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College of Nurses – News Update.
No. 191 Wednesday 26 February 2014
From NZ media this week
Nursing skills gap warning
The job market may be tight nationwide for graduate nurses,
but trainers at the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology think their
students will come out on top.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/9757156/Nursing-skills-gap-warning
Nurses push for crisis plan
Nurses at Dunedin Hospital have given the Southern District
Health Board management until Monday to come up with a crisis plan in response
to their concerns.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/9762553/Nurses-push-for-crisis-plan
Nurses say 'staffing crisis' affects care
Dunedin nurses are being forced to ration care to patients
because of a staffing crisis, the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) says.
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/293088/nurses-say-staffing-crisis-affects-care
State-of-the-art androids
more human than ever
Call it a
dummy's guide for doctors.
Sam's heart
rate is plummeting, his throat closing over on the operating table.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/9741804/State-of-the-art-androids-more-human-than-ever/
'Time
to get serious' on alcohol-related injuries
Alcohol-related injury is a burden on the
Hawke’s Bay community and its health services which must be addressed, director
of population health Dr Caroline McElnay says.
http://www.voxy.co.nz/health/time-get-serious-alcohol-related-injuries/5/182035
Expert
midwife shocked mother 'fainted'
An inquest into the deaths of a mother and her
baby boy has focussed on whether lead maternity carers (LMCs) are supervised
and supported after graduation or left "flying solo".
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/9759047/Expert-midwife-shocked-mother-fainted
DHBs and Primary Health
Care
\DHB's 'in survival mode'
Nurses stopped work at Dunedin Hospital yesterday, apparently
fed up with issues that are undermining clinical safety - just one of many
signs the city's health services are in crisis, Dunedin MPs say.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/9758946/DHBs-in-survival-mode
DHB takes sugar off the menu
The Nelson Marlborough
District Health Board is banning all sales of sugary drinks from its hospitals.
From March 17, no sugary
beverages, including soft, sports, energy or flavour milk drinks, will be on
sale at the cafes and shops at Nelson and Wairau hospitals.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/regional/236768/dhb-takes-sugar-off-the-menu
Nelson trials online medical
records
Patients
will soon be able to access their own medical records online, order repeat
prescriptions and check their latest laboratory test results.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/9739208/Nelson-trials-online-medical-records
Pharmacy
Community pharmacies help treat diarrhoea
A two-year health pilot in
community pharmacies aimed at reducing risks of dehydration due to
gastroenteritis in children, is proving its worth with impressive uptake
throughout the MidCentral region.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1402/S00084/community-pharmacies-help-treat-diarrhoea.htm
PHARMAC
seeking public views on proposed new decision criteria
PHARMAC is
asking for people’s views on a proposed new framework for making pharmaceutical
funding decisions.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1402/S00095/pharmac-seeking-public-views-on-new-decision-criteria.htm
Public health
School fights to curb measles cases
Westlake Boys
High sends non-immunised students home after 19 contract disease.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11209216
40 Aucklanders sick with measles
One more case of measles has been confirmed in
Auckland today, bringing the total number of people sick with the disease to
40.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/health/news/article.cfm?c_id=204&objectid=11209796
Social health
State House priority for
rheumatic fever-risk families
A programme to fast-track families who have
children at risk of rheumatic fever into state homes will be rolled out from
Auckland to most of the North Island.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9739002/State-House-priority-for-rheumatic-fever-risk-families
1/3 of NZ
families affected by alcohol and drug problems
A third of
New Zealanders have a family member who has experienced negative effects in
their life due to alcohol or drug use, research commissioned by the New Zealand
Drug Foundation has shown.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1402/S00077/13-of-nz-families-affected-by-alcohol-and-drug-problems.htm
International media
New
social media policy and guidelines unveiled
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals will be banned
from discussing patients or posting pictures of procedures, case studies,
patients or sensitive material which may lead to patients being identified
without consent, under the National Board’s much-anticipated new social media
policy.
http://ncah.cmail3.com/t/r-l-pdjuudd-jukhkhirtj-q/
Work and management
Workplace abuse costing us
millions
Workplace bullying is costing the country
hundreds of millions of dollars a year - and at least one in five workers is
suffering from it, a leading expert says.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/better-business/9741808/Workplace-abuse-costing-us-millions
Health and wellness
Self-Care
With Self-Massage
Massage therapy boasts innumerable benefits for
optimal health. Massage has been associated with decreased pain, improved
sleep, as a treatment for anxiety and depression, and as an overall comfort
measure (for both the sick and the well.)
http://scrubs.nurse.com/blog/?p=3731?utm_source=nursecom-national-ezine_2-16-14&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nationalezine
Study: Shiftworkers Prone to Diets that Lead
to Chronic Inflammation
The finding
could shed light on why shiftwork has been linked to increased risks of
disease, including high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes.
http://ehstoday.com/health/study-shiftworkers-prone-diets-lead-chronic-inflammation?NL=OH-05&Issue=OH-05_20140218_OH-05_786&YM_RID=stop4th@xtra.co.nz&YM_MID=1450439&sfvc4enews=42&cl=article_1_b
Articles of interest
CPR practice boosts
resuscitation success
As Marion Leary, RN, MSN, assistant director of
clinical research at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Resuscitation
Science in Philadelphia, pointed out, “cardiac arrest can happen at any time,
anywhere.” When performed well, cardiopulmonary resuscitation boosts survival
rates after those arrests occur.
http://news.nurse.com/article/20140210/NATIONAL05/140207005#.UwPwx_mSz-o
High
bed occupancy rates: Are they a risk for patients and staff?
Aim: In order to produce empirical evidence on the relationship between
high bed occupancy and its potential hazards, this study correlates bed
occupancy rates with hospital patient safety and staff overload indicators.
- See
more at: http://www.nursingcenter.com/lnc/JournalArticle?Article_ID=1689923&Journal_ID=1658605&Issue_ID=1689587#sthash.rTgn5WhT.dpuf
Improving drug chart documentation in elective surgical patient
admissions.
National Institute for Health and Care
Excellence (NICE) guidelines state that all healthcare organisations should put
policies in place for medication reconciliation on admission. At Croydon
University Hospital a medication history had previously been taken in
Foundation Year 1 (FY1) preoperative clinics. However, when these clinics were
deemed unnecessary, this opportunity for drug chart documentation was lost,
along with an awareness of this responsibility among the FY1s. As a result
patients were being admitted to wards without adequate drug chart documentation
which resulted in a serious untoward incident occurring. This project aimed to increase
awareness among FY1s of this responsibility and as a result increase drug chart
documentation in postoperative elective surgical patients.
http://qir.bmj.com/content/2/2/u591.w893.full
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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Tuesday 25 February 2014
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