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to the College of Nurses Aotearoa News Update.
No. 306 29 June 2016
National
news
WDHB nurse part of
winning volunteer team helping children with Crohn's Disease
Waikato
DHB Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) clinical nurse specialist Sarah Cook was
amongst a national medical team, who jointly won the ‘Health care provider
service volunteer team’ for their work with Camp Purple Live, at the 2016
Minister of Health (MOH) Volunteers Awards on 13 June 2016, Wellington.
Read more here
Empowering Pasifika
youth
Young
Pasifika people living in the United States experience similar social and
health inequities to Pasifika people living in New Zealand, says a Massey
University researcher.
Read more here
Kiwis Count – positive
ratings from patients
Health
Minister Jonathan Coleman says latest results from the Kiwis Count survey show
New Zealanders continue to experience high levels of patient satisfaction with
the health sector.
Read more here
New partnership formed
to improve health of New Zealanders
A
new partnership comprising the Healthier Lives National Science Challenge, the
Ministry of Health and the Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) has
been formed to invest in research that will improve understanding, treatment
and prevention of long term conditions.
Read more here
Online access to
medical research for Waikato health workers
All
health workers in the Waikato now have free online access to the latest medical
research thanks to a new service from Waikato District Health Board.
Read more here
Hospital's teaching
role 'must be kept'
Dunedin
Hospital's role as a teaching hospital must be preserved in the $300 million
hospital redevelopment, University of Otago medicine department head Prof Rob
Walker says.
Read more here
Applications close
Friday 1st July for $3000 Rural Women New Zealand and Access Scholarship
Applications
close this week for $3000 education scholarship for health professionals with
an interest in the rural sector.
Read more here
Cancer
issues
Women worst off for
breast cancer from drink
Around
20 New Zealand women die each year from breast cancer linked to consuming no
more than two alcoholic drinks a day on average, a University of Otago study
has found.
Read more here
Child
and maternal health
NCHIP will help make
sure no child falls between the cracks
The
health of children in the Taranaki region will be better off with the launch of
the National Child Health Information Platform (NCHIP) and Child and Youth
Coordination Service (CaY-C) this week.
Read more here
NZ child mortality
rates higher than for many wealthy countries
The
rate at which children under five years old die in New Zealand is higher
than for most high-income countries.
The
data is included in Unicef's annual flagship report The State of the
World's Children 2016, published on Tuesday.
Read more here
Heart
disease
New
steps to tackle worsening Asian heart health
The
Heart Foundation is taking action to help address the declining heart health of
Asians living in New Zealand, as indicated by concerning statistics.
Read more here
Health
funding and research
$7.9m for long-term
health conditions research
Science
and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce and Health Minister Jonathan Coleman today
announced the opening of applications for a new $7.9 million research fund to
help improve the management of long-term health conditions.
Read more here
Mental
health
Ombudsman recommends
changes at Nelson Marlborough DHB mental health unit
Giving
patients in seclusion daily access to fresh air at a mental health unit
for Marlborough and Nelson is among recommendations following a spot check by
the Ombudsman.
Read more here
Pharmacy
Pharmac aims to fund
melanoma drug Keytruda
Pharmac
is planning to fund a second expensive drug for advanced melanoma that could be
available as soon as September.
Read more here
Patient rations heart
medication as supply issues bite
A
shortage in a commonly prescribed heart medication is causing some patients to
take the wrong dosage, a pharmacy support group says.
Read more here
Social
health
School Report: What's
hard about growing up in New Zealand?
Teenage
life is more complicated than many of us might imagine. Katie Kenny and
Glenn McConnell report as part of the School Report series.
Adolescence
isn't a life stage many would choose to repeat.
Read more here
Tobacco,
drugs and alcohol
WERO a success among
mental health patients and staff
WERO
was designed to appeal to the competitive nature of smoking Maori, and after a successful
pilot in Te Taitokerau and Hawke's Bay, was funded through the innovation fund
for national competitions. Teams of 10 could register their waka and with a
local WERO kaitataki and kaihautu, competed against other waka to stay auahi
kore. At four weeks, eight weeks and 12 weeks, teams were smokelysed and the
team with the most people smokefree won prizes for their chosen organisation.
Read more here
Govt plans to remove branding despite threats
Thinly veiled threats of legal action will not deter
the government from its plans to take the branding off cigarette packets, the
Associate Health Minister says
Read more here
Smokefree lobbyists
face chop
New
Zealand's biggest anti-smoking lobby groups face likely closure after a
Government decision to slash funding for anti-smoking advocacy.
The
Smokefree Coalition will close next month, Action on Smoking and Health (Ash)
faces closure unless it can find new funding sources, and Smokefree Nurses
Aotearoa and Pacific anti-smoking agency Tala Pasifika have all lost their
funding from this week
Read more here
International
news
The other NHS crisis:
the overworked nurses who are leaving in despair
The
junior doctors’ dispute may be nearly over, but another crisis is brewing in
the nursing profession, where staff shortages, a lack of recruitment and
funding cuts have left many feeling they cannot carry on in the job they love
Read more here
Nurses make house calls at click of mouse
SINGAPORE • A bedridden loved one cannot cough
up phlegm and has difficulty breathing. A diabetic with wounds needs his soaked
bandages changed.
Read more here
Nurses on strike: The impact on patient care and
safety
A series of nurse strikes at major U.S. health
systems ended Monday, some before they had even begun, though the potential for
thousands of nurses to be off the job raised concerns about the impact of such
strikes on patient care and patient safety.
Read more here
Vic nurses exposed to
'alarming' violence
A
union survey, recognised by a international nursing journal, has found 80 per
cent of Victorian mental health workers have been exposed to violence.
Read more here
Innovative approach
for critical care nurse training
A
group of critical care nurses in Hull have trialled new training on the safe
transfer of severely ill patients involving the use of lifelike mannequins.
Read more here
VIDEO: Presidential
address emphasizes ‘tremendous power’ of heart failure nurses
SCOTTSDALE,
Ariz. – In this video, Marilyn Prasun, RN, PhD, CCNS, CNL, FAHA,
CHFN, of Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Illinois and the
University of Illinois at Chicago, provides an overview of the presidential
address she delivered at the AAHFN Annual Meeting.
Read more here
Articles
of interest
Professional behaviours and
factors contributing to nursing professionalism among nurse managers
To examine the perception of professional
behaviours and factors contributing to nursing professionalism among nurse
managers.
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The Vital Connection Between Camaraderie and
Leadership
Camaraderie is the spirit of trust and friendship. More than
a nice-to-have among co-workers, camaraderie is actually a crucial indicator of
successful leadership. Leadership is a social process to engage teams of
colleagues to meet challenges and then overcome them. In my career-long study
of leadership, I’ve found that the best organizations engage associates who
serve on diverse multidisciplinary teams through camaraderie.
Read more here
Exploring nursing staffs
communication in stressful and non-stressful situations
To explore the factors that characterise the work
environment, focusing on communication among nurses in stressful and non-stressful
situations.
Read more here
From
the Ministry of Health
Demographic Report on Clients Allocated the
Ministry of Health’s Disability Support Services as at September 2014
Disability Support Services
fund supports for approximately 32,000 people with disabilities, as well as
equipment for approximately 80,000 people.
This publication presents
aggregated demographic information about the people with disabilities who have
been allocated Ministry of Health funded disability supports (excluding
equipment). The report presents demographics relating to specific service types
including home and community support, carer support, supported living, respite,
community residential and day programmes.
The report also presents
the demographic information by specific disability types including physical,
intellectual, autism spectrum disorder, neurological and sensory disabilities
and includes some comparisons with the Ministry’s disability demographic report
published in 2013.
Read more here
Resources
online
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
28 June 2016
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