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to the College of Nurses Aotearoa News Update.
No. 317 21 September 2016
National
news
Widening prescribing
ability for nurses welcomed
From
today suitably qualified nurses can prescribe medicines for straightforward
medical conditions. Welcoming the move, New Zealand Nurses Organisation CE Memo
Musa says this legislation backs up what nurses already know, that is, New
Zealanders trust nurses and nurses are comfortable prescribing and
administering medication.
Read more here
Patients back nurses
writing prescriptions
Patients
appear to be behind a move that will see registered nurses prescribe medicines.
A
regulation comes into effect today allowing nurses to give medication to people
with long term conditions.
Read more here
Timaru nurses provide 'a bit of a reprieve
In an "unprecedented" move, nurses from Timaru were drafted in
to work at Dunedin Hospital for two days this week because of pressure on the
hospital.
Read more here
New Rotorua Hospital medical assessment unit
helps ease pressure on emergency department
Extra staff have been
employed and a new unit has been set up at Rotorua Hospital to ease pressure on
the emergency department.
Read more here
New psychotherapy helps people deal with
chronic pain
“Acceptance and
commitment therapy” helps people with chronic pain manage the pain better and
make their everyday lives more fullfilling, new research suggests.
Read more here
New regulation allows registered nurses to
prescribe medicines
In a first for New
Zealand, registered nurses will be able to prescribe medicines for a wide range
of conditions under the Medicines (Designated Prescriber - Registered Nurses)
Regulations 2016.
The new regulation,
which comes into effect on Tuesday, allows registered nurses working in primary
care and specialist teams to prescribe for their patients. They must hold a
postgraduate diploma with a focus on long-term and common presenting conditions
in primary care settings.
Read more here
Change to age women begin having cervical
smear tests
The Ministry of Health
has today announced that the age women begin having cervical smear tests will
change from 20 to 25 in 2018.
Read more here
Youth health 'needs
specialised training'
Specialised
training in youth health for clinicians who work mainly with young people may
result in better health outcomes for students, according to research from the
University of Auckland.
Read more here
Cultural
safety
New initiative
designed to grow culturally competent workforce
A
programme led by a Taranaki health provider is aiming to get its strategic
principles off plaques on the wall and into practice.
Tui
Ora, a kaupapa Maori health service, has launched its own cultural competency
programme for its 300-strong workforce around the region.
Read more here
DHBs
Waikato DHB saves
millions with new blood service
Waikato
District Health Board is saving itself millions of dollars by examining
patient's blood before major surgery, boosting levels if they're low.
Read more here
Emergency
services
New Zealand
Ambulance Services face a Funding Crisis
New Zealand’s
two ambulance services are facing a funding crisis.
St John
Ambulance and Wellington Free Ambulance have recently completed their annual
fundraising drives and both still face huge budget shortfalls as government
funding fails to keep up with the growing demand for paramedic care.
Read more here
St John pathway to
expands to allow ambulances to refer mental health patients
An
initiative that connects ambulance patients with health services before
they need urgent care in Nelson has been a success, with plans
for it to expand into other regions.
Read more here
Mental
health
All Recommendations Accepted in Mental Health
Inquiry
All the
recommendations have been accepted from an external review into the treatment
and management of a forensic mental health patient Manjit Singh by Auckland’s
Mason Clinic.
Read more here
'Independent review authority required' for
mental health failures
An external review
into the treatment and management of a forensic mental health patient has
cleared Auckland’s Mason Clinic of any culpability in the lead up to a frenzied
machete attack on a woman in 2015.
Read more here
Time heals but
earthquake anxiety still rife for Cantabrians - survey
Signs
of progress and time are helping heal emotional wounds for most in
Christchurch, but anxiety continues to overwhelm some.
Read more here
Obesity
Sugar and health
The Royal Society of
New Zealand today published an evidence update, fact sheets in different
languages and a short animation based on a review of expert research to clarify
the role of sugar in health. It confirmed that excessive consumption of sugar
is harmful for health and hard for consumers to avoid.
Download Sugar and Health Evidence Update
(PDF, 2.9
MB)
Study finds obese Kiwi
kids at risk of diabetes, heart disease
Forty
per cent of obese children and adolescents in a New Zealand study have been
found to be at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes in future.
Read more here
Social
health
Safer Sooner
– health and wellbeing must be linked with domestic violence prevention
NZNO welcome the Prime Minister’s commitment to overhaul the Domestic
Violence Act to empower agencies to share information and also to protect women
and children sooner. NZNO chief executive Memo Musa says government impetus on
this issue is good but that NZNO remains concerned that the health and
wellbeing aspect of domestic violence is not being sufficiently addressed.
Read more here
Tobacco,
drugs and alcohol
A talk with a nurse can persuade hospital
patients to quit smoking
Self-reported quit
rates among hospital patients more than doubled when nurses and other staff
were trained to coach patients on how to stop smoking and to make sure they got
the help they needed to make it happen, whether that meant counseling, patches,
gum or prescription medication, a study concludes.
Read more here
International
news
Nurses lured by holidays, pay hikes as
shortages bite
Competition for nurses
is heating up, with some employers offering six weeks’ holidays as major
hospital operators warn that any significant increases in pay and entitlements,
or restrictions on supply, will affect them greatly.
Read more here
Unique hospital campaign will provide free accommodation for nurses
A UNIQUE campaign to recruit 190 nurses for Slough’s Wexham Park
Hospital will see the trust spend thousands of pounds so it can offer them free
accommodation until they get on their feet.
Read more here
Articles
of interest
Rethinking the Primary Care Workforce — An
Expanded Role for Nurses
Thomas Bodenheimer,
M.D., and Laurie Bauer, R.N., M.S.P.H.
N Engl J Med 2016;
375:1015-1017September 15, 2016
The adult population
of the United States will soon have a different primary care experience than
we’ve been used to. In the primary care practice of the future, the physician’s
role will increasingly be played by nurse practitioners (NPs). In addition, the
150 million adults with one or more chronic conditions will receive some of
their care from registered nurses (RNs) functioning as care managers.
Read more here
From
the Ministry of Health
Webinar: Ministry of Health Guidelines
Wednesday, 28 September at 10am
In this
webinar Martin Dutton from the Ministry of Health will present on the Eating
and Activity Guidelines for New Zealand adults. This will also include
the next step for the guidelines: physical activity guidelines for under-fives,
as well as challenging the way standard messages are used and how they relate
to audiences.
Register here.
Pathways to child
health, development and wellbeing: Optimal environments for orchids and
dandelions. An overview of the evidence
This review discusses
the findings of a rapid review of some of the latest evidence on the pathways
to optimal health and wellbeing for children from birth to age 14 years,
through the developmental periods of infancy, early and middle childhood and
early adolescence.
Influences on health
and development are considered under three headings: the environment of
relationships in which a child develops; the physical, chemical and built
environments in which the child and family live; and nutrition for health.
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
20 September 2016
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