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Author |
Lala, Anita Carol |
Title |
Variability in neonatal gentamicin administration influencing drug delivery kinetics |
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Year |
2016 |
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109 p. |
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Drugs; Drug delivery; Neonates; Neonatal nurses; Neonatal Intensive Care Units; Surveys |
Abstract |
Distributes a self-administered questionnaire to Dunedin Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) nurses to investigate: the site of administration, comparing peripheral intravenous line (PIV) or umbilical venous catheter (UVC); and which dose of gentamicin would be used in two clinical scenarios describing babies of 24 and 32-weeks' gestation. Simulates gentamycin delivery and notes clinical variability. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1574 |
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Author |
Beaver, Peter James |
Title |
Contemporary patient safety and the challenges for New Zealand |
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Book Whole |
Year |
2015 |
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329 p. |
Keywords |
Patient safety; Hospitals; Accidents; Risk; Surveys |
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Outlines the history, emergence, necessity, challenges, and strategies of the patient safety movement. Explores the challenges for staff working to reduce harm and implement safety improvement in NZ hospitals. Considers medical harm as a persistent and expensive threat to public health. Analyses health policy in the US, England and NZ using the theory of countervailing powers, and a shift from medical to managerial dominance. Reviews theories of accidents and risk, and the safety improvement literature. Provides staff perspectives from NZ by means of interviews with doctors, nurses and managers in two hospitals. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1578 |
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Author |
Connolly, Megan J |
Title |
Clinical leadership of Registered Nurses working in an Emergency Department |
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Book Whole |
Year |
2015 |
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109 p. |
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Registered nurses; Clinical leadership; Empowerment; Emergency Departments; Surveys |
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Employs a non-experimental survey design to examine the psychological and structural empowerment, and clinical leadership of Registered Nurses (RNs) working in an adult emergency department (ED) in a large tertiary hospital in Auckland City. Includes qualitative questions relating to those factors that support or inhibit their clinical leadership at point of care. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1579 |
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Author |
Hogan, Deborah |
Title |
Transitioning difficulties of overseas trained nurses in New Zealand |
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Book Whole |
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2014 |
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66 p. |
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Migrant nurses; Transition; Surveys |
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Explores the experiences of overseas-trained nurses (OTNs)who have migrated to NZ within the last two years. Focuses on OTNs' lived experiences and the difficulties they may have experienced when making the transition to practice in the NZ health system. Employs an exploratory, qualitative descriptive methodology to elucidate themes. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1580 |
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Author |
Zambas, Shelaine Iris |
Title |
The consequences of using advanced assessment skills in medical and surgical nursing: keeping patients safe |
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Book Whole |
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2013 |
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150 p. |
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Nursing skills; Patient safety; Surgical nursing; Surveys |
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Examines the impact of advanced assessment skills on patients in medical and surgical wards through nurses' stories of using these skills. Highlights the use of auscultation, palpation and percussion by nurses for complex patient presentations within a wide range of clinical situations. Conducts 12 interviews with five nurses from paediatric and adult medical and surgical wards in a large urban hospital in NZ. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1581 |
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Author |
Stodart, Jo |
Title |
Infection prevention and control clinical governance in New Zealand District Health Boards |
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Book Whole |
Year |
2017 |
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62 |
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Infection control; Standards; Clinical governance; Hospitals; Surveys |
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Explores the current climate of infection prevention control (IPC) clinical governance in NZ. Audits IPC management plans in NZ District Health Boards (DHB) to evaluate which clinical governance factors facilitate or hinder IPC best practice. Employs a mixed-method, exploratory, qualitative study design to conduct semi-structured interviews with ten IPC nurses across NZ. Seeks to understand their perceptions of the IPC Standard, how it is implemented in their DHB, how the IPC risks are managed, and which barriers hinder IPC engagement. Analyses IPC documentation from all 20 DHBs to examine IPC clinical governance in each DHB. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1593 |
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Author |
Wilkinson, Jillian Ann |
Title |
The New Zealand nurse practitioner polemic : a discourse analysis : a thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand |
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Book Whole |
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2007 |
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308 pp. |
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Nurse practitioners; Nursing history; Advanced nursing practice; Nursing identity; Discourse analysis; Nursing regulation; Surveys |
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Traces the development of the nurse practitioner role in NZ since its establishment in 2001, using a discourse analytical approach to examine those discourses that have defined the role. Employs both textual and discursive analysis of texts from published literature and from nine interviews with individuals influential in the evolution of the role. Examines political perspectives and disciplinary practices dating back to the Nurses Registration Act of 1901. Considers the implications of an autonomous nursing profession in both practice and regulation. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1614 |
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Author |
Winters, Shelley |
Title |
Exploring the perceptions of nursing students and nursing academic lecturers on the use of gallows humour in the clinical setting |
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Book Whole |
Year |
2019 |
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146 p. |
Keywords |
Humour; Nursing students; Nursing academics; Surveys |
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Investigates the perceptions of students enrolled in any of the three years of an undergraduate nursing degree programme, including the nurse lecturers in charge of their teaching. Compares their results with students' to determine differences in perception between those with clinical experience and those without. Collects data using an online questionnaire to identify differences in perception of gallows humour by lecturers, and by older versus younger students. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1639 |
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Author |
Macklin, Nicki |
Title |
Hearing the patient voice: the importance of caring in care |
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Book Whole |
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2018 |
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n.p. |
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Patients; Transitional care nursing; Primary health care nursing; Integrated care; Person-centred care; Surveys |
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Backgrounds the primary health care initiative, the Transitional Care Nursing service, which aims to facilitate integrated care between primary, secondary and community health care services. Explores whether support in the form of the Transitional Care Nursing service influences the experience of patients who receive assistance during the transition between hospital and home. Conducts qualitative, semi-structured interviews with 12 patients whose responses are thematically analysed. Highlights the characteristics of care offered by Transitional Care nurses that describe the person-centred care patients received. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1642 |
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Author |
Jarden, Amanda J |
Title |
Before-school check nurses' experiences of motivational interviewing during the weight-related referral process : an interpretive phenomenological study |
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Book Whole |
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2018 |
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240 p. |
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School nurses; Childhood obesity; Before School Check programme; Motivational interviewing; Communication; Surveys |
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Investigates nurses' experiences of weight-related conversations with whanau, and their level of understanding and application of motivational interviewing, during the Before-School Check programme to identify 95% of high-weight children. Uses a questionnaire focussed on competencies in conjunction with recorded interviews concentrated on process-oriented accounts of the referral process. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1645 |
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Author |
Goodyear, Kathryn Ann |
Title |
Talking about menopause: exploring the lived experience of menopause for nurses |
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Book Whole |
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2018 |
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135 p. |
Keywords |
Menopause; Ageing; Nurses; Surveys |
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Explores through semi-structured, in-depth interviews how 11 nurses working at Christchurch Hospital experienced menopause in the workplace and in their personal lives. Uses thematic analysis to highlight how the stigma surrounding menopause led to the nurses' fear of being treated as a menopausal woman, rather than as a professional. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1646 |
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Author |
Kaur, Harpreet |
Title |
What are the factors affecting patients with diabetes in regards to their attendance and non-attendance with Diabetes Nurse-Led Clinics in Counties Manukau Health? |
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Book Whole |
Year |
2018 |
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196 p. |
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Nurse-led clinics; Diabetes nurses; Patients; Non-attendance; Attendance; Surveys |
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Performs a retrospective audit of eight Diabetes Nurse-Led Clinics (DNLC) in two regions of DNLC provision in Auckland over a 12-month period from 2016-2017, at which 707 patients were booked for appointments. Undertakes a nested sampling of two randomly-selected DNLCs, in which 71 participants were invited to participate. Explores patients' perspectives of attendance or non-attendance at their booked appointments. Examines whether patients perceive any benefits of attendance at the clinics, and identifies factors that might improve their experiences with DNLCs. |
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1650 |
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Author |
Stewart, Lisa |
Title |
Student nurse knowledge and attitudes about ageing, older people and working with them: does nursing education make a difference? |
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Book Whole |
Year |
2018 |
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392 p. |
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Aged; Ageing; Attitudes; Student nurses; Nursing education; Surveys |
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Develops, implements, and evaluates educational interventions to teach students about the ageing process, older people and how to work with them. Enrols students from a Bachelor of Nursing programme over a four-year period from 2011 to 2012, employing a multi-method approach including focus groups, a questionnaire and an analysis of course documents. Reveals how student nurses' attitudes alter during their course of study. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1648 |
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Author |
McKelvie, Rhonda |
Title |
Where we are and how we got here: an institutional ethnography of the Nurse Safe Staffing Project in New Zealand |
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Book Whole |
Year |
2019 |
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289 p. |
Keywords |
Safe staffing; Short staffing; Frontline nurses; Patient safety; Care Capacity Demand Programme; Nurse Safe Staffing Project; Trendcare; Institutional ethnography; Surveys |
Abstract |
Charts a detailed description and analysis of how aspects of the strategies of the Nurse Safe Staffing Project work in everyday hospital settings. Argues that nurses' situated knowledge and work are being organised and overridden by competing institutional knowledge and priorities in a competitive institutional environment. Demonstrates the consequences for nurses, patients and staffing strategies. Conducts 30 interviews with 26 participants, including frontline nurses and participants in safe staffing projects. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1651 |
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Author |
Sharma, Mona |
Title |
An exploration of the experiences of registered nurses working in aged residential care facilities regarding interRAI: A qualitative research design |
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Book Whole |
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2020 |
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125 p. |
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InterRAI; International resident assessment instrument; Aged residential care; Registered nurses; Surveys |
Abstract |
Assesses the experiences of registered nurses (RNs)working in aged residential care facilities in Christchurch, in performing interRAI assessments using interRAI MOMENTUM software. Explores the positive and negative aspects of their experiences and the factors affecting performance of interRAI-based comprehensive health assessments. Identifies the aids and barriers faced by RNs in applying and using interRAI. Conducts focus-group interviews with 7 RNs. Highlights the need for a unified standard assessment system. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1654 |
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