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No. 219 Wednesday 10 September 2014
From NZ media this week
Graduate nurse heads back to where it all
started
Twenty-two-years ago a tiny Caitlin Cowan was
just starting out life at home after spending the first three months of it in
Christchurch Women’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
http://www.voxy.co.nz/health/graduate-nurse-heads-back-where-it-all-started/5/201531
Two nurses criticised over elderly death
Two registered nurses at a rest home have come in for
criticism from the Health and Disability Commissioner.
http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/auckland/news/nbnat/833433943-two-nurses-criticised-over-elderly-death
AN INTERNATIONAL STUDY OF NURSING COMPETENCE
FRAMEWORKS
Over many years Dr Rachael Vernon’s research
focused on the continuing competence of nurses to practise, looking at the
processes used by nursing regulatory authorities to monitor how safe the health
professional is in caring for the public. In 2010, as lead researcher,
Rachael completed an evaluation of the Nursing Council of New Zealand’s
Continuing Competence Framework and concluded that the framework was a
well-accepted and recognised regulatory tool for assessing and monitoring the
continuing competence of nurses and their safety to practise.
http://www.eit.ac.nz/2014/an-international-study-of-nursing-competence-frameworks/
From international media sources this week
Nurses
are delaying retirement. Why, and what it means.
WORCESTER — Kathleen E. Wilson has worked in a hospital
intensive care department for newborns, consulted for an intravenous therapy
company and supervised nurses who make home visits to patients.
http://www.telegram.com/article/20140907/NEWS/309079955/1237
Nearly 1 in 5 nurses leaves first job within
a year, survey finds
Nearly 18 percent of newly licensed registered nurses leave
their first nursing job within the first year, and roughly 34 percent leave
within two years, according to a study in Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice.
http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce-labor-management/nearly-1-in-5-nurses-leaves-first-job-within-a-year-survey-finds.html
Empowering nurse practitioners could reduce
hospitalizations from SNFs, study finds
Granting more authority to nurse practitioners
is associated with reduced hospitalization of skilled nursing facility
residents, according to recently published findings.
http://www.mcknights.com/empowering-nurse-practitioners-could-reduce-hospitalizations-from-snfs-study-finds/article/368743/
Anxiety over funding row 'could see nursing
courses close' (Registration needed)
Universities are considering scrapping nursing courses due to uncertainty
over future funding, education leaders have claimed.
http://www.nursingtimes.net/5074349.article?WT.tsrc=email&WT.mc_id=Newsletter1
South England hospitals 'failing to meet
nurse levels'
Hospitals in the south of England are failing
to provide the recommended number of nursing staff on wards, a BBC investigation
has found.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-29012228
Increased Investment Needed to Produce 1.1 Million RNs,
Head Off Nursing Shortage
12 Percent Increase in Nursing Workforce Development
Funding Urged
SILVER SPRING, MD – The U.S. will need to produce
1.1 million new registered nurses
(RNs) by 2022 to fill newly created jobs and replace
a legion of soon-to-be retirees
http://nursingworld.org/FunctionalMenuCategories/MediaResources/PressReleases/2014-PR/Increased-Investment-Needed-to-Produce-11-Million-RNs-Head-Off-Nursing-Shortage.pdf
ANA
Calls for Federal Funding to Bolster RN Training
About $250 million will be needed in 2015 to ensure that the nation's
nursing schools can continue to produce enough registered nurses to meet the
nation's estimated demand for the next seven years, says the head of the
American Nurses Association.
http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/LED-308014/ANA-Calls-for-Federal-Funding-to-Bolster-RN-Training##
DHBs and PHOs
PHOs making great strides -
Ryall
New Zealanders are getting more immunisations,
checks for diabetes and heart diseases and more help to quit smoking says
Health Minister Tony Ryall.
http://www.voxy.co.nz/health/phos-making-great-strides-ryall/5/200985
Mental health
Community mental health providers under
pressure
Community mental health and addiction service providers say
they're being driven into the ground by unfair and uneven funding from DHBs.
They say they're being pressured to provide more with less and only four out of
20 DHBs are even passing on to providers the inflation adjustment they receive
from government.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/20148046/community-mental-health-providers-under-pressure
Public health
Investment in children’s health will improve
economy
The New Zealand College of
Public Health Medicine (NZCPHM) is urging the new Government to develop a
national cross-sector child poverty strategy
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1409/S00027/investment-in-childrens-health-will-improve-economy.htm
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Funding needed for foetal alcohol sydrome
A neuropsychologist who works with children who have
foetal alcohol syndrome says the disorder is a national travesty and needs
funding to address.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/253966/funding-needed-for-foetal-alcohol-sydrome
Cut drinks before you
conceive
New Zealand's
binge-drinking culture is putting unborn babies at risk, a Taranaki health
promoter says.
Jill
Nicholls, of the Taranaki District Health Board, said pregnant women and those
planning to become pregnant should avoid all alcohol.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/10474268/Cut-drinks-before-you-conceive
More tax hikes needed to be smokefree
Bigger tax hikes on cigarettes - on top of other measures -
will be needed to make the country "smokefree" by 2025, researchers
say.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/10455114/More-tax-hikes-needed-to-be-smokefree
Maori mums' smoking big health worry in Bay
Nearly half of Maori mothers giving birth are
smokers, dooming Maori to continued poor health.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503462&objectid=11318261
Obesity
Child obesity: The issue no one wants to
raise
With more and more parents unable to recognise their kids are
overweight, healthcare professionals may need to step into the breach.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/10447062/Child-obesity-The-issue-no-one-wants-to-raise
Obesity programme rolled out in Rotorua
Rotorua is to be given a $2.5 million funding
boost to run an obesity programme that will see people weigh less, have smaller
waists and be able to run faster.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503438&objectid=11318324
Election 2014
How to make your vote count
With the upcoming election drawing near, HFG editor Niki
Bezzant asks the political parties about their policies on obesity and
nutrition.
http://www.healthyfood.co.nz/blogs/healthy-food-guide/2014/august/18/how-to-make-your-vote-count
Newsletters and journals
JPHC SEPTEMBER 2014
Volume 06, No.3
September 2014 JPHC index ISSN 1172-6156 (Online)
https://www.rnzcgp.org.nz/jphc-september-2014/
Available full text
in pdf form
From the Ministry of Health
Green Prescription Active Families Survey
Report: June 2014
The Green Prescription
(GRx) Active Families programme has grown out of the nationwide GRx initiative
for adults, responding to requests from primary care for something similar for
children and young people. There are 13 contract holders throughout NZ.
There must be commitment
from the family for involvement in the programme and a willingness to improve
their nutrition and increase physical activity.
Criteria for admittance to
the programme is an inactive child with a BMI of over 25. 1091 children
from 941 families were referred to the programme during 2013/14 mainly
referred by GPs with many families being Maori and Pacific from low
socioeconomic areas,
This is the seventh annual
survey, the first conducted on behalf of the Ministry, the others conducted by
SPARC before the transfer of GRx to the Ministry in July 2009.
Main survey points are:
76% % of participants are
more active since receiving their GRx and 69% have encouraged other family
members to get more active
90% % of families have made
changes to their diets, mainly less sugary food and drink, eating fewer
takeaways, more fruit and vegetables
97% % are now more aware of
and understand the benefits of physical activity
91% of participants have
noticed health changes including: willingness to try new activities, more
energy and confidence, weight loss and less medication.
Satisfaction with the
service (activity and nutrition sessions and home visits) is very high at 98%
with comments such as “We didn’t think our lives would change so much for the
better, they do a wonderful job.” And “really enjoy the programme and the
benefits of a whole whanau doing it so we can learn to be healthy together”.
http://www.health.govt.nz/publication/green-prescription-active-families-survey-report-june-2014
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