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to the College of Nurses – News Update.
No. 232 Wednesday 10
December 2014
From NZ media this week
Afghani refugee wins
nursing scholarship
Afghani
nursing student Nida Alizadah is the first woman in her family to attend a
tertiary institution.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/63956080/Afghani-refugee-wins-nursing-scholarship
New Zealander of the Year nomination: Nurses
answered call to help Sierra Leone's Ebola victims
An Ebola death rate of 70
per cent did not stop two Kiwi nurses from answering the call for help.
Donna Collins and Sharon
Mackie signed up to spend three weeks as part of a large team of international
nurses and humanitarian aid specialists sent by the New Zealand Red Cross to
work for the International Federation of Red Cross at an Ebola treatment centre
near Kenema, Sierra Leone's third-biggest city.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11370431
There's
a doctor in the House now
The new Health Minister may be confessing to a
few "puffs" of cannabis in his youth, but don't expect him to go soft
on drugs.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/63891543/Theres-a-doctor-in-the-House-now
Baby post a breach of
privacy
A
Waikato midwife believed to have been involved in delivering a 7kg baby touted
as a New Zealand record has gone to ground following what appears to be a
potential breach of privacy.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/63808033/baby-post-a-breach-of-privacy
Schools could do more
to help addicted teens
District
Health Boards, for the first time, have achieved a national target aimed at
getting drug-addicted teens the help they need, but counsellors say schools are
providing some of the toughest barriers to overcome.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/63925506/schools-could-do-more-to-help-addicted-teens
Elderly migrant parents abandoned to isolation
Elderly parents are being
"abandoned" by their migrant children in New Zealand, advocates say.
In some cases, non
English-speaking parents are left to fend for themselves while their children
work or study in other cities or countries.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/63925002/elderly-migrant-parents-abandoned-to-isolation
Reporting adverse events: New online learning
modules for health professionals
A new educational
initiative by NPS MedicineWise and the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)
aims to improve both the quality and quantity of adverse event reporting
relating to medicines, vaccines and medical devices to the TGA.
http://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/un-doctored/2014/december-2014/03/reporting-adverse-events-new-online-learning-modules-for-health-professionals.aspx
From International media
Top 5
Nursing Issues for 2015
A rising awareness of ethical issues, a push for better representation in
the boardroom, and initiatives to raise education levels among RNs will be
top-of-mind topics for nurse leaders next year.
http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/NRS-310803/Top-5-Nursing-Issues-for-2015##
New book urges nurses to speak up and be heard
Nurses Making Policy: From Bedside to
Boardroom (Springer Publishing,
2014) implores nurses to speak up and be heard, from the hospital corridors to
the floors of Congress
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20141202/New-book-urges-nurses-to-speak-up-and-be-heard.aspx
Compassion fatigue: the cost some workers pay
for caring
Health and social workers often choose their
profession because they want to help people. But seeing trauma and suffering on
a regular basis can have a deep impact on these workers. “Compassion fatigue”
is a response to the stress of caring for people at times of crisis and is often
referred to as the cost of caring.
http://bit.ly/1HXYQel
Nurse
Ethics Comes to a Head at Guantanamo Bay
A Navy nurse faces possible discharge for refusing to participate in
force-feeding detainees. It's a test case for nurses in all practice settings
who are faced with ethical issues every day.
ttp://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/NRS-310681/Nurse-Ethics-Comes-to-a-Head-at-Guantanamo-Bay
Nurse workloads a key factor in rising patient
deaths, researcher says
Increasing the workload of nurses
increases the risk of patients dying in hospital, an internationally renowned
patient safety researcher says
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-03/nurse-workloads-a-critical-factor-in-patient-survival-rates/5937224
Ebola's Arrival Forced Open the Door on Nursing
Ethics
The following
is excerpted from the upcoming issue of Johns Hopkins Nursing magazine:
On Oct. 16,
when a nurse from a Texas hospital took to the national media to decry unsafe
conditions for workers exposed to the Ebola virus, the echoes carried all the
way to Baltimore, to ethics professor Cynda Hylton Rushton, PhD, RN, FAAN, and,
she hopes, to the student nurses making their way toward tomorrow’s front
lines.
http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2014/12/ebolas-arrival-forced-open-the-door-on-nursing-ethics.aspx
Nurses: Their Vital Role in
Transforming Healthcare
"Nurses: Their Vital Role in
Transforming Healthcare," narrated by Joan Lunden, is a half-hour
documentary exploring the impact of nurses on our nation’s health care system,
in our community, on patients and their families, and of course, on the nurses
themselves. We look at the role of nurses on both the front lines of health
care, as well as the backbone of patient treatment. We see nurses as innovators
in health care–like pain detection in newborns. We see how their observational
skills, advanced knowledge, interventions and compassionate care help patients
manage their medical needs.
http://www.discovernursing.com/nursesvital#.VINX-DGUeCp[Ma1]
DHBs and PHOs
More beds, doctors, cost $52m
DHB spending helps to cut delays in emergency departments
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11368449
Public health
Rheumatic fever changes 'scary'
A child health expert says
advances in the battle against rheumatic fever may be jeopardised by major
administration changes in the future.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/260719/rheumatic-fever-changes-%27scary%27
Reports online
Openness and honesty when things
go wrong: the professional duty of candour (a draft for consultation)
“The
General Medical Council (GMC) and the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) have
launched a public consultation on draft joint guidance which is designed to
support doctors, nurses and midwives in fulfilling their professional duty to
be open and honest about mistakes.” Source:
General Medical Council/Nursing and Midwifery Council
http://www.gmc-uk.org/Openness_and_honesty___Draft_guidance.pdf_58423740.pdf
From the Nursing Council
Consultation on Nurse Practitioner Scope of
Practice & Qualifications
03 December
2014
The Nursing
Council (the Council) is undertaking a review of the nurse practitioner scope
of practice and prescribed qualifications. The health care environment
has changed considerably since 2001 when nurse practitioner was
introduced. This consultation is focused on the future requirements for
the nurse practitioner scope of practice and qualifications. It discusses
the positioning of nurse practitioner in relation to projected health need and
service delivery changes and the potential implications of the introduction of
further registered nurse prescribing.
http://www.nursingcouncil.org.nz/News/Consultation-on-Nurse-Practitioner-Scope-of-Practice-Qualifications
Revised audit process
Since 2006
the Council has operated a recertification audit process linked with the APC
renewal process. In the interests of improving the audit process and due to the
popularity of the online APC renewal method we have now separated the APC
renewal and audit processes. Previously nurses selected for audit were not
issued a practising certificate until the audit process was complete and were
unable to renew their APC online.
http://www.nursingcouncil.org.nz/News/Revised-audit-process
The above information has been collated for the
College of Nurses Aotearoa (NZ) Inc by Linda Stopforth, SNIPS and is provided
on a weekly basis. It is current as at
Tuesday 9 December 2014
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