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to the College of Nurses Aotearoa News Update.
No. 281 16 December 2015
From NZ media this week
Nursing graduates finding jobs sooner
Health Minister Jonathan Coleman says more than
half the country's nurses graduating in November have found jobs before they know
their final exam results through the system which matches graduates with
employers.
KIWI NURSE TO LEAD 13 MILLION NURSES WORLDWIDE
Kiwi nurse Dr Frances Hughes is to lead the
world's biggest nursing organisation representing more than 13 million nurses
across 130 countries.
Aged care
Aged care sector needs more support to help New
Zealanders die well
Aged
residential care homes need more resources to help them support the increasing
number of New Zealanders dying in their care, says Simon Wallace, Chief
Executive of the New Zealand Aged Care Association (NZACA).
Ethical issues
Doctors say no to assisted suicide
New Zealand doctors are
being invited to add their name to an Open Letter rejecting medical involvement
in euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Health research
Record $8.2m for
NZ's emerging health researchers
The Health Research Council of New Zealand
(HRC) has today announced a record total of $8.2 million in awards to support
the careers of the next generation of health research leaders.
Mental health
Indigenous suicide prevention resource first of its kind
The Mental Health
Foundation is pleased to announce the release of a ground-breaking resource,
which offers information about suicide prevention, identity and wellbeing for
takatāpui: Māori who are whakawāhine, tangata ira tāne, lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, intersex and queer (Known collectively as Rainbow).
Push to launch mental health court
Judges, lawyers and mental health advocates are
calling for a 'mental health court' to stop what they say is the 'recycling' of
people through the justice system.
Public health
Hazardous drinking rates have risen: survey
Severe obesity and risky drinking have risen,
and smoking has continued its gradual decline, according to the latest survey
results from the Ministry of Health.
New STI data provides further evidence of inequitable
sexual and reproductive health outcomes, Family Planning says.
The highest
rates of chlamydia and gonorrhoea are among young people, Māori, Pasifika and
people living in rural communities. Family Planning says the figures show that
more must be done both to improve access to STI testing and treatment and to
ensure services are in areas of highest need.
Social health
Poorest Communities Skipping Meds Due To High
Cost
An Otago
University study has found the country's most vulnerable are struggling to pay
for vital medicines and are reducing their doses, not filling prescriptions and
skipping meals due to the cost. It also found that many of those in the
poorest communties are not aware they could get a subsidy card once they've
paid for 20 prescriptions in a year, and only recently has the
Ministry started a system where pharmacies can cross reference a patient's prescriptions
with other pharmacies. Professor Pauline Norris is from Otago University's
School of Pharmacy.
Our crowded houses: Barely enough to cover the
rent
An
alarming number of Auckland families are being forced to live together in one
house so they can afford rent and living expenses, a leading budgeting adviser
says
Child Poverty is everyone's problem -
Children's Commissioner
Nearly
one-third of all New Zealand children are living in poverty and more than half
of those kids will never escape it.
The
latest Child Poverty Monitor report, released by Children's Commissioner
Russell Wills today, laid out a grim reality for more than 300,000 children
From International media this week
Young doctors are bullied most by nurses, claims report
More than one-in-two medical interns, who claim they are
bullied during their first year working in a hospital, blame nurses for their
intimidation.
Five Top Innovations in Nursing Education
When
it comes to innovation in nursing education, the time is now… and tomorrow.
The
nursing profession has long embraced innovation--in professional practice and
in education. It has had to, experts say. Over the years, nursing has had to
cope with various shortages of nurses and faculty members to educate them, as
well as evolutions in technology and models of health care delivery, an
increasingly diverse population, and a shift toward more patient-centered care.
Nurses Are Looking For More Power to Practice
Columbia,
SC (WLTX)- Nurse practitioners and doctors are currently debating how much a
nurse can do without the supervision of a physician.
Social media
Suzanne Gordon: Medicine’s F Word—Fail
I
first heard medicine’s F word almost 30 years ago when I was having a casual
conversation with an oncologist in a break room on the hematology/oncology
unit. The oncologist—an earnest man devoted to his patients—was talking about a
man who was dying of cancer. “Well,” he said with grim resignation, “he failed
six rounds of chemotherapy and there’s nothing else we can do.”
Articles of interest
Leadership, Knowledge Sharing, and Creativity: The Key Factors in
Nurses’ Innovative Behaviors
Objective: This study identified the factors that affect the
innovative behaviors of nurses at general hospitals based on their individual
and organizational characteristics.
Nurse leader competencies: A toolkit for
success
Does pondering whether you have a leadership
pipeline for the future keep you up at night? Further, as you consider the
future of healthcare, are you certain that your current leadership team is
equipped with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to navigate the turbulent
tides of healthcare reform? At Texas Children's Hospital, we wanted to be armed
and ready for the charge. Our journey leveraged a strategic partnership between
the nursing and human resources departments. The aim was to transform the
existing nurse leadership model to align with our strategic priorities, support
the changing healthcare landscape, and position the organization to produce
high-quality outcomes. We embarked on a large scale nursing restructure and
utilized key competencies in the job creation and interview process, nursing
leadership education curriculum, and ongoing performance assessments for the
foundation of a robust talent strategy and development of a succession plan.
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.
Annual Update of Key Results 2014/15: New
Zealand Health Survey
This report provides a
snapshot of the health of New Zealanders through the publication of key
indicators on health behaviours, health status and access to health care for
both adults and children.
This report presents the
2014/15 results from the continuous New Zealand Health Survey, with comparisons
to the 2011/12 and 2006/07 surveys.
You can download the
report, list of indicators and data tables from the Downloads section of this
page. Results are available by sex, age group, ethnic group and neighbourhood
deprivation.
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
14 December 2015
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