Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand articles from February 2004

Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand archives from February 2004

No monkeying around in NZNO'S year of fair pay.(editorial)
February 1, 2004... THIS YEAR, Chinese astrologers tell us, is the Year of the Monkey, a year of transformation where full rein is to be given to the imagination. We are warned against over-optimism and instructed to be watchful of destructive factions. Bluffs,...

Publishing exposure proves an encouraging experience.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2004... I WOULD like to thank everybody who took the time to read and respond to my article published in the December/January 2003/2004 issue of Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand ("Discovering the heart and soul of nursing", p24-25). I have been touched...

CTU treats NZNO members as 'second class'.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2004... I NOTED with anger that NZNO has failed to take the Council of Trade Unions (CTU) to task for not arguing our case for inclusion in the new government super scheme for government employees. Instead we are fobbed off as second class CTU members...

Defining the nurse practitioner in New Zealand.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2004... I WOULD like to thank Tom Pantano writing in the December/January 2003/ 2004 Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand ("Loss of NP title causes demoralisation", p20) for giving voice to my frustrations over the status and definition of nurse practitioners...

Separate course for psychiatric nursing needed.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2004... I AM a psychiatric nurse, writing in response to a letter by Allan Fryer ("Honouring the psychopaedic nurse title", p4), published in your December/January 2003/2004 edition. When nurse training was hospital-based, general and psychiatric...

Pay system should recognise nursing knowledge.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2004... IN RESPONSE to Lee Mathias's letter in the November 2003 Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand ("A warning to nurses over the Fair Pay Campaign", p3), I give a loud "hear! hear!" For a long time I have thought that, rather than rewarding nurses for...

NZNO to launch nurse/patient ratios soon.(news and events)
February 1, 2004... NZNO'S NURSE/patient ratios, worked out after wide consultation, are scheduled to be launched later this month. The ratios for wards and specialist units in all levels of public hospitals, are contained in the booklet Nursing the system back to...

Nursing numbers.(news and events)
February 1, 2004... * Figures just released by Nursing Council show a slight drop in the number of nursing graduates registered in the last two years. In the year to March 31, 2002, 1110 graduates registered. This figure dropped to 1059 in the year to March 31,...

Lower North Island strike notice withdrawn.(news and events)
February 1, 2004... STRIKE NOTICE, involving 4000 nurses, working in seven district health boards (DHB) across the lower North Island, has been withdrawn. As Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand went to press there were limited details of the proposed settlement, which...

International Nurses' Day theme.(news and events)
February 1, 2004... NZNO HAS modified the theme for International Nurses' Day on May 12, as it considered the International Council of Nurses (ICN) wording to be "patronising". The ICN theme was "Nurses working with the poor; against poverty". NZNO has decided to...

Regional conventions to focus on NZNO campaigns.(news and events)
February 1, 2004... NZNO LEADERS are hoping at least half the organisation's delegates will attend this year's regional conventions, which begin next month and will explore the theme "Striking the balance". The major aim of the eight conventions is to increase...

District nurse 'a star' in TV reality show.(news and events)
February 1, 2004... IT TOOK district nurse Barbara Peddie about 20 minutes to get used to being followed by a television camera during the filming for the TV reality show Coromandel Med last summer. The programme recorded the work of three local GPs, Peddie...

Opposition to section 100D grows.(news and events)
February 1, 2004... OPPOSITION AMONG NZNO and other union members to section 100D, one of the proposed changes to the Employment Relations Act, continues to grow. NZNO strongly opposes this section, which would restrict industrial action in the health sector....

Diabetes specialist endorsed as nurse practitioner.(news and events)
February 1, 2004... LONG-TIME Manawatu diabetes nurse specialist, Helen Snell (right), has been endorsed as the country's 10th nurse practitioner (NP). The endorsement is the culmination of a nursing life devoted to the care of people with diabetes, and the...

No extra money for PHO nursing services 'disappointing'.(news and events)
February 1, 2004... THE MINISTRY of Health has made it clear there will be no extra funding for nursing services within primary health organisations (PHO), according to College of Practice Nurses NZNO chair Rosemary Minto (formerly Jamieson). While...

New nursing director Maori for MidCentral innovation project.(news and events)
February 1, 2004... MIDCENTRAL DISTRICT Health Board's (MDHB) newly appointed director of primary health care nursing Maori, Leigh Hikawai (right), senses destiny has drawn her to this new, ground-breaking role. Hikawai, who is of Ngati Kahungunu and Tuhoe...

Childhood asthma study reaches final stage.(news and events)
February 1, 2004... AN INTERNATIONAL Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) has now begun its third and final stage. It is arguably the largest epidemiological study with children ever undertaken and aims to evaluate the extent and possible causes of...

Wellington to host cultural safety forum.(news and events)
February 1, 2004... NEXT MONTH'S cultural safety forum at Wellington's Tapu Te Ranga Marae follows on from last year's successful forum at the Western Institute of Technology in Taranaki. Organised by the Wellington cultural safety collective, the three-day...

NZNO raises money for Niue.(news and events)
February 1, 2004... NZNO HAS established a relief fund to assist in the rebuilding of Niue, following the devastation caused by Cyclone Heta last month. Of particular concern is the plight of nurses, having to cope with the destruction of the hospital. A...

The 2004 calendar.(Calendar)
February 1, 2004... NZNO MEETING DATES, ACTIVITIES AND OTHER IMPORTANT DATES new zealand nurses' organisation THE 2004 CALENDAR NZNO MEETING DATES, ACTIVITIES AND OTHER IMPORTANT DATES FEBRUARY 20 Nerf Board of Trustees 25 CTU...

Nurses go purple to voice pay concerns.(news and events)
February 1, 2004... LAST DECEMBER'S Go Purple Day--a national day of action focusing on NZNO's Fair Pay Campaign--had NZNO members up and down the country sporting NZNO's trademark purple. In the spirit of Christmas, Go Purple Day set out to demonstrate that...

Moving on with no regrets: long-time NZNO staff member Trevor Warr leaves the organisation at the end of this month. Here he shares some history, and makes some challenging, observations and reflections on an organisation he knows very well.(news focus)
February 1, 2004... TREVOR WARR'S family has grown up with NZNA/NZNO. His oldest child now 18, was just a toddler when he began as an organiser for NZNA in Christchurch. As his own family has grown and expanded (there are now three), so too has the organisation...

Trialling smoking cessation drug among Maori: a nurse researcher is encouraged by preliminary results from a research project assessing the effectiveness of the smoking cessation medication Brupopion within a Maori client group.(research)
February 1, 2004... FOR THE past two years, nurse researcher Carmen Timu-Parata has been involved in trialling the smoking cessation drug Bupropion (trading under the name Zyban) on a Maori client group. This has been her first research role and one that's proved...

Evidence alone is not enough to bring about practice change: why are some nurses, when presented with evidence-based practice, still reluctant to change their practice? What would help them embrace and sustain change? A nurse-initiated study provides some answers.(practice)
February 1, 2004... EVIDENCE-BASED practice is an accepted responsibility of professional nursing. Yet, despite the existence of robust evidence based practice for intramuscular (IM) injection sites, many nurses still use less defensible sites. Our research...

Assisting families with the process of organ donation: helping families through the process of organ donation is a vital role, which demands a range of nursing skills.(profile)
February 1, 2004... BEING INVOLVED with grieving donor families is at once the hardest and most rewarding aspect of registered nurse Janice Langlands' role as one of the country's two national donor co-ordinators, both based at Green Lane Hospital. Once a...

Hindsight--isn't it a wonderful thing?(viewpoint)
February 1, 2004... ONE OF the first charge nurses I ever worked with once said to me that hindsight was a wonderful thing. This comment has stuck with me over my eight years of nursing. At the time she said it, I was sitting in her office in tears, devastated...

Just another day's work in critical care: preparing a patient for organ donation, making a deceased road crash victim look presentable for her family, and supporting a new nurse unsure of the critical care environment are just some of the challenges that faced a nurse over one day.(practice)
February 1, 2004... I AM A senior staff nurse in a large and busy critical care unit and this article is a description of one day at work. On that particular day I was working as a runner. This meant I was a resource person, helping the other nurses with their...

Time to start work on professional portfolios: as competence-based practising certificates become a reality, registered nurses need to develop their professional portfolios.(professional focus)
February 1, 2004... IT IS the beginning of another year and time to get started on a professional portfolio. For those of you who already have a gleaming example of your nursing practice ready to go, well done! This is not for you, so you can turn to the next...

The power of member activism: speaking to the media, lobbying MPs or simply wearing a Fair Pay T-shirt are all legitimate ways of becoming an active NZNO member.(industrial focus)
February 1, 2004... ON OCTOBER 31, 2003, over 200,000 New Zealanders woke up to a blast of NZNO member activism. The front page of the New Zealand Herald that morning--circulation 207, 299--featured Wellington nurse and midwife Carol McCord's response to a...

Symposium highlights nursing research: encouraging a research culture is the aim of Waikato DHB's new nursing research and development unit.(conference report)
February 1, 2004... A NURSING symposium held at Waikato Hospital last December was an opportunity to highlight the importance of nursing research and the ongoing collaboration between the district health board's (DHB) recently established nursing research and...

Professional misconduct leads to name removal.(nursing council)
February 1, 2004... A REGISTERED comprehensive nurse, Erwin Vincent Jamiro Cuevas, has been found guilty of professional misconduct, in a Nursing Council decision in February last year. The nurse's name has been removed from the register for two years. Cuevas...

Drug conviction leads to disciplinary action.(nursing council)
February 1, 2004... THE NURSING Council has removed the name of Lisa Jane Kennedy from the register of comprehensive nurses, following her conviction in the Invercargill District Court under Section 11(1)(A) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, for which the Court...

Nurse struck off for misappropriating funds.(nursing council)
February 1, 2004... A REGISTERED psychopaedic nurse, Deborah Karen Ashby, has had her name removed from the register of psychopaedic nurses. The Nursing Council, in its decision in April last year, exercised its disciplinary powers in respect of Ashby's conviction...

Convictions lead to serious orders by council.(nursing council)
February 1, 2004... A REGISTERED comprehensive nurse Todd Dennis Baker has had his name removed from the register for two years. The Nursing Council made its decision in Feburary last year after hearing evidence of Baker's convictions in the New Plymouth District...

Students develop strategic plan.(national student unit)
February 1, 2004... NZNO National Student Unit's (NSU) first-ever strategic planning meeting, held in Wellington in December, has set some clear goals for the future. NSU vice-chair Ashton Stewart said the day broke new ground for delegates and has helped the NSU...

Profiling Hine Hikairo.(national student unit)
February 1, 2004... KA RERE atu nga awa o kaimai. Ki te whakakotahi a te awa, Rongonui a Wairoa taku kainga, Wairoa toku turanga, Wairoa toku ukaipo, Wairoa toku moemoea. Ko Hinehui Hikairo ahau. Tihei Mauri ora. I was born and raised in the south Waikato...

NZNO supports 'no lifting' policy.(board of directors)
February 1, 2004... THE BOARD of directors has supported the adoption of a "no lifting" policy among health workers and the recommendation of a 16-kilogram lifting threshold, as outlined in ACC's recently published Patient Handling Guidelines. In a special...

Reimbursing members for time spent on NZNO work.(board of directors)
February 1, 2004... NZNO IS increasingly being asked to reimburse members for time spent in participating in NZNO activities. Its original policy was to reimburse only members of standing committees, ie board of directors, the nursing and midwifery advisory...

More focus on midwives.(board of directors)
February 1, 2004... A PLAN to improve communication with NZNO's midwife members will be implemented. This follows a report by organising services manager Laila Harre in which she raised the issue of how NZNO related to its midwife members and whether NZNO could or...

NZNO membership growing.(board of directors)
February 1, 2004... TOTAL NZNO membership peaked at 35,000 for the period August/September last year, according to business services manager Dragan Radic. However, the more realistic figure was around 34,600, he said. Of the 35,000 members, 23,392 were...

DHB sector group is making progress on priorities.(sector reports)
February 1, 2004... THE DISTRICT Health Board (DHB) Sector Group has made significant progress on many of the issues first identified as part of its work plan. Issues the group identified when it was established in June 2003 and which it is working on are: []...

New format for industrial news.(sector reports)
February 1, 2004... THIS YEAR we are making a change to the format of industrial news in Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand, with the introduction of sector reports instead of regional reports written by organisers. In June 2003 five sector groups were established...

Fair pay campaign flows into private sector.(sector reports)
February 1, 2004... NURSES EMPLOYED in Dunstan and Oamaru Hospitals entered their contract negotiations last year expecting to achieve the South Island Multi-Employer Collective Agreement (MECA) rates. Nurses in hospitals in Dunedin, Invercargill, Queenstown and...

National MECA for medical radiation technologists.
February 1, 2004... THE HEALTH Professionals New Zealand (HPNZ) Sector Group was intended to cover members who were non nurses and whose area of employment did not fit within other sector groups. It might have been labelled "allied health sector group", except for...

Successful action at presbyterian support sites.
February 1, 2004... PRIOR To Christmas, a long-running dispute over wage and conditions at Presbyterian Support Central (PSC) was successfully resolved. The negotiations involved more than 300 NZNO and Service and Food Workers' Union members, spread over 15 PSC...

Practice nurses to move towards fair pay.
February 1, 2004... PREPARATIONS FOR practice nurse negotiations are due to start this month. The objective of these negotiations will be to move practice nurses towards pay parity with their district health board and primary health care colleagues, thus...

Public health nurses prepare for survey.(section news)
February 1, 2004... CAPTURING THE essence and breadth of practice that is unique to public health nursing nationally--so that it can be understood and valued--remains an ongoing challenge for NZNO's public health nurses' section. The section met for two days in...

Donations sought for nurses' cottage.(section news)
February 1, 2004... A HOLIDAY cottage for nurses in Opua Bay, Queen Charlotte Sounds, has a long and proud history, dating back to its bequest by Joshua Johnson in 1925. Johnson donated the cottage to nurses in the Wellington region in gratitude to the nursing...

Morley receives award.(section news)
February 1, 2004... LATE LAST year, members of the critical care nurses' section nominated their chairperson Annie Morley, for a national services to NZNO award. Unfortunately, her award was overlooked when the other winners were announced at NZNO conference in...

Event: conferences & venues 2003/2004.(NZNO)(Calendar)
February 1, 2004... Events Conferences & Venues 2003/2004 2004 Feb 14 1st International Womin's Symposium. Contact: Dr Szuson Wong, Ph: 021 895 887, email:...