Welcome
to the College of Nurses Aotearoa News Update.
No. 296 20 April 2016
From
NZ media this week
Research shows
hospital bullying cases rarely resolved
For
her PhD thesis Dr Kate Blackwood completed a series of 34 in-depth interviews
with nurses who had been targets of workplace bullying. She found only one of
these cases was ever completely resolved.
Read more here
Nurses blamed for
prisoner's inadequate care
Two
nurses have been told to apologise for inadequate care of a prison inmate who
died in 2011 after suffering seizures in prison.
Read more here
Former Southland nurse
Sanchia Aranda wins international award for cancer nursing
A
former Southland woman who heads Australia's Cancer Council will be presented
with an award for her outstanding contributions to cancer nursing.
Read item here
New ideas' needed on
Māori health
The
Public Health Association wants to change the conversation about why Māori have
worse health outcomes than other New Zealanders.
Read more here
Study shows Māori keen
for doctors and healers to work together
Latest
research shows that Māori are keen for traditional rongoā Māori healers and
doctors to work together on managing their health, however, many seriously
doubt that doctors would be open to such an arrangement.
Read more here
Maori are least likely to get professional post-natal
support
Maori
are less likely to receive the post-natal support they are entitled to than
other groups of New Zealanders, a seminar at Parliament hosted by Green MP
Marama Davidson will be told today.
Read more here
Is the future for New
Zealand healthcare increasingly corporate?
Talking
to young healthcare practitioners and soon-to-be healthcare practitioners in
New Zealand raises some interesting questions about the future of healthcare in
our country.
Read more here
Health
professionals welcome Royal Society’s climate risks report but highlight
importance of risks to health
Health
professionals, although welcoming the Royal Society of NZ’s report today on
climate change in New Zealand, are concerned that it does not address the real
health risks to New Zealanders from climate change and unhealthy responses to it,
nor how these may widen health gaps.
Read release here
Report available here
DHBs
and PHOs
Middlemore Hospital asks GP help to battle capacity issues
Middlemore
Hospital is so overrun with patients, it's established a hotline so GPs
can call before referring people.
Since
the beginning of the year the hospital has been treating more than 2000
patients each week.
Read more here
Christchurch Hospital
emergency department swamped by patients
Doctors
are pleading for more staff amid concerns over how Christchurch
Hospital's overloaded emergency department will cope this winter.
The
number of patients using the emergency department has grown as
more rebuild workers, who are not enrolled at GPs, and the elderly seek
help.
Read more here
Guild pleased with DHB
funded sharps disposal initiatives
The
Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand (the Guild) is pleased that a handful of District
Health Boards (DHBs) are now providing funded sharps disposal services via
community pharmacies.
Read more here
Drugs,
alcohol, smoking, addictions
Why drug law reform
matters for families
OPINION:
New Zealand's 40-year-old system of drug law is failing the very people it is
supposed to help, so we welcome the recent Dominion Post editorial (A
timely debate on a new approach to drug laws (April 4) - calling for a
calm and rational discussion about our approach to drugs.
Read more here
Dr Lance O'Sullivan,
Tuari Potiki: Why Maori must lead on drug law reform
When
will world leaders, politicians and community leaders admit that our punitive
approach to the drug problem isn't working?
Next
week the world gathers at the United Nations headquarters to agree how
countries can work together to solve the world's drug problem. The last time
they did this, in 1998, they declared the
war on drugs was something that could
be won.
Read more here
The cost to fix
P-contaminated houses
P-contaminated
state houses are costing tax payers much more now than ever before. Housing New
Zealand's spending on decontamination has boomed in the past three years
Read more:
Emergency
medicine
Red Cross Launches
Psychological First Aid Training
Every year
thousands of Kiwis are trained to undertake physical first aid, but how many
know how to effectively deal with someone struggling to cope or traumatised by
an emergency or disaster?
Read more here
End
of life care
Placing
the wairua (spirituality) back into health conversations
Conversations
about death and dying are often difficult and can be even more so if the
resources that are available are not suitable for your culture.
"We know
through literature and research that the discussions around advance care
planning (ACP) are different for Māori and non-Māori, Pacific peoples, migrants,
everyone," offered Northland DHB director of nursing and midwifery
Margareth Broodkoorn.
Read more here
Mental
health
Mental health care in
emergencies 'not an optional luxury': experts
LONDON
(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mental illnesses are the world's leading cause
of disability affecting millions and, even during a humanitarian crisis,
treating them is not an optional luxury, experts said before a World Bank/World
Health Organization meeting on the issue in Washington this week.
Read
item here
Health boss urges
caution over linking quakes to suicides
Health
professionals are calling for caution amid claims suicides in the
region can be linked to the earthquakes.
Canterbury
District Health Board chief executive David Meates today responded to claims in
the New Zealand Heraldthat 40 people in the region killed themselves
in the aftermath of the earthquakes, which started in September 2010.
Read more here
Obesity
Perspective: Who is
responsible for stopping NZ’s obesity epidemic?
Editorial
note: In this blog-perspective, obesity expert Dr Robyn Toomath outlines the
dogmas and arguments for the ‘individual-responsibility’ explanation and (lack
of) solution to the obesity epidemic. She then points to the market failures
that render (non-regulated) free-market solutions as doomed to fail. The views
in this blog are expanded in greater depth in a book Dr Toomath is launching in
Auckland and Wellington this month, Fat Science (Auckland University
Press).
Read more here
Will New Zealand adopt
a soft-drink tax?
The
recent surprise move by the UK to introduce a sugar-levy on
soft drinks from 2018, has invigorated debate on the anti-obesity measure
in New Zealand. Health academics are now saying a similar tax here is
inevitable and polls appear to show a change in mood. Despite
this many remain unconvinced citing a lack of evidence it will work. Cate
Broughton reports.
Read more here
Programme for toddlers aims to prevent childhood obesity
in Nelson
After
taking part in a programme to improve the health of toddlers, four
year-old Quayde McIntyre has tried raw mushrooms, broccoli and
cauliflower.
Quayde
is one of several toddlers who have spent the last 10 weeks learning new
physical skills and trying new foods while their parents learn about
childhood nutrition with a dietitian as part of the Toddler Better Health
programme.
Read more here
Pharmacy
The straight dope on medical cannabis
The debate over access to medical cannabis products such as
Sativex and Epidolex has been making headlines for months. But what do we know
about these products and how they work?
Read more here
Primary
Health care
New model to
complement Kaikoura’s new health facility
Residents
and visitors in Kaikoura will benefit from a brand new model for health service
delivery to complement the new health facility, Kaikoura Health Te Ha o Te Ora,
which was officially opened on Friday.
Read more here
Public
health
Whooping cough heading
to epidemic levels with Wellington leading the charge
New
Zealand is heading towards a whooping cough epidemic as cases of the
deadly illness more than double this season.
The
rising tide of whooping cough has two Starship Hospital paediatricians urging
parents to ensure they and their children are vaccinated.
Read more here
Social
health
$1b needed to stop poorest Kiwi kids from falling behind
the 'average' child
The
families of the poorest Kiwi kids have half as much money as the average
New Zealand home, according to a report.
And
the children's charity behind it is calling for a $1b investment to start
solving the problem.
Read more here
Telemedicine
NZRGPN takes positive but
cautious approach to health strategy’s IT initiatives in rural communities
Telehealth
and associated technologies appear to be the biggest initiatives for rural
communities in the recently announced New Zealand National Health Strategy.
While this is a pleasing aspect of the 10-year strategy, it comes with a
proviso that rural communities and individuals – both professionals and
consumers - must have the infrastructure and the knowledge to utilise
technologies such as telehealth and patient portals, says Dalton Kelly, New
Zealand Rural General Practice Network Chief Executive.
Read more here
From International media this week
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.
Read more here
Mental health nurse
education model is 'built for asylums', claims nursing director
The
lack of a single registration for nurses trained in both physical and mental
health is a workforce education model “built for asylums”, a chief nurse at a
London mental health provider has said.
Read more here
Nurses Say Stress
Interferes With Caring For Their Patients
Jordin
Purcell-Riess has worked as a registered nurse at the emergency department at
St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Conn., for three years. She describes her
workplace as phones going off, voices everywhere, every room full. "You
look around and the hallways are full of patients on stretchers; you walk out
to the waiting room and you can see on our board that there's 15 people signing
in," she says. "The second you can get your ICU patient upstairs,
there's another one waiting for you."
Read more here
Nurse practitioners
could provide assisted death under Bill C-14
TORONTO
-- Nurse practitioners -- not just doctors -- would be allowed to provide
medically assisted death to eligible patients under proposed legislation tabled
Thursday by the federal government.
Read more here
Work
and management
Dress for respect:
A shared governance approach
Earning recognition and respect as a nurse
requires professionalism in performance and appearance. A nurse's appearance
makes an important first impression on patients and dress codes in the hospital
setting should take this into account. Nurses' uniforms are a “nonverbal conscious statement that nurses
have the skills and knowledge to care for others.” A uniform is a powerful form of nonverbal communication related to the
wearer's identity, authority, status, and occupation.
Read more here
Articles
of interest
Dr Frances Hughes from ICU to ICN via mental health
nursing
Handover |
Issue 34 – April 2016
Desire and
determination to better support people in distress underpins Dr Frances Hughes’
career pathway. From an intensive care unit nurse in Lower Hutt, New Zealand
into mental health nursing and now the chief executive role for the
International Council of Nurses (ICN) in Geneva, Switzerland. We caught up with
Frances to hear about her exciting step into a global nursing leadership
position, a role coveted by 100 other applicants.
Read more here
Patient-centered simulations can strengthen
collegial relationships
A few years ago, when Cone Health (based in Greensboro, North
Carolina) decided to strive for top-decile health-system status
by 2015, work began on changing the culture to match leadership’s
values. One of our seven breakthrough projects (those with the potential
to fundamentally shift how we deliver patient care) targeted our four
emergency departments (EDs). The mission was described as “transforming
emergency care, easing suffering, performing acts of kindness, and
healing one patient, one family at a time.”
Read more here
Swedish
version of measuring cultural awareness in nursing students: validity and
reliability test
BMC NursingBMC
series – open, inclusive and trusted201615:25
Nearly 20 % of the Swedish population is
foreign-born. Increased exposure of patients from diverse cultures means there
is an urgent need to address their unique requirements and provide optimal health
care to a diverse population. Nursing schools thus have an important goal of
educating nurses to ensure they are culturally competent. Culturally competent
care improves safety and equity for patients. To measure cultural awareness
among nursing students in Sweden, the aim of this study was to translate, adapt
and test the validity and reliability of the Swedish version of a cultural
awareness scale which has not previously been tested.
Read article here
Reports
online
Tackling tobacco,
addressing inequality: Report on 2015 meetings
“Understanding that tobacco use is increasingly
linked to inequality, the Scottish Parliamentary Cross Party Group agreed to
focus on tobacco and inequalities in its work throughout 2015. This report provides
a brief summary of the discussions by the Group on mental health, the density
of retail outlets, smoking in pregnancy, and engaging marginalised groups.” Source:
Scottish Parliament Cross Party Group on Tobacco and Health
Read more here
Consultations
The Public Health Nurse National Workforce
Development Project Group has spent the last 18 months developing the Te
Rakau o te Uru: New Zealand Public Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills
Framework.
We
want to know what you think about the Draft Framework. Your feedback is
valuable and really important to having a document that is useful for the
future of public health nursing.
Please
ensure all your public health nurse colleagues and those that work alongside
public health nurses become involved in this consultation.
Note: the deadline for feedback is 5pm Monday 2 May 2016.
Download
the Draft Framework and the electronic/printable feedback form at www.pha.org.nz/trotu.html.
Note
there is a PDF version and a Word version of the Draft Framework available.
The
Word version has some formatting and display issues because it has been
converted from the PDF. However, it is useful for providing your feedback with
tracked changes if that is your preferred method.
You
may request the Draft Framework and the feedback form to be emailed to you by
contacting j.hugtenburg@gmail.com.
You
can send feedback using the feedback form or by tracking changes in the Word
version. Feedback can be sent to us either electronically or by post. Please
note we cannot accept changes to the Word document that have not been tracked.
Email
electronic feedback to pha@pha.org.nz.
Post
printed feedback to:
Leona
Head
Public Health Association
P O Box 11-243
Manners Street
Wellington 6142
From
the Ministry of Health
New Zealand Health
Strategy 2016
he
New Zealand Health Strategy sets the direction of health services to improve
the health of people and communities.
The
2016 New Zealand Health Strategy refreshes the previous strategy, developed
in 2000. It was developed with the help of sector leaders, independent reports,
extensive public consultation, and was informed by other government
programmes and initiatives.
The
Strategy has two parts.
New
Zealand Health Strategy: Future direction
New
Zealand Health Strategy: Roadmap of actions 2016
Access report here
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19 April 2016.
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