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Author Ramsden, I.
Title Cultural safety and nursing education in Aotearoa and Te Waipounamu Type
Year (down) 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal Victoria University of Wellington Library
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Cultural safety; Maori; Nursing; Education
Abstract The research on which this thesis is based involves both a private narrative and a public narrative, with the story of cultural safety, and the history, theory and the future direction gathered into one qualitative work. The work is divided into three sections. The first is entitled, Ko Wai Matou? The Private Narrative. This section seeks to explore the historical, social, educational, physical, emotional, political and moral influences and ephiphanies which brought about the personality which introduced cultural safety ideas into nursing and midwifery. Early nursing practice is investigated and examples from practice are used to illustrate learning and consolidation of the ideas which led to Cultural Safety Theory. The second section is entitled He Huarahi Hou: A New Pathway. This section explains the progress of the theory and its relationship to education pedagogy and to nursing practice. Comparison between the work of Madeline Leininger and the Transcultural Theory of Nursing and the New Zealand concept of cultural safety is undertaken. The role and application of the Treaty of Waitangi to the theory of cultural safety is explored in this section. The third section, entitled He Whakawhanuitanga: The Public Narrative, looks at the introduction of cultural safety into the nursing education system and its implementation. The public and media reaction to the inclusion of cultural safety in the national examination for nursing registration and the subsequent parliamentary response are noted. The interviews with nursing and midwifery leadership, Maori and pakeha key players in the process and consumer views of the ideas are documented and pertinent excerpts have been included. The work concludes with a discussion on the likely future of cultural safety as a theory and in practice and outlines several issues which represent a challenge to the viability of the concept in nursing and midwifery education. The author notes that the story of cultural safety is a personal story, but also a very public one. It is set in neo-colonial New Zealand, but has implications for indigenous people throughout the world. It is about human samenesses and human differences, but is also a story about all interactions between nurses and patients because all are power laden. Finally, she points out that, although it is about nursing, it is also relevant to all encounters, all exchanges between health care workers and patients.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 486
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Author Fourie, W.; Oliver, J.D.
Title Defining currency of practice for nurse educators Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2002 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 18 Issue 3 Pages 30-39
Keywords Quality assurance; Professional competence; Education
Abstract Recent Nursing Council of New Zealand guidelines for competence-based practising certificates and the fact that all nurse educators must have a current practising certificate prompted the Nursing Schools within the Tertiary Accord of New Zealand (TANZ) to explore issues surrounding current competency in practice and how this can be maintained by nurse educators. The authors note that discussions related to competence-based practising certificates generally refer to competence only in terms of direct patient care. They set out to clarify the issue with specific reference to nurse educators who, by the nature of their scope of practice, often do not carry a patient caseload. They review the literature relating to currency of practice and draw on the findings of a survey of TANZ Nursing Schools and provide a position on how currency of practice applies to nurses working in an educational setting. They present strategies to maintain clinical, teaching and scholarly currency and make some suggestions for providing evidence that currency of practice is maintained.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 614
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Author Ardagh, M.; Wells, E.; Cooper, K.; Lyons, R.; Patterson, R.; O'Donovan, P.
Title Effect of a rapid assessment clinic on the waiting time to be seen by a doctor and the time spent in the department, for patients presenting to an urban emergency department: A controlled prospective trial Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2002 Publication New Zealand Medical Journal Abbreviated Journal Access is free to articles older than 6 months, and abstracts.
Volume 115 Issue 1157 Pages
Keywords Emergency nursing; Time factors; Clinical assessment; Clinical decision making
Abstract The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that triaging certain emergency department patients through a rapid assessment clinic (RAC) improves the waiting times, and times in the department, for all patients presenting to the emergency department. For ten weeks an additional nurse and doctor were rostered. On the odd weeks, these two staff ran a RAC and on even weeks, they did not, but simply joined the other medical and nursing staff, managing patients in the traditional way. During the five weeks of the RAC clinic a total of 2263 patients attended the emergency department, and 361 of these were referred to the RAC clinic. During the five control weeks a total of 2204 patients attended the emergency department. There was no significant difference in the distribution across triage categories between the RAC and non-RAC periods. The researchers found that the rapid management of patients with problems which do not require prolonged assessment or decision making, is beneficial not only to those patients, but also to other patients sharing the same, limited resources.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 617
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Author Carryer, J.B.; Budge, C.; Russell, A.
Title Measuring perceptions of the Clinical Career Pathway in a New Zealand hospital Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2002 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 18 Issue 3 Pages 18-29
Keywords Professional development; Careers in nursing; Nursing; Hospitals
Abstract The authors outline the Clinical Career Pathways (CCPs) for nurses, which were first established in New Zealand during the late 1980s. This paper introduces a new instrument, the Clinical Career Pathway Evaluation Tool (CCPET) designed to assess nurses' and midwives' knowledge of and attitudes towards their Clinical Career Pathway. The 51 item instrument takes the form of a self-report questionnaire. The development of the CCPET is described and results from an initial application of the instrument with 239 nurses and midwives in a New Zealand hospital are presented. Results indicate that knowledge levels were moderate in this sample and were correlated with both positive and negative attitudes. Results of t-test comparisons indicated that, on average, the group who had already completed a CCP portfolio had greater knowledge and more positive attitudes than the group who had not.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 634 Serial 620
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Author Horsburgh, M.; Smith, V.A.; Kivell, D.
Title South Auckland community paediatric nursing service: A framework for evaluation Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2002 Publication Nursing Praxis in New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 18 Issue 3 Pages 40-49
Keywords Paediatric nursing; Community health nursing; Evaluation research
Abstract This paper describes the Kidz First paediatric community homecare nursing team in South Auckland. While the service was not initially planned as an integrated approach to child health, its evolution reflects the move to more community based care delivery and the expansion of nurse-led initiatives in New Zealand. The components of a community paediatric home nursing team as described by Eaton (2000) are used to provide the framework with which to describe the service. A focus group held with the Kidz First paediatric community homecare nurses has enabled definition of the key nursing components provided to children and their families living in South Auckland.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 622
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Author Davy, R.
Title Strategy to increase smear testing of older women Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2002 Publication Practice nurse: Official Journal of the New Zealand College of Practice Nurses Abbreviated Journal
Volume 2 Issue 3 Pages 13-14
Keywords Health promotion; Older people; Screening
Abstract The author presents a project to increase enrolments of women aged 60-69 years in the cervical screening programme. The programme included provision of packages comprising fliers, counter signs, stickers, postcards and pens to 1387 women's groups or locations where women gather. The author collates and analyses calls to the advertised 0800 telephone number, smear tests at the Well Women's Nursing Trust, and enrolment rates on the Cervical Screening Register from June to August 2001.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 637 Serial 623
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Author Nicol, M.J.; Manoharan, H.; Marfell-Jones, M.; Meha-Hoerara, K.; Milne, R.; O'Connell, M.; Oliver, J.D.; Teekman, B.
Title Issues in adolescent health: A challenge for nursing Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2002 Publication Contemporary Nurse Abbreviated Journal
Volume 12 Issue 2 Pages 155-163
Keywords Adolescents; Health education; Health promotion; Nursing; Risk factors; Suicide; Sexual health; Smoking; Mental health
Abstract This review provides an overview of the health issues for adolescents, and the implications for nursing practice, particularly around health promotion. It looks at the social context of adolescents including peer pressure, along with health issues such as suicide, mental health, sexual health, and smoking.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 712
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Author Dickinson, A.R.; Dignam, D.
Title Managing it: A mother's perspective of managing a pre-school child's acute asthma episode Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2002 Publication Journal of Child Health Care Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages 7-18
Keywords Asthma; Parents and caregivers; Children; Nurse-patient relations
Abstract This exploratory descriptive study informed by grounded theory examines the experience of mothers in managing their pre-school child's acute asthma attack at home. The study reveals that mothers perceive that they are responsible for the management of their pre-school child during an acute asthma episode, a process they described as 'managing it'. This process involves mother in 'working on treatment', 'making the call', 'watching' and 'calming', while the husband/partner, family, friends and health professionals are 'supporting treatment'. This study suggests that nurses and doctors need to move away from the current paternalistic view of health care delivery in acute settings and embrace the concepts of support and partnership in the care of the pre-school child with asthma and their family.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 728 Serial 714
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Author Spence, D.; Fielding, S.
Title Win-win-win: Collaboration advances critical care practice Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2002 Publication Contemporary Nurse Abbreviated Journal
Volume 13 Issue 2/3 Pages 223-228
Keywords Nursing specialties; Rural nursing; Nursing; Education; Curriculum
Abstract This paper provides an overview of the structure and processes of an eighteen month, distance education course focused on developing advanced practice in the context of critical care nursing. Within the framework of a Master of Health Science, the postgraduate certificate (critical care nursing) was developed as a collaboration between Auckland University of Technology and two regional health providers. Students enrol in science and knowledge papers concurrently then, in the second half of the course, are supported within their practice environment to acquire advanced clinical skills and to analyse, critique and develop practice within their specialty. This course is set against a background of increasing interest in education post registration. The acquisition of highly developed clinical capabilities requires a combination of nursing experience and education. This requires collaboration between clinicians and nurse educators, and approaches to address accessibility of relevant educational opportunities for nurses outside the country's main centres.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 878
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Author Bland, M.F.
Title Patient observation in nursing home research: Who was that masked woman? [corrected] [published erratum appears in Contemporary Nurse 2002 Apr; 12(2): 135] Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2002 Publication Contemporary Nurse Abbreviated Journal
Volume 12 Issue 1 Pages 42-48
Keywords Nursing research; Ethics; Rest homes; Nurse-patient relations
Abstract This article discusses the issues that one nurse researcher faced during participant observation in three New Zealand nursing homes. These include the complexity of the nurse researcher role, the blurring of role boundaries, and various ethical concerns that arose, including the difficulties of ensuring that all those who were involved in the study were kept informed as to the researcher's role and purpose. Strategies used to maintain ethical and role integrity are outlined, with further debate and discussion around fieldwork issues and experiences for nurse researchers called for.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 892
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Author Gillard, D.
Title When I am nursing Type
Year (down) 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal Otago Polytechnic library. A copy can be obtained by contacting pgnursadmin@tekotago.ac.nz
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Nursing models; Mental health; Adolescents; Psychiatric nursing
Abstract Over the last century the nursing profession has drawn from numerous theories and disciplines to construct its own theoretical foundations. While this diversity and flexibility may be one of the nursing profession's strengths it may have contributed to nurses' difficulty in explaining the complexities of their every day clinical work. This is a particular challenge for the domain of mental health nursing. This dissertation discusses how nursing models that have credibility at a clinical level can contribute to informing and advancing nursing practice. Models can achieve this by assisting nurses to conceptualise and articulate what it is they do that makes a difference to patient outcomes. Through this process nurses can maintain a distinct professional identity and establish themselves as effective members of multidisciplinary health team. Specifically, the application and limitations of Godkin's (2001) proposed model of a 'healing presence' to the author's own practice in a one-to-one nurse-adolescent client relationship in the mental health nursing is examined. It is claimed that a 'healing presence' provides a meaningful way to understanding the author's own practice. The proposed model of a 'healing presence' embraces the diversity of her background, and allows the author to maintain a nursing identity by providing a nursing framework to critique her practice, furthering her understanding of what it is that 'expert' nurses do and how this impacts on patient outcomes. Also suggested is that a 'healing presence' can contribute to the author's own and other nurses advanced nursing practice by making nursing visible to the multidisciplinary health team and to articulate “what it is that I do 'when I am nursing'”. Through presenting this dissertation, the author wishes to inspire other nurses to examine and understand their own practice.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 914
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Author Woods, M.
Title Dissecting a brave new nursing world Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2002 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 8 Issue 10 Pages 20-22, 36
Keywords Nursing; Education; Nursing Council of New Zealand; Policy
Abstract This article critiques the 'Strategic Review of Undergraduate Education' commissioned by the Nursing Council. The premise of the review is examined, along with the foundations of nursing practice and the role of nursing education.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1003
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Author Sadlier, C.
Title Gaining insight into the experience of diabetes Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2002 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages 14-16
Keywords Diabetes Type 2; Maori; Nursing
Abstract This article reports a research project that investigated the experience and expectations of Maori who were newly-diagnosed with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM). Four people diagnosed with NIDDM were interviewed over 12 months. Participant recommendations are incorporated into suggested improvements for managing the condition.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1020 Serial 1004
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Author Hales, A.; Dignam, D.
Title Nurse prescribing lessons from the US Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2002 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 8 Issue 10 Pages 12-15
Keywords Nurse practitioners; Prescriptive authority; Cross-cultural comparison; Advanced nursing practice; Education
Abstract The researchers present a survey of a sample population of 32 advanced practice nurses (APN) in the US about their experiences of acquiring and implementing prescriptive authority. The issues relevant to nurse practitioners in New Zealand are discussed, around acquiring knowledge and education, relationships with other professionals, establishing the role, and retaining the nursing role. The intent and scope of APN prescribing in the US is also discussed.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1007
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Author Crowe, M.; O'Malley, J.; Bigwood, S.
Title Nursing mental health consumers in the community Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2002 Publication Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Abbreviated Journal
Volume 8 Issue 8 Pages 14-15
Keywords Community health nursing; Psychiatric Nursing
Abstract The purpose of this research was to describe the characteristics of community mental health nursing care in the community. Twenty six nurses were enrolled in a study consisting of semi-structured interviews about the nature of their care. Responses were analysed to identify categories of skills. These were characterised as: establishing connectedness; promoting individual and family resilience, promoting citizenship; and addressing structural issues. Responses from the nurses are used to illustrate these categories.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 1024 Serial 1008
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