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to the College of Nurses Aotearoa News Update.
No. 303 8 June 2016
National
news
Waikato cancer centre
nurse named best of year
Waikato
Regional Cancer Centre clinical nurse specialist and Wintec postgraduate
student Ellyn Proffit has been named Nurse of the Year by the Waikato District
Health Board.
Read more here
Taranaki
DHB 'leads the way' in public health nursing IT
Taranaki DHB are shaking up the way public
health nurses work with patients and by the end of June all patient forms and
records will be electronically captured, giving nurses more time to spend with
patients and less time spent doing paper work.
Read more here
Founding parish nurse
Elaine Tyrrell receives The Queen's Service Medal
A
Nelson nurse who helped spread a revolutionary approach to healing across
the world nearly 20 years ago is still dedicating her life to the
cause.
Read more here
Aged
care
Government rules out asset and means testing of
elderly health services
Looking at
the financial circumstances of elderly people before providing home support has
been ruled out by the Government.
Read more here
Cancer
issues
Treasury's red flag
over bowel cancer screening programme
Treasury
has lambasted the Government's National Bowel Screening Programme, citing
concerns it's been rushed and underfunded before it has even
been launched.
Read more here
Health boards lag
behind cancer treatment target
A
target that aims to speed up cancer treatment times is proving elusive for
district health boards.
None
of New Zealand's 20 health boards have met the faster cancer treatment target
since the Ministry of Health began reporting against the measure at the end of
2014, although Nelson Marlborough has come close.
Read more here
Mental
health
Mental health workers struggling to cope
New figures show big rises in crisis mental health referrals
at many of the country's hospitals, and some health workers are describing it
as dangerous.
Read more here
Suicides come after people slip through cracks -
study
Many people who took their own lives did not get the right
help or slipped through the cracks of multiple government agencies, the first ever
government review of suicide deaths found.
Read more here
Christchurch mental health services at 'breaking
point'
Mental health
issues in Christchurch have reached "breaking point" with numbers
doubling in some cases since late last year.
Latest
statistics show the Canterbury District Health Board deals with 17 new adult
walk-ins every day - adults who have never needed the help of mental health
services before.
Read more here
Indigenous solutions
sought to combat suicide
Suicide
rates for Māori are two-and-a-half times more than for non-Maori, but New
Zealand's tāngata whenua are not alone, with indigenous populations the world
over suffering from high rates.
Read more here
Mental Health
Foundation concerned about false suicide rate claims
The
Mental Health Foundation (MHF) is extremely concerned about inaccurate claims
that New Zealand’s suicide rate could be more than three times the official
suicide rate. This claim is categorically false and causes unnecessary alarm
and distress to New Zealanders.
Read more here
Organ
donation
Consultation
begins on organ donation
Health Minister Jonathan Coleman says
consultation starts today on ways to increase New Zealand’s deceased organ
donation rates.
Read more here
Patient
safety
Toxic hospital smoke
protection for patients, staff too slow, surgeon says
Surgeons,
patients and nurses sick of breathing in poisons and viral particles
in surgical smoke will have to wait for any new minimum protections.
And
WorkSafe NZ has confirmed it has no specific guidance relating to
toxic and stinky electrosurgical smoke plumes.
Read more here
Pharmacy
Minister
launches Pharmacy Action Plan
Health Minister Jonathan Coleman has today
launched the Pharmacy Action Plan at the All Seasons Pharmacy in
Auckland.
Read more here
Primary
health care
Māori organisations leading the charge on health
Māori health workers say they are working with families to
change some of the poor health statistics for tāngata whenua.
Read more here
West Auckland Māori
told to boycott after-hours clinic
An
urban Māori authority in west Auckland is urging its whānau to boycott an
after-hours clinic and go straight to Waitakere Hospital for treatment.
Te
Whānau O Waipareira Trust said whānau with after-hours illnesses should go to
the hospital's Accident and Emergency Department.
Read more here
We're not free for everyone - hospital
Waitakere Hospital has hit back at an urban Maori authority
which urged sick people to avoid expensive after-hours clinics by going
straight to the free emergency department.
Read more here
Public
health
Regional funding
lottery sees thousands miss out on treatment for preventable eye disease
Thousands
of Kiwis are going blind from a preventable condition but treatments are not
receiving appropriate funding, doctors say.
Read more here
Stroke
New telestroke service
will ensure stroke sufferers get swift treatment
A
six-month telestroke pilot has been launched so Wellington specialists can help
doctors via video link in four regional hospitals to care for stroke
patients.
Read more here
Think FAST! Stroke campaign
goes live
A nationwide
stroke campaign has begun following a hugely successful trial which doubled the
number of people able to recognise the main symptoms of a stroke.
Read more here
Tobacco,
drugs and alcohol
Where will all the
addicts go?
New
Zealand lacks the facilities to forcibly detain people who have severe drug and
alcohol addictions, health experts say.
Read more here
Zika
New Zealand Zika numbers balloon
Almost 100 people have been treated for the Zika virus in New
Zealand this year.
Read more here
International
news
Reducing dialysis nurse burnout
Burnout is common among
dialysis nurses, and much of this is do to the nature of the specialty. But
Francyne Rosenstock outlines some ways managers and clinics can minimize the
problem.
“It is difficult for
dialysis clinics to retain their staff nurses because they are often
undervalued, overworked, and typically not paid as much as their counterparts
in other specialties,” Francyne Rosenstock, vice president of Business
Development and Marketing for Renal Reserve, wrote in her article “The dilemma of dialysis nurse
retention.” Burnout is common among dialysis nurses, and much
of this is do to the nature of the specialty. But Rosenstock outlines some ways
managers and clinics can minimize the problem.
Read more here
What Nurses Want: More
Guidance on Spiritual Care
Cleveland
Clinic researchers have developed a working definition of spirituality to help
establish a framework of spiritual care training and resources for clinicians
providing bedside care.
Read more here
Articles
of interest
The clinical
environment – do student nurses belong? A review of Australian literature
THE AUSTRALIAN
JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING
VOLUME 33 ISSUE
1
This paper aims to identify some of the issues related to the nursing students’
experience of belonging on clinical placements from the current Australian
literature. Anecdotal and empirical evidence suggests that nursing students on
clinical placements often experience problems that can adversely affect their
feeling of belonging in the clinical setting and ultimately their career
decisions. As nursing shortages increase, retention of student nurses in their
chosen profession is often affected by their clinical experiences, both
positively and negatively (HWA, 2012).
Download Article
From
the Ministry of Health
Pharmacy Action Plan 2016 to 2020
This Action Plan was
developed as a way of addressing the need to provide sustainable, high-quality
pharmacist services in a complex and evolving environment. It emphasises the
importance of taking an integrated, coherent approach so that all are clear on
the role they have to play in making its vision of the future into a reality.
There is general agreement
that we face complex challenges that make it more difficult to use pharmacists’
skills more effectively. However, there is also confidence that we can work
together to address these challenges, using the very real strengths of our
system and the experience and skills that everyone brings to their roles.
The Pharmacy Action Plan is
divided into four ‘focus areas’ and four ‘tools for change’, each of which
contains a number of actions. Consultation feedback agreed that each action
should have an organisation or group of stakeholders with lead accountability
for it, while also understanding that all would need to play their part for
each action to succeed.
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
7 June 2016.
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