School of Clinical Sciences
The School of Clinical Sciences plays an important role in specialist teaching and research conducted by its academic staff and postgraduate students. This places AUT students at the forefront of much of the ground-breaking research undertaken in New Zealand, especially in the fields of Midwifery, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Oral Health, Paramedicine, Physiotherapy, Podiatry.
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When Every Second Counts: Ampoule Versus Adrenaline Auto-injector Administration for Life-threatening Allergy
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Interprofessional Practice: Beyond Competence
(Springer Verlag, 2019)Interprofessional practice is commonly discussed in the literature in terms of competencies. In this study we move away from the theoretical notions of criteria, concepts and guidelines to adopt an ontological approach ... -
Best Evidence Rehabilitation for Chronic Pain Part 5: Osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a leading cause of chronic pain and disability in older adults, which most commonly affects the joints of the knee, hip, and hand. To date, there are no established disease modifying interventions ... -
Self-paced Online Vs. Cue-based Offline Brain-computer Interfaces for Inducing Neural Plasticity
(MDPI AG, 2019)Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), operated in a cue-based (offline) or self-paced (online) mode, can be used for inducing cortical plasticity for stroke rehabilitation by the pairing of movement-related brain activity with ... -
A Systematic Review of Paired Associative Stimulation (PAS) to Modulate Lower Limb Corticomotor Excitability: Implications for Stimulation Parameter Selection and Experimental Design
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2019)Non-invasive neuromodulatory interventions have the potential to influence neural plasticity and augment motor rehabilitation in people with stroke. Paired associative stimulation (PAS) involves the repeated pairing of ... -
Physiotherapy Treatment and Rehabilitation Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury in New Zealand: Are We Doing Enough?
(New Zealand Society of Physiotherapists Inc, 2019)Physiotherapists are lead providers of rehabilitation following anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury in New Zealand. Rehabilitation is considered an essential component following ACL injuries, but there is considerable ... -
Protocol: Effectiveness of Interventions To Support People With Mild-moderate Mental Health Conditions Gain Paid Work – Systematic Review
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Protocol: Barriers and Facilitators To Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment-related Support for Indigenous Peoples – Systematic Review
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Protocol: Support for Gaining Employment For People With Long-term Conditions – Qualitative Systematic Review
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Regulating Our Emergency Care Paramedics
(New Zealand Medical Association (NZMA), 2015)Ambulance paramedics administering emergency care to patients are delivering a health service as defined in the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act, 2003. Paramedics practice a wide range of skills without direct ... -
Clinical Measures of Balance in People With Type Two Diabetes: A Systematic Literature Review
(Elsevier, 2017)Approximately 422 million people have diabetes mellitus worldwide, with the majority diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The complications of diabetes mellitus include diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) and ... -
Paramedic-initiated Helivac to Tertiary Hospital for Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Strategy for Improving Treatment Delivery Times
(AME Publishing Company, 2019)Background: In regions of New Zealand without coronary catheterisation laboratory (CCL) facilities, patients presenting with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) are often subjected to prolonged delays before receiving ... -
Resituating Aotearoa New Zealand Mental Health Legislation in the Context of Social and Occupational Justice
(Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work (ANZSW), 2017)INTRODUCTION: Social work and occupational therapy mental health practitioners face a range of tensions in relation to statutory obligations in the context of maintaining a focus on the ideals of social or occupational ... -
Ettie Rout – First World War Safe Sex Advocate
(Australasian Military Medicine Association, 2016)Censored by the New Zealand cabinet, referred to in the House of Lords as the “most wicked women in Britain”, and hailed as the “guardian angel of the ANZAC’s” Ettie Rout and her fervent conduct to prevent the spread of ... -
Efficacy of Acupuncture in Treating Scars Following Tissue Trauma
(SAGE Publications (UK and US), 2019)Introduction: Anecdotally, acupuncture is used in the treatment of scar tissue in order to improve scar quality and reduce symptoms of pain and pruritus. Unlike conditions such as lower back pain, knee osteoarthritis and ... -
Creating a Better Work-life Balance
(New Zealand College of Midwives (NZCOM), 2014)Co-operative inquiry, an action research approach, was selected to investigate the work-life balance of 16 caseloading midwives living in Auckland. For some of the midwives the tension between their professional and personal ... -
Support Workers' Experiences of Work Stress in Long-term Care Settings: A Qualitative Study
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)Background: Support-workers' performance and well-being are challenged by increasingly high workloads and poor working conditions, leading to high levels of occupational stress. Aims: To explore the experiences of work ... -
Direct Transport to PCI-capable Hospitals After Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest in New Zealand: Inequities and Outcomes
(Elsevier, 2019)BACKGROUND: It is widely accepted that survival from OHCA may be improved through direct transfer of patients to hospitals with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) capability. However, within the New Zealand healthcare ... -
Contextual Issues That Influence Preparedness of Nurses for Critical Care Nursing Practice in Malawi
(African Journals Online (AJOL), 2019)Background There are no critical care nurse training programs in Malawi despite the high burden of diseases which culminate in critical illness. This paper presents contextual issues that influence preparedness of nurses ... -
Negotiating the Hairless Ideal in Āotearoa/New Zealand: Choice, Awareness, Complicity, and Resistance in Younger Women's Accounts of Body Hair Removal
(SAGE Publications, 2017)Hair removal amongst Western women is ubiquitous, and research continues to highlight the ongoing conformity of almost all women with hair removal practices. Often women are presented as either cultural dupes, following ...