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to the College of Nurses Aotearoa News Update.
No. 295 13 April 2016
From
NZ media this week
Labour's Damien O'Connor lodges a bill to
broaden access to medicinal cannabis
Anyone
with a terminal illness or suffering permanent "significant
pain" could get their doctor to sign off on medicinal cannabis under a new
Labour bill.
West
Coast MP Damien O'Connor entered a member's bill in the ballot on
Thursday, which would make it easier for patients like Nelson teenager
Alex Renton, who died last year, to access cannabis products.
Missing out on organ donations
An
organ donation campaigner says the latest data on the use of driver licences as
an indicator of wishes confirms the system is broken and needs to be replaced.
Thousands missing out on surgery, funding boost
fails to make dent in 'phantom waitlists'
About
170,000 people are being blocked from surgery as hospitals fail to
make inroads in the level of "unmet need".
That's
despite considerable funding injections from the Government and a
lift to the number of surgeries performed.
Drugs,
alcohol, smoking, addictions
Drug users cost NZ $1.8B annually - MoH report
Each drug addict incurs a cost to society of tens
of thousands of dollars every year, according to this year's edition of the
Ministry of Health-commissioned Drug Harm Index (DHI).
Mental
health
Canterbury mental health funding boost to help
children - Ministry of Health
A
funding boost for Canterbury's mental health system should help to address a
rise in children and young people needing help, the Ministry of Health
says.
Patient
safety
The future of patient safety worldwide
The
global patient safety movement started with the publication of the Institute of
Medicine’s landmark report To Err is Human back in 1999. Since
then, patients in health systems all over the world are sill being harmed.
Now,
the The NIHR Imperial Patient Safety Translational Research Centre (PSTRC)
in the UK (part of the NHS) has released its Patient Safety 2030 report.
"This paper and the Summit it informs are only small steps toward
the goal of continuously reducing harm; the hope is that they spark increased
energy to catalyse true change and provide an accessible summary of the challenges
and most promising solutions in patient safety."
The authors of the report recommend a strategy that includes a systems
approach, a culture of quality and safety based on positive reinforcement
rather than blame, a partnership with patients and a bias towards action rather
than inaction. There must also be a true effort to include middle and
low-income countries in a global push.
Public
health
Climate change 'biggest threat to health' - so
what is the Government doing?
As
climate change worsens, New Zealanders could face increasing melanoma rates and
mosquito-borne diseases like Zika and Dengue Fever.
From International media this week
Battle breaks out in Mich. on nursing degrees
Some Michigan
communities could be voting whether to let local two-year colleges offer
bachelor’s degrees in nursing.
The issue,
under debate again in the Legislature, is among the most controversial in
higher education since community colleges have historically offered two-year
degrees, while universities offer four-year degrees.
Nurses’ Group Lobbies for Telemedicine
Licensure
The
compact, similar to an interstate licensing framework eyed for doctors, would
give nurses the freedom to participate in multi-state telemedicine programs.
A licensing compact that
would allow nurses to practice telemedicine across state lines has now been
adopted by six states.
Nurses want in on PTSD bill for first
responders
TORONTO - Ontario
nurses face many of the same dangers and horrors as first responders but are
excluded from new legislation designed to strengthen protections for workplace
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, their union says.
B.C. nurses' college warns about helping in
assisted-dying cases
A B.C. Supreme Court ruling allowing a
terminally-ill woman a medically-assisted death has not opened the door to
participation by nurses, the College of Registered Nurses of B.C. said Monday.
Nurses face three times as many hand hygiene
opportunities as physicians, study finds
Does how frequently a clinician needs to wash his hands
affect hand hygiene compliance rates? A recent study published in the American Journal of Infection Control examined the connection between hand hygiene burden and compliance among
nurses and physicians.
New program aims to develop nurses locally
Like many other hospitals, CHI Health St.
Francis is having trouble finding enough nurses. In order to increase the
nursing supply, the Grand Island hospital decided to grow their own.
CRMC offers aid to patients through psychiatric
nurses
CHEYENNE – The Behavioral Health Outpatient Clinic at the
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center has started a new service to help patients.
Since December, patients at the clinic can make appointments
with skilled psychiatric nurses. This is the first time such appointments have
occurred.
Articles
of interest
Assessing DNP impact Using program evaluations
to capture healthcare system change
Nurse Practitioner: 17 April 2016 - Volume 41 - Issue 4 - p 44–53
Abstract: The doctor of nursing practice (DNP) degree was
formalized in 2004. Data evaluating the impact of DNP-prepared nurses on
individual patient care, population health, and healthcare system outcomes are
limited. This article demonstrates how the DNP Essentials can be used to frame
DNP program evaluation data.
What are the ‘necessary’ skills for a newly graduating RN? Results of
an Australian survey
BMC NursingBMC series – open, inclusive and trusted201615:23
There appears to be a sense of disappointment
with the product of contemporary nursing programs in Australia in that new
graduate RNs are often referred to as not possessing appropriate skills by
clinical colleagues. This work identifies the skills that the profession
believes that newly graduating RN’s should possess at the point of
registration.
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 April 2016.
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