Health Navigator App of the Month: My Asthma App
My Asthma App: patient education and action plan app
Surviving a DHB IT meltdown
What do you do when your IT system crashes, leaving two hospitals and a community service without access to electronic health records, emails, the internet, voicemail… FIONA CASSIE talks to Lakes DHB director of nursing and midwifery Gary Lees about leading the way through a DHB IT crisis.
Webscope: Keeping abreast internationally
Keeping abreast of nursing issues and evidence-based practice around the world is the focus of this edition’s website recommendations from Kathy Holloway.
Nurse teaches safe sleep through doll-play video
An innovative video created by a public health nurse introduces the safe sleep message to pre-schoolers through doll-play.
Free e-learning module for health professionals on working with interpreters
Video clips of nurses working with interpreters are part of a new e-learning module aimed at helping clinicians be more confident with including interpreters in patient consultations.
The module has been developed by a team...
Nurse innovators among $20,000 Clinicians’ Challenge finalists
Supporting youth in crisis plus helping immigrant children catch-up with immunisations are two digital innovations, co-lead by nurses, to make this year's Clinicians' Challenge finals.
Public health partnership for first housing WOF and app
Wellington's introducing a voluntary rental housing WOF, as well as a free app to let tenants check the quality of their house for themselves, reports New Zealand Herald. Check out the WOF standards below.
POCT: on-the-spot blood testing
Nurses in Hokianga not only collect blood samples but also carry out ‘on-the-spot’ blood tests on a regular basis. NURSING REVIEW finds out more from one of the nursing pioneers of point-of-care testing.
Case study: touchscreen telehealth for the elderly
Nursing Review reports on an award-winning case study presentation from last year’s Nurse Informatics conference on George, a participant in a Selwyn Foundation telehealth pilot for the elderly with long-term conditions.
Some of my favourite apps
Nurse entrepreneur ANNETTE MILLIGAN shares some smartphone apps that make her life easier – plus one she helped to develop with her local district health board.
