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to the College of Nurses Aotearoa News Update.
No. 274 28 October 2015
From NZ media this week
Reducing cancer inequalities in Māori a priority
Underlying factors that
drive cancer inequalities in Māori, such as poverty, must be addressed
immediately, according to Dr Lis Ellison-Loschmann, from Massey University’s
Centre for Public Health Research.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1510/S00079/reducing-cancer-inequalities-in-maori-a-priority.htm
Urgent study called for midwife training after high
mortality
Researchers are calling for an urgent review of
New Zealand's midwife training system after a study found that babies have a 30
per cent greater chance of dying if being looked after by a newly qualified
midwife.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11532738
GP’s Study Seriously Flawed
The New Zealand College of
Midwives is disappointed at the poor data quality and flawed methodology used
in a study on maternity outcomes, out today.
The College says Dr
Beverley Lawton has used incorrect and dated data combined with questionable
assumptions so there is little of the paper on which anyone can usefully rely.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1510/S00082/gps-study-seriously-flawed.htm
Funding cuts to rural GPs proposed
A shake up in funding for
GPs may see four Taranaki practices lose their rural subsidies.
A rural service level
alliance team - RSLAT - from Midlands Health, the organisation that manages a
network of general practitioners in Waikato, Taranaki, Gisborne and Rotorua,
had been looking at how rural funding was distributed in its area.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/73199127/Funding-cuts-to-rural-GPs-proposed
Live organ donor
regime 'killing people' and 'costing a lot' - researcher
The
Government is "costing itself a lot of money in order to kill a lot of
people" under its organ donor scheme, says a right-wing think tank.
Head
of research for the New Zealand Initiative Dr Eric Crampton said told MPs a severe
shortage of live organ donors was not surprising.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/73222647/live-organ-donor-regime-killing-people-and-costing-a-lot--researcher
The patients asking
for medicinal cannabis
Medicinal
cannabis hit the headlines when dying union boss Hellen Kelly revealed she was
taking illegal cannabis to relieve pain. Thousands of other Kiwis say they need
cannabis too. Jack Fletcher reports.
Huhana
Hickey has multiple sclerosis and has been in a wheelchair since 1996. She
is in pain every day.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/73299908/the-patients-asking-for-medicinal-cannabis
Peter Dunne backs NZ
clinical trials for medicinal cannabis
Associate
Health Minister Peter Dunne has backed the idea of New Zealand hosting clinical
trials for medicinal cannabis products, saying they would help the Government
to gather more evidence about their effectiveness.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/73365634/peter-dunne-backs-nz-clinical-trials-for-medicinal-cannabis
It's okay to be
intersex - but unconsented surgery is not: advocate
Much
of society is organised around gender – think public toilets or referring to
people as he or she – but what if you don't fit in either box and people try to
change you so you do?
That
was the case for Waikato-based Rogena Sterling, a PhD law candidate, as well as
an unknown number of intersex Kiwis.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/73289800/its-okay-to-be-intersex--but-unconsented-surgery-is-not-advocate
DHBs and PHOs
Govt rules out
commissioner for in-crisis Canterbury District Health Board
Health
Minister Jonathan Coleman has ruled out appointing a commissioner to
manage the troubled Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB).
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/73244562/govt-rules-out-commissioner-for-incrisis-canterbury-district-health-board
Thousands dumped from
hospital waiting lists
Labour says the Health Minister owes an apology
to thousands of New Zealanders who have found themselves dumped from hospital
waiting lists.
http://bit.ly/206H0z0
Morning-after pill
scheme first of its kind in NZ
Marlborough
women can now pick up the emergency contraceptive pill free of charge as part
of a new district health board initiative.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/73239022/morningafter-pill-scheme-first-of-its-kind-in-nz.html
Christchurch skin
patients miss out as dermatology shortage reaches crisis point
A
major shortage of public hospital dermatologists has reached "crisis
point" in Christchurch, leaving patients without specialist care, a doctor
says.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/72959131/christchurch-skin-patients-miss-out-as-dermatology-shortage-reaches-crisis-point.html
Obesity
Government snubbed
official advice on child obesity target
The
Government snubbed advice from its health officials to set an aggressive target
on childhood obesity, internal reports show.
Labour
says the documents show that the Government watered down its plan to tackle
obesity for fear of falling short.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/73339904/government-snubbed-official-advice-on-child-obesity-target
Expanding waistlines
stretch DHB surgery costs
Obese
and morbidly obese patients are hiking up surgery costs at the Nelson
Marlborough District Health Board.
Research
released last week by the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists
detailed the cost to hospitals of obese pregnant women giving birth by
caesarean section.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/73374416/expanding-waistlines-stretch-dhb-surgery-costs
Pharmacy
Patients charged extra
as pharmacies seek to cover costs
Patients
are paying up to $2 extra for subsidised medicines as a growing number of
community pharmacies add charges to cover funding shortfalls.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/73351342/patients-charged-extra-as-pharmacies-seek-to-cover-costs
Telemedicine
Specialist medical care accessible 24/7 on Chatham
Islands
Chatham Islanders who need urgent or specialist
medical treatment can now get help immediately without leaving home thanks to
the installation of new video conferencing equipment.
http://www.voxy.co.nz/health/specialist-medical-care-accessible-247-chatham-islands/5/235482
From International media this week
Nurses, help your patients by helping yourselves
Ask any nurse to explain how she consoles a
patient going through a difficult diagnosis. Tell her to recap what it took to
stabilize a critical patient and keep him comfortable. Ask how she recently
saved a patient's life within seconds, and the stories will be endless. Nurses
do all of these things masterfully, day in and day out without fail.
http://www.mcknights.com/marketplace/nurses-help-your-patients-by-helping-yourselves/article/447677/
Lord Carter to produce ‘clearer guidance’ on nurse
staffing levels
Lord Carter of Coles is looking to establish
“clearer guidance” on safe staffing levels as part of his review of NHS
efficiency, he has said in an interview.
http://bit.ly/1GWXb6c
New senior regional nursing, midwifery roles
created as part of Country Health SA leadership trial
Six senior nurse roles have been created as
part of a new leadership trial which aims to provide more consistent services
across country South Australia.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-22/new-regional-nursing-midwifery-roles-for-country-sa/6876658
Hospital layoffs increase risk of patient death,
Ont. nurses warn
TORONTO - The Ontario Nurses' Association says hospital
patients are suffering and being put at increased risk of dying because of cuts
to registered nursing positions.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/hospital-layoffs-increase-risk-of-patient-death-ont-nurses-warn-1.2622827
Crisis hotline for nurses attacked at work
KELOWNA–Healthcare
workers in B.C. have a new tool to help deal with workplace assaults.
It’s a 24/7
hotline for nurses who experience violence on the job.
http://globalnews.ca/news/2296412/crisis-hotline-for-nurses-attacked-at-work/
Big
relief to thousands of Indian nurses as UK relaxes immigration rules
LONDON: In what will come as a big relief to
Indian nurses working in Britain, the government has included nursing as a
profession in shortage occupation list.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/other-news/Big-relief-to-thousands-of-Indian-nurses-as-UK-relaxes-immigration-rules/articleshow/49520959.cms
Backlog of 1,980
nurses caught in red tape, despite A&E trolley crisis
More than 1,900 nurses who want to register to
work in hospitals and other health facilities are still caught up in red tape,
despite the ongoing overcrowding in emergency departments.
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/health/backlog-of-1980-nurses-caught-in-red-tape-despite-ae-trolley-crisis-34137220.html
Scheme offers job guarantees to former nurses as
hospitals struggle to fill rotas
A GROUND-BREAKING programme aimed at bringing former nurses
back on to wards could be rolled out across the country following a successful
pilot.
http://www.thenational.scot/news/scheme-offers-job-guarantees-to-former-nurses-as-hospitals-struggle-to-fill-rotas.9171
Hospital routines may be making patients sicker
(Reuters Health) – Interrupted sleep and
withholding of food can make hospitalized patients sicker, according to three
U.S. physicians who say patient safety in hospitals is not just a matter of
preventing falls and infections.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/health/hospital-routines-may-be/2209530.html
New Guidelines Developed for Peri-Op Management of
Diabetes
MONDAY, Oct. 5, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- New
guidelines have been developed for the perioperative management of surgical
patients with diabetes. The guidelines were published online Sept. 29 in Anesthesia.
http://www.nursingcenter.com/HealthdayArticle?Article_id=703782&utm_source=WhatCounts&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EBPInsider_October2015
Proposed state bill
has doctors, nurses at odds over anesthesia care
LANSING
— Once a week, Mike Dosch typically works out of an operating room at
Dearborn'sBeaumont Hospital, formerly Oakwood Hospital, delivering
anesthesia to his patients.
Dosch,
a certified registered nurse anesthetist for 25 years, works as part of what's
known in the industry as an anesthesia care team. A physician who supervises as
many as four registered nurses will order an anesthetic, he said, and the nurse
anesthetist will decide the best way to give it
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20151025/NEWS/310259959/proposed-state-bill-has-doctors-nurses-at-odds-over-anesthesia-care
Work and management
5 positive traits of a high-caliber nurse leader
Nurse leaders are crucial to the health of any
unit, agency or facility, and we’ve all likely heard or experienced horror
stories of nurse managers from Hades.
https://news.nurse.com/2015/10/18/5-positive-traits-of-a-high-caliber-nurse-leader/
Nursing in history
Anniversary of the
sinking of the Marquette marked
Cheryl
Jenkins has always been fascinated with the tragic story of her late great
great aunt Margaret Rogers.
Rogers,
23, was among 10 New Zealand nurses who died during World War I when
the HMT Marquette transport ship they were travelling on was
torpedoed by a German U-boat attack in the Aegean Sea on October 23,
1915.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/christchurch-life/73200117/Anniversary-of-the-sinking-of-the-Marquette-marked
New Zealand nurses at
war
One
hundred years of New Zealand military nursing has been recorded in a new book
looking at the history of the Royal New Zealand Nursing Corp (RNZNC).
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/287897/new-zealand-nurses-at-war
Research article
Treading
the clinical pathway: a qualitative study of advanced practice nurses in a
local health district in Australia
Luck L, Wilkes L, O’Baugh J
BMC Nursing 2015, 14
:52 (19 October 2015)
Background:
Career planning in nursing is often haphazard, with many studies showing that
nurses need personal motivation, education, and the support of workplaces,
which are often dominated by political and fiscal agendas. Nurses often need
institutional and personal support to plan their careers and make decisions
regarding their career aspirations
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/s12912-015-0105-7.pdf
Research article
Swedish
student nurses’ perception of peer learning as an educational model during
clinical practice in a hospital setting—an evaluation study
Stenberg M, Carlson E
BMC Nursing 2015, 14
:48 (2 October 2015)
Background:
Peer learning, a collaborative learning model has no tradition in clinical
education for undergraduate student nurses in Sweden, and little is reported of
the student experience. An increasing number of students have led to a pressing
need for preceptors and clinical placements thus, highlighting the need for a
supportive educational model. The objectives for the current study were to
explore how student nurses’ evaluated peer learning as an educational model
during clinical practice in a hospital setting, and to compare perceptions
among student nurses from year one and three.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/s12912-015-0098-2.pdf
Study
protocol
British
Columbia Healthy Connections Project process evaluation: a mixed methods
protocol to describe the implementation and delivery of the Nurse-Family
Partnership in Canada
Jack S,
Sheehan D, Gonzalez A, MacMillan H, Catherine N, Waddell C, For the BCHCP
Process Evaluation Research Team
BMC
Nursing 2015, 14 :47 (17 September 2015)
Background:
The Nurse-Family Partnership is a home visitation program for first-time,
socially and economically disadvantaged mothers. The effectiveness of this
public health intervention has been well established in the United States;
however, whether the same beneficial outcomes will be obtained within the
Canadian context is unknown. As part of the British Columbia Healthy
Connections Project, which includes a trial comparing Nurse-Family Partnership’s
effectiveness with existing services in British Columbia, we are conducting a
process evaluation to describe and explain how the intervention is implemented
and delivered across five regional Health Authorities.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/s12912-015-0097-3.pdf
Understanding where we are
now and what we need for the future
Workforce
information helps us understand where we are now so we can effectively plan
services and develop the workforce to meet the needs of services users, now and
in the future.
In 2014 Te
Pou and Matua Raki led the More than numbers workforce
stocktake to provide a comprehensive picture of the New Zealand Vote Health
funded mental health and addiction workforce, because important information on
the size and distribution of the adult workforce across mental health and
addiction wasn't available.
The survey
findings provide important information about:
the size and
make up of the mental health and addiction workforce
current and
future challenges
knowledge and
skill needs
relationships
within and across sectors.
The full
report of the national mental health and addiction workforce is now
available. Adult mental health and addiction workforce: 2014 survey
of Vote Health funded services looks at the workforce in a wide context and
forecasts the future workforce based on population projections and scenarios
in Towards the next wave. A summary of the report is also
available.
http://bit.ly/1XmYYuJ
From the Ministry of Health
Forums: Consultation
on New Zealand Health Strategy
The New Zealand Health Strategy will be released by the
Ministry of Health for public consultation on 27 October 2015. The draft
update of the Strategy proposes the future direction for the health system. Two
draft documents have been produced: Future Direction and a Roadmap
of Actions to ensure all New Zealanders live well, stay well, and get well.
The documents reflect the discussions from engagement held earlier this year
with people from the health, disability and social sectors.
From 27 October 2015 the draft strategy documents will be on the
Ministry’s website
together with the independent Funding Review and Capability and Capacity
Review, which help inform the Strategy.
Regional forums are being held in Auckland, Hamilton,
Christchurch and Wellington to enable health and disability representatives to
come together to discuss the draft Strategy and Roadmap of Actions:
Auckland – 7
November – Holiday Inn Auckland Airport, 2 Ascot Road, Mangere, Auckland
Hamilton – 14
November – Kingsgate Hotel, 100 Garnet Ave, Te Rapa, Hamilton
Christchurch – 21
November – Siduma at Airport, Cnr Memorial Ave & Orchard Rd, Christchurch
Wellington – 28
November – Te Papa, 55 Cable Street, Wellington
The forums will run from 9.30am until 2pm and refreshments will
be provided.
Please RSVP by 30 October 2015 by emailing nzhs_strategy@moh.govt.nz.
Further information will be sent once you RSVP.
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
27 October 2015
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