Nursing Review

How busy is your ward?

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

How busy is busy? What does rushed off your feet really mean? How can you tell which ward is on the verge of being so busy that patient care is at...

Telehealth research: empowering patients and freeing up nurses?

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Preliminary results from the country's second telehealth research project - 'ASSET' - indicate the answer is probably "yes". FIONA CASSIE reports....

A decade to reach a century: celebrating the 101st nurse practitioner

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Nursing Review marks the milestone by asking nursing leaders to reflect on the role's past and future and by profiling the work of some NPs. Nurse...

Celebrating leadership

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Over the past several years, I have often heard nurses lament a lack of leadership in our profession. Some claim the problem started with the health...

Brickbats and bouquets for Medicines Bill

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Nursing organisations are giving a firm thumbs-down to the new delegated prescriber role proposed in the Medicines Amendment Bill. Consultation on...

Professional indemnity insurance – are you covered?

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Most of us hope it will never happen - and for most it never will - but in the 2010-11 year, a small number of nurses were notified to the New...

Two innovative prescribing initiatives to reduce medication incidents

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Creative approach to improving medication safety Initiated by nurse educators and focused on medication prescribing standards, Wairarapa DHB has...

Refugee health co-ordinator role

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The refugee journey is almost always fraught with fear, loss, and trauma. Further definition states that a refugee is 'a person who has been forced...

Map of Medicine** development at MidCentral DHB

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Map of Medicine is an electronic collection of evidence-based care "maps" connecting all the knowledge and services around a clinical condition....

New innovative process for NETP clinical coach role

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

We employ clinical coaches as part of our Nurse Entry to Practice (NETP) programme that was first established back in 2004. The two coaches support...

Reducing rest home admissions in ED

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The Capital and Coast District Health Board (CCDHB) District Nursing Hospital Admission Prevention Project can now add to its list of achievements a...

Rapid Rounds and Nurse Facilitated Discharge innovations free up patient bed days

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Rapid Rounds 'Bed block' in the general medicine department was identified as a one of the reasons why patients in the emergency department had a...

Taima Campbell: Time for a change

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Taima Campbell says her husband's told her she's allowed to do the things she likes best in her next "jobs". "So they will be things related to the...

Ban behind bars

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

As of July last year, prisons were deemed to become smoke free and intense efforts were made to support prisoners to stop smoking. The reasons given...

The operating theatre where shoes are left at the door

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Last October, I spent two weeks working as a volunteer in a hospital in the Papua New Guinea highlands - a very different experience to the high-tech...

Successful ‘joint’ effort by multi-disciplinary team

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

A joint care clinic launched last year at Palmerston North Hospital for patients scheduled for hip and knee joint replacement surgery has proved so...

International Nurses Day

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Closing the Gap: from evidence to action Half of the world's deaths could be prevented with simple cost effective interventions, says this years...

A (night) in the life... of a Patient at risk (PAR) nurse

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

4:00PM: WAKE Three different types of music blasting from three different rooms, which means my children are home. Dinner organised, chores and...

Q&A With Carolyn Reed

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Q Where did you train? A Nelson Hospital Q Other qualifications/professional roles? ABachelor of Nursing with a double major in nursing and Education...

Heart still misses a beat

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: Treatment with omega-3 fish oils did not reduce recurrent atrial fibrillation (AF) over six months in adults with paroxysmal or...

NPs stamping their mark on rural primary health

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

After a slow beginning with getting a critical mass of nurses over the NP registration hurdle, there are now more than 30 primary health care NPs...

Youth NP still surfing the wave

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Becoming a nurse practitioner in 2007, a week after the WAVES youth health and development service opened, could not have come at a better time....

In pursuit of evidence: Your role in making research count in everyday practice

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Nightingale represents anything but a gap between evidence and action. Described by her first biographer as a 'passionate statistician'2, she was not...

Patch protection a barrier to physician assistants

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The need for further physician assistant trials was more to do with professional 'politics' and 'demarcation disputes' than the need to prove the...

Briefs

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

More nurses in schools The government is to put nurses into more lower socio-economic schools as part of a new youth mental health package announced...

Letter from the editor

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Florence Nightingale is believed to be the first person ever to use statistical graphs to back her arguments for health reform. So it seems...

ADHB director of nursing steps down after decade on the job

Tue, 3 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

"We've enjoyed a very good partnership for the last decade." Campbell brought forward her departure from the DHB and stepped down from her role as...

Mobile quit smoking service launched

Tue, 3 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Bruce Bassett, Quitline's director of strategy and communications, said the national service had seen a "huge rise" in mobile traffic over the last...

Flu shot backed for pregnant women

Tue, 3 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

This year's flu immunisation campaign was launched last month and the vaccine is free to high risk New Zealanders - including pregnant women, people...

Nurses reject mandatory reporting

Mon, 5 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Both the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) and College of Nurses Aotearoa NZ are also concerned that proposed services narrowly targeting...

DHB nurses pay deal “sensible” in tough environment

Mon, 5 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Lesley Harry, industrial advisor for the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO), said 23.4 per cent of its 25,000 district health board members voted...

Oceania aged care nurses and workers to strike again

Mon, 5 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) and Service and Food Workers Union (SFWU) announced further strike action by their members for Wednesday...

“Higher level” talks sought on feared nurse job cuts

Mon, 5 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) issued a series of press releases last month indicating nursing positions were likely to be lost at...

Nurses and smoking: where does duty of care end?

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

<<> Nurses know better than most that smoking is harmful, and yet still nurses smoke - less now...

Sugar, snacking and shiftwork

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Snacking on the run, eating 'breakfast' at tea time and dinner whenever you can grab the time. What effect does erratic eating from day to day have...

Back to the future: a modern apprenticeship?

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Nursing students at the patient bedside from week two and working shifts by their second year sounds very old school. But Diana Fergusson, head of...

Patients as best teachers

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

talks to Taima Campbell about her keynote address to last year's Australian Nurse Educators Conference. It took five long days for a family's fears...

Personality plus: testing nurses’ ‘instinctive style’

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Are you happiest in hands-on practice, do you revel in risk-taking, or are you drawn to working methodically? Catherine Abel-Pattinson, a nurse and...

The ‘French paradox’ revisited: le plonk or le stairs?

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

As a new year begins, we often, for better or worse, reflect upon the previous year's achievements before turning our thoughts to the year ahead. Not...

Workforce planning looks to the future

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Nursing is well positioned to meet the demands for care into future - thanks to work that stretches back nearly four decades. There have been a...

Reading, Reflection, and application in Reality

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

We attach great cultural significance to the close of one year and start of another, whether dated by the Gregorian or Chinese calendar, Matariki or...

Treat your feet

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Nursing Review talks to AUT podiatry professor Keith Rome about foot health and how good footwear maintains it. Style, stability or substance - what...

Treat your feet

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Nursing Review talks to AUT podiatry professor Keith Rome about foot health and how good footwear maintains it. Style, stability or substance - what...

Walk the talk: Helping students ‘step up’ as exercise role models

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

First year nursing students tend to be desk bound and sedentary. So how do you help them establish and maintain a healthy lifestyle that sets them on...

Love the body you’re in

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Dieting is futile, bad practice, and bad science. Jenny Carryer says nurses should know clinically and personally that any attempts at reduction...

Stress-proofing yourself

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Physical fitness it's easier to manage stress when you're physically fit exercise and stretch throughout the day huffing/puffing (aerobic) exercise...

A day in the life..of an Occupational Health Nurse

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

NAME | Terry Buckingham JOBTITLE | Senior Advisor Health, Safety and Wellness LOCATION | Otago Polytechnic 7:00am WAKE My toddler has a great body...

Q&A with Jane O'Malley

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

also give their personal insights into having a rewarding career. Q Where and when did you train? A Christchurch Polytechnic 1973 -1975 Q Other...

To transfuse or not to transfuse?

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

transfusions have on post-hip surgery patients? Clinical bottom line: Restricting transfusions to only the high-risk hip fracture patients with low...

Patients as best teachers

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

It took five long days for a family's fears about their disabled daughter's severe headache to be confirmed by a CT scan. Taima Campbell opened her...

“I just go where they ask me”

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Andy Cameron was a 19-year-old welder when a hospital visit to an injured mate set him on the path of that most famous of war-zone nurses. He started...

Making your mark

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

JO ANN WALTON shares her top tips for making your voice count. Successful women's secret fears of being revealed as an imposter have been the topic...

Wi-fi with your latte – is public surfing safe?

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

During the long summer holiday (well it was summer somewhere!), I was sitting in a 'hotspot' café enjoying my trim latte. I turned on my tablet to...

Nga Manukura pilot to commence

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The Poutama project is part of the Nga Manukura O Apopo (national Maori nursing and midwifery workforce development project). The workplace training...

Workplace computer access

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

still a barrier to nurses intro: Lack of time and access to computers in the workplace remain the major barriers to nurses using the internet to...

Avoid food list released

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The list of 49 non-essential, energy-dense, nutritionally-deficient (NEEDNT) foods was drawn up by Jane Elmslie and Ria Schroder, who are both...

Farewell to Radius St Ives

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Seven rest homes were lost through the February quake that also saw two wings of Radius St Ives majorly damaged, forcing 22 residents to be evacuated...

Mental health nurses committed to the cause

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Nearly 40 of the 144 new graduates funded in 2011 to complete the New Entry to Specialist Mental Health nursing programme (NESP) took part in the...

Online e-cohort nurses survey funds run out

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The ambitious annual online survey began in 2006 with about 1300 New Zealand nurses and midwives joining nearly 8000 Australian nurses and midwives...

Health workers take to the dunes

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The employee-run programme follows a four-step process, including risk assessment, making a plan to improve health, looking at options to reduce risk...

Long hours linked to increased drinking

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The University of Otago, Christchurch research was just published in the International Journal of Nursing Studies and draws on data from 4419 nurses...

Cancer programme for Maori

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Kia Ora - E te iwi was developed by the Cancer Society in league with four Maori health providers to create a kaupapa Maori programme to be delivered...

Electronic patient records move

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

sped up by quake intro: The push for Canterbury patient records to be shared electronically was stepped up after last year's February quake and the...

Falls dominate serious and sentinel events

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Just over 50 per cent of the 377 events reported by the country's 20 district health boards were falls (195). The Health Quality and Safety...

Fiji working hour changes ‘concerning’

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The Fiji Times reported in early February that the Fijian Ministry of Health was changing working hours "in a bid to improve working standards and...

Prescribing pilot report gives thumbs up

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Health Workforce New Zealand publicly released the [Evaluation of the Diabetes Nurse Specialist Prescribing Project] report, in late February and...

Letter from the editor

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

A decade on and a new look. Nursing Review begins 2012 with a new look print edition with a focus on kick- starting a healthy year. Our focus section...

Blueprint II needs strong nurse response

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Drawing on the resources of the whole health sector and more early intervention are amongst the pushes in the Blueprint II document that is currently...

“Bold vision” proposed for mental health

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The Mental Health Commission consultation document says Blueprint II proposes a "bold vision" for mental health and addiction services including...

NZ match landmark Oz pay equity decision?

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The Fair Work Australia tribunal recently agreed that gender had a role in the pay gap between the community and disability services sector and...

Stepped up nursing roles proposed in Mental Health Workforce Review

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Recommendations include increasing role of Plunket nurses and practice nurses in screening for post-natal depression; increasing skills of school...

DHB deal goes to vote on Valentines Day

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation and the 20 District Health Boards finalised the fine wording of the deal in mid-January but the principles were...

Former chief nurse headhunted to cross the ditch

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Hughes said she had been headhunted for some time from across the Tasman and when this latest position came up she ran out of excuses for not making...

Fifth degree for Auckland

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The first cohort of 35 students, based at Massey's Albany campus are due to start their degree next month bringing the number of Auckland nursing...

Nurses honoured in New Year

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Kirsty Murrell-McMillan, the immediate past chair of the New Zealand Rural General Practice Network received the MNZM (Member of the New Zealand...

“Sober” challenge for February

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

FebFast encourages people to take a break from alcohol during the shortest month of the year. Participants get sponsored by family and friends to...

Wellywood comes to Wakefield

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

It began with the question, how best to provide nurses with practical training in laparoscopic camera skills? In 2008 Wakefield nurses had...

So you are a nurse specialist – what does that mean again?

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

What is a specialist nurse? People argue that our health service needs more of them, particularly to meet the growing burden of chronic disease and a...

Oz’s first shopping mall NP clinic

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

"It's been a pretty hectic month," says Julie Farrelly, lead nurse practitioner at the Brisbane-based SmartClinics, just hours ahead of the...

Smartphones, eHealth and nursing

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, would be amazed at its transformation into the current smartphone technology. Today, the...

Wading through the web for wisdom

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The internet provides the most bewildering amount of health information at the touch of a finger. It is the most accessible source of health...

2011: the year in review

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The College of Nurses' vision of "100 Percent Access, Zero Disparities" is the fundamental focus for the college's board. To help achieve that...

Teaching on the job

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

I recall the first time I trained as a nurse my tutor telling me that on graduation I'd become a teacher in my own right. It was to be my...

A “real neat” job

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

both residential aged care and primary care and her resulting novel job. A leap of faith is how Sylvia Meijer describes her NP role. It was a leap...

Supplement found to increase cancer risk

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: Taking selenium does not prevent prostate cancer; taking vitamin E increases the risk of prostate cancer. CLINICAL SCENARIO:...

New Year brings new look Nursing Review

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Nursing Review, after more than a decade of being the independent voice of nursing, is to emerge in 2012 with a new look and focus. In 2010, coverage...

Quake-tested graduates shine

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

"I saw people my age die that day and nothing in my training prepared me for that." This quote and others from new graduates caught up in...

Medicines Bill prompts prescribing consultation in new year

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The introduction of the Medicines Amendment Bill 2011 is prompting a consultation document to be released on extended nurse prescribing in the new...

Wairarapa offers special

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

kete to families Families giving birth in Wairarapa Hospital are now being offered special baskets if they wish to take home their baby's placenta...

SA nurse educator shares challenges

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Nurse Migration From Africa and around the world was one of the future workforce issues highlighted by South African nurse educator Janetta Roos in...

Health promotion,

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

not just health education needed Nurses can get confused between health promotion and just one of its aspects, health education, says an Australian...

Briefs

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Victorian nurses' industrial action Industrial action by nurses in Victoria, Australia, over wage claims and preserving nurse-to-patient ratios was...

Canterbury nurses celebrate success after tough year

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

At the end of a tough year that saw International Nurses Day pass uncelebrated, Canterbury nurses finally came together to celebrate nursing. Mary...

Post-quake ebb and flow

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Some earthquake-related turnover will see Canterbury District Health Board take on a record number of new graduates in 2012, including a number of...

Nearly two-thirds of graduates employed by state finals

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Early feedback indicates a similar to slightly better job market for new graduate nurses, with 64 per cent having jobs before sitting their state...

Slow start to culture change

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

A call to ringfence temporary positions for new graduate nurses has made some inroads for 2012, but a culture change is still needed, says Chief...

NZNO defends mail-out of ‘biased’ election pamphlet

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation says the Combined Trade Union pamphlet in question is not funded by NZNO but was sent out as with "an array of...

Social media conduct part of code consultation

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

It is the first major revamp since the existing code was developed in 1994. Council chief executive Carolyn Reed said the draft code had been...

PSA nurses to vote on ‘proviso’ deal

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The Public Service Association, with about 4000 mental health and pubic health nurse members, was the only one of the three major unions to ratify...

NZNO call to log missed breaks

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Nurses at district health boards around the country are being asked to log every unpaid minute as nurses' union NZNO re-opens bargaining with the 20...

Quality vs Quantity in Aged Care debate

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

With the election in just two weeks and the Beehive around the corner, the timing and venue for 'The Great Aged-Care Debate' felt significant. The...

Sadness at degree's shelving

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The high financial cost of delivering the degree to Nursing Council standards plus low student numbers are major factors behind Te Whare Wänanga o...

2011 Election Manifestos

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

College of Nurses Aotearoa (NZ) Underpinning the college's key concerns going into the 2012 election is its vision of 100 per cent access and zero...

A cut above the rest

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Experienced theatre nurses they might have been - but many were still squeamish at the thought of operating on a live pig. The traditional training...

Dementia patients face "triple jeopardy

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Nursing Review finds out more. If one old person is being badly looked after, it is a scandal, argues June Andrews. She believes in research-led...

One-stop online shop for nursing procedures

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Safe nursing practice is reliant on nurses' ability to access evidenced-based procedures that guide their practice. Traditionally, most district...

How far have we really come in

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

New Zealand nursing? intro: American Academy of Nursing "living legend" Professor Donna Diers was guest speaker at a recent College of Nurses and...

Earlybirds mentor ‘fledgling’ NPs

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The informal 'earlybird' gathering was initiated by aged-care NP Michal Boyd to be an education session where the nurses are able to review issues in...

Aged care supporting NP interns

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

aged-care sector at providers Bupa and Selwyn. From Dublin with love A lilting Irish accent has won over many a patient for NP- in-the-making Claire...

The homely touch

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

finds out more about the piloted role and its future. An elderly heart attack victim returns home from hospital with a bagful of pills. When Elly...

Nursing Council notice of recent

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal decisions intro: Nursing Council notice of recent Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal decisions...

Ngäi Tahu nurse wins top scholarship

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Michelle Turrall (right) with fellow Te Apa Māreikura Award winner, Paula Boyle, a Wellington social worker. Michelle Turrall of Ngāi Tahu was...

Briefs November

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Another NP barrier falls Another prescribing barrier for nurse practitioners is due to fall after years of lobbying. From 21 November, nurse...

New patient role possible for pharmacists

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The government is considering rolling out a pharmacist lead model for managing warfarin treatment after a successful trial run by Health Workforce...

Winning health and safety nurses

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

***Association chair Terry Buckingham (left) with top award winners (centre from left, with certificates): Glenys Barker, Maria Burns, Jessica Clout...

“Beds” or “people” the missing ingredient in aged care?

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The Great Aged Care Debate, chaired by Sean Plunket, is being held on 2pm, Friday 11 November at St Andrews on the Terrace in Wellington. It follows...

Split talks under way for DHB nurses

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The PSA, whose 14,000 DHB members include about 4000 mental health and public health nurses, was the only one of the three major unions in the joint...

Medal winner returns to duty

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

First stop Geneva to be briefed, then on to Kandahar - his third mission in Afghanistan since he started aid work for the humanitarian agency in...

NZNO nurses reject DHB offer

Tue, 4 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The proposed joint settlement was to cover about 55,000 DHB employees in ten unions and included a two per cent lump sum payment and a 2.5 per cent...

Half of ENs transitioned to new scope

Tue, 4 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The new scope of practice came into effect at the end of May 2010 and the Nursing Council set an initial deadline of July 1 this year for...

Oz exodus continues but Kiwi workforce still growing

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

To find out more about these and other trends, the council is to soon launch a longitudinal study to follow cohorts of new graduates and newly...

Work on new blueprint for mental health under way

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Lynne Lane, the Mental Health Commission chair, recently announced the review to update the 1998 blueprint that has guided mental health resourcing...

Keeping it real simulation in education

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Gratitude that she was the sponger rather than the spongee is Karen Edgecombe's first memory of nursing simulation. "I remember thinking 'oh my...

Get Checked to be checked off

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Nurses were aware that for many, Get Checked was simply a tick-box exercise, says Rosemary Minto. So the primary healthcare nurse practitioner and...

Hidden treasures

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

If we've learnt nothing else in Christchurch over the last year it's that 20 seconds is all it takes to change lives. Leaving home for work on the...

To fall or not to fall

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: The fall assessment tool STRATIFY performs little better than clinical judgement when used in an acute hospital setting....

Diabetes self-management trial “challenging”

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Recruiting people with poor diabetes management into a Christchurch-based trial proved to be challenging for researchers. However, once committed to...

The 'bleeding edge' of knowledge

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Knowledge creation in cyber space is fascinating - the online environment allows for knowledge creation on a much wider global scale and much faster...

Briefs October

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

NZ obesity levels up but food intake down The just-released findings from the Adult Nutrition Survey shows obesity levels have jumped but...

Eyebright Awards celebrate Plunket projects

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The annual awards are in their eighth year and celebrate the work of exceptional Plunket teams. The Young Parents Plunket team from Hawke's Bay, led...

MH nurse shortages prompt bed closures

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The board is actively recruiting mental health nurses after staff shortages prompted Public Service Association members to hold a stopwork meeting in...

Work on new blueprint for mental health under way

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Lynne Lane, the Mental Health Commission chair, recently announced the review to update the 1998 blueprint that has guided mental health resourcing...

New council members elected in low turnout election

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The three successful candidates, Barry Ayling, Catherine Byrne and Jo Ann Walton were announced in late September. Nursing Council chief executive...

Nurses’ study indicates a tipple a day OK

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The survey draws on the findings of the first Harvard University US nurses' health study of 120,000-plus American nurses back in 1976. Qi Sun from...

Nursing advocates wary on taking stand on DHB pay offer

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The proposed settlement offers a two per cent lump sum payment at the expiry of the unions' current agreements and a 2.5 per cent pay increase a year...

NZNO disappointed at lack of MECA movement on safe staffing initiatives

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

District Health Board nurses are later this month to vote on a proposed settlement (see other story) but a safe staffing tool rollout is not...

Proposed DHB MECA details at a glance

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Quick summary of DHB MECA bargaining outcomes: - 2% lump sum payment or $750, whichever is highest, at expiry of current MECA (NZNO Oct 2011, PSA MH...

Gynaecological Awareness month DVD and event

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In New Zealand, 987 women will be diagnosed with a gynaecological cancer every year, and in 2007 there were 402 deaths, yet many women are not aware...

Details still hazy in rural nurse training initiative

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Health Minister Tony Ryall and Education Minister Anne Tolley in early September launched a partnership with the Universities of Otago and Auckland...

MECA at crunch time

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The joint unions were now to take the early September offer back to members for ratification meetings being held in late September. There was some...

DHB nursing workforce not older but wiser

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The March 2011 snapshot shows the full-time equivalent (FTE) nursing workforce has grown 10.5 per cent since March 2007, to 19,181 nursing jobs...

A ‘spoonful of sugar’helps the needle go in

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: Giving sweet solutions orally prior to immunisation injections results in fewer children crying and shorter periods of crying...

Are nurses willing to take their own medicine?

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Dispelling myths about the influenza virus and vaccine has helped double nurses' uptake of the flu vaccine at Canterbury District Health Board....

Less is best for kids' woundcare

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

FIONA CASSIE profiles the Christchurch-based nurse who works with burns, pressure ulcers, abscesses, and the super-sensitive skin of 'butterfly'...

Protecting our children is everyone’s business

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

With the release of recent reports like the green paper on vulnerable children, it is becoming more apparent that New Zealand has a major...

Nurses shirking duty, or informed choice:

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

international perspectives intro: A recent UK Nursing Times editorial argues it is little wonder that patients don't follow treatment regimens when...

Waikato study of paediatric healthcare workers’ immunisation rates

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

They wanted to compare the immunisation rate between different types of hospital staff and different levels or categories of profession. Also, who...

Quake shakes cold chain

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

FIONA CASSIE talks to Bos. When your city is reeling in the wake of a devastating quake, your first priority is not usually your vaccination fridge....

Cold-chain monitoring goes digital

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

James Donald of the ESR National Vaccine Store outlined the new process at the recent National Immunisation Conference in Rotorua. He said the old...

Nanopatch could remove needle phobia and cold chain problems

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Professor Mark Kendall has been developing the nanopatch - that uses thousands of small projections to deliver vaccine to immune cells in the skin....

Being cool about the cold chain

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Losing a fridge full of vaccines through a major cold chain breach can cost up to $5000. So breaching the cold chain not only puts a vaccine's...

In rain, hail, sleet and snow…

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

When buses stop running and the snow banks up in your driveway and street, it can be a dilemma whether it is wise to venture out on the roads,...

Consensus on new graduate places and career planning

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The consensus statement on access to nurse entry to practice (NETP) and new entry to specialist practice (NESP) mental health and addiction...

Oz nursing workforce growing faster than jobs?

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In 2009, 276 751 or 86 per cent of registered and enrolled nurses in Australia were actually employed in nursing, 13.3 per cent more than in 2005,...

Briefs September 2011

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

NZNO solidarity with Fiji nurses Nursing unions in New Zealand and Australia are concerned for Fiji nurses in the wake of recent action by Fiji's...

‘Successful’ physician assistant pilot ends

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Brenda Wraight, director of Health Workforce New Zealand, said the pilot at Counties Manukau District Health Board had been very successful and they...

NP education programme

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Helen Snell, NPAC chair, said it received 32 submissions on the draft proposal and the revised proposal was known as the Nurse Practitioner Education...

Reaching consensus a stretch at packed workforce forum

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Brenda Wraight, director of forum hosts Health Workforce New Zealand (HWNZ), said one of the biggest challenges of the day was reaching consensus on...

Hands-on health innovation wins prize

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Programme Incubator took out the supreme prize in the recent EEO Trust Work and Life Awards for its "proactive, teenage-friendly and long-term...

Some hope in grim report on child health status

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The annual update released today is the third monitoring the impact of the economic downturn on a range of child health and wellbeing indicators. It...

Mixed response to regulating traditional Chinese medicine practice

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Submissions closed in mid-August on a proposal that practicing traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) become a regulated profession under the Health...

End-of-life care planning guide released

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The concept of ACP - discussion and planning around future health care and specifically end of life care - has been around since the 1980s but is...

Voting underway for NC candidates

Mon, 8 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The candidate profiles for the 2011 election were mailed out in late August with voting due to close on September 2. There are currently two elected...

Shift for public health nurses recommended by youth review

Mon, 8 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The review is one of 12 being carried out for Health Workforce New Zealand to build a vision of the health workforce in 2020. New Zealand's poor...

New priorities for HWNZ postgraduate funding

Mon, 8 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Next year will be the second year of the nursing funding pool being administered by the Health Workforce New Zealand business unit. Brenda Wraight,...

Nurse educators concerned HWNZ priorities too “medically focused”

Mon, 8 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Kathy Holloway, national coordinator for Nurse Education in the Tertiary Sector, told Nursing Review that the sector believed HWNZ's draft Investment...

Wider use of HWNZ funding sought by DoNs

Mon, 8 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Sue Hayward, director of nursing and midwifery at Waikato District Health Board, is chair of the new group formed following the demise of the nurse...

‘Ringfencing’ new grad jobs sought in readiness for large cohort

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Chief nurse Jane O'Malley is calling for a shift to the "ringfencing" of graduate jobs in readiness for a record cohort of graduates in 2012....

Study finds IM anatomy skills lacking

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Many nursing students' don't know where to safely perform risky gluteal intramuscular (IM) injections, according to a recent New Zealand study. Only...

Drumming up business…

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Most Fridays you will see Kieran Monaghan hauling a drum kit into a Newtown drop-in centre. A drum kit, maracas and bongos are not in your average...

Push for nurse-led clinic in general practice

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

until recently less than 10 per cent of practices offered nurse-led clinics. FIONA CASSIE talks to CATHERINE ABEL-PATTINSON about ProCare's project...

Building a mental health nurse framework brick by brick

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Kickstarting the framework will be an innovation project to upskill and credential primary health nurses with mental health skills. Fiona Cassie...

High numbers ‘bonded’ in aged care in 2011

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Aged care and mental health were the two new priorities for the scheme that rewards nurses, midwives and doctors if they stay in hard-to-staff...

New standing order ‘regs’ fill gap before RN prescribing

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Minister of Health Tony Ryall announced in mid-July that a Medicines Amendment Bill, including supervised prescribing for registered nurses, would be...

Team work, time and self-management

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

How useful is the Flinders Programme for practice nurses in New Zealand? How acceptable would the Australian-developed chronic disease care...

Losing face on Facebook

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Ever had a tricky shift with a patient crisis involving the whole team that turned out really well and then debriefed with your close nursing friends...

Pelvic floor exercises for the guys too?

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: One-to-one pelvic floor exercise training did not improve continence at 12 months over routine advice to men with urinary...

What is cultural safety and why does it matter in 2011

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Cultural safety initially arose from considering the healthcare experiences of Maori. Over time the concept has evolved to address needs related to...

Losing face on Facebook

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Ever had a tricky shift with a patient crisis involving the whole team that turned out really well and then debriefed with your close nursing friends...

Briefs August

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

First NP with PhD New Zealand now has what is believed to be its first NP with a PhD. Helen Snell, a Palmerston North-based diabetes nurse...

New ‘practice assistant’ role to be piloted

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Waitemata PHO is to recruit and train 20 students to demonstrate the role of the primary care practice assistant (PCPA) for Health Workforce New...

New ‘practice assistant’ role to be piloted

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Waitemata PHO is to recruit and train 20 students to demonstrate the role of the primary care practice assistant (PCPA) for Health Workforce New...

New bill on way to widen RN prescribing

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Health Minister Tony Ryall announced this week that a Medicines Amendment Bill would be introduced by the end of the year to introduce two pieces of...

Questions raised over proposed “delegated prescribing”

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

"It is good news that this is moving and none of us want to do anything to hold it up," said the executive director of the College of Nurses. But she...

High interest in Nursing Council places

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Council is now preparing ballot papers for this its second election since Health Minister Tony Ryall introduced limited elected places on council. In...

Graduate survey results indicate most in jobs

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Despite major concerns at a lack of jobs the nurse educator survey indicates more than 85 per cent of graduates were working as RNs - a similar level...

Strong demand for disaster response workshops

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Frances Hughes, one of two nurse specialists running the workshops, said the demand highlighted the need for ongoing education to meet communities'...

Sleeping patterns and stillbirth needs urgent research

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The chance to save more babies prompted midwife Tomasina Stacey to interview Auckland women who have experienced late stillbirths. The 155 women had...

Flat abs… flawed ‘floor’?

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Sit-ups can make you feel virtuous. They can also make some women incontinent. It is new to many of us that some exercise routines can worsen the...

Time to remove primary healthcare barriers

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In 2007, nurses identified patient enrolment practices as a significant impediment to freeing up ready access to primary healthcare for all patients....

More than just ‘sucking up’ the problem

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Lord, a spokesperson for the New Zealand Continence Association, says nurses can do better than just advising women on effective protection and...

New Zealand study links obesity with increased risk of c-section

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The findings from the SCOPE study - that looked at obesity in pregnancy and impact on more than 3000 Australian and New Zealand pregnant women - were...

Midwifery researchers gather in August

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

More than 20 midwifery researchers will present their work at the fifth Joan Donley Midwifery Research Collaboration being held in New Plymouth in...

Still one of top 10 places to be a mum

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The index and report sets out the conditions for mothers and children in 43 developed nations and 121 developing nations. Norway and Australia top...

Midwife master

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Midwife Gina Chaney "fell" into her masters degree. The senior midwife and delivery suite coordinator at Waikato Hospital says she didn't initially...

Helping Ma-ori mothers living with violence

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

There can be no doubt mothers play an important role raising their children and preparing them for later life. Yet, intimate partner violence...

Detecting delirium

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: The tool with the best evidence is the Confusion Assessment Method, a simple bedside instrument based on the DSM-IIIR criteria...

Cure call to mark AIDS anniversary

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In June 1981 health agencies in the US began monitoring unusual clusters of diseases that would later be identified as the first cases of AIDS. A...

Enrolled nurse struck off register following convictions for indecent assault

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal found Te Mahara Ruhe's 2008 convictions for the offences which occurred in the mid-1980s reflected...

Nursing Council notice of recent Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal decisions

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Rabindranath Joyram has had his registration cancelled after being found guilty by the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal of professional...

ED violence prompts alcohol reform call

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The New Zealand Medical Journal recently published findings from University of Otago, Wellington, research into the effect of violence on the staff...

Simulation stimulation?

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

But the enthusiasm disappointingly did not translate into high numbers of staff signing up to use the new technology for clinical teaching. The expo,...

MECA talks start under tight conditions

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Glenda Alexander, industrial advisor for the New Zealand Nurses Organisation, said a pre-bargaining forum didn't make it clear what money was...

Briefs

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Healthline to report to GP The health assessment summary and advice gathered by Healthline nurses can now be transmitted electronically direct to a...

CPIT back home

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

On 4 July, the students celebrated the nursing school being back home on the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology's central city campus,...

Seclusion issues raised after MH nurses’ street protest

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

About 60 mental health nurses and staff from the unit and other mental health units in the region joined the Public Service Association (PSA) protest...

MH nurses back PSA colleagues

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Daryle Deering, college president, said the level of assaults at the facility was a 'grave concern' to the college. Geoff Annals, NZNO chief...

Cost of incontinence to NZ estimated at $8 billion

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The report, released by the New Zealand Continence Association, estimates that once the costs of care, products, drugs, aged care and health...

First Telehealth pilot reports back

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

But monitors are definitely not a replacement for a good patient-nurse relationship, are not suitable for all patients and need fast broadband, said...

Allergy treatment concerns prompt nurses into action

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The recommendations for the safe practice of allergy investigation, education and treatment by nurses have been released by the nurses division of...

Men opt for circuit training over coffee

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Chick Chatz, Pink Pilates, Encore, Look Good Feel Better … these are some of the groups or programmes for women with a cancer diagnosis. But what...

More than ticking boxes …

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Frustration can be a great motivator. About six years ago, Lynn Randall was offering nurse-led diabetes clinics to a large and busy Auckland practice...

Give dads a chance

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Jeffrey Gage clearly remembers those Plunket visits. "Even though I was present in the room when the Plunket nurse was visiting, all the questions...

Growing the future Māori workforce

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Nurses are the largest single collective of Māori health professionals delivering healthcare in New Zealand. They are considered to be a vital...

Keeping smoking at bay in a new land

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

As a nurse I was educated to understand other people's points of view and to apply this understanding to my practice. But this is often more...

Asthma: study sorts out beliefs from facts

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Some surprising answers were given in a recent public lecture by Auckland's Professor Innes Asher to mark the 20th anniversary of the international...

Taking a deep breath …

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Try being attached to an oxygen machine for 16-plus hours a day at home. Add to that the stigma of having a predominantly smoking-related disease...

Heading to the shed

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

For many a bloke with time on his hands there isn't a better place to head than a shed. And if you haven't got a shed of your own, in some centres...

Flu vaccine gets the heart tick?

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: Influenza vaccination reduces repeat major adverse cardiovascular events by about 30 per cent in patients with acute coronary...

How much is enough?

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Not only is the internet magical but, as we are often told in tones of wonder and reverence, it is also an unlimited source of information accessible...

Aged care and other workforce reviews step up

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

"More of the same will not meet the challenge of increasing demand with finite services," says the review report. Aged care is one of the first of...

Farewell to a bit of nursing history

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Hagley Hostel, built in the 1930s, damaged but still standing after Christchurch's quakes, was already earmarked for demolition to make way for a...

Briefs

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Chart to help reduce medication errors A national medication chart and other work to reduce medication errors were highlighted in a Quality...

Report gives SSHW unit thumbs up

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The positive report, just made public, has lead to funding to assist the Safe Staffing Health Workplaces Unit continue its work helping district...

Retiring after decades of service

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Born in the hospital, she started training there as a teenager in 1954 and has worked at the hospital off and on ever since - about 46 years in all,...

Budget offers new money but no ‘vision’

Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Professor Jenny Carryer, executive director of the College of Nurses said the Minister of Health had done well to secure further investment in...

Budget details at a glance

Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Health Minister Tony Ryall announced $585 million of extra health spending in the next financial year with $420 million of that new money and $165...

Rheumatic fever programme funded

Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The government has announced $12 million over four years to help reduce the rates of rheumatic fever in some of the country's most vulnerable...

How did nursing education fare?

Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Holloway, of nurse educator group NETS, said it was a conservative, "steady as you go" Budget that delivered new funding for education and health...

Mental Health needs will grow

Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The Budget provides $40m additional Mental Health blueprint funding over the next four years but at the same time about $13m of national mental...

Oz nurses more stressed?

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The initial work/life balance and health findings from the Nurses and Midwives e-cohort Study (NMeS) following 6308 Australian and 1325 New Zealand...

Tough pay talks expected post-Budget

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

New Zealand Nurses Organisation members voted by a narrow margin to return to joint bargaining while the other nurses' union, the Public Service...

Brian's Story: caught between a rock and a hard place

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Fiona Cassie talks to Susan McAuley and Trish Johns about their learning journey with Brian. And the huge research gap they found on managing leg...

Student retention: more than ‘bums on seats’

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

It is now nearly 40 years since undergraduate nursing programmes moved into the tertiary education sector in New Zealand. During this period of time...

Shamed into a shining light: a management journey in aged care

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Ranfurly Manor staff used to take off their name badges if popping into Feilding on the way home from work. They were embarrassed to be working at...

Stepping out:

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

moving specialist leg ulcer care to a community clinic intro: Natalie Scott, Emma Hickson and Ann Boland report on a community health innovation to...

Leadership & Management: Taken out of your comfort zone

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Provocative speakers and challenging ideas taking leaders out of their comfort zones are all part of Ngä Manukura's first advanced leadership...

Leadership & Management: Surfing the wave - leadership in turbulent times

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Today's world calls for collaboration across the globe if we are to create a safer future for humanity. The speed of the global response to the...

Leadership & Management: Once a nurse always a nurse?

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Here are two hypothetical scenarios to begin with: The health dollar is squeezed tighter than ever before. You are a nurse and a member of a district...

Leadership & Management: How to work with people you’d rather kill!

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Christchurch nurse and service improvement director BRIAN DOLAN says the best nursing teams are those that recognise and work with all personality...

Liquefaction turns bedrooms into “sandpits”

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Liquefaction oozing through the floors, walls and doors of Nazareth House forced the closure in February of a home with a 100-year history of caring...

Closing the Gap:

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

International Nurses Day 2011 intro: Every May 12 the nursing community commemorates the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth. And each year...

New guidelines could help calculate annual bill for healing leg ulcers

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Helping the novice to the expert to prevent and heal venous leg ulcers is one aim of the first Australasian-wide clinical guidelines for venous leg...

Pathway to healing

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The chance to compare the healing rates of different venous leg ulcer treatments is a major aim of a soon-to-be released national clinical pathway....

The body’s building blocks

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

For many, the link between nutrition and wound care is not easily understood. But in the context of food as the building block of all cells in the...

Vaccinating men against HPV?

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: HPV vaccination prevents HPV infections in sexually active young men. Most will experience an adverse event but these are...

From chalk to online chat

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The momentum toward online teaching and learning becoming a de rigueur pedagogy has increased rapidly in the past 10 years. Teachers who have...

The masked educator

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The reality of living in a technological age is that, at times, human connection can be lost. And in nursing, that loss can cost lives. These beliefs...

Letter to the Editor

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Firstly I would like to express my greatest sympathy and compassion to those residents and their families that have been displaced as a result of the...

Supervision and ageing workforce issues highlighted by MH nurse survey

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Te Pou carried out a workforce survey mental health services for older people (MHSOP) in 2010 involving nine of the 11 district health board services...

First gerontology nursing professor

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Professor Matthew Parsons has been appointed to take up the joint chair established by The University of Auckland and Waikato District Health Board....

Education forum backs new grad places for all

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Post-registration education was the focus of the over-subscribed forum hosted in April by the New Zealand Nurses Organisation. Susanne Trim, NZNO...

Briefs

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Mandatory reporting: Green Paper Mandatory reporting of child abuse is one option to be explored in a planned Green Paper by Minister of Social...

Quake damaged wards shift for winter

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Three quake-damaged Christchurch Hospital wards are to re-open across the city and a new discharge support service is being set up as winter looms....

Quake damaged wards shift for winter

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Three quake-damaged Christchurch Hospital wards are to re-open across the city and a new discharge support service is being set up as winter looms....

First step to wide RN prescribing?

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The demonstration trial - involving 12 diabetes nurse specialists working in four district health boards - began on April 11 after being formally...

New ‘bonded’ nurses to be tracked

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

For 2011 the government has made the new hard-to-staff nursing specialties of mental health and aged care first priority over the scheme's existing...

Kiwi-lead team name world’s “top five” targets

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Robert Beaglehole, a University of Auckland emeritus professor, the lead author of the article led a team of nearly 100 international health experts...

Challenging winter ahead for Christchurch nurses

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Mary Gordon, executive director of nursing for Canterbury District Health Board, said it hit home about two weeks after the quake when she found...

Nursing school heads ‘out-of-town’

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Cathy Andrew, head of CPIT's school of nursing, said after a month's disruption all students were due back in class by the end of March. But she was...

Other Quake coverage

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

'Waterfall' through ward http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20522 Quake puts older people's health into...

From the HIP

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: There is an absence of evidence as to whether hip protectors can be used in an acute care setting to reduce harm from falling....

Sydney-sider turned ‘earth mother’ turned rural NP

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Bottling jam, raising calves and taking her children paddling on the golden sand beaches. That was the aim of Jane Jeffcoat when she and Kiwi husband...

Gesundheit safe sneezing for schoolkids

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The 35 Kidz First public health nurses from Counties Manukau District Health Board hope to take the respiratory hygiene education drive to 200...

Teamwork on the run

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Like many, Julianne Munro was having lunch when the quake hit. But the Princess Margaret Hospital infection control nurse specialist soon hit the...

Portaloos and plastic bags: post-quake infection control in aged care

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

It was a sad site that greeted Alison Carter when she first headed east post-quake to visit Christchurch's rocked resthomes. But despite the...

Briefs April 2011

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Survey finds young nurses emotionally challenged The emotional challenge of nursing was more than anticipated by more than 40 per cent of young...

Push continues for mental health nursing certification

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Heather Casey, the college's certification director, said it had an initial productive meeting with Health Workforce New Zealand (HWNZ) in February...

Fluctuating power and crush injuries test ICU

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

But the associate clinical nurse manager in charge of Christchurch Hospital's ICU on February 22 is proud of how the unit's staff faced those testing...

Quake puts older people’s health into overdrive

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

As the injured kept arriving, a triage unit was hastily set up at the 130-bed hospital at the foot of the Cashmere Hills. "The triage unit was set up...

Paperwork ‘tested’ for real at ED

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

As the first earthquake shock died down the associate clinical nurse manager of Christchurch Hospital's ED reached for the major incident plan...

‘Waterfall’ through ward

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Pushing through the fire doors and the waterfall cascading between them, she envisaged staff lying injured on the ward floor, so her heart lifted...

Big call marathon

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Mary Gordon. As her office stopped shaking at Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH), Gordon, as the board's senior executive on duty, tried to assess the...

Scootered to quake duty

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Rostered to start at the central city Moorhouse Medical Centre a few hours after the quake, she decided to keep it in the family. So as the gridlock...

Baking brings smile to Christchurch ED

Wed, 9 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Emergency Department clinical nurse manager Anne Esson says emergency departments from district health boards around the country had provided...

Quake job losses

Wed, 9 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Oceania group announced this week that two of its Christchurch rest homes would be closed affecting more than 150 staff. New Zealand Nursing...

Quake volunteers deployed

Wed, 9 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The NHCC said more than 366 nurses had volunteered their services through the centre and about 55 had so far been deployed to work in mental health,...

Boost needed for Maori scholarship applications

Wed, 9 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Applications are open again for the annual Hauora Maori Scholarships with up to 160 scholarships of $1700 each available for successful nursing...

Special quake waivers by Nursing Council

Wed, 9 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The Canterbury District Health Board said in a statement it had been working with the Nursing Council and Midwifery Council in the wake of the quake...

Nurses answer quake call

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The Ministry of Health reported it was still continuing to accept volunteers to relieve and support Christchurch nurses working on in the wake of the...

Nurses can empower smokers to quit

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Jennifer Percival, the Royal College of Nursing's tobacco policy advisor, says nurses faced with a "you've got to die of something" attitude are...

Rest or exercise best for sprains?

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: Ankle exercises starting during the first week after mild to moderate ankle sprain will improve ankle function earlier and...

Beating the Pacific blues

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Fiona Cassie talks to the former chief nurse and mental health specialist about fishing, foreign aid and discrimination. Give a man a fish; feed him...

Aged-care altruism from the Angel of Fairlie

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

For more than three decades the registered nurse, now 78, has been running Moreh, her family-style charity home for the elderly, for free. Fiona...

Working together: a harmonious ‘Vibe’

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Vibe delivers primary healthcare services to young people in the Hutt Valley from community clinics to secondary schools. Otherwise know as the Hutt...

A Pacific perspective on ageing and chronic illness

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

This is the first of a series of articles highlighting the research funded through the STAR (Strategy to Advance Research) project. The $2.7m STAR...

Nurse Practitioners working in older adult mental health

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

They work with their region's older adult mental health teams assessing, diagnosing, and prescribing for the over-65s, plus liaising and working...

New Waikato ED opens smoothly

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The board reported that it treated 160 patients on move-day and 90 per cent were seen within the Ministry of Health's six-hour target timeframe. The...

Education forum endorses three-year degree

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

More than 85 leading nursing educators, employers and leaders gathered at the NZNO-initiated forum on February 11 to discuss undergraduate education...

Unitec nursing turns 25

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

"Those early days were quite eventful with cows from the nearby paddocks being regular visitors who would come right up to our classroom windows...

Briefs

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Cancer NP call endorsed A cancer specialist's call for more use of NPs in cancer care has been backed by Wendy Thomas, the new chair of the NZNO's...

A non-heroic tale

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

As a sharp 'aftershock' hits I instinctively grab my computer to stop it toppling. Seconds later I'm holding the iMac aloft, 'surfing' as my desk...

Volunteer nurses sought for quake zone

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The call went out last night in the aftermath of the 6.3 earthquake that has caused widespread casualties and deaths. Canterbury District Health...

Health services praised – 220 major trauma victims overnight

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The DHB reported in a press release that Christchurch Hospital Emergency Department provided care for 220 major trauma patients over night. It...

Four aged care facilities severely damaged

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

No further details were available at time of going to press but the board said it was making plans to rehouse residents. The Health Minister Tony...

Nursing Council ENs advice welcomed

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In a recent newsletter the council said while ENs not completing the transition to the new scope by the July 1 deadline would have conditions placed...

NZNO hosts major education forum

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The focus of the February 11 forum was on what education needed to deliver to achieve effective nursing practice in the future, and how best to...

Emerging Maori leaders sought for last course places

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The programme is one of several clinical leadership training programmes being offered over the next few years by the Ngā Manukura ō Āpōpō, the...

Talking therapy guides available

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The practice guides have been developed for health practitioners using talking therapies with: Pacific people; older adults; refugees, asylum seekers...

Employers ready for new EN generation?

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Schools offering or contemplating offering the diploma say the biggest factor limiting class size, or new programmes starting up, is lack of clinical...

EN student interest high

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

After a decade of debate about the title, scope and qualification for second level nurses, the diploma programme is to train a new generation of...

Chief nurse takes stock of job-hunters

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Chief nurse Jane O'Malley said it was clear to her that district health boards were working hard on strategies to find vacancies and she was...

The future of Nursing in Aotearoa

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Have you wondered what the next year and decade hold for nursing? Consider the International Data Corporation's (IDC is a well respected global...

More than just a jab

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Fiona Cassie talks to the Immunisation Advisory Centre's national programme manager about educating vaccinators in the days of constantly updated...

Dying with

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

the right care, right time and right location… other sections: intro: Our Voice - tō tātou reo… Leigh Manson outlines the philosophy behind...

Call for specialist staffed stroke units

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The New Zealand Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management 2010 was released just before Christmas by the Stroke Foundation of New Zealand. Mark...

Malnutrition: a real risk in rehabilitation

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The risk of malnutrition has long been documented in acute care and, more recently, across rehabilitation settings. People are commonly admitted to...

Back to the bedside

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Late last year I arrived at the Whitireia Community Polytechnic campus both excited and nervous. I was enrolling for the October intake of the...

A glimpse at post-stroke stockings…

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: There is no benefit in routine use of graduated compression stockings of any length after stroke. Wearing below-knee stockings...

Letter to the editor

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

It is said those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Clearly, Professor Des Gorman does not know our history when he comments...

Safe staffing rolls out to three new DHBs

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Maree Jury, the unit's programme consultant, said the rollout followed the chief executives of the 20 boards backing the unit to continue until...

Cancer survival rate improves

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The report compares the survival rate of cancer victims five years post-diagnosis with the survival rate with a group from the general population of...

Youth suicide still major concern

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The Ministry of Health released the latest national figures on suicide just before Christmas, which showed that in 2008 there were on average nearly...

Record numbers seek places on BN intakes

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Helen Manoharan, head of Waiariki's school of nursing said Waiariki had received about 1000 applications for its Tauranga and Rotorua BN programmes -...

Briefs

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Hospitals ban gang patches Gang patches are to be removed by hospital visitors as part of new visiting rules following a four-month pilot at Waikato...

One third of graduates still job hunting?

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Of the survey respondents to date 52 per cent have jobs in government-subsidised new graduate programmes, about nine per cent had found jobs in the...

New graduate job hunters stocktake under way

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The action by Jane O'Malley - in one of the toughest job markets in years for new graduate nurses - has been praised as "fantastic" leadership by...

Funding sought for MH nursing certification push

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The college (or Te Ao Maramatanga) is seeking $300,000 plus from the government to implement a draft accreditation, certification and credentialing...

A timely learning experience…

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

It started off as just another lecture for first year nursing student Jesse Lust. But it ended with him having a stage one melanoma cut out of his...

A joint response…

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

They don't want to complain. They may be hobbling in obvious pain but when asked how they're doing they're quick to smile and say "I'm okay"....

Dementia deserves better than dead-end corridors

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

As I travel around New Zealand as a part of my work, I visit many dementia care facilities and far too regularly my thoughts turn to the following...

Skin cancer groups’ stand on vitamin D deficiency

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Cancer Society and Health Sponsorship Council, who jointly manage the SunSmart programme and the Melanoma Foundation of New Zealand, recently put...

SunSmart clothing tips

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Cheryl Wilson from the University of Otago's Department of Clothing and Textile Sciences has some advice on SunSmart clothes: What is SunSmart...

Mandatory regulation of sunbed operators sought

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Consumer NZ found that only seven of the 69 operators surveyed met all requirements of the current voluntary standard for sunbed operators. Judith...

Distant dream comes closer

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Robyn Tepania, Ngāpuhi/Te Rarawa (pictured left), and Mercy Zvavmwe began their studies on NorthTec's Foundation Studies programme at the Kaitaia...

East Coast nursing school change

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Since 2002 Palmerston North's UCOL has been providing a nursing degree programme in Gisborne along with its other outreach programmes in the...

Diabetes services face cuts nationwide says specialist survey

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The New Zealand Society for the Study of Diabetes (NZSSD) and Diabetes New Zealand said its surveys showed district health boards across the country...

Hawke’s Bay restructuring attracts 150 submissions

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The board in September put out a proposal to restructure 60 nursing - mostly senior - positions with the potential loss of up to 10 senior nursing...

Briefs

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Taihape closure marches on Residents of a Taihape aged-care facility and inpatient unit were being shifted out during December as the shutdown...

Future looking safer for Safe Staffing Unit

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The unit's three-year government funding officially ended in August, but the unit has managed to eke out its funding until the end of 2010. Future...

Prescribing reform in Xmas stocking?

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Health Minister Tony Ryall told Nursing Review in late August that an advisory paper on updating the Medicines Act 1981 was due with Cabinet before...

Aged-Care sector jobs limited

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The same recession conditions that have seen vacancies dry up in the public hospital sector have also resulted in very low turnover and vacancies in...

That was then and this is now...the years 2010 and 2005 in review

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

January 2010 Enrolled Nurse title revived After a decade of debate and division a stepped-up enrolled nurse was officially back. The Nursing Council...

Acutely falling – how best to reduce hospital falls?

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: The graphical presentation of falls risk - clearly identifying not only at-risk patients, but what actions are required for...

Getting your career on course

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Consider your nursing career as an expression of who you are in the world. What are your short-term and long-term plans for your nursing...

Letter to the Editor: Child abuse and mandatory reporting

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The role of health professionals in regard to child abuse in New Zealand has received more publicity in light of the coroner's comments about the...

Diabetes service cuts disappoint

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The district health board voted in mid-November to reduce the Palmerston North-based Diabetes Lifestyle Centre from 5.9 nursing positions to 4.9 and...

High interest in demo sites

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Helen Snell, a prescribing nurse practitioner in diabetes, said expressions of interest had come in from across the country to be a demonstration...

Pay parity closer for primary health MECA nurses

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

More than 550 employers have ratified the multi-employer collective agreement (MECA) negotiated between the New Zealand Nurses Organisation and the...

Nurse leaders get close

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Health Minister Tony Ryall announced recently that public health physician Virginia Hope was to chair both Hutt Valley and Capital & Coast District...

Safe trike riders and superheroes take out Plunket awards

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Locals protested after being told by the Whanganui District Health Board there was virtually no chance that Ruanui House could stay open and about 20...

Taihape nurses’ last ditch efforts

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Locals protested after being told by the Whanganui District Health Board there was virtually no chance that Ruanui House could stay open and about 20...

Taihape nurses’ last ditch efforts

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Locals protested after being told by the Whanganui District Health Board there was virtually no chance that Ruanui House could stay open and about 20...

Briefs

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Queensland to Whanganui DoN After more than two decades nursing in Queensland, Kiwi nurse Sandy Blake is the new director of nursing at Whanganui...

Workshop more than talkfest

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

More than 70 nursing leaders attended the Wellington workshop which discussed the tight job market for new graduates at length as part of the focus...

Nurses consult on child abuse reporting

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Coroner Garry Evans raised the question of mandatory reporting of evidence of abuse during the inquest into the death of the three-month-old twins....

Hutt ‘de-magnetises’

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The board in 2007 became only the second hospital outside the US to gain the "gold standard of nursing" which director of nursing at the time, Toni...

Prospective jobs down but not out

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

This time last year boards were anticipating taking on more than 1100 new graduates in 2010 but ended up taking just over 1000 (see table p.2)....

New grads jobs left to ‘serendipity’?

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

But nursing leaders want to see the money first and are exploring their own options in an action plan being drawn up following a November workshop...

Mandatory reporting:

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Risk aversive? Or right move? date: 16 December, 2010 intro: The Kahui twins inquest has re-opened the mandatory reporting debate. JENNY CARRYER...

Fiji nurses face tough times

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Lutua spoke to Nursing Review after addressing the 300 delegates from across the Pacific attending 15th South Pacific Nurses Forum in Auckland this...

Pacific nurses gather

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

More than 300 nurses from across the Pacific attended the four-day forum hosted by the New Zealand Nursing Organisation. Rosemary Bryant, the...

Latest HPV vaccine research findings

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Australia began its free human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme of 12-26 year old females in 2007 and New Zealand followed in 2009 by...

Nurses back smokefree Aotearoa

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A smokefree Aotearoa by 2025 was one of the recommendations of the report released earlier this month following the committee's lengthy inquiry into...

Livening up our conversations…

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

end-of-life care and ensuring the public knows what primary care nurses do. Over recent weeks the only conversation to be had in Christchurch has...

Men’s health: more than throwing a pill

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Sometimes it's the wife that makes the call. Men have come a long way, but phoning a men's health centre is still a step too far for some....

Does popping vitamins help men’s heart health?

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: The antioxidants vitamin E and vitamin C when used for primary prevention of heart disease do not reduce cardiovascular events...

Second winter brings less discontent

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

With the flu season over for another winter it is back to business-as-usual for most ICUs around the country. The second wave of swine flu saw nearly...

Stroke initiatives dubbed by Roundtable

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A more active role for nursing, decision support software and discharge packs for patients are some stroke initiatives under way by The Health...

Easing transition back home

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

An elderly patient arriving home from hospital with new pills in hand can feel confused, tired and vulnerable. As a practice nurse Vicky Gaunt found...

Gay and grey a double stigma?

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The ageing population of New Zealand is growing at a phenomenal rate. Not only did the aged population of the country treble over the last century,...

The bridge to competence: linking theory and practice in critical care

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

As nurses I believe we all strive to deliver the highest quality of care to our patients. We need to be compassionate, caring, have a sound knowledge...

Web one-stop info shop for SI nurses

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Ministry of Health-funded project is being developed as a partnership between Canterbury District Health Board and the Nurse Maude-based New...

Feedback sought on NP training programme

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The push for the programme is coming from the Nurse Practitioner Advisory Committee (NPAC-NZ), which is keen to see a "robust, structured and...

2011 training funds confirmed for mental health

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Up to 140 mental health new graduate places are to be offered again in 2011 along with leadership funding. There was controversy last year over a...

Briefs

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

First surgical assistant course under way Training is well under way of 13 experienced theatre nurses in the new first surgical assistant (FSA)...

Student sighs over science

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

While students agreed science was the toughest and most time-consuming of their second year subjects they all acknowledged it as a necessary and...

Sickness but not sick leave?

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Nurse practitioners were delighted at the recent news that the Ministry of Social Development has approved NPs to be able to complete medical...

Competent but a little confused

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Nursing Council recently released a research report evaluating how good the Continuing Competence Framework (CCF), introduced in 2004, is at...

More Kiwi nurses both here and across the Tasman?

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The recession has seen more nurses staying in the workforce and also more return to the fold but the statistics also confirm a rapidly ageing...

Queensland predicts “disastrous” job shortfall for new graduates in 2011

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Gay Hawksworth, secretary of the Queensland Nurses' Union, is calling for an urgent injection of transitional funding into the health and aged care...

Call for cost cutting for return-to-nursing courses

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The report from the project, a collaboration between district health board directors of nursing, nurse educators and the Nursing Council, has just...

EN changes prompt revised delegation guidelines

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Nursing Council released the draft guidelines for nurses and employers following the new enrolled nurse scope being gazetted in May and is...

Rural Innovation funding round opens

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Previous winners of grants include a project to trial a Maori nursing service in North Taranaki, the Rural Nursing Workforce Strategy project and...

Education Oregon-style

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

comes Down Under date: October 2010 other sections: Education\Undergraduate, Specialties\Clinical governance/Management intro:Oregon has radically...

The registered, the unregulated and teamwork

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Support workers work very closely with people they care for. They talk with and understand these people, they see their skin, often several days in a...

Medication management

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Quality not quantity… In common with other nurses, I experience daily issues around medication management. The topic of medication management is...

Diabetes education for primary health care nurses: where from and how much?

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A decade ago the Primary Health Strategy signalled the intention to devolve care, including diabetes, to the primary health sector. The aim was to...

Educating to reach the risky and the rural

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Worldwide, the prevalence of diabetes is increasing and the economic, social and personal toll of the condition cannot be underestimated. New Zealand...

A little education can go a long way

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

One of my mother's favourite sayings is "I am very fond of things that work". Having confidence in something that works is one way of helping us...

Oxygen no relief for breathlessness?

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: Oxygen provides no additional benefit over room air in relief of dyspnoea - either in terms of breathlessness or in terms of...

Comfortable in her own skin

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Ann Giles was convinced one of her first skin clinic patients was a burns victim. It was back in the mid-1990s and the scarring on the woman's face...

Have ‘passport’ will learn

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Fiona Cassie finds out more about the new clinical education model from the three partners involved. In October last year, Auckland District Health...

Viral awareness for the frequently infected

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

As we skip into spring many of you may be shaking off the usual round of winter viruses - so spare a thought for your keyboard. A study by the Centre...

Briefs

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

B4 School Checks data Initial data from the B4 School Checks are showing most New Zealand preschoolers are well-adjusted with no major behavioural or...

Perioperative nursing demand will outstrip supply

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

But the perioperative nursing workforce projection modeling report says at current entry rates into the specialty area the workforce will expand only...

Neonatal nurse supply at risk

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The neonatal nursing workforce report found the generally younger and more mobile neonatal nursing workforce was leaving the field at a higher rate...

Neonatal nurse supply at risk

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The neonatal nursing workforce report found the generally younger and more mobile neonatal nursing workforce was leaving the field at a higher rate...

Critical care nurse demand to double by 2030

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The demand for nurses working in intensive care, coronary care and high dependency units will begin to outstrip supply by 2014 and continue to...

Heartfelt stories…

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Hearts Hands Minds tells the stories of some of the hundreds of nurses who worked at Green Lane over its 60-year history - including a 97-year-old...

Hawke’s Bay restructuring proposals ‘demoralising’

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Chris McKenna, the DHB's director of nursing (hospital), confirmed the board had released a discussion document regarding a "proposed review and...

Competent consultation

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Nursing Council is consulting on the guidelines shortly before releasing research it commissioned into measuring continuing competence. The...

HCA guidelines released for nursing

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The guideline report was developed to clarify the role of the non-regulated HCA workforce and its relationship with professional nursing services in...

Ward provides stable sanctuary in shaky south

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Princess Margaret Hospital duty manager Liz Bremen jumped at the challenge of setting up the respite ward just days after the massive quake hit in...

Predicted upsurge in nursing demand focus of national workshop

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The three workforce projection reports on critical care, neonatal and perioperative nursing are to be the springboard for a national consensus...

Scottish appointment causes stir

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

But despite the nursing job losses, at least one Scottish nursing organisation says Kevin Woods will be leaving the NHS in Scotland in "a better...

Overseas nurse registrations up-in-air

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A district court ruling exposed the loophole after an overseas registered nurse appealed a Nursing Council decision to turn down their registration....

Out-of-town nurses come to quake aid

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Canterbury District Health Board reports that in all 33 nurses from other boards and services have helped bolster post-quake needs for nurses in its...

Scottish appointment causes stir

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

But despite the nursing job losses, at least one Scottish nursing organisation says Kevin Woods will be leaving the NHS in Scotland in "a better...

NZNO awards top honours

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

About 300 delegates were to attend the two-day NZNO conference in Wellington at which economist Gareth Morgan, statistician Len Cook and former...

Students set to work post-quake

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Cathy Andrew, head of Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology's nursing school, said it had close to two hundred students working in medical...

Weary nurses welcomed volunteer offers

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The offers were being co-ordinated centrally to meet both immediate need and possibly longer-term respite for fatigued and stressed primary health...

Canterbury nurses rally after quake

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Nursing leaders are describing the response to the quake as "stunning", "fantastic" and it made you feel "privileged" to be a nurse. With schools and...

DHB “league” tables released

Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Minister of Health Tony Ryall said the results showed "tremendous improvement" in boards meeting the government's key priorities over the past 12...

Nurses seek to join global nurse leader network

Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Three district health board directors of nursing, and some private hospital nurse leaders, attended the Australasia meeting of the Global Centre that...

Letter to the editor

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In your Nursing Review volume 11, issue 3, July 2010 there is a full-page advert for Nutricia formula. I object to this advert being published in a...

Prescribing reform back on the radar

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

But the Minister is cautious in raising expectations of what the new Medicines Bill will offer nursing, saying the government is taking a "stepwise"...

Snapshot finds students pessimistic about job prospects in New Zealand

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Seventy of the about 75 final-year Otago Polytechnic nursing students responded to the survey carried out in late August. While 81 per cent agreed...

The call from ward to war zone

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

War-torn Afghanistan is not a typical setting for a new graduate nurse but it is one Lieutenant Frampton-Leigh can't wait to experience. "In...

Pioneer battler of the bugs

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Battling bugs has dominated Alison Carter's career. From hospital wards to body-piercing and rest homes to beauty saloons she has been advising how...

Antibiotic sponges make no impact in post-surgery infection?

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: Collagen sponges containing gentamycin (known as gentamicin in the US) did not decrease sternal wound infections in high risk...

Disappointment at Taihape rescue deal conditions

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The district health board voted last Friday to go ahead with bailing out the financially troubled Otaihape Health Trust but had strings attached to...

Graduates' sacrifice

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Indian-trained nurses Ashanth An Jose and Jerly Eldo (pictured left and right respectively) from Kerala in Southern India, both knew pursuing their...

Charge nurse survey shows safe staffing pressures

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

More than 130 charge nurses took part in the recently released NZNO Charge Nurse Survey 2010 by NZNO researcher Leonie Walker. The survey found that...

New safe staffing funding linked to "tangible" results

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Lawless said the unit had until the end of October to gather proof that safe staffing pilots were making a "tangible" difference to both nurses and...

Sober response to liquor reform

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In late August Justice minister Simon Power released the government's response to the Law Commission's review of alcohol laws. The package includes a...

Police watchhouse nurses given thumbs-up

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Nurses have been based at the Christchurch Central and Counties Manukau police station watch-houses since mid-2008 to assess and assist detainees...

Standards and credentialing on agenda for new mental health college president

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Christchurch-based mental health nurse and academic said the college was currently developing an accreditation and credentialing framework,...

Nurse prescribing goes green

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The survey looked at participants in the Green Prescription (GRx) Active Families programme for children and young people that grew out of the...

“Profitability” of practice nurses examined

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Practice Nurse Cost Benefit Analysis report to the Ministry of Health found practice nurses were already providing a broad set of primary care...

Unmet palliative care needs of the elderly under the spotlight

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Merryn Gott addressed last month's NZNO Gerontology Section conference on the topic of 'The Disadvantaged Dying? Palliative Care for Older People'....

Pressing need for better measure

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

successful pilot Victoria University wants to change this by offering a national survey of nurse-sensitive care indicators. FIONA CASSIE finds out...

Gloves far from squeaky clean

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Nurses can't assume gloves pulled from an open box are free from infection-causing bacteria, a Dunedin pilot study has found. The joint Otago...

End-of-life care debate goes online

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

We have reached a point in health service delivery where our ability to deliver technological advances in care has never been higher, but the...

Vote on Taihape rescue deal

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Otaihape Health Ltd - the financially troubled trust which runs Taihape's public health care - had asked about 20 nursing staff to cut back their pay...

Workforce barriers highlighted

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The six nursing leaders met with the board to make a combined presentation to the HWNZ board in, what College of Nurses executive director and a...

Aged-care nurse training boost

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Brenda Wraight, the director of HWNZ said details were yet to be finalised but the board had agreed to fund the equivalent of 300 nurses doing...

DHBs release CEO expenses

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

DHB CEOs are the latest to have their credit card and other reimbursed expenses released to public scrutiny in the wake of MPs and state sector...

Second flu wave rising

Thu, 5 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In a press release, (August 4) the Ministry says the latest data shows the country is now in the second wave of pandemic influenza with flu rates...

Prison nurse service defended

Thu, 5 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A recent National Health Committee report into improving prisoner health recommends shifting prison health services from the corrections sector to...

Prescribing test case seeks feedback

Thu, 5 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Prescribing by diabetes nurse specialists (DNS) was first floated last year but legislative barriers to nurse prescribing caused delays. Now a joint...

Projected rural nurse shortfall “frightening”

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

"Frightening" is how rural nurse specialist Kirsty Murrell-McMillan describes the findings of projected shortfalls. Both Murrell-McMillan and Rural...

Broader RN scope to free up new roles

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Carolyn Reed, Nursing Council chief executive, said the new and more enabling scope would be gazetted shortly. At the same time the council was also...

Facebook, nursing and global networking

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

You may recall in January this column focused on the international year of the nurse and highlighted the potential to be more global in our thinking....

Talking sooner is better in primary health push

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

'Better, sooner, more convenient' (BSMC) was the title of community nursing leader Sheree East's presentation to the recent primary health care...

Nicotine patch plus lozenge best

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: All study drugs increased quit rates more than placebo, but nicotine patch plus nicotine lozenge had the greatest increase in...

Ngā Manukura ō Āpōpō: Leaders of Tomorrow

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Momentum is building for Ngā Manukura ō Āpōpō, the national Mäori nursing and midwifery workforce development programme, officially launched...

CTA? HWNZ? What’s in a name…

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The CTA, formerly a Christchurch-based Ministry of Health agency, recently became the Investment Relationships and Purchasing arm of Health Workforce...

Soothing senses replaces seclusion?

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Inpatients at Waitakere Hospital's Waiatarau Unit are among some of the first mental health service users in New Zealand to try sensory modulation -...

Alternatives to four bare walls…

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Four bare walls, a mattress on the floor and a toilet in the corner. For sufferers of acute mental illness, this is often the 'awful' reality if...

Brain injury – the silent epidemic

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

"I need to play - the team needs me." It's a cry nurses in practices around the country probably hear regularly. Penny McGarry, the rehabilitation...

NP to head to new PHC College

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The new 2000-strong New Zealand Nurses Organisation college was officially launched last month following the merger of the College of Practice Nurses...

Trends in graduate employment unclear

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Anecdotally it appears students are now less likely to sit state finals with a confirmed job offer under their belt. The survey by nurse educators...

‘Dismay’ at proposed diabetes service cuts

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Submissions closed in late July on the district health board consultation document with one option to cut the service's current 5.9 nursing positions...

Taihape cuts outrageous or reality?

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The call for the 30 per cent pay cut is part of a proposed business plan to pull back Otaihape Health Limited - the trust that has managed Taihape's...

Debating the ‘elephant’

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Addressing the primary health care conference, Winton hammered home several key messages, the first being the health funding crisis hadn't even...

New Chief Nurse appointed

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The West Coast District Health Board director of nursing and former president of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation is to step into the Ministry of...

Collaboration call at primary health network conference

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The rural nurse specialist, who heads the collaborative Rural General Practice Network was speaking during a panel discussion on interdisciplinary...

Nurse practitioners: changing the landscape of health care delivery

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Late last year we were joint recipients of travel awards from Fulbright New Zealand and The College of Nurses Aotearoa New Zealand. The awards...

High-tech birth places lead to more risk of high-tech intervention

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The more high-tech the hospital is you plan to give birth in, the more likely you are to end up with an emergency caesarean and a baby in neonatal...

Reaching out to the hard-to-reach

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

It's all about catching the moment. A Pasifika woman spots a mobile health clinic outside her local church and pops in. The working mother of five...

Smoking cessation with varenicline

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: Smoking cessation with varenicline increases the initial effectiveness of quitting compared to the application of nicotine...

Artificial bubble will burst, says US nursing leader

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

California State University-Chico nursing professor Carol Huston was the keynote speaker at last month's inaugural NZ College of Primary Health Care...

Centennial history launched

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Freed to Care Proud to Nurse covers the history of the organisation from its early days as an Edwardian near-exclusive club of 600 nurses, to the...

HWNZ focus turns to nursing

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Wraight said she was aware of the perception HWNZ had been "very medically focused" but this was now about to change. She said nursing leaders...

Newly created PHC college looks to the future

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The NZ College of Primary Health Care Nurses NZNO was launched at the inaugural conference in Auckland attended by more than 370 nurses from across...

Aged-care contract recognises NPs

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Aged-care NP Michal Boyd said she was delighted by the move to allow NPs as well as GPs to assess residents under the national contract. But she...

EN conference celebrates new future

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Robyn Hewlett, chair of the NZNO's Enrolled Section said midway through the three-day Dunedin conference the mood was "pretty positive" about...

Tight job market forces graduate flexibility

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

District health boards in the region say they are still committed to taking on new graduates. But it appears tight budgets and low nurse turnover...

New NPs easing the pain

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Waikato Hospitals Sue King, a nurse for 33 years, recently gained nurse practitioner status in pain management the first with prescribing rights. She...

From asthma to pneumonia:

Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

how good are your respiratory nursing skills? date: June 2010 other sections: intro: Be it asthma or pneumonia, every nurse at some point cares for...

The enigma* of men’s health

Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Being a man is a full-time, rigorous and dangerous occupation; men have dragons to slay, mammoths to hunt, damsels to rescue, and a whole host of...

GASP: a breath of fresh air for asthma nursing?

Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Fiona Cassie talks to Wendy McNaughton, the respiratory nurse behind GASP Wendy McNaughton has been there, done that. Asthmatic from age five, she...

Vaccination prevents HPV infection long term

Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Specialties\Paediatric/Well child/Youth; Specialties\Primary health/Rural health intro: This month's clinically appraised topic looks at a major...

Plunket ‘book’ to go high-tech

Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Well Child health organisation has just put out a tender for software for its PlunketPlus project, with the goal of piloting the new information...

A jab in a thousand

Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Kim Hunter, registered nurse and coordinator of Waikato Hospital's Opportunistic Immunisation Service (HOIS), said the vaccination was a milestone,...

Keeping podcasting really simple

Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

As a web-savvy health professional you can set forth on a new adventure as a connected online information user. Previous columns will assist you with...

Prospective aged-care NP appointed

Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Isabella Wright has been appointed to the new role of clinical nurse specialist and has commenced her master of health practice studies at the...

Nurse flu rate similar to ‘joe public’

Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Nurses and doctors had a very slightly higher incidence of swine flu than other occupations but the difference was not statistically significant, the...

Chief Nurse saved but still to be sidelined?

Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Replacing the Chief Nurse was put on hold in March while the Ministry of Health reviewed its structure, including an unpopular proposal to shift the...

Chief Nurse saved but still to be sidelined?

Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Replacing the Chief Nurse was put on hold in March while the Ministry of Health reviewed its structure, including an unpopular proposal to shift the...

Winning whistlestop tour of the US

Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The online GASP asthma management tool, developed by McNaughton and IT specialist Murray Speight for Harbour Health, is one of ten finalists in the...

10th birthday celebrations

Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Judy Kilpatrick said the school scrambled together 50 students for the first undergraduate intake but by 2010 had an intake of 100 and a waiting list...

EN transition prompts fears

Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

More than 3000 ENs have been given 12 months to undergo a competency assessment process if they wish to transition to the new broader EN scope....

The inventive mother of all nurses

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Nursing Review pays tribute to the mother of modern nursing, to mark the International Year of the Nurse and International Nurses' Day - Florence's...

Brisk walks help flu vaccine work longer

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The effect on incidence of influenza remains unknown. CLINICAL SCENARIO: Older people have lower rates of protective seroconversion with vaccination....

Aged-care nurses surveyed

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Registered nurses in aged-care struggle to deliver quality care as patients' needs get more complex, GP services decrease and education options...

Nurses help tax-hit smokers quit

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Smokefree Nurses Aotearoa/New Zealand (SNANZ) and the New Zealand Nurses Organisation welcomed the consecutive tobacco tax hikes hitting smokers over...

Tracking bonded nurses

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Nursing Review reported earlier this year that the Minister of Health had expanded the voluntary bonding scheme despite having no idea where last...

Landmark pay deal

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The three unions and 21 boards ratified the national terms of settlement (NTOS), resulting in a two per cent pay rise in 2011 for 43,000 district...

New nursing school leaders

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Sue Fitzmaurice has been appointed director of the Waiariki Institute of Technology's school of nursing and allied health and Sally Dobbs has been...

New ENs to get diploma

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

About 3000 existing second level nurses will shortly be informed of the transition process, to enable them to work under the new generic EN scope....

Budget to bring tighter times

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Cost-cutting reviews are under way in many district health boards, with few redundancies but attrition and uncertainty starting to make an impact....

Knowing doesn’t equal doing in preventing pressure ulcers

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

High levels of nurse knowledge doesn't ensure low levels of pressure ulcers, research at a New Zealand intensive care unit found. Researcher Carol...

Where are all the maori nurses and midwives?

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Despite a multitude of workforce development documents and initiatives over the past decade, Māori nursing and midwifery workforce statistics have...

Pain not only skin deep

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The physical pain can be indescribable. The emotional pain even worse. Malignant wounds are a devastating complication of cancer that usually...

Heartfelt humor from nurse novelist

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Michelle Holman says there's a lot of herself in her latest heroine. So has she ever threatened to defibrillate an unruly patient's testicles? "No,"...

Chlorhexidine cuts surgical site infections

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: Surgical site preparation with 2% chlorhexidine in 70% alcohol reduces surgical site infection by 40% compared to povidine...

Study confirms swine flu saw skyrocketing ICU admissions

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The average winter admissions for viral pneumonitis in Australasian ICUs is 57 patients, but pandemic swine flu saw 15 times this number admitted...

The real face of a virtual class

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Acting head of CPITs nursing school Lisa McKay said the blended programme was to meet West Coast demand for a study option for would-be nurses unable...

Are you a green computer user?

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

There is increasing awareness of the individual responsibility we all hold for the sustainability of our environment. Green Computing is the study...

Draft standards call for nurse-led schools

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The call was made in the Nursing Council's draft education standards which went out for consultation last month after considerable input from sector...

Rural NPs seek urgent clean-up

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The network of rural nurses and GPs, lead by rural nurse specialist Kirsty Murrell McMillan, held its annual conference in mid-March attended by more...

PHC survey shows expanded role

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Nearly 180 members of the NZNO college took part in the December survey - about a 20 per cent response rate - carried out in the lead-up to a planned...

Website for online networking

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Alan Spinks, national programme manager for quality improvement and innovation, said the website will have some of the social networking features of...

"Innovative" immigration proposal questioned

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

But nurses' union NZNO says the New Zealand Aged-Care Association (NZACA) proposal leaves immigrant nurses vulnerable and is no answer to staffing...

WITT opens new nursing hub

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

School head Diana Fergusson said the new centre brings for the first time all nursing teaching into one area. It also provides more opportunities for...

Prescribing pilot inches ahead

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Health Workforce New Zealand (HWNZ) board member Helen Pocknall said the advice would come to its April meeting and it hoped to soon progress the...

Pilot still has green light

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Kai Tiaki last month reported Ian Powell of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists as saying that seven general surgeons at Counties Manukau...

Chief Nurse role downgraded and on hold

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Applications had closed in late February but in response to Nursing Review questions, the ministry said the recruitment process was on hold until the...

Pay deal awaiting vote count

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A multi-union deal covering about 75 per cent of DHB employees just over 56,000 people went out to ratification in March on an 'all in or all out'...

The big fat truth

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Recently the School of Physical Education at Otago University hosted a conference entitled "The Big fat Truth'': What are we weighting for? It's time...

An NP in the community

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

One suspects that "Nurse Maude" might approve of Deb Gillon. Back in 1896 feisty nursing pioneer Sibylla Maude left her job as Christchurch Hospital...

A much needed innovation

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Back in 2003, American-trained Michal Boyd became the country's first gerontology NP. By early 2009 the country had 50 NPs but only one more had...

Extending nicotine patch use increases quitting

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Clinical Bottom Line: Extending the duration of nicotine patches to 24 weeks increases the likelihood of smoking cessation and slows relapse in...

A weighty message

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A consistent message for managing overweight and obese New Zealanders is the aim of new guidelines for health professionals. Released on the eve of...

New PDRP offered to Maori nurses

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Huarahi Whakatu is a professional development recognition programme (PDRP) developed by national Māori workforce development centre Te Rau Matatini...

Report positive about entry to practice programmes

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The research report is the first major evaluation of the government-subsidised Nurse Entry to Practice (NETP) programmes that began in district...

Prescribing trial sought for diabetes nurses

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The fate of the proposed pilot hung in the balance late last year as ways forward appeared hampered by legislative barriers under the Medicines Act....

Nursing leadership more important than ever, says former Chief Nurse

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Jones told Nursing Review that embedding nursing leadership more deeply in the sector was one of the unfinished pieces of work from his time as chief...

Coroners’ reports calls for more nurses

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Hastings coroner Chris Devonport in January endorsed Wellington coroner Garry Evans's December call after both expressed concern about staffing...

Jones “irritated” by travel expense issues

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Jones unexpectedly resigned before Christmas and media reports in late February linked his resignation to an investigation into his personal...

Nursing remains popular option

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Nursing schools have reported an upswing in interest for several years, particularly from school leavers and new migrants. Last year's recession...

Standing orders consultation

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

But no other nurse prescribing issues are specifically addressed in the consultation document from the Ministry of Health. Talk of major prescribing...

Bonding expanded despite lack of data

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In fact, no one knows how many of the 683 nurses who signed up to the "high trust low bureaucracy" scheme are working in the targeted hard-to-staff...

Landmark meeting finds nurses united

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The workshop, which attracted more than 50 nursing leaders, sought common ground on the future of the registered nurse scope and other major...

He Whakaaro Noiho

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Waitangi Day Celebrations - early celebrations The signing of the treaty was not commemorated until 1934. Kaumatua of the area indicate that most...

The new assistant?

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

But nursing organisations say greater energy and resources should be put into expanding nursing roles first. Fiona Cassie reports on the background....

Back to school

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A vaccine to prevent cancer is often seen as a pipe dream. So when a vaccine did emerge that could radically reduce the risk of cervical cancer, the...

2010 – International Year of the Nurse

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The beginning of a New Year brings an imperative to make New Year resolutions - the internet can provide inspiration to assist you in this. Why not...

More competency cases raised, council reports

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In its just-released annual report to March 31 2009, the council says it received 105 competency notifications, up from an average of 35-50 in the...

Nurse joins ALAC board

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Health Minister Tony Ryall said Docherty has 25 years primary health care nursing experience at clinical, educational, policy, and research levels....

Survey highlights aged-care issues

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation survey gained responses from nearly 300 of the union's 1000 caregiver members invited to take part in the...

Registrar-style programme proposed for NPs

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Helen Snell, an NP and chair of NPAC, said the current clinical training pathway for nurse practitioners was relatively ad hoc and reliant on...

Nurses surprised by Chief Nurse resignation

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

After four years in the key nursing post, Jones resigned late last year and did not return to the ministry after taking annual leave. In a farewell...

Changes in nursing school leadership

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The latest change is at Southern Institute of Technology, where head Jill Parsons resigned late last year. Third-year programme manager Sally Dobbs,...

Restricted activities reversal

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The amendment followed the recent review of the operations of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance (HPCA) Act 2003 by the Director-General...

Nurse assistant courses still popular

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Nursing Council late last year decided to replace the current one-year NA programme with an 18-month EN programme at a higher level. Meanwhile,...

Unions propose combined approach to tough pay round

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The proposal is being mooted as an alternative in the current tight funding climate to potentially protracted negotiations between district health...

Gareth Morgan got it RIGHT: There is urgent need for change in primary health care, writes Jenny Carryer

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

His book published this year is an excellent analysis of the very problems nurses often write about including the wastefulness in the system,...

Skin deep

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Wendy Duckett never saw skin cancer in her first 20 years of nursing... well at least not knowingly. But within a few years of arriving in New...

Silver dressings increase costs but not healing

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Clinical Bottom Line: Using silver-donating dressings for treatment of venous leg ulcers in addition to compression does not increase ulcer healing...

Mole map conference

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Only two of the 30-plus health professionals who carry out the service for the New Zealand company MoleMap are not nurses (they are radiographers)....

Moving to the other side, or not?

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

When the opportunity of a secondment from the crisis team to team manager of a Community Mental Health Centre came up, it made this nurse consider a...

Christmas Spiced Ham (SPAM) anyone?

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

As the holidays approach, Symantec (providers of Norton antivirus protection) warn computer users to be on the lookout for malware attacks disguised...

Youth health services evaluated

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The evaluation of health services provided by a dozen "Youth One Stop Shops" around the country was carried out for the Ministry of Health and...

New grad programmes settled for mental health

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The late review and re-contracting of providers and programmes for 2010 prompted some backlash from the sector, particularly in the South Island...

Most cited research honoured

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Frances Hughes, adjunct AUT professor, and Nicola North, an associate professor at the University of Auckland, were two of the authors of the 2006...

Research highlights strengths and weaknesses in Maori providers

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The report on successful strategies by Maori providers also raised concern about the lack of clinical data about the effectiveness of cardiovascular...

CTA outlines its spending on nursess

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The trends for the first three years of the programme are included in the agency's just released report on how it intends to spend its $125 million...

Prescribing pilot sought for diabetes nurses

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The Clinical Training Agency board recently considered a proposed pilot of prescribing by diabetes nurse specialists put forward by the...

Trial of physician assistants ahead

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Physician assistants will be the first of the "innovative" health role trials being supported by the new Clinical Training Agency board as it...

NP registration celebrated

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

On December 11, 2001 neonatal nurse Deborah Harris became the country's first nurse practitioner and by December 11, 2009 she had been joined by 62...

Best quit smoking prompts

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The report by the Health Services Assessment Collaboration for the Ministry of Health looked at the evidence around the use of quit smoking...

Not to offer NRT a sentinel event?

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Sector Capability and Innovation Directorate acting deputy director-general Ashley Bloomfield attended the inaugural meeting of Nurses for a...

Enrolled nurse title revived

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The decision has been warmly welcomed as a Christmas present by existing enrolled nurses and the New Zealand Nurses Organisation, viewed as a...

Nursing and the Health of Older People: Practice, Policy and Partnership

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The 140 delegates in attendance enjoyed the inspiring presentations, informative sponsors, lively debate and professional networking opportunities at...

NP Facilitation Programme 2009 - DHBNZ reviews progress of an important project

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

"The programme has been a success because of the commitment of the steering group to achieving the key deliverables and keeping in touch with our...

The year in review

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

What is nursing today and tomorrow?: Review of the RN scope The year began and ended with the sector wrestling with the fundamental question of when...

Surgical masks and flu

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Clinical Bottom Line: Using surgical masks when undertaking routine care for patients in low aerosol ward and emergency department environments does...

First MĀori nursing degrees launched

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The first - a long-held dream of the National Council of Māori Nurses (Te Kaunihera) - was under subscribed but under way at the start of the year...

“Return of the enrolled nurse”

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Back at the start of the new millennium the new Labour government took up the call to bring back enrolled nurse training - seven years after the last...

Online health tools for all

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

To be of use' is a requirement that we can expect and demand for our technology no matter what the setting. In the literature related to the...

Nurses contribute to alcohol review

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The call comes from mental health nurse and addiction researcher Dr Daryle Deering after making a College of Mental Health Nurses' submission to the...

Nursing reference group for CTA board on hold

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The seven-member Clinical Training Agency Board has the task of driving rationalisation of health workforce training and was to be advised by...

Nursing school will move to hospital

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Kerrie Hayes, the newly appointed director of nursing and midwifery for Capital and Coast District Health Board said the move was very exciting....

More clinical leadership needed, urges Australian

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Denise Brewster-Webb, the Northland District Health Board director of nursing who came to New Zealand nearly four years ago for the role, has...

NZNO research section wants to continue

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

More than 80 people attended the two-day conference in Wellington which saw 33 research presentations, three keynote speeches, a workshop on random...

New nursing head for Te Pou

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

McDonald is to provide clinical nurse leadership for Te Pou, the ministry-funded National Centre for Mental Health Research, Information and...

Concern over new grad mental health programmes

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The tender process for next year's programmes was late and nurse leaders only learned in October that no South Island bid for mental health new...

Primary health group to be cut

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

College of Nurses executive director Professor Jenny Carryer, a long-term council member, said she was "extremely disappointed" that the council had...

DHBs increase new grad programmes

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Many in the sector had worried that the number would decline because the recession had contributed to a drop in nurse turnover, meaning DHBs had less...

Health literacy –

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

receiving a clear message date: November 2009 other sections: intro: Health literacy is an increasingly important issue and one nurses need to be...

Improvements needed for student competence

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

assessment date: November 2009 other sections: Education\Undergraduate; Research & Policy\Workforce intro: Research highlighting the risk of...

Education\Undergraduate

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

There is no reason to change anything for the remaining group of enrolled nurses who will and should continue to contribute to a range of health...

Move over Florence

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The show, centred on an intelligent, feisty and morally unpredictable emergency nurse, has divided nurses in the United States. Nursing Review sought...

Smoking and risk of death

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Clinical Bottom Line: Smoking approximately doubles the risk of early mortality over and above the risks associated with increased body mass index....

Aged-care under-valued by nursing schools

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The former residential care manager with a passion for aged-care argued in her recent presentation to the Australasian nurse educators conference...

Survey tracks changes in aged-care population

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Aged-care nurse practitioner Dr Michal Boyd was lead researcher of a University of Auckland project that took a snapshot census of the dependency...

Sharing the best practice in Scotland

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A result has been linking up passionate nurses from some of Scotland's 130 inhabited islands with metropolitan and other mainland nurses to develop...

Nursing support benefits rest home residents

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

It is also helping build trust between the stressed sector and district health board and improving care to residents in struggling rest homes, says...

Competence requirements under review

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

At the same time, feedback is being collated from a Professional Development and Recognition Programme (PDRP) consultation document looking to...

Nurses find value in simulation

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Four errors in one month by new graduate nurses who had met the intensive care unit's intravenous assessment requirements prompted the rethink. The...

Expert shares US experience on simulation for training

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

She said some Florida and California state nursing boards were allowing simulation for 25 per cent of clinical practice hours and others for 15 per...

Rest home audits tested

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Concerns about rest home care continue to make sporadic headlines in the wake of last year's closure of a rest home where an elderly resident had...

Nurses gain place at the table

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

As Nursing Review went to print, Health Minister Tony Ryall announced that former Treasury official Murray Horn was the establishment chair of the...

New technology tested

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Ten clients with chronic heart or respiratory problems have had desk-top telehealth monitors installed in their Taupo or Turangi homes for the random...

Half of nursing workforce working part time

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The detailed breakdown of Nursing Council data from 2008 is contained in the benchmarking initial report of the Nursing Projections and Planning...

Council defers decision on RN scope

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

As Nursing Review went to print, Nursing Council chief executive Carolyn Reed announced that the council was unable to make a decision after...

Nursing’s new TV icon

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The new black comedy/drama series that divided American nursing this year has hit our screens on Tuesday nights staring Edie Falco, who last played a...

EDs need long-term

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

solutions date: October 2009 other sections: intro: ED staff are looking for long-term solutions to overcrowding and don't expect high compliance in...

There’s an elephant in the room and we need to talk about it

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The elephant metaphor represents an obvious truth that is being ignored or going unaddressed. It's based on the idea that an elephant in a room would...

Doctors and nurses

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The number of doctors in training is set to nearly double. Long-term this could see the ratio of nurses to doctors halved. Concerns over the aging...

The value of dignity

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

But when Jane Lawless went searching for references to dignity for nurses she found "almost nothing". Which raised the question: if nursing is always...

Preventing child abuse

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Clinical Bottom Line: Implementation of the Triple P - Positive Parenting Programme system resulted in fewer child abuse cases, out -of-home...

Nurse first a step forward for women’s health

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Reduced waiting times for women will be one outcome of Christchurch nurse Jill Lamb's recent authorisation as the first nurse colposcopist. The...

Spring into action

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

As spring blossoms around us, many of you are now drawing breath having survived through the busy winter with H1N1 workloads on top of the usual. You...

More noise needed from nurses

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

And they need to make clear that nursing is about saving lives, not about having a monopoly on compassion and caring. "You need to tell your stories...

Lean thinking leads to anorexic health system, US expert warns

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

She said her country had been pioneers in adapting factory models like Toyota's 'lean thinking' for health care and had ended up with an anorexic...

Problem-solving best for ED stress

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

CPIT nursing lecturer and master's candidate Heather Josland looked at emergency nurses anxiety levels and ways of coping with workplace situations....

Rural innovation winners announced

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Six winners were chosen from 22 applications for the latest round of the $300,000 fund. They included a "flying doctor" service by Western Bay of...

“First” first surgical assistants authorised

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The council had set a deadline of June 30 this year for nurses working in the area to seek authorisation to continue. Chief executive Carolyn Reed...

Nurse shares ED research results

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Initial findings of the extensive Christchurch research found a third of ED patients who staff thought should have attended another health service...

Rural nursing qualification in pipeline

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A postgraduate qualification was one of the aims of the project which won a Rural Innovation Fund grant in 2007 and made its final report in July...

Fewer nurses leaving for foreign shores

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The latest Statistics New Zealand migration statistics show there were 1800 fewer permanent departures to Australia in August 2009 than August 2008...

Project to nurse the nurse

Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT

Despite the increasing challenge Australia is facing in recruiting and retaining nurses, little attention is being given to what keeps them happy,...

Jobs hard to come by despite shortage

Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT

Despite a shortage of nurses across the country, reports have emerged that some are still struggling to find employment. Just 222 of the 800 nursing...

Time for health policies

Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT

The federal election is just weeks away and nurses are being urged to push both parties to commit to a workable and sustainable health system that...