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to the College of Nurses Aotearoa News Update.
No. 289 2 March 2016
From
NZ media this week
Makere Wano was a bridge between Maori and Pakeha worlds
Makere Wano had no qualms
about approaching smokers in the street and suggesting they give up.
Wano, who had a varied
career in the health sector, died on February 9 aged 83.
DHB funds short for nurses' pay rise
DHBs up to $2m shy on
negotiated wage increase.
Editorial: Ten-year plan to
give young a better start
Govt research project
aims to turn around grim statistics on obesity and mental illness.
DHBs
and PHOs
GP fees could rise... and fall
The Government
is considering sweeping changes to the way it funds family doctors.
Scheme helping to staff hard to fill
positions
Health
Minister Jonathan Coleman says an incentive scheme designed to boost the number
of health professionals working in hard-to-staff roles or areas is making a
real difference.
DHB funds short for nurses' pay rise
DHBs up to $2m shy on
negotiated wage increase.
Emergency
medicine
When every second counts
Marlene Dormer died as
a lone ambulance officer struggled to keep her alive, single-handed. Her
daughter tells health reporter Martin Johnston that it’s time to change an
unsafe system.
St John warns of price hikes or emergency
no-shows
New Zealand's
main ambulance service has warned it will need to hike charges or stop going to
some emergencies.
In a letter
to Government agencies St John chief executive Peter Bradley says the service
needs millions of dollars in funding and hundreds of new ambulance staff to end
single-crewing.
New Zealand’s emergency ambulances must be
double crewed
Paramedics Australasia New
Zealand – the professional body representing paramedics in New Zealand – echoes
calls from St John Chief Executive Peter Bradley for double crewing of
emergency ambulances.
Ethical
issues
Review could make medical cannabis easier to
access
Patients
seeking medical cannabis may no longer need to be hospitalised to receive it.
Associate
Health Minister Peter Dunne has ordered a review into the guidelines set by the
Ministry of Health.
Health
research
Companion robots help chronic lung
disease patients
A
trial of healthcare robots is hoped to cut hospital admissions for patients
with chronic lung disease.
Sixty
patients with COPD have been recruited to take part in the cutting-edge study
by the University of Auckland.
Patient
safety
Cutting edge
NZ
Listener 28 Feb
If
your surgery goes wrong, you can spend months getting better, and the cause can
be a simple failure to follow the rules.
Pharmacy
Blood clotting drug to be trialled
on Wellington trauma patients
Wellingtonians
who suffer serious trauma injuries will be some of the first to try a new blood
clotting drug that could save their lives.
Tranexamic acid,
which is believed to be effective in clotting blood to slow down the
rate of bleeding, will be on hand for paramedics in the next few
weeks.
Primary
Health care
Two Lower Hutt medical practices
refuse Syrian refugees over funding stoush
More
than 20 Syrian refugees arriving in the Hutt Valley on Friday will be turned
away from its two biggest medical centres amid claims of
inadequate health funding.
However,
other Hutt-based GP practices have agreed to care for them as an
urgent solution only hours before they land in Wellington.
Editorial: Doctors using Syrian
refugees as pawns in health funding ultimatum is shameful
OPINION:
Yes, the primary health funding model is flawed - but using vulnerable refugees
from the Syrian war as pawns to bargain for more health dollars is
unconscionable.
What
an invidious position the staff of two Hutt Valley health clinics placed
themselves in, when they fronted up to a public meeting of their district
health board last week with an ultimatum.
Well Child checks give children the best start in life.
The Well
Child / Tamariki Ora Programme is a series of free health visits offered to all
children from birth to age 5. Only about three quarters of all babies receive
the first core visit (between 2–6 weeks old). Dr Marguerite Dalton,
paediatrician and Well Child / Tamariki Ora promotion champion, would like to
see all children benefit: “Well Child checks are a great opportunity to follow
baby’s progress and offer families support. Any physical or developmental
issues can be picked up early and referrals to specialised care can be made.”
Plunket to provide free parenting and pregnancy education in Canterbury
First time parents are
being encouraged to sign up for Plunket’s free Pregnancy and Parenting
Education as soon as their pregnancy is confirmed.
Public
health
Breathing illness on the rise in
the Bay
Rising
numbers of Bay of Plenty people are being admitted to hospital for respiratory
issues with children and Maori making up a large proportion.
Growing number of kids developing
lung disease
A paediatrician is urging the
government to do more to curb the growing number of children developing
bronchiectasis, a lung disease that can be fatal if not treated early enough.
Who should take action on bronchiectasis?
Medical specialists are calling on the Ministry
of Health to introduce a campaign to raise awareness about bronchiectasis, in
line with existing efforts around rheumatic fever.
From International media this week
Nurse.com Releases Critical Care
Nursing Profile Study
BROOKFIELD,
Wis., Feb. 25, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Ninety-seven percent of
critical care nurses indicated they would recommend their specialty to other
nurses, according to a study by Nurse.com, the premier healthcare brand of
OnCourse Learning. The company is a leading provider of workforce solutions and
education for the healthcare, real estate and financial services industries.
The role of nursing is changing –
and demand is greater than ever
Nurses
are seeing more people and patients, with more complex and serious conditions,
than ever before
Tusculum College Announces Nurse Practitioner Program
Tusculum College will offer a Master of Science
in nursing degree with a family nurse practitioner concentration in August,
pending approval by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission
on Colleges.
Healthy eating concerns raised as majority of
doctors and nurses miss meals
Unhealthy eating is a
prevalent problem for the NHS workforce, with doctors and nurses regularly
skipping meals and relying on unhealthy snacks owing to time pressures.
At home in the hospital: New CoxHealth project trains nurses for the
future
It's home
sweet home in a hospital. On Tuesday, we got a peek inside Cox Cottage, a
living classroom for students at Cox College of Nursing.
Nurse practitioner bill passes House, moves over to Senate
CHARLESTON,
W.Va. — Advanced practice registered nurses are another step closer to
having “full practice
authority” in the state after a bill was passed out of the House on
Saturday.
Articles
of interest
Deprivation and its impact on non-urgent Paediatric
Emergency Department use:
are Nurse Practitioners the answer?
Journal of
Advanced Nursing
Volume 72, Issue 1, pages 99–106, January 2016
This article
reports on the quantitative findings from a large mixed method study that
determined the extent to which the provision of alternatives to an Emergency
Department and Index of Relative Social Disadvantage score influenced
non-urgent paediatric Emergency Department use.
Background
In Australia,
there is an increasing use of Emergency Departments for the provision of
non-urgent care that may be better serviced in the community. Further, despite
the plethora of literature describing the characteristics of non-urgent users
of Emergency Departments the link to social and community characteristics
remains under explored.
Understanding and achieving
person-centred care: the nurse perspective Helen Ross, Angela Mary Tod and Amanda
Clarke
Aims
and objectives. To present findings from the first stage of an exploratory
study investigating nurses’ understanding and facilitation of person-centred
care within an acute medical ward.
Online
resources
Refugees from SYRIA
This
backgrounder provides resettlement communities with basic information about
Syrian refugees. A country profile provides a brief guide to Syria’s history,
people, and cultures. The backgrounder then looks at the crisis in Syria and
the conditions refugees face in first asylum countries. Finally, it considers
some of the strengths and resources resettled refugees may be able to draw on
in their new communities and some of the challenges they are likely to face.
The backgrounder is intended primarily for those providing initial support and
assistance to the newcomers. Others may also find the backgrounder useful.
Those who work in local government—health professionals, social workers, and housing
officials, among others— may use it to better understand, and thus better
serve, their new clients.
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
1 March February 2016.
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