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to the College of Nurses – News Update.
No. 264 12 August 2015
From NZ media this week
Flu jabs, masks optional for DHB staff
Wairarapa District Health Board will not be following
the practice of Waikato DHB, which is requiring non-vaccinated workers to
either get flu jabs or wear face masks.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/wairarapa-times-age/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503414&objectid=11492136
Māori nurses 'paid significantly less'
A nurses' conference has heard how the pay gap
suffered by Māori nurses is forcing them to take on second jobs to make ends
meet.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/281009/maori-nurses-'paid-significantly-less'
Plunket drafting Asian
People's Strategy
A
plan to make Plunket services more multicultural has received the thumbs up
from Asian community members.
The
draft Asian People's Strategy incorporates many of the recommendations made by
families in 2013.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/70762415/plunket-drafting-asian-peoples-strategy
TV3 documentary
spotlights a rural NZ hospital under financial stress
Documentary
makers spent a year filming inside a small 30-bed hospital in Oamaru under
financial pressure.
That
documentary, Emergency Medicine: A Year at Oamaru Hospital, "was one
of those films that was simply an honour to make", directors
Paul Trotman and Malcolm Hall said.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/70844248/tv3-documentary-spotlights-a-rural-nz-hospital-under-financial-stress
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Single cigarette sales
create a shortcut to addiction
Selling
cigarettes to young people is against the law and needs to stop if we’re to
help them avoid smoking, says the Auckland Regional Public Health Service.
http://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/un-doctored/2015/august-2015/10/Single-cigarette-sales-create-a-shortcut-to-addiction.aspx
Public feedback sought
on smokefree options for Wellington
From
the waterfront to the Golden Mile to all parks throughout the city: the
question over which areas of Wellington should be smokefree is going to a
panel.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/70996937/public-feedback-sought-on-smokefree-options-for-wellington
Mental health
More hands-on support for rural communities
Health
Minister Jonathan Coleman and Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy say around
100 more people will be trained to help farming families across the country access
the support they
need.
http://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/un-doctored/2015/august-2015/05/More-hands-on-support-for-rural-communities.aspx
Obesity
Intervention vital to curb Maori obesity
A report out today on Māori obesity levels 'Challenges
to addressing Obesity for Maori in Aotearoa-New Zealand',published in
the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, points
to the need for more government intervention to help Māori make better and
healthier food choices.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/281014/intervention-vital-to-curb-maori-obesity
Telemedicine
The future of health care in the Waikato is virtual
health
The future of health care involves accessing services from
smartphones, laptops and tablets and the Waikato District Health Board has gone
one step further by appointing the country's first clinical director of virtual
health care.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/70808929/the-future-of-health-care-in-the-waikato-is-virtual-health
From International
media this week
Nurses’
competency: Will new program verify it better?
RNs
in Georgia are facing new licensure requirements.
In
a development that was years in the making, mandatory “continuing competency”
tracking is beginning this week for Georgia’s more than 9,000 registered
nurses.
http://bit.ly/1TodL4x
To Sway Anti-Vaccine Beliefs, Focus on
Consequences: Study
When parents learn about
the harms of measles, mumps and rubella, many change their stance
http://bit.ly/1IVxqCU
Child immunisation rates more affected by poverty
and bad health than ideology
Rates more
influenced by financial constraints and access to services than
anti-vaccination beliefs, finds University of Adelaide study
http://bit.ly/1KSdZyH
NY nurses achieve big patient care successes
through CSI Academy
Nurses working in small teams at seven New York
hospitals have improved patient care and saved their hospitals millions of
dollars with the help of a national program being rolled out at regional hubs
across the country.
https://news.nurse.com/2015/08/03/ny-nurses-achieve-big-patient-care-successes-through-csi-academy/
Muscle strains, sprains and needle sticks: 4 things
to know about nurse injuries
Nurses frequently experience injuries at work — including
strains, sprains and needle sticks — and newly licensed nurses are at a greater
risk for these injuries than more experienced nurses, according to research
published in the International Journal of Nursing Studies.
http://bit.ly/1L3r3Ei
Websites of interest
Susan
Guthrie & Jevan Goulter - Korerotia te Tiriti
Jevan Goulter and Susan
Guthrie have spent the last eight months talking to dozens of prominent New
Zealanders about the Treaty of Waitangi and race relations in Aotearoa. This
week they launched Talk Treaty - Korerotia te Tiriti - a web-based collection
of videos featuring interviews with everyone from Tariana Turia to Don Brash.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player/201765753
Talk treaty website: http://talktreaty.org.nz/
Articles of interest
Reports online
UK: National Literacy
Trust Hubs: Understanding the Role of Literacy in Public Health
Source:
National Literacy Trust (UK)
From
What is the relationship between health and literacy?:
Evidence
demonstrates a clear link between low literacy and poor health. In 2008 the
National Literacy Trust published a paper highlighting the association between
low literacy and poor health outcomes. In 2014, we explored the direct nature
of this relationship, demonstrating that those with low literacy were up to 18
times more likely to take their prescriptions incorrectly, significantly less
likely to understand symptoms of a medical condition such as diabetes or
asthma, and more likely to rate their health as “very poor” than those with
better literacy skills.
This
paper goes further to argue that literacy skills comprise a fundamental area of
public health. Literacy is directly related to health because it provides
individuals with the skills to obtain, process, understand, appraise and apply
information relating to their own health and behaviours. This capability,
combined with motivation and knowledge, is understood as health literacy, and
evidence shows that measures used to signify health literacy are highly
correlated with other standard literacy tests. In practical terms, this means
that literacy impacts an individual’s ability to learn about disease prevention
and health promotion, follow health care regimens, and communicate about health
messages with other people.
http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/assets/0002/7394/National_Literacy_Trust_Hubs_health_and_literacy_paper_FINAL_updated.pdf
From the Ministry of Health
Te Ohonga Ake: The Health of Māori Children and
Young People with Chronic Conditions and Disabilities in New Zealand
Published
online: 04 August 2015
Te Ohonga Ake: The Health
of Māori Children and Young People with Chronic Conditions and Disabilities in
New Zealand is part of a series of annual monitoring reports focussing on the
health of Māori children and young people. This report collates a range of
routinely collected data about conditions arising in the perinatal period,
chronic conditions and disabilities, and reviews the distribution of overweight
and obesity and its determinants.
Read more about Te Ohonga Ake: The Health
of Māori Children and Young People with Chronic Conditions and Disabilities in
New Zealand on the Otago
University website.
http://bit.ly/1Pi7jLZ
Report on the Performance of General Practices in
Whānau Ora Collectives as at March 2015
Published
online: 05 August 2015
Summary
This report focuses on the
performance of general practices in Whānau Ora collectives – using results from
the software package HealthStat, which collects an anonymous summary of patient
health information from general practices in Whānau Ora collectives.
Although not all
collectives include general practice providers, the data collected for this
report can help highlight any changes in performance over time for health
providers in the collectives.
The report includes results
for key HealthStat indicators identified by the Ministry of Health, Te Puni
Kōkiri, and Tumu Whakarae (DHB Māori Managers) as strongly associated with
morbidity and mortality for Māori.
The Ministry publishes
these performance reports on a quarterly basis.
http://bit.ly/1EkVhem
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
11 August 2015
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