Books
- Collaborative and Indigenous mental health therapy: Tataihono-stories of Maori healing and psychiatry
- Role development in professional nursing practice
- Teaching cultural competence in nursing and health care: Inquiry, action and innovation
Articles - Nurse Prescribing
- Antidepressant prescribing in Australian primary care: time to reevaluate [ Open Access article]
- Understanding Chinese adults' attitudes toward nurse prescribing: A national cross-sectional study
- Deprescribing for nursing home residents with limited life expectancy: A qualitative study to identify barriers and enablers for healthcare professionals
- The attitudes of physicians toward nurse prescribing rights: a cross-sectional study
- The impact of nurse prescribing on health care delivery for patients with diabetes: a rapid review.
- Nurse prescribing:The way of the future
Articles - Journal of Perioperative Nursing, Autumn 2025
- Quiet quitting: A growing concern or just a buzzword?
- Surgical nurses' perceptions of administering opioid drugs: A descriptive and cross-sectional study
- Transforming pre-operative fasting practice: A nurse-led liberal fluid fasting regimen
- Operating theatre nurses' experiences in medical emergency response: An integrative literature review
- "My darling" - elderspeak of nurses to acute hospitalised older adults: An integrative review
- Nursing interventions to promote safety in robotic surgery: A systematic literature review
Articles - Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2024
- A Process to Inform Rural Nursing Workforce Planning and Development
- An Evaluation of Bachelor of Nursing Students' Perceptions of Clinical Placement experiences
- Developing a National eLearning Clinical Induction Programme (EPICCNZ): Critical Factors for Successful Implementation
- Honouring Te Tiriti O Waitangi: Nurses Working Together to Advance Health Equity in Aotearoa
- Nursing Students' Perceptions of Assisted Dying: A Qualitative Study
- Preparation for Practice: Internationally Qualified Nurses' Perceptions of Clinical and Cultural Practice Learnings Gained Through a New Zealand Competence Assessment Programme
- Registered Nurses in Policy: The Betwixt and Between of Self- Employment and Contracting
- Remote Simulation-Based Learning Using a Mixed Reality Device: Perspectives of Nursing Educators and Undergraduate Nursing Students
- Senior Nurses' Perceptions of Factors Involved in Safe Staffing in the Operating Rooms in New Zealand Aotearoa: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
- The Credibility of Nursing Evidence: Three Case Studies Demonstrating the Devaluing of Nursing Knowledge and Experience to Serve the Hegemonies of Power and New Public Management
- The State of Health
- Tikanga Maori in the Context of Inpatient Whakatahe (Miscarriage): A Quality Improvement Project
- What Matters to You? A Qualitative Investigation of Factors That Influence New Zealand Aotearoa Early-Career Nurses to Thrive in the Workplace.
Events
- World Congress of Gastroenterology and Australian Gastroenterology Week 2025
- New Zealand Association of Clinical Research 16th Annual Conference 2025
- 18th World Congress on Public Health 2026
National news
- Politicians want to choose who treats you
- Equitable access to primary health care: better availability of GP appointments is only one piece of the jigsaw
- Nurses and general practitioners perspectives on oral health in primary care: a qualitative study
International news
- Shifting focus to adolescent wellbeing and inclusive participation in the digital age
- RSV season ramps up as government examines whether to expand free vaccine access
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Books
These books can be borrowed from the NZNO Library by NZNO members and staff for a period of 4 weeks. If there is no one on the waiting list, one renewal may be permitted.
We usually courier the books out to you, so please provide a physical address. We have a comprehensive collection of books in the library, so do contact us if you require books on a particular topic.
1.Collaborative and Indigenous mental health therapy: Tataihono-stories of Maori healing and psychiatry
Wiremu NiaNia., Alister Bush & David Epston
Routledge, 2017
This book examines a collaboration between traditional Maori healing and clinical psychiatry. Comprised of transcribed interviews and detailed mediations on practice, it demonstrates how bicultural partnership frameworks can augment mental health treatment by balancing local imperatives with sound and careful psychiatric care.
2.Role development in professional nursing practice
Kathleen Masters
3rd edition, 2014
This book examines the progression of the professional nursing role and provides students with a solid foundation for a successful career. This essential resource includes recommendations from current research and utilizes a comprehensive competency model as its framework.
Key features: incorporates the Nurse of the Future (NOF): Nursing Core Competencies, based on the AACN's Essentials of Baccalaureate Education, the IOM's Future of Nursing report, and QSEN competencies, throughout the text; 'key competencies' highlight knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSA) required of the professional nurse; includes new case studies and content congruent with recommendations from the Carnegie Foundation and the Institute of Medicine; provides updated information on evidence-based research, informatics, legal issues, the healthcare delivery system, and future directions"
3. Teaching cultural competence in nursing and health care: Inquiry, action and innovation
Marianne R. Jeffreys
Springer Publishing, 3rd edition, 2016
Expanded chapters address curriculum, train-the-trainer programs, and continuing education; traditional classroom, hybrid, and online courses; clinical settings, immersion experiences, service learning, simulation, and nursing skills labs; professional networking; and multicultural workplace harmony and cultural safety. Included are educational activities for academic, health care agency, and professional association settings.
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Articles - Nurse Prescribing
4. Antidepressant prescribing in Australian primary care: time to reevaluate [ Open Access article]
Katharine A Wallis, Anna King and Joanna Moncrieff
Med J Aust. doi: 10.5694/mja2.52645
Published online: 5 May 2025
5. Understanding Chinese adults' attitudes toward nurse prescribing: A national cross-sectional study
Xue Wang.,Yibo Wu., Xinghua Bai., Yiwen Wang.,Jing Wang & Shuang Zang
International Journal of Nursing Studies, 2025-06-01. Vol. 166, Article 105064.
Objective: To investigate the associations of socio-demographic and health-related factors with the acceptance of the role of nurse prescribing.
6. Deprescribing for nursing home residents with limited life expectancy: A qualitative study to identify barriers and enablers for healthcare professionals
Degefaye Zelalem Anlay., Lieve Peremans., Joachim Cohen., Tinne Dilles & Kristel Paque
Geriatric Nursing, 2025-03-01. Vol. 62, Pages 1-11.
Nursing home residents with limited life expectancy often take many medications eligible to deprescribing. Deprescribing is crucial but not yet routinely implemented. Therefore the aim of this study was to explore healthcare professionals (HCPs) barriers to and enablers for deprescribing and to identify theoretical domains for behavior change to be included into future interventions.
7. The attitudes of physicians toward nurse prescribing rights: a cross-sectional study
Wu, Yu., Liu, Jian., Fornah, Lovel., Yan, Zeping., Meng, Lijun & Wu, Shicai
BMC Nursing, 1/30/2025. 24(1), 1-7.
Nursing prescribing rights have been proposed in many countries, with physicians' attitudes playing an important role. This study aimed to investigate the attitudes of physicians toward nurse prescribing rights.
8. The impact of nurse prescribing on health care delivery for patients with diabetes: a rapid review.
Short, Kylie., Andrew, Cathy., Wenting Yang & Jamieson, Isabel
Journal of Primary Health Care, Mar 2024. 16(1), 78-89.
The global prevalence of diabetes is a pressing public health concern. Over 400 million individuals live with the effects of the disease, predominantly in low- and middle income countries. In Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), over 300 000 people have diabetes, resulting in a population rate of 43.1 per 1000. Enabling nurses to prescribe diabetes medications enhances accessibility and improves health outcomes for large sections of the population. Aim. This rapid review was undertaken to investigate the influence of nurse prescribing on health care delivery for individuals with diabetes in NZ, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Canada, countries sharing comparable health care systems and multicultural backgrounds.
9. Nurse prescribing:The way of the future
Stodart, Kathy. Kaitiaki Nursing New Zealand, Jul 2022. 1-4.
Nurse prescribers are having a growing influence in primary care, improving access to medicines where GPs are in short supply. The number of prescriptions written by nurses in primary care role nearly 70 per cent to 1.4 million last year, while the number of education programmes for community nurse prescribers approved by the Nursing Council has nearly doubled in the past year.
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Articles - Journal of Perioperative Nursing, Autumn 2025
10. Quiet quitting: A growing concern or just a buzzword?
Xie, Ada., Xu, Grace & Duff, Jed
Journal of Perioperative Nursing, Autumn 2025. 38(1), e-1-e-2.
Quiet quitting is a term used to describe employees who disengage while performing their required tasks, and has become a growing concern in health care due to its potential impact on patient outcomes and workforce stability.
11. Surgical nurses' perceptions of administering opioid drugs: A descriptive and cross-sectional study
Burcin Irmak.,Nurgul Bolukbas.,Elif Aslan Kilic.,Omer Seyfi Acar., Hatice Polat Simsek & Muharrem Celik
Journal of Perioperative Nursing, Autumn 2025. 38(1), e-3-e-11
This descriptive and cross-sectional study investigated how surgical nurses perceived opioid administration.
Material and methods: The sample consisted of 108 nurses from the surgical units of a state hospital in the north of Türkiye.
12. Transforming pre-operative fasting practice: A nurse-led liberal fluid fasting regimen
Jinseok Kim
Journal of Perioperative Nursing, Autumn 2025. 38(1), e-12-e-15.
Traditional pre-operative fasting practice often involves extended periods without fluids, and can be a source of discomfort and anxiety for patients. This can lead to negative experiences and potentially contribute to complications. Evidence suggests that these practices may not be necessary to minimise the risk of pulmonary aspiration during surgery. This quality improvement project implemented a nurse-led liberal fluid fasting regimen for pre-operative patients.
13. Operating theatre nurses' experiences in medical emergency response: An integrative literature review
Attawet, Jutharat., Sweeting, Penny., Correia Moll, Elaine & Caudwell, Kim M.
Journal of Perioperative Nursing, Autumn 2025; 38(1): e-16-e-23
This study aims to review the experiences of instrument and circulating nurses in responding to intra-operative medical emergencies. The operating theatre is a complex environment where surgical procedures are performed by surgical teams who are often required to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances. Although most surgeries are uneventful, medical emergencies can occur. Instrument and circulating nurses play pivotal roles in patient safety during the intra-operative phase. However, research into their experiences dealing with medical emergencies is limited, highlighting the need for a better understanding of their perspectives and identifying areas where additional training and support may be required.
14. 'My darling' - elderspeak of nurses to acute hospitalised older adults: An integrative review
Murphy, Ellen & Foran, Paula
Journal of Perioperative Nursing, Autumn 2025. 38(1), e-24-e-28.
As the population ages, older adults will become a larger special interest group requiring perioperative care. It is therefore vital that we provide an appropriate environment for our older adult perioperative and acute care patients to feel comfortable and safe. Ageism may be defined as a prejudice by one group toward another age group, and the way that many patients are spoken to in health care (elderspeak) would be defined as an 'interpersonal ageist practice'. Interpersonal ageism in the form of elderspeak is rife in the nursing care of older adults in all areas of health care and has adverse effects in most instances, particularly in those with a cognitive impairment who exhibit greater rejection of care behaviours in response.
15. Nursing interventions to promote safety in robotic surgery: A systematic literature review
Sara Morais Pires., Ana Rita Maurício., Lúcia Jerónimo., Bruno Teixeira., Dr Ana Ramos., Dr Idalina Gomes & Dr Eunice Sá
Journal of Perioperative Nursing, Autumn 2025. 38(1), e-29-e-37.
The use of robotic surgery has revolutionised surgical procedures, offering benefits such as less blood loss, faster recovery and fewer post-operative complications. However, the increase in surgical time and technical challenges impose the need for systematic perioperative nursing interventions to guarantee patient safety and the efficiency of the process
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Articles - Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2024
16. A Process to Inform Rural Nursing Workforce Planning and Development
Hendry, Christine
Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2024. 40(1), 1-8.
With many rural health workers approaching retirement age, a local district in Aotearoa New Zealand embarked on a project to identify the current status of the nursing and kaiwhina (support worker) workforce to develop a visionary plan for the future to match community health needs.
There were four-stages to the project: 1) profile the current population and health resources available in the community; 2) profile the current nursing workforce; 3) survey local nurses regarding their current work and future plans; and 4) seek perspectives of local nurses, health managers and community representatives on strategies to sustain a future nursing workforce.
17. An Evaluation of Bachelor of Nursing Students' Perceptions of Clinical Placement experiences
Lansdown, Jennifer., Milligan, Kaye., Marshall, Helen & Hamlin, Michael.
Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2024. 40(1), 1-11.
The COVID-19 global pandemic had positive and negative impacts on health care workers, including student nurses. Different clinical areas provide unique learning opportunities, with students reporting varying levels of satisfaction across their different clinical placements in the years prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Longitudinal data evaluating clinical experiences was collected from 2017 until 2022. This evaluation sought to determine the pandemic's impact on student nurses' perceptions of their clinical experience and identify which clinical learning environments provided optimal learning experiences.
18. Developing a National eLearning Clinical Induction Programme (EPICCNZ): Critical Factors for Successful Implementation
Klap, Tracy., Claxton, Julie; Robertson, Yvonne., James, Stephen & Coombs, Maureen
Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2024. 40(1), 1-9.
Recognition of under-provision in critical care beds across Aotearoa New Zealand resulted in substantial three-year government funding to increase bed numbers by 2024. This required significant staff recruitment and onboarding. To support this, a 15 month nurse-led project to develop a national eLearning induction programme for Critical Care was funded by Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora. A core project team of critical care nurses and learning designers based at Wellington Regional Hospital developed the programme. An extensive communication strategy was used to engage with critical care units nationally, consulting with cultural and equity experts and service users.
19. Honouring Te Tiriti O Waitangi: Nurses Working Together to Advance Health Equity in Aotearoa
Wiapo, Coral & Clark, Terryann
Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2024. 40(1), 1-3.
The recent fast-tracked changes to the New Zealand Aotearoa health system continue to create turmoil, distress, and uncertainty, particularly as recent advances to improve Maori health are under threat. However, unrest is often the catalyst for transformation, and it is time for nurses to carefully re-evaluate our role in challenging the structures that continue to hold racism and inequity in place.
20. Nursing Students' Perceptions of Assisted Dying: A Qualitative Study
Jauny, Ray., Montayre, Jed., Winnington, Rhona., Adams, Jeffery & Neville, Stephen
Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2024. 40(1), 1-8.
Assisted dying became a legal choice in November 2021 following the passing of the End of Life Choice Act (2019) in New Zealand. This new means of dying allows individuals to pursue the right to die should they meet the legislated criteria. The availability of assisted dying raises questions regarding nursing practices and responsibilities in relation to the service. The aim of this study was to gain insight into nursing students' views about assisted dying in Aotearoa New Zealand.
21. Preparation for Practice: Internationally Qualified Nurses' Perceptions of Clinical and Cultural Practice Learnings Gained Through a New Zealand Competence Assessment Programme
Clubb, Anne., Saravanakumar, Priya & Holroyd, Eleanor
Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2024. 40(1), 1-10.
The aim of this qualitative study was to understand how IQNs perceived the Competence Assessment Programme's relevance and usefulness to their clinical and cultural transition into the Aotearoa New Zealand's nursing profession to inform future registration processes.
22. Registered Nurses in Policy: The Betwixt and Between of Self- Employment and Contracting
Manning, Elizabeth., Cook, Catherine & Carryer, Jenny
Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2024. 40(1), 1-9.
Nursing offers multiple career choices in a variety of settings, both clinical and non-clinical. A very small number of registered nurses choose to become self-employed, continuing to work as nurses in non-clinical environments, such as policy. This study aimed to explore the experiences of registered nurses transitioning into, and practising as, solo self-employed contractors within the practice area of professional advice and policy.
23. Remote Simulation-Based Learning Using a Mixed Reality Device: Perspectives of Nursing Educators and Undergraduate Nursing Students
Deol, Jas & Parsons, John
Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2024. 40(1), 1-10.
Nurse educators across the globe are exploring different simulation methodologies and tools to prepare nursing students for the challenges of the real clinical environment. There has been an expansion of virtual reality and wearable technology-based simulation tools in contemporary nursing education pedagogies, particularly through the COVID-19 pandemic. This descriptive qualitative study explored the perceptions and experiences of nursing educators and undergraduate nursing students (Year 2 Bachelor of Nursing) using a mixed reality wearable holographic device as a simulation tool.
24. Senior Nurses' Perceptions of Factors Involved in Safe Staffing in the Operating Rooms in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
Taylor, Bronwyn M.; MacCormick, Andrew D.; Agnew, Joanne; Wensley, Cynthia J.
Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2024; 40(1): 1-12.
Understanding decision-making processes for perioperative nurse staffing may help managers identify staffing and skill-mix requirements. A qualitative descriptive approach using thematic analysis was used to identify key factors that perioperative nurses considered when making decisions about nurse staffing and skill-mix.
25. The Credibility of Nursing Evidence: Three Case Studies Demonstrating the Devaluing of Nursing Knowledge and Experience to Serve the Hegemonies of Power and New Public Management
Adams, Sue., McKelvie, Rhonda., Webster, Rachel & Carryer, Jenny
Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2024. 40(1), 1-14.
The voice of nursing has struggled to be heard in matters relating to patient safety, quality of care, and the health and wellbeing of patients and communities. In Aotearoa New Zealand we have entered a period of intense fiscal scrutiny and austerity, where nursing (as the largest healthcare workforce) is being expected to save money through budget cuts, freezing of positions, and limited career progression to advanced nursing roles. Using institutional ethnography as the approach to explicate how managerial practices are imposed and operate in the healthcare sector, we present three case studies of extant highly political issues, which directly affect patient safety.
26. The State of Health
Weston, Kate
Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2024. 40(1), 1-3.
Healthcare is not in good shape. Decades of underinvestment by successive governments, have left our healthcare infrastructure woefully unprepared for the triple threat of a global pandemic, economic instability and the dramatic effects of climate change.
27. Tikanga Maori in the Context of Inpatient Whakatahe (Miscarriage): A Quality Improvement Project
McLean, Ardra., Davis, Josephine & Wilkinson, Jill
Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2024. 40(1), 1-8.
In Aotearoa New Zealand, it is estimated that one in four women experience a pregnancy that ends in whakatahe (miscarriage). A surgical procedure and hospital inpatient stay is sometimes required. In this highly medicalised context, the cultural needs of wahine (women) Maori are often overlooked. Due to the lack of awareness of tikanga Maori (traditional cultural practices) amongst nursing staff, a quality improvement project was initiated in 2023 in a ward setting of a tertiary hospital. The aim was to incorporate tikanga principles into clinical practice for the management of miscarriage of pregnancy less than 21 weeks' gestation.
28. What Matters to You? A Qualitative Investigation of Factors That Influence New Zealand Aotearoa Early-Career Nurses to Thrive in the Workplace.
Satchell, Eillish & Jacobs, Stephen
Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2024. 40(1), 1-12.
Globally, there is a nursing shortage which is expected to worsen in the next two decades. To increase nursing workforce numbers, retention of early-career nurses is vital. One such method stipulated to improve workforce retention is increasing thriving in the workplace. This study aimed to investigate the factors that influence the thriving of early-career nurses in New Zealand Aotearoa.
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Events
29. World Congress of Gastroenterology and Australian Gastroenterology Week 2025
The Scientific Programme which covers all aspects of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Date: 19-22 September 2025
Venue: Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre
30. New Zealand Association of Clinical Research 16th Annual Conference 2025
Date: 21-22 August 2025
Venue: The Pullman Hotel, Auckland, NZ
31. 18th World Congress on Public Health 2026
Hosted by the World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA) with the Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA)
Date: 6-9 September 2026
Venue:
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News - National
32. Politicians want to choose who treats you
North and South, April 24, 2025
Dr Renee Liang writes about the place where politicians and health experts collide.
33. Equitable access to primary health care: better availability of GP appointments is only one piece of the jigsaw
Tim Stokes & Felicity Goodyear-Smith
Journal of Primary Health Care 17(1) 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1071/HC25047
Timely access to general practice in New Zealand Aotearoa (NZ) is not a reality for increasing numbers of New Zealanders, with time taken to get an appointment was too long being the most commonly reported barrier to visiting a general practitioner (GP) in the 2023/24 NZ Health Survey.
Although the government has recently announced it is investing in general practice and strengthening the primary health care workforce to address this issue, there remains a need to ensure equitable access to health care.
34. Nurses and general practitioners perspectives on oral health in primary care: a qualitative study
Moira B. Smith., Elizabeth Hitchings & Lynn McBain
Journal of Primary Health Care 17(1) 10-16 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC23153
Integrating oral health into primary health care (PHC) is recommended, thereby ensuring comprehensive patient care. Primary care teams are well placed to promote and protect patients oral health, and frequently see oral health-related complaints, and so need to be sufficiently knowledgeable to manage such presentations.
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News - International
35. Shifting focus to adolescent wellbeing and inclusive participation in the digital age
Stephanie R Partridge., Allyson R Todd., Si Si Jia and Rebecca Raeside., with the Health Advisory Panel for Youth at the University of Sydney (HAPYUS)
Med J Aust. doi: 10.5694/mja2.52653
Published online: 19 May 2025
36. RSV season ramps up as government examines whether to expand free vaccine access
ABC News, 19 May 2025
As winter nears and the cold and flu season sets in, the highly infectious respiratory virus RSV has again begun its spread. So far this year, the National Disease Surveillance System (NDSS) has recorded more than 49,000 cases.
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