Welcome
to the College of Nurses – News Update.
No. 244 Wednesday 18 March
2015
From NZ media this week
Maori approaches to Māori health issues are
required
Māori approaches to Māori health
issues are required to improve the health of the Māori population which is a
national priority, a University of Canterbury researcher says.
http://bit.ly/1Cqm10W
Māori nurses graduate form Waiariki Institute of
Technology
The number of Māori nurses increased today
as students from the Waiariki institute of Technology graduate after completing
their Bachelor of Nursing.
https://www.maoritelevision.com/news/regional/maori-nurses-graduate-form-waiariki-institute-technology
Launch of online archive of nursing oral histories
A new website that holds an
archive of nursing oral histories in New Zealand is being launched today in
Wellington. www.nursinghistory.org.nz
http://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/un-doctored/2015/march-2015/11/launch-of-online-archive-of-nursing-oral-histories.aspx
Ministry
orders neonatal care report
The Ministry
of Health has ordered a review of neonatal services amid concerns about
overcrowding.
Mothers are
transferred to other cities to give birth when their own hospital's neonatal
unit cannot accommodate them.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/67256933/ministry-orders-neonatal-care-report
From International media
Nurse
Practitioners Call for Less Regulation
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — 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.
http://www.militarytimes.com/story/veterans/best-for-vets/education/2015/03/07/nursing-programs-changing-industry/24511967/
Dutch students choose to live in nursing homes
rent-free (as long as they keep the residents company)
NINETY-TWO-YEAR-OLD Johanna beams at the 20-year-old
stepping into her room — not a visiting grandson, but rather a housemate at her
retirement home.
http://www.thejournal.ie/help-the-aged-1814698-Dec2014/
Nursing is the big loser in this year’s CAO
applications
THERE’S SOME INTERESTING news for Ireland’s Leaving Cert
students this morning with the release of CAO data regarding the initial phase
of college applications.
http://www.thejournal.ie/cao-course-choices-1980550-Mar2015/
Hospitals and nurses are split over new safety bill
ST. PAUL -- Minnesota's hospitals and nurses have come down
on different sides of a bill aimed at protecting health care workers from
attacks.
http://www.kare11.com/story/news/politics/2015/03/11/hospitals-and-nurses-are-split-over-new-safety-bill/70180744/
University of Missouri
Health Care uses EHRs to reduce CAUTIs
A nurse at the University of Missouri Health
System is leading an initiative to use EHRs to reduce the number of
catheter-associated urinary tract infections in its facilities.
http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/university-of-missouri-health-care-uses-ehrs-to-reduce-cautis.html
ANA CAUTI Prevention Tool
Catheter-Associated
Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) are the most commonly reported
hospital-acquired condition, and the rates continue to rise. More than 560,000
patients develop CAUTI each year, leading to extended hospital stays, increased
health care costs, and patient morbidity and mortality. RNs can play a major
role in reducing CAUTI rates to save lives and prevent harm. ANA offers an
innovative, streamlined, evidenced-based clinical tool developed by leading
experts.
http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ThePracticeofProfessionalNursing/Improving-Your-Practice/ANA-CAUTI-Prevention-Tool
Amid Calls for a More Highly Educated RN Workforce, New AACN Data Confirm Enrollment Surge in Schools of Nursing
WASHINGTON, DC, March 9, 2015 – According to new data released today by
the American Association of
Colleges of Nursing (AACN), enrollment in baccalaureate, master’s, and
doctoral nursing programs increased last year as more nurses answered the call
to achieve higher levels of education. With the greatest gains found in
baccalaureate degree-completion programs and the practice-focused doctorate,
students are returning to nursing school in record numbers to develop the
skills needed to meet employer demands and patient care needs.
http://www.aacn.nche.edu/news/articles/2015/enrollment
Modernized Code of Ethics addresses tough
questions
Each of the country’s 3.1 million RNs may make
dozens of decisions about patient care every day. Making those decisions with ethical
considerations in mind is increasingly challenging in the modern healthcare
environment where technology and patient care are evolving at a rapid pace. In
January, the American Nurses Association rolled out a revised version of the
Code of Ethics — which had not been updated since 2001 — after an 18-month
revision process. Nurse leaders involved in the revision process hope the newer
version will both guide and support nurses as they face decisions that touch
upon everything from end-of-life care to involvement with social media.
http://news.nurse.com/article/20150309/NATIONAL06/150309004/0/NATIONAL06#.VQZtkY6UeCo
Ebola
Possible Ebola-affected nurse's terror trip
The emergency workers were
covered head to toe in hazmat suits as they stepped off the helicopter in a
quiet street in Gore before dawn on Saturday.
Curious residents waking to
the roar of the chopper's blades were ordered back inside their homes.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/67382580/possible-ebolaaffected-nurses-terror-trip
Kiwi nurse tests negative
for Ebola
A Kiwi nurse who recently returned from Sierra Leone has
tested negative for the Ebola virus.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11417440
Kiwi nurse awaits results of second Ebola test
The Gore nurse at the centre of New Zealand's first Ebola
scare is awaiting the results of a second test to clear her of the deadly
disease.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11417764
Gore proud of nurse's contribution to Ebola fight -
Hicks
The weekend's Ebola scare shows the risks of living in a
global community but Gore District Mayor Tracy Hicks says he is extremely proud
of the contribution local nurse Bronni McBain has made to the fight against the
virus.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/67394394/Gore-proud-of-nurses-contribution-to-Ebola-fight-Hicks
Aged care
Creating
an 'everytown' to feel at home
It's the
future of dementia care, but it looks a lot like the present.
In what is
believed to be a New Zealand first, a new dementia village development planned
for Rotorua is set to be based on the acclaimed Dutch dementia village De
Hogeweyk.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/67419742/creating-an-everytown-to-feel-at-home
Pharmacy
Ministry of Health investigates medicinal cannabis
use
Dunne underwhelmed by officials’ evidence but Drug Foundation
fears advice outdated.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11415156
Public health
Quake cuts healthy life short by 150 days
Each person in Canterbury lost 150 days of "healthy
life" in the aftermath of the February earthquake, new research claims.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/christchurch-earthquake-2011/67232239/quake-cuts-healthy-life-short-by-150-days
Stigma and Discrimination kills
“Māori and Pacific women
living with HIV & AIDS are dying because of stigma and discrimination,”
saysMarama Pala. “Recognising International Women’s Day this week was a
sobering reflection for us as Māori and Pacific women living with HIV &
AIDS, the fear of people knowing they have HIV is stopping them from getting
the treatment and care they need.” She could well be speaking of women from Sub
Saharan Africa, but Marama is talking about her experience as a New Zealand
Maori.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1503/S00041/stigma-and-discrimination-kills.htm
Health research
Participants wanted for low dose aspirin trial
Participants are wanted for a new treatment for
venous ulcers that may help healing when used with compression bandages.
http://www.voxy.co.nz/health/participants-wanted-low-dose-aspirin-trial/5/216178
People wanted for innovative cardiac exercise study
Participants are needed for an innovative exercise-based
cardiac rehabilitation study that uses mobile technology to remotely supervise
exercise in real time, anywhere in New Zealand.
http://www.voxy.co.nz/health/people-wanted-innovative-cardiac-exercise-study/5/215966
Study investigates
growing rate of child skin infections
Hospital
admission rates for skin infection in young children in New Zealand are higher
than in other developed countries and have steadily increased over the past 20
years, a study says.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/67362116/study-investigates-growing-rate-of-child-skin-infections
NZ experts lead call for a tobacco-free world by
2040
Auckland public health
researchers are among those calling for the sale of tobacco to be phased out
internationally by 2040.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1503/S00055/nz-experts-lead-call-for-a-tobacco-free-world-by-2040.htm
Articles of interest
Shaping
the future of nursing: developing an appraisal framework for public engagement
with nursing policy reports (pages 74–83)
Ann Bradshaw
It is accepted that research should be
systematically examined to judge its trustworthiness and value in a particular
context. No such appraisal is required of reports published by organizations
that have possibly even greater influence on policy that affects the public.
This paper explores a philosophical framework for appraising reports. It gives
the reasons why informed engagement is important, drawing on Popper's concept
of the open society, and it suggests a method for appraisal. Gadamer's concept
of the two horizons and Jauss's reception theory offer a methodological
framework to enable the individual citizen, whether professional or lay, to
engage in debate about policy that affects him or her. By way of a worked
example, the framework is applied to two international reports on nursing.
Conclusions suggest that nursing policy should be subjected to robust
interrogatory appraisal by both profession and public for a democratic debate
and creative discourse. Although this analysis is related to international
nursing policy, it has a wider relevance and application beyond nursing.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nin.12072/abstract
Exploring
risk in professional nursing practice: an analysis of work refusal and
professional risk (pages 50–63)
Barbara A
Beardwood and Jan M Kainer
This article explores risk in professional
nursing practice. Professional risk refers to the threat of professional
discipline if it is found that a registered nurse has violated professional
nursing practice standards. We argue professional risk is socially constructed
and understood differently by nurse regulatory bodies, unions, professional
associations and frontline nurses. Regulatory bodies emphasize professional
accountability of nurses; professional associations focus on system problems in
health-care; unions undertake protecting nurses' right to health and safety;
and frontline nurses experience fear and uncertainty in their attempt to
interpret practice standards to avoid professional discipline. Perspectives of
professional risk are investigated by analyzing three professional nursing
bodies' views of professional codes governing the right of nurses to refuse
unsafe work assignments. The workplace dynamics surrounding work refusal
experienced by frontline nurses are illustrated primarily through the lens of
the 2003 SARS influenza outbreak in Ontario, Canada. We conclude that frontline
nurses in Ontario are required to manage risk by following professional
protocols prioritizing patient care and professional accountability which
disregard the systemic, unpredictable and hazardous circumstances in their
everyday practice. Moreover, we argue professional protocols cannot anticipate
every eventuality in clinical practice creating the fear of professional
discipline for nurses.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nin.12048/abstract
Nurses
and the euthanasia debate: reflections from New Zealand (pages
13–20)
M. Woods and
J. Bickley Asher
Through an examination of the present situation
relating to legalizing euthanasia and/or physician-assisted death in New
Zealand, this paper is intended to encourage nurses worldwide to ponder about
their own position on the ever present topic of assisted dying and euthanasia.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/inr.12145/abstract
The first decade
of nurse practitioners in New Zealand: A survey of an evolving
practice (pages 612–619)
Mary
Jo Gagan, Michal Boyd, Ken Wysocki and Diane June Williams
Nurse
practitioners (NPs) have been registered in New Zealand (NZ) since 2002. This
article describes a sample of their practices and outcomes across a variety of
healthcare specialties. The PEPPA model was used as a guide for the
organization of data, the discussion of findings, and recommendations for the
future.
http://www.rgpn.org.nz/Network/media/documents/PDFS2014/NP-survey-please-link--to-NPs---A-survey.pdf
An investigation of factors that
impact patients’ subjective experience of nurse-led clinics: a qualitative
systematic review (pages
19–33)
Samantha
Jakimowicz, Christine Stirling and Maree Duddle
To systematically review the qualitative evidence
on factors that affect the experience of patients attending nurse-led clinics
and compare with key elements of person-centred care.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jocn.12676/abstract
Online resources
Traction:principles and
application (PDF 1.5 MB)
Publication
code: 004721
Publication
date: 6 February 2015
ISBN: 978-1-910066-98-0
This new
edition provides information on applying traction and caring for the patients’
safety whilst traction remains in place. The advent of improved technology has
meant that more fractures are now treated operatively but traction can still be
used as a temporary measure to provide pain relief, reduce blood loss and shock
while definitive treatment is planned.
http://www.rcn.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/608971/RCNguidance_traction_WEB_2.pdf
New publications
Last
week two Māori mental health research reports were launched by Te Pou and Te
Rau Matatini alongside the Mental Health Commission in Kirkiriroa (Hamilton).
Findings from the reports are not foreign to many of us and are an important
reminder of Whānau Ora models of care and services that are responsive and
comprehensive.
Read more from Keri Opai, Te Pou’s Paeārahi (strategic lead), and some
key facts from the reports here
http://bit.ly/1MChR5s
From the Ministry of Health
Managing Chronic Kidney Disease in Primary Care
This publication presents a
nationally agreed Consensus Statement on the best practice in the
identification and management of chronic kidney disease in primary care.
http://www.health.govt.nz/publication/managing-chronic-kidney-disease-primary-care
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