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Author Walker, Leonie; Clendon, Jill; Cheung, Vivian
Title Family responsibilities of Asian nurses in New Zealand: implications for retention Type Journal Article
Year 2016 Publication Kai Tiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) 7 Issue 1 Pages 4-10
Keywords Asian nurses; Family caregiving; Workforce retention
Abstract Explores the care-giving responsibilities of Asian NZNO member nurses for both children and elders, and the impact of these on their work, their nursing careers and their intention to remain as nurses in NZ. Takes a mixed-method approach using a group interview of 25 nurses and a survey of 562 nurses. Highlights impacts on nurses, revealing variable access to support, with implications for continuing education, career advancement and retention.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1525
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Author Winship, Sarah; McClunie-Trust, Patricia
Title Factors influencing hand hygiene compliance among nurses: an integrative review Type Journal Article
Year 2016 Publication Kai Tiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) 7 Issue 1 Pages 19-26
Keywords Hand hygiene; Compliance; Hospital nurses
Abstract Appraises primary research to identify factors influencing qualified nurses' hand-hygiene compliance during patient care, using an integrative review approach to evaluate research on compliance. Utilises the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) model as the structure for the review. Reveals five key themes affecting hygiene compliance.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1527
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Author Skerman, N.; Manhire, K.; Thompson, S.; Abel, S.
Title Extended Plunket Service for vulnerable teenage mothers : well-child nurses' perspectives Type Journal Article
Year 2015 Publication Kai Tiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) 6 Issue 1 Pages 36-40
Keywords Teenage Mothers; Well-Child Nurses; Nurse-Client Relationships; Social Issues; Postnatal Health Services; Surveys
Abstract Reports nurses' perspectives on their role in the extended Well Child/Tamariki Ora service to teenage mothers which has been delivered by the Royal NZ Plunket Society since 2011 to adolescent mothers in Hawke's Bay. Focuses on what nurses consider necessary for this client population and the challenges nurses face. Evaluates the service at two intervals : first when the babies were six months old, and second when they were three years. Conducts interviews to identify the factors essential to successful service delivery : trusting nurse/client relationships, strong inter-agency relationships, team-work and support.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1410
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Author Dredge, A.
Title An insider's view of professional nursing and care management of the critically ill patient Type Journal Article
Year 1999 Publication Vision: A Journal of Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) 5 Issue 8 Pages 13-16
Keywords Intensive care nursing; Interprofessional relations; Registered nurses
Abstract This article explores the role of the registered nurse (RN) in the critical care environment. It presents the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) as a unique environment, with a specific relationship to technology, and a history that mirrors scientific development. It explores the tensions for a caring profession with a distinct culture practising in a highly medicalised, acute environment, and affirms the value of quality human care.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1302 Serial 1287
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Author Gifford, H.; Walker, L.; Clendon, J.; Wilson, D.; Boulton, A.
Title Maori nurses and smoking; Conflicted identities and motivations for smoking cessation Type Journal Article
Year 2013 Publication Kai Tiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal Available through NZNO library
Volume (down) 4 Issue 1 Pages 33-38
Keywords Maori nurses; Smoking cessation; smoking; Qualitative research
Abstract This research aims to design and test the feasibility of an intervention promoting smoking cessation, and reducing smoking relapse, among Māori nurses who smoke. It is being conducted in two phases. Phase one, a national web-based survey, conducted in December 2012, explored the views of Māori nurses (smokers, ex-smokers and non-smokers) regarding smoking. This paper reports on the analysis of qualitative responses from 410 nurses and nursing students identifying as Māori who completed an online survey. Five themes were identified: beliefs about smoking; ?for our tamariki?; personal stories of quitting; dissatisfaction with current approaches; and plans for future strategies. The findings confirm that nurses who smoke may experience feelings of conflict, and regard their behaviour as inconsistent with their role as nurses and health promoters. Nurses who smoke must be supported to become, and to stay, smokefree. Tailored Māori-specific cessation initiatives are needed.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1392
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Author McDonald, S.; Willis, G.; Fourie, W.; Hedgecock, B.
Title Graduate nurses and their experience of postgraduate education within a Graduate Nurse programme Type Report
Year 2007 Publication Abbreviated Journal Copies can be obtained from The Department of Nursing and Health Studies, Manukau Institute of Techn
Volume (down) (Monograph Series 2/2007) Issue Pages
Keywords Nursing; Education; New graduate nurses; Teaching methods; Students
Abstract The authors note that the literature identifies that the transition from tertiary based training to the realities of industry expectations can be a stressful period for graduates. Various District Health Boards offer postgraduate papers within their graduate nursing programmes, resulting in graduates being expected to perform the role of a beginning practitioner as well as embark on postgraduate education during this first year. As yet, the authors note, there is little evidence available to substantiate the efficacy and impact of such papers. The purpose of this study was to explore graduate nurse's experience of postgraduate education within the Graduate Nurse Programme. The report contains the results of a survey of nurses within the Programme. This report details the results of that survey and make recommendations for consideration.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 911
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Author Walker, Leonie
Title Hardships and hurdles: The experiences of migrant nurses in New Zealand Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication Kai Tiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal NZNO Library
Volume (down) 1 Issue 1 Pages 4-8
Keywords Recruitment and retention; Personnel recruitment; Foreign nurses; English as a second language; Emigration and immigration; Bullying
Abstract The New Zealand nursing workforce is increasingly made up of overseas trained nurses. There is extensive literature from elsewhere in the world on the impacts of international nurse recruitment and migration on individual nurses and on health services. The literature also portrays evidence of abuse and exploitation, yet few studies are available relating to the experiences of migrant nurses in New Zealand. This research conducted a survey of overseas-trained nurses, specifically focusing on those nurses for whom English is not their first language, to understand the experiences and factors affecting migrant registered nurses in New Zealand. Given the importance to the New Zealand workforce of overseas-trained nurses, this research highlighted that more warnings and advice regarding recruitment agencies and information about nursing in New Zealand and the Nursing Council requirements for registration should be made available to nurses prior to their migration. Nursing leaders should be particularly alert to any evidence of bullying or discrimination based on race or overseas origin.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1337
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Author Turner, R.S.
Title Preceptorship in nursing: Preceptors' and preceptees' experiences of working in partnership Type
Year 2007 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) Issue Pages
Keywords New graduate nurses; Preceptorship; Training; Professional development; Mentoring
Abstract This research is about preceptorship in nursing. There is considerable emphasis placed on health care organisations to support newly appointed graduate nurses, and preceptorship is a recommended model. Despite this emphasis, the author suggests that little is known about how preceptorship partnerships work in practice. The primary focus of this exploratory descriptive qualitative study was to explore the perspectives that preceptors and preceptees, who had worked in partnership, had about how they established and sustained their respective roles. Three sets of registered nurses who had recently completed a preceptorship experience were interviewed about their partnership. Content and thematic analysis of this descriptive data revealed four main themes. The preceptorship relationship grows out of respect for each another and develops as a result of honest and open communication. Preceptees who have an initial positive experience into their new work area settle quickly and efficiently into their new role. Preceptees appreciate preceptors who are welcoming, supportive and willing to undertake the role, while preceptors are happy to undertake the role if the graduate displays an interest in learning and are willing to be guided. The preceptee learns what it means to be a registered nurse in the particular working context, while the preceptor learns how to support learning processes and evidence-based practices. The author goes on to say that further exploration and investigation of these themes and of the relationships that evolve during preceptorship partnerships is needed. By understanding these findings, organisations can prepare both the preceptor and preceptee as they begin to undertake their role to ensure future partnerships will be successful.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 491 Serial 477
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Author Southwick, M.
Title Pacific women's stories of becoming a nurse in New Zealand: A radical hermeneutic reconstruction of marginality Type
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
Volume (down) Issue Pages
Keywords Pacific peoples; New graduate nurses
Abstract This thesis examines Pacific women's experiences of becoming a nurse and their first year of practice post-registration, within the New Zealand context. The participants' stories of being students and beginning practitioners are inter-woven with the author's own reflections as a nurse and nurse educator who also claims a Pacific cultural heritage. To create the space in which the stories can be laid down, the thesis includes a description of the migration and settlement of Pacific peoples in Aotearoa/New Zealand. This description shows how Pacific people have been systematically stigmatised and locked into marginalised positions by mainstream dominant culture. The thesis deconstructs, what the author describes as, taken-for-granted and self perpetuating conceptualisations of marginality that currently underpin most theoretical explanations and proposes a reconstructed map of marginality. This deconstructed/reconstructed map of marginality is used as a template through which the experiences of the participants are filtered and interpreted. Radical Hermeneutics provides a philosophical underpinning for this project that has as one of its objectives the desire to resist reducing complexity to simplistic explanation and superficial solutions. The thesis challenges nursing to examine its role in reproducing the hegemonic power of dominant culture by applying unexamined cultural normative values that create binary boundaries between 'them' and 'us'. At the same time the thesis challenges Pacific people to move past hegemonically induced states of alienation and learn how to walk in multiple worlds with confidence and power.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 485
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Author Lilley, S.
Title Experiences of mentoring in primary health care settings: Registered nurses' and students' perspectives Type
Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Otago Library
Volume (down) Issue Pages
Keywords Mentoring; Students; Registered nurses; Primary health care
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 505 Serial 491
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Author Moke, Karen
Title Finding the balance: Family inclusive practice in adult community mental health Type Book Whole
Year 2019 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) Issue Pages 110 p.
Keywords Mental health nurses; Clinical managers; Adult community mental health services; Family-inclusive practice; Surveys
Abstract Explores family-inclusive practice in Adult Community Mental Health in a District Health Board. Focuses on what adult community mental health nurses and clinical managers consider to be barriers and facilitators to family-inclusive practice. Explores community mental health nurses' and clinical managers' perspectives of family-inclusive practice through semi-structured interviews using a descriptive qualitative design.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1653
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Author Harding, T.S.
Title Constructing the “other”: On being a man and a nurse Type
Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal University of Auckland Library
Volume (down) Issue Pages
Keywords Gender; Male nurses; Careers in nursing
Abstract This study explores the experiences of men who are nurses in Aotearoa New Zealand. Utilising discourse analysis a social constructionist reading of men, masculinity and nursing is provided to offer an alternative reading to much of the extant literature with respect to men in nursing. The study draws upon a number of different sources of “text”, including over 600 written works, two films and interviews with eighteen men who currently are, have been or are intending to be, nurses. Drawing primarily upon the “literary” textual sources a number of themes were identified for further exploration in interview with the co-researchers. These themes were the construction of masculinity, the construction of images of the nurse, the reaction to men who are nurses, sexuality issues, career development, and men and caring. The findings of this thesis reveal that the literature pertaining to men in nursing is replete with paradox and contradiction and fails to adequately account for the male experience. It is argued that the images and arguments provided in the literature with respect to men in nursing are based on out-of-date models and understandings of gender relations, masculinity and nursing. It is suggested that rather than enjoying patriarchal privilege, men who enter nursing must contend with being constructed as both an inferior man and inferior nurse. Their careers are not, as is alleged in the literature, based on developing “islands of masculinity” and male privilege, nor upon the avoidance of the emotional labour of nursing but reflect a belief that career is one way of doing care. It is argued in this work that men in nursing have fewer “taken-as-givens” upon which to base work and that they work to develop trusting relationships with their patients that are based on communication and empathy within a context defined by the patients' circumstances.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 595 Serial 581
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Author Mearns, G.
Title Developing autonomous ownership: A grounded theory study of how registered nurses working in aged care are advancing their nursing practice Type
Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal Auckland University of Technology Library
Volume (down) Issue Pages
Keywords Nurse practitioners; Geriatric nursing; Older people; Registered nurses
Abstract The introduction of nurse practitioner registration into New Zealand in 2001 was heralded as a move that would open up a wealth of opportunities for registered nurses to extend their practice into more independent roles and to provide a client-centred health service. It was also seen as a way to retain experienced registered nurses in the clinical practice area by providing a credible clinical career pathway. If nurse practitioner's are to meet these expectations, then, the author suggests, it is important to understand the processes that encourage or discourage nurses from advancing their practice. One of the early scopes of practice to be introduced was nurse practitioner with an endorsement in aged care scope of practice. Grounded theory was the method used to generate an explanation of how registered nurses working in aged care were preparing for the introduction of nurse practitioner roles. An analysis of early data highlighted codes around registered nurses in aged care extending and advancing their practice rather than preparing specifically for the nurse practitioner role. The research question for this study was: 'How are registered nurses in aged care advancing their nursing practice?' Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data from ten experienced registered nurses working in aged care clinical practice settings ranging from secondary hospital facilities, to community settings and residential care villages. Dimensional analysis of the data eventually generated three major conceptual categories: 'ownership of nursing', 'extending practice', and 'moving out of a comfort zone'. Of these, 'ownership of nursing' was identified as the core construct that linked the other categories together. The substantive theory that explains how registered nurses in aged care advance their clinical practice is 'developing autonomous ownership'. Nurses who develop autonomous ownership of nursing are more likely than other nurses to move out of a current comfort zone and advance their practice into more independent roles that suit their autonomous ownership of nursing. This study identified important contextual factors and conditions that support the development of an autonomous ownership of nursing and that subsequently facilitate advancing nursing practice. These include creating supportive environments, organisational commitment to advanced nursing practice roles, visible nursing leadership, congruence between organisational and nursing philosophies, interdisciplinary collaboration and participating in postgraduate education. The author suggests that the significance of this study is that it generated a theory about the processes that encourage or discourage nurses from preparing for, and progressing into, advanced nursing practice roles such as nurse practitioner.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 585
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Author Magrath, K.L.
Title From chrysalis to butterfly: Transition experiences of new graduates in primary health care nursing practice in New Zealand Type
Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal Otago Polytechnic library. A copy can be obtained by contacting pgnursadmin@tekotago.ac.nz
Volume (down) Issue Pages
Keywords Primary health care; New graduate nurses; Mentoring
Abstract Primary health care is a dynamic and ever-changing area of practice which has undergone many changes in the last ten years. Traditionally, primary health care was not a routine choice for new graduate nurses as they were encouraged to work in a hospital setting before seeking a position in the community. Bachelor of Nursing programmes emphasise primary health care practice and increasingly nurses and their employers are moving away from the traditional belief of 'doing your time in the hospital' before contemplating the move to primary health care. Currently in New Zealand increasing numbers of graduates from Bachelor of Nursing programmes want to begin their working life as registered nurses in this area. A constructivist approach was taken to explore the experience of five nurses who entered primary health care practice as new graduates. Participants were interviewed using a semi-structured format. They constructed their experience as role transition and identified a number of significant factors which had impacted on their practice. These factors included both the personal and practice challenges they experienced and the strategies they used to address them. Further research findings were a transition time of one year, the importance of both formal and informal support, planned orientation and opportunities for reflection. A number of mediating factors including new graduate programmes, peer support and mentorship were also discussed. Key implications for practice, education, employers and future research regarding transition to primary health care for new graduates are discussed. This research emphasised the importance of appropriate resources and support for new graduates from Bachelor of Nursing programmes. These factors are suggested as integral to the development of new graduates' practice in primary health care and reduction of the challenges inherent in this transition.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 587
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Author Entwistle, M.
Title Women only? An exploration of the place of men within nursing Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
Volume (down) Issue Pages
Keywords Nursing; Male nurses; Gender; Recruitment and retention
Abstract This dissertation came out of the author's wondering why there are still so few men going into nursing especially when the history of nursing reveals that men have been a part of nursing for a long time. In New Zealand it is only since the mid seventies that men have been able to gain the exact same nursing qualifications as their women colleagues. The author notes that men in nursing are still seen as unusual in that they work in a predominantly female occupation and have had their masculinity questioned by the myth that all men in nursing must be gay. There is also the notion that caring is a difficult task for men and is seen by society as a uniquely feminine ability. Both issues are related to dominant notions of masculinity. In addition to this there is currently a crisis in terms of a nursing shortage and it has been suggested that one way to resolve this crisis is to encourage more men into nursing. Thus this exploration as to why there are so few men in nursing is timely. Men who choose nursing as a career risk challenging the traditional roles of their gender stereotype. A comprehensive search of the literature from different disciplines reveals deeper issues than just the commonly held assumption that nursing is not masculine. Exploring the issues of gender with a particular focus on masculinity has uncovered the concept of hegemonic masculinity. This describes how gender is practiced in a way that legitimises patriarchy, reinforcing the dominant position of men over women as well as over other groups of men. It is these patriarchal attitudes that have seen men marginalised within nursing. On the one hand men in nursing could be seen as challenging the current dominant masculine ideal. However, on the other hand men in nursing may not challenge this hegemonic masculinity; instead often supporting the status quo in an effort to maintain their own masculinity. The author suggests that the implication for nursing, if it is to increase the numbers of men in the profession, is to challenge this notion of hegemonic masculinity. This needs to be done appropriately by critically examining this concept rather than by merely replacing one hegemony with another. He goes on to say that it is now time for nursing education to include a critical exploration of gender issues and how it relates to men as part of undergraduate nursing education for both men and women students.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 601
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