledge |
Abstract |
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. |
Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1186 |
Serial |
1171 |
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Author |
Jonsdottir, H.; Litchfield, M.; Pharris, M. |
Title |
Partnership in practice |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Research & Theory for Nursing Practice |
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Volume |
17 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
51-63 |
Keywords |
Nurse-patient relations; Nursing philosophy; Nursing research |
Abstract |
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 @ |
Serial |
1172 |
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Author |
Jonsdottir, H.; Litchfield, M.; Pharris, M. |
Title |
The relational core of nursing practice as partnership |
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Journal Article |
Year |
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Publication |
Journal of Advanced Nursing |
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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. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1188 |
Serial |
1173 |
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Author |
Litchfield, M.; Jonsdottir, H. |
Title |
A practice discipline that's here and now |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
2008 |
Publication |
Advances in Nursing Science |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
31 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
79-92 |
Keywords |
Nursing research; Policy; Nursing philosophy |
Abstract |
The article is a collaborative writing venture drawing on research findings from New Zealand and Iceland to contribute to the international scholarship on the status and future direction of the nursing discipline. It takes an overview of the international historical trends in nursing knowledge development and proposes a framework for contemporary nursing research that accommodates the past efforts and paradigms of nurse scholars and reflects the changing thinking around the humanness of the health circumstance as the focus of the nursing discipline. It addresses contemporary challenges facing nurses as practitioners and researchers for advancement of practice and delivery of health services, and for influencing health policy. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1174 |
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Author |
Litchfield, M. |
Title |
Between the idea and reality |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
1986 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
1 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
17-29 |
Keywords |
Nursing research; Nursing philosophy; Diagnosis; Evaluation |
Abstract |
A paper presented as one of the four “Winter Lecture Series” hosted by the Nursing Studies unit of the Department of Education, Victoria University of Wellington. It is a critique of “ The Nursing Process” referred to commonly in nursing education programmes. It challenges the usefulness for nursing of the linear sequence of steps of assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention and evaluation. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1313 |
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Author |
Litchfield, M. |
Title |
Priorities for research |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
1993 |
Publication |
kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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Volume |
1 |
Issue |
8 |
Pages |
28-30 |
Keywords |
Nursing research |
Abstract |
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 @ |
Serial |
1320 |
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Author |
Litchfield, M. |
Title |
Viewpoint: Telling nursing stories |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
1994 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
2 |
Issue |
4 |
Pages |
28 |
Keywords |
Nursing research; Ethics; Patient rights |
Abstract |
A brief critique and comment on the ethical implications of nurse researchers using methodology that involves soliciting personal experiences of patients and subsequently publishing them as stories. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1321 |
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Author |
Litchfield, M. |
Title |
Case management and nurses |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
1998 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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Volume |
13 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
26-35 |
Keywords |
Nursing; Care plans |
Abstract |
The report of an exploratory study of current approaches to case management by nurses as requested by the College of Nurses Aotearoa New Zealand. It revealed different interpretations of nurse case management around New Zealand and in the US, UK and Australia. They differed according to the conceptualisation of health service design and delivery in the respective country. Case management in New Zealand in general presented nurse care management roles as an interface between the mangement of health service delivery and the peculiarities of the healthcare people received, holding the potential for achieving tailored, patient-centred care outcomes. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1323 |
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Author |
Litchfield, M. |
Title |
Professional development: Developing a new model of integrated care |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
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 |
Abstract |
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 @ |
Serial |
1324 |
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Author |
Litchfield, M. |
Title |
The scope of advancing nursing practice |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
1998 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
13 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
13-24 |
Keywords |
Nursing specialties; Nursing |
Abstract |
An overview of the model of nursing practice and nurse roles derived through a programme of nursing research in the context of the changing New Zealand health system. The emphasis is on the complementary nature of the practice of family nurses taking a generic integrative service delivery hub role and the practice of other nurses advancing in specialist roles. Nursing care is presented as a professional, collective practice of registered nurses spread across all health service sectors and employment settings. Nurse roles are differentiated according to the interplay of two factors influencing the extent of practice autonomy the nurses assume (educationally supported) in responding to health need. A diagram depicts the interrelationship of competency and scope for the inclusive three different career trajectories of nurses advancing in practice. NOTE: This paper was published with an error in the title of the article (stated correctly on the journal contents page). An apology from the journal editor with an explanation of the importance of the use of the term ?advancing? and not ?advanced? was published in the subsequent issue (Nursing Praxis in NZ,14(1)). |
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NZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1325 |
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Author |
Litchfield, M. |
Title |
What is nursing research? |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
1998 |
Publication |
P. Watson & M.Woods (Eds.), Waiora: Nursing research in Aotearoa/New Zealand, evolving a shared sense of our future. Proceedings of the Nursing Research Section/Te Runanga O Aotearoa (New Zealand Nurses' Organisation) conference, Wellington 26-27 March. |
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Volume |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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Keywords |
Nursing research; Nursing |
Abstract |
This conference paper outlines the nature of nursing research developing the distinct knowledge for nursing practice. It is presented as a cumulative process of knowledge development about health, practice and service delivery. Nursing research is illustrated by tracing a personal trajectory of research over 25 years that addressed questions relating to and derived from the practice of nursing. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1326 |
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