Welcome to the College of Nurses – News Update.
No. 206 Wednesday 11
June 2014
From NZ media this week
The
unsung heroes of New Zealand's emergency departments
The sights, the sounds and
the carnage that frontline staff are confronted with every weekend make them
unsung heroes.
Campbell Live wanted to see
first-hand what they have to put up with, and so sent reporters to three
different emergency departments – in the Waikato, Wellington and Dunedin.
http://www.3news.co.nz/The-unsung-heroes-of-New-Zealands-emergency-departments/tabid/817/articleID/347811/Default.aspx
Nurse wins case against Council after three
years of 'misery'
A nurse who quit her job after being overheard
speaking about whether an elderly woman should be resuscitated has won an end
to a formal investigation that has dragged on for nearly three years and caused
her "misery".
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11270701
Indigenous nurses hui planned
Plans are underway for the
first ever Aotearoa Indigenous Nurses hui in Auckland.
The New Zealand Nurses
Organisation will host the conference in August, in conjunction with its annual
general meeting.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/246468/indigenous-nurses-hui-planned
District has more nurses and doctors
There are 17 more doctors and 25 more nurses
employed by the Whanganui District Health Board (WDHB) now than in 2008.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/wanganui-chronicle/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503426&objectid=11268679
More doctors and nurses for Bay
Bay of Plenty patients are reaping the rewards of having more
doctors and nurses at their bedside, according to Minister of Health and Bay MP
Tony Ryall.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503343&objectid=11266852
Six-hour waiting times tackled
Lakes District Health Board is putting several
new measures in place to reduce the number of people spending more than six
hours in the emergency department.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503438&objectid=11268781
Rate your GP surveys under consideration
Is your doctor a polite
professional or a fumbling flirt?
Soon you will be able to
tell them what you think, with the Government considering introducing
nationwide rate-my-GP surveys for patients.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/10133541/Rate-your-GP-surveys-under-consideration
Maori hospital admissions high
Health professionals have
been told the majority of the country's hospital admissions are Maori.
Nationally, tangata whenua
made up about 111,000 of the country's 168,000 in 2011-2012, according to
figures released by Bay of Plenty District Health Board.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/246467/maori-hospital-admissions-high
Patient opposes dogs in GP clinic
Bad hygiene or good
therapeutic value?
A patient complaint over two dogs in a West Coast doctor's
consultation room has sparked a dispute over the lack of legislation governing
animals in medical practices.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/west-coast/10137453/Patient-opposes-dogs-in-GP-clinic
International media
'Mock patients' aid
trainee nurses' hands-on experience
Deakin University is embracing a novel way of teaching hands-on
patient interaction to budding nurses through the use of live stand-ins or
‘mock patients’ instead of inanimate models for training purposes.
http://www.ncah.com.au/news-events/mock-patients-aid-trainee-nurses-hands-on-experience/2100/
How to champion the cause
Maryanne Sapio, vice president of federal government affairs
at AANP, says NPs are needed to help change the future of healthcare delivery.
“Nurse practitioners are the champions we need to advocate for legislation that
will modernize the Medicare program to reflect the services and care that nurse
practitioners are providing.”
http://news.nurse.com/article/20140517/NATIONAL06/140519007#.U4eq3PmSz-o
ANA
Backs Federal Nurse Staffing Bill
A Senate bill
calls for unit-by-unit staffing plans and publicly reporting those staffing
plans, but stops short of dictating mandated nurse-patient ratios.
http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/NRS-304933/ANA-Backs-Federal-Nurse-Staffing-Bill
Leading Change in Healthcare
LEADERSHIP It’s important not only to
recognize the many roles that nurses play, but also to encourage young people
to pursue careers in this rewarding and vital profession.
- See more at: http://www.nurseappreciation.com/leadership/leading-change-in-healthcare#sthash.UObLP4hC.dpuf
New study shows nurses believe they have high
patient loads
BOSTON (WWLP) - Health care has taken a huge hit in
western Massachusetts with the closure of North Adams Regional Hospital and
infant deaths at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton. To add to
growing concerns, an independent study conducted just last month shows nearly
80% of registered nurses believe hospital care is getting worse, and they say
it is because of high patient loads.
http://wwlp.com/2014/06/04/new-study-shows-nurses-believe-they-have-high-patient-loads/
Allocate
Software Launches New Nurse Rostering Software
LONDON (Alliance News) - Allocate Software PLC
Thursday said it will launch its SafeCare-All-the-Time product at the NHS
Confederation Annual Conference in Liverpool.
http://www.lse.co.uk/AllNews.asp?code=u70mqlec&headline=Allocate_Software_Launches_New_Nurse_Rostering_Software
Spotlight
on nurse anesthetists in Clinical Scholars Review
As a profession, nurse anesthesia is at a
tipping point. While recent federal legislation and changes to the U.S. Medicareprogram have expanded opportunities for certified registered
nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) to provide care to more patients and receive
reimbursement for their services, many states still restrict their scope of
practice and limit their pay. A special section in the current issue of Clinical Scholars Review, the journal of advanced
practice nursing published by Columbia Nursing, explores how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) empowers CRNAs to help make anesthesia services
more accessible to patients, while also highlighting laws in New York and other
states that may impede the expanded access to care envisioned by ACA.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/277532.php?tw
Public health
Obesity epidemic at 'crisis' point
New Zealand is fat, getting
fatter, and doctors say urgent action needs to be taken.
The New Zealand Medical
Association, which represents thousands of doctors, says the soaring obesity
rate is now a "public health crisis".
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/10133645/Obesity-epidemic-at-crisis-point
Support for call to tackle obesity
The national association of kura kaupapa Maori
is backing calls for government policy to support community programmes trying
to tackle obesity.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/246744/support-for-call-to-tackle-obesity
Rheumatic heart disease hidden danger
Heart tests on Wellington schoolchildren have
picked up four cases of previously undetected rheumatic heart disease for each
known case of rheumatic fever.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/246687/rheumatic-heart-disease-hidden-danger
Many with bowel cancer
unaware
Many people could be living with undiagnosed bowel cancer,
one of the country's leading bowel surgeons says.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/10116975/Many-with-bowel-cancer-unaware
Experts demand bowel cancer action
New Zealanders are dying while a 16-year
"talkfest" continues about whether to screen for bowel cancer,
according to a Canterbury surgeon.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/246448/experts-demand-bowel-cancer-action
What heart patients need to know
Many leave hospital
without all the info, study shows.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11270760
Thyroid
cancer risk in NZ 'highest among Pacific women'
Just-published
research shows Pacific women have the highest rates of thyroid cancer in New
Zealand.
Published
today in the New Zealand Medical Journal, the University of Otago Wellington
study linked Census and cancer registration data to calculate incidence rates
of the disease between 1981 and 2004, with a total of 2541 thyroid cancers
included in the study period.
http://www.voxy.co.nz/health/thyroid-cancer-risk-nz-highest-among-pacific-women/5/192587
Health research
Health research gets $78m Govt shot in the
arm
Maternal brain and Huntington’s projects among
those to gain funds.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11270773
Where Government health grants have been
spent
Research spanning the effects of hormones on a
pregnant mother's brain to the potentially negative health effects that pets
may have on families can begin, thanks to the latest round of funding for
health projects.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/health/news/article.cfm?c_id=204&objectid=11270565
Social media
Committed
nurses cope with stress by dehumanising themselves and their patients - Italian
study
Nursing must be one of the most stressful professions.
Not only are the hours long and the work challenging, many nurses are exposed
routinely to patient suffering and death. A new study conducted in Italy finds
that nurses appear to cope by seeing themselves and their patients as less than
fully human.
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/committed-nurses-cope-with-stress-by.html#.U5ORMfmSz-o
HCLDR Highlight: Barriers to Aging Adults
Adopting e-Patient Approach
Wouldn't it be great if
older adults -- and their families -- could leverage the Internet, and perhaps
some technology tools, to better manage their health and wellbeing?
http://www.geritech.org/2014/06/hcldr-highlight-aging-epatient-barriers.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Geritech+%28GeriTech%29
Articles of interest
"Room of Errors" Saves Lives
Modern medicine can be complicated - relying on
high-tech procedures and multiple medications, so it’s no surprise that medical
mistakes occur. One study estimates they lead to 400,000 preventable
deaths a year and ten times as many serious injuries. To attack that
problem, the University of Virginia Medical Center has launched a pilot program
called “The Room of Errors.”
http://wvtf.org/post/room-errors-saves-lives
"Situation Room" for Patient Safety
The University of Virginia Medical Center
admits more than 28,000 patients a year and does nearly 54,000 outpatient
surgeries.
http://wvtf.org/post/situation-room-patient-safety
Publications and Reports online
Limit spread of blood-borne
viruses among steroid users
Needle and
syringe programmes should support the growing number of image and performance
enhancing drug users so they can be offered sterile equipment to reduce the
spread of blood-borne viruses and infections from contaminated needles.
http://www.nice.org.uk/ph52
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