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Richardson, S. |
| Title |
Increasing patient numbers: The implications for New Zealand emergency departments |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
1999 |
Publication |
Accident & Emergency Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
7 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
158-163 |
| Keywords |
Emergency nursing; Organisational change |
| Abstract |
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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| Author |
Milligan, K. |
| Title |
Aesthetic knowledge and the use of arts in nursing |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2002 |
Publication |
Beginning Journeys: A Collection of Work |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
7 |
Issue |
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Pages |
9-14 |
| Keywords |
Nursing philosophy; Nursing; Education; Teaching methods |
| Abstract |
The author considers aesthetic knowing and the use of the arts in nursing. She identifies concepts that pertain to the art of nursing. The interrelationship of the moral sense and the art of nursing is explored. The author concludes that the mediums of non-fiction, fiction and poetry can provide valuable contributions to the aesthetic way of knowing in nursing education, practice and research. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1094 |
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| Author |
Milligan, K.; Neville, S.J. |
| Title |
The contextualisation of health assessment |
Type |
Journal Article |
| Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
19 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
23-31 |
| Keywords |
Cross-cultural comparison; Evaluation; Nursing |
| Abstract |
The authors defines health assessment and argue that it is a tool nurses should be using as a means of improving health outcomes for clients. The skills involved in health assessments are analysed, and four levels of data gathering are identified. The authors present an historical perspective, tracing the development of these skills as they have been incorporated in nursing practice in North America and Australia. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1095 |
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| Author |
Speed, G. |
| Title |
Advanced nurse practice |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Nursing dialogue: A Professional Journal for nurses |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
10 |
Issue |
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Pages |
6-12 |
| Keywords |
Nurse practitioners; Cross-cultural comparison; Law and legislation; Advanced nursing practice |
| Abstract |
The concept and characteristics of advanced nursing practice in New Zealand and overseas is compared with the nurse practitioner role. There is an international debate over definitions of advanced nursing and the range of roles that have developed. The rationale for the nurse practitioner role in New Zealand is examined, along with the associated legislation currently before Parliament. Job titles and roles of nurses within the Waikato Hospital intensive care unit are discussed and ways of developing the role of nurse practitioner are presented. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1096 |
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| Author |
Walsh, K. |
| Title |
Change and development of nusing practice: The challenges for the new century |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2004 |
Publication |
Emergency Nurse New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
3 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
10-13 |
| Keywords |
Nursing; Work |
| Abstract |
In light of the current challenges facing the nursing workforce, the author proposes a way forward to capture and utilise the challenges to bring about positive change. |
| Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1112 |
Serial |
1097 |
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| Author |
Wilson, H.V. |
| Title |
Paradoxical pursuits in child health nursing practice: Discourses of scientific mothercraft |
Type |
Journal Article |
| Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Critical Public Health |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
13 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
281-293 |
| Keywords |
Plunket; Nurse-family relations; Paediatric nursing; Nursing philosophy |
| Abstract |
The purpose of this paper is to examine the discourses of scientific mothercraft and their implications for the nurse-mother relationship, drawing on the author's recent research into surveillance and the exercise of power in the child health nursing context. The application of Foucauldian discourse analysis to the texts generated by interviews with five New Zealand child health nurses confirms that this paradoxical role has never been fully resolved. Plunket nurses primarily work in the community with the parents of new babies and preschool children. Their work, child health surveillance, is considered to involve routine and unproblematic practices generally carried out in the context of a relationship between the nurse and the mother. However, there are suggestions in the literature that historically the nurse's surveillance role has conflicting objectives, as she is at the same time an inspector and family friend. |
| Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1116 |
Serial |
1101 |
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| Author |
Hall, L. |
| Title |
Burnout: Results of an empirical study of New Zealand nurses |
Type |
Journal Article |
| Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Contemporary Nurse |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
11 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
71-83 |
| Keywords |
Occupational health and safety; Stress; Nursing |
| Abstract |
This is the first New Zealand study to use the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and the Phase Model of Burnout to determine the extent and severity of burnout in a population of 1134 nurses. Burnout is conceptualised as a syndrome consisting of three components-emotional exhaustion, reduced personal accomplishment and depersonalisation of clients or patients that occurs in individuals who work in the human service professions, particularly nursing. It has been observed that nurses are at a high risk of burnout and burnout has been described as the 'professional cancer' of nursing. Results revealed an overall 'low to average' level of burnout, suggesting that New Zealand nurses, apart from those in the 41-45 age group, are doing better than expected insofar as they are managing to avoid or not progress to the advanced phases of burnout. Possible explanations and directions for future research are presented. |
| Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1117 |
Serial |
1102 |
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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 |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Research & Theory for Nursing Practice |
Abbreviated Journal |
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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 |
Abbreviated Journal |
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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. |
| Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1188 |
Serial |
1173 |
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| Author |
Litchfield, M.; Jonsdottir, H. |
| Title |
A practice discipline that's here and now |
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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 |
Polaschek, N. |
| Title |
Negotiated care: A model for nursing work in the renal setting |
Type |
Journal Article |
| Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Journal of Advanced Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
42 |
Issue |
4 |
Pages |
355-363 |
| Keywords |
Chronically ill; Nursing models; Nurse-patient relations; Communication |
| Abstract |
This article outlines a model for the nursing role in the chronic health care context of renal replacement therapy. Materials from several streams of literature are used to conceptualise the potential for nursing work in the renal setting as negotiated care. In order to present the role of the renal nurse in this way it is contextualised by viewing the renal setting as a specialised social context constituted by a dominant professional discourse and a contrasting client discourse. While performing specific therapeutic activities in accord with the dominant discourse, renal nurses can develop a relationship with the person living on dialysis, based on responsiveness to their subjective experience reflecting the renal client discourse. In contrast to the language of noncompliance prevalent in the renal setting, nurses can, through their relationship with renal clients, facilitate their attempts to negotiate the requirements of the therapeutic regime into their own personal life situation. Nurses can mediate between the dominant and client discourses for the person living on dialysis. Care describes the quality that nurses actively seek to create in their relationships with clients, through negotiation, in order to support them to live as fully as possible while using renal replacement therapy. The author concludes that within chronic health care contexts, shaped by the acute curative paradigm of biomedicine, the model of nursing work as negotiated care has the potential to humanise contemporary medical technologies by responding to clients' experiences of illness and therapy. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1186 |
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| Author |
Buisman, B. |
| Title |
Nursing 2020: How will 'Magnet' hospitals fit in? |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2006 |
Publication |
Nursing Journal Northland Polytechnic |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
10 |
Issue |
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Pages |
33-41 |
| Keywords |
Nursing; Leadership; Hospitals |
| Abstract |
Nursing shortages, technology, advances in genetics and the knowledge explosion are trends that have an influence on the nursing profession in the future. This article will examine these trends and give an overview of what it may be like to nurse in an acute-care hospital in the year 2020. The impact of leadership, management and political influences will also be discussed. The American concept of 'Magnet' hospitals will be described as one possible solution to the issues that affect the nursing profession in New Zealand. |
| Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1209 |
Serial |
1194 |
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| Author |
Barber, M. |
| Title |
Exploring the complex nature of rural nursing |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2007 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
13 |
Issue |
10 |
Pages |
22-23 |
| Keywords |
Rural nursing; Scope of practice; Community health nursing |
| Abstract |
This article reports the results of a research study undertaken to examine how nurses manage their professional and personal selves while working in small rural communities. The participants were a small group of rural nurses on the West Coast. The rationale for the study was the long-term sustainability and viability of the service to this remote area. The research showed that the rural nurse specialists' role is a complex and challenging one, performed within the communities in which nurses live. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1212 |
Serial |
1197 |
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| Author |
Paton, B.; Martin, S.; McClunie-Trust, P.; Weir, N. |
| Title |
Doing phenomenological research collaboratively |
Type |
Journal Article |
| Year |
2004 |
Publication |
Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
Wintec Research Archive |
| Volume |
35 |
Issue |
4 |
Pages |
176-181 |
| Keywords |
Qualiltative research; Nursing research; New graduate nurses |
| Abstract |
The purpose of this article is twofold. The first is to clarify some of the challenges experienced while conducting collaborative research and describe the steps taken to ensure consistency between the purpose of the research and the phenomenological research design used to explore the learning that nursing students acquire in their final clinical practicum. Second, it was thought that by illuminating this learning, registered nurses working as preceptors and those supporting new graduates could gain insight into the complexities of learning the skills of safe and competent practice from the student's perspective. This insight is essential in creating a strategy between education and practice to minimise the duplication of learning opportunities and lessen the cost of supporting newly registered nurses, which may be at the expense of investment in the professional development of experienced registered nurses. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1202 |
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