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Author Haggerty, C.
Title Preceptorship for entry into practice Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2002 Publication Whitireia Nursing Journal Abbreviated Journal
Volume 9 Issue Pages 7-13
Keywords Preceptorship; Psychiatric Nursing; Nursing; Education
Abstract The author examines some of the issues affecting preceptorship in relation to a graduate diploma programme of psychiatric mental health nursing. Previous research by the author lead to recommendations on clarifying the roles and responsibilities of those involved in the programme, and improving preceptor selection, training, support and evaluation. By providing such clarity and support, the preceptor role in the clinical setting is given the best chance to succeed.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1295
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Author Day, D.R.; Mills, B.; Fairburn, F.
Title Exercise prescription: Are practice nurses adequately prepared for this? Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2001 Publication New Zealand Journal of Sports Medicine Abbreviated Journal
Volume 29 Issue 2 Pages 32-36
Keywords Practice nurses; Health education; Primary health care
Abstract This study sought to examine whether practice nurses were prepared to provide exercise prescriptions to clients. It involved administering questionnaires to 53 practice nurses in Otago to examine their understanding of green prescriptions and their knowledge and participation in exercise prescription.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 628
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Author Walker, J.; Bailey, S.; Brasell-Brian, R.; Gould, S.
Title Evaluating a problem based learning course: An action research study Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2001 Publication Contemporary Nurse Abbreviated Journal
Volume 10 Issue 1/2 Pages 30-38
Keywords Nursing; Education; Teaching methods
Abstract The purpose of this study was to evaluate how the New Zealand style of problem based learning was developing students' understanding and integration of knowledge. The 'pure' problem based learning process has been adapted to move students gradually from teacher direction to taking responsibility for their learning. Two cycles of an action research method were used, involving 4 lecturers and 17 students. Data was collected both quantitatively and qualitatively over a 16-week period. Findings indicated the importance of: explaining the purpose and process of problem based learning; communicating in detail the role of both students and lecturers; keeping communication lines open; addressing timetabling issues and valuing this method of learning for nursing practice. Implications for nursing education are addressed.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 695
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Author Horsburgh, M.; Lamdin, R.; Williamson, E.
Title Multiprofessional learning: The attitudes of medical, nursing and pharmacy students to shared learning Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2001 Publication Medical Education Abbreviated Journal
Volume 35 Issue 9 Pages 876-883
Keywords Nursing; Education; Students; Interprofessional relations
Abstract This study has sought to quantify the attitudes of first-year medical, nursing and pharmacy students' towards interprofessional learning, at course commencement. The Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale (RIPLS) (University of Liverpool, Department of Health Care Education), was administered to first-year medical, nursing and pharmacy students at the University of Auckland. Differences between the three groups were analysed. The majority of students reported positive attitudes towards shared learning. The benefits of shared learning, including the acquisition of teamworking skills, were seen to be beneficial to patient care and likely to enhance professional working relationships. However professional groups differed: nursing and pharmacy students indicated more strongly that an outcome of learning together would be more effective teamworking. Medical students were the least sure of their professional role, and considered that they required the acquisition of more knowledge and skills than nursing or pharmacy students.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 719
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Author Blackie, S.A.H.
Title Women, work, study and health: The experience of nurses engaged in paid work and further education Type
Year (down) 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Parents and caregivers; Nursing; Education
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 789
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Author Milligan, K.; Neville, S.J.
Title Health assessment and its relationship to nursing practice in New Zealand Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2001 Publication Contemporary Nurse Abbreviated Journal
Volume 10 Issue 1/2 Pages 7-11
Keywords Nursing; Education; Professional competence; Nurse practitioners; Cross-cultural comparison
Abstract This article draws on Australian experience to gain insight to three specific areas of health assessment that are topical in New Zealand, which has recently introduced the concept into nursing training. The issues are annual registration based on evidence of competence to practice, a review of undergraduate curricula, and the development of nurse practitioner/advanced nurse practitioner roles. The meaning of the concept 'health assessment' is also clarified in order to provide consistency as new initiatives in nursing are currently being developed.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1090
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Author Wilson, D.S.
Title Transforming nursing education: A legitimacy of difference Type
Year (down) 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal UC Research Repository
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Nursing; Education; Teaching methods; Curriculum; Feminist critique
Abstract In 1973, two trial pre-registration nursing education programmes were piloted in New Zealand polytechnics. These represented an alternative to traditional hospital-sited schools of nursing. The establishment of nursing education in the tertiary sector marked a radical challenge to the cultural heritage of apprenticeship-style nursing training associated with paternal and medically-dominated health institutions. This thesis offers a Foucauldian and feminist poststructuralist analysis of discourses employed by fifteen senior nursing educators in the comprehensive registration programmes between 1973 and 1992. The women employed to teach in the comprehensive programmes faced unique challenges in establishing departments of nursing, in developing curricula that would promote a reorientation of nursing and in supporting candidates to attain their nursing registration. Through semi-structured interviews and discourse analysis methods, a set of unique characteristics shared by this group of early leading comprehensive nursing educators has emerged. The women's narratives were underpinned by discourses that centre around the valuing of education as a vehicle for emancipation and an upholding of a legitimacy of difference in nursing educators' work. The participants upheld the importance of clinical practice skills and drew on their own student nursing experiences as incentives for reforming nursing education. These nursing educators conceptualised an idealised type of graduate, and commonly employed an heroic metaphor to describe their experiences as senior comprehensive educators. Their engagement with such discourses and their shared characteristics demonstrate unique re-constitutions of power, knowledge and relations with their colleagues and clients throughout the education and health care sectors. The author proposes that these traits characterise the women as strategic and astute professionals who successfully negotiated the construction of comprehensive nursing programmes as a legitimate and transformative preparation for nursing registration.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1139
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Author Rummel, L.
Title Safeguarding the practices of nursing: The lived experience of being-as preceptor to undergraduate student nurses in acute care settings Type
Year (down) 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University, Albany, Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Preceptorship; Nursing; Education; Identity; Intensive care nursing
Abstract This thesis used a Heideggerian Hermeneutic approach to explore the experiences of registered nurses who act as preceptors to undergraduate student nurses. The researcher interviewed fifteen volunteer registered nurses twice as preceptors to investigate their experience. The data generated was audio-taped and analysed. Four dominant themes emerged. The first, 'Becoming attuned – the call', related to registered nurses responding to the call to be preceptors to students in their clinical placement. The second, “The emerging identity of being-as preceptor: keeping the student in mind”, related to preceptors cultivating their own identity as preceptors as they worked with students in the world of nursing practice. The third, 'Assessing where the student is at: the preceptor and preceptee working and growing together', related to a constant evaluation by preceptors of students' knowledge, readiness to learn, and the provision of learning opportunities. The fourth, 'Preceptors as builders of nursing practice through teaching reality nursing', facilitated the preceptee's experience of the real world of nursing practice. An overall constitutive theme: 'Preceptors as the safeguarders of the practices of nursing', emerged as the essence of the experience.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1263
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Title Dementia care: A literature review Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2001 Publication Vision: A Journal of Nursing Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7 Issue 13 Pages 33-36
Keywords Dementia; Nurse-patient relations; Quality of health care; Nursing; Education
Abstract This article defines dementia, and explores recent trends in relation to why it is such a misunderstood condition in the health care setting. Within a theoretical framework of literature development, nurse client relationships, and quality of care and attitudes are analysed. Gaps, inconsistencies and consistencies are outlined, with the implications for nursing practice and education explored.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1279
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Author Conroy, E.
Title Nursing informatics in New Zealand: Evolving towards extinction? Type
Year (down) 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Informatics; Technology; Education; Nursing
Abstract This project undertakes a critique and review of a decade (1990-2000) of available New Zealand literature to reveal the current state of nursing informatics utilisation in nursing practice. Since the early 1990s, nurses from diploma and baccalaureate nursing programs have been graduating with knowledge and skills in nursing informatics. Yet, when scrutinising the two main nursing publications for New Zealand, the author found scant publication of articles that pertain to this topic area of nursing. Competencies as product of the 1989 Guidelines for Teaching Nursing Informatics are a key consideration in this discussion, including ways in which the articles may reflect the content or intent of the Nursing Informatics curriculum as prescribed in these guidelines. This commentary discusses how nursing informatics has evolved in New Zealand nursing practice, situating its growth, or lack of, in the context of concurrent sociopolitical influences as well as conditions created by national and international nursing trends. Several recommendations are discussed to guide the future direction of nursing informatics for nursing education and practice in New Zealand.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 501
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Author Horsburgh, M.
Title Quality in undergraduate nursing programmes: The role of Nursing Council Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2000 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 15 Issue 2 Pages 25-37
Keywords Nursing Council of New Zealand; Nursing; Education; Nursing; Quality assurance
Abstract This paper looks broadly at issues to do with quality monitoring in higher education and considers the role and focus of the Nursing Council of New Zealand in the approval of and ongoing monitoring of undergraduate nursing degree programmes. It is suggested that the approach taken by the Nursing Council is accountability led where minimal attention is given to teaching and learning and actual graduate outcomes. This may lead to a mistaken belief that Nursing Council's monitoring focuses on quality or that the outcomes of their monitoring might contribute to programme enhancement. A shift to emphasise learning processes, students and continual improvement in order to enhance programme quality is proposed.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 634
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Author Dyson, L.
Title The role of the lecturer in the preceptor model of clinical teaching Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2000 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 16 Issue 3 Pages 16-24
Keywords Teaching methods; Nursing; Education; Preceptorship
Abstract This article reports on a descriptive study undertaken within a school of nursing where the author was formerly employed. The study explored the role of the lecturer within the preceptorship model of clinical teaching. It uses an exploratory/descriptive, qualitative approach to interviewing 12 lecturers. The findings demonstrate the educational orientation of the lecturer role and also highlight the tension that continues to exist between the world of education and the world of practice.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 635
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Author Dyson, L.; Entwistle, M.; Macdiarmaid, R.; Marshall, D.C.; Simpson, S.M.
Title Three approaches to use of questioning by clinical lecturesers [lecturers]: A pilot study Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2000 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 15 Issue 1 Pages 13-22
Keywords Qualiltative research; Preceptorship; Teaching methods; Nursing; Education
Abstract The author investigates the types of questions asked of students by lecturers working within the preceptorship model in the clinical setting. A sample of five volunteer nursing lecturers had their interactions with undergraduate students recorded. The data is analysed using two auditing approaches and qualitative content analysis.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 636
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Author Gallagher, P.
Title An evaluation of a standards based portfolio [Corrected and republished article printed in NURSE EDUC TODAY 2001 Apr; 21(3): 197-200] Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2000 Publication Nurse Education Today Abbreviated Journal
Volume 20 Issue 3 Pages 218-226
Keywords Nursing; Education; Teaching methods; Evaluation
Abstract This study is an evaluation of student perceptions of a standards based portfolio, which is a is a series of student work that seeks to address pre-determined learning outcomes. Of interest to the study was the relationship between theory and practice, the availability of resources to complete the assignment and the contribution the portfolio made to the process of learning. For a particular unit of learning, 'Nursing Business', second year undergraduate students in the Bachelor of Nursing programme were required to complete a portfolio. The assessment directed the students to meet specific criteria which in turn reflected the learning outcomes.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 653
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Author Kaviani, N.; Stillwell, Y.
Title An evaluative study of clinical preceptorship Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2000 Publication Nurse Education Today Abbreviated Journal
Volume 20 Issue 3 Pages 218-226
Keywords Preceptorship; Nursing; Education; Evaluation research
Abstract A preceptorship programme of 100 hours duration was developed and delivered by a nurse education institute, in consultation with a health care organisation. The purpose of the study was to examine preceptors, preceptees, and nurse managers' preceptions of the preceptor role and factors which influenced the performance of preceptors. Using focus groups, participants were each asked to identify the outcomes of the programme in practice. Study findings highlighted the importance of formal preceptor preparation, personal and professional development of the preceptors, and the promotion of positive partnerships between nurse educators and nurse practitioners. The need for formal recognition of the preceptor role in practice, particularly in relation to the provision of adequate time and resources, emerged from the study. The research findings enabled the development of an evaluative model of preceptorship, which highlights the intrinsic and extrinsic factors impacting on the preceptor role
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 654
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