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to the College of Nurses Aotearoa News Update.
No. 304 15 June 2016
National
news
Witt nursing students
get glimpse of changing role of nurses
Witt nursing
students have been given a glimpse of their future by the Polytech's head of
nursing Diana Fergusson.
Speaking
this week at Bachelor of Nursing students hui where a series of scholarships
were presented, she told a gathering of 130 students and whanau the Ministry of
Health's refreshed national health strategy painted a picture different from
the one it last drew at the turn of the century.
Read more here
Innovative Tairāwhiti
programme scores well
A
new study has shown that a rural health professional programme on the East
Coast of the North Island near Gisborne is highly successful for students,
patients and the local community.
Read more here
Diabetes
Research shows huge
difference in diabetes rates across Auckland suburbs
People
living in South Auckland are twice as likely to suffer from diabetes than
those who live across the Harbour Bridge.
Researchers
from the University of Auckland made the finding in a new study
which looked at diabetes distribution across electoral districts in the
city.
Read more here
Health
funding
Health budget $248
million short - unions
A
budget-stretched health system is leading to suffering by patients and hospital
staff, and something has got to give, unions say.
Read more here
Explainer:
The battle over health funding - the numbers and the politics
EXPLAINER: The health system is
stretched - that much we know.
But just how
stretched is up for debate and like anything in politics, depends on the
lens you're looking through.
Read more here
Mental
health
International expert
to investigate seclusion in New Zealand
The
United Nations will fund a review into seclusion and restraint practices in New
Zealand following concerns about their use.
Read more here
Pressure on the front
line of mental health
New figures show big rises in crisis mental health referrals at many of the
country's hospitals, and some health workers are describing it as dangerous.
Nine to Noon speaks to Andy Colwell, a mental health worker in the Auckland
region who is co-convenor of the PSA's Mental Health committee and Professor
Max Abbot - Dean of health sciences at AUT and member of the Waitemata DHB
Board of Directors
Read more here
Obesity
Obese toddlers offered
weight loss programmes in new health drive
In
a bid to combat childhood obesity, more than 1000 South Island
pre-schoolers classified as being obese will be offered help to manage
their weight.
Read more here
Patient
safety
Tidying makes hospital
a safer place
Tidying
up wards and re-organising storerooms at Dunedin Hospital makes patients safer
and frees up staff, project leaders say.
Read more here
DHBs warned ageing
assets could fail patients
District
health boards (DHBs) have been warned their services to patients could suffer
if they do not improve the maintenance of equipment and buildings.
Read more here
Pharmacy
Pharmac reveals new drug funding list
Pharmac will fund six new treatments, after the government
gave it an extra $124 million over four years in May's Budget.
Read item here
Nelson Marlborough DHB
works to lower painkiller prescription rates
The
Nelson Marlborough District Health Board is taking steps to reduce unnecessary
prescriptions of powerful painkillers.
Results
from the Health Quality and Safety Commission's Atlas of Healthcare
Variation show the health board has the second highest rate of strong
opioid prescriptions in New Zealand.
Read more here
Public
health
CCDHB
cuts Porirua schools rheumatic fever throat-swabbing programme
A Porirua
deputy principal has slammed plans to stop a school-based programme
designed to combat the region's high rate of rheumatic fever.
The Ministry
of Health launched the prevention programme in 2012, which included
throat swabbing at Porirua primary schools.
Read more here
International
news
2-way communication, the challenge of nurse
retention and more: Q&A with Cleveland Clinic's CNO
With three Magnet-designated hospitals, Cleveland Clinic —
among other well-noted areas of excellence — is one of the premier healthcare
systems for nursing in the country. At the helm of the system's nursing program
is Executive Chief Nursing Officer Kelly Hancock, DNP, RN.
Read item here
MU Health gets creative to recruit experienced
nurses
The demand for nurses has skyrocketed the past few years.
Hospitals are seeing a rise in patients because of the easier access to health
care and higher life spans.
Read more here
Nurses college to revise rules on assisted dying
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's college of nurses says it will
revise its directive to members after the criminal justice branch said it
wouldn't prosecute nurses who help in the assisted-dying process.
Read more here
Articles
of interest
A randomised, controlled study of outcome and cost
effectiveness for RA patients attending nurse-led rheumatology clinics: Study
protocol of an ongoing nationwide multi-centre study
Background
The rise in the number of
patients with arthritis coupled with understaffing of medical services has seen
the deployment of Clinical Nurse Specialists in running nurse-led clinics
alongside the rheumatologist clinics. There are no systematic reviews of
nurse-led care effectiveness in rheumatoid arthritis. Few published RCTs exist
and they have shown positive results for nurse-led care but they have several
limitations and there has been no economic assessment of rheumatology nurse-led
care in the UK.
Read more here
From
the Ministry of Health
Standardised Tobacco
Products and Packaging Draft Regulations
Consultation document
Published
online: 31 May 2016
In 2013 the Government
decided to introduce a new regulatory scheme to
standardise tobacco products and packaging.
The legislation that
creates the regulatory powers to bring in standardised tobacco products and
packaging – theSmoke-free Environments (Tobacco
Plain Packaging) Amendment Bill ‑ is currently progressing
through Parliament. The date when the regulations will come into force depends
on when the Bill is passed, and has yet to be determined.
Regulations will be needed
to bring the new regulatory scheme into force. The Government has not yet made
any final decisions on these detailed regulatory requirements and the Ministry
of Health is now seeking feedback on draft regulations for the Bill.
The scope of the current
consultation is confined to the proposed requirements for standardised tobacco
products and packages as set out in the exposure draft of the regulations
(PDF, 637 KB).
The consultation document (PDF, 471
KB) gives an overview of the exposure draft regulations, raises
a number of consultation issues, and poses specific questions which may help
you to prepare your submission.
The draft regulations are
set out in four parts:
Part 1 sets out general
requirements that will apply to all tobacco products (subpart 1) and all
tobacco packages (subpart 2) respectively.
Part 2 contains provisions
that apply only to cigarettes, cigarette packs and cigarette cartons.
Part 3 relates to loose
tobacco packaging.
Part 4 covers packaging for
cigars.
Consultation issues and
questions are set out in the consultation document under two headings.
Size and quantities of
tobacco products.
Permitted markings on
tobacco packages.
Submitters can also suggest
other additional features to increase the effectiveness of standardised
packaging and make other comments on the content of the draft regulations.
The Ministry welcomes
submissions on the content and coverage of the draft regulations, backed up
wherever possible with detailed reasons and factual evidence. We are
particularly interested in the impact and practical implications of the
proposed regulations, including for compliance and enforcement.
Please note that both the
contents of the Bill and the earlier policy decision to standardise tobacco
products and packaging have been the subject of previous public consultation,
and are outside the scope of this consultation.
How to have your say
The closing date for
submissions is: 5 pm Friday 29 July 2016.
Read more here
The above information has been collated for the College
of Nurses Aotearoa (NZ) Inc by Linda Stopforth, SNIPS and is provided on a
weekly basis. It is current as at Tuesday
14 June 2016
If you have any feedback about content - what parts
are most useful or what you would like added - please email admin@nurse.org.nz
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