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to the College of Nurses – News Update.
No. 251 13 May 2015
From NZ media this week
Thank you to our fabulous
nurses at Southern DHB
It’s
International Nurses Day tomorrow and Southern DHB will be saying a big thank
you to all its nurses who work so hard and are so committed to bringing the
very best healthcare to our patients. Southern DHB employs over 2000 nurses who
all make the most significant contribution to improving the health and
wellbeing of patients in the Southern District.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1505/S00192/thank-you-to-our-fabulous-nurses-at-southern-dhb.htm
International Nurses Day; a time to remember those
who died
On Tuesday South Canterbury District Health Board nurses
marked International Nurses Day and the sinking of the ship Marquette in 1915
which killed four nurses who trained in Waimate.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/68435647/international-nurses-day-a-time-to-remember-those-who-died
May 12 celebrates
International Nurses' Day
May 12 2015
marks the 195th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth, and is also
International Nurses’ Day.
http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-massey/news/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=B1B11E36-9F79-B81C-1744-225F89BF027A
Gore nurses face the axe
Several Gore nurses facing the axe are set to
be early casualties of widespread funding cuts announced by the Southern
District Health Board.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/68380725/gore-nurses-face-the-axe
Dermatology may face public health crisis by 2020
Lack of resources and
specialist positions could jeopardise public dermatology services by 2020
according to Health Workforce New Zealand’s latest service forecast.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1505/S00044/dermatology-may-face-public-health-crisis-by-2020.htm
Palmerston North Hospital staff may be forced to wear masks unless they
get flu jab
Palmerston
North hospital staff may soon be made to wear masks if they are not immunised
against the flu.
MidCentral
District Health Board has been looking at ways increase the uptake of the flu
vaccine by its staff members after only 44 per cent of staff were immunised
last year.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/68406419/palmerston-north-hospital-staff-may-be-forced-to-wear-masks-unless-they-get-flu-jab
No mask ruling for staff who haven't had flu jab
Lakes District Health Board will not make staff members who
have not had a flu jab wear masks when dealing with at-risk patients, despite
at least one other health board introducing the policy.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503438&objectid=11445921
From International media this week
Routine Heart Care Similar From Nurse
Practitioners, Doctors: Study
No
differences seen in basic measurements for those with chronic cardiac disease
FRIDAY, May 1, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Many
patients with chronic heart disease will receive the same quality of care from
a nurse practitioner or physician assistant as they would from a doctor, a new
study suggests.
http://consumer.healthday.com/general-health-information-16/doctor-news-206/routine-heart-care-similar-whether-from-nurse-practitioners-doctors-study-698986.html
Nurses Develop RNSafe to
Verify Bedside Dosing
Several nurses at Boston Children’s Hospital
have banded together to develop RNSafe, a prototype mobile system designed to
help verify bedside medication and doses, taking advantage of an Innovation
Acceleration Program grant.
http://www.fdanews.com/articles/171019-nurses-develop-rnsafe-to-verify-bedside-dosing
Insight into their own abilities: Researchers look
at self-efficacy tools
New tools that explore nursing students’ belief in their abilities
to care for critically ill patients are helping nursing educators differentiate
beginner students from students with more advanced skills, according a study
recently published in Nursing Research.
http://healthtimes.com.au/hub/leadership/35/research/nc1/insight-into-their-own-abilities-researchers-look-at-self-efficacy-tools/816/
DHBs and PHOs
Patient wellbeing at centre of New Zealand’s first
in-hospital design lab
Child-friendly medical
equipment and navigation guides are among the patient-friendly innovations
being created at a first-in-kind hospital design centre to improve the
experience of staff, patients, families and visitors.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1505/S00025/patient-wellbeing-at-centre-of-in-hospital-design-lab.htm
Canterbury
DHB on Track to Deliver More Surgery
New hospital
facilities will give Canterbury DHB the capacity to perform an extra 6000
surgeries and procedures a year once up and running.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1505/S00043/canterbury-dhb-on-track-to-deliver-more-surgery.htm
Mental health
$23.6m for
new South Auckland mental health unit
Health
Minister Jonathan Coleman says the Government has approved a new specialist
mental health facility for Counties-Manukau DHB.
http://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/un-doctored/2015/may-2015/07/$236m-for-new-south-auckland-mental-health-unit.aspx
Articles of interest
The mental health of nurses in acute teaching
hospital settings: a cross-sectional survey
Perry L, Lamont S, Brunero S, Gallagher R, Duffield C
BMC Nursing 2015, 14
:15 (27 March 2015)
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/s12912-015-0068-8.pdf
Long-term home visiting with
vulnerable young mothers: an interpretive description of the impact on public
health nurses
Dmytryshyn AL, Jack SM, Ballantyne M, Wahoush O, MacMillan HL
BMC Nursing 2015, 14
:12 (8 March 2015)
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/s12912-015-0061-2.pdf
Moral Distress in Nursing
AJN, American
Journal of Nursing
March 2015,
Volume 115 Number 3, p 19 - 20 [FREE]
According to Ann B. Hamric, associate dean of
academic programs and professor in the School of Nursing at Virginia
Commonwealth University in Richmond, moral distress occurs when a person's
moral integrity is seriously compromised, either because one feels unable to
act in accordance with core values and obligations or attempted actions fail to
achieve the desired outcome. Each instance of moral distress leaves behind what
is known as moral residue-a feeling of having compromised one's values that
lingers. When the situation recurs, the residue increases-known as the
crescendo effect-often leading to a breaking point. In health care, moral
distress can lead to poor patient care, diminished job satisfaction, greater
burnout, and more attrition among nurses and other providers.
http://www.nursingcenter.com/journalarticle?Article_ID=2757692&Journal_ID=0&Issue_ID=0
Assessment and management of patients who lack
decision-making capacity
The Nurse
Practitioner
.In cases where there is a question about the
patient's ability to make an informed decision to refuse treatment, the nurse
practitioner (NP) must quickly decide how to balance the patient's right to
autonomy with protecting his or her best interest through beneficence (doing
good) and nonmaleficence (inflicting no harm). He or she may consult with a
physician to assess the patient's capacity in order to determine if the patient
is able to make an "informed refusal." Whether or not a patient has
the capacity to understand, make a decision,
http://www.nursingcenter.com/journalarticle?Article_ID=1699823&Journal_ID=54012&Issue_ID=1699806
Ensuring Respectful Care of ICU Patients: 10 Things Nurses Can Do
How ICU nurses can maintain patient dignity in the critical care
environment
http://bit.ly/1Eqd60n
Reports online
The Nursing Council Cohort Report 2014
The Nursing
Council of New Zealand is pleased to present a second report on nursing
cohorts. This second report focuses on four different cohorts over New Zealand
educated and internationally qualified nurse, who were entered onto the
register for the first time between 1 April 2005 and 31 March 2006 and 1 April
2012 and 31 March 2013.
http://www.nursingcouncil.org.nz/News/The-Nursing-Council-Cohort-Report-2014
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
12 May 2015
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