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to the College of Nurses Aotearoa News Update.
No. 297 27 April 2016
From
NZ media this week
Bullying nursing
culture of 'eating young' needs addressing
A
culture of picking on young nurses is not being dealt with effectively,
according to a Massey University researcher.
The
idea that nursing is a profession that "eats its young" may be
correct, Dr Kate Blackwood said.
Read
here
Health providers not
prepared to deal with climate change
As
climate change worsens, Nelsonians could face increasing rates of water-borne
illnesses from flood events and mosquito-borne diseases like Zika and Dengue
Fever.
The Green
Party's health spokesman Kevin Hague believes the Nelson Marlborough District
Health Board is under prepared for the health effects of climate change
and need to do more.
Read
here
Poor quality hospital food 'a safety issue'
The poor quality of patient meals had become a
"staff safety issue" in mental health wards in Dunedin and
Invercargill, and some patients had lashed out, causing property damage, an
internal Southern District Health Board memo reveals.
Read here
Hard subjects tackled in new guide
Dying and death are difficult subjects at the
best of times and even more so when public resources that are available are not
culturally appropriate.
Read here
One in 20 New
Zealanders using cannabis for medical reasons - study
One
in 20 Kiwis use cannabis for "medical purposes", but 70 per cent of
those also use it for recreation, researchers say.
A
study published in the New Zealand Medical
Journal on Friday found five per cent of Kiwis over
the age of 15 had used cannabis for medicinal purposes in the past year.
Read
here
Mental
health
A health strategy that doesn’t integrate mental
health is incomplete
Mental health nurses around
the country are wondering why strategies to improve the mental health of New
Zealanders has been omitted from the New Zealand Health Strategy – Future
Direction 2016.
Read here
Obesity
Little evidence sugar tax works,
think tank says
New Zealand should avoid a sugar tax as there
is little robust evidence it reduces obesity, a public policy think tank says.
Read here
From International media this week
Preparing for the boomer effect
Less
experienced nurses may step into nurse manager role sooner
Read here
Nurses excluded from PTSD bill ask, 'If we're not
first responders, who is?'
Late in 2014, Julie
Prince’s life started to unravel.
After a shift at the
hospital where she worked as a nurse in the labour and delivery unit, she would
spend hours sobbing on the couch, haunted by images of dead babies.
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/nurses-excluded-from-ptsd-bill-ask-if-were-not-first-responders-who-is
'A great mistake to leave out nurses:' expert
It makes “absolutely no
sense” to exclude nurses from Ontario’s new PTSD legislation, says renowned
forensic psychiatrist Dr. John Bradford.
Paramedics are covered
under the proposed bill, as are police officers, firefighters, workers in
correctional institutions and dispatchers.
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/a-great-mistake-to-leave-out-nurses-expert
Articles
of interest
Pediatric developmental screenings: A primary care
approach
Nurse Practitioner: 13 April 2015 - Volume 40 - Issue 4 - p 34–39
Abstract: Early recognition of developmental delay is
critical to providing comprehensive pediatric primary care. Advanced practice
nurses must be aware of the guidelines for surveillance and developmental
screening in children. This article discusses guidelines for screening,
examples of screening tools, information for follow up, and referral for
positive screenings.
Read article here
Reports
online
Asian Health in
Aotearoa 2011-2013 Report
This report released by Northern Reigonal Health Alliance,
discusses the trends in the health status of Asian participants interviewed in
recent New Zealand Health Surveys.
Read
here
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
26 April 2016.
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