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to the College of Nurses Aotearoa News Update.
No. 320 12 October 2016
National
news
SHIFT WORKING NURSES: HOW FATIGUED ARE YOU?
A national online survey into nurse
fatigue is launching this week and shift working nurses are being urged to
share their work and sleep patterns.
Read more here
PILOT TO BOOST MĀORI IN PHC
A pilot to boost Māori nurse
numbers in primary health care is underway in South Auckland with four
graduates employed and a New Year intake to follow.
Read more here
NZRDA
members to provide cover for patient safety
NZRDA members to provide cover during the strike Under the
Code of Good Faith for the Public Health Sector, District Health Boards (DHBs)
may make a request of a union for the services of striking workers should they
need to ensure patient safety. This process, entitled "life and limb
preserving services", has now been completed between the DHBs and New
Zealand Resident Doctors’ Association (NZRDA) in respect of the upcoming strike
of Resident Doctors scheduled for October 18 and 19.
Read more here
Cancer
issues
World-first online breast cancer community
developed to launch
The NZ Breast Cancer Foundation will tomorrow launch mybc, a
mobile app and website believed to be the first of its kind in the world, for
New Zealanders affected by breast cancer. It’s an online community that also
provides access to specialist nurses and private portals for members to track
their own breast cancer experience.
Read more here
Many bowel cancer cases will go unnoticed as Health
Ministry lifts test threshold, expert says
The long-promised national bowel screening
programme will fail to detect many cases of cancer because the threshold of the
test will be set higher than in the pilot scheme, a screening expert says.
Read more here
Diabetes
Better support for the diabetes journey
A more collaborative
approach to diabetes management by Capital & Coast DHB and General Practice
(GP) teams over recent years – the Diabetes Care Improvement Package (DCIP) –
is enabling GPs to help patients better manage their diabetes and lower the
risk of related problems later in life.
Read more here
Health
funding and research
New guidelines provide a
framework for biomedical research with Māori
As biomedical
research practices become more sophisticated, protecting the cultural and
ethical interests of those who donate tissue or take part in genomic research
has become more important than ever before.
Read more here
Housing
and homelessness
Homelessness inquiry recommends national strategy
A political cross-party inquiry on homelessness has made 20
recommendations in its just-released final report.
Read more here
Better approach to NZ's homeless Pasifika needed
A New Zealand researcher says the government needs to take
into account Pasifika approaches to living when addressing housing deprivation
or homelessness.
Read more here
Mental
health
Details
of Pasifika workforce highlighted in new report
Te Pou o te
Whakaaro Nui and Le Va have published a new report that shares
information on aspects of New Zealand’s adult mental health and addiction
workforce relevant to workforce development strategies aimed at increasing cultural
responsiveness to Pasifika peoples.
The report is
part of the 2014 More than numbers project, which has
gathered and shared data on the sector’s workforce to help inform workforce
planning.
Read more here
Major new investment
in mental health and addiction care in Waitemata
A
fresh approach to improve mental health and addiction care will be launched by
Waitemata District Health Board (DHB) on Monday at a special event hosted by
Auckland University of Technology to mark World Mental Health Awareness Day.
Read more here
Three hundred accounts of mental health failings
The release of the personal stories of 300 mental health
patients, their families and workers show New Zealand's mental health system is
in crisis, a mental health activist says.
Read more here
Mental healthcare now
creaking 20 years on
The New
Zealand Nurses Organisation says that 20 years on from the Mason Report, it is
time for a review of the current mental healthcare model as there are stresses
and strains in many areas and a lack of leadership and cohesion.
Read more here
'Let’s get talking' to
reduce the cost of mental health care
In New Zealand
approximately 10 per cent of the $14.6 billion health budget is spent on mental
health, with inpatient facilities costing around $16,000 per person for an
average acute stay. Te Pou o te Whakaaro Nui (Te Pou), has launched Let’s get
talking, a tool kit that supports the delivery of talking therapies - a
low-cost, effective way to improve a person’s health and wellbeing.
Read more here
NZ leads region for mental health efforts - report
In the first ever Mental Health and Integration
Report by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), New Zealand (NZ) claims top
spot in the region, just ahead of Australia, for assisting people living with
mental illness integrate successfully into communities. However, mental health
experts are warning against any degree of complacency when life expectancy for
those living with serious mental illness is up to 25 years less than the
general population.
Read more here
High profile deaths prompt new mental health plan
for performers
A world first initiative aimed at performers
with mental health issues launches in Auckland this week.
Whariki Hauora (weaving the mat of well-being)
is thought to be the world's first specialised mental health support service
for performers and the first to involve professional organisations and artists
themselves deciding on programmes and support strategies.
Read more here
Obesity
Tackling childhood obesity
on land and in water
Researchers from Massey University’s College of Health are
launching two studies, focusing on understanding how an overweight child moves
differently from a child of normal weight. And they’re keen for Kiwi children
to help.
Read more here
New figures indicate
262,248 school-aged children in New Zealand will be overweight by 2025
• If current
trends continue 262,248 school-aged children in New Zealand will be overweight
or obese by 2025.
• Tuesday 11 October is World Obesity Day and this year’s focus is on childhood
obesity.
• 11 October also marks the first day of the South Island’s Triple P Health
Lifestyle Group training, a Positive Parenting Programme used worldwide.
• Since the launch of a regional eGrowth Chart in June, key body measurements
of over 6000 children have been entered and can now be tracked and plotted
against international standards.
Read more here
Telehealth
and e-health
Multi-million dollar
health partnership launches today
Technologies
to deliver better health care for New Zealanders is the focus of a new
multi-million dollar research partnership to be launched at the University of
Auckland today.
Read more here
Preparing healthcare
workers for a tsunami of information
Orion
Health releases report: Introduction to Machine Learning in Healthcare
Precision Driven Health initiative launched at University of Auckland
Whether
they practice medicine in a hospital or a community clinic, healthcare workers
are facing an exponential increase in the amount of patient information needed
to effectively treat their patients. This will require the application of
sophisticated ‘big data’ techniques such as machine learning to process,
analyse and surface information that will assist in creating more personalised
healthcare plans.
Read more here
International
news
Study shows health improving globally, but progress
is patchy
Globally,
people's health is improving and life expectancy is rising, but progress is far
from universal with chronic diseases bringing long-term illness and causing
seven out of 10 deaths, according to research published on Thursday.
Read more here
RCN launches safety
guidance for nurses working alone
The Royal
College of Nursing (RCN) has produced new safety guidance for “lone workers”.
To coincide
with National Personal Safety Day, the RCN has published a new guide to support
nursing staff who work alone.
Read more here
Hospitals
counter ER crowding with 'bed czars' and 'zoomer nurses'
Emergency rooms across San Diego County treated
a total of more than 1 million patients in 2015 — a record high — and
experts say the demand so far this year has not let-up.
Read more here
A call to acknowledge the harmful history of
nursing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
The history of the health professions in harmful colonising
practices has been put under the spotlight by a series of recent events,
including an Australian Psychological Society apology to Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander people.
Read more here
Workplace
Being a Good Boss in Dark Times
Senseless acts of violence affect all of us. Mass shootings,
suicide bombers, assassinations — the emotions such events bring up are
strong, even if our personal connection to the events is not. Feelings of sadness,
pain, confusion, and anger don’t get checked at the office door. If you’re
leading a team or an organization, how can you help manage the emotional culture of
the people you’re responsible for?
Read more here
The mindful nurse leader: Improving processes
and outcomes; restoring joy to nursing
In this first installment of a three-part series
on mindfulness, we describe a dynamic project aimed at elevating the importance
of mindfulness, compassion, and presence as key competencies for professional
nurses across the career span in all healthcare settings.
Read more here
Articles
of interest
Improving pain
documentation with peer chart review
ADEQUATELY
ADDRESSING a patient's pain during hospitalization is a complex process of
assessment, reassessment, and documentation. One community hospital employed
methods such as peer chart review and audit and feedback at the system and unit
levels to increase nursing pain documentation from 27% to 72% over a 9-month
period.
Read
more here
Editorial
Leading and
advocating for global health competencies: a nursing challenge
Health challenges vary and are related to
different socioeconomic and geographic conditions. Furthermore, there are
common health challenges shared by people around the world. As globalization
advances, the awareness of the importance of global health and global nursing
also increases among policy makers and health professionals (Wilson et al. 2016). As a human caring science and profession, nursing must
have the expertise and capacity to lead and advocate for social changes
(Tyer-Viola et al. 2009), working with the communities and collaborating
innovatively with different members of the health team.
Read more here
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College of Nurses Aotearoa (NZ) Inc by Linda Stopforth, SNIPS and is provided
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11 October 2016
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