Welcome
to the College of Nurses Aotearoa News Update.
No. 301 25 May 2016
From
NZ media this week
Whanganui UCOL
celebrates 10 years of Nursing
Whanganui
UCOL has celebrated the 10 year anniversary of its first graduation for
Bachelor of Nursing and Diploma in Enrolled Nursing students.
Read more here
Top nursing award to
former Gisborne woman
Ellyn
Proffit takes out top award at Waikato District Health Board’s 2016
International Nurse’s Day celebration.
Read more here
School nurse rewarded
for efforts
John
Paul College's school nurse is stoked after being recognised for a job she
adores going to every day.
Cathy
Flavell has been announced the recipient of the Enrolled Nurse of the Year
award. The award was part of this year's Nursing and Midwifery Awards for the
Lakes DHB area with a ceremony
last week at Rotorua Hospital.
Read more here
Alfriston woman makes
three generations of nurses to graduate from MIT
Nursing
runs in Georga Brinkman's blood.
The
Alfriston woman will follow in the footsteps of her mother and grandmother
when she graduates with a bachelor of nursing from Manukau Institute of
Technology on May 28.
Read more here
Budget
2016
Budget 2016: The
pressure points - mental health in New Zealand
As
all Governments grapple with the balancing act of accounting for fattening and
ageing populations, as well as keeping an insatiable vacuum of funds in
check, Political Reporter Stacey Kirk takes
a look at the
pressure points threatening to weaken New Zealand's public health
system.
Read more here
Budget 2016: A health
system under pressure - cancer in New Zealand
As
all Governments grapple with the balancing act of accounting for fattening and
ageing populations, as well as keeping an insatiable vacuum of funds in check,
Political Reporter Stacey Kirk takes a look at the pressure points
threatening to weaken New Zealand's public health system.
Read more here
Health budget 'should be doubled'
Senior doctors and unions say health spending needs to rise
by $700 million in this week's Budget.
Read more here
Cancer
Call for Māori staff
to curb cancer rates
They
said there was a breakdown in care and communication with Māori with cancer,
and services were fragmented.
Read more here
Call for more Maori in
hospice care
Hospice
New Zealand is calling for an increase in the number of Māori working in
palliative care, saying there is a great deal of room for improvement with very
few working in the field.
Read more here
Homeless cancer patients
referred to emergency housing providers
Cancer
patients have been referred to emergency housing because they have nowhere
else to go.
It's
the reality for homeless families in New Zealand, says Monte Cecilia Trust
CEO Bernie Smith.
Read more here
DHBs
and PHOs
Pain threshold on
increase as hundreds await ops
No
DHB manages to treat all patients promised elective surgery within required
four months.
Read more here
Nelson Marlborough
District Health Board moves to stop workplace bullying
A
project to stop bullying and improve communication is in the works at the
Nelson Marlborough District Health Board.
Health
board general surgery head of department Ros Pochin wants to set up
a project similar to one trialled at Middlemore Hospital, in
Auckland, that involves informal avenues for reporting bullying
and
harassment.
Read more here
Drugs,
alcohol, smoking, addictions
MidCentral pharmacies
and Central PHO team up to help others quit
Soon-to-be
ex-smokers will be able to make the most of a country-first, as they get a free
week of nicotine replacement therapy.
Pharmacies
and primary health groups across the region have joined together to help
people quit smoking on the spot.
Read more here
Ethical
issues
Euthanasia may be
answer to incurable pain, says pain expert
A
South Island pain specialist says euthanasia should be available for
some people suffering from incurable pain.
Christchurch
psychologist Dr Mark Ottley, who leads psychological pain management
services at Southern Rehab, said the best medications, psychological help
and palliative care did not always work
for patients.
Read more here
Health
research
Step change funding boost for health research
Media Release - University
of Auckland - 18 May 2017
Medical research in New
Zealand had a major boost this week with an extra $97 million funding over four
years committed to the Health Research Council (HRC).
Read more here
Shedding light on Māori health
Why is it that diabetes is more common in Māori and Pasifika
people, while diseases such as cystic fibrosis and multiple sclerosis are
almost unheard of? Geoff Chambers, a molecular geneticist at Victoria
University, tells Veronika Meduna that genes linked to the immune systems of
Māori and Pasifika people are very different from those of Europeans, which
partly explains why certain medical conditions are more prevalent in some
groups and why some medications may not work effectively for everybody.
Read more here
Mental
health
New Zealand suicide
reporting laws due to change, here's what you need to know
Suicide
is often treated as a taboo subject, people don't want to talk about it, and
sometimes they can't.
Unlike
other countries, New Zealand has criminal laws governing what can and can't be
said when it comes to suicide, or suspected suicide.
Read more here
CDHB redirected $30
million to mental health to prevent service 'imploding'
Almost
$30 million was redirected to mental health from other Canterbury health
services post-earthquake to stop it "imploding", documents show.
Emails
between Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) chief executive David
Meates and Ministry of Health officials, obtained by Stuff under
the Official Information Act, show a health system still
struggling despite a $20m Government bail-out.
Read more here
Obesity/
sugar
Obesity screening to
pick up 1000 SI kids
More
than 1000 obese pre-schoolers will be offered help to manage their
weight in a new government-directed initiative.
Under
the new health target, obese children will be identified at before school
health checks (B4SC) and District Health Boards (DHBs) will be responsible for
referrals to treatment from July 1.
Read more here
Patient
safety
District health boards
spent $25 million fixing surgery botch-ups in last year
Botched
surgeries at publicly-funded treatment clinics or hospitals cost the
country more than $25 million in the last financial year.
Read more here
Primary
Health care
GPs criticise 'chronic' under-funding of practices
Millions of dollars in extra funding are urgently needed in
general practice if fees are to remain affordable for patients, family doctors
say.
Read more here
Public
health
Crohn's disease and
Colitis rising in Canterbury
Already
high rates of a serious and incurable disease that targets young people are
continuing to climb in Canterbury.
Read more here
Superbugs will 'kill
every three seconds'
Superbugs
will kill someone every three seconds by 2050 unless the world acts now, a
hugely influential report says.
Read more here
Measles outbreaks due to 80s and 90s kids
Health officials dealing with measles outbreaks say low
immunisation rates of people born in the 1980s and 90s may be to blame.
Read more here
Measles forces
families to re-think vaccination status
Previously
staunch anti-vaccination families have changed their tune after several people
have been infected with measles following an outbreak in the Waikato.
Read more here
High level of HIV
diagnoses in New Zealand persists in 2015
224
people were diagnosed with HIV in New Zealand in 2015 — a similarly high figure
to last year — according to data released today by the AIDS Epidemiology Group
based at the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine at the University of
Otago.
Read more here
Telemedicine
Midland Trauma present
new information sharing system at Claudelands
A
new system to track details of trauma, which can be shared by all emergency and
health services, could be up and running for the Midlands health region by the
end of the year.
The
idea was presented at the Midland Trauma
Symposium at Claudelands Events Centre in Hamilton on Friday.
Read more here
From International media this week
Nurses filling in for
doctors 'is a cheap fix for staff crisis': Warning plans to allow senior nurses to perform some junior
medics' tasks will lead to poorer care
Training
nurses to cover for doctors is ‘cheap fix’ - may lead to poorer care
Measures
put forward by NHS bosses in an attempt to avert a staffing crisis
Hospitals
desperate as they deal with rising numbers of older patients
But
experts say nurses and paramedics are being seen as a ‘cheaper alternative to
highly qualified staff’
Read more here
Tonga's head of health says nurses exceed
expectation
The Director of Health in Tonga says nurses are doing a great
job despite an earlier report that 70 percent had not reached national
professional standards.
Read more here
Nurses to stand in for junior doctors amid staff
shortages
Senior nurses are to stand in
for doctors, performing tests and giving drugs to patients, under plans
designed to ease staff shortages.
Read more here
Emotional intelligence may not make you a better
nurse says report
The death
of hundreds of NHS patients in two English
hospitals in Mid Staffordshire in the 2000s led to the Francis
report of 2013 which found that poor care was
endemic in the region. The report made 290 recommendations covering everything
from culture change to improved audit. This has driven much of the thinking
around how standards in healthcare in the UK should improve.
Read item here
Articles
of interest
The Construction of a Clinical Case for
Publication
Advances in
Skin & Wound Care:
May 2016 - Volume 29 - Issue 5 - p 199
Since its inception as Decubitus under
the direction of Roberta S. Abruzzese, EdD, RN, FAAN, founding editor, Advances
in Skin & Wound Care has morphed into a highly recognized
biomedical journal in the specialty of wound care. Our editorial calendar and
genre are diverse, including editorial thought and content encompassing
qualitative and quantitative health services research, clinical trials, professional
issues, and basic research using various wound models, including animals and
human-based clinical cases. The intention of this editorial is to encourage the
submission of cogent clinical case reports and case series to the journal. We
need novel and interesting cases seen by wound care clinicians at the point of
service that involve the patient perspective.1
Read more here
From
the Ministry of Health
Mental Health and Addiction: Service use 2012/13
Published
online: 12 May 2016
Summary
These tables are the latest
release of routine mental health and addiction data. The information is broken
down by age (including youth), sex, ethnicity, DHB of domicile and deprivation.
Key findings are as follows:
Demographics
Clients seen by
organisation
Activity type
Team details
Activity setting
Referrals
Deprivation
Long-term clients
Legal status
Seclusion
Electroconvulsive therapy
Outcomes
http://www.health.govt.nz/publication/mental-health-and-addiction-service-use-2012-13
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
24 May 2016.
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