Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand articles from February 2007

Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand archives from February 2007

Demonstrating advanced nursing capabilities.(Editorial)
February 1, 2007... The focus for this month's Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand is advanced and extended practice. But just how do nurses in New Zealand understand the term? In my experience, understandings and interpretations can be many and varied, to some degree...

Letters highlight breastfeeding conflicts.(LETTERS: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2007... The letters published in the December/January 2006/2007 issue of Koi Tiaki Nursing New Zealand (p3-4) in response to Wendy Hicks' Viewpoint on breastfeeding choices (Respecting breastfeeding choices, October 2006, p23) highlight conflicts and...

Writer thankful for understanding.(LETTERS: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2007... I would like to thank Ruth DeSouza for her letter, Experiences of migrant mothers, (Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand, December/January 2006/ 2007, p3) in response to my article Respecting breastfeeding choices, (Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand,...

Concerns about council audit process.(LETTERS: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2007... Now that I have successfully completed an audit with the Nursing Council prior to obtaining my registered nurse (RN) annual practising certificate (APC) for the next 12 months, I feel I must, via this forum, share some concerns. I am fully...

Parenting is a vital asset for nurses.(LETTERS: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2007... I feel the Nursing Council should recognise that full-time parenting of preschoolers is as good as, if not better than, clinical experience. Many nurses working today had the opportunity to be home full-time when their families were young....

Students questions prompt response.(LETTERS: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2007... I was pleased to see Lisa Kenyon's letter, Questions haunt nursing student, in the December/ January 2006/2007 issue of Kai Tioki Nursing New Zealand (p4). The questions she has reflected on indicate she is going to be an amazing nurse. I...

Study support appreciated.(LETTERS: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2007... I would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank the Nursing Education and Research Foundation (NERF) for the support given to me via an education grant. I was one of the recipients of the October 2006 enrolled nurse (EN) award. I am...

Loving tribute to a colleague and friend.(LETTERS: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2007... I had the great pleasure of getting to know Anne Lensen during the last few years of her life where we (initially) worked in adjoining offices at Massey University. From the start, Anne's ability to focus on what was occurring...

The president comments ...(LETTERS: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2007... It is hard to believe we are half way through the second month of 2007. I hope many of you were able to have time to rest, relax and renew your energy in readiness for another busy year. Already my calendar is rapidly filling up and I find...

Nominations called for NZNO president and Te Runanga chair.(LETTERS: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2007... This year is an election year in NZNO and nominations are being called for the positions of president, Te Runanga chair and vice chair, the nursing and midwifery advisory committee (NMAC) and the two national college/section representatives on...

Minister agrees to fund safe staffing unit.(NEWS AND EVENTS)(Pete Hodgson )
February 1, 2007... Health Minister Pete Hodgson has agreed to fund a safe staffing unit, the key recommendation of the Committee of Inquiry (Col) into Safe Staffing and Healthy Workplaces. At a meeting earlier this month with NZNO chief executive Geoff...

Winning in a hostile industrial environment.(NEWS AND EVENTS)(unions labor agreement )(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... NZNO organising services' manager Cee Payne-Harker was one of five New Zealand union leaders who attended an education forum convened by the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) in Canberra early this month. The forum, hosted by the ACTU's...

Fair play campaign to be launched next month.(NEWS AND EVENTS)(New Zealand Nurses Organisation)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... The second set of negotiations for the NZNO/ District Health Board (DHB) Nurses' and Midwives' Multi-Employer Collective Agreement (MECA) are scheduled for late this month, with the formal launch of NZNO's Fair Play Campaign scheduled for...

ICN focus on patient care.(NEWS AND EVENTS)(International Council of Nurses)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Positive practice environments: Quality workplaces = quality patient care is the theme for International Nurses' Day (IND) on May 12. The International Council of Nurses (ICN)-sponsored day marks Florence Nightingale's birthday. Important...

Ministry and council fail to agree on ENS.(NEWS AND EVENTS)(enrolled nurses)
February 1, 2007... The Ministry of Health and the Nursing Council have been unable to agree on a joint position on the employment of enrolled nurses (EN) in acute care. In June last year, following a forum on nurse assistants (NA), the two organisations agreed to...

Members to vote on PHC Meca next month.(NEWS AND EVENTS)(primary health care)
February 1, 2007... NZNO's primary health care (PHC) members will vote on the PHI: Multi-employer Collective Agreement (MECA) next month. The MECA was agreed last month but NZNO has had to wait until New Zealand Medical Association (NZMA) members ratified the...

Rita McEwan--nursing leading, reformer and visionary.(NEWS AND EVENTS)(Biography)
February 1, 2007... With the death of Rita (Esmae) McEwan last November in Wellington, psychiatric nursing in New Zealand has lost one of its early trailblazers. McEwan was born in 1918 and educated in Canterbury. She registered as a psychiatric nurse at...

Study into musculoskeletal disorders begins this month.(NEWS AND EVENTS)
February 1, 2007... Nearly 300 nurses, randomly selected from the Nursing Council database, will soon have the opportunity to take part in international research into musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) such as back, neck, arm or knee pain. New Zealand is one of...

Campaign to promote NP model.(NEWS AND EVENTS)(Nurse Practitioner)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... A proposed model for nurse practitioner (NP) training could see a set number of state-funded places being offered to NPs each year in particular specialities, along the same lines as the registrar model for training physicians and surgeons. ...

Funding boost for workforce study.(NEWS AND EVENTS)(nurse workforce research study funding from Health Research Council )(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... A funding grant of $233,414 from the Health Research Council of New Zealand for an international online nursing workforce study will be used to encourage more nurses to take part. Launched a year ago, the Nurses E-cohort Study is a joint...

First NP in emergency care.(NEWS AND EVENTS)(nurse practitioner )(Michael Geraghty )(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Emergency care has its first nurse practitioner (NP) with the accreditation of Michael Geraghty (right) from Auckland City Hospital's emergency department (ED). Geraghty has been working in emergency care for close to 15 years and has been...

Hawke's Bay collaborative centre to encourage best practice.(NEWS AND EVENTS)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... The new Collaborating Centre for Practice Development, a joint initiative of Hawke's Bay District Health Board (DHB) and the Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT), was launched last month, with guest speaker the Ministry of Health's chief...

Play to celebrate the work of nurses.(NEWS AND EVENTS)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... A play celebrating the work of nurses is being performed this month as part of Wellington's Fringe Festival. According to nurse-turned-actor Phillipa Bonnett, who also wrote the play, Bloody Heroes is inspired by nursing stories and enemas....

Changes to student loan scheme called for.(NEWS AND EVENTS)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Hundreds of qualified nurses could be excluded from practising as a result of student loan eligibility rules, according to NZNO. Nurses who have been out of practice for more than five years are required to complete a return-to-nursing...

Increased funding for rural midwives.(NEWS AND EVENTS)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Rural midwives are to receive an extra $2 million dollars this year, following an announcement from Associate Minister of Health Damien O'Connor late last year. The funding will be allocated according to the Rural Ranking Scale, which is...

New Zealand contributes to new UN convention.(NEWS AND EVENTS)(United Nations International Convention on Disability Rights)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... New Zealand's contribution to the recently adopted United Nations (UN) International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was considerable and something to be proud of, according to Minister for Disability Issues Ruth Dyson....

Getting a poet's eye view of hospital life: an imaginative collaboration between Wellington Hospital and Victoria University's Graduate School of Nursing and Midwifery has inspired the creation of a unique book of poetry and photographs.(NEWS FOCUS)
February 1, 2007... Capturing in poetry special moments between nursing and midwifery staff and their patients was the aim of a "poet in residence" scheme at Wellington Hospital, funded by the Graduate School of Nursing and Midwifery at Victoria University and...

Managing diabetes in pregnancy: to deliver a healthy baby, a woman with diabetes must control and manage her diabetes well, both before conception and throughout her pregnancy, says a diabetes nurse specialist.(PROFILE)(Clinical report)
February 1, 2007... Diabetes nurse pregnancy specialist at Waikato District Health Board (DHB), Elizabeth Johnson, is passionate that women with diabetes (both pre-existing types I and 2, and those who develop diabetes during pregnancy) should receive optimal care...

Helping nurses avoid some pitfalls on the path to publication: writing for publication is not easy. Members of Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand's practice article review commitee provide some suggestions to encourage potential nursing authors to share their practice and/or research with others.(EDUCATION)
February 1, 2007... Members of Koi Tiald Nursing New Zealand's practice article review committee review clinical articles sent to the journal by nurses. Currently, we receive a batch of articles two or three times a year and discuss them with the journal...

Constructing media images of nursing: how does the media represent nurses when reporting on nurse prescribing? Do doctors dominate the discourse? One nurse observer thinks so.(RESEARCH)
February 1, 2007... Prescribing is potentially one of the most contentious issues facing nursing. The issue appears in the media from time to time and the comments broadcast and published could provide insight into representations of nurses and nursing. A...

Preparing to be an expert witness: more specialist nurses are needed to provide expert evidence or advice in a range of courts and tribunals. Good preparation for the task is essential.(LEGAL FOCUS)
February 1, 2007... When a patient death or the care provided to a patient is subject to a legal enquiry, nurses can be called to act as witnesses, either as witnesses of fact or witnesses of opinion. Witnesses of fact provide evidence about what they saw,...

Contracting as a career option for nurses: a nurse who feels trapped and powerless in a permanent nursing position will often leave nursing altogether, rather than seeking a more flexible way of working. Contracting can offer much greater freedom and autonomy.(VIEWPOINT)
February 1, 2007... Consider the following facts: nearly 20 percent of nurses not practising say if more flexible hours of work were available, they would consider returning to the clinical workforce. (1) Secondly, among reasons cited by nurses choosing not to...

Subspecialisation--is it good for nursing? A recent international nursing forum discussed the future of nursing specialisation and the increasing demand from nurses for accreditation of subspecialties.(PROFESSIONAL FOCUS)(Conference news)
February 1, 2007... Subspecialisation in nursing was a key issue at the sixth International Council of Nurses' (ICN) Credentialing Forum held in Copenhagen, Denmark, last November. NZNO president Marion Guy and I attended, along with Nursing Council chief...

Industrial aims for the year ahead: 2007 promises to be a challenging year for NZNO's industrial team.(INDUSTRIAL FOCUS)(New Zealand Nurses Organisation)
February 1, 2007... The goal of NZNO's industrial services team for 2007 is to achieve excellence. Being excellent is doing the very best with what you have and know today. To be excellent requires us to exhibit the following attributes--exciting, confirming,...

The journey to nursing.(NATIONAL STUDENT UNIT)
February 1, 2007... Oh, my boy, what have you done?!" This single sentence, laden with dismay and inauspicious overtones, was the unusual beginning of my three-year journey to becoming a nursing student. As a carefree 20-something, I had prioritised personal...

Parihaka--a place to heal.(TE RUNANGA)(Te Runanga celebrates Parihaka International Peace Festival)
February 1, 2007... He mihi mahana tenei ki a koutou me to koutou whanau mo te tau hou It's hard to believe Christmas has been and gone and, by the time this magazine is printed, February will be well underway. Things have been fairly quiet over the past...

Policy on international meetings to be developed.(BOARD OF DIRECTORS)
February 1, 2007... NZNO chief executive Geoff Annals is to develop a format policy on NZNO's participation at international meetings. In a discussion paper to the board, Annals said policy was needed to set out the basis for NZNO decisions on NZNO engagement in...

Safe staffing unit should be up and running by June.(BOARD OF DIRECTORS)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... The safe staffing unit, recommended in the report of the Safe Staffing Committee of Inquiry (CoI), released in late May last year, should be up and running around the middle of 2007, according to NZNO chief executive Geoff Annals. In his report...

Regions need to support NZNO's partnership.(BOARD OF DIRECTORS)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... NZNO and Te Runanga's partnership is not working welt in the regions, according to Te Runanga. Chair Brenda Close told the board meeting that there had been instances around the country where Te Runanga representatives had not felt comfortable...

NZNO wants elections for nursing council.(BOARD OF DIRECTORS)(New Zealand Nurses Organisation )(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... NZNO is to lobby for nurses to determine the nurse members on Nursing Council. The board decided NZNO should lobby for regulation of an electoral process, which is provided for under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance (HPCA) Act....

No financial help for other NNAs.(BOARD OF DIRECTORS)(National Nursing Associations)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... The board voted against providing financial support to national nursing associations (NNAs) in undeveloped countries so their representatives could attend the International Council of Nurses' (ICN) conference in June. NZNO president Marion Guy...

August board meeting scheduled.(BOARD OF DIRECTORS)
February 1, 2007... The board is to attend Te Runanga's annual general hui (AGH) in Wellington on August 17-19 and will also hold its scheduled August meeting. Te Runanga chair Brenda Close said board members who attended last year's AGH at Omaka Marae in Blenheim...

Women's health nurses think outside the square.(SECTION/COLLEGE NEWS)(Conference news)
February 1, 2007... Think Outside the Square was the theme of the 5th annual Women's Health (NZNO) conference, held in Christchurch early last November. Organised by a committee of seven Christchurch Women's Hospital nurses, it provided a diverse programme with...

Interested in becoming an NP mentor?(SECTION/COLLEGE NEWS)(Nurse Practitioner)
February 1, 2007... NZNO members interested in training to be mentors for nurse practitioner (NP) applicants will be invited to attend a training day on either July 18 or 19 at the Nursing Council in Wellington. The NZNO NP volunteer mentor programme,...

Section/college funding model under review.(SECTION/COLLEGE NEWS)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... The current funding model for sections and colleges is to be reviewed after the end of this financial year on March 31. The current "core funding model" was introduced on a transitional basis in 2004, with 2005 the first full year of...

Correction.(SECTION/COLLEGE NEWS)(Correction notice)
February 1, 2007... Two names were spelt incorrectly in a report on a Nurses for Children and Young People of Aotearoa seminar by Deb Parry in the December/January 2006/2007 (p32). The correct names are Michael Brand and Tracey Bruce.

Petition presented at parliament.(SECTOR REPORTS)(aged care funding to be included in the budget)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... A last-minute surge of signatures had pushed the total to 33,000, when NZNO and Service and Food Workers' Union delegates presented the aged-care petition to MPs gathered on Parliament steps in December. The petition, launched on International...

Palliative care funding must go to hospices--NZNO.(SECTOR REPORTS)(New Zealand Nurses Organisation)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... It is vital the bulk of the extra $4.7 million for palliative care, which Health Minister Pete Hodgson announced just before Christmas, goes to hospices, the primary providers of palliative care around the country, according to NZNO organiser...

Delegates play a vital role in NZNO's services.(SECTOR REPORTS)(New Zealand Nurses Organisation)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... As readers of Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand and NZNO members, you will already realise the many benefits of an NZNO delegate in your workplace. What you may not realise, however, is that delegate elections for 2007 are about to occur. The...

Membership numbers leap at Auckland aged-care site.(SECTOR REPORTS)
February 1, 2007... NZNO involvement at an aged-care site in Auckland, recently purchased by Radius Residential, has seen NZNO member numbers soar from ten to close to 60. When Arran Court, formerly an independent rest-home and hospital complex in Te Atatu, was...

Big pay rises for nurses at Christian healthcare trust sites.(SECTOR REPORTS)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... A collective agreement covering NZNO and Service and Food Workers' Union members at five of Christian Healthcare Trust's six aged-care sites in Auckland has delivered substantial pay increases to registered and enrolled nurses. The agreement,...

Plunket staff ratify collective agreement.(SECTOR REPORTS)(New Zealand Nurses Organisation enables pay parity agreement )(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Plunket staff throughout the country have voted in favour of a collective agreement that delivers pay parity for Plunket nurses and moves other staff significantly closer to the goal. NZNO advocate Chris Wilson said members had voted at...