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Chang, E.M.; Bidewell, J.W.; Huntington, A.D.; Daly, J.; Johnson, A.; Wilson, H.; Lambert, V.; Lambert, C.E. |
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A survey of role stress, coping and health in Australian and New Zealand hospital nurses |
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Year |
2008 |
Publication |
Intensive & Critical Care Nursing |
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Volume |
44 |
Issue |
8 |
Pages |
1354-1362 |
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Keywords |
Stress; Psychology; Cross-cultural comparison; Nursing |
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The aim of this study was to examine and compare Australian and New Zealand nurses' experience of workplace stress, coping strategies and health status. A postal survey was administered to 328 New South Wales (Australia) and 190 New Zealand volunteer acute care hospital nurses (response rate 41%) from randomly sampled nurses. The survey consisted of a demographic questionnaire, the Nursing Stress Scale, the WAYS of Coping Questionnaire and the SF-36 Health Survey Version 2. More frequent workplace stress predicted lower physical and mental health. Problem-focused coping was associated with better mental health. Emotion-focused coping was associated with reduced mental health. Coping styles did not predict physical health. New South Wales and New Zealand scored effectively the same on sources of workplace stress, stress coping methods, and physical and mental health when controlling for relevant variables. Results suggest mental health benefits for nurses who use problem-solving to cope with stress by addressing the external source of the stress, rather than emotion-focused coping in which nurses try to control or manage their internal response to stress. Cultural similarities and similar hospital environments could account for equivalent findings for New South Wales and New Zealand. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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970 |
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Currie, J.; Edwards, L.; Colligan, M.; Crouch, R. |
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Title |
A time for international standards? Comparing the Emergency Nurse Practitioner role in the UK, Australia and New Zealand |
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Year |
2007 |
Publication |
Accident & Emergency Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
15 |
Issue |
4 |
Pages |
210-216 |
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Keywords |
Emergency nursing; Cross-cultural comparison; Nursing; Education |
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The aim of this paper is to compare the Emergency Nurse Practitioner role in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Whilst geographically distant, the role of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner within these three countries shares fundamental similarities, causing the researchers to question, is this a time to implement international standards for the role? The Emergency Nurse Practitioner role in all three countries is gradually establishing itself, yet there are shared concerns over how the role is regulated and deficits in standardisation of scope of practice and educational level. Together these issues generate confusion over what the role embodies. The authors suggest that one method of demystifying the Emergency Nurse Practitioner role would be to progress towards international standards for regulation, education and core components of practice. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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971 |
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Burrell, B. |
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Title |
Mixed-sex rooms: Invading patients' privacy? |
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Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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9 |
Issue |
4 |
Pages |
26-28 |
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Keywords |
Cross-cultural comparison; Patient rights; Hospitals; Nursing; Gender |
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The author considers the issue of mixed-sex rooming (MSR) in New Zealand hospitals. A review of the literature is presented, with a focus on the attitudes and experiences of patients in the UK, where the issue has been most practised and studied. Findings of a survey of a group of New Zealand female patients are presented. The patients feelings of embarrassment and loss of dignity and privacy are discussed. The legal issues are explored, with the practice evaluated against the patient's rights detailed in the Code of Health and Disability Services and the Privacy Act 1993. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1000 |
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Author |
Hales, A.; Dignam, D. |
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Title |
Nurse prescribing lessons from the US |
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Year |
2002 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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Volume |
8 |
Issue |
10 |
Pages |
12-15 |
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Keywords |
Nurse practitioners; Prescriptive authority; Cross-cultural comparison; Advanced nursing practice; Education |
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The researchers present a survey of a sample population of 32 advanced practice nurses (APN) in the US about their experiences of acquiring and implementing prescriptive authority. The issues relevant to nurse practitioners in New Zealand are discussed, around acquiring knowledge and education, relationships with other professionals, establishing the role, and retaining the nursing role. The intent and scope of APN prescribing in the US is also discussed. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1007 |
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Smye, V.; Rameka, M.; Willis, E. |
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Title |
Indigenous health care: Advances in nursing practice |
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Year |
2006 |
Publication |
Contemporary Nurse |
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Volume |
22 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
142-154 |
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Keywords |
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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Muir-Cochrane, E.; Holmes, C.; Walton, J.A. |
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Title |
Law and policy in relation to the use of seclusion in psychiatric hospitals in Australia and New Zealand |
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Year |
2002 |
Publication |
Contemporary Nurse |
Abbreviated Journal |
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13 |
Issue |
2/3 |
Pages |
136-145 |
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Keywords |
Psychiatric Nursing; Law and legislation; Policy; Patient rights; Cross-cultural comparison |
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This paper discusses legal issues associated with the seclusion of acutely disturbed patients in psychiatric hospitals in Australia and New Zealand. There continues to be great variation in opinion and operational definition as to whether seclusion is a medical treatment, nursing intervention and management tool, or merely a form of situational restraint. Reflecting this lack of clarity, mental health acts and policies concerning the regulation and practice of seclusion lack consistency and focus across geographical boundaries and jurisdictions. Australian and New Zealand legislation and institutional policy is discussed in order to shed light on the contemporary issues highlighted by this controversial nursing practice. The authors note that mental health professionals must continue to review the practice of seclusion and to actively promote the use of acceptable alternatives. In addition nurses and other mental health professionals have a responsibility to understand current legislation and policy frameworks and to influence change where this is necessary to ensure the best practice possible in their clinical area. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1074 |
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Author |
Warren, S. |
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Title |
Cultural safety, where does it fit? A literature review |
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Year |
2002 |
Publication |
Vision: A Journal of Nursing |
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8 |
Issue |
14 |
Pages |
27-30 |
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Keywords |
Cultural safety; Cross-cultural comparison; History of nursing |
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This literature review discusses the history of the inclusion of culture into nursing studies. There is a small sample of overseas literature for critique with a focus on the inclusion of cultural safety in New Zealand. The concept of cultural safety was first introduced into New Zealand in the late 1980s. It was adopted by the New Zealand Nursing Council for nurses and midwives in 1992 and became part of the basic curriculum for nursing and midwifery education. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1095 |
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1080 |
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Author |
Milligan, K.; Neville, S.J. |
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Title |
Health assessment and its relationship to nursing practice in New Zealand |
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Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Contemporary Nurse |
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10 |
Issue |
1/2 |
Pages |
7-11 |
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Keywords |
Nursing; Education; Professional competence; Nurse practitioners; Cross-cultural comparison |
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This article draws on Australian experience to gain insight to three specific areas of health assessment that are topical in New Zealand, which has recently introduced the concept into nursing training. The issues are annual registration based on evidence of competence to practice, a review of undergraduate curricula, and the development of nurse practitioner/advanced nurse practitioner roles. The meaning of the concept 'health assessment' is also clarified in order to provide consistency as new initiatives in nursing are currently being developed. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1090 |
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Author |
Milligan, K.; Neville, S.J. |
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Title |
The contextualisation of health assessment |
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Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Volume |
19 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
23-31 |
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Keywords |
Cross-cultural comparison; Evaluation; Nursing |
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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. |
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Title |
Advanced nurse practice |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Nursing dialogue: A Professional Journal for nurses |
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10 |
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6-12 |
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Keywords |
Nurse practitioners; Cross-cultural comparison; Law and legislation; Advanced nursing practice |
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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 @ |
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1096 |
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Author |
Horrocks, T. |
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Title |
Implementing change combining Maori and Western knowledge in health delivery |
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Year |
2001 |
Publication |
Vision: A Journal of Nursing |
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Volume |
7 |
Issue |
13 |
Pages |
37-41 |
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Keywords |
Maori; Cross-cultural comparison; Organisational culture; Quality assurance |
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This article explores the incorporation of western knowledge with kaupapa Maori in the delivery of health care. It presents a fictional kaupapa Maori service, as a tool to explore the change process and influence that organisational culture and leadership styles have on a process of integrating a kaupapa Maori nursing service. The importance of continual evaluation through quality assurance measures was also conveyed. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1280 |
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