Welcome to the College of Nurses Aotearoa News Update.
No. 373
Wednesday 8 November 2017
NATIONAL NEWS
Southland nurses win innovation award
A Southland Hospital-based team took home the Patient Priority award in the Southern District Health Board's sixth Southern Innovation Challenge.
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Hospice community nurse building special relationships
As the Nelson Tasman Hospice embarks on an $11.5 million project to build a new base, we look at some of the people behind its special service.
Jamie McCay, 36, works with the dying but says his job is filled with laughter and fun.
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Carol Rogers, Waikato DHB’s hero in blue on and off duty
With nasty weather and heavy rain, registered nurse Carol Rogers prepared for what she thought was going to be a standard drive from the King Country to work at Waikato Hospital. Living on a large section of forest, Carol put her "very rural", as she described, weatherproof jacket on over her Waikato DHB uniform for the journey.
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Dying wish prompts innovation
A woman’s wish to spend her dying days at home saw Christchurch’s Nurse Maude nurses go into overdrive. FIONA CASSIE reports on the speedy wound care initiative.
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Rapid Improvement Event - solving patient flow issues together
Over three days last week, a team of 12 Waikato DHB staff including nurses, ward receptionists, bed managers and doctors worked together to solve a hospital patient flow problem using a facilitated Rapid Improvement Event approach.
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CANCER ISSUES
Study reveals extent of cancer cases in hospital ICUs
A landmark review of more than 1.6 million admissions to Australian and New Zealand intensive care units will enable hospitals and healthcare authorities to better target management of particular cancers.
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PHARMACY
Brexit: Number of EU and UK nurses leaving NHS since referendum surges
Government says fall is ‘a mere 0.2 per cent’ of nurses, but health chiefs warn NHS already struggling to fill vacancies and match ‘relentless demand’
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Universities need more nursing teachers
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — For Josephine Baker, a third-year nursing student, choosing this profession hits close to home.
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PUBLIC HEALTH
Auckland hit by largest mumps outbreak in 23 years
Quality rugby might not be the only thing the All Blacks have taken with them to Europe.
It's possible winger Rieko Ioane also took mumps to London.
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Mumps vaccination campaign to target teens
Health authorities are starting a campaign to immunise young people who missed out on mumps vaccinations.
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SOCIAL HEALTH
International report calls climate change a looming health emergency
New research shows that climate change is already damaging the health of millions of people and is a looming global health emergency. These are the conclusions of a joint report from The Lancet Countdown, an international research collaboration that provides a global overview of the relationship between public health and climate change.
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TELEHEALTH AND E-HEALTH
Holograms and virtual doctors in our medical future
Experts gather in Rotorua to discuss latest technological breakthroughs.
Holograms of accurate human skeletons, layered with muscle and organs, veins and vessels are among technological breakthroughs tipped to revolutionise health care.
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Robo-docs and machine-diagnosis? The future of AI in healthcare
Imagine if healthcare was one continuous, global clinical trial – your every physical and medical detail recorded to fuel the world's research engine. Would you want to sign up?
That's the vision for the future of Philips' American health tech chief medical officer, Dr Roy Smythe, a former cancer surgeon who was in New Zealand to talk about health and artificial intelligence at the Health Informatics conference in Rotorua.
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Would you trust a robot with your life?
First, let's put the Terminator to bed, sort of.
Dr Simon Kos is the chief medical officer of Microsoft's $10b plus worldwide health unit. He was in Rotorua recently as the keynote speaker at the Health Informatics NZ Conference, and in the refined environment of the Millenium Hotel Club Room, we're discussing the staggering advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Q & A with Canadian Nurses Association CEO on future of nursing
Michael Villeneuve, CEO of the Canadian Nurses Association, gave a free, public lecture on the future of nursing in Canada at the IWK Health Centre on Monday.
He spoke about the potential responsibilities more nurses can take in an effort to reduce the strain on Canada’s health-care system.
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Nurses tap into wealth of experience for healthcare innovation, entrepreneurship
Nurses have a wealth of experience in medicine, and they're tapping into that knowledge to foster innovation across the industry with new products and approaches.
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Brexit: Number of EU and UK nurses leaving NHS since referendum surges
Government says fall is ‘a mere 0.2 per cent’ of nurses, but health chiefs warn NHS already struggling to fill vacancies and match ‘relentless demand’
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Universities need more nursing teachers
For Josephine Baker, a third-year nursing student, choosing this profession hits close to home.
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WORKPLACE
Workplace incivility: The silent epidemic
Workplace incivility is taking over our organizations, professional relationships and everyday interactions. According to researchers, understanding why incivility happens and how to address it starts with awareness.
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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 November 2017
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