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Gilmour, Jean (and others) |
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Title |
Nurses and heart failure education in medical wards |
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2013 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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29 |
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3 |
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5-17 |
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Medical wards; Heart failure; Surveys |
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Reports a study of medical nurses' education activities with heart failure patients. Surveys a random sample of 540 medical ward nurses via postal questionnaire. Describes the topics addressed and the resources they found most effective, using quantitative data to analyse their responses. Outlines nurses' suggestions to improve patient access to heart failure information. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1485 |
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Author |
Pirret, A M |
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Title |
Nurse practitioner diagnostic reasoning |
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2013 |
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Available from the NZNO Library |
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280 pp |
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Nurse practitioners; Diagnostic reasoning; Diagnostic accuracy; Surveys; Decision-making theory |
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Uses a post-positivist mixed-methods convergent-parallel design to explore nurse practitioner diagnostic reasoning and compare it to that of registrars. Includes 30 nurse practitioners and 16 registrars in a case scenario. Outlines nurse practitioner practice in NZ and how the NZ title of nurse practitioner differs from that used internationally. |
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NZNO @ research @ Reference only |
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1394 |
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Author |
Gillespie, Moira Elizabeth |
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Compassion fatigue and cancer nurses: a national survey of cancer nurses in New Zealand |
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2013 |
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Available through NZNO library |
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91 pp |
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Cancer; Nurses -- Job Stress; Empathy; Burnout, Professional -- Psychology; Surveys |
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Identifies the experiences of NZ cancer nurses whose primary role is to care for patients aged 20 or older, and their whanau/family, and describes the factors that may influence care. Examines whether nurses received training in the management of stressors associated with caring for cancer patients, either during their training or while in the cancer workplace setting. Considers whether nurses working in peripheral (satellite) cancer centres were at more risk than their colleagues in larger regional centres. Conducts a quantitative, descriptive and anonymous survey of members of the Cancer Nurses' Section of the NZNO, using the Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL) questionnaire, which scores compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction and burnout. |
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NZNO @ research @ WY GIL |
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1397 |
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Author |
Kennedy, Barry |
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Title |
The Relationships between empathy and burnout in nurses |
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Year |
2013 |
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1v |
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Empathy; Burnout; Earthquakes; Acute nursing; Surveys |
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Surveys nurses at two hospitals during April and May of 2012. Uses bivariate correlations, group comparisons, analysis of variance and multiple regression to analyse the results. Notes that nurses were still experiencing negative emotional effects of the earthquakes and aftershocks of the preceding 18 months. Finds empathy levels and burnout levels were lower than the normative mean, and that empathy and burnout were negatively correlated with age and experience. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1565 |
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Author |
Sandford, Germaine |
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What do critical care nurses perceive as barriers to mentorship within the critical care environment? |
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Year |
2013 |
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Pages |
151 p. |
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Critical care nursing; Mentorship; Student nurses; Novice nurses; Surveys |
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Seeks to describe the perceptions and experiences of a sample of nurses working in a critical-care tertiary referral centre in New Zealand, engaged in mentorship of new staff and/or student nurses. Undertakes a descriptive study which identifies four barriers within the critical care environment: the impact that clinical workload has on the provision of mentorship; lack of acknowledgement of the mentorship role; challenge of assessment of new and student nurses; insufficient training and knowledge opportunities for mentors. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1569 |
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Author |
Shaw-Brown, Helen Stewart |
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A survey of Canterbury nurses' perceptions of the activities, effectiveness and benefits of professional supervision |
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Year |
2013 |
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143 p. |
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Professional supervision; Canterbury; Surveys |
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Aims to enrol all Canterbury nurses involved in professional supervision (PS) to describe their experiences, its effectiveness and the benefits they gained. Includes both nurse supervisees and nurse supervisors, with more than half coming from the mental health sector and the remainder coming from a variety of nursing specialities. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1570 |
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Author |
Baby, Maria |
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Mental health nurses' experiences of patient assaults |
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Year |
2013 |
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1v |
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Patient assaults; Mental health nurses; Violence; Surveys |
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Interviews thirteen registered nurses and one enrolled nurse working in different nursing positions within the Southern District Health Board -- Mental Health Services. Codes data into 24 sub-themes related to the sequence and impact of assaults on the participants. Discusses the nature and impact of assaults and the supportive strategies associated with violence against mental health nurses. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1571 |
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Author |
Zambas, Shelaine Iris |
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Title |
The consequences of using advanced assessment skills in medical and surgical nursing: keeping patients safe |
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2013 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
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150 p. |
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Keywords |
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 |
Hogan, Deborah |
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Title |
Transitioning difficulties of overseas trained nurses in New Zealand |
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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 |
Lally, Elsa |
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Title |
Symbiotic relationships in patients' engagements with practice nurses |
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Book Whole |
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2014 |
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262 p. |
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Practice nurses; Patients; Symbiotic relationships; Primary health care; Surveys |
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Records from patient perspectives the nature of the engagements patients have with practice nurses which influence patients' health and well-being. Posits this mutually-beneficial close association as a form of symbiosis. Surveys 15 patients from seven rural and urban general practices in NZ about aspects of the participants' relationships and engagements with nurses, analysing the results using Narrative Inquiry methodology. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1699 |
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Author |
Rhodes, J. |
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Title |
Using PeerWise in nursing education -- a replicated quantitative descriptive research study |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2015 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki Nursing Research |
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6 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
10-15 |
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Keywords |
Nursing Education; PeerWise; Quantitative Studies; Surveys |
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Surveys the views of third-year Bachelor of Nursing students with the aim of replicating or refuting the results from an earlier study on the use of the online learning tool PeerWise in nursing education. Uses a quantitative descriptive research method and survey, as in the earlier study, to determine whether PeerWise does provide a positive medium for nursing students to acquire, extend and revise nursing knowledge. Employs manifest content analysis on the data collected in the first study in 2013. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1406 |
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Author |
Skerman, N.; Manhire, K.; Thompson, S.; Abel, S. |
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Title |
Extended Plunket Service for vulnerable teenage mothers : well-child nurses' perspectives |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2015 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki Nursing Research |
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6 |
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1 |
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36-40 |
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Teenage Mothers; Well-Child Nurses; Nurse-Client Relationships; Social Issues; Postnatal Health Services; Surveys |
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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. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1410 |
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Author |
Parton, Beverley May |
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Title |
Maori women, health care, and contemporary realities : a critical reflection |
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Book Whole |
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Year |
2015 |
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249 p. |
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Keywords |
Hauora; Maori health; Maori women -- health care; Surveys |
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Aims to explore the influences on health and health care engagement from the experiences of urban Maori women using Kokiri Marae Health and Social Services (KMHSS), Lower Hutt, NZ. Conducts unstructured interviews which are analysed thematically. Employs the nursing theory of cultural safety, Kawa Whakaruruhau, to inform a qualitative approach to the examination of the historical, social, cultural, economic, political, racial and gendered factors contributing to Maori women's health and health-care engagement. Makes recommendations for nursing practice, research site and research. |
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NZNO @ research @ WA 300.KN4 PAR |
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1429 |
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Author |
Roy, Dianne; Gasquoine, Susan; Caldwell, Shirrin; Nash, Derek |
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Title |
Health professional and family perceptions of post-stroke information |
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Journal Article |
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Year |
2015 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
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Volume |
31 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
7-24 |
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Keywords |
Stroke; Patient education; Families; Surveys |
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Conducts a mixed-methods descriptive survey to ascertain information needs of stroke families, as part of a longitudinal research programme, Stroke Families Whanau Programme. Asks 19 family members and 23 practitioners via interviews their opinions on current resources, and the appropriateness, accessibility, timeliness or omissions in the information provided, following a stroke. Identifies barriers to information provision. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1502 |
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Author |
Beaver, Peter James |
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Title |
Contemporary patient safety and the challenges for New Zealand |
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Year |
2015 |
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329 p. |
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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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