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to the College of Nurses Aotearoa News Update.
No. 299 11 May 2016
From
NZ media this week
Record number of
nominations for Southern Nursing Excellence Awards
They face all manner of
situations, usually with a smile on their faces.
And now it's their time to
shine.
As part of International
Nurses Day, Southland will celebrate the efforts of its nurses with the
Nursing Excellence Awards on May 12.
Read more here
NGO nurse takes on the Skills Matter NESP programme
- and wins!
Trudy George
is a 51-year-old registered nurse at Odyssey’s residential co- existing
disorders service in Counties Manukau. She came to nursing later in life after
working in accounts and as a gym instructor – and after having raised five
children.
Read more here
International Nurses
Day pays tribute to hard working carers
Jane
Sutton says caring for patients reaching the end of their lives is the most
rewarding job she has had.
The
Hospice West Auckland Kowhai Suite manager and nurse is just one of many being
recognised on International Nurses Day, May 12.
Read more here
Improving
health systems’ resilience
Thursday
marks International Nurses Day – the annual celebration to mark the
contributions nurses make to society around the globe, as well as commemorating
the birthday of one of the world’s most famous nurses, Florence Nightingale,
born in Italy on May 12, 1820.
Read item here
NZ health system ignores Māori tikanga - study
Māori cancer patients feel uncomfortable when they use
mainstream healthcare because Māori tikanga - or culture - is ignored, new
research has found.
Read more here
Warren Lindberg - Maori Health Symposium
Warren Lindberg joins Wallace to talk about the challenges facing
Maori in the health system today.
Listen here
Improvements to health of Maori
children
Maori children are more than twice as likely as Pakeha children to grow
up in households experiencing significant hardship, and fare worse in most
indicators.
But the new report by the University of Otago-based
Child and Youth Epidemiology Service shows increasing numbers of Maori pre
schoolers are getting early childhood education. There's also been a halving of
school suspensions for Maori students, an increase immunisation rates, fewer
young Maori smoking, and falling hospitaliszion rates for Maori children for
injuries from assault, neglect or maltreatment. Dr Mavis Duncan is one of the
co-authors of the study and the acting director of the Child and Youth
Epidemiology Service.
Read more here
Calculator to help
fight sudden infant death
A
calculator has been developed to predict the chances of a baby dying in its
sleep and to bring down the number of infants passing away suddenly.
Read
more here
Paging Dr Google: AI set to dominate medical field
Human doctors
are likely to become redundant in the near future, two Kiwi health experts
warn.
As technology
advances, artificial intelligence (AI) could be the future of healthcare -- in
the long-term, it's cheaper than regular doctors and it lessens the chance of
human error.
Read
more
Pasifika more likely to suffer anaphylaxis - study
New research shows increasing numbers of people are being
hospitalised with severe allergic reactions from food - particularly Pacific
Islanders.
Read more here
Aged
care
Concern as more older migrants left alone
The growing number of elderly Chinese migrants
entering New Zealand to reunite with family and being left alone is a major
concern, an immigration expert says.
Read more here
Cancer
Push for bowel cancer
screening programme
A
business case for a national national screening programme to detect and treat
bowel cancer is being finalised.
Health
advocates say lives can be saved if the Government expands a pilot screening
programme, with the Cancer Society making funding for a national programme one
of its top wishes for this month's Budget.
Read more here
Emergency
medicine
EDs frustrated by patients with minor injuries
Emergency
departments around the country are under increasing strain, but up to 10
percent of ED visits may be unnecessary.|
Minor ailments
including colds, ulcers and even paper cuts are distracting doctors and nurses
from those who really need emergency care.
Read more here
Mental
health
Professor calls for inquiry into mental health
services
Professor Max Abbott, Dean
of the Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences at Auckland University of
Technology, is calling for an independent commission of inquiry into mental
health services.
Read more here
A spate of insane
killings prompts review of Wellington's mental health services
A spate
of killings and other attacks by mentally ill people has sparked a
review of Wellington's mental health services.
On
Friday a 30-year-old man was found not guilty due to
insanity of murdering Kapiti nurse Cathy Stewart in February
last year.
Read
more here
Avoidable early deaths
costing New Zealand economy $3.1 billion annually
Investment in the physical
health care of people with mental illness could recoup millions for the New
Zealand economy says the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of
Psychiatrists who have released a report which calculates the economic cost of
premature death of people with mental illnesses including schizophrenia,
bipolar disorder, psychoses and severe anxiety and depression to be $3.1 billion
(1.3% of GDP) annually, and the cost overall to be $12 billion (5% of GDP).
Read more here
Pharmacy
Could 'cannabis clubs'
work in New Zealand?
Leading
drug researcher Dr Chris Wilkins from Massey University’s SHORE and Whariki
Research Centre is calling for the adoption of a not-for-profit club model for
cannabis, allowing regulated cannabis products to be sold legally. His proposal
foreshadows an annual international conference on drug policy being hosted by
Massey next week.
Read more here
Medicines NZ welcome
$124m investment in new medicines
Medicines
New Zealand is pleased that the New Zealand Government has today announced a
$124 million increase over four years for investment in new medicines.
Read more here
Doctors' criticisms
force Medsafe to reconsider pharmacists selling the pill
Health
officials may be forced into an embarrassing backtrack after a recommendation
that pharmacists be allowed sell birth control pills without a doctor's
script.
The
controversial issue was put back on the agenda this week after
harsh criticisms by the Royal New Zealand College of General
Practitioners that Medsafe's decision-making was flawed and risked
harming patients.
Read more here
Primary
Health care
Pharmacists team up to
help Kiwis beat flu
Kiwis
take an average of around four sick days off work every year, costing the
economy a staggering $1.4 billion.
The
dreaded flu is one of the main culprits, affecting one in every five
Kiwis.
Read more here
Public
health
Rotavirus vaccine has
led to decrease in hospital admissions for gastroenteritis
A
vaccine introduced to prevent gastroenteritis in Kiwi children has halved
the number of infant admissions to hospital in the last five years.
Ministry
of Health acting director of public health Dr Stewart Jessamine
said the vaccine for rotavirus was added to the national immunisation
schedule in July 2014 and was available to babies born
from
early May that year.
Read more here
Social
health
State of the State
report: Government needs to focus on 'root causes'
The
Government should adopt a 'social investment' approach to help Kiwis avoid poor
life outcomes, a new report says.
Released
on Monday by NZ Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) and Deloitte, State
of the State New Zealand 2016 followed a six-month review
of government finances and future burdens to
New Zealanders.
Read
more here
From International media this week
Nurse Residency Programs Can Impact Oncology
Nursing Practice, Outcomes
SAN ANTONIO, Tex.—An innovative and robust nurse residency
program that includes an evidence-based practice project, can impact oncology
nursing practice and outcomes, according to a presentation at the ONS 41st
Annual Congress.1
Read item here
Academics defend nurse PhD impact on practice
Academics have defended the important
contribution nurse PhDs make to healthcare practice, following suggestions that
they are often “interesting academically” but not always useful.
Read item here
Articles
of interest
Patients’ confidence in coping with arthritis after
nurse-led education; a qualitative study
BMC NursingBMC series – open,
inclusive and trusted201615:28
The aim of this study was to explore how patients
with chronic inflammatory polyarthritis described coping with their disease
after a nurse-led patient education program and compare these experiences to patients
in a control group who did not receive any education.
Read more here
Nurses'
hospital orientation and future research challenges: an integrative review
This study aimed to describe the research on registered
nurses' orientation processes in specialized hospital settings in order to
illustrate directions for future research.
Read more here
From
the Ministry of Health
Te Ohonga Ake: The
Determinants of Health for Māori Children and Young People in New Zealand:
Series Two
This report, which focuses
on the underlying determinants of health for Māori children and young people,
aims to:
Provide a snapshot of
progress in addressing many of the determinants of health including child
poverty and living standards, housing, early childhood education, oral health,
tobacco use, alcohol
related harm, and children’s exposure to family violence.
Assist those working in the
health sector to consider the roles other agencies play in influencing child
and youth health outcomes related to these determinants.
In exploring the underlying
determinant of health for Māori children and young people, each of the
indicators in this year’s report has been assigned to one of four sections:
The wider macroeconomic and
policy context
Socioeconomic and cultural
determinants
Risk and protective factors
Health outcomes as
determinants.
Read more about The Determinants of Health
for Māori Children and Young People in New Zealand: Series Two on the Otago University website.
Read
report 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
10 May 2016.
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