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to the College of Nurses Aotearoa News Update.
No. 308 13 July 2016
National
news
Government's first
social bond collapses
The
government's first social bond has collapsed, with negotiations breaking down
and the provider walking away.
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more here
Social impact bonds
not the answer to anything - NZNO
Last
year the New Zealand Nurses Organisation’s Mental Health Nurses Section raised
the concern that social impact bonds were a "solution looking for a
problem".
Read more here
Funding for safe-sleep bassinets secretly shelved
by Government
More babies die each year from Sudden Unexpected
Death in Infancy (SUDI) in New Zealand than anything else. Olivia Carville
investigates why the Government has shelved a simple device that could save
lives.
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more here
'Institutional racism' behind funding decision
The Government's refusal to fund a Maori safe
sleep device that has been saving babies lives for the past decade has been
labelled "institutional racism" by doctors and politicians.
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more here
Coroner backs baby pod use
The Chief Coroner says lives could be saved if
safe sleeping pods are given to parents who co-sleep with their babies.
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more here
Health Minister
Jonathan Coleman 'running scared'
Health
Minister Jonathan Coleman is being accused of "running scared" over
his refusal to answer questions about the lack of funding for a life-saving
infant sleeping device.
The
accusations against Coleman come as experts estimate a national roll out of the
traditional bassinet would cost as little as $1.5 million.
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Shaping the doctors of
the future
Professor
Tim Wilkinson is the head of training at Otago University's three medical
schools, who has just been awarded Australasia's highest honourfor medical education.
He
is a gerontologist who still practises, but over the past 20 years, teaching
medical students has become his main focus.
Professor
Wilkinson talks with Kathryn Ryan about shaping the doctors of tomorrow.
Read more here
Aged
care
Green light for falls
prevention programme
A major national community falls prevention programme for people aged over65
which was developed by the joint AucklandWaitemata DHB Funding team was given
the official go ahead today.
Read more here
DHBs
Proposal for
Canterbury health staff to work 7-day roster, weekends to meet service demands
More
than 600 health workers in Canterbury have been asked to bump up their
availability and work weekends to deal with staffing shortages and increased
demand on services.
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more here
One click GP access to
hospital records
GPs
and practice nurses will now have one click access to a patient’s hospital
records thanks to a new initiative by Waikato District Health Board.
Read more here
Exclusive: Wellington
DHB slashes $40m from budget in last year - and is trying to save even more
Secret
papers obtained by ONE News reveal that Wellington's health board has slashed
close to $40m from its budget in the past year, and is trying to save even
more.
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more here
Emergency
services
Minor medical
complaints contributing to doctor burnout
Emergency
department staff are being put under increased pressure by people turning up
with minor medical complaints, doctor Brad Ellington says.
The
Taranaki District Health Board ED doctor said patient numbers varied
between 80 to120 a day and averaged about 90 during a 24 hour period.
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more here
You've heard it
before: save ED for emergencies
Overcrowding
of emergency departments around the country is an ongoing issue.
We've all seen the billboards: "Keep the ED for emergencies only."
Last year there were more than 1.1 million visits to an ED around the country.
About 40 per cent were admitted to hospital.
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more here
People using hospital
emergency departments 'like a GP'
A
hospital doctor is fed up with people who use the emergency department for
non-emergencies.
"We
have many acute cases and accidents that can't be prevented, but we also
have patients that turn up with a pain they've had for three weeks,"
Waikato Hospital emergency doctor
John Bonning said.
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more here
Marlborough patients
struggle to meet GP costs
A
Blenheim woman who turned up at the emergency department three times before she
was diagnosed with pneumonia says she delayed a visit to the doctor because she
could not afford it.
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more here
Heart
disease
Better heart disease
care needed for Māori and Pacific people
Better
access to all aspects of healthcare is needed to improve the much higher rate
of death from heart disease for Māori and Pacific people, according to a new
study from the University of Auckland.
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more here
Heart attack sufferers
delaying 111 call
The
Heart Foundation is calling on Kiwis to put aside their ‘she’ll be right
attitude’ and dial 111 immediately if they suspect they or another person is
having a heart attack.
Heart
Foundation Medical Director Dr Gerry Devlin said too many New Zealanders are
placing themselves at increased risk of death or permanent heart damage by
putting off that important call.
Read more here
Obesity
Obesity study puts
kids under lens
Obesity
study asks if under-5s active enough.
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more here
MidCentral DHB to
intervene to head off childhood obesity
Obese
children will be referred to a dedicated team at MidCentral District Health
Board to encourage them to lead healthy lives.
A
multi-disciplinary team has been established by the DHB to tackle childhood
obesity but they won't be laying blame on anyone, rather helping families
make healthier choices.
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more here
Public
health
Jonathan Coleman
dismisses calls for compulsory salt reduction targets
The
Government has poured cold water on calls to force a reduction of salt in
foods, despite fears New Zealand will not reach its sodium target by 2025.
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more here
$1 million rheumatic
fever fund for targeted Maori communities
Health
Minister Jonathan Coleman has today announced a new $1 million one-off fund
aimed at increasing awareness and reducing rheumatic fever in high-risk MÄori
communities.
Read more here
An extra month to get
free influenza vaccine
Health
Minister Jonathan Coleman says this year’s seasonal influenza immunisation
programme will be extended to the end of August.
“While
we’ve had great uptake of the influenza vaccine this year, there may be people
who haven’t got around to getting immunised,” says Dr Coleman.
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more here
International
news
Nurse rapport with
patients, families may lead to better care
The
relationship nurses have with patients and their families is crucial,
and cultivating a positive rapport with care providers can improve patient
care.
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more here
Effective nurse
leaders require passion to provide high-quality patient care
Linda
Burnes Bolton, R.N., chief nursing executive and vice president for nursing at
Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, wanted to become a nurse when she was only
seven-years-old. She tellsHospitals
& Health Networks that her passion was inspired by the nurses who
cared for her when she was hospitalized for severe asthma.
And
it's a passion that has never ebbed.
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more here
Nurse shortage 'could
last for years'
A
shortage of nurses in the UK will continue for years to come and could get
worse, experts are predicting.
The
warnings follow a report from early 2016 on the nursing workforce compiled by
the Institute for Employment Studies for the Migration Advisory Committee.
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One in three nurses to
reach retirement age within 10 years
One
in three nurses is due to retire within the next 10 years and there won’t be
enough 'homegrown' nurses to fill the imminent gap or offset the loss of skills
and experience, finds a new report*
from the Institute
for Employment Studies, commissioned by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC).
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more here
Nurse practitioners to
lobby for VA proposal
The
American Association of Nurse Practitioners is launching a national ad
campaign to raise public awareness of a proposal to expand the practice
authority for advanced practice registered nurses in the VA Health Care
System.
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more here
New NYU study about
foreign educated nurses
Researchers
find the post-economic crisis of 2008, changes in the NCLEX-RN licensure
examination, and the WHO’s Code for Ethical Recruitment of Health Workers leads
to dramatic decrease in internationally educated nurses in U.S.
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more here
Staff retention: 5 ways hospitals can keep
newly-licensed nurses in their units
A new study has found many factors may hinder unit retention of
newly-licensed nurses at hospitals, and also reveals that title retention
and low-level unit transfers are far more common than previous estimates
suggested.
Read more here
Articles
of interest
Conceptualizing
clinical nurse leader practice: an interpretive synthesis
The
Institute of Medicine's Future of Nursing report identifies the clinical nurse
leader as an innovative new role for meeting higher health-care quality
standards. However, specific clinical nurse leader practices influencing
documented quality outcomes remain unclear. Lack of practice clarity limits the
ability to articulate, implement and measure clinical nurse leader-specific
practice and quality outcomes.
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more here
Framework for advanced
nursing, midwifery and allied health professional practice in Wales: the
implementation process
A
plethora of advanced practice roles have evolved across all health-care areas
in response to the European Working Time Directive and workforce shortage
drivers, leading to confusion and lack of structure.
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more here
Surviving workplace
adversity: a qualitative study of nurses and midwives and their strategies to
increase personal resilience
To
explore the experiences of Australian nurses and midwives who perceived
themselves as resilient. The focus of this paper is to report the strategies
used by a group of nurses and midwives to develop and maintain their
resilience, despite encountering serious workplace adversity.
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more here
Practice environment
and its association with professional competence and work-related factors:
perception of newly graduated nurses
To
explore newly graduated nurses' (NGN) perception of their practice environment
and its association with their self-assessed competence, turnover intentions
and job satisfaction as work-related factors.
Background
The
impact of practice environment on nurses' work is important. Positive practice
environments are associated with positive organisational, nurse and patient
outcomes. How this applies to NGNs needs further exploration.
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more here
Nurses’ exhaustion:
the role of flow at work between job demands and job resources
In
the light of the job demands–resources model, this study aimed to detect the
mediating role of flow at work between job demands and job resources on one
side, and exhaustion on the other.
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more here
From
the Ministry of Health
Weight Management in 2–5 Year Olds
Addressing overweight and obesity
is a government priority. Nearly one third of New Zealand children are either
overweight or obese. This is an issue that can have serious long-term effects
on the health and wellbeing of children as they grow older.
Evidence shows that diet,
excess weight and physical inactivity are 3 major modifiable risk factors that
contribute to early death, illness and disability in New Zealanders. Through
helping to identify children who are overweight and obese and providing weight
management support, we can help to improve their wellbeing both now and into
the future.
Weight Management in 2–5
Year Olds is a practical resource to equip health providers with the most
up-to-date evidence-based tools to monitor, assess and manage overweight and
obese patients.
The resource presents a
step-by-step diagram which is designed to facilitate clinical decision-making.
The resource is intended
for use in conjunction with the Clinical Guidelines for
Weight Management in New Zealand Children and Young People (MOH, 2009).
We have also developed
supporting material for health providers to use with parents:
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more here
The above information has been collated for the
College of Nurses Aotearoa (NZ) Inc by Linda Stopforth, SNIPS and is provided
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12 July 2016
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