Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand articles from April 2004

Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand archives from April 2004

Events.(Illustration)(Calendar)
April 1, 2004... Conferences & Venues 2004 2004 April 2-7 Lymphoedema Management Training Course. Di Graham, ph: 04 934 3083, di.g@paradise.net.nz Wellington 2004...

Whose poverty is it anyway?(editorial)(Editorial)
April 1, 2004... THIS YEAR the theme of International Nurses Day on May 12 is "Nurses working with communities against poverty." The International Council of Nurses (ICN) says nurses must be educated about the determinants of health, about empowerment and about...

Article on a nursing ethical issue proves useful.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2004... I FOUND Terri Webby's exemplar "Dealing with ethical challenges in practice", published in last month's issue of Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand (p26-27), fascinating. I admire the way Terri handled a difficult situation. As a result, she may...

Strong interest in overseas nursing article.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2004... THE ARTICLE "The role of overseas nurses in our health system" in last month's Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand (p14) was timely. I presented a paper on this topic, and on my own experience of being an overseas nurse now working in New...

Child health post-graduate education is available.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2004... I AM responding to last month's editorial "Children's needs must be met now" by Christchurch Hospital child health nursing director Anne Feld. In this editorial Feld expresses equal concern for the limited time devoted to child health in the...

Our nursing history must be documented.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2004... AS A retired nurse who trained under the old hospital system, I was very interested to read about today's nursing in recent copies of Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand. While applauding many of the changes, 1 would like to make a plea to nurses not...

Gastric reflux support network helps parents.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2004... YOUR ISSUE on child health last month prompted us to provide your readers with some information about the New Zealand gastric reflux support network (GRSNNZ). This was established in 2001 to provide support to families throughout New Zealand...

Children's views on parental separation sought.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2004... I AM a doctoral student in Victoria University's School of Psychology, about to begin a study into the views of children and teenagers experiencing parental separation. I am seeking 50 children and teenagers, aged between nine and 18 in the...

Paid parental leave extended.(news and events)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... THE PLUNKET Society and NZNO have welcomed the Government's decision to extend paid parental leave from 12 to 14 weeks. The changes to the paid parental leave scheme, first introduced in July 2002, would mean mothers would be able to take...

New medical reference.(news and events)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... THE TRUSTY nursing and medical reference, the New Ethicals, is to be replaced. From early next month it is to be replaced by MIMS New Ethicals, which will come in five different forms: MIMS on line, on PC and PALM, MIMS CD Rom and MIIMS point...

Nursing Council consulting on scopes of practice.(news and events)
April 1, 2004... THE NURSING Council proposes three scopes of practice in its consultation document on scopes, released last month. They are nurse practitioner (NP), nurse and second-level nurse. Under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance (HPCA) Act,...

Forum debates magnet progress.(news and events)
April 1, 2004... A FORUM held in Wellington last month to discuss the application of magnet principles in New Zealand health care attracted 110 participants. Organised by Magnet New Zealand, the body which is overseeing the introduction of magnet principles...

Regional conventions underway.(news and events)
April 1, 2004... WHEN KAI Tiaki Nursing New Zealand went to print, the round of NZNO regional conventions was well underway, with two down and six to go. Eighty-six delegates attended the Christchurch convention last month. New delegate and first-time...

NZNO a step closer to national bargaining.(news and events)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... DISTRICT HEALTH Board (DHB) workplace convenors have unanimously endorsed a proposal to go back to delegates in each DHB to seek sign off for a ballot to initiate bargaining for a national multi-employer collective agreement (MECA) covering...

MECA settled.(news and events)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... NURSES, MIDWIVES and health assistants covered by the Lower North Island Multi-Employer Agreement have voted to accept a revised employer offer. The MECA covers 4000 members in seven district health boards. (See sector reports p36.) In...

Autoclave on way to Niue.(news and events)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... A much-needed autoclave is on its way to the temporary hospital in Niue, thanks to the generosity of NZNO members. NZNO's Niue Relief Fund, set up in February to help in rebuilding the island nation after the devastation of Cyclone Heta, raised...

Forum debates cultural competence.(news and events)
April 1, 2004... STRENGTHENING THE position of cultural safety in nursing, midwifery and health in Aotearoa/New Zealand was the aim of last month's cultural safety forum in Wellington. Held at Tapu Te Ranga Marae, the forum was hosted by the Wellington...

New statistics show increase in Maori life expectancy.(news and events)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... MAORI LIFE expectancy has significantly improved for the first time in two decades, according to statistics released last month. The Statistics NZ figures showed life expectancy for Maori men has increased from 66.6 years based on 1995-97...

Honouring caregivers, their work and their patients.(news and events)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... CAREGIVERS WEEK, March 22 to March 28, saw NZNO and Service and Food Workers Union members in aged-care facilities across the country calling on the Government to fund the new national caregivers' training programme and to ensure caregivers...

Petition gathers momentum.(news and events)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... NZNO'S NATIONAL Fair Pay petition, which calls on the Government to provide additional funding to district health boards in order to pay nurses and midwives fairly, is drawing a huge response from around the country. The petition was hunched on...

Exhibition to mark midwifery centenary.(news and events)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... ONE HUNDRED years of midwifery registration, regulation and education will be marked by a year-long exhibition at Archives New Zealand in Wellington. A collaborative venture with Victoria University's Graduate School of Nursing and...

Nurses working in partnership with their community.(news and events)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... ACHIEVING HEALTH in a Rural Community: A case study of nurse-community partnership, a book outlining the evolution of a community-owned health service in southern rural Hawke's Bay, has just been published. Written by nurse researcher Merian...

Papers wanted for South Pacific Forum.(news and events)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... "CHALLENGES AND Actions for Nursing and Nurses in the South Pacific" is the theme for the 12" South Pacific Nurses' Forum to be held in Rarotonga from November 15-19. The forum was established in 1982 and has met every two years since then....

Fiji wants to keep its nurses.(news and events)(Fiji Nursing Association)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... CONTINUED EMIGRATION of health professionals is hurting the Fijian health system, and trade unions there want the Government to implement a retention strategy. The general secretary of the Fiji Nursing Association, Kuini Lutua (above),...

Changes to ACC's medical misadventure criteria.(news and events)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... THE CHANGES to the Accident Compensation Corporation's (ACC) medical misadventure criteria are designed to make it easier, fairer, simpler and quicker forr medical mishap victims to claim compensation, according to ACC Minister Ruth Dyson. ...

Nurse found guilty of attempted murder.(news and events)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... REGISTERED NURSE Lesley Martin was found guilty in the High Court in Wanganui last month on one count of attempting to murder her terminally ill mother, Joy Martin, by administering a 60-milligram dose of morphine in May 1999. The jury of...

Working against poverty internationally and at home: the theme for International Nurses Day on May 12 is Nurses working with communities against poverty. The International Council of Nurses has outlined how nurses can work for change. At home, the Council of Trade Unions is looking at ways to tackle poverty.(news focus)
April 1, 2004... AROUND 1.2 BILLION people live on less than US $1 a day. These 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty bear two thirds of the world' s communicable diseases, maternal and perinatal mortality and nutritional deficiences. Seventy...

Filling health gaps in the Wairarapa: primary health care nurses are finding innovative ways of working together to meet the needs of the Masterton and Wairarapa communities.(public health)(Cover Story)
April 1, 2004... NURSES WORKING in Masterton and other Wairarapa communities are united in one thing: they want to provide affordable, accessible care that will create healthy families and communities. Choice Health in downtown Masterton is home to the...

Defining and delivering core midwifery care: International Midwives Day is celebrated on May 5. In this article, a core midwife outlines her philosophy of care and argues the work she does is integral to the model of midwifery as a partnership.(viewpoint)
April 1, 2004... CORE MIDWIVES are employed to provide care to women, who have either chosen to stay in a primary unit, or maternity hospital for postnatal care, or who require secondary care. Three years ago, it was estimated that 93 percent of women...

Youth, pregnancy and health disadvantage: many variables affects the health status of young pregnant women--and some show more resilience to these variables than others.(research)(Column)
April 1, 2004... I FIRST BECAME interested in the issue of what services were available for young pregnant women and the influences on their health during their pregnancies when working as a public health nurse in South Auckland. In the course of my work, a...

Creating healthy school communities: the Health Promoting Schools (HPS) project is now running in at least 360 primary, intermediate and secondary schools throughout New Zealand. in Hawke's Bay, the project is led by the public health nurses and a HPS resource team.(public health)
April 1, 2004... HELPING IMPROVE the health of a children and their school communities via the Health Promoting Schools (HPS) project has seen many of the 16 Hawke's Bay public health nurses learning to work in new ways. They have had to move away from a more...

A lifetime of nursing in a rural community: nursing in a small West Coast community has provided a lifetime of satisfaction, challenge and inspiration.(profile)
April 1, 2004... 'BETTY G" is an institution in Reefton. Nursing in the small West Coast settlement since 1968, Betty Gilsenan has touched the lives of generations of families in her roles as district, public health and well child nurse and now part-time...

Proposed employment law needs amendment: the Employment Relations Reform Bill contains a number of positive changes. But NZNO wants amendments to parts of the Bill.(law)
April 1, 2004... THE EMPLOYMENT Relations Law Reform Bill is due to come into force in October. It is currently before a Select Committee. Primarily intended to bolster current good faith provisions and further promote collective bargaining, the Bill has...

Inappropriate relationship leads to council censure.(nursing council)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... A COMPREHENSIVE nurse who had an inappropriate relationship with a patient in a disability/rehabilitation unit, has been found guilty of professional misconduct. In exercising its disciplinary powers, the Nursing Council held that the...

Nurse who exploited client struck off register: Ma Christy Labadlabad Bacaling, RCpN.(nursing council)
April 1, 2004... A COMPREHENSIVE nurse who entered into an inappropriate relationship with a client and exploited her professional relationship with the client by accepting gifts of money and borrowing money, has been struck off. The Nursing Council, in...

A diary of distress: heavy workloads, high stress and staff shortages are a dangerous combination. A high-performing nurse and respected NZNO delegate chronicles her slide into work burnout and underlines the importance of NZNO's current fair pay and safe staffing campaigns.(viewpoint)(Column)
April 1, 2004... THIS STORY is not about gaining sympathy because I am feeling enough sympathy for myself. My hope is that by sharing my thoughts about what has been happening to and for me, some of the myths about stress and burnout can be dispelled. I hope...

The challenges of being a negotiating team member: being on an NZNO negotiating team can be challenging, time consuming, tedious, frustrating, fascinating and rewarding.(industrial focus)
April 1, 2004... EACH YEAR across the country dozens of NZNO negotiating teams are elected and set about the business of representing the goals and issues of their workplace colleagues. Given the prospect of national bargaining in the public sector later this...

Determining new nursing scopes of practice: the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 is providing new opportunities to determine how nursing will be delivered in the future.(professional focus)
April 1, 2004... NURSING IN New Zealand is gong through one of the most significant changes in its recent history. Defining nursing's scopes of practice is an important aspect of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance (HPCA) Act 2003 and will affect...

Te Runanga chair shares an 'inside out' experience.(Te Runanga)(Column)
April 1, 2004... "HEY, YOUR dressing gown's on inside out!" These were the words of a friend and colleague as she followed me along the "golden mile"--the length of the ward "post-op sprint". My initial thought was: "Who gives a damn? That's the least of...

Profiling Maitera Tutahi.(Te Runanga)(Column)
April 1, 2004... Ka tu mokemoke au i runga Mauao ka hoki whakaaro ki oku Tupuna o Ngai Te Rangi Ngati Ranginui Ko Roretana Ngarino Tutahi toku matua. I te taha o toku whaea ko Tainui te waka, Ko Porirua te maunga, Ko Nohorua te tohunga, Ko Hongoeka te marae, Ko...

Supporting each other in Taranaki.(college/section news)
April 1, 2004... FROM COMING out of the closet to horizontal violence; from physical, intellectual and emotional resilience to family chiropractic care--these are just some of the presentations included in the College of Practice Nurses[NZNO] annual conference...

Nominations for gerontology nurse award sought.(college/section news)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... NZNO'S GERONTOLOGY Nurses' Section is seeking nominations for its gerontology nurse award. The award recognises the practical and innovative practice of a registered nurse working in the gerontology field and who has made a significant...

Intravenous nurses gather in Dunedin.(college/section news)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... THE INTRAVENOUS nurses (IV) conference in Dunedin in February attracted 114 nurses from around the country. With the theme Leap into the Future, the two-day conference featured a range of nursing presentations and three overseas keynote...

Wide range of health professionals attend respiratory conference.(college/section news)
April 1, 2004... A RESPIRATORY conference in Auckland in February attracted nearly 200 health professionals, including nurses, physiotherapists, dietitians, respiratory physicians, psychologists and social workers. The conference also incorporated the annual...

Lower North Island MECA marks turning point in campaign.(sector reports)
April 1, 2004... LOWER NORTH Island MECA: After 15 days of negotiations, four rounds of meetings, two lots of ratifications, threatened industrial action and with an overall settlement worth $21.1 million, around 4000 members have now achieved a settlement. ...

Mental health nurses' settlement.(sector reports)(New Zealand Nurses Organisation)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... CANTERBURY DHB: NZNO members covered by the mental health and older persons' health multi union collective agreement (MUCA) voted in February to with draw from negotiating a MUCA involving the National Union of Public Employees (NUPE). This...

Otago agreements.(sector reports)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... OTAGO DISTRICT Health Board (ODHB): Negotiations for the renewal of the charge nurses'/clinical nurse specialists' collective agreement were completed and ratified recently. The new agreement provides a three percent increase, back-dated to...

Negotiating a national agreement for rest-home chain.(sector reports)(Guardian Healthcare Group)
April 1, 2004... HARBOURSIDE GROUP Holdings: NZNO first encountered Harbourside Group Holdings, now renamed Guardian Healthcare Group (GHG), in 1998 when, as a residential care operator, the company bought Glenburn Rest Home and Hospital, an Auckland...

Improvements for Nurse Maude.(sector reports)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... NEGOTIATIONS HAVE begun this month for the Nurse Maude Association collective agreement. The association is named after one of Christchurch's first district nurses, Sibylla Maude. She was famous for walking briskly along Christchurch streets,...

NZMA withdraws from practice nurse negotiations.(sector reports)
April 1, 2004... LAST MONTH, the Medical Association (NZMA) confirmed its decision to cease the negotiating advocacy it had provided around the national practice nurses' and medical receptionists' collective agreements (CAs). The practice nurses' agreement...

Family Planning Association.(sector reports)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... PREPARATIONS ARE underway for renegotiating the national Family Planning Association (FPA) collective agreement, which expires at the end of May. This agreement covers nurses, educators, medical receptionists and clerical/administration staff....