Welcome to the College of Nurses – News Update.
No. 223 Wednesday 8 October 2014
From NZ media this week
Retiring nurse hails 40 years of change in cardiac care
People who get a chance at life through surgery
or medical intervention but continue to abuse their bodies still upset a
retiring Waikato Hospital senior nurse.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11335879
Nurses choosing better pay
at DHBs
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation says Maori
nurses are choosing to work in district health boards over Whanau Ora health
providers because of a lack of pay parity.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/256036/nurses-choosing-better-pay-at-dhbs
New nursing leader appointed to ProCare’s
Māori Advisory Committee
The ProCare Health Limited
Board has appointed Lorraine Hetaraka-Stevens (Registered Comprehensive Nurse)
to ProCare’s Māori Advisory Committee. The committee provides governance and
advice to ProCare regarding the health and wellbeing of the network’s more than
87,000 Māori patients.
http://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/un-doctored/2014/october-2014/06/new-nursing-leader-appointed-to-procare%E2%80%99s-m%C4%81ori-advisory-committee.aspx
Nurse stole controlled drugs
A registered nurse has been caught stealing dozens of vials
of medical-grade painkillers in Taranaki.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/10590992/Nurse-stole-controlled-drugs
'Thousands less' for Whānau Ora work
The National Council of Māori nurses says some
Māori nurses who work for Whānau Ora health providers are earning thousands of
dollars less than their counterparts in district health boards.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/256129/'thousands-less'-for-whanau-ora-work
A creepy way to clean wounds
Dallas Bishop's backyard
insect house in Upper Hutt buzzes loudly and smells of rotting cat food.
Bishop, a forensic
entomologist, has been breeding maggots for a decade and posts them around New
Zealand in increasing numbers for doctors and nurses to treat patients whose
wounds have failed to heal by other methods.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/10578472/A-creepy-way-to-clean-wounds
Patients and the impatience
'We won't send anyone
away.'
It's early Saturday night
and the emergency department at Taranaki Base Hospital goes into lockdown.
A patient with mental
health issues wants to go home, but for his own safety medical staff want him
to go to Te Puna Waiora
http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/10578613/Patients-and-the-impatience
Patients may
benefit from operating room team simulations
Shorter
hospital stays and reduced complication rates may be the result of new
team-orientated simulation-based training being pioneered by the University of
Auckland.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1410/S00019/patients-may-benefit-from-operating-room-team-simulations.htm
Maori lead
the way with health solutions
Maori are
leading the way when it comes to innovative health solutions for all New
Zealanders, pre-eminent Maori academic Dr Mason Durie told the NZ Population
Health Congress in Auckland today.
http://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/un-doctored/2014/october-2014/06/maori-lead-the-way-with-health-solutions.aspx
From international media sources this week
National Nursing Shortage Fueled by Lack of
Teachers
They’re often the first people you see at the doctor’s
office, and the first line of defense in any ER – but America’s nursing
population is shrinking fast.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/10/national-nursing-shortage-fueled-by-lack-of-teachers/
U.S. Nurses Say They Are Unprepared To Handle Ebola Patients
Nurses, the frontline care providers in U.S.
hospitals, say they are untrained and unprepared to handle patients arriving in
their hospital emergency departments infected with Ebola.
http://www.kesq.com/news/us-nurses-say-they-are-unprepared-to-handle-ebola-patients/28409310
Hospital: EHR Flaw Obscured Ebola Patient's Travel Note
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital says it has identified and modified a
flaw in the way the physician and nursing portions of its electronic health
records system interact.
http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/TEC-309001/Hospital-EHR-Flaw-Obscured-Ebola-Patients-Travel-Note
SK registered nurses review role of licensed
practical nurses
RNs say roles need to be
clarified between RNs and LPNs
http://www.newstalk650.com/story/sk-registered-nurses-review-role-licensed-practical-nurses/420958
Cancer
Call to extend breast screening
The national breast-screening programme spends about $50
million a year on mammograms for women aged 45 to 69.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/255937/call-to-extend-breast-screening
Public health
Ebola unlikely in NZ, but we're ready -
Goodhew
Associate Health Minister Jo Goodhew says New
Zealand is well placed to detect and respond to Ebola if it were to reach the
country.
http://www.voxy.co.nz/health/ebola-unlikely-nz-were-ready-goodhew/5/203619
Health officials prepare for arrival of Ebola
virus
Hospitals around the country are preparing tough containment
procedures, including posting security guards outside isolation units, in the
event of Ebola-infected travellers arriving here.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/10580902/Health-officials-prepare-for-arrival-of-Ebola-virus?cid=edm:stuff:dailyheadlines
Ready and waiting for Ebola
Middlemore Hospital is
gearing up to look after patients infected with the deadly Ebola virus if it
arrives in the country.
Health officials say it is
highly unlikely the virus will make it to New Zealand.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/10583373/Ready-and-waiting-for-Ebola
Websites of interest
Boomers and beyond
Helping people
prepare for a later life that has meaning, purpose and joy is one of the main
aims of this site. With such a huge demographic shift, encouraging people to
plan for their wellbeing in retirement (or when easing off the work pedal a
little) as early as possible, can help make this often difficult life
transition much easier. Like financial planning for retirement, wellbeing
planning works better the sooner it starts. However, we also recognise when
you’re in your 50s and younger, old age can still seem a long way away. As some
wit once said “old age is always 15 years older than I am”.
This site is
for everyone with an interest in ageing positively. It is aligned with
the Mental
Health Foundation’s Five Ways to Wellbeing and also with the
government’s Positive Ageing Strategy, which aims for older New
Zealanders to be healthy, independent, connected and respected.
http://boomers.org.nz/
Articles of interest
How
does it really feel to be in my shoes? Patients' experiences of compassion
within nursing care and their perceptions of developing compassionate nurses
Journal of
Clinical Nursing
Volume 23, Issue 19-20,pages 2790–2799, October 2014
To understand how patients
experience compassion within nursing care and explore their perceptions of developing
compassionate nurses.
Background
Compassion is a fundamental
part of nursing care. Individually, nurses have a duty of care to show
compassion; an absence can lead to patients feeling devalued and lacking in
emotional support. Despite recent media attention, primary research around
patients' experiences and perceptions of compassion in practice and its
development in nursing care remains in short supply.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jocn.12537/pdf
Nursing
students' perceptions of their clinical learning environment in placements
outside traditional hospital settings
Journal of
Clinical Nursing
Volume 23, Issue 19-20,pages 2958–2967, October 2014
To explore students'
opinions of the learning environment during clinical placement in settings
outside traditional hospital settings.
Background
Clinical placement
experiences may influence positively on nursing students attitudes towards the
clinical setting in question. Most studies exploring the quality of clinical
placements have targeted students' experience in hospital settings. The number
of studies exploring students' experiences of the learning environment in
healthcare settings outside of the hospital venue does not match the growing
importance of such settings in the delivery of health care, nor the growing
number of nurses needed in these venues.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jocn.12532/abstract
Reports online
Transition care for older people leaving hospital
The Australian Institute for Health and Welfare has
published Transition care for older people leaving hospital:
2005-06 to 2012-13.
This report looks at the Transition Care Program which assisted more than
87,000 people between 2005 and 2013. 81% of the recipients completed
their planned care under the program, and of them 76% had improved functional
status. 54% of care recipients returned to live in the community, and of
these two thirds did not enter residential aged care within 12 months.
AIHW 2014. Transition care for older people leaving hospital: 2005-06 to
2012-13. Aged care statistics series 40. Cat. no. AGE 75. Canberra: AIHW
http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=60129548459
Professional development
DANA ‘Many Faces of Addiction’ Forum 2015 – Call for
abstracts
The DANA Organising Committee for the ‘Many Faces of
Addiction’ Forum 2015 invites you to submit an abstract for an
oral or poster presentation. The Forum will be held at Novotel Sydney
Central, 13 – 14 August 2015.
The DANA Forum theme, ‘Many Faces of Addiction’, reflects the
diverse nature of addiction and the many people that it affects. As nurses, we
are conscious that the impact of drug and alcohol misuse can be viewed from
many different perspectives and understanding each perspective is important to
determine best practice. Approaches to the treatment of addiction are evolving
and in order to effectively respond to these changes, nurses and other health
care workers need to be aware of contemporary substance use and associated
issues.
To find out more, visit www.danaconference.com.au
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 7 October 2014
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