Welcome
to the College of Nurses – News Update.
No. 236 Wednesday 21
January 2015
From NZ media this week
Tamahere nurse Robby Berghan heads to Sierra Leone
to fight Ebola
A Tamahere nurse is set to
do her bit to help combat the Ebola virus.
Waikato Hospital emergency
department nurse Robby Berghan will head to Sierra Leone later this month on a
seven week deployment with the International Rescue Committee (IRC).
http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/64922641/tamahere-nurse-robby-berghan-heads-to-sierra-leone-to-fight-ebola
ProCare appoints Nursing Director
Lorraine Hetaraka-Stevens begins her new role
today as ProCare’s Nursing Director. Clinical Director Dr Allan Moffitt says
the PHO took some time to select the right candidate for this position because
nursing leadership is integral to the future of general practice and primary
care in New Zealand.
http://www.voxy.co.nz/business/procare-appoints-nursing-director/5/211936
Oversedated woman died
of other causes - coroner
A
Wairau Hospital nurse's calculation error that led to a frail, elderly woman
given 10 times her recommended sleeping pills did not cause her death but
contributed to it, a coroner has found.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/64961163/Oversedated-woman-died-of-other-causes-coroner
Canterbury hospital
staff not washing hands enough
Canterbury
hospital staff are risking patient safety because they are not washing their
hands often enough.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/65173767/canterbury-hospital-staff-not-washing-hands-enough
Grubby hands at Hutt
Hospital
Hutt Hospital
staff have the dirtiest hands in the country, coming last in a national hygiene
audit for the third time running.
Hutt Valley
District Health Board doctors and nurses followed proper hand-washing or
sanitising guidelines just 60.4 per cent of the time - the worst result of 19
health boards rated by Hand Hygiene New Zealand for the Health Quality and
Safety Commission.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/65173517/Grubby-hands-at-Hutt-Hospital
Shortfall in hospital hand hygiene 'no
risk'
A
health official has brushed aside a survey that supposedly reveals Taranaki
hospital staff are the second worst in the country at washing their hands properly.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/65209206/shortfall-in-hospital-hand-hygiene-no-risk
From International media
Quebec Order of Nurses responds to exam translation
concerns
Quebec Order of Nurses to
offer licensing exam candidates more English resources
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-order-of-nurses-responds-to-exam-translation-concerns-1.2900085
Nurses rally saying
workplace violence is an epidemic
National Nurses United wants lawmakers to force all hospitals to
implement policies that protect healthcare workers from violence.
The union calls violence towards nurses in hospitals an
epidemic.
http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/nurses-rally-saying-workplace-violence-is-an-epidemic
Nurses leader to co-chair task force
A nurses' union leader is expected to be appointed co-chair
of the Emergency Department Task Force when it meets for the first time today
since the escalation in overcrowding in A&E departments.
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/health/nurses-leader-to-cochair-task-force-30906276.html
Wales could be first UK country to ensure 'enough
nurses'
A bill will be presented
before the Health Committee later which aims to ensure safe nurse staffing
levels in hospitals across Wales.
http://www.itv.com/news/wales/update/2015-01-15/wales-could-be-first-uk-country-to-ensure-enough-nurses/
Health outcomes improve in states
where nurse practitioners independently provide care
Many states do not allow advanced practice registered nurses
(APRNs) to perform primary care duties to their full potential; however,
researchers say APRNs can help relieve the shortage of healthcare workers and
expand access to care for underserved populations. In a recently published
study, researchers found that quality of health care is improved in states
where APRNs are allowed to practice independently.
http://bit.ly/1sVm4xo
Articles of interest
Evaluating
the usefulness of a preoperative delirium risk table –
OR Nurse 2015 - Featured Journal
January 2015
Volume 9 Number 1
Pages 40 - 47 –
Delirium is one of the most prevalent and preventable
adverse events among hospitalized older patients, especially those undergoing
surgery.1 The early warning signs of delirium are often unrecognized and
untreated by hospital staff, thereby increasing the adverse reactions of
delirium.2 More than half of hospitalized older adults will experience an
episode of delirium, which, when left untreated, can lead to problems such as
falls, functional decline, chronic cognitive impairment, and fractures of the
hip or other long bone injuries.3 - See more at: http://www.nursingcenter.com/lnc/JournalArticle?Article_ID=2682507&Journal_ID=682710&Issue_ID=2682423#sthash.5rvycUES.dpuf
New publications
Future Directions of Credentialing Research in Nursing:
Workshop Summary (2015)
This title may be downloaded free in pdf form or purchased online for a more
substantial presentation.
The nurse
workforce constitutes the largest sector of health professionals in the United
States and includes individuals with varying educational backgrounds and
expertise. Like other health professions, nursing includes a large number of
specialties and subspecialties. Nurses may seek certification, based on various
standards and criteria, from a wide range of organizations. Similarly, organizations
may participate in nursing credentialing programs, which typically reflect the
attainment of various nursing care standards and outcome measures. It is,
however, unclear how this additional training and education affects health care
quality and patient health.
Future
Directions of Credentialing Research in Nursing examines short- and
long-term strategies to advance research on nurse certification and
organizational credentialing. This report summarizes a workshop convened by the
Institute of Medicine in September 2014 to examine a new framework and research
priorities to guide future research on the impact of nurse credentialing and
certification on outcomes for nurses, organizations, and patients. Over 100
people attended the workshop, which focused on topics such as emergent
priorities for research in nursing credentialing; critical knowledge gaps and
methodological limitations in the field; promising developments in research
methodologies, health metrics, and data infrastructures to better evaluate the
impact of nursing credentialing; and short- and long-term strategies to
encourage continued activity in nursing credentialing research. Future
Directions of Credentialing Research in Nursing is a record of the
presentations, discussion, and break-out sessions of this event.
http://bit.ly/1AFp3aT
Just Published New Book
Collaborative Caring – Suzanne Gordon
I am very happy to announce that I, along with my two co-editors,
David L. Feldman M.D. and Michael Leonard, M.D. have just published our edited
volume Collaborative Caring: Stories and
Reflections on Teamwork in Healthcare. The book is a
collection of 50 rubber-hits-the road stories about what it means to implement
teamwork, work on teams, or to work in settings in which there is no
teamwork. The wonderful people who contributed their essays include
physicians, social workers, bedside registered nurses,
psychologists,occupational and physical therapists, nurse practitioners,
pharmacists, dentists, and hospital administrators. The book also
includes essays by healthcare professionals who write as patients who find
themselves either the center of a team or exiled to the periphery when
healthcare professionals function in siloed isolation. The book begins with an
introduction (part of which is included below) and is divided into eight
sections, which cover the following topics:
Playing on a Real Team; The Dangers and Damage of Poor Teamwork;
Is the Patient on the Team or Not; Psychological Safety; Teaching What We
Preach; Patient Advocacy as a Team Sport; Barriers to Teamwork; Taking Teamwork
Institution and System-wide. The essays in it are not journal
essays preaching about what to do but rather talk about real life experiences
and show people how to do it — implement teamwork and play on real teams.
I have included in the blog-post an excerpt of the book’s introduction.
http://bit.ly/1BaikIP
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20 January 2015
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