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Author Gage, J.; Everrett, K.D.; Bullock, L.
Title Integrative review of parenting in nursing research Type Journal Article
Year (up) 2006 Publication Journal of Nursing Scholarship Abbreviated Journal
Volume 38 Issue 1 Pages 56-62
Keywords Parents and caregivers; Nursing research; Evaluation
Abstract The authors synthesise and critically analyse parenting research in nursing. They focused on studies published between 1993 and 2004 by nurse researchers in peer-reviewed journals. Data were organised and analysed with a sample of 17 nursing research studies from core nursing journals. The majority of parenting research has been focused on mothers, primarily about parenting children with physical or developmental disabilities. Research about fathers as parents is sparse. Parenting across cultures, parenting in the context of family, and theoretical frameworks for parenting research are not well developed. The authors conclude that the scope of nursing research on parenting is limited.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 709
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Author Giddings, D.L.S.
Title Mixed-methods research: Positivism dressed in drag Type Journal Article
Year (up) 2006 Publication Journal of Research in Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 11 Issue 3 Pages 195-203
Keywords Methodology; Nursing research
Abstract The author critiques the claim that mixed method research is a third methodology, and the implied belief that the mixing of qualitative and quantitative methods will produce the 'best of both worlds'. The author suggests that this assumption, combined with inherent promises of inclusiveness, takes on a reality and certainty in research findings that serves well the powerful nexus of economic restraint and evidence-based practice. The author argues that the use of the terms 'qualitative' and 'quantitative' as normative descriptors reinforces their binary positioning, effectively marginalising the methodological diversity within them. Ideologically, mixed methods covers for the continuing hegemony of positivism, albeit in its more moderate, postpositivist form. If naively interpreted, mixed methods could become the preferred approach in the teaching and doing of research. The author concludes that rather than the promotion of more co-operative and complex designs for increasingly complex social and health issues, economic and administrative pressures may lead to demands for the 'quick fix' that mixed methods appears to offer.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 717
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Author Giddings, D.L.S.; Grant, B.M.
Title A Trojan Horse for positivism? A critique of mixed methods research Type Journal Article
Year (up) 2007 Publication Advances in Nursing Science Abbreviated Journal
Volume 30 Issue 1 Pages 52-60
Keywords Nursing research; Methodology; Evaluation
Abstract This paper presents an analysis of mixed methods research, which the authors suggest is captured by a pragmatically inflected form of post-positivism. Although it passes for an alternative methodological movement that purports to breach the divide between qualitative and quantitative research, most mixed methods studies favour the forms of analysis and truth finding associated with positivism. The authors anticipate a move away from exploring more philosophical questions or undertaking modes of enquiry that challenge the status quo. At the same time, they recognise that mixed methods research offers particular strengths and that, although it serves as a Trojan Horse for positivism, it may productively carry other paradigmatic passengers.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 650
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Author Gage, J.; Hornblow, A.R.
Title Development of the New Zealand nursing workforce: Historical themes and current challenges Type Journal Article
Year (up) 2007 Publication Nursing Inquiry Abbreviated Journal
Volume 14 Issue 4 Pages 330-334
Keywords History of nursing; Nursing research; Personnel; Interprofessional relations
Abstract This article reviews the development of the New Zealand nursing workforce, which has been shaped by social, political, scientific and interprofessional forces. The unregulated, independent and often untrained nurses of the early colonial period were succeeded in the early 1900s by registered nurses, with hospital-based training, working in a subordinate role to medical practitioners. In the mid/late 1900s, greater specialisation within an expanding workforce, restructuring of nursing education, health sector reform, and changing social and political expectations again reshaped nursing practice. Nursing now has areas of increasing autonomy, expanding opportunities for postgraduate education and leadership roles, and a relationship with medicine, which is more collaborative than in the past. Three current challenges are identified for nursing in New Zealand's rapidly evolving health sector; development of a nursing-focused knowledge culture, strengthening of research capacity, and dissemination of new nursing knowledge.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 946 Serial 930
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Author Howie, L.
Title Contextualised nursing practice Type Book Chapter
Year (up) 2008 Publication Jean Ross (Ed.), Rural nursing: Aspects of practice (pp. 33-49) Abbreviated Journal Ministry of Health publications page
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Rural nursing; Nursing models; Nursing research
Abstract This is the first of three chapters that describe nursing practice. The author presents the Rural Framework Wheel to elaborate aspects of the rural context. The Framework comprises four systems which describe aspects of rurality; being are socio-cultural, occupational, ecological, and health. These systems each comprise of subsystems, which provide a detailed analysis of the way nursing practice is particular in diverse rural settings. The Framework is presented as a work in progress, and is grounded in international nursing literature. It highlights rural nursing as a unique and challenging field, with the dominant themes of partnership and nursing emerging as underpinning the practice when nurses live and work in small, sometimes isolated communities.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 766 Serial 750
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Author Darbyshire, P.
Title 'Never mind the quality, feel the width': The nonsense of 'quality', 'excellence', and 'audit' in education, health and research Type Journal Article
Year (up) 2008 Publication Collegian: Journal of the Royal College of Nursing Australia Abbreviated Journal
Volume 15 Issue 1 Pages 35-41
Keywords Accountability; Quality assurance; Organisational change; Nursing research; Nursing; Education
Abstract The author contends that health care and education have been colonised by 'The Audit Society' and managerialism. It is argued that under the benign guise of 'improving quality' and 'ensuring value for money' a more Orwellian purpose operates. Academics had to be transformed into a workforce of 'docile bodies', willing to scrutinise and survey themselves and their 'performance' as outcome deliverers and disciples of the new 'Qualispeak'. This paper critiques the current obsession with audit and performativity, and the constant and often pointless 'change' that is held to be so self-evidently 'a good thing' and identifies policy discussion as a linguistic wasteland.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 967
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Author Tielemans, W.
Title Encouraging young women to have regular smear tests Type Journal Article
Year (up) 2008 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 14 Issue 7 Pages 16-18
Keywords Nursing research; Sexual and reproductive health; Screening; Attitude to health; Cancer
Abstract The author presents the results of a study carried out as part of a research project with two nurse researchers from Maastricht University in the Netherlands. The aim of this study was to examine awareness among female students aged 18 to 25 about cervical cancer and to identify factors associated with their decision or intention to enter the cervical screening programme. Students aged 18-25 were recruited from four tertiary institutions in the Wellington region. A questionnaire was available online and distributed by student health centres and the researchers. Questions covered the following areas: intentions, attitude, knowledge, awareness, modelling, and support systems and efficacy. Data was analysed using descriptive statistics, multiple regression and independent t-tests. The findings are presented, and factors associated with intention and participation in cervical screening are discussed. The results indicate that the information concerning the national screening programme needs to be adjusted for the different age groups.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 984
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Author Webby, A.
Title Should non-Maori research and write about Maori? Type Journal Article
Year (up) 2008 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 14 Issue 5 Pages 20-21
Keywords Maori; Nursing research
Abstract The author examines the complexities surrounding non-Maori nurse researchers working on Maori issues. She suggests that as long as respect and observation of Maori processes is shown, and work is undertaken collaboratively with Maori, then such a role is appropriate.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1046 Serial 1030
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Author Litchfield, M.; Jonsdottir, H.
Title A practice discipline that's here and now Type Journal Article
Year (up) 2008 Publication Advances in Nursing Science Abbreviated Journal
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.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1174
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Author Litchfield, M
Title To advance health care: The origins of nursing research in New Zealand Type Book Whole
Year (up) 2009 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 129 pp
Keywords Nursing Research Section, New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Abstract This book examines in detail the confluence of personalities and professional and practice agendas, out of which emerged the research section, intent on placing research at the centre of the profession's evolution. It provides a fascinating look at how a group of women, utterly committed to nursing, drove their research agenda and it expands understandings of why nursing research is significant for the development of nursing. It also provides an insight into that web of relationships between the professional body, NZNA, the Department of Health, service delivery and education.

To order a copy:

Email: publications@nzno.org.nz

NZNO members: $25 (incl GST + p&p)

Non-NZNO members: $35 (incl GST + p&p)
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1341
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Author Wood, Pamela J; Nelson, Katherine
Title The journal Kai Tiaki's role in developing research capability in New Zealand nursing, 1908-1959 Type Journal Article
Year (up) 2013 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 29 Issue 1 Pages 12-22
Keywords Research capability; History of nursing; Nursing journal; Nursing scholarship; Nursing research
Abstract Undertakes an analysis of past issues of Kai Tiaki over the five decades following its establishment in 1908 to identify the antecedents to the development of research in NZ nursing from the 1970s. Demonstrates how the journal fostered nurses' awareness of research and promoted nursing scholarship, by publishing case studies, holding essay competitions, and published nurses' articles on practice or professional issues.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1480
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Author Taikato, Veronica
Title The place of Rangahau Maori in nursing practice Type Journal Article
Year (up) 2018 Publication Whitireia Nursing and Health Journal Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue 25 Pages 31-36
Keywords Rangahau Maori; Maori nursing research; Nursing practice; Kaupapa Maori; Research methodologies
Abstract Compares two different articles, one using a Kaupapa Maori framework, and the other a tauiwi framework. Emphasises the importance of Kaupapa Maori research and the contributions it makes to nursing practice and to health research outcomes for Maori.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1611
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Author Usoalii, Janine
Title Rangahau Tapuhi Maori: Maori nursing research Type Journal Article
Year (up) 2018 Publication Whitireia Nursing and Health Journal Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue 25 Pages 70-73
Keywords Rangahau Tapuhi Maori; maori nursing research; Kaupapa Maori research; Research methodologies; Maori nurses; Maori nursing leadership
Abstract Examines how Kaupapa Maori research influences nursing practice to develop Rangahau Tapuhi Maori. Compares two research articles, one based on Kaupapa Maori research and the other based on Western methodology. Notes that a Maori health model facilitates understanding of Maori culture and relationships.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1613
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Author Crawford, Ruth
Title Using focused ethnography in nursing research Type Journal Article
Year (up) 2019 Publication Kai Tiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal
Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 63-67
Keywords Focused ethnography; Communication; Nursing research; Research methodology
Abstract Details how the author employed focused ethnography in her doctoral research to investigate nurses' and parents' experience of emotional communication in the context of a children's unit of a regional hospital in NZ. Interviews 10 parents and 10 nurses after the children were discharged. Validates the ethnographic method as a means of inspecting the hidden as well as observable aspects of nurse-parent interaction.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1628
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Author Stodart, K.; Woods, H.
Title How international databases take Kai Tiaki Nursing Research to the world Type Journal Article
Year (up) 2021 Publication Kai Tiaki Nursing Research Abbreviated Journal
Volume 12 Issue 1 Pages 77-78
Keywords Health databases; Nursing research
Abstract Explains how the journal receives international exposure through the databases in which it is indexed: AcademicOnefile, Informit, and the Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL). Details which articles were downloaded most frequently.
Call Number NZNO @ research @ Serial 1723
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