Welcome to the College of Nurses – News Update.
No. 212 Wednesday 23 Jul
2014
From NZ media this week
50 years of intensive care
Wellington Intensive Care Unit is hosting a cocktail party
next month to launch its new charity trust and celebrate its 50th anniversary.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/local-papers/the-wellingtonian/10276375/50-years-of-intensive-care
Rural nurses needed, as well as doctors
The Rural General Practice Network wants the
effort being made to encourage young doctors to work in rural areas, extended
to nurses as well.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/rural/250040/rural-nurses-needed,-as-well-as-doctors
Petition to start growing a
"sustainable" nursing workforce
Today the New Zealand Nurses Organisation is
launching a petition aimed at achieving a nurse entry to practice (NEtP)
position for every new grad nurse.
http://www.voxy.co.nz/health/petition-start-growing-sustainable-nursing-workforce/5/196787
Nurse who punched patient lacked skill
A nurse who punched a patient failed to provide
care and skill, a Health Commissioner has found.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11296966
Nursing graduates struggle to get jobs
Amid a regular stream of new graduates, fledgling nurses are
struggling to get jobs, a Manawatu nurse graduate says as a petition lobbying
for more graduate positions gets under way.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/10294399/Nursing-graduates-struggle-to-get-jobs
Nurses
serving their community through faith
The New Zealand Faith Community Nurses
Association will be looking at ways to keep the ministry sustainable at its
annual conference in September this year.
http://www.voxy.co.nz/health/nurses-serving-their-community-through-faith/5/196969
Some nurses unwilling to wash uniforms
Some emergency department nurses fought a change that has
them laundering their uniforms, Dunedin Hospital ED specialist John Chambers
says.
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/309610/some-nurses-unwilling-wash-uniforms
Minister backs cuts to
maternity units
Health Minister Tony Ryall has backed the
Waikato District Health Board's decision to cut funding to the Morrinsville and
Te Awamutu maternity units.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/10275558/Minister-backs-cuts-to-maternity-units
English car smoking ban a
model for New Zealand
Tala Pasifika has welcomed the launch of a
consultation bringing a ban on smoking in cars carrying children a step closer
in England, saying its information will usher the measure along in New Zealand.
http://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/un-doctored/2014/july-2014/16/english-car-smoking-ban-a-model-for-new-zealand.aspx
Govt lags on some targets
The Government is falling short of key targets
it set itself for reducing child abuse and rheumatic fever.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/health/news/article.cfm?c_id=204&objectid=11296989
Kidney service will boost transplants
The Government is setting up a National Renal
Transplant Service to boost the country's low kidney transplantation rate.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/250003/kidney-service-will-boost-transplants
International media
Nurses and midwives take health care pledge
Australia’s largest health union is calling on nurses, midwives
and the public to pledge to take a stand against the Federal Government’s
proposed health cuts.
http://www.ncah.com.au/news-events/nurses-and-midwives-take-health-care-pledge/2141/
Hospitals get guidelines on safe nurse
numbers
Hospitals in England are being given strict
guidelines on safe staffing levels for nurses - but they stop short of giving
absolute minimums.
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-28300146
Nurse-Family Partnerships
reduces preventable deaths among mothers, children
Preventable deaths among low-income mothers and
their first-born children living in disadvantaged neighborhoods can be
significantly reduced by the implementation of Nurse-Family Partnership, a
nurse home visiting program, according to a st
http://www.sacbee.com/2014/07/14/6556347/nurse-family-partnerships-reduces.html
Nurse
Practitioners Gain Flexibility With New State Law
Starting July 15, nurse practitioners in Kentucky
who have completed a four-year collaboration with a physician will be allowed to prescribe routine medications
without a doctor’s involvement, a major shift that could help improve
consumers’ access to care.
http://bit.ly/1A2YXBj
Under
new law, nurses could make up for shortage of doctors
FRANKFORT, KY. — More than 420,000 Kentuckians have
health insurance now because of the federal Affordable Care Act, many for the
first time in their lives.
Now who is going to treat
them?
http://www.kentucky.com/2014/07/14/3336527/new-law-aims-to-help-newly-insured.html
Registered Nurses Increasingly Delay
Retirement, Study Finds
Despite predictions of an impending nurse
shortage, the current number of working registered nurses has surpassed
expectations in part due to the number of baby-boomer RNs delaying retirement,
a study by the RAND Corp. found.
http://bit.ly/1jAnBnZ
Nurses could manage chronic care on doctors’
orders
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Expanding the role of nurses in
managing chronic conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure and high
cholesterol could be an effective way to handle the shortage of primary care
physicians, according to a new study.
http://news.yahoo.com/nurses-could-manage-chronic-care-doctors-orders-205850989.html
Nurse will
see you to keep doctor free
PATIENTS with
minor conditions could be seen by nurses so GPs can focus on more complex cases
under new plans.
Health bosses
want to change how patients are seen as part of a consultation launched this
week by the county’s NHS.
http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/11348663.Nurse_will_see_you_to_keep_doctor_free/
Nurses
Expand Outpatient Care for Chronically Ill Adults
THURSDAY, July 17, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Team care
involving nurse-managed protocols is one model that may improve outpatient care
for adults with chronic conditions, according to research published in the July
15 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine. -
See more at: http://www.hcplive.com/articles/Nurses-Expand-Outpatient-Care-for-Chronically-Ill-Adults#sthash.65JNzJ6X.dpuf
Germany
needs 300k nurses
SOME 300,000
Filipino registered nurses are needed in Germany, a provincial consultant said.
Herbert
Walter, chair of the HDC-German Knowledge Sprachzentrum, a Cebu-based German
learning center, visited the Cebu Provincial Capitol yesterday.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/local-news/2014/07/18/germany-needs-300k-nurses-354674
Nurse-led chronic-condition care could offset primary care shortage
Giving nurses a larger role in care for chronic conditions such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and
diabetes could help offset the primary care physician shortage, according to a new study published in the Annals of Internal
Medicine.
http://bit.ly/1A2YMGe
DHB specific
DHB caught out deleting public records
The national organ donation service at Auckland
District Health Board has been put on notice by an official-information
watchdog after it was caught out deleting public records.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11296853
Social health
Cold, damp homes at root of hardship
In the second part of
a series looking at issues facing struggling households, Stacey Knott examines
the impacts of poor housing.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/10272854/Cold-damp-homes-at-root-of-hardship
Study finds two thirds of children living in damp, cold homes
Two thirds of New Zealand children are living in
damp, cold homes, increasing the chances they'll get sick as babies and
toddlers.
http://bit.ly/1lki3sV
Children's 'vulnerability' like revolving
door
Children's
"vulnerability" is more like a revolving door than a fixed state, a
new report has found.
The report
from the Growing Up in New Zealand study, which is tracking 6500 children born
in Auckland and the Waikato in 2009-10, says many children who were counted as
"vulnerable" on the basis of 12 risk factors when their mothers were
pregnant had already lost those risk factors by the time they turned 2.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11296474
Power cost seen in health
The electricity market is maximising profit at the cost of
people's health, even while demand is declining, energy analyst Molly Melhuish
says.
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/309581/power-cost-seen-health
Articles of interest
Effects of Nurse-Managed Protocols in the
Outpatient Management of Adults With Chronic Conditions: A Systematic
Review and Meta-analysis
Background: Changes in federal health
policy are providing more access to medical care for persons with chronic
disease. Providing quality care may require a team approach, which the American
College of Physicians calls the “medical home.” One new model may involve
nurse-managed protocols.
Purpose: To determine whether
nurse-managed protocols are effective for outpatient management of adults with
diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia.
http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1887028
Efficacy of Diabetes Nurse
Expert Team Program to Improve Nursing Confidence and Expertise in Caring for
Hospitalized Patients With Diabetes Mellitus
Nursing care for hospitalized patients with diabetes has
become more complex as evidence accumulates that inpatient glycemic control
improves outcomes. Previous studies have highlighted challenges for educators
in providing inpatient diabetes education to nurses. In this article, the
authors show that a unit-based diabetes nurse expert team model, developed and
led by a diabetes clinical nurse specialist, effectively increased nurses'
confidence and expertise in inpatient diabetes care. Adapting this model in
other institutions may be a cost-effective way to improve inpatient diabetes
care and safety as well as promote professional growth of staff nurses. - See
more at: http://www.nursingcenter.com/lnc/JournalArticle?Article_ID=2471851&Journal_ID=54029&Issue_ID=2471649#sthash.KyQ3Qri3.dpuf
Nurses’
Self-Efficacy and Academic Degree Advancement -
The last decade has brought about a synergy of influences
for registered nurses to advance their academic preparation. Literature
indicates that there is correlation between self-efficacy and goal
establishment and success. The purpose of this project was to evaluate the
relationship between self-efficacy and advancing academic aspirations of
registered nurses. Findings indicated that there was a trend toward a
difference in the self-efficacy of nurses who began their career with a diploma
or associate degree and went on for academic advancement and those who did not.
–
See more at: http://bit.ly/1nbNDxE
Weaving a healthcare
tapestry of safety and communication
The most significant challenge for new nursing graduates is
effective communication with other nurses and members of the healthcare team.1
Nurses are often the lead members of a healthcare team to initiate
communication, yet, classroom education insufficiently prepares nurse graduates
to manage the aspects of communication within the multidisciplinary patient
care team. - See more at: http://bit.ly/1wXaOfP
Encouraging
clinical nurse empowerment
You're on your way home from a hectic and frustrating day
at the hospital. Even though your unit was fully staffed, you're feeling
stressed and disappointed. For weeks, you've been too busy to meet with your
team to discuss their ideas for reducing patient falls on the unit. Today, you
were informed that a meeting is no longer needed because a systemwide fall
reduction plan will soon be implemented. - See more at: http://bit.ly/1njRRmm
Running
on empty? The facts about nursing fatigue
Everyone experiences mild fatigue occasionally; it's the
body's way of saying it needs rest and sleep. When fatigue becomes a persistent
feeling of tiredness or exhaustion; however, it's a red flag that something's
amiss. –
See more at: http://www.nursingcenter.com/lnc/JournalArticle?Article_ID=1693539&Journal_ID=417221&Issue_ID=1693405
Physicians report satisfaction with advanced
practice professionals
Three-quarters of physicians who employed nurse practitioners
and physicians’ assistants said the advanced practice professionals contributed
to the productivity of their medical practices and that more patients received
care, according to a survey by a healthcare staffing company.
http://news.nurse.com/article/20140717/NATIONAL06/140717002#.U81nP_mSyCo
Bullying
in the Health Care Environment
Over the past several months, bullying has made national
headlines. Once thought of as occurring only on the middle school playground,
it has entered professional sports locker rooms, causing the suspension of
professional athletes, cyberspace, contributing to the deaths of
schoolchildren, and the workplace, causing disruption, threatening patient
safety, and utilizing precious resources. Although bullying is widely
recognized, a culture of silence perpetuates. Fear of repercussion contributes
to underreporting and thus inadequate and ineffective interventions. This
column focuses on the effects of bullying in the workplace, specifically the
health care environment, and interventions to overcome its presence and
perpetuation.
http://www.nursingcenter.com/lnc/JournalArticle?Article_ID=2483458&Journal_ID=496448&Issue_ID=2483345
Rekindling the flame:
Using mindfulness to end nursing burnout
As suggested in the literature, nursing burnout has been a
prominent concern for the profession. Because of the complexities of today's
healthcare environment-from patient care and clerical duties to digital storage
systems and digital documentation-the work responsibilities of a nurse are
challenging and technically complex, making the daily work load very demanding
–
http://www.nursingcenter.com/lnc/JournalArticle?Article_ID=1618249&Journal_ID=54013&Issue_ID=1618166
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College of Nurses Aotearoa (NZ) Inc by Linda Stopforth, SNIPS and is provided
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Tuesday 22 Jul 2014
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