The Education Review series is seven high-quality, separate, subject-specific titles providing a valuable resource for educators, managers and education professionals.

Latest Issue April 2013

• Ready to take the medicine Some call it the biggest revolution for New Zealand nursing since training left hospitals. A decade since the first Kiwi nurse practitioner was authorised to prescribe, the Nursing Council is proposing the long-awaited widening of prescribing to registered nurses. Prescribing is the buzz.
• Fishing, truck-driving and prescribing Adie-style Far North nurse practitioner Adrianne Murray is the pragmatic but passionate face of nurse prescribing. FIONA CASSIE talks to the country’s second ever-prescribing NP about doing the groundwork to be a prescriber.
• Pioneer prescriber looks back Paula Renouf became the country’s first nurse prescriber in June 2003. Nursing Review caught up with her on travelling sabbatical in the United States’ Pacific North West and asked her to reflect back on the decade that’s followed.
• Avoiding waiting room woes No doctors’ appointments ‘til Friday. Why not see the nurse instead? MidCentral is upskilling practice nurses to assess and treat patients who front up to acute care walk-in clinics with minor ailments and illnesses. FIONA CASSIE finds out more
• Reaching the Millennium Health Goals International Nurses Day
• Taking a special approach Diabetes nursing managed to ‘jump the gun’ to RN prescribing with a successful demonstration site. Next off the starting blocks is expected to be respiratory nursing. FIONA CASSIE looks at some specialist areas and their likely prescribing ambitions.
• Advising on OTC medicines One issue that prescribing reform will hopefully improve is the current grey area over when a nurse is ‘advising’ or ‘prescribing’ an over-the-counter (OTC) medicine like paracetamol.
• International Nurses Day Heroes To celebrate International Nurses Day this year Nursing Review invited district health boards across the country to contribute stories on nursing ‘heroes’ in their region. We got stories back on just some of the unsung, innovative, compassionate, high achievers and dedicated nurses that make up the New Zealand nursing workforce.
• A day in the life... Of a public hospital cns/rn first surgical assistant We look at a day in the life of Sue Glover 
• Q&A with Gary Lees We profile a leading nurse, covering their background – training and work history – and also provide their personal insights into having a rewarding career.
• Letter from the Editor Closing the gaps
• Wake up and smell the coffee Is ‘prescribing’ a post-surgery long black good for the bowels as well as morale?
• Webinar: attending conferences the virtual way KATHY HOLLOWAY explains how to attend a conference without leaving the house
• Turning frustration into action NICOLA RUSSELL vents some frustration that in 2013 general practice is still largely “business as usual” despite the optimistic rhetoric of the 2001 Primary Health Care Strategy. She also calls for input into an upcoming College of Nurses workshop for nurses keen to explore developing primary health care nursing services.
• Nightingale the first informatics nurse? Technology will never replace the art of nursing … but it can make the job a darned sight easier. FIONA CASSIE talks to Michelle Honey, the chair of the Nursing Informatics group, about nurses using information technology to improve health care.
• Too few Māori nursing students: action needed Reena Kainamu, member of the Māori Caucus of Te Ao Māaramatanga New Zealand College of Mental Health Nurses (NZCMHN), shares the concerns about the under-representation of Māori students in nursing programmes and Māori nurses in the workforce.
• Preop clinic making its mark Clinical nurse specialist Shelley McMahon reflects on the ongoing development of Northland’s Nurse-Led Preoperative Assessment Clinic.
• At least 15% of graduates still job hunting At least 15% of graduates still job hunting by FIONA CASSIE
• Bibliography celebrates Cultural safety 'coming of age' Bibliography celebrates Cultural safety 'coming of age'
• Mixed response to UK call for student nurses to first work as HCAS Mixed response to UK call for student nurses to first work as HCAS
• New leadership structure criticised and defended by FIONA CASSIE New leadership structure criticised and defended by FIONA CASSIE
• Nursing researchers score higher Nursing researchers score higher
• For the record A round-up of national and international nursing news