Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand articles from August 2003

Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand archives from August 2003

Complementary therapies--a long and winding road.(Editorial)
August 1, 2003... ONCE UPON a time, the people lived in the most beautiful land, with beaches and mountains, rivers and lakes. The people loved the land and many would run, cycle, walk and swim, enjoying the beauty of the outdoors and the exercise. It made them...

Former nurse chooses better paid teaching career.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... THE RECENT launch of the NZNO pay equity campaign has prompted me to write. I am a registered nurse and currently in my second year of teaching, working towards registration. I worked as a ward nurse for a year before deciding to jump ship...

Let's celebrate, not impose mental health standards.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... THE GREAT mental health standards debate seems to be "growing legs", as they say in journalism. I thank Graeme Palmer for his input in the letters pages of last month's issue (p3) and the MidCentral District Health Board's acute inpatient team...

Finding an NP role for practice nurses.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... I READ with interest the articles on nurse practitioners (NPs) in last month's Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand (p13-15) and agree with most of the sentiments expressed. However, in these and all the other articles I have read about NPs, there has...

Time to revise outmoded nursing restrictions.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... I WISH to raise the question of the restriction on the number of hours registered nurses are able to work under many contracts. For years I have wondered why it is that other people, be they management or union, are able to decide for me what I...

EN is disappointed in Nursing Council decison.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... I AM writing to support the chair of the national enrolled nurse (EN) committee Robyn Hewlett, who was quoted in last month's issue on the announcement from Nursing Council that it will not require ENs to present portfolios for competence-based...

Disillusioned enrolled nurse speaks out.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... AS AN enrolled nurse (EN), I am sorely disillusioned that NZNO has allowed Health Minister Annette King and a few academics within nursing, to try and push me and my fellow ENs into a corner. I have worked hard, continued my education,...

Seeking information on research section history.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... TWO NURSE researchers, Lorraine Ritchie and Merian Litchfield, have been commissioned by NZNO's nursing research section to write a history of how the section was established. Specifically, the researchers are examining why and how the section...

Farewelling Auckland Hospital's Ward 9C.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... AUCKLAND HOSPITAL'S Ward 9C at is moving to the new Auckland Hospital site in October this year. The new ward will be known as Ward 68. As a celebration and a way of saying goodbye to Ward 9C, a party will be held on Saturday October 11 at...

Trying to make contact with a New Zealand nurse.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... WE ARE trying to find a New Zealand friend and nurse whose maiden name was Rosemary Taylor. The last time we had contact with her, she was working in an ambulatory clinic in the Auckland area. She married about five years ago and the last...

Correction.(letters)(Correction Notice)
August 1, 2003... IN THE July issue of Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand, we published a photo of enrolled nursing students gathering at Northland Polytechnic for their whatkawatea (p11). We apologise for incorrectly identifying the secretary of the national...

The president comments ...(letters)
August 1, 2003... THE INTERNATIONAL Council of Nurses (ICN) is a worldwide collective of nursing organisations from 120 member countries. From its collective strength, it provides support to enable nursing to contribute more fully to improvements in health and...

Nurse practitioner seeks better health for Maori.(news and events)
August 1, 2003... THE COUNTRY'S first Maori nurse practitioner (NP) was announced last month, bringing the total number of NPs to nine. Janet Maloney-Moni, who delivers a disease state management (DSM) mobile service through Raukura Hauora o Tainui Ki Waikato in...

New Pacific adviser.(news and events)
August 1, 2003... SOUTH SEAS Healthcare chief executive Debbie Ryan has been appointed the Ministry of Health's chief adviser Pacific Health. Announcing the appointment, Director-General of Health Karen Poutasi said Ryan's management experience would allow her...

McNicol to chair Te Runanga.(news and events)
August 1, 2003... TE RUNANGA O Aotearoa NZNO's new chair elect is public health nurse Anne McNicol from Hamilton. McNicol was chosen for the position at Te Runanga's annual general hui (AGH) at Turangawaewae Marae in Ngaruawahia earlier this month. She...

Health care assistants underway at Auckland DHB.(news and events)
August 1, 2003... THE COUNTRY'S largest district health board (DHB), Auckland DHB, is training healthcare assistants (HCAs) to work as part of the board's team model of care. All current support roles, eg ward assistants, nurse aides, hospital aides and...

Remuneration strategy reflected in pay deals.(news and events)
August 1, 2003... THE HIGHEST pay increases two groups of NZNO members have received for some time have been achieved in two recent sets of negotiations. Advocate for both the Family Planning Association (FPA) and Plunket negotiations, Chris Wilson, said the pay...

New support for NZNO's fair pay campaign.(news and events)
August 1, 2003... NZNO'S CAMPAIGN to achieve fair pay, which was endorsed at last year's conference, has been buoyed by a recent nation wide poll revealing overwhelming public support. The July UMR Omnibus Poll showed 73 percent of New Zealanders think...

Professional development work underway.(news and events)
August 1, 2003... A NATIONAL professional development working party, whose members represent all national nursing organisations, aims to establish a national framework for professional development and recognition programmes (PDRPs). This will enable consistency...

Draft code of good faith ready for consultation.(news and events)
August 1, 2003... A DRAFT Code of Good Faith for the health sector has been developed by a group of Council of Trade Unions (CTU) representatives and District Health Board (DHB) chief executives. The idea of the code was first mooted at the health sector...

NZNO favours no-fault option in ACC review.(news and events)
August 1, 2003... NZNO HAS prepared a submission on the review of the Accident Compensation Corporation's (ACC) medical misadventure criteria. Last year the Minister for ACC Ruth Dyson asked ACC and the Department of Labour to review the cover criteria and...

Hazardous substances inquiry report released.(news and events)
August 1, 2003... THE NEED for more proactive management of hazards in the workplace, with Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) taking the lead, is a central thrust of the report of the Ministerial Inquiry into the Management of Certain Hazardous Substances in...

Professional activism focus of NZNO conference.(news and events)
August 1, 2003... "NZNO--AN organisation building professional activism" is the theme of NZNO's annual conference to be held in Rotorua on September 24 and 25. NZNO president Jane O'Malley, in her opening address, will make the links between nurses'...

Duty managers to hold conference in Auckland.(news and events)
August 1, 2003... A SECOND conference for duty managers will be held in Auckland on October 20 and 21. The inaugural duly managers conference, held in Auckland last year attracted 70 delegates and organisers of this year's conference hope to match or exceed that...

Health and safety website launched.(news and events)
August 1, 2003... THE COUNCIL of Trade Unions (CTU) has launched a health and safety website. The website went live last month and features a toolkit for health and safety representatives, information on training programmes and news from New Zealand and...

Maori model for public health debated at conference.(news and events)
August 1, 2003... THIS YEAR'S Public Health Association (PHA) conference at Turangawaewae Marae, Ngaruawahia, marked a significant point in the life of the PHA. The conference theme "Tino Rangatiratanga in Public Health--working with Maori indigenous values and...

Faith community nurses fill gap, in primary care.(news and events)
August 1, 2003... I HAVE returned from a recent four-day training course in Nelson for faith community nurses (FCN), sometimes known as parish nurses, delighted and enthused. These nurses can be of any Christian denomination and are "employed" (although most in...

Encouraging healing through touch: at Wellington Hospital, the therapies of touch and massage are bringing relief from stress and pain, and promoting healing for many patients and staff.(news focus)
August 1, 2003... TOUCH IS our earliest sense. Before a newborn baby can see, it can feel; its mother's contact providing the first vital bonding mechanism. Touch as a therapy dates back over 3000 years in China. And in Greece, the grandfather of modern...

Seeking an alternative way or providing health care: for 20 years a nurse nurtured a dream of offering people a different style of care than that available in our present health system. Finally she is realising that dream.(viewpoint)
August 1, 2003... MY FIRST ever experience with herbal medicine seemed like a life saver at the time! I was a student nurse at Green Lane Hospital and was on the latest high-protein fad diet. On about day five of the diet, my digestive system went on strike and...

A young woman's triumph over violence: a young woman raised in a violent home provides a better life for her child, inspired partly by the work of a public health nurse.(exemplar)
August 1, 2003... THE PHONE call was from Beth, an independent midwife. She was giving me a list of new mothers for whom I would provide well-child services in the isolated rural area in which I work. Beth said she would follow-up with written referrals, but...

Plunket faces up to family violence: because of its impact on the health of children, the Plunket Society has developed a specific policy to help staff screen for family violence.(education)
August 1, 2003... THE PUBLIC focus on the effects of family violence in New Zealand has increased in recent years. Family violence significantly affects the health of women and children. (1) It was appropriate the issue gained national attention and became the...

Using aromatheraphy within nursing: nurses wanting to incorporate aromatherapy into their practice must overcome a number of challenges before using this powerful yet gentle therapy.(practice)
August 1, 2003... AROMATHERAPY--THE science and art of healing with essential oils--is a relatively new term, first coined by French chemist Rene Maurice Gatefosse in 1937. These oils have been used over thousands of years in many ancient civilisations. For...

Learning not to cross the boundaries: too many nurses are finding themselves involved in inappropriate personal relationships with their patients.(professional focus)
August 1, 2003... WHAT IS an inappropriate relationship? Most nurses would not contemplate having sex with a patient but far less extreme actions can still lead to crossing the professional boundary into the realm of inappropriate relationships. In this...

Examining strategies for successful unions: the recent Australasian Organising Conference looked at ways of building successful unions.(industrial focus)
August 1, 2003... HOW TO build strong unions, the importance of recruitment, the need to shift from a servicing to an organising model and the importance of well-planned campaigns were some of the key messages from the Australasian Organising Conference in...

Helping children with enuresis and encopresis: school children who are bedwetters or those who soil their pants often receive little sympathy and less understanding. A public health nurse wants to change such attitudes.(practice)
August 1, 2003... IN 1998 NELSON public health nurse Shirley Reid wrote and illustrated a book, Tim's Problem, the story of a little boy with the "embarrassing problem" of soiling his pants. "We had nothing to give children who were bedwetters or soilers, so I...

New Zealand nurses make their mark at ICN.(conference report)
August 1, 2003... LAST MONTH'S International Council of Nurses' (ICN) conference in Geneva, Switzerland, was the first in a new series of biennial conferences focusing on the critical priorities in delivering quality health care internationally. Evidence,...

Building better workplace relations: all delegates should take advantage of the range of approved employee education training courses offered by NZNO.(education)
August 1, 2003... THE EMPLOYMENT Relations Act (ERA) 2000 reintroduced paid leave for union education. The purpose of giving certain employees paid leave to increase their knowledge about employment relations is to improve relations among unions, employees and...

Changing NZNO's democratic structures.(board of directors)
August 1, 2003... RADICAL CHANGES are proposed for NZNO's structures, if the recommendations of the structural review committee are accepted. The ten-member committee, set up after last year's conference, has been reviewing NZNO's current structures in terms...

New members welcomed to the board.(board of directors)
August 1, 2003... WITH NZNO president Jane O'Malley on her way to the International Council of Nurses conference in Geneva, vice president Catherine Logan chaired the June board of directors meeting. Two new members were welcomed to the meeting: newly...

Supporting members who need advice after hours.(board of directors)
August 1, 2003... THE BOARD voted against a request from the Greater Wellington region for 24-hour staff/telephone cover. Board member Ruth Hutton argued that, as the organisation grew and more legal cases were being worked on, it was important nurses could...

Ensuring NZNO's safe staffing campaign succeeds.(board of directors)
August 1, 2003... THE BOARD has endorsed a contingency plan developed by the safe staffing project team, should the safe staffing pilot programme not proceed. The team, which comprises a cross section of staff and the president, has been working with the...

Looking at barriers to practice nurse development.(section news)
August 1, 2003... STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP is not a subject generally taught to nurses in clinical practice. If one wanted to learn this skill, business courses would be a more appropriate learning pathway. Or would they? It appears that in the new health care...

MECA negotiations continue this month: Dunedin.(regional reports)
August 1, 2003... Glenda Alexander THE MAIN focus for most members I work with is the re-negotiation of the South Island Multi-Employer Collective Agreement (MECA). We successfully completed a round of stop work meetings and the negotiating team,...

MECA negotiations continue this month: Palmerston North.(regional reports)
August 1, 2003... Lyn Olsthoorn MEMBERS WHO work in district health boards (DHBs) will soon receive notices for meetings to discuss the process for renewing the Lower North Island Multi-Employer Collective Agreement. This is the first step towards...

MECA negotiations continue this month: Hamilton.(regional reports)
August 1, 2003... Jenny Roy APOLOGIES FOR no report and update over the last couple of months. It has been particularly busy with negotiations and settlement of the Northern Districts Multi-Employer Collective Agreement (MECA). With many negotiations...

The Northern Districts' MECA working party gets underway.(regional reports)
August 1, 2003... ONE OF the outcomes of the Northern Districts' Multi-Employer Collective Agreement (MECA) was an agreement that the five district health boards in the region (Lakes, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Northland and Tairawhiti) would work together to...

Nelson.(regional reports)
August 1, 2003... REPRESENTING THE Nelson/ Marlborough District Health Board (DHB) in the South Island Multi-Employer Collective Agreement (MECA) negotiations is Nano Tunnicliff. Representing the West Coast DHB is Michelle Gunn, also an assessor during the first...

Wellington.(regional reports)
August 1, 2003... HUTT HOSPITAL: The delegate communication network is growing in numbers and activities. However, there are still vacancies. Ensuring your area has representation is important in raising awareness of conditions in the multi-employer collective...

Whangarei.(regional reports)
August 1, 2003... THIS HAS been a busy period, with private sector negotiations and numerous problems with the implementation of the Northern Districts' Multi-Employer Collective Agreement(MECA) at Northland District Health Board (DHB). These problems don't seem...

Christchurch.(regional reports)
August 1, 2003... THERE HAS been a noticeable increase this year in organising time spent on individual issues, eg disciplinary issues, drug errors and Accident Compensation Corporation complaints. Members must contact NZNO as soon as they are advised a...

Nurses' Memorial Chapel celebrates 75 years.(regional reports)
August 1, 2003... CELEBRATIONS TO mark the 75th birthday of the Christchurch Hospital Nurses' Memorial Chapel on July 25 included a service in the chapel. Special guests at the service included five nurses who were doing their training when the chapel was being...

Scholarship winner 'delighted'.(regional reports)
August 1, 2003... DUNEDIN POLYTECHNIC nursing student, Alexa Senior (right), was recently awarded the $1000 Pop Black Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship is available to someone living in the Waimate District entering their first year of nursing education. The...

Events.(Calendar)
August 1, 2003... Conferences & Venues 2003/2004 2003 Aug 22-23 College of Nurses Annual Conference. Margaret Connor, Ph: (04) 473 5195 of email: m.p. connor@paradise.net.nz Wellington 2003...