Welcome
to the College of Nurses Aotearoa News Update.
No. 291 16 March 2016
From
NZ media this week
Nursing Review looks at the extra
expectations that are often placed on Māori and Pacific nurses and shares some
advice for nurses and workplaces on how to avoid the risk of burnout.
We just need somebody to
lead the powhiri...
The Church is looking for
someone just like you to...
An elderly Samoan man has
just turned up, can you translate...
Auntie is sick, can you
just pop round after work...
We are looking for a Māori
nurse for this working party, you’d be great...
Sorry to wake you up, but
Mrs Toleafoa from down the street has had a turn…
Read more here
New primary cervical
screening test in 2018
Health Minister Jonathan Coleman says the
primary cervical screening test will change to screening for human
papillomavirus (HPV) every five years.
Read more here
Cevical test switch
'wrong'
Medical
specialists are warning a change to the way women are tested for cervical
cancer is risky and premature.
From
2018, three-yearly primary cervical screening tests based on cell analysis
will be replaced with tests for human papillomavirus (HPV) - which causes
more than 90 per cent of cervical cancer - every five years.
Read more here
Faster accurate patient
enrolment data
Health
Minister Jonathan Coleman says a new digital enrolment service is being
introduced at general practices, benefiting both practices and patients.
Read more here
Cultural
safety
CMHA webinar series highlights need for
supports in refugee mental health
CMHA Ontario hosted two webinars in February to
share expertise and support the community mental health sector in responding to
the needs of Syrian and other refugee populations. Each webinar focused on
providing people and organizations in the community mental health sector with
information, tools and resources to inform work with marginalized populations.
… Webinars are
now archived on the CMHA Ontario website for those who are interested in
viewing the resources. The next webinar in this four part series will share
stories of migration and mental health and will be held on April 25.
Read more here
Mental
health
Funding for study to
compare aged New Zealanders' loneliness with rest of world
A
study following a group of Kiwis as they grow older will explore
whether senior citizens are lonely, socially isolated, or quite
happy flying solo.
Read more here
Patient
safety
Health, Quality and
Safety Commission urges greater transparency on doctors' performances
Patients
could soon be given more information about whether their lives are in the
hands of a crack medical ensemble or an error-prone b-team.
But
a push to open the books on the performance of individual doctors is
likely to fail, amid concerns patients would "misinterpret" the
results
Read more here
Public gets more
transparency about DHB complaints following Ombudsman's ruling
A
just released Ombudsman's ruling means the public will be better
informed about the rate of complaints made about each District Health
Board.
Until
now the Health and Disability Commission has refused to release the
rate of complaints made about each health board on the grounds that doing
so may "damage the public interest".
Read more here
Public
health
Māori public health expert
joins Massey
Māori
knowledge about healthy living needs to be resuscitated, says Associate
Professor Marewa Glover, who recently joined Massey University’s School of
Public Health in a newly created role.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1603/S00052/maori-public-health-expert-joins-massey.htm
From International media this week
Question mark over global credentials of new
nursing metric
The countries previously referenced by the DH
as using the new metric – the US, New Zealand and Western Australia – use a
similar nursing hours per patient day tool to plan safe staffing but do not
include healthcare assistants in their calculations, unlike the NHS version
Read article here
FLORIDA NURSES
ASSOCIATION PRAISES “HUGE VICTORY” FOR NURSE PRACTITIONERS, PHYSICIAN
ASSISTANTS
The Florida Nurses Association applauded
lawmakers Friday for passing a bill allowing advanced registered nurse
practitioners and physician assistants to prescribe controlled substances, a
measure the group had put before the legislature for 22 years.
Read more here
Articles
of interest
An
integrative review of the impact of mobile technologies used by healthcare
professionals to support education and practice
The aim of this study was to provide evidence of the impact
of mobile technologies among healthcare professionals in education and practice
settings.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/nop2.37/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
8 March February 2016.
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