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to the College of Nurses Aotearoa News Update.
No. 315 31 August 2016
National
news
Get-well-soon card: Cutting-edge paper hospital
tests designs
In a warehouse in an industrial neighbourhood in Christchurch
a mock-up hospital ward has been built, and real doctors, nurses and patients
are testing out the facilities.
Read more here
Community nurses and
doctors recognised
The
Northland Health and Social Innovation Awards are returning in November this
year. This time around, primary healthcare workers are being recognised with
their own category and four distinct awards.
Read more here
Knitting group helps North Shore Hospital's
delirium patients
Crafty knitters are helping
nurses at Auckland's Waitemata District Health Board with a special project.
North Shore Hospital's
gerontology nurse specialists Elaine Docherty and Catherine Mounsey are hoping
to raise more awareness about delirium.
Read more here
Surgical rope left in
woman's breast for three months
Nurses'
failures led to a surgical rope dressing being left in a woman's breast for
three months, the Health and Disability Commissioner has found.
Read more here
Diversity presents
unique health service challenges
The
unique opportunities and challenges facing health and social service access and
delivery for New Zealand’s increasingly diverse society will be discussed in
Auckland next week.
Read more here
Nutrition experts defend dietary guidelines
New Zealand nutrition
experts are calling for an end to the pitting of carbohydrates against fats and
say we should instead focus on what is most important – the quality of food in
our diets.
Current nutrition guidelines have been criticised by some who claim that carbs
should be restricted in diets rather than fats.
Read more here
Auckland rehab centre
Capri Hospital to close down after 17 years of service
After
seventeen years of service an Auckland rehab and mental health hospital is closing
its doors.
The
decision to close the residential service at Capri Hospital in Mt Wellington
was sudden.
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more here
Waikato chaplains
explain the relevance of their work in a hospital
Some
say the greatest test of faith is when you dawdle at death's door.
In
a hospital, it's faith in the doctors to cure you, faith in nurses to fix your
loved one, or faith in a higher being, even God, perhaps.
Read
more here
More Kiwis getting
First Specialist Assessments
Health
Minister Jonathan Coleman says around one in ten New Zealanders received a
First Specialist Assessment (FSA) in 2015/16.
Read
more here
Aged
care
Is loneliness killing
our seniors?
Loneliness
and isolation in older people is increasingly linked to poor health and shorter
life spans.
Would
health costs to the state lower if our seniors were more connected to their
communities? And how can we achieve this?
Read
more here
Diabetes
Education classes essential for adults with diabetes,
says NICE
Adults with type 1 diabetes
should be offered education classes to help them manage their condition, a new
quality standard from NICE says.
Read more here
Disability
'It's a crisis' - Disability head warns health
minister the sector is a tragedy waiting to happen
• Disability head
exposes "crisis" in the sector due to alleged underfunding
• Predicts providers'
struggles to manage volatile situations will end in tragedy
• Labels circumstances
"chillingly similar" to failings which sparked review
• Documents show
ministry pulling back on some disability supports
Read more here
Ethical
issues
Whose Lives Should Be Saved? Researchers Ask the
Public
BALTIMORE — In a church basement in a poor East
Baltimore neighborhood, a Johns Hopkins doctor enlisted residents to help
answer one of the most fraught questions in public health: When a surge of
patients — from a disaster, disease outbreak or terrorist attack — overwhelms
hospitals, how should you ration care? Whose lives should be saved first?
Read
more here
Health
funding and research
New Zealanders want
drug companies and government to spend more on health research
Most
Kiwis want the private sector to fork out more for health and medical research,
a new opinion survey has found.
Read
more here
Kiwi scientists in DNA discovery that could open
door to breakthrough on understanding disease
What we know about diseases as common as
cancer, diabetes and dementia could be transformed in the wake of
ground-breaking findings by a team of Kiwi researchers.
Read
more here
Mental
health
The Silent Epidemic
Male
suicide has claimed 11,000 lives since 1985, but we hardly ever talk about it.
Mike Wesley-Smith talks to a leading New Zealand expert about a new programme
she hopes will save lives
Read more here
Obesity
Christchurch trust
sacked for failing to deliver $1.1m anti-obesity programme
The
Ministry of Health is cutting ties with a Christchurch trust given $1.1
million of taxpayers' money to run an anti-obesity programme.
Read
more here
The obese 'are not
lazy, lacking in motivation or stupid', says obesity expert
Experts
say politics is getting in the way of solving a serious national health crisis.
Philip Matthews reports.
If
Auckland University professor and obesity expert Boyd Swinburn was to look back
over the past 15 years, what would he see? Not much, really. Progress on
tackling obesity has been painfully slow
Read more here
Kids to be
breath-tested in sugar study
Thousands
of schoolchildren are set to take experimental breath-tests in a sprawling
study to reveal a little-understood sugar's role in New Zealand's childhood
obesity epidemic.
Read more here
Q&A: Uncovering
Samoa's hidden obesity link
One
of the world's leading population health researchers, Brown University's
Professor Stephen McGarvey, is visiting New Zealand this week.
Last month, a team led by McGarvey published landmark research that revealed
a rare genetic variant in adult Samoans had a big influence on their obesity
risk.
McGarvey, a keynote speaker at the Queenstown Research Week conference, opening
today, now suspects there may be similar links in other Polynesian groups -
including Maori.
He spoke to Herald science reporter Jamie Morton.
Read more here
News release
- NZ’s childhood obesity needs ‘addressing urgently’
Action to
reduce New Zealand’s alarming childhood obesity rate needs to focus on the
physical and social environments we live in, says the New Zealand College of
Public Health Medicine.
Read more here
Public
health
Religious groups block
West Coast from hitting immunisation targets
A
West Coast public health expert says it is unlikely the region will ever hit
immunisation targets.
West
Coast District Health Board (DHB) had the lowest baby immunisation rate in the
country from April to June this year.
Read more here
Social
health
Families with children now 53% of NZ's homeless
More than half of New Zealand's 41,000 homeless
people are now families with children, according to new University of Otago
research.
Read more here
The little things
which can make a difference to the homeless
Each
night 42,000 New Zealanders sleep on the streets - and the problem is getting
worse.
A
decade ago, homelessness affected one in 130 people. Now, it's one in 100.
Read
more here
Most homeless people working
or studying
More
than half of all homeless adults in New Zealand are working or studying, say
University of Otago, Wellington (UOW) researchers.
Read
more here
Telehealth
E-cigarettes: do the benefits outweigh the risks
New Zealand is about to change its laws governing the sale
and marketing of e-cigarettes - but how safe are the vaping products and
e-liquids currently being sold? And what would a regulated vaping industry look
like?
Read more here
Tobacco,
drugs and alcohol
Experts: Even moderate
drinkers at risk of cancer
Downing just
one wine or beer a night increases your risk of cancer, according to
prominent medical experts.
Whether
you imbibe in moderation or get trashed on all-night benders – look
out – as every year hundreds of Kiwis are dying because of liquor-induced
ailments.
Read
more here
Tobacco plain
packaging law takes another step towards reality
Plain
packaging for cigarettes has taken another step towards reality, despite
suggestions that manufacturers and retailers should be given more time to
sell their old stock.
Read
more here
Meth is everywhere, says reformed addict
A reformed
meth addict believes most people don't realise just how prevalent the drug is.
"It's
everywhere," Haydee Richards says.
Read more here
International
news
Hospital Impact: 5
considerations for nurses who provide end-of-life care
Palliative
care nurses spend their workdays in one of life’s most tender, difficult and
vulnerable moments. In helping patients and their families at the end of life,
these particularly resilient healthcare professionals can provide an invaluable service when they are
mindful of their patients’ preferences and the responses of loved ones.
Read
more here
New article outlines how school nurses can
help teens experiencing digital dating abuse
Many teens experience physical or sexual abuse within their
romantic relationships and now dating violence can also be perpetrated
digitally by harassing, stalking or controlling a romantic partner via
technology and social media.
Read more here
How Kansas City hospitals, medical schools are responding to the nursing
shortage
Hospitals and medical schools in the Kansas
City region are using a myriad of recruitment techniques as they respond to a
nursing shortage, according to a KSHB report.
Read more here
Articles
of interest
Interventions for
compassionate nursing care: A systematic review
International
Journal of Nursing Studies 62 (2016) 137–155
To systematically identify, describe and analyse
research studies that evaluate interventions for compassionate nursing care;
assess the descriptions of the interventions for compassionate care, including
design and delivery of the intervention and theoretical framework; and to
evaluate evidence for the effectiveness of interventions.
Review methods:
Published international literature written in English up to June 2015 was
identified from CINAHL, Medline and Cochrane Library databases. Primary
research studies comparing outcomes of interventions to promote compassionate
nursing care with a control condition were included. Studies were graded
according to relative strength of methods and quality of description of
intervention. Narrative description and analysis was undertaken supported by
tabulation of key study data including study design, outcomes, intervention
type and result
Read
more here
From
the Ministry of Health
Improving Outcomes in Age Residential Care
Auckland University of
Technology was contracted by the Ministry of Health to evaluate whether changes
made to auditing processes have improved outcomes for people living in age
residential care facilities. The evaluation was conducted from December 2015 to
June 2016 and used a variety of data sources.
This evaluation identified
the positive impact of the integrated audit at all levels of the age
residential care sector. The findings from this evaluation demonstrate that
providers are committed to providing safe and high quality care.
Read more here
More Heart and Diabetes Checks Evaluation
Health targets are a set of
national measures designed to improve the performance of health services. They
focus on population health objectives and on reducing inequities….
The evaluation used mixed
methods for data collection and was framed around five evaluation questions.
How well was the health
target implemented?
What difference did the
health target make for health practices/service providers and for those whose
risk was assessed?
What have been the economic
implications of the health target and is it likely that the programme provides
good value for money?
To what extent are any
gains made through the health target likely to continue?
What should the Ministry of
Health do to support CVD and diabetes risk assessment?
The evaluation findings for
each of the questions is presented in this summary.
Read more here
New Zealand Autism Spectrum Disorder Guideline
The NZ Autism Spectrum
Disorder Guideline provides evidence-based information for people on the autism
spectrum, their family and whanau, as well as health, disability and
education professionals and social service agencies. It includes
information about good practice that is evidence-based and aims to improve the
health, educational and social outcomes for people with ASD.
… Since the living
guideline process was established in 2009, Supplementary Papers have
been published annually. These provide updates in areas of applied behaviour
analysis, pharmacological interventions, supported employment, changes in
diagnostic criteria in the DSM-5, gastrointestinal issues, social skills
groups, and cognitive behaviour therapy.
The second edition (2016)
of the Guideline incorporates the updates developed through the living
guideline process. This means that all amendments to the Guideline
recommendations, identified in the Supplementary Papers, are incorporated into
the second edition.
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
30 August 2016
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