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No. 265 19 August 2015
From NZ media this week
More opportunities for specialist nurses
Health Minister Jonathan
Coleman says more clinical nurse specialists are providing specialist care and
expert advice.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1508/S00254/more-opportunities-for-specialist-nurses.htm
More nurses trained in specialised health care
Health Minister Jonathan Coleman says more nurses
are being trained in specialised health care, which is speeding up care for
patients.
Read more: http://www.3news.co.nz/nznews/more-nurses-trained-in-specialised-health-care-2015081512#ixzz3iw7XpLFa
Nurses cited over dying woman's care
A woman receiving palliative care at an Oamaru
rest home was in so much agony her daughter felt she needed to bring additional
pain medication from home, a report says.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/regional/281622/nurses-cited-over-dying-woman's-care
Recognition for two
Kaitaia nurses
Two Te Hiku
Hauora GP clinic nurses have received nationally recognised awards.
Alison Mills
and Melissa Peterson were awarded the Strategic Leadership and the Leading
Innovations in Population Health awards respectively at the NZ College of
Primary Health Care Nurses' conference in Wellington.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northland-age/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503402&objectid=11496511
Nursing Council role for Whitireia Faculty of
Health Dean
Following on from her appointment to the
Ministry of Health’s expert advisory group for the review of the New Zealand
Health Strategy, Whitireia Faculty of Health Dean Dr Kathryn Holloway has also
been appointed to the board of the Nursing Council of New Zealand.
http://www.voxy.co.nz/health/nursing-council-role-whitireia-faculty-health-dean/5/228950
DHBs and PHOs
Emergency depts face all-year pressure
Leaders in emergency medicine say they are
facing record numbers of patient presentations and need more staff and funding
to cope.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/281332/emergency-depts-face-all-year-pressure
Patient safety
Art Nahill: Reduce diagnostic errors? Doctors must
understand how they think
A diagnostic error, defined as an incorrect
diagnosis or a correct diagnoses made only after avoidable delay, can have
devastating consequences for patients and their families.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/health/news/article.cfm?c_id=204&objectid=11497103&ref=rss
Wellington Hospital at
fault in heart attack victim's death
If
you're about to have a heart attack, the safest place to be would surely be the
hospital. And the safest place in the hospital, you might think, would be the
accident and emergency department. But for one Wellington woman the very place
that should have saved her life neglected to do so.
Read more: http://www.3news.co.nz/tvshows/3d/wellington-hospital-at-fault-in-heart-attack-victims-death-2015081612#ixzz3j0Et7awx
Pharmacy
Big pharmaceutical
companies don’t want Pharmac to keep medicines affordable
Tens of thousands of nurses
around the country are hoping against hope that Trade Minister, Tim Groser does
the right thing and walks away from TPP negotiations.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1508/S00058/pharmaceutical-companies-dont-want-affordable-medicine.htm
Telemedicine
New online telehealth resource to encourage uptake
Health Minister Jonathan
Coleman has launched a new online resource which will help encourage the uptake
of telehealth by health professionals across the country.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1508/S00235/new-online-telehealth-resource-to-encourage-uptake.htm
From International
media this week
Nurses in schools help students stay healthy
Nurses like
Ms Ruth Tan are based full-time in schools to help students quit smoking or
lose weight.
The Student
Health Advisor (SHA) Programme that she is a part of helped 3,700 students last
year, more than three times the number when it started in 2010.
See more at: http://yourhealth.asiaone.com/content/nurses-schools-help-students-stay-healthy#sthash.NcA84dRc.dpuf
Nurses and technology can
mix, expert says
The road to electronic health record success is
to directly involve the nursing staff who will be the “heaviest users” of the
system, a nursing and clinical information expert said during a McKnight'sSuper Tuesday webinar.
http://www.mcknights.com/news/nurses-and-technology-can-mix-expert-says/article/432151/
Foreign nurses are a blessing to the NHS, not a
burden
Foreign nurses are a blessing to the UK
healthcare system, not a burden, says Steve O’Brien, operations director of
Inivo Healthcare Talent. This follows comments by the Head of Addenbrooke Hospital
in Cambridge, claiming that recruiting nurses from overseas is ‘distracting,
frustrating and expensiv
http://www.onrec.com/news/statistics-and-trends/foreign-nurses-are-a-blessing-to-the-nhs-not-a-burden
Social media
More than 300,000 Kiwi kids now in relative poverty
The number of Kiwi children in relative poverty
has jumped over 300,000 for the first time since 2010 - but it's because of
record inequality, despite falling absolute hardship.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11496779
Articles of interest
‘But how many papers should I write…?’: making good choices about
quality, quantity and visibility of academic publications (Editorial)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jan.12573/epdf
Are we failing to prepare nursing and midwifery students
to deal with domestic abuse? Findings from a qualitative study (pages
2062–2072)
To investigate student nurses’ and midwives’
knowledge, confidence and educational needs regarding recognition and responses
to domestic abuse.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jan.12666/epdf
A case study exploring the experience of graduate entry nursing students
when learning in practice
To explore how
Graduate Entry Nursing students present and position themselves in practice in
response to anti-intellectualist stereotypes and assessment structures.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jan.12673/epdf
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
18 August 2015
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