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to the College of Nurses Aotearoa News Update.
No. 280 9 December 2015
From NZ media this week
Cancer nurse coordinators play key role
Health
Minister Jonathan Coleman says an evaluation of the cancer nurse coordinator
initiative shows overwhelmingly positive feedback from patients and their
families.
Most Palmerston North nurse graduates forced to
look outside region for jobs
Most of Palmerston North's graduate nurses will have to look
outside the region for employment because the MidCentral District Health Board
has little room for them.
Aged care
Are older people malnourished?
An Australian dietitian says older people are not
eating properly - and some are malnourished - because they're dieting. Ngaire
Hobbins is also a lecturer in dementia studies at the University of Tasmania
who says many older people are not getting enough protein and other vital
nutrients to help their bodies and brains deal with aging beyond 70 years of
age. She says most people don't realise that older people being heavier is
usually better than them being very lean. Her book Eat to Cheat Aging has three
different eating plans - one for those still fit, well and active; one for
those who have become frail, and another for those somewhere in between.
DHBs and PHOs
Easier access to strengthened GP Teams to keep
hospital admissions down
Fewer hospital admissions,
as a result of easier access to GP teams providing a wider range of services is
one of the goals of the new Health Care Homes programme being rolled out in GP
practices in Wellington, Porirua and Kapiti over the coming months.
Mental health
Are you worried someone is thinking of
suicide? A new suicide prevention resource from the Mental Health
Foundation
The
Mental Health Foundation (MHF) has released its newest resource – Are you
worried someone is thinking of suicide? Advice for families, whānau and
friends.
Patient safety
Nurses have the tools to improve patient safety
Nurses
welcome the release of the Adverse Events Report from the Health Quality and
Safety Commission, and urges managers to work with nurses to keep patients safe
in care.
More than 500 New Zealand patients suffered
after mistakes in the past year
A
record number of medical mishaps have been reported in New Zealand, with more
than 500 in the past year.
The
Health Quality and Safety Commission (HQSC) has released its annual list of
"adverse events" in the year to June 2015, instances where patients
suffered after stuff-ups in their care.
Learning From Adverse Events Focus of Report
Learning
from things which go wrong in health care is a focus of this year’s adverse
events report.
Each
year, health care adverse events are reported to the Health Quality &
Safety Commission by district health boards (DHBs) and other health care
providers. The Commission works with these providers to encourage an open
culture of reporting, to learn from what went wrong and put in place systems to
stop incidents recurring.
Doctors overstretched and struggling
An increase in the number of serious harm
incidents in hospitals points to an overstretched workforce, senior doctors
say.
Pharmacy
Cost of cancer drugs varies wildly between
countries - study
The first study comparing the sky-rocketing
price of cancer drugs shows that costs vary wildly from country to country.
Government likely to fund melanoma drug -
Judith Collins
The Government is set to fund a new drug for
melanoma despite a "low priority" ranking by Pharmac, one of its MPs
has hinted.
Public health
Health specialists call for free chickenpox
vaccinations
Children's
health specialists want universal chickenpox vaccine added to the list of
state-funded immunisations, after their study showed that admission to hospital
with the viral illness is not uncommon.
Weight loss may cure diabetes, study shows
Millions of people suffering from type 2
diabetes could be cured of the disease if they just lost weight, a new study
suggests.
New Healthier Lives Challenge takes aim at NZ’s
major killers
Innovative
research aimed at significantly reducing the death and disease burden of some
of New Zealand’s leading health problems will be pursued through the Healthier
Lives National Science Challenge launched by the Hon Steven Joyce at Ōtākou
Marae on the Otago Peninsula today.
From International media this week
New nurse-to-patient ratio to see 250 nurses
hired in Queensland
The Queensland Government has
moved to ensure there are always enough nurses to care for patients in the
state's public hospitals
Call to tackle barriers to nurse prescribing in
care homes
Care homes have for “far too long” been without nurse
prescribers and more should be done to bring these skills into the sector, an
association representing independent care providers has said.
Patients less happy with foreign-educated nurses,
says report
Experts behind the research
said recruiting more nurses from overseas may
'negatively' affect the quality of care
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/patients-less-happy-with-foreign-educated-nurses-says-report-a6757831.html
Nurses centered on integrated care teams help
patients thrive
We are in the midst of an exciting time for
healthcare. New technology, electronic medical records, multidisciplinary
therapies, patient portals and more make integrated care teams essential for
complete and consistent patient care.
Doctors and nurses ask for ‘strong climate
deal’
An
alliance of 13 million health professionals have asked for a strong agreement
at COP21 in a bid to protect patients and the public.
Nurses gaining sway over patient care
Nurses are signing up in droves for higher
degrees and gaining more independence in treating patients — but blacks and
Latinos are still left out of the nursing workforce, according to a new report.
From the Ministry of Health
Evaluation of the Cancer Nurse Coordinator
Initiative Second Annual Report
This evaluation report
provides information on year two of implementing the Cancer Nurse Coordinator
Initiative across all district health boards.
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
8 December 2015
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