Welcome
to the College of Nurses – News Update.
No. 243 Wednesday 11 March
2015
From NZ media this week
Twenty years of innovation
in mental health nursing recognised
Capital &
Coast District Health Board (CCDHB) celebrates two decades of pioneering
graduate mental health nursing this March.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1503/S00025/20-years-of-innovation-in-mental-health-nursing-recognised.htm
Nursing job-student
ratio unhealthy
Manawatu
teaching institutes are refusing to cut the number of nursing students in
training despite a job shortage.
Massey
University's Palmerston North campus has about 50 new nursing students this
year, similar to previous years, and UCOL has 145 new enrolments across the
region.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/67078917/nursing-jobstudent-ratio-unhealthy
Launch of online archive of
nursing oral histories
Nau mai,
haere mai. The Nursing Education and Research Foundation welcomes media to
attend the launch of a new online archive of nursing oral histories.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1503/S00032/launch-of-online-archive-of-nursing-oral-histories.htm
Heart screening pilot
shelved
A
heart screening programme that could save children's lives has been shelved for
fear of unnecessarily upsetting families with false alarms.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/67073723/heart-screening-pilot-shelved
From International media
Nurses
in diapers? It could help the elderly
Mr Ibnu Firdaus Nooraman is only 27, but he recently had to
endure the indignity of wearing adult diapers, and having eyesight so bad it
made even performing simple tasks a burden. - See more at: http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/nurses-diapers-it-could-help-elderly#sthash.wlc7c1or.dpuf
Fargo hospitals look for cure to ‘alarm fatigue’
RGO
– Breeanna Hook used to go home from her nursing shift on the critical care
unit and dream of alarms going off and having to scramble frantically to
respond.
http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/region/3695184-fargo-hospitals-look-cure-alarm-fatigue
3 culprits of RN turnover
and how to address them
An incredible amount of published material
exists on the topic of registered nurse turnover. Renowned institutions
including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, PwC, Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser
Permanente and just about every industry journal have published a study on it,
and rightfully so. Turnover is an incredible disruption to a healthcare
provider. It affects morale and quality — and the cost can put a lot of strain
on institutions already under pressure.
http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce-labor-management/3-culprits-of-rn-turnover-and-how-to-address-them.html
Top-shelf nursing programs evolve to meet changing
industry
On the third floor of a historic building at Mount Aloysius
College in Cresson, Noelle was having a baby — and losing blood by the second.
Read
more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/living/health-fitness/article12287489.html#storylink=cpy
Capital Tonight March. 3:
Advanced Nurses Study
On Capital Tonight: A new study finds that a
policy change in how advanced nurses are supervised could help alleviate a
doctor shortage. We talk with experts from the NC Nursing Association. Our
Insiders Scott Falmlen and Chris Sinclair look at Gov. McCrory’s poll numbers
in the latest PPP’s numbers and the politics of the gas tax.
http://www.twcnews.com/nc/triangle-sandhills/politics/2015/03/3/capital-tonight-march--3--advanced-nurses-study.html
Aged care
Better dementia care (audio)
An English novelist is
leading a campaign to improve the treatment of dementia patients in UK
hospitals.
Nicci Gerrard 's father,
John was 86 and suffering from dementia when he went into hospital last
February for the treatment of some leg ulcers. He came out just five weeks
later permanently changed, a skeletal shadow of his former self, and died in
November.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/thiswayup
Patient safety
Easier reporting
Southern
District Health Board staff reporting concerns about patient safety should find
it easier once a new electronic risk management system is introduced this
month.
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/335524/easier-reporting
Hospital patients urged to
take part in care survey
The Health
Quality & Safety Commission is encouraging people to join the growing
number of patients helping district health boards (DHBs) assess the quality of
care in public hospitals.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1503/S00015/hospital-patients-urged-to-take-part-in-care-survey.htm
Public health
Peanut allergy: Experts call for urgent review of
public health advice
Allergy New Zealand and
allergy specialists are calling for the Ministry of Health to urgently review
infant feeding guidelines, to try and stem the tide of peanut allergy in New
Zealand children.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1503/S00034/peanut-allergy-experts-call-for-public-health-advice-review.htm
New immunisation videos for older children
Media release from health
minister Jonathan Coleman
Health Minister Jonathan
Coleman welcomes new online resources on immunisation for older children.
http://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/un-doctored/2015/march-2015/06/new-immunisation-videos-for-older-children.aspx
Kiwis told eating less
sugar will be sweet
New
Zealanders need to carve about six teaspoons of sugar out of our daily diets if
we're to meet new international suggestions for avoiding obesity and rotten
teeth
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11413185
Articles of interest
Advanced
practice nursing: Shaping health through policy (pages 11–20)
Elizabeth
A. Kostas-Polston, Joanne Thanavaro, Cathy Arvidson and Leslie-Faith Morritt
Taub, on behalf of the FAANP Health Policy Work Group
To
highlight the importance of advanced practice nurses (APNs) becoming
politically engaged as key to promoting the healthcare interests of patients,
communities and the profession and to offer specific strategies on how to
become politically competent.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2327-6924.12192/abstract
Evolving
trends in nurse regulation: what are the policy impacts for nursing's social
mandate? (pages 27–38)
Susan
Duncan, Sally Thorne and Patricia Rodney
We
recognize a paradox of power and promise in the context of legislative and
organizational changes in nurse regulation which poses constraints on nursing's
capacity to bring voice and influence to pressing matters of healthcare and
public policy. The profession is at an important crossroads wherein leaders
must be well informed in political, economic and legislative trends to harness
the profession's power while also navigating forces that may put at risk its
central mission to serve society. We present a critical policy analysis of the
impact of recent regulatory trends on what the International Council of Nurses
considers nursing's three ‘pillars’ – the profession of nursing, socioeconomic
welfare of nurses and nurse regulation. Themes surfacing from this analysis
include regulatory discontinuity, a tightening of regulatory control, and an
increasingly managerial governance culture. These themes illuminate insights
and strategies required to renew and revitalize the social mandate of our
profession amidst a climate of urgency in the questioning of nurse scholars
with respect to the future of the profession. At this historic juncture, nurses
must clearly understand the implications of legislative and organizational
regulatory changes to ensure the profession contributes to full capacity in
achieving health and health equity globally.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nin.12087/abstract
From the Ministry of Health
Knee/hip replacement - Patient education videos
Two videos have been
produced for people about to undergo hip or knee replacement surgery. These
videos provide valuable advice on how you can prepare for your operation and
what you can do before and after surgery to help your recovery. It also
includes information on what you can expect during your stay in hospital.
http://www.health.govt.nz/your-health/conditions-and-treatments/treatments-and-surgery/knee-hip-replacement-patient-education-videos
Suicide Prevention Toolkit for District Health
Boards
Published
online:
27 February
2015
The Ministry of Health has
developed this Suicide Prevention Toolkit to support DHBs implement suicide
prevention and postvention activities within their regions.
The Toolkit outlines some
of the key services areas involved, and discusses the issues that DHBs need to
consider when planning how to address suicide. It is not expected that DHBs
will need to use all the tools, resources, ideas and guidance this Toolkit
presents. District health boards know their communities best; they will need to
design an approach that best meets the needs of their individual communities.
http://www.health.govt.nz/publication/suicide-prevention-toolkit-district-health-boards
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10 March 2015
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