Welcome
to the College of Nurses Aotearoa News Update.
No. 311 3 August 2016
National
news
Call for clinicians’
innovative health IT ideas
Health
Minister Jonathan Coleman is calling on clinicians to submit innovative ideas
on healthcare.
“Clinicians
have an insider’s view of where innovation can be applied to improve healthcare
services,” says Dr Coleman.
Read more here
Access Community Health and Rural Women New Zealand award two $3000
health scholarships
For the first time in the
history of the Access Community Health and Rural Women New Zealand (RWNZ)
scholarship there are two recipients. The standard of applications was very
high and the review panel could not separate the top two applicants. Felicity
Lallier from Horowhenua and Jo Tiller from Greymouth will each receive a $3,000
fund to help support their health-related post graduate studies.
Read more here
Hospital bosses to
protect patients from Pokemon Go gamers
Hospital
bosses are set to protect patients' privacy from Pokemon GO gamers after
the digital creatures showed up on the real world app wandering the corridors.
Read more here
Sleep pods to be
funded as officials over-ruled
New
mums will have access to life-saving safe sleep bassinets after a Government
policy U-turn following a Herald investigation.
Health
Minister Jonathan Coleman has over-ruled his officials, reversed a decade-long
refusal to fund safe-sleep devices and ordered an urgent national roll-out to
save babies' lives.
Read more here
Cancer
issues
Bowel cancer screening
could save 100 lives a year
Health
officials warned the government New Zealand was one of the worst among
developed countries when it comes to bowel cancer.
Read
more here
DHBs
First survey in series
identifies extent of DHB’s senior doctor shortage
The
union for senior doctors and dentists has begun surveying the heads of
departments in public hospitals to get an accurate picture of specialist
shortages.
Read more here
Nelson Marlborough DHB
staff vaccination rates 'below expectations'
The
governance group tasked with driving flu vaccination rates across the
Top of the South has struggled to convince its own members to take up the
free jab.
Read more here
Health
funding and research
New Zealand research
key to reducing $820m annual spend on Spinal Cord Injuries
Greater
investment in New Zealand research has the potential to deliver massive future
savings on the country’s $820m annual healthcare spend on spinal cord injuries
(SCI) says CatWalk – the country’s foremost research funding trust for SCI.
Read more here
Concerns hospitals may rely on charity to buy
critical equipment
Wellington Hospital has raised nearly $2m for
an advanced medical kit - but staff say they shouldn't need to fundraise for
things like that.
Read more here
Mental
health
Support Groups for
Suicide Loss – Strengthening our communities.
The
Mental Health Foundation (MHF) is pleased to share our suicide bereavement
resources in honour of Loss and Grief Awareness Week: Support groups for
suicide loss: video series and handbook
Read more here
Delays in mental health support 'intolerable'
Thousands of young New Zealanders are waiting weeks, or even
months, for mental health care -- a situation one MP calls "intolerable".
Read more here
Cost of suicide - not just an emotional toll
New figures indicated suicide is not only a personal tragedy
but has a substantial economic cost.
Read more here Link
to report here
Call for
nominations to Suicide and Media Expert Panel
Suicide in New Zealand is a significant health and social issue.
The way suicide is reported can increase the risk of suicide, however
responsible conversations can also help prevent it.
Section 71 of the Coroners Act 2006 sets out some restrictions
on what can be made public. The Act was recently amended to clarify the
restrictions. Go to Talking about suicide to find out more.
The Coroners Amendment Act 2016 includes the establishment of a
Suicide and Media Expert Panel to advise the Chief Coroner about applications
for exemptions.
The Panel will consist of up to four members who, collectively,
will have expertise in suicide prevention, Māori youth suicide, tikanga Māori
and media.
The Director-General of Health is now calling for nominations to
the Panel. Applicants must have a significant level of expertise in at least
one of the member categories above, and be able to:
Read more here
Triage system for 111 mental health calls
All mental health-related calls to 111 and
other lines will be triaged through a single system from early next year.
Read more here
Obesity
Kiwis could weigh in as the fattest country in the world in the next
five years, with around one third of adults classed as obese.
New Zealand has reached a
crucial tipping point in how we handle such a rapidly growing health issue, and
while the financial cost of obesity is clear, what about the emotional and physical
toll?
Read more here
New research into
effects of weight loss surgery
New
Zealand's dire obesity rate has prompted a Massey University student's research
into the impacts of weight loss surgery.
The
New Zealand Medical Journal in 2015 said New Zealand was on track
to overtake the United States and become the fattest nation by 2020.
About one third of adults in New Zealand are classed as obese.
Read more here
Public
health
Health Minister
welcomes wider access to vaccines
Health
Minister Jonathan Coleman has today welcomed Pharmac’s decision to widen access
to the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and varicella (chickenpox) vaccinations.
Read more here
Over 100k people to
benefit from PHARMAC vaccines decisions
PHARMAC
has today announced changes to funded vaccines, which will benefit an extra
100,000 people, says PHARMAC Director of Operations Sarah Fitt.
Read more here
Pharmac confirms Keytruda funding
Pharmac has confirmed it will fund the melanoma
drug Keytruda.
Read more here
Social
health
Girls using 'telephone books, rags' as sanitary
products
Students skipping school and university or using
"newspaper, telephone books, rags," as sanitary products has prompted
a campaign to provide the necessary items to those in need.
Read more here
Housing prices may take toll on trained
professionals
New Zealand
Nurses Organisation associate professional services manager Hilary Graham-Smith
was concerned that nurses could struggle to afford houses in Tauranga.
"I think
this is a reflection of what is happening downstream from the overheated
Auckland market which is affecting more than just nurses."
Read more here
Tobacco,
drugs and alcohol
E-cigarette sales to be allowed under a new
Government proposal
The sale of e-cigarettes in New Zealand will
become legal under a Government proposal.
Read more here
Zika
Zika impact to be monitored
Medical professionals hope to gain
a clearer idea of how best to respond to the virus.
Read more here
Workplace
Is Management Leadership?
Does having a management position make us a leader? The two
terms are often used interchangeably in most industries, including healthcare.
When we use the two words synonymously we can cloud the understanding of what
leadership actually is.
Read more here
Articles
of interest
What
level of competency do experienced nurses expect from a newly graduated
registered nurse? Results of an Australian modified Delphi study
Individuals who have recently completed
accredited courses and are eligible to register as a nurse in Australia are
often referred to as not being ‘work-ready’ by clinically based colleagues.
This project identified the level of competence that can be reasonably expected
of a newly registered nurse (RN) graduating in Australia. The research was
undertaken using the necessary skills identified by Crookes and Brown in 2010.
Read more here
Retaining nurses in metropolitan areas:
insights from senior nurse and human resource managers
To investigate the views of senior nurse and human resource
managers of strategies to retain hospital nurses in a metropolitan area
Read more here
Substitution of general practitioners by
nurse practitioners in out-of-hours primary care: a quasi-experimental study (pages
1813–1824)
To provide insight into the impact of substituting
general practitioners with nurse practitioners in out-of-hours services on: (1)
the number of patients; and (2) general practitioners’ caseload (patient
characteristics, urgency levels, types of complaints).
Read more here
Professional
development
The Office for Disability Issues is holding a
series of public workshops around the country on the new draft Disability
Strategy, starting Friday 29 July.
You can read about it
and register 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
2 August 2016
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