Welcome to the College of Nurses – News Update.
No. 88
– 18 January 2012
From NZ media this week
Migrant girls 'at risk'
of mutilation
An international study says "a
growing number" of young women living in immigrant communities in NZ are
at risk of genital mutilation.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/6259145/Migrant-girls-at-risk-of-mutilation
Return emergency hospital
visits increase
Nearly 600 people visited Christchurch
Hospital's emergency department (ED) six or more times last year.
http://bit.ly/zQp4fr
System will track repeat
visits to emergency dept
Patients regularly turning up at hospital
emergency departments could be a thing of the past in the Waikato once a
sophisticated computer system – capable of tracking repeat visitors – is
installed.
http://bit.ly/xDAqyq
Rich
or poor? Poverty trap set at birth, study reveals
New Zealand researchers have
put hard numbers to the adage that success breeds success - and failure breeds
failure. A long-term study of 1265 children born in Christchurch in 1977 has
found that those whose families were…
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10779433
International media
ICU Nurses Favor Personal Touch in Telemedicine (USA)
Intensive care unit nurses at one healthcare
system said that personally knowing the physician providing overnight
telemedicine coverage was important, although actual exposure to telemedicine
among the respondents was quite low, according to a survey out of the University
of Pennsylvania.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/CriticalCare/GeneralCriticalCare/30553
AORN issues
recommendations on medication safety
After months of research and evaluation, the Association of
periOperative Registered Nurses has released a new recommendation about
medication safety practices
http://news.nurse.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012101160033
Study: Patients happy
with nurse-delivered SBIRT
Hospital patients have high acceptability of and comfort
with nurse-delivered alcohol screening, brief intervention and referral to
treatment, according to a study
http://news.nurse.com/article/20120116/NATIONAL02/101160039
Nurses 'frustrated' by lack of joined up data (UK)
Nurses and other clinicians
need to change their mindset when it comes to the use of information, according
to independent government advisors.
http://www.nursingtimes.net/5040147.article?referrer=e26
Pharmacists overruling nurse
prescribers 'poses safety risk' (UK)
Nurse prescribers could have their decisions overruled by
pharmacists, posing a potential safety risk to patients, under latest
proposals.
http://www.nursingtimes.net/5040165.article?referrer=e26
'When Nurses Hurt Nurses' (US)
Book examines bullying at work
Cheryl Dellasega, PhD, CRNP, examines work force behavior
in her latest book, "When Nurses Hurt Nurses: Recognizing and Overcoming
the Cycle of Bullying."
http://bit.ly/qY7STQ
New nursing program said more 'real life'
HOUSTON, Jan. 3
(UPI) -- Students get more real-world training in the University of Texas
Health Science Center at Houston's redesigned, four-semester nursing program,
officials say.
http://bit.ly/xMG5fr
Nurse job market
tightens (US)
The number of registered nurses has increased
by 300,000 since the start of the economic downturn, according to a Vanderbilt
University researcher. Maintaining that momentum is important, says Peter
Buerhaus of the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies. Nursing
can be the start of many career paths, he says, from primary care practitioner
to corporate executive.
http://tnne.ws/wDgJOa
Will
hourly rounds help nurses to concentrate more on caring? (UK)
Like
the curate’s egg, the Prime
Minister’s announcement on improving the quality of nursing care on acute wards
is good in parts. Given The King’s Fund’s and Health Foundation’s work on
nursing rounds with our Hospital
Pathways Programme, we welcome his support for hourly nursing rounds on
inpatient wards and for the ‘visible figure of nursing authority’ on all wards.
http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/blog/nursing_rounds.html
NHS reforms must give nurses time to care
David Cameron has finally
identified the problem in our hospitals, but cuts to the NHS are no solution
I've worked as a nurse for the
last 18 years, in a number of settings. I am proud to be a nurse, and to work
for the NHS. But recent
reports from the Patients' Association and the Care Quality Commission
highlighted some appalling examples of lack of care by nurses, in particular in
relation to the care of the elderly.
http://bit.ly/A6L6uX
Nurses to make hourly rounds under Cameron plans
Prime minister wants hospital
nurses to concentrate on 'patients not paperwork' to drive up standards
http://bit.ly/xuHMPH
Battle Continues to Extend Prescribing Rights to NZ Registered Nurses
In her article,
published in Collegian,
(18(4), 157-163, 2011), Jill Wilkinson explores the journey to
prescribing rights for nurse practitioners (NPs) in New Zealand, and she looks
at how this privilege could be extended to include registered nurses. According
to Ms. Wilkinson, many registered nurses possess both the education and the
clinical experience necessary to become nurse practitioners, but they have not
applied for registration. For this reason, she proposes, new categories of
nurses with prescribing rights should be created, which will allow nurses with
the appropriate education to be designated prescribers in their named area of
specialisation.
http://bit.ly/zF2WeR
Virginia
physicians call for definition of surgery
In response to the rapid changes in the delivery of health
care, the Medical Society of Virginia, a physicians' advocacy group, is
supporting changes at the legislative level.
http://bit.ly/ysq9rr
Healthcare assistants 'doing nurses' tasks'
Patients are being put at risk
by healthcare assistants who have been asked to take on tasks for which they
have not been properly trained, nurses have warned.
http://tgr.ph/weloCS
Rethinking
clinical rotations (US)
KSU, CHOA challenge the status quo with
a new model for
training nursing students
Clinical rotations, in which nursing students
practice their skills in health care settings with real patients, is an
indispensable part of their education. No one disputes that, but nurses at
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and the WellStar School of Nursing at Kennesaw
State University are challenging the status quo of how that training is
delivered.
http://www.ajc.com/jobs/rethinking-clinical-rotations-1301798.html
Nurse health and wellbeing should be 'core principle' for NHS trusts (UK)
Trusts should be held to account for
improving the health and wellbeing of their workforce, the NHS Future Forum has
recommended
http://www.nursingtimes.net/5040004.article?referrer=e3
Overseas nurse numbers rise by 40% (UK)
The number of nurses coming to work in the UK
from overseas rose by 40% last year, new figures show.
http://www.nursingtimes.net/5039932.article?referrer=e3
Articles of
interest
Measuring
‘magnetism’ in Australian nursing environments
THE AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING
VOLUME 29 NUMBER 2
The aim of this research project was to use the NWI-R:A
tool to measure the organisational features that impact on ‘magnetism’ in
Australian health facilities.
http://www.ajan.com.au/Vol29/29-2_Joyce-McCoach.pdf
Wounding Words: Swearing and
Verbal Aggression in an Inpatient Setting
PURPOSE: The aim of the
research was to investigate swearing and verbal aggression in Australian
inpatient settings, including incidence, gender, patient motivation, and
nursing interventions.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1744-6163.2010.00295.x/full
New
publications
The Nurse's Role in Medication Safety, Second Edition.
Cima L, Clarke S, eds. Oakbrook
Terrace, IL: Joint Commission; 2012. ISBN: 9781599406183.
Exploring nurses' role in care delivery and medication safety,
this publication provides strategies for nurses to improve safety.
http://psnet.ahrq.gov/resource.aspx?resourceID=23784&sourceID=1&emailID=
Reports online
Hospital Incident Reporting Systems Do Not Capture Most
Patient Harm (USA)
Hospital incident
reporting systems captured only an estimated 14 percent of the patient harm
events experienced by Medicare beneficiaries. Hospitals investigated those
reported events that they considered most likely to lead to quality and safety
improvements and made few policy or practice changes as a result of reported
events. Hospital administrators classified the remaining events (86 percent) as
either events that staff did not perceive as reportable (61 percent) or as
events that staff commonly report but did not report in this case (25 percent).
http://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-06-09-00091.asp
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 17
January 2011
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