Welcome to the College of Nurses Aotearoa News Update.
No. 322 26 October 2016
National
news
Nurse retires after 30-year career
A well-known
Hokianga nurse has just retired after 30 years in nursing.
Venus
Cherrington (nee Ambler) grew up in the Hokianga, and served that community
well for 30 years, training as an enrolled nurse in 1967/68 and working at
Kawakawa's Bay of Islands Hospital for six months after graduation.
Read more here
South Sudan challenged Wairarapa nurse
Wairarapa District
Health Board Nurse Educator Jenny Percival realised just how resilient the
human body is during her time with the International Committee of the Red Cross
(ICRC) in South Sudan.
Ms Percival has
returned to the DHB after six months in the world’s newest country, where her
main focus was treating weapon wounds – mainly from gunshots. She also worked
with the people suffering common medical conditions; severe malnutrition, small
children with pneumonia, gastro illness, and hepatitis.
Read more here
Nurse suspended
after snooping through 64 patients records
A
nurse who snooped through more than 1000 private health records has
admitted her actions have eroded public trust in the health system.
In
a charge brought by the Nursing Council's Professional Conduct Committee
(PCC), the nurse was alleged to have accessed health
records "without justification or authorisation" when she
worked at an unnamed district health board.
Read more here
Aged
care
New Zealand's elderly population to triple
The New Zealand population
is expected to get a whole lot older in the next few decades, according to the
latest Statistics New Zealand report.
Read more here
Professor Ian Reid - The fracture tsunami
Auckland University's Professor Ian Reid was one of
those behind ground-breaking studies that revealed vitamin supplements are
largely ineffective when it comes to restoring bone density. Now he's warning
of an upcoming "fracture tsunami" as New Zealand's population ages.
Listen here
Cancer
issues
Connected across space and time: the role of
online networks for head and neck cancer patientsBeing connected across
space and time. That is what an online cancer community can offer head and neck
cancer patients from all corners of New Zealand.
Read more here
DHBs
CDHB contracts more $20m of surgeries out to
private clinics
Five years after the
Canterbury earthquakes damaged many of its operating theatres, Canterbury
District Health Board (CDHB) is funding more surgeries than ever, many at
private facilities.
Read more here
Mental
health
Suicide figures highest ever but may still
not be close to 'real' number, say mental health advocates
New Zealand's suicide toll is the worst its been
since records began but mental health advocates say the "real"
figure could be far higher.
Read more here
More resources needed to curb high Māori
suicide rates
The suicide rate among Māori is nearly twice that of any
other ethnicity and a researcher says disconnection from culture is a factor.
Read more here
Calls
for national inquiry into mental health
It's
been 20 years since the Mason Inquiry led to groundbreaking reforms in our
mental health system.
Now the
sector is back in the spotlight after a series of tragic incidents, and calls
for an independent national inquiry.
Watch the video for the full report from The
Nation.
Obesity
Vaping electronic cigarettes could be the key
to solving obesity crisis
The newest quick fix
to staying slim could be vaping electronic cigarettes, according to New Zealand
researchers.
Two Massey University
professors were part of a team that has published a commentary
titled Could vaping be a new weapon in the battle of the bulge?, which
says vaping electronic cigarettes with flavoured liquids could help with
keeping weight off.
Read more here
GPs can do more to help patient weight loss
Primary care
approaches to obesity need a rethink with GPs providing more support for
patient weight loss, according to two University of Auckland public health
academics.
Read more here
Patient
safety
The strike is over but the rosters for junior
doctors are still unsafe
A week after a
nationwide strike over unsafe work hours, district health boards and the junior
doctors' union are back at the bargaining table.
More than 200 doctors
are part of the union at Waikato DHB, with the two-day strike forcing surgeries
to be cancelled and 600 appointments to be postponed.
Read more here
Tobacco,
drugs and alcohol
Meth figures lay bare contamination scourge
Figures released by a major meth-testing
company have laid bare the scourge of P contamination in New Zealand rental
homes.
Read more here
International
news
Episode 11 – How Much is a Nurse Worth?
Welcome to
episode eleven of the new Ausmed
Handover podcast: How Much is a Nurse Worth?
Welcome to episode eleven
of the Ausmed Handover podcast. This episode is all about money. I’ll be
calculating how much a nurse is worth at their most elemental level, how much a
nurse actually costs to employ, how much a nurse can actually charge for their
services, and, ultimately, what the cultural monetary value of a nurse actually
is, which is the real question we should all be asking.
Read more here
Anti-vaxxer Aussie nurses may face prosecution
Nurses and midwives who chose to promote anti-vaccination on social
media or in person could face prosecution, the Nursing and Midwifery Board of
Australia has warned, urging members of the public to report those who spread
“misleading and deceptive” materials.
Read more here
Workplace
Implementing purposeful daily leadership
rounding: A broader approach to measuring quality
October 2016 Vol. 11 No. 10
Patient satisfaction has long been one way that hospitals
measured quality, albeit indirectly. The surgical services division of Rush
University Medical Center, an academic medical center in Chicago, IL, planned
and implemented a broader approach to measuring quality based on purposeful
daily leadership rounding (PDLR) specifically focused on clinical quality and
safety outcomes. This article summarizes the process used and highlights key
outcomes that were achieved.
Read more here
Improving
nurses' ability to cope with workplace mistreatment crucial to retention, study
says
Providing nursing staff with tools to handle workplace stress and
mistreatment from colleagues is important in retaining staff and maintaining
quality, a new study shows.
Read more here
Articles
of interest
Type 1 diabetes &
cardiovascular disease
Nurse
Practitioner: 20 October 2016 - Volume 41 - Issue 10 - p 18–25
Abstract: Individuals with type 1 diabetes
mellitus (T1DM) have a high risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD),
but some risk factors can be mediated by lifestyle modification and medication.
NPs should understand evidence-based management approaches to counsel patients
with T1DM on appropriate self-management interventions to reduce the likelihood
of CVD.
Read more here
Retaining
early career registered nurses: a case study
BMC NursingBMC series – open, inclusive and trusted201615:57
A core objective of the Australian health
system is to provide high quality, safe health care that meets the needs of all
Australians. To achieve this, an adequate and effective workforce must support
the delivery of care. With rapidly changing health care systems and consumer
demographics, demand for care is increasing and retention of sufficient numbers
of skilled staff is now a critical priority to meet current and future health
care demands. Nurses are the largest cohort of professionals within the health
workforce. Reducing the rates at which nurses leave the profession and
supporting nurses to practice in their profession longer will have beneficial
implications for the sustainability of a nursing workforce and, ultimately, to
patient outcomes. The aim of the study was to describe and explain early career
registered nurses’ (ECRNs) experiences and support requirements during the
first five years of practice for the purposes of identifying strategies that
would support greater retention of ECRNs.
Read more here
Resources
online
The
first issue of the Journal of Indigenous
Wellbeing is now available full text
Read 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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25 October 2016
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