The process of nurses' role negotiation in general practice: A grounded theory study.

Aim: To explain the process by which nurses' roles are negotiated in general practice.

Background: Primary care nurses do important work within a social model of health to meet the needs of the populations they serve. Latterly, in the face of increased demand and workforce shortages, they are also taking on more medical responsibilities through task-shifting.

International sore throat guidelines and international medical graduates: a mixed methods systematic review.

AIM To examine national and international guidelines on sore throat management and subsequently, to explore the phenomenon of international medical graduates working in general and rural practice in New Zealand. METHOD Two separate systematic reviews were conducted that resulted in a contingent methodology. Contingent methodologies involve syntheses of data that are derived sequentially.

The role of a sexual health promotion leaflet for 15-18 year olds in catalysing conversations: A constructivist grounded theory.

Following the summer holidays of 2011, twelve girls returned to school pregnant in one high school in Auckland New Zealand (NZ). A health promotion leaflet that folded into.a small square containing a condom and was dubbed the 'teabag' was distributed to 15-18 year olds prior to the summer holiday of 2012, in order to increase their sexual health knowledge.

Maintaining the balance: New Zealand secondary school nurses' perceptions of skin infections in young people--a grounded theory.

The objective of this study was to explore the perceptions of New Zealand secondary school nurses regarding skin infections in young people aged 14-18 years. A constructivist grounded theory method was adopted. Ten non-structured interviews were conducted with secondary school nurses working in Auckland, New Zealand, between January and July 2013.

What is known about the experiences of using CPAP for OSA from the users' perspective? A systematic integrative literature review.

Unlabelled: Economic, social and personal costs of untreated obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) are high. Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is recommended and cost effective. Increasing OSA prevalence may accompany predicted globally increasing obesity.

Skin infections in young people (aged 14-18 years): an integrative review.

Skin infections are a major cause of preventable hospitalization, with young people being particularly susceptible. Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infection typically presents as skin infection. CA-MRSA infection rates have increased rapidly in the past decade.

New graduate nurses as knowledge brokers in general practice in New Zealand: a constructivist grounded theory.

Practice nursing in New Zealand is not well described in the literature. One survey illustrated that most of the New Zealand practice nurses sampled did not know of the country's two premier evidence-based health websites. A recent review compared general practice in the UK, New Zealand and Australia and found that whereas there had been significant developments in empowering the practice nurse workforce to run nurse-led clinics in the UK, New Zealand and Australia lagged behind.

Sifting, sorting and saturating data in a grounded theory study of information use by practice nurses: a worked example.

The terminology used to analyse data in a grounded theory study can be confusing. Different grounded theorists use a variety of terms which all have similar meanings. In the following study, we use terms adopted by Charmaz including: initial, focused and axial coding.

Dancing with data: an example of acquiring theoretical sensitivity in a grounded theory study.

Glaser suggested that the conceptual route from data collection to a grounded theory is a set of double back steps. The route forward inevitably results in the analyst stepping back. Additionally sidestepping through, leading participants down lines of inquiry and following data threads with other participants, is also characteristic of acquiring theoretical sensitivity, a key concept in grounded theory.

The role of Government policy in supporting nurse-led care in general practice in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia: an adapted realist review.

Aim:   This article is a report on a review that examined the role of Government policy in primary care and its association with nurse-led care in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia between 1998 and 2009.

Background:   The United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia share a similar model of first point access to the healthcare system via general practitioners. General practice is synonymous with the term primary care.

A baby presenting with failure to thrive in primary care: a case report.

Background: A nine month old baby (A) presented to primary care with an episode of diarrhoea. Initially treated at home, he subsequently required admission to hospital for management of dehydration. During and following a 24 hour period of hospitalisation, his mother became severely depressed.

Evidence-based resource use by practice nurses in the Greater Auckland region of New Zealand.

Aim: To determine self-reported use of New Zealand's Guidelines Group (NZGG) and BPAC resources by practice nurses (PNs) in the Greater Auckland area of New Zealand.

Method: A postal survey of all PNs registered on the University of Auckland's Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care's database.

Results: A total of 419 of 917 (46%) PNs working in 280 general practices returned completed questionnaires.

The place for children's centres for New Zealand children.

This paper examines the experience of poverty and child maltreatment among New Zealand's children as compared with international statistics. New Zealand was a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1993, yet indicators suggest that implementation of the Articles of the Convention is limited. In the league of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries it ranks 23rd out of 26 for child poverty and 24th out of 27 for the child maltreatment death rate.