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Author Hinder, G.
Title Challenging the boundaries: An initiative to extend public health nursing practice Type
Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University, Palmerston North, Library
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Keywords Public health; Scope of practice; Nursing
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1264
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Author McArthur, J.
Title Discursive understanding of knowledge within advanced nursing practice roles: A co-operative inquiry in an acute health care organisation Type
Year Publication Abbreviated Journal Auckland University of Technology Library
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Keywords Advanced nursing practice; Organisational culture
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1280 Serial 1265
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Author Davidson, L.
Title Family-centred care perceptions and practice: A pilot study Type
Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University, Palmerston North, Library
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Keywords Nurse-family relations; Paediatric nursing
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1281 Serial 1266
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Author McDonald, S.
Title A study to investigate the role of the registered nurse in an acute mental health inpatient setting in New Zealand: Perceptions versus reality Type Report
Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal
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Keywords Registered nurses; Hospitals; Psychiatric Nursing
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1283 Serial 1268
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Author Burtenshaw, M.K.
Title Characteristics and expectations of beginning Bachelor of Nursing students Type
Year 1999 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
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Keywords Students; Nursing; Education
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1269
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Author Phillips, S.
Title Exploration of the socio-cultural conditions and challenges which may impede nursing development in the twenty-first century and proactive strategies to counter these challenges Type
Year 1999 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
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Keywords History of nursing; Nursing philosophy
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1285 Serial 1270
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Author Delugar, A.
Title An historical inquiry to identify the contribution Beatrice Salmon's writings made to nursing education in New Zealand, 1969-1972 Type
Year 1999 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
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Keywords History of nursing; Nursing; Education
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1271
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Author Neehoff, S.M.
Title Pedagogical possibilities for nursing Type
Year 1999 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library
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Keywords Nursing; Nursing philosophy; Feminist critique
Abstract This thesis is about what the author terms the 'invisible bodies of nursing'. The physical body of the nurse, the body of practice, and the body of knowledge. The physical body of the nurse is absent in most nursing literature, it is sometimes inferred but seldom discussed. The contention is that the physical body of the nurse is invisible because it is tacit. Much nursing practice is invisible because it is perceived by many nurses to be inarticulable and is carried out within a private discourse of nursing, silently and secretly. Nursing knowledge is invisible because it is not seen as being valid or authoritative or sanctioned as a legitimate discourse by the dominant discourse. These issues are approach through an evolving 'specular' lens. Luce Irigaray's philosophy of the feminine and her deconstructing and reconstructing of psychoanalytic structures for women inform this work. Michel Foucault's genealogical approach to analysing discourses is utilized, along with Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. Nursing's struggle for recognition is ongoing. The author discusses strategies that nurses could use to make themselves more 'visible' in healthcare structures. The exploration of the embodied self of the nurse and through this the embodied knowledge of nursing is nascent.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1287 Serial 1272
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Author Mahoney, L.
Title Making the invisible visible: Public health nurses role with children who live with a parent with a mental illness Type
Year 2008 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library
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Keywords Public health; Children; Community health nursing; Scope of practice
Abstract This research uses focus group methodology to examine the public health nursing practice with children living with a mentally ill parent. These children are often neglected, yet are at increased risk of developing mental illnesses themselves. The research data identified the burgeoning impact on public health nurses of such care, and found their role to be primarily assessment and advocacy.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1304 Serial 1289
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Author Bennison, C.
Title Emergency nurses' perceptions of the impact of postgraduate education on their practice in New Zealand Type
Year 2008 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library
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Keywords Emergency nursing; Nursing; Education
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BACKGROUND: Emergency nursing is a specialty concerned with the care of people of all ages, with either perceived or actual unwellness presenting to the emergency department(ED) for assessment, resuscitation, investigation, treatment and review of their illness or injury. Emergency nurses apply specialty knowledge and expertise in the provision, delivery and evaluation of emergency nursing care. Over recent decades social, political and professional changes have affected nursing care delivery and nursing education. In particular the 21st century has witnessed the development of state funded postgraduate nursing education programmes, developing nurses specialty or advanced nursing knowledge, quality patient/client care and nursing practice within the tertiary education system.

AIM: The aim of this study is to investigate emergency nurses? perceptions of the impact of postgraduate education on their practice in New Zealand (NZ).

METHODS: This study utilises critical social theory as the overarching framework, informed by the writing of Jürgen Habermas (b.1929- ). It is the three phases of

Habermas?s practical intent of critical social theory; namely enlightenment, empowerment and emancipation, that this study is concerned with. This descriptive research study employs both quantitative and qualitative methods and is therefore known as mixed-methods research. Data collection took place over 12 weeks, from August to November 2006, using a survey questionnaire obtained with permission from Ms Dianne Pelletier, Sydney, Australia. The sample included 105 emergency nurses from District Health Board (DHB) emergency departments in NZ, 10 respondents from this sample self-selected to be interviewed by telephone. Ethical approval for this study was obtained from the University of Otago Ethics Committee for research involving human participants. Data was analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS).

RESULTS: Two main themes arose from the thematic analysis; these being positive and negative, these themes were further divided into 10 sub-themes. The results indicate that postgraduate study (PGS) has increased nurses? perception of their knowledge; leadership and understanding on the quality of patient care delivered, increased their academic and research skills and increased their confidence/self-esteem and recognition by their colleagues and team. Therefore the majority of respondents perceive postgraduate education has been an instrument of liberation and a process of empowerment and emancipation. A smaller percentage of respondents perceived that PGS had no effect on various aspects of patient care and another significantly smaller percentage of respondents reported negative results from PGS. This research identified similarities between this study and that of Pelletier and colleagues? (2003; , 2005; , 1998a; , 1998b) Australian study.

CONCLUSION: This study adds to the existing literature on postgraduate studies undertaken by nurses. No known study has previously investigated solely emergency nurses?perceptions of the effects of PGS, either nationally or internationally. The results of this study offer enlightening information regarding emergency nurses? perceptions of their PGS within NZ and offers a platform from which other studies may be undertaken. It also has the potential to inform nurses contemplating PGS and educators facilitating these programmes,as well as provide implications for policy development by the Nursing Council of NZ, NZ Universities, DHBs and the Ministry of Health.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1291
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Author McNamara, N.
Title The meaning of the experience for ICU nurses when a family member is critically ill: A hermeneutic phenomenologcial study Type
Year 2007 Publication Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library
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Keywords Intensive care nursing; Nurse-family relations
Abstract This study provides insight into the experience of being an ICU nurse and relative of a critically ill patient. Analysis of data from interviews of four ICU nurses who had experienced having a family member admitted to ICU brought up several themes. These included: a nurses' nightmare, knowing and not knowing, feeling torn, and gaining deeper insight and new meaning. Recommendations for organisational support for ICU nurse/relatives, and education for staff are made, based on the findings.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1312 Serial 1296
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title The language of nursing practice in hospitals Type Conference Article
Year 1997 Publication Abbreviated Journal held by NZNO Library and author
Volume (up) 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 What is nursing research? Type Journal Article
Year 1998 Publication P. Watson & M.Woods (Eds.), Waiora: Nursing research in Aotearoa/New Zealand, evolving a shared sense of our future. Proceedings of the Nursing Research Section/Te Runanga O Aotearoa (New Zealand Nurses' Organisation) conference, Wellington 26-27 March. Abbreviated Journal
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Keywords Nursing research; Nursing
Abstract This conference paper outlines the nature of nursing research developing the distinct knowledge for nursing practice. It is presented as a cumulative process of knowledge development about health, practice and service delivery. Nursing research is illustrated by tracing a personal trajectory of research over 25 years that addressed questions relating to and derived from the practice of nursing.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1326
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Author Litchfield, M.
Title The innovation effort: ?Are you in or are you out?? Type Miscellaneous
Year 2007 Publication Abbreviated Journal http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/pagesmh/7696/$File/mlitchfield.pdf
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Keywords Nursing; Primary health care; Policy
Abstract A graphic presentation in PDF format (April 2007) of the findings and policy implications of the developmental evaluation research programme for the Turangi Primary Health Care Nursing Innovation.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1327
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Author Brinkman, A.; Wilson-Salt, R.; Walker, L.
Title Education survey report: Implications for practice Type Report
Year 2008 Publication Abbreviated Journal http://www.nzno.org.nz
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Keywords Professional development; Professional Competence; Nursing
Abstract Professional development is an ongoing requirement of nurses as a result of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act. The Act?s principal purpose is to protect the health and safety of the public by ensuring health practitioners are fit and competent to practise. This survey was designed to explore the avenues nurses have taken, and would prefer to take, for their professional development. The questionnaire was sent to a random sample of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation's registered and enrolled nurse members. Nurses overwhelmingly favoured professional development in the workplace. More than half the respondents reported a conflict with other time commitments, while a number of respondents wrote of their desire for work-life balance. The cost of fees, ability to take time off work, and time and travelling distance were all hurdles to professional development. Nurses cited information technology, conflict resolution, managing challenging behaviour, and dealing with rostered & rotating shifts as aspects of their current work for which their nursing education (pre and post) had not adequately prepared them. Nurses also indicated that their pre-registration education in health systems and political processes was inadequate for their current work. As nurses aged, their interest in professional development increased, though many still preferred workplace options. The authors conclude that, in order for professional development opportunities to be accessible and relevant, resources and time must be made available. This is vital to achieve ongoing education of nurses and improved patient outcomes. Management support, combined with effective assessment of learning needs guiding professional development opportunities, are fundamental to ensuring nurse competence.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1329
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