Guide to advanced search in CINAHL 

NOTE: Access to ClinicalKey & Shadow Health is restricted to Nursing students and provided in UCOnline.

International Council of Nurses 

Information relevant to nursing in New Zealand can be found in a wide range of places. See also the guides for New Zealand Health Information, Māori Health, Pacific Health, Health Statistics and Palliative Care

Nursing journals

There are two ways of searching for papers from NZ nursing journals. The first is to do a topic search in a nursing database (or MultiSearch or Google Scholar) then add keywords for New Zealand (Māori, Aotearoa, NZ etc). The second is to search the contents of each journal separately. The first method will find more results as some papers relating to New Zealand will be published in international journals, but the second method will provide a more thorough look through each journal.

• Nursing Praxis in New Zealand
• Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand
• Māori Health Review
• Pacific Health Dialog

Nursing Groups and Organisations

• New Zealand Nurses Organisation the leading union for nurses in New Zealand
• Nursing Council the regulatory authority responsible for the registration of nurses in New Zealand

Te Whatu Ora | Health New Zealand - Waitaha Canterbury Policies

• Nursing/midwifery policies and procedures
• Te Whatu Ora: Information for health professionals
• Clinical manual (Vol. 11) clinical policies and procedures for use by Te Whatu Ora - Waitaha Canterbury staff
• Fluid and medication management 
• Infection prevention & control policies and procedures

New Zealand Acts Relevant to Nursing

• The Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022 replaces the previous district health board system with a national public health service, called Health New Zealand. The Act also established a separate Māori Health Authority and a new Public Health Agency. 
• Privacy Act 2020
• Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 intended to protect the health and safety of members of the public by providing mechanisms to ensure health practitioners are competence and fit to practise their professions.
• New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000
• Health and Disability Commissioner Act 1994 see also Health Information Privacy Code 
• Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992
• Bill of Rights Act 1990

Ministry of Health

• Ministry of Health - Nursing NZ links
• New Zealand Health system a useful overview of the organisation and structure of the health system in NZ

Drug information

• The New Zealand Formulary an independent resource providing healthcare professionals with information about clinically validated medicine
• PHARMAC New Zealand's drug funding agency
• Medsafe - New Zealand's medicines and medical devices safety authority, run by the Ministry of Health.

About the New Zealand Health System

• Te Whatu Ora - see 'about our health system' for information on the NZ health system and how it works
• Chronology of the New Zealand Health System 1840-2017 - details about key events, legislation, public health, policies & the health workforce through time.