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Ball, Christine |
| Title |
Are we ready yet?: New graduate nurses' experience of workplace violence and agression and their sense of readiness |
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2016 |
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160 p. |
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Graduate nurses; Workplace violence; Workplace aggression |
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Uses a qualitative descriptive approach to explore the experience of 7 graduate nurses employed in a range of sectors, of workplace violence and aggression (WPVA). Conducts semi-structured interviews and analyses the data using thematic analysis, generating 3 themes: Part of the Journey, Towards Self-Efficacy, and Maintaining Integrity. Identifies coping strategies. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1564 |
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| Author |
Lala, Anita Carol |
| Title |
Variability in neonatal gentamicin administration influencing drug delivery kinetics |
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Book Whole |
| Year |
2016 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
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109 p. |
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Drugs; Drug delivery; Neonates; Neonatal nurses; Neonatal Intensive Care Units; Surveys |
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Distributes a self-administered questionnaire to Dunedin Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) nurses to investigate: the site of administration, comparing peripheral intravenous line (PIV) or umbilical venous catheter (UVC); and which dose of gentamicin would be used in two clinical scenarios describing babies of 24 and 32-weeks' gestation. Simulates gentamycin delivery and notes clinical variability. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1574 |
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| Author |
Greenlees-Rae, Joanne |
| Title |
Being confident in practice: A study on the influences on confidence in new graduate nurses |
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Book Whole |
| Year |
2016 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
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151 p. |
| Keywords |
Professional confidence; New graduate nurses; Critical reflection; Surveys |
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Aims to understand influences on new graduate nurses' confidence in their nursing practice. Confirms the value of self-confidence in newly-qualified nurses commencing practice. Utilises Appreciative Inquiry methodology to analyse the dialogue of nine new graduate nurses who share their stories of practice. Highlights five themes from their accounts. Identifies influences on the nurses' confidence, and the reflective practice pervading their nursing practice. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1695 |
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| Author |
Hawes, Philip C. |
| Title |
What educational and other experiences assist recently qualified nurses to understand and deal with clinical risk and patient safety? |
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Book Whole |
| Year |
2016 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
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131 p. |
| Keywords |
Patient safety; Clinical risk; Graduate nurses; Professional development; Surveys |
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Interviews 9 nurses in their first year of clinical practice to investigate how newly-qualified nurses recognise and develop those skills relating to clinical risk and patient safety. Identifies workplace culture, clinical role models, exposure to the clinical environment, experiential learning, narrative sharing, debriefing and simulation as contributing to learning and understanding clinical risk and safe patient care. Considers strategies to facilitate professional development. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1696 |
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| Author |
Rees, Lorraine |
| Title |
Exploring the barriers and levers to hand hygiene of nursing and medical staff in Emergency Departments: a mixed-methods study |
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Book Whole |
| Year |
2016 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
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116 p. |
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Hand hygiene; Healthcare-associated infection; Compliance; Emergency Departments; Surveys |
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Undertakes an explanatory, sequential, mixed-methods study to identify barriers and levers to hand-hygiene (HH) practice in two Emergency Departments (ED) in NZ. Distributes a survey to ED nurses and doctors to identify perceived facilitators and hindrances to HH. Follows up with nurse focus groups to explore specific aspects of the survey results. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1697 |
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| Author |
Wailling, Joanna |
| Title |
How healthcare professionals in acute care environments describe patient safety: a case study |
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Book Whole |
| Year |
2016 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
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Issue |
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Pages |
169 p. |
| Keywords |
Patient safety; Acute care; Safety capability; Case studies |
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Explores how patient safety is described from the perspective of clinicians and organisational managers in a NZ acute-care hospital, using embedded case study design. Conducts three interviews with health-care managers and 6 focus groups, comprising 19 doctors and 19 nurses. Develops the theoretical concept of safety capability: the ability to provide safe patient care based on resilient culture, anticipation and vigilance, along a continuum of safety levels. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1698 |
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| Author |
Tansley, Susan Elizabeth |
| Title |
The role of postgraduate education for registered nurses working in the aged care sector |
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Book Whole |
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2016 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
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122 p. |
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Postgraduate education; Registered nurses; Aged care; Surveys |
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Explores the perspectives of registered nurses (RN) working in aged residential care, and their views and experiences of postgraduate education. Performs a qualitative study using mixed-method data triangulation including document review, focus groups and interviews at four aged care facilities. Conducts focus groups and interviews with five nurse managers and 15 RNs on the value of, and access to postgraduate education. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1791 |
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| Author |
Marshall, Dianne |
| Title |
Surgical nurses' non-technical skills: A human factors approach |
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Book Whole |
| Year |
2016 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
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Pages |
256 p. |
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Surgical nurses; Non-technical skills (NTS); Adverse patient events; Taxonomy; Surveys |
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Explores the social and cognitive non-technical skills (NTS) required of nurses practising in general surgical wards, a taxonomy of NTS for general surgical nurses, and identifies the differences in levels of performance of the NTS between experienced and less experienced nurses, by means of applied cognitive task analysis (ACTA). Highlights the association between poor performance of NTS with adverse patient events. Conducts the study in four surgical wards in a metropolitan hospital, using observation and semi-structured interviews with RNs. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1844 |
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| Author |
Tewin, Maureen Heather |
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Exploring the impact of the lung cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist role on patient care in a regional hospital in New Zealand |
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Book Whole |
| Year |
2015 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
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193 p. |
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Lung cancer; Clinical nurse specialist; Patient care; Standards of care; Hospitals |
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Distributes a questionnaire to 50 members of the multidisciplinary team within a regional lung cancer service to investigate the impact of an advanced nursing role within the team. Performs an audit of five months of clinical data relating to patients cared for by the lung cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist as judged against the MOH Standards of Service Provision for Lung Cancer Patients in New Zealand . |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1576 |
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| Author |
Beaver, Peter James |
| Title |
Contemporary patient safety and the challenges for New Zealand |
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Book Whole |
| Year |
2015 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
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329 p. |
| Keywords |
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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| Author |
Connolly, Megan J |
| Title |
Clinical leadership of Registered Nurses working in an Emergency Department |
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Book Whole |
| Year |
2015 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
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109 p. |
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Registered nurses; Clinical leadership; Empowerment; Emergency Departments; Surveys |
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Employs a non-experimental survey design to examine the psychological and structural empowerment, and clinical leadership of Registered Nurses (RNs) working in an adult emergency department (ED) in a large tertiary hospital in Auckland City. Includes qualitative questions relating to those factors that support or inhibit their clinical leadership at point of care. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1579 |
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| Author |
Yip, Jacqueline Chi Yan |
| Title |
Development of a brief heart healthy eating assessment tool for use by practice nurses in New Zealand |
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Book Whole |
| Year |
2014 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
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1v |
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Dietary assessment; Practice nurses; Heart healthy eating; Nutrition counselling; Cardiovascular disease |
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Aims to determine how a brief dietary assessment tool should be designed for use by practice nurses in New Zealand with the intention of providing individualised nutrition advice to reduce individuals' risk of cardiovascular disease (heart healthy eating counselling). Recruits 11 practice nurses from the Auckland region for interview and analyses data from the 2008/2009 NZ adult nutrition survey. Uses an action research approach as the underlying strategy of inquiry for the study. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1568 |
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| Author |
Hollins, Joanne |
| Title |
Registered nurses' perceptions and experiences of nursing adolescents in an adult mental health unit. |
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Book Whole |
| Year |
2014 |
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111 p. |
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Registered nurses; Adolescents; Mental health units |
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Conducts a qualitative study to explore Registered Nurses' (RN) attitudes towards caring for adolescents in adult mental health (MH) in-patient services. Uncovers the reasons adolescents access such services and considers the training and knowledge RNs have in relation to the assessment and management of adolescents with MH problems. Identifies areas that may be improved or developed. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1572 |
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| Author |
Harrington, Karen |
| Title |
Mental health nurses' understanding of the concept of self-management of borderline personality disorder |
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Book Whole |
| Year |
2014 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
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Issue |
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159 p. |
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Borderline personality disorder; Mental health nurses; Self-management |
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Determines what mental health (MH) nurses understand the concept of self-management to mean in relation to patients with a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Interviews 10 MH nurses using a semi-structured format and analyses data using the general inductive approach, resulting in 26 sub-themes organised into three over-arching themes: self management is self-responsibility, self-management is self-awareness, self-management is maintaining safety. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1573 |
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| Author |
Hogan, Deborah |
| Title |
Transitioning difficulties of overseas trained nurses in New Zealand |
Type |
Book Whole |
| Year |
2014 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
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Issue |
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66 p. |
| Keywords |
Migrant nurses; Transition; Surveys |
| Abstract |
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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