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The Health Improvement and Innovation Resource Centre (HIIRC) is your source of knowledge to improve New Zealand’s health care system. Sponsored by the Ministry of Health, HIIRC has been developed to support performance and quality improvement efforts.
Important note: This site is no longer being actively maintained and is presented here as an online archive. While it still contains a wealth of useful information, visitors who want to receive the latest health information should register to receive the fortnightly email Digest. This will link you directly to articles of interest in the key areas covered by this site. You can register for the Digest here.
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- Te Kapunga Putohe (The Restless Hands): A Maori Centred Nursing Practice Model
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- Patient satisfaction with Nurse Practitioner care in primary care settings
- Hybrid space: Constituting the hospital as a home space for patients
- Igniting the diabetes self-care pilot light: Understanding influences on health activation
International Literature
- What are the core elements of patient-centred care? A narrative review and synthesis of the literature from health policy, medicine and nursing
- Nurses' presenteeism and its effects on self-reported quality of care and costs (USA)
- Patient participation in nursing care on medical wards: An integrative review
- Nurses' communication with families in the intensive care unit – a literature review
- Establishing the surgical nurse liaison role to improve patient and family member communication (USA)
