Welcome
to the College of Nurses – News Update.
No. 235 Wednesday 14
January 2015
From NZ media this week
Most child-abuse victims are babies under a year old
Starship doctor says
head injuries most common ‘by far’ in 130 admissions of abused children last
year.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11385415
Vaccinations at home close gap
Home-based vaccinations are closing the gap
vaccination rates of eight-month-old babies across all socio-economic groups
and ethnicities, the Health Ministry says.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/262992/vaccinations-at-home-close-gap
Govt needs to 'step up for dental education'
A Maori Dentist says the Government needs to
step in to help prevent high rates of children getting their teeth pulled out.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/262514/govt-needs-to-%27step-up-for-dental-education%27
Move to ban smoking when children in car
A Northland health worker wants smoking banned
in vehicles where there are children after new Canadian research "makes it
clear that children's health rights are being violated by smoking in
vehicles".
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=11381975
From International media
Teaching Nurses How To
Speak Up — And Speak Gently
Teach someone to fish, the saying goes, and they'll eat for a
lifetime. Teach a nurse to become more involved in helping people heal, and
patients could enjoy a longer life. That's the philosophy behind training
nurses to mentor other nurses, says Sheila Davis, chief nursing officer and
chief of Ebola response for Partners in Health, the worldwide nonprofit
organization.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2015/01/06/373787388/teaching-nurses-how-to-speak-up-and-speak-gently
Pierce County
nurses suing over mandatory flu shots
TACOMA, Wash. -- The union representing nurses
at two local hospitals is suing MultiCare over mandatory flu shots for all
employees. There is the risk of losing their jobs if they don't comply.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Pierce-County-nurses-suing-over-mandatory-flu-shots-287872231.html
Epidemic of
Violence against Health Care Workers Plagues Hospitals
Hospital
administrations and the judicial system do little to prevent assaults against
nurses and other caregivers by patients
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/epidemic-of-violence-against-health-care-workers-plagues-hospitals/?WT.mc_id=SA_HLTH_20150106
Nurses: we fear for safety of patients as
pressure mounts on hospitals
FEARS about the safety of patients
in Scotland's largest health board have been raised by nurses as hospitals
continue to struggle with demand.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/health/nurses-raise-safety-fears-as-hospitals-face-capacity-crisis.115725576
Looking Past The
Stereotype
NORTH
PLATTE, Neb. (KNOP-TV) -- Mid-Plains Community College's nursing program
is seeing an increase in enrolled male students.
Since
2010, 12 men have enrolled in the nursing program at MPCC. This year there are
five men and 51 women in the program.
http://www.knopnews2.com/home/headlines/Looking-Past-The-Stereotype--286307401.html
Breaking the
Stereotype: Number of Male Nurses Up at Centralia College
Five
Percent of Nursing Students Are Male Nationwide; That Number Is at 23 Percent
at Centralia College
http://www.chronline.com/article_bfdf0898-9765-11e4-ad3a-03bff9f6c401.html
Nurse
training scheme in Bradford wins national award
A NURSE training scheme run by a group of
Bradford GP practices is sharing the glory of a national award.
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/local/localbrad/11697353.Nurse_training_scheme_in_Bradford_wins_national_award/
First self-funded nursing course launched to tackle shortage in NW
A North West trust
has partnered with a local university to launch the first degree course to
offer student nursing places that are not commissioned centrally by Health
Education England.
http://www.nursingtimes.net/5077980.article?WT.tsrc=email&WT.mc_id=Newsletter1
Mental health
Stress too much for farmers
Four deaths in December
as rural sector feels financial pressure.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11384751
Fighting depression
among farmers
Doug
Avery remembers all too well what it felt like to be a broken man.
"I
went through hell. I hated every day for four years. I wanted to run. The job I
loved doing the most had turned into my biggest enemy."
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/advice/64877520/fighting-depression-among-farmers
Health technology
A New E-Tool for Nursing Diagnosis
NANDA
International, Inc. (NANDA-I) has just
released a new e-tool, NurScope™, allowing
nurses, nurse educators, and nursing students to move more accurately from
assessment to nursing diagnosis. Downloadable to an
Android tablet or smartphone, NurScope™ covers the scope of nursing diagnoses and it's
right at your fingertips!
Developed
in collaboration with NANDA-I and the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, NurScope™ is the key to fully grasping nursing
diagnosis and accurately applying diagnoses in clinical scenarios. Our ongoing
research project conducted between NANDA-I and UW-Green Bay will continue to
improve the decision support information available within the tool, drawing
from research on diagnoses conducted worldwide.
Users can explore nursing diagnoses via three different pathways—by domain,
diagnostic focus, and nursing diagnosis label. NurScope™
enables users to identify priority nursing diagnoses by following three
easy steps:
Select
the e-tool appropriate diagnostic indicators, based on nursing assessment and
other patient data.
When
presented with a list of potential diagnoses, review the details of each to
refine, validate and prioritize the most accurate diagnosis(es).
Document
your decisions by emailing a summary of your work to your professor.
NurScope™ is a new interactive
e-tool and new way of thinking about nursing diagnosis. Available now on the Google Play store
and coming soon to the Apple App store!
http://bit.ly/1BW4MBL
Articles of interest
The Economics of Preventing Hospital Falls:
Demonstrating ROI Through a Simple Model
OBJECTIVE: The objective of
this study was to assess the cost savings associated with implementing nursing
approaches to prevent in-hospital falls.
Full text can be down loaded at: http://journals.lww.com/jonajournal/Abstract/2015/01000/The_Economics_of_Preventing_Hospital_Falls_.10.aspx
Consultations
Fees consultation
The Nursing Council
has recently undertaken a review of the processing costs relating to
applications received from Internationally Qualified Nurses (IQNs) and those
received from applicants under the Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Arrangement
(TTMR) to ensure that the Council is accurately covering related costs.
This review
was initiated to establish actual costs of services and to provide the Council
with information on which to support the long term financial viability of the
Council.
The Council
is committed to ensuring that it operates in a cost effective manner whilst
ensuring an appropriate balance is maintained between the effective discharge
of its statutory responsibilities and affordability for nurses, employers and
educators.
The Council
is also committed to ensuring that the costs incurred by Council for the
registration of IQN and TTMR applications in a particular scope are assumed by
the applicant and that cross subsidisation through the use of the already
registered nurses APC fee does not occur.
A
consultation document regarding these proposed changes can be found here
Consultation document IQN fees
2015 (PDF, 145 KB)
The closing
date for the consultation period is the 19th February 2015.
http://www.nursingcouncil.org.nz/News/Fees-consultation
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
13 January 2015
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