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to the College of Nurses Aotearoa News Update.
No. 318 28 September 2016
National
news
Waikato DHB's success
with frontline ownership
Frontline
ownership (FLO) is giving staff at Waikato District Health Board (DHB) a new
way of improving patient care, and they are loving every minute of it. Surgical
service nurse manager Melody Mitchell has been using FLO since DHB staff
attended a session hosted by the Commission with Dr Michael Gardam in September
2015. FLO is a quality improvement approach that engages and empowers frontline
staff to come up with and implement their own solutions to local issues, from
hand hygiene improvement to preventing falls.
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more here
NZ pacific unaware of health services on offer
A lack of awareness of services on offer is preventing many
Pacific youth from proper health care in New Zealand.
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Upsurge of abuse on
mental health workers at Waikato DHB
Violence
against mental health workers by patients and their families is on the rise and
nursing staff bear the brunt of it.
There
were 162 physical assaults on staff working for the Waikato District Health
Board's mental health and addictions service last year, compared with 140
in 2014.
Read more here
Aged
care
NZ dementia sector backs need for national plan
New Zealand dementia organisations have just
released an action plan to help New Zealand prepare for the expected increase
in the numbers of people with dementia.
Read more here
Care home nurses need
training for unique role
(Reuters Health) - The most important thing nurses provide to
nursing home patients are dignity, personhood and quality of life, but training
in these aspects of care is lacking, according to a U.K. study.
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more here
DHBs
Health system
struggling with hip, knee ops
New
research shows rate of operations has stalled while population increases.
Read more here
Diabetes
Disparities in insulin
pump use by New Zealanders with type 1 diabetes: Otago research
There
are significant demographic and regional disparities in the use of insulin
pumps in New Zealand, according to new University of Otago research.
Read more here
Ethical
issues
The NMC Case against Pauline Cafferkey: a working
example of ‘Compassion Deficit Disorder’ in nursing leadership?
It is hard to
find anyone who thinks the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) did the right thing in taking Pauline
Cafferkey to a misconduct hearing.
If you missed the story, Cafferkey is a nurse who
volunteered to work in Sierra Leone at the peak of the 2013-2014 Ebola outbreak
in West Africa. On her return to the UK she, along with all the other
returning volunteers, was screened by Public Health England (PHE) at Heathrow
airport. It seems it was, by all accounts, a chaotic
scene; with at one stage the volunteers having to check each other’s
temperatures because there were no PHE staff available. Cafferkey had been
tired, unwell and running a fever and had taken paracetamol for symptomatic
relief. Her temperature was originally recorded as above the threshold
for further screening, but she was let through, and subsequent tests showed her
to be apyrexial. Thus she was sent on her way. A day later she was admitted to
hospital with Ebola, and nearly died. A year later, she had a relapse of Ebola related
meningitis, and again, nearly died. She has suffered neurological problems
subsequently.
Read more here
Mental
health
Mental health nurses
working double shifts - union
A
rising population is partly to blame for mental health nurses having to work
double shifts, says the Public Service Association.
Read more here
Acute Mental Health
System in Crisis
This
week the Acute Mental Health ward for Auckland’s North Shore, He Puna Waiora,
has been forced to close eight beds, at a time when demand for mental health
services is reaching record
levels.
Read more here
Organ
donation
Organ Donors to get 100%
compensation
Parliaments Health Select
Committee have today recommended that live organ donors get full costs
reimbursement instead of the originally proposed 80%.
Read more here
Social
health
Struggles continue for
Pasifika youth
Young
Pacific people remain blighted by unhealthy food, barriers to healthcare and
poor conditions at home - with an estimated one third living in a house where someone
doesn't have a bedroom.
Read more here
International
news
NURSING THE MINDS OF FUTURE
NURSES: HCC COMPLETES HEALTHCARE SIMULATION CENTER
HIBBING — The
Hibbing Community College (HCC) has completed a “high-tech” and “state of the
art” facility.
The
Healthcare Simulation Center was completed prior to the start of fall semester.
The college had been developing the center in phases during the past few years.
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Workplace
How to Give Feedback to
People Who Cry, Yell, or Get Defensive
There’s no denying that performance review
season can be a headache for managers. The process of writing reviews and
delivering feedback takes a lot of time (especially if you do it thoughtfully)
and can be particularly anxiety provoking if you have someone on your team who
tends to have a difficult or negative emotional reaction to feedback. So how do
you get ready to give feedback to someone who might cry, yell, or get
defensive?
Read more here
Articles
of interest
Safety
climate and readiness for implementation of evidence and person centered
practice – A national study of registered nurses
in general surgical care at Swedish university hospitals
The
rationale behind this study is the increasing research on relationships between
patient safety, evidence based practice and person centered care, and the
growing interest in outcomes of surgical patients. ...
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Coping with Violence in
Mental Health Care Settings: Patient and Staff Member Perspectives on
De-escalation Practices
This multiple case study explored de-escalation processes
in threatening and violent situations based on patients and staff members
perspectives. Our post hoc analysis indicated that de-escalation included
responsive interactions influenced by the perspectives of both patients and
staff members. We assembled their perspectives in a mental model consisting of
three interdependent stages: (1) memories and hope, (2) safety and creativity
and (3) reflective moments. The data indicated that both patients and staff
strived for peaceful solutions and that a dynamic and sociological
understanding of de-escalation can foster shared problem solving in violent and
threatening situations.
Read more here
Resources
online
Presentations from the
workshop on reducing harm from healthcare associated infections
Presentations
and photos from the HQSC’s national workshop on reducing harm from healthcare
associated infections, held in Wellington on 9 August 2016, are now available
on the Commission website.
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more here
Professional
development
Symposium to
look at pathways to improve public health
The School of Public Health is
hosting its first Public Health Symposium this Friday, - a forum for dialogue,
debate and sharing of research and practice to improve public health in
Aotearoa New Zealand.
Read more 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
27 September 2016
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