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Orientation/education package for internationally qualified nurses (IQNS) at clinical placement in aged residential care facilities
(2021-11)Learning objectives Background Current issues Positive characteristics Knowledge gaps Developing an education package Findings from informal conversation Methods of qualitative research Simple random sample collection ... -
Future nursing workforce: Student nurse intentions to work in aged care after registration
(2021-11)AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To understand the extent to which aged care is considered a career option by Unitec undergraduate and return to nursing (CAP) student nurses To determine Unitec student nurses’ impressions of working ... -
Resisting ethnic inequities in advanced breast cancer: A call to action
(New Zealand Medical Association, 2019-12-13)Māori women with advanced breast cancer are less than half as likely as their Pākehā counterparts to reach the five-year survival mark. We argue that this inequity is unacceptable. We trace the inequity back to i) ... -
Fit for educational purpose? : the findings of a mixed methods study of nurses’ decisions to participate in professional development and recognition programmes
(Otago Polytechnic, 2020)Precursors to Professional Development and Recognition Programmes (PDRPs) emerged in the United States during the 1980s and, over the past three decades, have become well known and used in New Zealand. Pedagogically, PDRPs ... -
Explaining the real world of nurses' engagement with continuing professional development: A mixed methods study
(2019-12-05)In a healthcare education leadership role, I observed over several years that nurses were reluctant to engage with a bespoke continuing professional development (CPD) programme. Year on year less than 20% of eligible nurses ... -
PDRP : fit for future purpose?
(2019-11)01 About the research - phase 1, analysis, phase 2, interpretation 02 About the survey - explanatory 03 About the interviews 04 About the interpretation -
Stroke Navigation Service trial : an integrated care innovation
(2018-06)OUR STUDY OVERALL HYPOTHESIS: That provision of stroke navigation services will improve outcomes and quality of life for stroke survivors and their whānau (families) AIM: To trial and evaluate a Stroke Navigation ... -
Delirium in aged-care facilities : a major challenge for health professionals
(Australian Association of Gerontology, 2018-11)RESEARCH QUESTION: What are the success and barriers in aged-care nurses assessing and managing of delirium cases? • A mixed method approach was utilised comprising of a survey over one year in one of Auckland’s ... -
What is the lived experience of older migrants with mild cognitive impairment? A proposed phenomenological study
(2018-11)RESEARCH QUESTION: What are the experiences of older migrants with mild cognitive impairment in New Zealand? BACKGROUND: Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a complex intermediate state of memory decline, which is ... -
What is the lived experience of older migrants with mild cognitive impairment
(2018-11-05)RESEARCH QUESTION: What are the experiences of older migrants with mild cognitive impairment in New Zealand? BACKGROUND: Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a complex intermediate state of memory decline, which is ... -
Simulation : coaching Oscar performances from Millennial nursing students
(New Zealand Educational Media (NZME), 2015-10)GWEN ERLAM set out in her doctoral research to bridge the generation gap and find the best way to reach and teach Millennial nursing students using simulated learning environments. It is now widely believed that ... -
African and African-Caribbean carers’ experience of supporting recovery in relatives with psychosis
(2014-09)To explore the caring experiences of African and African Caribbean carers’ of family members with schizophrenia and or bi-polar disorder, living outside in England. Epidemiology of African and African Caribbean population ... -
Boundary crossing in healthcare
(2014-09-02)The concept of ‘teams’ has become a popular form for structuring and analysing the organisation and management of work. The healthcare environment has not been immune to this conceptualisation particularly around the notion ... -
Cervical screening for women with physical disabilities
(2016-11)The National Cervical Screening Programme (NCSP) implemented NZ in 1990 Incidence of & deaths associated w cervical cancer has decreased ~ 40% and 60% The NCSP records results in their centralised database (register) ~ ... -
Duty of care following stroke : family experiences in the first six months
(2015)Stroke is the third largest cause of death in New Zealand and is a major cause of disability. While a lot is known about the stroke survivor and the primary family caregiver, littie is known about how stroke affects the ... -
Health professional and family perceptions of post-stroke information
(2015)The global burden of stroke is increasing. Many stroke survivors live with signi cant impairment; the care and support they and their families require is complex. Literature indicates some evidence to support the routine ... -
What doctors have up their sleeves : creating hope for oncology patients
(2014-11)Ethnographic Study Explored the stories of people who had been referred to palliative care services following diagnosis with a lifelimiting illness. Themes that emerged - the need for open and honest communication ... -
The Patient Perspective : panel presentation : I would have liked that...
(2015)What do patients really think about their experience during hospitalisation? Hear some examples directly from patients and get some ideas to improve your patient care management. • Sharing good and bad experiences • The ... -
Promoting the meaningful use of health information for New Zealand consumers.
(2014)Aims • To determine the health information needs of consumers Objectives • 1. Identify what health information topics,resources and decision aids consumers want. • 2. Identify the modes of delivery and format that ... -
Does activity theory help our understanding of teamwork, leadership and interprofessional collaboration?
(2013)Background and purpose The literature identifies the lack of a conceptual underpinning to interprofessional education and collaborative practice, linking this to the failure of many initiatives to improve such practice. ...
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