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Author Litchfield, Merian
Title Nursing is -- and has -- a methodology: a nursing voice Type (down) Journal Article
Year 2021 Publication Kai Tiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal
Volume 12 Issue 1 Pages 66-72
Keywords Nursing knowldege; Nursing voice; Nursing methodology
Abstract Argues that a nursing paradigm identifies and differentiates the nursing perspective on health, and reinterprets practical expertise. Posits that nurse researchers present their findings as practice wisdom. Suggests that the significance of nursing lies in its knowledgeable practitioners and that the nursing voice is a collective one. Emphasises the need for a distinctly nursing perspective on health in NZ.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1721
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title Computers and the form of nursing to come Type (down) Conference Article
Year 1992 Publication Abbreviated Journal Held by NZNO Library and author
Volume Proceedings of the Inaugural National Nursing Info Issue Pages 81-90
Keywords Nursing: Computers; Technology
Abstract A paper presented at the annual conference of Nursing Informatics New Zealand (subsequently incorporated into the collective organisation, Health Informatics NZ).
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1317
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title The nation's health and our response Type (down) Conference Article
Year 1992 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Keynote address at the 1992 NERF/NZNZ National Nur Issue Pages
Keywords Nursing; Health reforms; Nurse-family relations
Abstract An analysis of the challenges for the nursing profession of the Government's health reforms. The findings of the 10-month Wellington Nurse Case Management Project 1991-1992, including the description of family nursing practice, what it achieved for health and the service delivery model that would position family nurses in the health reforms were used to provide an exemplar for the nuyrising contribution to health policy for the health reforms. The paper identified a vacum for the reorientating of health care provision to patients/clients and health need and the call to nursesw to take leadership in goving direction to the reorientation.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1319
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title The language of nursing practice in hospitals Type (down) Conference Article
Year 1997 Publication Abbreviated Journal held by NZNO Library and author
Volume Proceedings of the National Nursing Informatics Co Issue Pages
Keywords Hospitals; Nurse managers; Advanced nursing practice; Nurse-patient relations; Care plans
Abstract A paper presenting the findings of a small research project involving a group of self-selected senior nurses of Wellington Hospital to explore the nature of nursing practice in the care and management of hospitalised patients and to formalise the language that would acknowledge its significance in the current effort of hospitals to define patient care pathways. The nature of hospital nursing practice was described in themes of a generic process of nurse-patient care that articulates a distinct specialism of hospital nursing, whatever the hospital department in which nurses hold positions.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1322
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title Achieving health in a rural community: A case study of nurse – community partnership Type (down) Book Whole
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal University and Polytechnic Libraries, NZNO Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Rural health services; Nursing models; Advanced nursing practice; Health promotion; Organisational change
Abstract This study describes rural, nurse-led health services provided by the Takapau Health Centre (Central Hawkes Bay) and its outreach, Norsewood & District Health Centre. The study looks at its model of service delivery through to 2002. It examines the establishment, development, funding and management of the service, along with the nursing practice and the healthcare people received. The book is a snapshot of nursing initiative and survival through a decade of change in health policy and service funding and delivery. The information was subsequently used to move the health centre service into the new paradigm of primary health care launched in the New Zealand Health Strategy.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1183 Serial 1168
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Author Litchfield, M
Title To advance health care: The origins of nursing research in New Zealand Type (down) Book Whole
Year 2009 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 129 pp
Keywords Nursing Research Section, New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Abstract This book examines in detail the confluence of personalities and professional and practice agendas, out of which emerged the research section, intent on placing research at the centre of the profession's evolution. It provides a fascinating look at how a group of women, utterly committed to nursing, drove their research agenda and it expands understandings of why nursing research is significant for the development of nursing. It also provides an insight into that web of relationships between the professional body, NZNA, the Department of Health, service delivery and education.

To order a copy:

Email: publications@nzno.org.nz

NZNO members: $25 (incl GST + p&p)

Non-NZNO members: $35 (incl GST + p&p)
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1341
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Author Litchfield, M.; Laws, M.
Title Achieving family health and cost-containment outcomes: Innovation in the New Zealand Health Sector Reforms Type (down) Book Chapter
Year 1999 Publication Cohen,E. & De Back,V. (Eds.), The outcomes mandate: New roles, rules and relationships. Case management in health care today (pp. 306-316) Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Advanced nursing practice; Nurse managers; Teamwork; Nurse-family relations; Leadership; Health reforms
Abstract The chapter presents the research findings of the 1992-1993 Wellington Nurse Case Management Scheme Project as a distinct model of nurse case management, which introduced a role and form of practice of a family nurse and a diagram of the service delivery structure required for support and relevant for the New Zealand health system reforms.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1169
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title The nursing praxis of family health Type (down) Book Chapter
Year 2005 Publication Picard, C & Jones, D., Giving voice to what we know (pp.73-82) Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Nursing research; Nursing philosophy; Nurse-family relations
Abstract The chapter explores the process of nursing practice and how it contributes to health, derived from research undertaken in New Zealand. It presents the nature of nursing research as if practice – the researcher as if practitioner – establishing a foundation for the development of nursing knowledge that would make a distinct contribution to health and health care. It includes the philosophy and practicalities of nursing through the use of a case study of nursing a family with complex health circumstances.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1185 Serial 1170
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