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to the College of Nurses Aotearoa News Update.
No. 310 27 July 2016
National
news
Nurturing a homegrown
nursing workforce
A new
initiative to be piloted by Capital & Coast DHB will see nursing students
benefit from a more comprehensive and collaborative learning experience, and
become better prepared for their entry into the health care workforce.
Read more here
Graduate nurses have hopes broken after computer
glitch
Nearly 300 graduate nurses searching for jobs had their hopes
raised and then shattered when they were mistakenly sent an email offering them
a job at Auckland District Health Board.
Read more here
Public Health Nursing
Aotearoa Update
Following
the recent online survey looking at the opinions of public health nurses into
standing orders and nurse prescribing, please find the preliminary results for
comment. Any additional comments can be sent to the author via pam.owen@midcentraldhb.govt.nz and will be incorporated into
the final report anonymously.
The
final research will be available towards the end of the year following Massey
University examination.
Download the document
Aged
care
Kiwi cooperative
launches into battle against dementia
The
New Zealand Dementia Cooperative (NZDC) today launches an interactive online
community to help health professionals in the serious fight against dementia,
one of the world’s most important health issues.
Read more here
Cancer
issues
Cancer patients forced
to play waiting game
About
one in five people with a high suspicion of cancer in the Southern District
Health Board area have to wait more than 62 days for their first treatment,
Ministry of Health figures to the end of March show.
Read more here
Cancer, alcohol study misleading - Spirits NZ
A new study which links drinking to seven different types of
cancer has been dismissed by the New Zealand Spirits Industry.
Read more here
Alcohol linked to seven different cancers
A study carried out in New Zealand has found a strong link
between alcohol consumption and seven different types of cancer.
Read more here
New
review concludes that evidence for alcohol causing cancer is strong
A new review of epidemiological evidence
supports a causal association between alcohol consumption and cancers at seven
sites in the body: oropharynx, larynx, esophagus, liver, colon, rectum and
female breast.
Read more here
Disability
Developing New Zealand
norms to assess health outcomes
Traumatic
Brain Injury (TBI) is a leading cause of long-term disability worldwide.
Research findings in the past few years have suggested that rates of TBI in New
Zealand are far higher than those found in other developed countries, which is
a great concern.
Read more here
Housing
Teachers,
nurses, police priced out of Auckland housing
Auckland
could face a shortage of teachers, paramedics and other essential staff if the
city's house prices continue to rise beyond their means.
Already
schools in the city are struggling to fill staffing gaps, or even find
relievers on a daily basis. Other services expect staffing levels could follow
suit if nothing changes
Read more here
Mental
health
Use of seclusion rooms
questioned
The
Office of the Ombudsman has found the use of seclusion rooms as bedrooms at
Tauranga Hospital's mental health unit, Te Whare Maiangiangi, amounts to
potentially cruel and inhuman treatment of patients.
Read more here
Obesity
Study shows long-term
benefits of weight loss surgery
Obese
patients with type 2 diabetes in New Zealand have had good long-term results
after weight loss surgery, according to a new study.
Read more here
Massey tests
team weight loss competition for Māori and Pasifika
A new team
weight loss competition for Māori and Pacific people is to be trialled by
Massey University’s School of Public Health. The study, led by Associate
Professor Marewa Glover, will involve three competitions, in Northland, Manawatū
and a Pasifika competition in Auckland.
Read more here
Primary
health care
Marlborough residents
embrace pill-less Green Prescriptions for healthy eating and exercise
A
pill-less prescription has helped hundreds of Marlborough residents become
more active. Reporter Selina Powell talked with two participants about how
the programme has changed their lives.
Helen
Mason thought of her children when a visit to the doctor delivered
sobering news.
Read
more here
New report examines
the sustainability of very high needs practices
A
report recently commissioned by the National Hauora Coalition (NHC) examining
the sustainability of general practices with ‘very high-needs’ populations in a
capitated environment points to the higher costs and challenges of providing
care to predominantly ‘high-needs’ groups.
Read
more here
44,780
patients returned to GP: Labour
The annual tally of patients denied access to a
hospital specialist has grown to around 45,000, a "shocking" figure
which shows health is not receiving enough money from the Government, the
Labour Party says.
Read more here
The regions where
you're most likely to miss out on surgery
Patients
living in the central and lower North Island are most likely to be rebuffed
from the operating table because their DHBs are struggling to cope with
surgical demand.
Read more here
Canterbury Charity
Hospital founder Phil Bagshaw slams Government data on unmet need
Government
data showing how many patients are missing out on surgery in Canterbury is a
"complete fudge", Canterbury Charity Hospital founder Phil
Bagshaw says.
Read more here
Telehealth
Medical and specialist
treatment from Counties Manukau to Samoa by video call
People
living in the Pacific Islands are now getting help from Middlemore Hospital.
Counties
Manukau Health has teamed up with the Samoan National Health Service
to use video conferencing to get support from clinicians for specialist treatment.
Read more here
Waikato
shares knowledge of delirium in new e-learning package
A new
e-learning package for health staff is shining light into the frightening
experience of delirium.
"Getting
into their movie" - A poster to promote the new delirium e-learning module
illustrates how the experience of delirium can feel like a horror movie for
those inside it. The Delirium Moodle package for health professionals has been
developed by Waikato DHB and is available to other healthcare organisations.
Read more here
Zika
Zika Virus: What We Know and Do Not Know
Clinical
Nurse Specialist: The Journal for Advanced Nursing Practice
August 2016,
Volume 30 Number 4 , p 194 - 197 [FREE]
We keep
hearing seemingly every day about Zika virus. With all the hype, we are
dreading the coming spring and summer. How great is the risk? What are the
symptoms of infection and what can be done? Where are the best sources of
evidence for practice and patients?
Zika virus
(ZIKV) is a rapidly expanding infection with confirmed cases in 18 countries of
the Americas. This virus is related to the large family of other flaviviruses,
which include yellow fever virus, dengue fever virus (DENV),
and Japanese encephalitis virus, and most similar to the spondweni
virus that is usually found in Africa. Transmission to humans is
accomplished by a mosquito bite usually of the genus Aedes.
However, other mosquito species have been identified as vectors as well. The
primary vector for the 2015 to 2016 Zika outbreak has been identified as Aedes
aegypti, which also transmits DENV.
Read more here
International
news
California Nurse Practitioners Lose Battle For Independent Practice,
Again
Legislation to allow California’s nurse
practitioners more independence in treating patients has fizzled for the year —
and it’s not the first time.
Read more here
More registered nurses join
nursing council
TWENTY six (26) more nurses have been registered
into the Nursing Council of Solomon Islands, in a ceremony yesterday.
The registration ceremony took place at the Wesley
United Church witnessed by relatives, friends, and family members.
Read more here
Thousands of student nurses
cheating their way through training, universities reveal
Thousands of student nurses have been caught cheating amid
what experts fear is a hidden wave of plagiarism with potentially lethal consequences for patients.
Read more here
Lobbying
battle over giving nurses more authority to treat veterans intensifies
Six days before the window closes for public comments, a
Veterans Affairs proposal to expand nurses’ authority to treat veterans without
a doctor’s supervision has drawn 71,520 comments online.
Read
more here
Bursaries for student
nurses and midwives to be scrapped by government
Health bodies and unions have reacted angrily after the
Government confirmed plans to axe bursaries for
student nurses and midwives.
Read more here
33,000
EU-trained nurses registered to work in UK
Some 33,000
nurses trained in the EU are registered to work in the UK, figures show.
Nursing and
Midwifery Council (NMC) data, obtained by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN),
shows there are more EU-trained nurses registered to work in the UK than the
number of nurses employed in the whole of Wales.
Read more here
Workplace
CYBERBULLYING IN NURSING:
WHAT IS HAPPENING?
Workplace cyberbullying is an insidious form of
bullying that can stalk you from the hospital to home via the phone in your
pocket. Researcher Natalia D’Souza wants to talk to nurses who may have
experienced unwanted aggressive behaviour via any form of electronic media from
text and email to social media and instant messaging. FIONA CASSIE reports.
Read more here
Articles
of interest
Work stress among
newly graduated nurses in relation to workplace and clinical group supervision
The
aim was to investigate occupational stress among newly graduated nurses in
relation to the workplace and clinical group supervision.
Background
Being
a newly graduated nurse is particularly stressful. What remains unclear is
whether the workplace and clinical group supervision affect the stress.
Read more here
Shared
decision-making on a ‘life-and-care plan’ in long-term care facilities:
research protocol
To determine whether the number of residents' preferences and
needs together with the actions taken to satisfy them recorded into their
‘life-and-care plans’ will increase and the process of shared decision-making
will improve the residents' psychosocial well-being.
Read more here
Nursing
documentation of pressure ulcers in nursing homes: comparison of record content
and patient examinations
The aim of this study was to describe the accuracy and
quality of nursing documentation of the prevalence, risk factors and prevention
of pressure ulcers, and compare retrospective audits of nursing documentation
with patient examinations conducted in nursing homes.
Read more here
Does administrative
support negate the consequences of nurse abuse?
Aim
To
assess the relationship between disruptive/abusive situations and the
‘intention to leave’ nursing.
Background
While
every nurse deserves to feel safe in his or her working environment, nurse
abuse remains a common occurrence worldwide. Only when hospitals are safe, is
retention enhanced and patient care improved.
Read more here
From
the Ministry of Health
Green Prescription Active Families Survey Report:
2016
The Green Prescription (GRx)
Active Families programme has grown out of the nationwide GRx initiative for adults,
responding to requests from primary care for something similar for children and
young people. There are 15 contract holders throughout NZ.
There must be commitment
from the family for involvement in the programme and a willingness to improve
their nutrition and increase physical activity.
Criteria for admittance to
the programme is an inactive child with a BMI of over 25. 1075 children
and their families were referred to the programme during 2014/15 mainly
referred by GPs and paediatricians. Families are able to refer themselves to
the programme
This is the eighth annual
survey, the sixth conducted on behalf of the Ministry, the others conducted by
SPARC before the transfer of GRx to the Ministry in July 2009. The
questionnaire is distributed to programme participants approximately six months
after entry into the programme.
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
26 July 2016
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