http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/ This feed displays the lastest stories from Nursing Review. Copyright 2006-2010 APN Educational Media Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT Nursing Review Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT 1440 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22974 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22974 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... Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22973 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22973 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... Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22972 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22972 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... Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22971 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22971 Kirsty Murrell-McMillan, the immediate past chair of the New Zealand Rural General Practice Network received the MNZM (Member of the New Zealand... Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22970 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22970 FebFast encourages people to take a break from alcohol during the shortest month of the year. Participants get sponsored by family and friends to... Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Education&idArticle=22870 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Education&idArticle=22870 It began with the question, how best to provide nurses with practical training in laparoscopic camera skills? In 2008 Wakefield nurses had... Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Research+%26+Policy&idArticle=22871 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Research+%26+Policy&idArticle=22871 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... Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22873 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22873 "It's been a pretty hectic month," says Julie Farrelly, lead nurse practitioner at the Brisbane-based SmartClinics, just hours ahead of the... Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=22869 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=22869 The inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, would be amazed at its transformation into the current smartphone technology. Today, the... Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22874 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22874 The internet provides the most bewildering amount of health information at the touch of a finger. It is the most accessible source of health... Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=22877 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=22877 The College of Nurses' vision of "100 Percent Access, Zero Disparities" is the fundamental focus for the college's board. To help achieve that... Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22876 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22876 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... Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22875 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22875 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... Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=22872 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=22872 CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: Taking selenium does not prevent prostate cancer; taking vitamin E increases the risk of prostate cancer. CLINICAL SCENARIO:... Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22868 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22868 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... Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22867 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22867 "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... Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22866 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22866 The introduction of the Medicines Amendment Bill 2011 is prompting a consultation document to be released on extended nurse prescribing in the new... Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22865 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22865 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... Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22864 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22864 Nurse Migration From Africa and around the world was one of the future workforce issues highlighted by South African nurse educator Janetta Roos in... Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22863 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22863 not just health education needed Nurses can get confused between health promotion and just one of its aspects, health education, says an Australian... Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22862 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22862 Victorian nurses' industrial action Industrial action by nurses in Victoria, Australia, over wage claims and preserving nurse-to-patient ratios was... Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22861 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22861 At the end of a tough year that saw International Nurses Day pass uncelebrated, Canterbury nurses finally came together to celebrate nursing. Mary... Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22860 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22860 Some earthquake-related turnover will see Canterbury District Health Board take on a record number of new graduates in 2012, including a number of... Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22859 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22859 Early feedback indicates a similar to slightly better job market for new graduate nurses, with 64 per cent having jobs before sitting their state... Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22858 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22858 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... Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22714 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22714 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... Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22713 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22713 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... Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22655 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22655 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... Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22654 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22654 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... Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22653 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22653 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... Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22635 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22635 The high financial cost of delivering the degree to Nursing Council standards plus low student numbers are major factors behind Te Whare Wänanga o... Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22636 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22636 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... Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22645 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22645 Experienced theatre nurses they might have been - but many were still squeamish at the thought of operating on a live pig. The traditional training... Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22646 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22646 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... Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22647 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22647 Safe nursing practice is reliant on nurses' ability to access evidenced-based procedures that guide their practice. Traditionally, most district... Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=22651 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=22651 New Zealand nursing? intro: American Academy of Nursing "living legend" Professor Donna Diers was guest speaker at a recent College of Nurses and... Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22650 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22650 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... Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22649 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22649 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... Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22648 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22648 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... Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22644 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22644 Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal decisions intro: Nursing Council notice of recent Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal decisions... Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22643 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22643 Michelle Turrall (right) with fellow Te Apa Māreikura Award winner, Paula Boyle, a Wellington social worker. Michelle Turrall of Ngāi Tahu was... Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22642 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22642 Another NP barrier falls Another prescribing barrier for nurse practitioners is due to fall after years of lobbying. From 21 November, nurse... Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22641 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22641 The government is considering rolling out a pharmacist lead model for managing warfarin treatment after a successful trial run by Health Workforce... Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22640 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22640 ***Association chair Terry Buckingham (left) with top award winners (centre from left, with certificates): Glenys Barker, Maria Burns, Jessica Clout... Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22639 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22639 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... Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22638 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22638 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... Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22637 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22637 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... Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22381 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22381 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... Tue, 4 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22380 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22380 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... Tue, 4 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22366 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22366 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... Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22367 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22367 Lynne Lane, the Mental Health Commission chair, recently announced the review to update the 1998 blueprint that has guided mental health resourcing... Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22377 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22377 Gratitude that she was the sponger rather than the spongee is Karen Edgecombe's first memory of nursing simulation. "I remember thinking 'oh my... Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22378 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22378 Nurses were aware that for many, Get Checked was simply a tick-box exercise, says Rosemary Minto. So the primary healthcare nurse practitioner and... Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=22379 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=22379 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... Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=22376 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=22376 CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: The fall assessment tool STRATIFY performs little better than clinical judgement when used in an acute hospital setting.... Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=22375 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=22375 Recruiting people with poor diabetes management into a Christchurch-based trial proved to be challenging for researchers. However, once committed to... Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=22374 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=22374 Knowledge creation in cyber space is fascinating - the online environment allows for knowledge creation on a much wider global scale and much faster... Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22373 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22373 NZ obesity levels up but food intake down The just-released findings from the Adult Nutrition Survey shows obesity levels have jumped but... Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22372 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22372 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... Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22371 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22371 The board is actively recruiting mental health nurses after staff shortages prompted Public Service Association members to hold a stopwork meeting in... Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22370 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22370 Lynne Lane, the Mental Health Commission chair, recently announced the review to update the 1998 blueprint that has guided mental health resourcing... Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22369 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22369 The three successful candidates, Barry Ayling, Catherine Byrne and Jo Ann Walton were announced in late September. Nursing Council chief executive... Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22368 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22368 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... Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22147 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22147 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... Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22146 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22146 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... Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22145 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22145 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... Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22144 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22144 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... Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22086 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=22086 Health Minister Tony Ryall and Education Minister Anne Tolley in early September launched a partnership with the Universities of Otago and Auckland... Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22059 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22059 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... Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22060 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22060 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... Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=22069 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=22069 CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: Giving sweet solutions orally prior to immunisation injections results in fewer children crying and shorter periods of crying... Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22070 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22070 Dispelling myths about the influenza virus and vaccine has helped double nurses' uptake of the flu vaccine at Canterbury District Health Board.... Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22071 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22071 FIONA CASSIE profiles the Christchurch-based nurse who works with burns, pressure ulcers, abscesses, and the super-sensitive skin of 'butterfly'... Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=22078 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=22078 With the release of recent reports like the green paper on vulnerable children, it is becoming more apparent that New Zealand has a major... Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22077 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22077 international perspectives intro: A recent UK Nursing Times editorial argues it is little wonder that patients don't follow treatment regimens when... Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22076 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22076 They wanted to compare the immunisation rate between different types of hospital staff and different levels or categories of profession. Also, who... Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22075 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22075 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.... Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22074 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22074 James Donald of the ESR National Vaccine Store outlined the new process at the recent National Immunisation Conference in Rotorua. He said the old... Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22073 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22073 Professor Mark Kendall has been developing the nanopatch - that uses thousands of small projections to deliver vaccine to immune cells in the skin.... Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22072 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=22072 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... Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22068 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22068 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,... Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22067 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22067 The consensus statement on access to nurse entry to practice (NETP) and new entry to specialist practice (NESP) mental health and addiction... Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22066 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22066 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,... Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22065 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22065 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... Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22064 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22064 Brenda Wraight, director of Health Workforce New Zealand, said the pilot at Counties Manukau District Health Board had been very successful and they... Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22063 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22063 Helen Snell, NPAC chair, said it received 32 submissions on the draft proposal and the revised proposal was known as the Nurse Practitioner Education... Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22062 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22062 Brenda Wraight, director of forum hosts Health Workforce New Zealand (HWNZ), said one of the biggest challenges of the day was reaching consensus on... Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22061 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=22061 Programme Incubator took out the supreme prize in the recent EEO Trust Work and Life Awards for its "proactive, teenage-friendly and long-term... Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21957 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21957 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... Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21956 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21956 Submissions closed in mid-August on a proposal that practicing traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) become a regulated profession under the Health... Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21955 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21955 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... Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21774 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21774 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... Mon, 8 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21773 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21773 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... Mon, 8 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21772 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21772 Next year will be the second year of the nursing funding pool being administered by the Health Workforce New Zealand business unit. Brenda Wraight,... Mon, 8 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21771 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21771 Kathy Holloway, national coordinator for Nurse Education in the Tertiary Sector, told Nursing Review that the sector believed HWNZ's draft Investment... Mon, 8 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21770 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21770 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... Mon, 8 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21843 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21843 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.... Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21847 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21847 Many nursing students' don't know where to safely perform risky gluteal intramuscular (IM) injections, according to a recent New Zealand study. Only... Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21851 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21851 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... Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21852 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21852 until recently less than 10 per cent of practices offered nurse-led clinics. FIONA CASSIE talks to CATHERINE ABEL-PATTINSON about ProCare's project... Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21853 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21853 Kickstarting the framework will be an innovation project to upskill and credential primary health nurses with mental health skills. Fiona Cassie... Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21941 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21941 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... Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21940 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21940 Minister of Health Tony Ryall announced in mid-July that a Medicines Amendment Bill, including supervised prescribing for registered nurses, would be... Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21855 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21855 How useful is the Flinders Programme for practice nurses in New Zealand? How acceptable would the Australian-developed chronic disease care... Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21854 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21854 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... Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=21850 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=21850 CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: One-to-one pelvic floor exercise training did not improve continence at 12 months over routine advice to men with urinary... Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=21849 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=21849 Cultural safety initially arose from considering the healthcare experiences of Maori. Over time the concept has evolved to address needs related to... Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=21848 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=21848 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... Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21846 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21846 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... Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21845 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21845 Waitemata PHO is to recruit and train 20 students to demonstrate the role of the primary care practice assistant (PCPA) for Health Workforce New... Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21844 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21844 Waitemata PHO is to recruit and train 20 students to demonstrate the role of the primary care practice assistant (PCPA) for Health Workforce New... Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21556 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21556 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... Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21555 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21555 "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... Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21554 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21554 Council is now preparing ballot papers for this its second election since Health Minister Tony Ryall introduced limited elected places on council. In... Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21527 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21527 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... Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21528 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21528 Frances Hughes, one of two nurse specialists running the workshops, said the demand highlighted the need for ongoing education to meet communities'... Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Research+%26+Policy&idArticle=21537 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Research+%26+Policy&idArticle=21537 The chance to save more babies prompted midwife Tomasina Stacey to interview Auckland women who have experienced late stillbirths. The 155 women had... Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21540 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21540 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... Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=21546 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=21546 In 2007, nurses identified patient enrolment practices as a significant impediment to freeing up ready access to primary healthcare for all patients.... Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21545 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21545 Lord, a spokesperson for the New Zealand Continence Association, says nurses can do better than just advising women on effective protection and... Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21544 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21544 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... Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21543 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21543 More than 20 midwifery researchers will present their work at the fifth Joan Donley Midwifery Research Collaboration being held in New Plymouth in... Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21542 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21542 The index and report sets out the conditions for mothers and children in 43 developed nations and 121 developing nations. Norway and Australia top... Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21541 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21541 Midwife Gina Chaney "fell" into her masters degree. The senior midwife and delivery suite coordinator at Waikato Hospital says she didn't initially... Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=21539 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=21539 There can be no doubt mothers play an important role raising their children and preparing them for later life. Yet, intimate partner violence... Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=21538 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=21538 CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: The tool with the best evidence is the Confusion Assessment Method, a simple bedside instrument based on the DSM-IIIR criteria... Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21536 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21536 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... Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21535 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21535 The Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal found Te Mahara Ruhe's 2008 convictions for the offences which occurred in the mid-1980s reflected... Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21534 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21534 Rabindranath Joyram has had his registration cancelled after being found guilty by the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal of professional... Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21533 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21533 The New Zealand Medical Journal recently published findings from University of Otago, Wellington, research into the effect of violence on the staff... Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21532 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21532 But the enthusiasm disappointingly did not translate into high numbers of staff signing up to use the new technology for clinical teaching. The expo,... Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21531 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21531 Glenda Alexander, industrial advisor for the New Zealand Nurses Organisation, said a pre-bargaining forum didn't make it clear what money was... Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21530 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21530 Healthline to report to GP The health assessment summary and advice gathered by Healthline nurses can now be transmitted electronically direct to a... Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21529 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21529 On 4 July, the students celebrated the nursing school being back home on the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology's central city campus,... Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21315 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21315 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... Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21314 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21314 Daryle Deering, college president, said the level of assaults at the facility was a 'grave concern' to the college. Geoff Annals, NZNO chief... Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21313 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=21313 The report, released by the New Zealand Continence Association, estimates that once the costs of care, products, drugs, aged care and health... Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21150 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21150 But monitors are definitely not a replacement for a good patient-nurse relationship, are not suitable for all patients and need fast broadband, said... Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21151 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21151 The recommendations for the safe practice of allergy investigation, education and treatment by nurses have been released by the nurses division of... Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21159 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21159 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... Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21160 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21160 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... Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21161 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21161 Jeffrey Gage clearly remembers those Plunket visits. "Even though I was present in the room when the Plunket nurse was visiting, all the questions... Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=21166 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=21166 Nurses are the largest single collective of Māori health professionals delivering healthcare in New Zealand. They are considered to be a vital... Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21165 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21165 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... Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21164 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21164 Some surprising answers were given in a recent public lecture by Auckland's Professor Innes Asher to mark the 20th anniversary of the international... Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21163 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21163 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... Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21162 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=21162 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... Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=21158 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=21158 CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: Influenza vaccination reduces repeat major adverse cardiovascular events by about 30 per cent in patients with acute coronary... Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=21157 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=21157 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... Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21156 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21156 "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... Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21155 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21155 Hagley Hostel, built in the 1930s, damaged but still standing after Christchurch's quakes, was already earmarked for demolition to make way for a... Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21154 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21154 Chart to help reduce medication errors A national medication chart and other work to reduce medication errors were highlighted in a Quality... Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21153 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21153 The positive report, just made public, has lead to funding to assist the Safe Staffing Health Workplaces Unit continue its work helping district... Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21152 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=21152 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,... Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20997 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20997 Professor Jenny Carryer, executive director of the College of Nurses said the Minister of Health had done well to secure further investment in... Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20996 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20996 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... Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20995 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20995 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... Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20994 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20994 Holloway, of nurse educator group NETS, said it was a conservative, "steady as you go" Budget that delivered new funding for education and health... Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20993 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20993 The Budget provides $40m additional Mental Health blueprint funding over the next four years but at the same time about $13m of national mental... Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20873 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20873 The initial work/life balance and health findings from the Nurses and Midwives e-cohort Study (NMeS) following 6308 Australian and 1325 New Zealand... Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20874 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20874 New Zealand Nurses Organisation members voted by a narrow margin to return to joint bargaining while the other nurses' union, the Public Service... Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=20886 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=20886 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... Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Education&idArticle=20882 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Education&idArticle=20882 It is now nearly 40 years since undergraduate nursing programmes moved into the tertiary education sector in New Zealand. During this period of time... Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=20890 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=20890 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... Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=20897 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=20897 moving specialist leg ulcer care to a community clinic intro: Natalie Scott, Emma Hickson and Ann Boland report on a community health innovation to... Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=20896 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=20896 Provocative speakers and challenging ideas taking leaders out of their comfort zones are all part of Ngä Manukura's first advanced leadership... Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=20895 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=20895 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... Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=20894 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=20894 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... Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=20893 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=20893 Christchurch nurse and service improvement director BRIAN DOLAN says the best nursing teams are those that recognise and work with all personality... Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=20892 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=20892 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... Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=20891 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=20891 International Nurses Day 2011 intro: Every May 12 the nursing community commemorates the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth. And each year... Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=20889 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=20889 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... Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=20888 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=20888 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.... Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=20887 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=20887 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... Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=20885 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=20885 CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: HPV vaccination prevents HPV infections in sexually active young men. Most will experience an adverse event but these are... Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Education&idArticle=20884 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Education&idArticle=20884 The momentum toward online teaching and learning becoming a de rigueur pedagogy has increased rapidly in the past 10 years. Teachers who have... Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Education&idArticle=20883 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Education&idArticle=20883 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... Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20881 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20881 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... Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20880 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20880 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... Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20879 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20879 Professor Matthew Parsons has been appointed to take up the joint chair established by The University of Auckland and Waikato District Health Board.... Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20878 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20878 Post-registration education was the focus of the over-subscribed forum hosted in April by the New Zealand Nurses Organisation. Susanne Trim, NZNO... Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20877 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20877 Mandatory reporting: Green Paper Mandatory reporting of child abuse is one option to be explored in a planned Green Paper by Minister of Social... Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20876 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20876 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.... Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20875 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20875 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.... Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20655 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20655 The demonstration trial - involving 12 diabetes nurse specialists working in four district health boards - began on April 11 after being formally... Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20654 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20654 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... Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20653 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20653 Robert Beaglehole, a University of Auckland emeritus professor, the lead author of the article led a team of nearly 100 international health experts... Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20517 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20517 Mary Gordon, executive director of nursing for Canterbury District Health Board, said it hit home about two weeks after the quake when she found... Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20518 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20518 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... Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20519 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20519 'Waterfall' through ward http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20522 Quake puts older people's health into... Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=20528 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=20528 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.... Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=20532 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=20532 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... Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=20531 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=20531 The 35 Kidz First public health nurses from Counties Manukau District Health Board hope to take the respiratory hygiene education drive to 200... Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=20530 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=20530 Like many, Julianne Munro was having lunch when the quake hit. But the Princess Margaret Hospital infection control nurse specialist soon hit the... Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=20529 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=20529 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... Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20527 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20527 Survey finds young nurses emotionally challenged The emotional challenge of nursing was more than anticipated by more than 40 per cent of young... Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20526 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20526 Heather Casey, the college's certification director, said it had an initial productive meeting with Health Workforce New Zealand (HWNZ) in February... Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20525 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20525 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... Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20524 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20524 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... Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20523 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20523 As the first earthquake shock died down the associate clinical nurse manager of Christchurch Hospital's ED reached for the major incident plan... Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20522 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20522 Pushing through the fire doors and the waterfall cascading between them, she envisaged staff lying injured on the ward floor, so her heart lifted... Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20521 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20521 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... Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20520 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20520 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... Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20293 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20293 Emergency Department clinical nurse manager Anne Esson says emergency departments from district health boards around the country had provided... Wed, 9 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20292 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20292 Oceania group announced this week that two of its Christchurch rest homes would be closed affecting more than 150 staff. New Zealand Nursing... Wed, 9 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20291 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20291 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,... Wed, 9 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20290 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20290 Applications are open again for the annual Hauora Maori Scholarships with up to 160 scholarships of $1700 each available for successful nursing... Wed, 9 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20289 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20289 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... Wed, 9 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20146 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20146 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... Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20147 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20147 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... Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=20153 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=20153 CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: Ankle exercises starting during the first week after mild to moderate ankle sprain will improve ankle function earlier and... Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=20154 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=20154 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... Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=20155 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=20155 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... Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=20158 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=20158 Vibe delivers primary healthcare services to young people in the Hutt Valley from community clinics to secondary schools. Otherwise know as the Hutt... Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=20157 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=20157 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... Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=20156 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=20156 They work with their region's older adult mental health teams assessing, diagnosing, and prescribing for the over-65s, plus liaising and working... Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20152 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20152 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... Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20151 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20151 More than 85 leading nursing educators, employers and leaders gathered at the NZNO-initiated forum on February 11 to discuss undergraduate education... Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20150 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20150 "Those early days were quite eventful with cows from the nearby paddocks being regular visitors who would come right up to our classroom windows... Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20149 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20149 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... Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20148 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=20148 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... Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20026 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20026 The call went out last night in the aftermath of the 6.3 earthquake that has caused widespread casualties and deaths. Canterbury District Health... Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20025 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20025 The DHB reported in a press release that Christchurch Hospital Emergency Department provided care for 220 major trauma patients over night. It... Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20024 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=20024 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... Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=19918 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=19918 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... Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=19917 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=19917 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... Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=19916 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=19916 The programme is one of several clinical leadership training programmes being offered over the next few years by the Ngā Manukura ō Āpōpō, the... Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=19915 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=19915 The practice guides have been developed for health practitioners using talking therapies with: Pacific people; older adults; refugees, asylum seekers... Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19879 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19879 Schools offering or contemplating offering the diploma say the biggest factor limiting class size, or new programmes starting up, is lack of clinical... Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19880 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19880 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... Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19881 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19881 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... Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=19888 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=19888 Have you wondered what the next year and decade hold for nursing? Consider the International Data Corporation's (IDC is a well respected global... Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=19890 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=19890 Fiona Cassie talks to the Immunisation Advisory Centre's national programme manager about educating vaccinators in the days of constantly updated... Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=19894 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=19894 the right care, right time and right location… other sections: intro: Our Voice - tō tātou reo… Leigh Manson outlines the philosophy behind... Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=19893 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=19893 The New Zealand Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management 2010 was released just before Christmas by the Stroke Foundation of New Zealand. Mark... Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=19892 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=19892 The risk of malnutrition has long been documented in acute care and, more recently, across rehabilitation settings. People are commonly admitted to... Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=19891 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=19891 Late last year I arrived at the Whitireia Community Polytechnic campus both excited and nervous. I was enrolling for the October intake of the... Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=19889 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=19889 CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: There is no benefit in routine use of graduated compression stockings of any length after stroke. Wearing below-knee stockings... Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19887 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19887 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... Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19886 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19886 Maree Jury, the unit's programme consultant, said the rollout followed the chief executives of the 20 boards backing the unit to continue until... Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19885 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19885 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... Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19884 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19884 The Ministry of Health released the latest national figures on suicide just before Christmas, which showed that in 2008 there were on average nearly... Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19883 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19883 Helen Manoharan, head of Waiariki's school of nursing said Waiariki had received about 1000 applications for its Tauranga and Rotorua BN programmes -... Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19882 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19882 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... Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19721 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19721 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... Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19722 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19722 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... Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19723 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19723 The college (or Te Ao Maramatanga) is seeking $300,000 plus from the government to implement a draft accreditation, certification and credentialing... Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=19732 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=19732 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... Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=19733 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=19733 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".... Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=19737 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=19737 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... Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=19736 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=19736 The Cancer Society and Health Sponsorship Council, who jointly manage the SunSmart programme and the Melanoma Foundation of New Zealand, recently put... Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=19735 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=19735 Cheryl Wilson from the University of Otago's Department of Clothing and Textile Sciences has some advice on SunSmart clothes: What is SunSmart... Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=19734 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=19734 Consumer NZ found that only seven of the 69 operators surveyed met all requirements of the current voluntary standard for sunbed operators. Judith... Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19731 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19731 Robyn Tepania, Ngāpuhi/Te Rarawa (pictured left), and Mercy Zvavmwe began their studies on NorthTec's Foundation Studies programme at the Kaitaia... Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19730 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19730 Since 2002 Palmerston North's UCOL has been providing a nursing degree programme in Gisborne along with its other outreach programmes in the... Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19729 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19729 The New Zealand Society for the Study of Diabetes (NZSSD) and Diabetes New Zealand said its surveys showed district health boards across the country... Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19728 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19728 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... Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19727 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19727 Taihape closure marches on Residents of a Taihape aged-care facility and inpatient unit were being shifted out during December as the shutdown... Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19726 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19726 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... Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19725 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19725 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... Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19724 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19724 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... Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=19608 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=19608 January 2010 Enrolled Nurse title revived After a decade of debate and division a stepped-up enrolled nurse was officially back. The Nursing Council... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=19607 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=19607 CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: The graphical presentation of falls risk - clearly identifying not only at-risk patients, but what actions are required for... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=19606 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=19606 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... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19605 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19605 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... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19604 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19604 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... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19603 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19603 Helen Snell, a prescribing nurse practitioner in diabetes, said expressions of interest had come in from across the country to be a demonstration... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19602 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19602 More than 550 employers have ratified the multi-employer collective agreement (MECA) negotiated between the New Zealand Nurses Organisation and the... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19601 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19601 Health Minister Tony Ryall announced recently that public health physician Virginia Hope was to chair both Hutt Valley and Capital & Coast District... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19600 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19600 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... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19599 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19599 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... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19598 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19598 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... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19597 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19597 Queensland to Whanganui DoN After more than two decades nursing in Queensland, Kiwi nurse Sandy Blake is the new director of nursing at Whanganui... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19596 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19596 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... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19595 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19595 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.... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19594 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19594 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... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19593 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19593 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).... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19592 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=19592 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... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=19609 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=19609 Risk aversive? Or right move? date: 16 December, 2010 intro: The Kahui twins inquest has re-opened the mandatory reporting debate. JENNY CARRYER... Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=19130 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=19130 Lutua spoke to Nursing Review after addressing the 300 delegates from across the Pacific attending 15th South Pacific Nurses Forum in Auckland this... Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=19129 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=19129 More than 300 nurses from across the Pacific attended the four-day forum hosted by the New Zealand Nursing Organisation. Rosemary Bryant, the... Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=19128 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=19128 Australia began its free human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme of 12-26 year old females in 2007 and New Zealand followed in 2009 by... Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=19127 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=19127 A smokefree Aotearoa by 2025 was one of the recommendations of the report released earlier this month following the committee's lengthy inquiry into... Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=18933 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=18933 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... Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=18932 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=18932 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.... Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=18931 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=18931 CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: The antioxidants vitamin E and vitamin C when used for primary prevention of heart disease do not reduce cardiovascular events... Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=18930 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=18930 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... Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=18929 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=18929 A more active role for nursing, decision support software and discharge packs for patients are some stroke initiatives under way by The Health... Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=18928 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=18928 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... Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Research+%26+Policy&idArticle=18927 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Research+%26+Policy&idArticle=18927 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,... Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Education&idArticle=18926 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Education&idArticle=18926 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... Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Education&idArticle=18925 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Education&idArticle=18925 The Ministry of Health-funded project is being developed as a partnership between Canterbury District Health Board and the Nurse Maude-based New... Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Education&idArticle=18924 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Education&idArticle=18924 The push for the programme is coming from the Nurse Practitioner Advisory Committee (NPAC-NZ), which is keen to see a "robust, structured and... Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18923 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18923 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... Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18922 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18922 First surgical assistant course under way Training is well under way of 13 experienced theatre nurses in the new first surgical assistant (FSA)... Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18921 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18921 While students agreed science was the toughest and most time-consuming of their second year subjects they all acknowledged it as a necessary and... Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18920 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18920 Nurse practitioners were delighted at the recent news that the Ministry of Social Development has approved NPs to be able to complete medical... Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18919 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18919 The Nursing Council recently released a research report evaluating how good the Continuing Competence Framework (CCF), introduced in 2004, is at... Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18918 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18918 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... Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18812 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18812 Gay Hawksworth, secretary of the Queensland Nurses' Union, is calling for an urgent injection of transitional funding into the health and aged care... Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18811 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18811 The report from the project, a collaboration between district health board directors of nursing, nurse educators and the Nursing Council, has just... Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18810 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18810 The Nursing Council released the draft guidelines for nurses and employers following the new enrolled nurse scope being gazetted in May and is... Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18809 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18809 Previous winners of grants include a project to trial a Maori nursing service in North Taranaki, the Rural Nursing Workforce Strategy project and... Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=18685 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=18685 comes Down Under date: October 2010 other sections: Education\Undergraduate, Specialties\Clinical governance/Management intro:Oregon has radically... Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=18690 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=18690 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... Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=18689 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=18689 Quality not quantity… In common with other nurses, I experience daily issues around medication management. The topic of medication management is... Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=18688 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=18688 A decade ago the Primary Health Strategy signalled the intention to devolve care, including diabetes, to the primary health sector. The aim was to... Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=18687 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=18687 Worldwide, the prevalence of diabetes is increasing and the economic, social and personal toll of the condition cannot be underestimated. New Zealand... Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=18686 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=18686 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... Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=18684 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=18684 CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: Oxygen provides no additional benefit over room air in relief of dyspnoea - either in terms of breathlessness or in terms of... Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=18683 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=18683 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... Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Education&idArticle=18682 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Education&idArticle=18682 Fiona Cassie finds out more about the new clinical education model from the three partners involved. In October last year, Auckland District Health... Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=18681 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=18681 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... Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18680 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18680 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... Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18679 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18679 But the perioperative nursing workforce projection modeling report says at current entry rates into the specialty area the workforce will expand only... Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18678 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18678 The neonatal nursing workforce report found the generally younger and more mobile neonatal nursing workforce was leaving the field at a higher rate... Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18677 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18677 The neonatal nursing workforce report found the generally younger and more mobile neonatal nursing workforce was leaving the field at a higher rate... Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18676 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18676 The demand for nurses working in intensive care, coronary care and high dependency units will begin to outstrip supply by 2014 and continue to... Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18675 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18675 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... Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18674 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18674 Chris McKenna, the DHB's director of nursing (hospital), confirmed the board had released a discussion document regarding a "proposed review and... Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18673 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18673 The Nursing Council is consulting on the guidelines shortly before releasing research it commissioned into measuring continuing competence. The... Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18672 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18672 The guideline report was developed to clarify the role of the non-regulated HCA workforce and its relationship with professional nursing services in... Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18671 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18671 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... Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18670 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18670 The three workforce projection reports on critical care, neonatal and perioperative nursing are to be the springboard for a national consensus... Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18413 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18413 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... Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18691 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18691 A district court ruling exposed the loophole after an overseas registered nurse appealed a Nursing Council decision to turn down their registration.... Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18416 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18416 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... Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18415 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18415 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... Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18414 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18414 About 300 delegates were to attend the two-day NZNO conference in Wellington at which economist Gareth Morgan, statistician Len Cook and former... Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18284 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18284 Cathy Andrew, head of Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology's nursing school, said it had close to two hundred students working in medical... Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18283 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18283 The offers were being co-ordinated centrally to meet both immediate need and possibly longer-term respite for fatigued and stressed primary health... Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18282 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18282 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... Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18177 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18177 The Minister of Health Tony Ryall said the results showed "tremendous improvement" in boards meeting the government's key priorities over the past 12... Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18176 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=18176 Three district health board directors of nursing, and some private hospital nurse leaders, attended the Australasia meeting of the Global Centre that... Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18296 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18296 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... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18173 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18173 But the Minister is cautious in raising expectations of what the new Medicines Bill will offer nursing, saying the government is taking a "stepwise"... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18172 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18172 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... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=18171 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=18171 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... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=18170 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=18170 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... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=18169 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=18169 CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: Collagen sponges containing gentamycin (known as gentamicin in the US) did not decrease sternal wound infections in high risk... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18168 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18168 The district health board voted last Friday to go ahead with bailing out the financially troubled Otaihape Health Trust but had strings attached to... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18167 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18167 Indian-trained nurses Ashanth An Jose and Jerly Eldo (pictured left and right respectively) from Kerala in Southern India, both knew pursuing their... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18166 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18166 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... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18165 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18165 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... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18164 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18164 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... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18163 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18163 Nurses have been based at the Christchurch Central and Counties Manukau police station watch-houses since mid-2008 to assess and assist detainees... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18162 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18162 The Christchurch-based mental health nurse and academic said the college was currently developing an accreditation and credentialing framework,... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18161 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18161 The survey looked at participants in the Green Prescription (GRx) Active Families programme for children and young people that grew out of the... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18160 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18160 The Practice Nurse Cost Benefit Analysis report to the Ministry of Health found practice nurses were already providing a broad set of primary care... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18159 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18159 Merryn Gott addressed last month's NZNO Gerontology Section conference on the topic of 'The Disadvantaged Dying? Palliative Care for Older People'.... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18158 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18158 successful pilot Victoria University wants to change this by offering a national survey of nurse-sensitive care indicators. FIONA CASSIE finds out... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18157 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18157 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... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18156 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=18156 We have reached a point in health service delivery where our ability to deliver technological advances in care has never been higher, but the... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=17966 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=17966 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... Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=17965 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=17965 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... Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=17964 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=17964 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... Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=17963 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=17963 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... Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=17447 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=17447 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... Thu, 5 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=17446 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=17446 A recent National Health Committee report into improving prisoner health recommends shifting prison health services from the corrections sector to... Thu, 5 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=17445 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=17445 Prescribing by diabetes nurse specialists (DNS) was first floated last year but legislative barriers to nurse prescribing caused delays. Now a joint... Thu, 5 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17427 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17427 "Frightening" is how rural nurse specialist Kirsty Murrell-McMillan describes the findings of projected shortfalls. Both Murrell-McMillan and Rural... Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17428 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17428 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... Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=17436 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=17436 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.... Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17438 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17438 'Better, sooner, more convenient' (BSMC) was the title of community nursing leader Sheree East's presentation to the recent primary health care... Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=17437 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=17437 CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: All study drugs increased quit rates more than placebo, but nicotine patch plus nicotine lozenge had the greatest increase in... Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=17444 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=17444 Momentum is building for Ngā Manukura ō Āpōpō, the national Mäori nursing and midwifery workforce development programme, officially launched... Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17442 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17442 The CTA, formerly a Christchurch-based Ministry of Health agency, recently became the Investment Relationships and Purchasing arm of Health Workforce... Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17441 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17441 Inpatients at Waitakere Hospital's Waiatarau Unit are among some of the first mental health service users in New Zealand to try sensory modulation -... Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17440 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17440 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... Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17439 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17439 "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... Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17435 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17435 The new 2000-strong New Zealand Nurses Organisation college was officially launched last month following the merger of the College of Practice Nurses... Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17434 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17434 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... Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17433 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17433 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... Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17432 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17432 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... Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17431 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17431 Addressing the primary health care conference, Winton hammered home several key messages, the first being the health funding crisis hadn't even... Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17430 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17430 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... Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17429 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17429 The rural nurse specialist, who heads the collaborative Rural General Practice Network was speaking during a panel discussion on interdisciplinary... Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=17472 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=17472 Late last year we were joint recipients of travel awards from Fulbright New Zealand and The College of Nurses Aotearoa New Zealand. The awards... Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17471 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17471 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... Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17470 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17470 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... Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=17469 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=17469 CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: Smoking cessation with varenicline increases the initial effectiveness of quitting compared to the application of nicotine... Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17468 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17468 California State University-Chico nursing professor Carol Huston was the keynote speaker at last month's inaugural NZ College of Primary Health Care... Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17467 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17467 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... Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17466 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17466 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... Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17465 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17465 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... Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17464 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17464 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... Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17463 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17463 Robyn Hewlett, chair of the NZNO's Enrolled Section said midway through the three-day Dunedin conference the mood was "pretty positive" about... Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17462 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17462 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... Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17461 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17461 Waikato Hospitals Sue King, a nurse for 33 years, recently gained nurse practitioner status in pain management the first with prescribing rights. She... Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17727 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17727 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... Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=17730 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=17730 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... Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17729 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17729 Fiona Cassie talks to Wendy McNaughton, the respiratory nurse behind GASP Wendy McNaughton has been there, done that. Asthmatic from age five, she... Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=17728 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=17728 Specialties\Paediatric/Well child/Youth; Specialties\Primary health/Rural health intro: This month's clinically appraised topic looks at a major... Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17726 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17726 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... Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17725 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17725 Kim Hunter, registered nurse and coordinator of Waikato Hospital's Opportunistic Immunisation Service (HOIS), said the vaccination was a milestone,... Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=17724 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=17724 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... Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17723 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17723 Isabella Wright has been appointed to the new role of clinical nurse specialist and has commenced her master of health practice studies at the... Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17722 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17722 Nurses and doctors had a very slightly higher incidence of swine flu than other occupations but the difference was not statistically significant, the... Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17721 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17721 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... Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17720 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17720 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... Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17719 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17719 The online GASP asthma management tool, developed by McNaughton and IT specialist Murray Speight for Harbour Health, is one of ten finalists in the... Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17718 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17718 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... Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17717 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17717 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.... Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17210 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17210 Nursing Review pays tribute to the mother of modern nursing, to mark the International Year of the Nurse and International Nurses' Day - Florence's... Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=17209 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=17209 The effect on incidence of influenza remains unknown. CLINICAL SCENARIO: Older people have lower rates of protective seroconversion with vaccination.... Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Research+%26+Policy&idArticle=17208 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Research+%26+Policy&idArticle=17208 Registered nurses in aged-care struggle to deliver quality care as patients' needs get more complex, GP services decrease and education options... Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17207 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17207 Smokefree Nurses Aotearoa/New Zealand (SNANZ) and the New Zealand Nurses Organisation welcomed the consecutive tobacco tax hikes hitting smokers over... Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17206 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17206 Nursing Review reported earlier this year that the Minister of Health had expanded the voluntary bonding scheme despite having no idea where last... Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17205 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17205 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... Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17204 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17204 Sue Fitzmaurice has been appointed director of the Waiariki Institute of Technology's school of nursing and allied health and Sally Dobbs has been... Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17203 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17203 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.... Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17202 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17202 Cost-cutting reviews are under way in many district health boards, with few redundancies but attrition and uncertainty starting to make an impact.... Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=17549 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=17549 High levels of nurse knowledge doesn't ensure low levels of pressure ulcers, research at a New Zealand intensive care unit found. Researcher Carol... Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=17489 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=17489 Despite a multitude of workforce development documents and initiatives over the past decade, Māori nursing and midwifery workforce statistics have... Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17488 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17488 The physical pain can be indescribable. The emotional pain even worse. Malignant wounds are a devastating complication of cancer that usually... Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17487 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17487 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,"... Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=17486 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=17486 CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE: Surgical site preparation with 2% chlorhexidine in 70% alcohol reduces surgical site infection by 40% compared to povidine... Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Research+%26+Policy&idArticle=17485 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Research+%26+Policy&idArticle=17485 The average winter admissions for viral pneumonitis in Australasian ICUs is 57 patients, but pandemic swine flu saw 15 times this number admitted... Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Education&idArticle=17484 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Education&idArticle=17484 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... Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=17483 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=17483 There is increasing awareness of the individual responsibility we all hold for the sustainability of our environment. Green Computing is the study... Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17482 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17482 The call was made in the Nursing Council's draft education standards which went out for consultation last month after considerable input from sector... Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17481 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17481 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... Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17480 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17480 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... Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17479 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17479 Alan Spinks, national programme manager for quality improvement and innovation, said the website will have some of the social networking features of... Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17478 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17478 But nurses' union NZNO says the New Zealand Aged-Care Association (NZACA) proposal leaves immigrant nurses vulnerable and is no answer to staffing... Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17477 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17477 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... Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17476 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17476 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... Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17475 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17475 Kai Tiaki last month reported Ian Powell of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists as saying that seven general surgeons at Counties Manukau... Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17474 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17474 Applications had closed in late February but in response to Nursing Review questions, the ministry said the recruitment process was on hold until the... Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17473 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17473 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'... Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=17504 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=17504 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... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17503 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17503 One suspects that "Nurse Maude" might approve of Deb Gillon. Back in 1896 feisty nursing pioneer Sibylla Maude left her job as Christchurch Hospital... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17502 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17502 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... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=17501 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=17501 Clinical Bottom Line: Extending the duration of nicotine patches to 24 weeks increases the likelihood of smoking cessation and slows relapse in... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17500 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17500 A consistent message for managing overweight and obese New Zealanders is the aim of new guidelines for health professionals. Released on the eve of... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17499 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17499 Huarahi Whakatu is a professional development recognition programme (PDRP) developed by national Māori workforce development centre Te Rau Matatini... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17498 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17498 The research report is the first major evaluation of the government-subsidised Nurse Entry to Practice (NETP) programmes that began in district... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17497 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17497 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.... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17496 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17496 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... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17495 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17495 Hastings coroner Chris Devonport in January endorsed Wellington coroner Garry Evans's December call after both expressed concern about staffing... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17494 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17494 Jones unexpectedly resigned before Christmas and media reports in late February linked his resignation to an investigation into his personal... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17493 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17493 Nursing schools have reported an upswing in interest for several years, particularly from school leavers and new migrants. Last year's recession... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17492 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17492 But no other nurse prescribing issues are specifically addressed in the consultation document from the Ministry of Health. Talk of major prescribing... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17491 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17491 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... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17490 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17490 The workshop, which attracted more than 50 nursing leaders, sought common ground on the future of the registered nurse scope and other major... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=17562 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=17562 Waitangi Day Celebrations - early celebrations The signing of the treaty was not commemorated until 1934. Kaumatua of the area indicate that most... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17561 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17561 But nursing organisations say greater energy and resources should be put into expanding nursing roles first. Fiona Cassie reports on the background.... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17560 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17560 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... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=17559 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=17559 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... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17558 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17558 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... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17557 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17557 Health Minister Tony Ryall said Docherty has 25 years primary health care nursing experience at clinical, educational, policy, and research levels.... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17556 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17556 The New Zealand Nurses Organisation survey gained responses from nearly 300 of the union's 1000 caregiver members invited to take part in the... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17555 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17555 Helen Snell, an NP and chair of NPAC, said the current clinical training pathway for nurse practitioners was relatively ad hoc and reliant on... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17554 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17554 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... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17553 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17553 The latest change is at Southern Institute of Technology, where head Jill Parsons resigned late last year. Third-year programme manager Sally Dobbs,... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17552 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17552 The amendment followed the recent review of the operations of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance (HPCA) Act 2003 by the Director-General... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17551 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17551 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,... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17550 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17550 The proposal is being mooted as an alternative in the current tight funding climate to potentially protracted negotiations between district health... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=17579 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=17579 His book published this year is an excellent analysis of the very problems nurses often write about including the wastefulness in the system,... Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17578 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17578 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... Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=17577 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=17577 Clinical Bottom Line: Using silver-donating dressings for treatment of venous leg ulcers in addition to compression does not increase ulcer healing... Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17576 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17576 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).... Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17575 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17575 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... Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=17573 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=17573 As the holidays approach, Symantec (providers of Norton antivirus protection) warn computer users to be on the lookout for malware attacks disguised... Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17572 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17572 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... Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17571 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17571 The late review and re-contracting of providers and programmes for 2010 prompted some backlash from the sector, particularly in the South Island... Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Research+%26+Policy&idArticle=17574 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Research+%26+Policy&idArticle=17574 Frances Hughes, adjunct AUT professor, and Nicola North, an associate professor at the University of Auckland, were two of the authors of the 2006... Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17570 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17570 The report on successful strategies by Maori providers also raised concern about the lack of clinical data about the effectiveness of cardiovascular... Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17569 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17569 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... Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17568 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17568 The Clinical Training Agency board recently considered a proposed pilot of prescribing by diabetes nurse specialists put forward by the... Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17567 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17567 Physician assistants will be the first of the "innovative" health role trials being supported by the new Clinical Training Agency board as it... Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17566 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17566 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... Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17565 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17565 The report by the Health Services Assessment Collaboration for the Ministry of Health looked at the evidence around the use of quit smoking... Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17564 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17564 Sector Capability and Innovation Directorate acting deputy director-general Ashley Bloomfield attended the inaugural meeting of Nurses for a... Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17563 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17563 The decision has been warmly welcomed as a Christmas present by existing enrolled nurses and the New Zealand Nurses Organisation, viewed as a... Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=17746 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=17746 The 140 delegates in attendance enjoyed the inspiring presentations, informative sponsors, lively debate and professional networking opportunities at... Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=17745 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=17745 "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... Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17744 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17744 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... Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=17743 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=17743 Clinical Bottom Line: Using surgical masks when undertaking routine care for patients in low aerosol ward and emergency department environments does... Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17742 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17742 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... Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17741 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17741 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... Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=17740 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=17740 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... Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17739 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17739 The call comes from mental health nurse and addiction researcher Dr Daryle Deering after making a College of Mental Health Nurses' submission to the... Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17738 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17738 The seven-member Clinical Training Agency Board has the task of driving rationalisation of health workforce training and was to be advised by... Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17737 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17737 Kerrie Hayes, the newly appointed director of nursing and midwifery for Capital and Coast District Health Board said the move was very exciting.... Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17736 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17736 Denise Brewster-Webb, the Northland District Health Board director of nursing who came to New Zealand nearly four years ago for the role, has... Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17735 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17735 More than 80 people attended the two-day conference in Wellington which saw 33 research presentations, three keynote speeches, a workshop on random... Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17734 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17734 McDonald is to provide clinical nurse leadership for Te Pou, the ministry-funded National Centre for Mental Health Research, Information and... Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17733 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17733 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... Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17732 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17732 College of Nurses executive director Professor Jenny Carryer, a long-term council member, said she was "extremely disappointed" that the council had... Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17731 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17731 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... Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=17754 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=17754 receiving a clear message date: November 2009 other sections: intro: Health literacy is an increasingly important issue and one nurses need to be... Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17751 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17751 assessment date: November 2009 other sections: Education\Undergraduate; Research & Policy\Workforce intro: Research highlighting the risk of... Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=17764 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=17764 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... Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=17763 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=17763 The show, centred on an intelligent, feisty and morally unpredictable emergency nurse, has divided nurses in the United States. Nursing Review sought... Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=17762 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=17762 Clinical Bottom Line: Smoking approximately doubles the risk of early mortality over and above the risks associated with increased body mass index.... Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17761 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17761 The former residential care manager with a passion for aged-care argued in her recent presentation to the Australasian nurse educators conference... Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17760 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17760 Aged-care nurse practitioner Dr Michal Boyd was lead researcher of a University of Auckland project that took a snapshot census of the dependency... Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17759 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17759 A result has been linking up passionate nurses from some of Scotland's 130 inhabited islands with metropolitan and other mainland nurses to develop... Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17758 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17758 It is also helping build trust between the stressed sector and district health board and improving care to residents in struggling rest homes, says... Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Education&idArticle=17757 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Education&idArticle=17757 At the same time, feedback is being collated from a Professional Development and Recognition Programme (PDRP) consultation document looking to... Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Education&idArticle=17756 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Education&idArticle=17756 Four errors in one month by new graduate nurses who had met the intensive care unit's intravenous assessment requirements prompted the rethink. The... Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Education&idArticle=17755 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Education&idArticle=17755 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... Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17753 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17753 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... Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17752 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17752 As Nursing Review went to print, Health Minister Tony Ryall announced that former Treasury official Murray Horn was the establishment chair of the... Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17750 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17750 Ten clients with chronic heart or respiratory problems have had desk-top telehealth monitors installed in their Taupo or Turangi homes for the random... Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17749 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17749 The detailed breakdown of Nursing Council data from 2008 is contained in the benchmarking initial report of the Nursing Projections and Planning... Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17748 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17748 As Nursing Review went to print, Nursing Council chief executive Carolyn Reed announced that the council was unable to make a decision after... Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17747 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17747 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... Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17770 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17770 solutions date: October 2009 other sections: intro: ED staff are looking for long-term solutions to overcrowding and don't expect high compliance in... Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=17779 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=17779 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... Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17778 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17778 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... Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17777 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=17777 But when Jane Lawless went searching for references to dignity for nurses she found "almost nothing". Which raised the question: if nursing is always... Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=17776 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Clinical&idArticle=17776 Clinical Bottom Line: Implementation of the Triple P - Positive Parenting Programme system resulted in fewer child abuse cases, out -of-home... Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17775 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17775 Reduced waiting times for women will be one outcome of Christchurch nurse Jill Lamb's recent authorisation as the first nurse colposcopist. The... Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=17774 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Webscope&idArticle=17774 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... Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17773 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17773 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... Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17772 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17772 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... Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17771 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17771 CPIT nursing lecturer and master's candidate Heather Josland looked at emergency nurses anxiety levels and ways of coping with workplace situations.... Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17769 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17769 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... Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17768 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Specialties&idArticle=17768 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... Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Research+%26+Policy&idArticle=17767 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=Research+%26+Policy&idArticle=17767 Initial findings of the extensive Christchurch research found a third of ED patients who staff thought should have attended another health service... Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17766 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17766 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... Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17765 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=17765 The latest Statistics New Zealand migration statistics show there were 1800 fewer permanent departures to Australia in August 2009 than August 2008... Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=17450 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=17450 Despite the increasing challenge Australia is facing in recruiting and retaining nurses, little attention is being given to what keeps them happy,... Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=17449 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=17449 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... Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=17448 http://www.nursingreview.co.nz/pages/section/article.php?s=News+Feed&idArticle=17448 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... Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT