Naumai Smith
Head of School - Health Care Practice, Senior Lecturer
Phone: 921 7161
Email: naumai.smith@aut.ac.nz
Physical Address:
Room AG142
North Shore Campus
90 Akoranga Drive
Northcote
North Shore City
Postal Address:
School of Health Care Practice
Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences
Private Bag 92006
Auckland 1142
Qualifications:
2000 Graduate Certificate in Career Development
1996 Master of Health Science (2nd ClassHons)
1993 Bachelor of Arts (Ed major)
1984 Cardio-thoracic & Vascular Nursing Certificate
1970 RGON – Registered General & Obstetric Nurse
Teaching Areas:
BHSc (Nursing), Master of Health Science
Research areas:
Equity
Research Summary:
2003 World Health Organisation (WHO) Consultant
Worked in Tonga with Queen Salote School of Nursing to review and implement post-basic curriculum. The central focus being Primary Health Care.
Publications:
Shaw, S. & Deed, B. (2009) (Eds.) Health and wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand. Chapter 8: Culture, health and wellbeing. Oxford University Press. Australia & New Zealand. (Due for publication Sept 2009)
Smith, N. & Rasheed, A. (2007) Equity Model Diversifies: Equity strategy used for closing gap between disadvantaged groups being adopted to address the broader diversity needs of student communities within University.
Main, C., McCallin, A. & Smith, N. (2006) Cultural safety and cultural competence: what does this mean for physiotherapists? The New Zealand Journal of Physiotherapy, 34(3), 160-161.
McKinney, C. & Smith, N. (2005) Te tiriti o Waitangi: What is the difference? In Cultural safety in Aotearoa New Zealand. Wepa, D. (Ed). Pearson Education New Zealand, Auckland.
McKenna, B., Poole, S., Smith, N. & Coverdale, J. (2004) New Nurses Face Endemic Violence. Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand. Vol 10 (5).
McKenna, B., Smith, N., Poole, S. & Coverdale, J. (2003) Horizontal Violence: experiences of Registered Nurses in their first Year of practice. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 42 (1), 90-96. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.