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Author Walsh, K.; McAllister, M.; Morgan, A.; Thornhill, J. openurl 
  Title Motivating change: Using motivational interviewing in practice development Type (up) Journal Article
  Year 2004 Publication Practice Development in Health Care Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 3 Issue 2 Pages 92-100  
  Keywords Psychiatric Nursing; Hospitals; Motivation; Older people  
  Abstract The present paper draws on experiences and insights gained by a group of psychiatric nurse practice development facilitators whilst working with consumers, carers, clinicians and managers in the context of a practice development programme in a large metropolitan psychiatric hospital. The paper describes how the practice development facilitators were able to adapt techniques of motivational interviewing, commonly used in drug and alcohol treatment services, to help motivate change in an aged care setting. The lessons embedded within this experience are that people do want change, and that sustained change requires ownership and support. Practice development facilitators can assist in this process though the use of principles and strategies of motivational interviewing, which include increasing awareness of the need for change, supporting self-efficacy and managing resistance to change.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 718  
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Author Horsburgh, M.; Lamdin, R.; Williamson, E. openurl 
  Title Multiprofessional learning: The attitudes of medical, nursing and pharmacy students to shared learning Type (up) 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 Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title Thinking through diagnosis: Process in nursing practice Type (up) Journal Article
  Year 1986 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  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.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1314  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title Knowledge embedded in practice Type (up) Journal Article
  Year 1989 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  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.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1315  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title Nursing education: Direction with purpose Type (up) Journal Article
  Year 1991 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 84 Issue 7 Pages 22-24  
  Keywords Nursing education  
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  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1316  
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Author Litchfield, M. openurl 
  Title Computers and the form of nursing to come Type (up) Journal Article
  Year 1992 Publication International Journal of Health Informatics Abbreviated Journal  
  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.  
  Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1318  
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Author Harding, T.S. openurl 
  Title New strategies in evidence based practice Type (up) 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 Farrow, T. openurl 
  Title 'No suicide contracts' in community crisis situations: A conceptual analysis Type (up) Journal Article
  Year 2003 Publication Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 10 Issue 2 Pages 199-202  
  Keywords Mental health; Community health nursing; Psychology; Suicide  
  Abstract 'No suicide contracts' take the form of a 'guarantee of safety', along with a 'promise' to call specified persons if the suicidal ideation becomes unmanageable for the person concerned. They are commonly used in community crisis situations with suicidal people in New Zealand. This article describes and analyses the use of 'no suicide contracts' in these settings. It is argued that the theoretical base (transactional analysis) of the 'no suicide contract' is likely to be deleterious in the community crisis situation.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 779  
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Author Hughes, F. openurl 
  Title Nurses at the forefront of innovation Type (up) Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication International Nursing Review Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 53 Issue 2 Pages 94-101  
  Keywords Organisational culture; Technology; Policy; Nursing  
  Abstract This paper explores the concept of innovation in nursing, the inherent set of characteristics that need to be present in order for innovations to succeed, and the barriers that impede innovation from occurring. Successful innovations developed and implemented by nurses are featured, and organisational factors necessary to support innovation are described. This paper is based on a presentation given by the author at the 23rd Quadrennial ICN Congress and 7th International Regulation Congress in Taipei in May 2005.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 796 Serial 780  
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Author Phillips, B.N. openurl 
  Title Nursing care and understanding the experiences of others: A Gadamerian perspective Type (up) Journal Article
  Year 2007 Publication Nursing Inquiry Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 14 Issue 1 Pages 89-94  
  Keywords Nursing philosophy; Nurse-patient relations  
  Abstract This article investigates the process where nurses attempt to understand the experience of patients. The author argues that this transcends particular models of ill-health. Gadamerian hermeneutics, which has been used in nursing research to articulate the process of understanding, is elaborated on. Gadamer's exposition of understanding shows that practitioners need to be aware that understanding of other people is developed through a fusion of one's own history, language and culture with that of the other person. This occurs through a hermeneutic question-answer dialogue in which practitioners put their ideas at risk of being modified or rejected in the process. Understanding then, is a perceptual and conceptual process. In this way, the experience of nurses seeking to understanding those they nurse increases self-awareness, as well as enhancing their ability to further understand others.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 797 Serial 781  
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Author Spence, D. openurl 
  Title Nursing people from cultures other than one's own: A perspective from New Zealand Type (up) Journal Article
  Year 2003 Publication Contemporary Nurse Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 15 Issue 3 Pages 222-231  
  Keywords Transcultural nursing; Maori; Psychiatric Nursing  
  Abstract This paper provides an overview of the evolving meaning of 'culture' in New Zealand nursing. Then, drawing upon the findings of research that used hermeneutic phenomenology to explore the experience of nursing people from cultures other than one's own, a description of the constituent parts is of this phenomenon is briefly outlined and followed by an exemplar that describes the coalescent and contradictory nature of the phenomenon as a whole. As New Zealand nurses negotiate the conflicts essential for ongoing development of their practice, interplay of the notions of prejudice, paradox and possibility is evident at intrapersonal and interpersonal levels as well as in relation to professional and other discourses.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 798 Serial 782  
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Author Wilson, D.; Neville, S.J. openurl 
  Title Nursing their way not our way: Working with vulnerable and marginalised populations Type (up) Journal Article
  Year 2008 Publication Contemporary Nurse Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 27 Issue 2 Pages 165-176  
  Keywords Maori; Geriatric nursing; Nurse-patient relations  
  Abstract This paper uses the findings of two studies to explore the nature of nurses' practice when working with vulnerable and marginalised populations, particularly with regard to the attributes of holism and individualised care. The first study was with the elderly with delirium and used a critical gerontological methodology informed by postmodernism and Foucault's understanding of discourse. The other study with indigenous Maori women utilised Glaserian grounded theory informed by a Maori-centred methodology. The findings show that a problem focussed approach to health care is offered to patients that does not incorporate individual health experiences. In addition, the social context integral to people's lives outside of the health care environment is ignored. Consequently, the foundations of nursing practice, that of holism, is found to be merely a rhetorical construct.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 799 Serial 783  
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Author McBride-Henry, K.; Foureur, M. openurl 
  Title Organisational culture, medication administration and the role of nurses Type (up) Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Practice Development in Health Care Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 5 Issue 2 Pages 208-222  
  Keywords Patient safety; Medical errors; Organisational culture; Nursing; Drug administration  
  Abstract This research study was designed to identify ways of enhancing patient safety during the administration of medications within the New Zealand context. The researchers employed a multi-method approach that included a survey using the Safety Climate Survey tool, focus groups and three clinical practice development groups. The authors conclude that the outcomes of this study indicate that practice development initiatives, such as the ones outlined in this project, can have a positive effect on nurses' perceptions of organisational safety, which in turn has been demonstrated to have a positive impact on patient safety.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 784  
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Author Farrow, T. openurl 
  Title Owning their expertise: Why nurses use 'no suicide contracts' rather than their own assessments Type (up) Journal Article
  Year 2002 Publication International Journal of Mental Health Nursing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 11 Issue 4 Pages 214-219  
  Keywords Interprofessional relations; Psychiatric Nursing; Community health nursing; Qualiltative research; Suicide  
  Abstract 'No suicide contracts' are a tool commonly used by nurses in community crisis situations. At times this tool is utilised because the clinician believes that it is beneficial. However, there are other occasions when 'No suicide contracts' are introduced in a manner that runs counter to the clinical judgement of the crisis nurse. This paper discusses the results of a qualitative study that addressed the question of why nurses use 'No suicide contracts' in such situations, rather than relying on their own expertise. This analysis suggests that underlying concerns of clinicians can determentally affect decision-making in such circumstances, and recommends that rather than subjugating nursing expertise, underlying issues be addressed directly.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 785  
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Author Lesa, R.; Dixon, D.A. openurl 
  Title Physical assessment: Implications for nurse educators and nursing practice Type (up) Journal Article
  Year 2007 Publication International Nursing Review Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 166-172  
  Keywords Advanced nursing practice; Clinical assessment; Cardiovascular diseases; Nursing; Education  
  Abstract In New Zealand, the physical assessment of a patient has traditionally been the domain of the medical profession. Recent implementation of advanced practice roles has expanded the scope of practice and nurse practitioners may now be expected to perform physical assessments. The aim of this literature review was to discover what could be learnt from the experiences of Western countries. Nurses from the USA, Canada and Australia readily incorporate physical assessment skills into their nursing practice as a component of health assessment. The international literature identified that any change to the nurse's role in health assessment, to include physical assessment skills, requires strategies that involve the regulatory, educational and practice components of nursing.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 786  
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