Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand articles from April 2003

Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand archives from April 2003

Confronting prejudice and AIDS stigma.(editorial)
April 1, 2003... I HAVE been nursing people with HIV/AIDS for nearly a decade, initially in the United Kingdom and since 1996, in New Zealand. In the early 1990s, I noticed there always seemed to be a lack of family members visiting clients with HIV/AIDS. Some...

Providing a 'fast track' for nurse practitioners.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2003... THE MARCH issue of Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand certainly provides food for thought about where we are going with the development of the nurse practitioner (NP) role in primary health care. Marg Eckhoff in "Relishing the challenges of...

'Drawing a line in the sand' over nurse practitioners.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2003... NURSES ARE always good at "bashing" each other and now nurse academics are the recipients. Nursing Council has "drawn a line in the sand" over what standard nurse practitioners (NPs) should meet and the Council should stick to it. If NPs...

Education trust criticises union campaign.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2003... HEALTH ED Trust, incorporating Aged Care Education (ACE), would like to respond to the article in Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand, December/January, 2002/ 2003, p7: "Joint union campaign on national training programme for caregivers underway"....

Suggested cuts to education funding deplored.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2003... WE ARE responding to the article "Education funding changes mooted" in Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand, February 2003, p8. We are concerned about the recommendation from the advisory group on post-entry clinical nursing training to the Ministry...

NZNO praised for taking anti-war stance.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2003... IT IS pleasing to see NZNO supporting the anti-war campaign, with the visible presence of NZNO staff and members at the recent Wellington, Auckland and Nelson rallies. Nurses and health professionals are involved in so many issues of...

Free internet cancer nursing course launched.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2003... WE ARE pleased to announce the first free course delivered over the Internet on the CancerNursing.org learning site has now been launched. We would also like to thank the many nurses in New Zealand who have offered us encouragement and support...

Midwives to celebrate their international day.(news and events)
April 1, 2003... "MIDWIVES LEAD the way" is the theme for International Midwives' Day on May 5. The International Confederation of Midwives selected the theme. New Zealand College of Midwives project adviser Alison Eddy said the theme was particularly...

Hawke's Bay DHB member calls for return of enrolled nurse training.(news and events)
April 1, 2003... AN ELECTED member of the Hawke's Bay District Health Board (DHB), former enrolled and registered nurse Joan Sye, wants the DHB to look at the viability of reinstating enrolled nurse (EN) training. At last month's DHB meeting she said she wanted...

Health summit looks at future workforce directions.(news and events)
April 1, 2003... ONE HUNDRED and fifty delegates were in Wellington last month to thrash out future directions for the health workforce. The Health Workforce Advisory Committee (HWAC), charged by Health Minister Annette King with recommending future directions...

Cultural safety forum calls for changes in programme delivery and assessment.(news and events)
April 1, 2003... LAST MONTH'S forum on the delivery of cultural safety programmes in nursing schools attracted 80 people from around the country, more than double the number expected. The two-day thrum in New Plymouth is believed to be a first for nurse...

Aged care workers to strike.(news and events)
April 1, 2003... MORE THAN 100 NZNO and Service and Food Workers' Union members at three rest-home and hospitals belonging to Harbour Group Holdings (HGH)--Glenburn in Auckland, Mary Shapley in Whakatane and Tararu in Thames--were to strike for two days (20...

Workplaces to become safer and healthier.(news and events)
April 1, 2003... FROM MAY 5 this year, employees throughout New Zealand will have a new law to promote safer and healthier workplaces. The Health and Safety in Employment Amendment Act builds on the previous Act and strengthens employees' rights to have a say...

Major survey of Pacific nurses underway.(news and events)
April 1, 2003... TRACKING DOWN Pacific Island nurses who trained in the islands but gave up when they came to New Zealand has proved harder than expected, says Tongan Manurewa-based researcher Ana Koloto. Koloto, who has a doctorate in mathematics, has been...

Two more institutes to offer prescribing papers.(news and events)
April 1, 2003... TWO MORE education providers have joined Auckland University in offering masters degrees in nursing with prescribing papers. The Nursing Council last month approved Massey University's and Eastern Institute of Technology's (EIT) masters in...

Union campaign brings some success.(news and events)
April 1, 2003... UNION PRESSURE for greater public consultation over the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and for the exemption of public services has had some success, according to NZNO policy analyst Eileen Brown. Prime Minister Helen Clark...

NZNO national office purchases new premises.(news and events)
April 1, 2003... NZNO'S NATIONAL and Wellington offices relocated last month to a newly refurbished office closer to the central city. The move means all 28 staff are now working on the one floor rather than on three separate floors as in their previous...

New board member elected.(news and events)
April 1, 2003... CHAIRPERSON OF the New Zealand College of Practice Nurses Marion Guy has been elected to the newly established position of second college/section representative on NZNO's board of directors. This position, agreed at last year's conference, is...

Pay equity campaign outlined at conventions: NZNO's regional delegate conventions got underway in the South Island last month. The conventions are the platform for NZNO's pay equity campaign to be explained.(news focus)
April 1, 2003... PAY RATES of $40,000 a year for new graduates, rising to $52,000 after five years, are the benchmarks NZNO has set in its campaign for pay parity for nurses. A background paper making the case for pay parity, was released at NZNO's first...

Delegates get update on aged-care campaign.(news focus)
April 1, 2003... REFERRING TO the aged-care campaign, Annals said its aims were for increased finding; minimum registered and enrolled nurse and caregiver staffing levels; standardised education and training opportunities for caregivers; fair wages and...

Concerns remain over HPCA Bill.(news focus)
April 1, 2003... COMPTENCE-BASED practising certificates, as required under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Bill (HPCA) are unlikely to be introduced before 2005 at the earliest, NZNO professional nursing adviser Faith Roberts told Top of the...

Caregiver gatherings break new ground: caregiver study days held during last month's national caregivers' week provided hundreds of caregivers around the country with the chance to share ideas and gain new knowledge.(news focus)
April 1, 2003... THREE YEARS ago, a member of NZNO's national gerontology section, Jan Featherston, had a vision of holding a national conference for caregivers--a conference that valued their contribution, provided them with excellent speakers including some...

Minister announces new training programme for caregivers.(news focus)
April 1, 2003... CHANGES WERE afoot to solve some of the major workforce development issues facing caregivers, Minister for Disability Issues Ruth Dyson promised during her opening address to the national caregivers' conference in Auckland last month. The...

Discovering the essence of caring: researching the characteristics of good care for older people and their carers has been an exciting journey for six gerontology nurses.(news focus)
April 1, 2003... THE TITLE might be long--"Perceptions of person-centred care of older people and the related satisfaction of their cargivers within the New Zealand context"--but the research behind it is unique. It is the first time a study of older people's...

Youth health specialist is awarded major scholarship: an adolescent nurse specialist has been awarded a scholarship to study in the United States. Here she shares the attractions and challenges of her practice.(profile)
April 1, 2003... TERRYANN CLARK has a passion for adolescent health. That passion takes her to the University of Minnesota in July for a year-long fellowship under the guidance of a world expert on adolescent health, nursing professor Lyn Bearinger. It's a long...

Giving hope and care to those living with HIV: as people with the HIV virus live longer, nurses' understanding and competency have increased. But there are dangers in complacency.(profile)
April 1, 2003... NEW ZEALAND AIDS Foundation health promoter Matt Whyte has been living with HIV for more than ten years. During that time he has experienced some of the best and worst of nursing care but now chooses to focus on the positive father than the...

Supporting people with HIV in the community: a facility in Auckland provides HIV-positive people with respite care, support and complementary therapy but more dedicated services for women are needed.(profile)
April 1, 2003... AUCKLAND CITY Mission's Herne Bay House is a facility offering 24-hour respite and hospice care to people with HIV/AIDS. Most clients come from Auckland but around 20 percent from other parts of New Zealand. The half-million-dollar service...

Challenging ignore and prejudice.(profile)
April 1, 2003... COMMUNITY SUPPORT nurse with Auckland Hospital's Community AIDS Resource Team (CART) Garry Pepperell has been working in the HIV/AIDS field for almost as long as the virus has been around. Trained originally as a psychiatric nurse, Pepperell...

Fighting the HIV epidemic in the Pacific.(profile)
April 1, 2003... HELPING THE developing world cope with the HIV virus is a major challenge facing governments and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the developed world, says Auckland GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) New Zealand HIV/AIDS product manager and...

NZNO makes the case for higher pay for nurses and midwives: NZNO has released its background paper on why nurses and midwives should be paid more and why the Government needs to come to the party to ensure nurses and midwives are paid what they are worth.(news focus)
April 1, 2003... NURSES AND midwives employed by the country's 21 district health boards (DHBs) need a significant rise in basic pay, according to NZNO. NZNO has made the case for a significant pay rise in a background paper, supported by national and...

Raising nurses' awareness of primary deficiency: primary immune deficiency is a term covering a large family of diseases and conditions in which the patient's immune system is compromised. Nurses can play an important part in ensuring early diagnosis.(practice)
April 1, 2003... AS A practising nurse, do you know enough about the normal immune system and what can go wrong? If your answer is no, then yon can help by increasing your knowledge in this area. Nurses are often the first point of contact for the patient...

Family health nursing in the Scottish highlands: family health nursing is a very new concept in Scotland. Family health nurses are struggling to carve out their role in some of the most remote parts of Scotland.(practice)
April 1, 2003... A WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) initiative to boost primary health care nursing has been embraced in Scotland. The iniative, introduced two years ago, was to implement a new generic community nursing role, the family health nurse (FHN). In 18...

Collaboration is essential to improve health outcomes for children: Widespread and sustained professional collaboration is needed if there are to be long-lasting gains in child health.(practice)
April 1, 2003... WINNING A travel fellowship to North America and Great Britian has opened Plunket clinical adviser Belinda Macfie's mind to the possibilities of professional collaboration. Macfie was one of last year's co-winners of the Mary May Blackwell...

Caring for those with HIV/AIDS: nurses must continually strive to ensure the care they offer people living with HIV/AIDS is non-judgemental.(professional focus)
April 1, 2003... MAY 12 is International Nurses' Day. The theme this year is "Nurses caring for all: Fighting AIDS stigma". Is there still a stigma associated with a diagnosis of HIV/AIDS? Are health care workers hesitant to provide care for patients with...

HIV/AIDS resources for health professionals: the theme of this month's Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand is Nurses caring for all: Fighting AIDS stigma. As a service to members we list some resources available through NZNO's library.(books)
April 1, 2003... Intimate Details and Vital Statistics: AIDS, Sexuality and the Social Order in New Zealand Edited by Peter Davis. (20 contributors) The book documents the AIDS epidemic and its impact on New Zealand; assesses the social and cultural...

Good faith included in changes to holiday law: changes contained in the new Holidays Bill herald a fairer approach to leave entitlements.
April 1, 2003... UNDER A new Holidays Bill, tabled in the House in February, dealings between employers and employees about leave must be carried out in good faith. The Bill is expected to become law, hopefully early next year. Select Committee hearings on the...

Money to support education on GATS.(board of directors)
April 1, 2003... THE BOARD of directors has approved $5000 towards the publication Serving Whose Interests?, a guide to the impact of the World Trade Organisation's General Agreement of Trade in Services (GATS). The guide, written by Auckland University...

NZNO to support researchers' travel to Morocco.(board of directors)
April 1, 2003... NZNO IS to provide a maximum of $8500 so two members of the national gerontology section can attend the International Council of Nurses' (ICN) Council of National Representatives (CNR) conference in Morocco in June. The two members, Louise...

AIDS Foundation and NINO join forces for International Nurses Day.(board of directors)
April 1, 2003... THE BOARD of directors has asked president Jane O'Malley and chief executive Geoff Annals to invite the New Zealand AIDS Foundation to jointly host a function to mark International Nurses Day (IND) on May 12. The theme this year is "Nurses...

Support for South Pacific national nursing organisations.(board of directors)
April 1, 2003... The board of directors has set aside $5000 to sponsor national nursing organisations (NNAs) from the South Pacific to attend the International Council of Nurses' (ICN) Council of National Representatives conference in Morocco in June. The money...

Midwife neglects client and newborn baby: Harangi Biddle, RGON, RM.(nursing council)
April 1, 2003... MIDWIFE HARANGI Biddle has been found guilty of professional misconduct on the grounds her conduct was both negligent and likely to bring discredit on the midwifery profession. Biddle was engaged as a Lead Maternity Carer in April 1998. Her...

Nurse and midwife misappropriates drugs: Joanna Sara Ibbotson, RGON, RM.(nursing council)
April 1, 2003... REGISTERED NURSE and midwife Joanna Sara Ibbotson has been found guilty of professional misconduct on the grounds her conduct constituted malpractice and was likely to bring discredit upon both the nursing and midwifery professions. The...

Nurse fails to maintain boundaries.(nursing council)
April 1, 2003... A REGISTERED general and obstetric nurse has been found guilty of professional misconduct for having a sexual relationship with a client of the service where she worked. The nurse, who was involved in the client's treatment, became a friend of...

Students meet their nursing school heads.(student unit)
April 1, 2003... GETTING DOWN to business at last month's meeting between National Student Unit (NSU) representatives and nursing school heads of departments (HODs) are" (from left) NSU chair Danny Morrison, newly elected vice chair Renee McPhail (Whitireia...

Industrial action likely again in Oamaru: Christchurch.(regional reports)
April 1, 2003... OAMARU HOSPITAL, Waitaki District Health Services (WDHS): After three days of mediation in an attempt to reach a settlement, the WDHS Board has withdrawn all its previous offers, with the excuse its financial year has now ended with a deficit....

Hamilton.(regional reports)
April 1, 2003... A ROUND of feedback meetings is scheduled for late this month and early next month so members can get information on the Northern Districts Multi-Employer Collective Agreement negotiations. It will be extremely important that members are on the...

Dunedin.(regional reports)
April 1, 2003... IT'S BEEN great to meet so many delegates during the last month. The amount of work you do in your workplaces is fantastic and it's good to know NZNO is alive and well. I intend to have regular meetings for all my larger work sites in the...

Auckland.(regional reports)
April 1, 2003... COUNTIES MANUKAU District Health Board (DHB): Restructuring continues. Several members in service level management positions have been advised their positions are to be disestablished at the end of this month. The restructuring will affect...

Nelson.(regional reports)
April 1, 2003... AFTER SIX weeks' holiday, I returned to work in February feeling refreshed and enthusiastic and ready to take up the challenges of 2003. Normally a week back at work would destroy those feelings but this year I was still feeling positive at the...

Palmerston North.(regional reports)
April 1, 2003... THE YEAR began with a hiss and a roar. I've two awesome new colleagues, Lawrence O'Halloran and Jane Swift, to work with and the lower North Island senior nurse multi-employer collective agreement to assume responsibility for. Over the...

Whangarei.(regional reports)
April 1, 2003... NORTHLAND DISTRICT Health Board: The good news this month is that ward one, a heavy orthopaedic ward, has increased its rostered nursing numbers. However, the DHB is a very tight ship and everyone is feeling it. Management has been under review...

Events.(Calendar)
April 1, 2003... Conferences & Venues 2003 2003 May Cognitive--Behaviour Therapy Training. Primary Certificate Programme and 1 Day Workshops on Suicide/Anxiety. Contact: NZ Centre ...