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to the College of Nurses Aotearoa News Update.
No. 277 18 November 2015
From NZ media this week
Chilean nurse's inspiring journey to registration
and citizenship
Six times Chilean-born Maria Godoy sat the
English language assessment test to obtain Nursing Council of New Zealand
registration to nurse in Rotorua; five times she failed.
http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/chilean-nurses-inspiring-journey-registration-and-citizenship/5/236855
Indigenous health the focus of Hamilton hui
A community-driven campaign to cut the number
of young Australian Aborigines drinking excessively is being credited with a 16
percent drop in youth binge drinking.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/289567/hamilton-hui-tackles-indigenous-health
Report
highlights New Zealand's health system failing Maori
Being Maori
is the biggest risk to poor health outcomes and an early death, a report has
shown.
The bleak
outlook highlighted the risk for Maori women with cancer who are twice as
likely to die from the disease than non-Maori.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/73949279/report-highlights-new-zealands-health-system-failing-maori
Cancer
Cancer - the cost of a
life: Experts - live with low-risk cancer
In
a five-part series, the Herald investigates controversies in cancer testing and
treatment and reports on the moving stories of people afflicted with cancer. In
the fifth and final part of the series, Herald health reporter Martin Johnston
turns his attention to prostate cancer.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11544456
Cancer - the cost of a life: The exorbitant price
of staying alive
In a five-part series, the Herald investigates
controversies in cancer testing and treatment and reports on the moving stories
of people afflicted with cancer. In the fourth part of the series, Herald
health reporter Martin Johnston turns his attention to melanoma.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/cancer-the-cost-of-a-life/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503908&objectid=11543856
DHBs and PHOs
Care tops DHB complaints
Accident and emergency, mental health and
surgery are the services most commonly complained about at the Lakes District
Health Board.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503438&objectid=11542897
Health passports to ease patients' lot
More than a
quarter of people in Wairarapa live with a disability.
"But
it's not about what's wrong with you, it's about living with quality,"
says Pauline Boyles.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/wairarapa-times-age/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503414&objectid=11542761
Too many illnesses avoidable: DHB
Too many Bay of Plenty people are ending up in
hospital with skin infections and stomach bugs which could be readily avoided
through early intervention.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503343&objectid=11542893
Thousands of leave
hours owed to Taranaki hospital staff
More
than 750 Taranaki hospital workers are owed over $14 million in time off, new
figures reveal.
It
means that 44 per cent of staff at the Taranaki Base Hospital - 755
workers - are owed more than four weeks of annual leave - the fourth highest
figure among the country's district health boards.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/73964222/Thousands-of-leave-hours-owed-to-Taranaki-hospital-staff
Middlemore Hospital full as doctors urged to not
refer patients
Auckland's Middlemore Hospital is overflowing with patients
as family doctors are urged to only refer the most serious cases.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/74069772/middlemore-hospital-full-as-doctors-urged-to-not-refer-patients
Network enabling safer patient care:
Compass Health PHO is
encouraging Wellington, Porirua, Kapiti and Wairarapa healthcare providers to
join a network helping health professionals share information about patients
who may be abusing or seeking drugs.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1511/S00057/network-enabling-safer-patient-care.htm
Ethical issues
Tips for making patient-centered ethical decisions
As a nurse working in the cardiac care ICU at
Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago for 12 years, Stephanie Seburn, BSN,
RN, CCRN, won’t say she ran across morally distressing dilemmas every day. But
they definitely were part of her nursing practice often enough, and continue to
hold her attention years later.
https://news.nurse.com/2015/10/19/tips-for-making-patient-centered-ethical-decisions/
From ‘right to die’ to ‘right to choose the
way you die’ – the shifting euthanasia debate
ABC’s Q&A program took on euthanasia last night, and in the process reinforced its
reputation as the leading television forum for political and social debate.
http://bit.ly/1SmS59d
Public health
Throat
swabbing for rheumatic fever costs too much and might not work - report
Mass throat
swabbing will not be enough to combat rheumatic fever and might not even work,
a report says.
The
Government recently trumpeted big gains in the fight against
the third-world disease that hits children, crediting the more than $65 million
poured into prevention.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/74068534/throat-swabbing-for-rheumatic-fever-costs-too-much-and-might-not-work--report
Figures 'highlight deteriorating access' to hip and
knee surgery
Figures highlight deteriorating access to hip
and knee surgery "Some hard questions need to be asked about access to hip
and knee surgery around the country and why the threshold for getting treatment
seems to be getting higher and higher," says Ian Powell, Executive
Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS).
http://www.voxy.co.nz/health/figures-highlight-deteriorating-access-hip-and-knee-surgery/5/236872
From International media this week
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/
Translating a just culture
to nursing schools
For more than a quarter of a century, Jane
Barnsteiner, PhD, RN, FAAN, has dedicated her career to making patient care
safer and educating nurses in safety science. Barnsteiner has served as
director of nursing practice and research atChildren’s Hospital of
Philadelphia and
director of nursing for translational research at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. She is a professor emerita for pediatric nursing, clinician
educator at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursi
https://news.nurse.com/2015/09/21/translating-a-just-culture-to-nursing-schools/
Job-Seeking Nurses Face Higher Hurdle as Hospitals
Require More-Advanced Degrees
Growing demand for bachelor’s degrees comes partly in response to
increasingly complex health-care system
http://www.wsj.com/articles/job-seeking-nurses-face-higher-hurdle-as-hospitals-require-more-advanced-degrees-1444849456
Nurses' work environment helps outcomes,
readmissions more than staffing
Better
environment improves scores even in poorly-staffed hospitals
http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/nurses-work-environment-helps-outcomes-readmissions-more-staffing/2015-11-13
Work and management
Being a nurse leader,
even without the title
Every
profession has members who rise into leadership, and effective
leaders can make all the difference. This cannot be more
true of healthcare and nursing, arenas that necessitate highly collaborative
teams
https://news.nurse.com/2015/10/13/being-a-nurse-leader-even-without-the-title/
NZ employers told to
tackle spiralling workplace bullying
Workplace
bullying is on the rise, highlighting the need for awareness of the issue and
for businesses to adopt a bully-free culture.
According
to employment lawyer and partner at Duncan Cotterill Mark Lawlor, the number of
workplace bullying cases have increased, signalling both a greater awareness of
the issue (and therefore an increase in reporting) and a persistent problem with
New Zealand's work culture.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/small-business/73816218/nz-employers-told-to-tackle-spiralling-workplace-bullying
Research article
Supervisors’
pedagogical role at a clinical education ward – an ethnographic study
Manninen K, Henriksson E, Scheja M, Silén C
BMC Nursing 2015, 14
:55 (5 November 2015)
Background:
Clinical practice is essential for health care students. The supervisor’s role
and how supervision should be organized are challenging issues for educators
and clinicians. Clinical education wards have been established to meet these
challenges and they are units with a pedagogical framework facilitating
students’ training in real clinical settings. Supervisors support students to
link together theoretical and practical knowledge and skills. From students’
perspectives, clinical education wards have shown potential to enhance
students’ learning. Thus there is a need for deeper understanding of
supervisors’ pedagogical role in this context. We explored supervisors’
approaches to students’ learning at a clinical education ward where students
are encouraged to independently take care of patients
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/s12912-015-0106-6.pdf
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18 November 2015
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