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to the College of Nurses – News Update.
No. 262 29 July 2015
From NZ media this week
New placement hoped to attract new graduates to
aged care sector
It's hoped a new nursing placement at a Waikato residential
home will attract more graduates to the aged care sector and specifically,
dementia care.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/70565506/new-placement-hoped-to-attract-new-graduates-to-aged-care-sector
Army nurse on a mission
Army nurse Captain Hayley Claridge, is spending
her winter in the tropical heat upskilling local nurses.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503462&objectid=11485430
NZ health workers urged to learn about Pacific
people
A Tongan dietician says it is essential that
health workers in New Zealand have better knowledge of Pacific communities.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/279467/nz-health-workers-urged-to-learn-about-pacific-people
ID slip-up helped
nurse steal sleep drug
A
nurse addicted to the anaesthetic that killed Michael Jackson stole 5000 vials
from a restricted medicine room - and was able to keep taking the drug because
the hospital did not confiscate her ID swipe card.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11486567
Nurses want better
health and safety legislation, not watered down excuses
Nurses
are unhappy to see the Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee
report on the Health and Safety Reform Bill waters down current provisions,
rather than strengthening them.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1507/S00235/nurses-want-better-health-and-safety-legislation.htm
Palmerston North
Hospital still battling to recruit midwives
Palmerston
North Hospital is still struggling to recruit midwives to its maternity ward
with concerns being raised over the number of nurses filling in.
MidCentral
District Health Board had no new midwife graduates start this year
despite a vigorous recruitment round, according to a report presented to the
DHB's hospital advisory committee meeting in April.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/70529908/palmerston-north-hospital-still-battling-to-recruit-midwives
Plunket looking to
better services to Asian families
Plunket
is looking for input from New Zealand's third largest ethnic group to provide
better services to Asian families.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11486343
DHBs and PHOs
Health board
representatives meeting to discuss leaked report
A
leaked report recommending removing elected control of district health boards
was the subject of a board representatives' meeting, a chairman has confirmed.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/70570330/health-board-representatives-meeting-to-discuss-leaked-report
John Key pours cold
water on proposed DHB governance overhaul
The
Prime Minister has poured cold water on a Health Ministry proposal to take
power away from elected District Health Boards and give greater control to the
ministry.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/70560293/john-key-pours-cold-water-on-proposed-dhb-governance-overhaul
No 'wholesale changes'
to District Health Boards - Jonathan Coleman
New
leaked documents proposing wholesale changes to District Health Boards are
unlikely to progress beyond initial discussions, says the health
minister.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/70611548/no-wholesale-changes-to-district-health-boards--jonathan-coleman
Ideas for radical overhaul of health funding
welcomed as an "interesting discussion" - Health Minister
A major
overhaul of how public health services are funded is being explored - with
Health Minister Jonathan Coleman welcoming the radical proposals as "good
for debate".
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11488147
Health board funding could
be in for a shakeup
More leaked documents reveal the funding of
district health boards could be in for a shakeup.
http://bit.ly/1Kvlqvz
Ethical issues
Euthanasia: Many Kiwi GPs and nurses help accelerate
death
New research suggests many New Zealand GPs are making
decisions likely to hasten the death of their terminally ill patients.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/euthanasia-many-kiwi-gps-and-nurses-help-accelerate-death-q02889
Parliament to hold
euthanasia inquiry following Lecretia Seales' death
Parliament
will hold an inquiry on the introduction of euthanasia laws following the death
of right-to-die campaigner Lecretia Seales.http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/70457293/parliament-to-hold-euthanasia-inquiry-following-lecretia-seales-death
Mental health
Rural professionals
asked to be vigilant for signs of personal drought pain
Men
have a habit of carrying forward problems in the recesses of their mind, farm
accountant Pita Alexander has come to believe.
Most
of his career has been social work with accountancy on the side, he quipped to
peers at the Railway Tavern in Amberley.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/70507050/rural-professionals-asked-to-be-vigilant-for-signs-of-personal-drought-pain
Suicide prevention
needs to reach all demographics, counsellor says
The
nation's increasing suicide rates are driving Sylvia Huitson crazy.
She
has been working in suicide prevention for 25 years and gets extremely
disheartened when she sees the annual figures rise.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/70575784/Suicide-prevention-needs-to-reach-all-demographics-counsellor-says
Pharmacy
John Key admits New Zealand's drugs bill will rise
Prime Minister John Key has admitted that New
Zealand will have to pay more for medicines if it signs up to the Trans Pacific
Partnership but he says this was unlikely to affect consumers.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11488109
Telemedicine
'Incredible potential' for telemedicine project
A company headed by the Kaitaia GP Lance
O'Sullivan has scooped up a $30,000 grant for a pioneering telemedicine service
for children.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/279524/'incredible-potential'-for-telemedicine-project
From International
media this week
Reducing hospital readmissions through telemedicine
partnerships with skilled nursing facilities
Telemedicine systems, including remote presence technology,
have evolved over the years from stationary workstations to mobile carts to the
latest "robotic" units that self-propel themselves down our hospital
corridors without a driver, according to preprogrammed GPS instructions. This
technology has been credited with bringing specialists, including critical care
intensivists, to the bedside in hospitals where no such practitioners live or
work within hundreds of miles.
http://bit.ly/1SEVaAP
Nursing, medical students learn
teamwork with virtual teammates
A virtual interprofessional education curriculum has been
developed in which students were paired with a virtual team member to learn
with, from, and about each other to improve collaboration and the delivery of
care.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150721134923.htm
Social media
A new online calculator for estimating how much a
society might spend on life-saving interventions
In this blog we describe an online calculator we
developed to estimate the maximum investment society might consider spending on
life-saving health interventions, while remaining cost-effective. For NZ, the
amounts generated by this calculator vary greatly by age: NZ$ 1.2 million for
an intervention to save the life of a child, NZ$ 0.7 million for a 50-year-old,
and NZ$ 0.2 million for an 80-year-old, assuming we are willing to spend
$45,000 per healthy life-years gained and the person is returned to the
expected health status of the average NZ citizen. These results are very
sensitive to the choice of discount rate and to the selected cost-effectiveness
threshold. Policy-makers could use this calculator as a rapid screening tool to
determine if more detailed cost-effectiveness analyses of potential life-saving
interventions might be worthwhile.
https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/pubhealthexpert/2015/07/22/a-new-online-calculator-for-estimating-how-much-a-society-might-spend-on-life-saving-interventions/
Articles of interest
Nurse practitioner clinical decision-making and
evidence-based practice
Abstract:Evidence-based practice is key to
improving patient outcomes but can be challenging for busy nurse practitioners
to implement. This article describes the process of critically appraising
evidence for use in clinical practice and offers strategies for implementing
evidence-based innovations and disseminating the findings.
http://bit.ly/1OADLc0
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College of Nurses Aotearoa (NZ) Inc by Linda Stopforth, SNIPS and is provided
on a weekly basis. It is current as at Tuesday
28 July 2015
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