Welcome
to the College of Nurses Aotearoa News Update.
No. 293 30 March 2016
From
NZ media this week
Nurses learn te
reo to bond with Māori patients
Nursing
students at the Eastern Institute of Technology in Taradale are learning Te Reo
Māori in an effort to help connect with more Māori patients. Efforts that will
see more Te Reo Māori spoken in the health sector.
Read item here
KIWI NURSING SCHOOLS
MAKE TOP WORLD RANKINGS
Nursing
schools worldwide have been ranked for the first time in a global university
survey with two New Zealand university schools making the top 100.
Read more here
ABOUT 40 PER CENT OF NEW
GRADS STILL JOB-HUNTING
The
summer is ending with 852 new graduate nurses in work but 547 remain in the
talent pool still hoping for a new graduate placement.
Read more here
Colleague browses
through private health information
An
employee at a large health agency in New Zealand has had her private health
information, including her "extremely sensitive" emergency department
and mental health records, accessed by more than one former colleague. The
woman's private information was looked at on numerous occasions between 2012
and 2013, case notes from the Privacy Commissioner's Office show.
Read item here
Hospital finalising its photo policy
Rotorua Hospital is stepping up plans to introduce
a special policy around patients and visitors taking photos in the hospital
grounds - starting with a ban on filming women having babies via caesarean
section
Read item here
Aged
care
How to Spot Elder Abuse and Neglect in the ER:
Things Are Not Always As They Seem
WASHINGTON, March 22, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/
-- When older adults in severely debilitated states show up for treatment
in the emergency department, emergency physicians and staff must be able to
identify and document their symptoms and decide whether to report their
concerns to adult protective services. This is a difficult decision as
the patient's symptoms may stem from willful neglect, unintentional neglect or
sub-acute symptoms caused by an underlying illness than manifest as neglect.
Two papers published online last Friday in Annals
of Emergency Medicine highlight a
problem that promises to grow rapidly with the aging of the Baby Boom
generation.
Read item here
Delivering integrated
care for older people with frailty
Date: 15
Mar 2016
Venue: The
King's Fund, London W1G 0AN
Event
type: Conference
Implementing the
electronic frailty index – case studies from the NHS front line
This breakfast
workshop was organised by our Workshop sponsor, TPP.
Session one: Opening
plenary
Helen
Lyndon - How new models of care can help support older people with frailty
Maggie
Keeble - How new models of care can help support older people with frailty
Karen
Goudie - Older people in acute care improvement programme (OPAC)
Session two: Public
health and voluntary sectors leading integration for older people with frailty
Dr
Sunil Hindocha - Proactive Care for older people with frailty
Caroline
Abrahams - The role of the voluntary sector in integrating health for older
people with frailty
Session three:
Breakout streams
Breakout A: Ensuring
health and wellbeing in older people who are living with frailty
Daniel
Gordon and Gemma Lyons - The Camden and Inslington Winter Wellness Campaign
Alison
Cole - Providing a stepping stone between the acute ward and home
Nigel
Barrett - A systems leadership approach to Malnutrition: The South
Staffordshire Eat Well Programme
Breakout B:
Prodividing care for frail older people with long-term conditions or
co-morbidities
Dr
Guy Peryer - Occupational therapy intervention for residents with stroke
related
Nina
Barnett - Impact of integrated medicines management service
Jane
McCombe - Enabling supported self-care for older people living with frailty:
The Nottinghamshire Frailty Toolkit
Breakout C: Working
together to provide integrated health and social care for older people with
frailty
Chris
Oleshko -Offering improved care and support to older people in Newcastle under
Lyme
Anne
Hendry - Working together to improve outcomes for older people in Scotland
Dimitri
Varsamis - Vertical integration to support older people with frailty in the
Netherlands
Breakout D: Improving
acute care and discharge planning for frail older people
Debbie
Hibbert - Older people in acute settings
Ann
Boland - Capital and Coast District Health Board Geriatric inpatient services
in New Zealand
Karen
Titchener - Guy’s and St Thomas’ @home hospital at home service
Access presentations – written and video - here
Obesity
Sugar-free schools way to go: adviser
The
Government's top child health expert has backed calls for schools to go
sugar-free.
Dr Pat Tuohy,
chief child and youth health adviser for the Ministry of Health, said a water-only
policy would be a "great first step" to tackling tooth decay and
child obesity.
Read item here
Primary
Health care
New Zealand Parliamentarians and advocates united in fighting our
region’s biggest infectious killer
The deadliest disease in
human history, Tuberculosis (TB), has gained new champions in New Zealand in
time for the 24th of March, World TB Day.
Read item here
Hokianga
Hospital research project
A research
project has commenced this month at Hokianga Hospital, Rawene to investigate
the impact of introducing “point of care” (POC) haematology for Hokianga
patients. Hokianga, on Northland’s west coast, is a dispersed rural community
of 6,300 people, 75% being Maori. A haematology analyser has temporarily been
installed for on-the-spot full blood count measurement which will help in the
diagnosis of conditions such as anaemia, infection and immune suppression.
Read item here
Public
health
Rotten to the core -
our children's dental decay problem
More
Kiwi pre-schoolers are requiring hospital treatment for severe tooth
decay. Cate Broughton reports on a problem dentists are struggling to
cope with.
Read item here
From International media this week
FDA seeks to ban powdered
gloves used by doctors and nurses
Citing health risks associated with the use of
powdered latex gloves for medical procedures and exams, The Food and Drug Administration
has proposed a nationwide ban on the gloves, Stat reported.
Read item here
Rural doctors call for more generalist nurses and
allied health professionals in the bush
Rural doctors are calling for nurses and allied
health professionals to be trained as generalists to tackle the inequality in
health outcomes for rural and remote people.
Read item here
Infographic:
What's the cost of nurse turnover? (US)
The healthcare industry is suffering from a
nursing shortage, with not enough highly educated workers to fill job slots at
hospitals, health systems, home health agencies and more. This shortage makes
nurse retention an important initiative for healthcare organizations.
Read item here
Unsafe
staffing is a top concern for nurses: Patty Eakin
When I became a nurse in 1976, I set out
to become part of the most respected profession in our country. I wanted to be
at the bedside, caring for sick patients and delivering the highest quality of
care possible. Instead, at times, I found myself struggling to deliver even
adequate care. Too often, patients are put at risk and RN licenses are
compromised by our profit-driven healthcare system which routinely leaves
patients without proper nursing care in order to make more money. In my nearly
forty year career as a nurse, the biggest difference in staffing conditions and
overall morale has been working in a hospital where nurses have a union and are
able to stand up for themselves and the quality of care they deliver. As
frontline healthcare providers, nurses need to lead the way to a safer
healthcare system.
Read commentary here
Social media
Suzanne Gordon on the
difficult patient
Today
it’s hard to find a healthcare professional who doesn’t want to “put the
patient first,” practise “patient centered care,” or make the patient “part” or
even “the centre” of the healthcare team. When you discuss any potential
or actual bureaucratic, governmental, insurance company, or even internet
interference in clinical practice, clinicians complain that non-healthcare professionals
fail to understand the sacred trust that exists between clinician and patient
and the duty to “first do no harm,” and protect the patient.
Read blog post here
Articles
of interest
Nursing's contribution to
clinical documentation integrity efforts
Clinical documentation improvement, or clinical documentation
integrity, may be defined as a process by which clinical indicators, diagnoses,
and procedures documented in the medical record are supported by the
appropriate ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS codes. Code assignments drive reporting
for reimbursement, quality measures, hospital and physician profiles,
regulatory requirements, and clinical data collection and research. In
addition, documentation found within the hospital record is a key to
communicating the patient's illness and care plan to providers managing the
patient in the community. Therefore, the documentation that results in code
assignment must be an accurate and complete representation of the severity of
the patient's illness and the efficacy of the treatment plan. A
well-constructed medical record will reflect an alignment of documented
clinical indicators, associated diagnoses based on those indicators documented
to the correct acuity and specificity, and procedures appropriate for the
indicators and diagnoses.
Read article here
Ali, P. A. and Watson, R. (2016), Peer review and the publication process.
Nursing Open.
To provide an overview of the peer review
process, its various types, selection of peer reviewers, the purpose and
significance of the peer review with regard to the assessment and management of
quality of publications in academic journals.
Read article here
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29 March 2016.
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