Welcome to the College of Nurses – News Update.
No. 269 16 Sept 2015
From NZ media this week
Nurses welcome more paid leave
for parents of preemie babies
The Neonatal
Nurses College, Aotearoa welcomes the news that parents of premature babies
will now be entitled to more parental leave. The extra weeks will apply from
birth until the 37 week "due date". After that the usual 18 weeks of
paid parental leave will begin.
http://www.voxy.co.nz/health/nurses-welcome-more-paid-leave-parents-preemie-babies/5/231381
Nurses tickled pink to hit road
It's big, bright pink and carries important advice and information for
women, and yesterday NZ Breast Cancer Foundation's Pink Caravan started a
national tour in Whangarei.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=11510166
Snooping MidCentral Health nurse censured
A Palmerston North Hospital
nurse who snooped on patients' medical records has been censured by the Health
Practitioners' Disciplinary Tribunal.
Elizabeth Raju was sacked
in 2014 after a hospital audit revealed the confidentiality breaches.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/71898856/snooping-midcentral-health-nurse-censured
More
than one MidCentral nurse sacked for snooping
An audit into
snooping behaviour by prying staff at Palmerston North Hospital resulted in
multiple dismissals.
Former nurse
Elizabeth Raju was sacked by MidCentral District Health Board in 2014 after an
audit revealed a breach of patient confidentiality and was censured by the
Health Practitioners' Disciplinary Tribunal.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/71942067/more-than-one-midcentral-nurse-sacked-for-snooping
Nurses failed to manage patient's pain, says Health
and Disability Commissioner
A district health board's nurses have been instructed to ask surgical
ward patients every hour if they have any pain or need any other basic nursing
care.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11512922
Nurse leadership: having the bottle to make a difference
Outrage
at yet another bottle store opening in her down, but far from out,
community stung Christchurch practice nurse Karen Carpenter into action...
http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/issue/august-2015/nurse-leadership-having-the-bottle-to-make-a-difference/#.VfYIGenVRfs
Graduate incomes: How nursing stacks up...and falls down
How
does a young nurse's income stack up against peers who become teachers or
lawyers? Why does the average income of nurse graduates plateau and fall after
five years?
http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/issue/august-2015/graduate-incomes-how-nursing-stacks-up-and-falls-down/#.VfYFk-nVRfs
Aged care
Paul Spoonley: We need total rethink on ageing
New Zealand, like the UK, is beginning to see the arrival of the
post-war baby boom population reaching their 60s -- and living longer.
Demographers talk about numerical ageing -- the arrival of many more into the
65-plus age groups, and structural ageing -- the fact that the proportion of
the NZ population over 65 will grow from 13 per cent to 21 per cent by 2031.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503462&objectid=11510830
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Fetal alcohol damage costing 'conservative'
$1b
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder is costing New Zealand up to $1 billion
a year in lost productivity, new research suggests.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/health/news/article.cfm?c_id=204&objectid=11509878
HBDHB
helping kids affected by drinking during pregnancy
A programme
developed by the Hawke’s Bay District Health Board (HBDHB) is at the leading
edge of the country’s response to children affected by drinking during
pregnancy.
http://www.voxy.co.nz/health/hbdhb-helping-kids-affected-drinking-during-pregnancy/5/231208
Ethical issues
Redesigning
Dying
Dying
is in serious need of a redesign. This is the point of BJ Miller's TED talk
that was given several months ago and is now available to watch at the TED talk website. If you haven’t seen it yet, I highlight
encourage you towatch it.
BJ, the Executive Director of the Zen Hospice
Project and a true leader in palliative care, gives an inspirational talk about
the certainty of death, the current approach our health care system takes to
care for the dying, and various “design cues” we can take including our need to
lift our sights to making life more wonderful rather than less horrible as
death approaches.
This talk is a great reminder that as a
community we can use our natural creativity to rethink dying. Not to go
against it, but as BJ says in his talk:
"We can
design towards it. Parts of me died early on, and that's something we can all
say one way or another. I got to redesign my life around this fact, and I tell
you it has been a liberation to realize you can always find a shock of beauty
or meaning in what life you have left, like that snowball lasting for a perfect
moment, all the while melting away. If we love such moments ferociously, then
maybe we can learn to live well -- not in spite of death, but because of it.
Let death be what takes us, not lack of imagination."
http://bit.ly/1K7Vwy8
BJ Miller: What really matters at the
end of life
At the end
of our lives, what do we most wish for? For many, it’s simply comfort, respect,
love. BJ Miller is a palliative care physician at Zen Hospice Project who
thinks deeply about how to create a dignified, graceful end of life for his patients.
Take the time to savor this moving talk, which asks big questions about how we
think on death and honor life
Mental health
Suicide prevention plans
in place for all DHBs
Health
Minister Jonathan Coleman says all DHBs now have plans in place to help them,
in partnership with their local communities, prevent and respond to suicide.
Tomorrow is
World Suicide Prevention Day - the international theme for 2015 is Reaching out
and Saving Lives.
http://www.voxy.co.nz/health/suicide-prevention-plans-place-all-dhbs/5/231278
Public health
Increased uptake of free GP visits
for under 13s
Health
Minister Jonathan Coleman says 98 per cent of general practices across the
country are now offering free GP visits for children aged under 13.
http://www.voxy.co.nz/health/increased-uptake-free-gp-visits-under-13s/5/231346
From International
media this week
Rather
than turn hospitals into expensive resorts, healthier patients require happier
nurses
In 2012, Medicare began to use the results of patient satisfaction surveys to calculate how much they would
pay hospitals. They called it the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare
Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey—a short questionnaire asking patients
what they thought of their stay—and used it to withhold up to 1.5% of revenue
from hospitals that scored poorly. In an industry that survives off of razor-thin margins, hospitals heard the message loud and clear: protect your
money by keeping patients happy.
http://qz.com/497426/rather-than-turn-hospitals-into-expensive-resorts-healthier-patients-require-happier-nurses/
Korea’s nurses walking away from careers that
are too tough
Ms. Kim, a
28-year-old nurse at a university hospital in Seoul, quit her job in June after
nearly six years - though she would have preferred to quit a year earlier.
http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3009081&cloc=joongangdaily%7Chome%7Cnewslist1
ANA and OADN call for seamless education
transition
To meet the needs of patients in today’s healthcare system, nurses must
be able to move easily through nursing education programs, from associate
degree levels to BSN and higher, two major nursing groups said in a statement
released in August.
https://news.nurse.com/2015/09/10/ana-and-oadn-call-for-seamless-education-transition/
Association of 12 h shifts and nurses’ job satisfaction, burnout and
intention to leave: findings from a cross-sectional study of 12 European
countries
Objectives 12 h shifts are becoming increasingly
common for hospital nurses but there is concern that long shifts adversely
affect nurses’ well-being, job satisfaction and intention to leave their job.
The aim of this study is to examine the association between working long shifts
and burnout, job dissatisfaction, dissatisfaction with work schedule
flexibility and intention to leave current job among hospital nurses.
http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/9/e008331.full
Quebec nurses say nurses-only clinic is a
success
Nurse-only
clinics are a cost-effective way improve access to health care, according to
the Quebec Nurses Federation.
http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-nurses-say-nurses-only-clinic-is-a-success-1.2557492
Nurses in England and
Ireland working longer shifts with higher risk of burnout, research says
Nurses in England and Ireland are more likely to work shifts of 12 hours
or more leading to a higher risk of burnout, an international study has found.
http://www.itv.com/news/2015-09-11/nurses-in-england-and-ireland-working-longer-shifts-with-higher-risk-of-burnout-research-says/
Work and management
How to Work with People Who Aren’t Good at Working with People
Twenty five years after the term “emotional intelligence” was first
introduced by academics, thousands of independent scientific studies have
highlighted the importance of managing your own and others’ emotions in
relation to career success, job performance, entrepreneurship, and leadership.
https://hbr.org/2015/05/how-to-work-with-people-who-arent-good-at-working-with-people
Health and wellness
Work stress just as bad as second-hand smoke
Whether due to unpaid overtime or an overbearing boss, many people
suffer stress at work.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/health/news/article.cfm?c_id=204&objectid=11509704
Articles of interest
Nursing roles and responsibilities in
general practice: three case studies
INTRODUCTION: Primary care
nursing teams may now comprise registered nurses (usually termed practice
nurses), nurse practitioners, physician assistants, enrolled nurses, and
primary care practice assistants, clinical assistants, or nursing assistants.
There is a need to understand how practitioners in the different roles work
with patients in the changed environment. The aim of this study was to describe
the different configurations of health professionals’ skill-mix in three
dissimilar primary care practices, their inter- and intra-professional
collaboration and communication, and to explore the potential of expanded
nursing scopes and roles to improve patient access.
Léonie
Walker, Jill Clendon, Katherine Nelson
https://www.rnzcgp.org.nz/assets/documents/Publications/JPHC/September-2015/OSPWalkerJPHCSeptember2015.pdf
Professional development
The Regulatory, Medicolegal, and Security Aspects
of Telemedicine : Have we got the rules right?
Medicine is regulated to protect patients and has
been since long before the digital age.
As new ways of providing care have been developed,
regulations have been adapted and enhanced, but have these changes kept pace
with the care that is now able to be provided by telemedicine?
We will explore this question by bringing together
an expert group of regulators, service providers, and clinicians to provide
their views, before you have a chance to contribute yours.
Thursday 22 October 9am to noon
Air Force Museum, Wigram, Christchurch
$149 inc. gst
Register at www.hinz.org.nz
Workshop convened by the New Zealand Telehealth
Forum.
The National Health IT Board funded the
establishment of the Forum because it recognises telehealth is an important
component of an integrated model of health care.
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