Florence’s evidence ethos lives on
Florence Nightingale is believed to be the first person ever to use statistical graphs to back her arguments for health reform.
So it seems appropriate that the theme for this year’s International Nurses Day – celebrated on Nightingale’s birthday on May 12 – is Closing the gap: from evidence into action.
Nursing Review this edition is marking International Nurses Day by celebrating nursing in New Zealand putting evidence into action. In particular, we are celebrating recent nursing innovations and the milestone of registering the country’s 101st nurse practitioner.
We look at an innovative electronic check list that alerts Tauranga Hospital to when a busy ward is at risk of being too busy to be safe. We also look at the country’s largest telehealth trial to date, whichhands over more power to patients in the aim of freeing up nurses to see other patients.
As there are many tales of innovation to share, we have produced a special innovation supplement you can download online at www.nursingreview.co.nz.
Our new RRR professional development learning activity this edition – In pursuit of evidence – also looks to the IND theme and examines the nurse’s role in making research count in everyday practice.
We also celebrate the decade of dedication, and sometimes frustration, that stretched between approving New Zealand’s first and 101st nurse practitioner .
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