Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand articles from February 2009

Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand archives from February 2009

Applying the political process creatively.(Editorial)
February 1, 2009... Creative processes are vital to our culture as a nation and our culture as a profession. The creative process, be it in art or writing or choreography, etc, starts with allowing our mind(s) to wander, trial and capture the ideas that will...

Nursing council's plans cause confusion.(LETTERS: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2009... I am a hospital-trained registered nurse (RN) with 25 years' experience in operating theatres. I am employed in a private hospital, along with seven other RNs, two enrolled nurses (ENs) and four visiting surgical assistants. Among us we...

Ova the top?(LETTERS: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2009... As I was perusing the advertising section in the November Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand, idly considering further postgraduate study or work in Saudi Arabia, I was somewhat taken aback to see the ad "Egg Donor Needed" (p45). Wondering if my...

Child abuse challenges for nurses.(LETTERS: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2009... The 2008 Christmas period has been one of shame for New Zealand child health statistics. It seemed to me that there were cases of alleged child abuse (intentional injuries) reported almost daily in our national media. It is imperative that...

Practising certificate delay frustrating.(LETTERS: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2009... I have been a New Zealand registered nurse (RN) for five years. For most of the Last three years, I have travelled the world and worked in hospitals in the United Kingdom, experiences which have developed me as a nurse and a human being. ...

Conference address inspiring.(LETTERS: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2009... I am writing to congratulate my friend and colleague, Jane Lawless, on the address she gave to NZNO's conference in September 2008. It was reprinted as "Why dignity at work is imperative for nurses" in the December 2008/January 2009 issue of...

New Zealand nurses should sit IELTS.(LETTERS: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2009... Thank you for the interesting article about the experiences of oversees--trained nurses working in New Zealand (A mixed picture: The experience of overseas-trained nurses in New Zealand, Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand, November 2008, pp18-19)....

The right to be treated with compassion.(LETTERS: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2009... I write as a trustee of the Centre for Compassion in HeaLthcare here in Auckland. This trust requests nurses and health service workers to support a national campaign to amend the Code of Health and Disability Consumers' Rights by adding "The...

Our cup runneth over ...(LETTERS: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2009... Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand readers will know of the Pacific Uplift project to supply bras to women in the Pacific, notably Vanuatu. You have responded magnificently in getting bras to me, from all over the country and we collected more than...

New unit director appointed.(NEWS AND EVENTS)(Jane Lawless)
February 1, 2009... Long-time NZNO activist, emergency nurse, and a member of the Committee of Inquiry (COT) into Safe Staffing and Healthy Workplaces (SSHW), Waikato Hospital nurse co-ordinator Jane Lawless (right), has been appointed the new director of the SSHW...

Centennial programme taking shape.(NEWS AND EVENTS)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Hester Maclean, the inaugural president of the New Zealand Trained Nurses' Association (NZTNA), NZNO's predecessor, will grace NZNO's centennial conference in September. After her highly successful appearance at Kai...

New era at nursing council.(NEWS AND EVENTS)(Carolyn Reed appointed as chief executive at Nursing Council)
February 1, 2009... The Nursing Council is facing a new era, with acting chief executive/registrar for the Last five months, Carolyn Reed, appointed to the position permanently, a new chair, Margaret Southwick, and a major new research project to determine if the...

Ministerial group lacks nurses.(NEWS AND EVENTS)(Tony Ryall's Ministerial Group)
February 1, 2009... The new Health Minister Tony Ryall's Ministerial Group to advise on improving the public health is a good idea, despite its inadequate nursing representation and problems about how the group was chosen, according to NZNO chief executive Geoff...

Fund encourages new researchers.(NEWS AND EVENTS)
February 1, 2009... STAR's final funding round for nursing and allied health research grants, PhD scholarships and post-doctoral fellowships doses on February 27. STAR (Strategy to Advance Research) is a $2.7 million project funded by the Tertiary Education...

Nurse seeks support to promote peace.(NEWS AND EVENTS)(Amanda Ruler)
February 1, 2009... Australian registered nurse and south Australian branch co-ordinator for the Medical Association for Prevention of War (MAPW), Amanda Ruler (pictured right), would like to form links with New Zealand nurses interested in promoting the...

Reducing the risk of violence in the workplace.(NEWS AND EVENTS)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... A guide to reducing the risk of workplace violence in the health and community care sectors has been released by the Department of Labour and the Counties Manukau District Health Board (DHB). Called Managing the Risk of Workplace Violence...

Welsh Campaign aims to save 1000 Lives.(NEWS AND EVENTS)
February 1, 2009... A national patient safety campaign, launched in Wales last year, aims to reduce avoidable hospital deaths by 1000 and episodes of harm by 50,000 over two-years. The 1000 Lives Campaign's focus is on changing the way hospitals work in order to...

Establishing a Primary Health Care college.(NEWS AND EVENTS)
February 1, 2009... NZNO's Primary Health Care (PHC) Nursing Advisory Committee is to act as a steering group for work on the establishment of a PHC nurses' college. This decision was made at a special meeting at the end of last month, called by NZNO's board of...

Award for diabetes paediatric nurse specialist.(NEWS AND EVENTS)(Rosalie Hornung)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Diabetes nurse specialist at Auckland's Starship Children's Health, Rosalie Hornung, is the grand prize winner of the Lilly Partnership in Diabetes Awards 2008. She also won the diabetes specialist nurses' category. The annual awards...

Te Runanga members to present at ICN congress.(NEWS AND EVENTS)(International Council of Nurses )(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Three of four abstracts put forward by members of Te Runanga O Aotearoa NZNO for presentation at the Council of Nurses' (ICN) quadrennial congress in Durban, South Africa, at the end of June, have been accepted. The first, to be presented...

Kai Tiaki journal club begins this month.(NEWS AND EVENTS)
February 1, 2009... Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand's pilot journal club is Launched in this issue, with a student piece on an ethical dilemma, Working through an ethical dilemma (p12-13), as the inaugural discussion article. The purposes of the on-line journal...

Working through an ethical dilemma: while on a clinical placement, a second-year nursing student faced a complex ethical dilemma. She explains how she worked through the issues involved.(EXEMPLAR)
February 1, 2009... Ethics is the study of good conduct, character and motives, and is concerned with determining what is good or valuable for all people. (1) Nurses regularly face ethical challenges in their practice. (2) This exemplar identifies an ethical...

New structure to provide equity for all students: building on the work of those who have preceded them, new student leaders Michelle Wipiiti and Paula King ere committed to ensuring the new national student unit structure gives all students a voice.(PROFILE)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Making a positive contribution towards shaping the teaming environment for all nursing students, both current and future, is what motivates National Student Unit (NSU) chair Michette Wipiiti. A third-year student...

NZNO loses a golden opportunity to make important symbolic gesture: a nurse educator ponders whether NZNO lost a golden opportunity to take a symbolic lead in workforce development when a remit at last year's annual general meeting was defeated.(VIEWPOINT)
February 1, 2009... This article was written following the defeat of a policy remit submitted by NZNO's National Student Unit (NZNO) at NZNO's annual general meeting in September last year. The remit requested that a Te Runanga Tauira (formerly Tauira Aronui)...

Empowering those with disabilities: a clinical placement caring for people with disabilities provided a student nurse with the opportunity to face up to her own prejudices and develop new attitudes to caring for those with disabilities.(VIEWPOINT)(Personal account)
February 1, 2009... Nurses have a responsibility to provide care consistent with the unique needs of individual patients. However, there appears to be a lack of awareness about how to care for people with disabilities. (1,2) Barriers by way of attitudes,...

Cultural immersion enhances nursing skills: a desire to strengthen her cultural safety skills led a Canadian nursing student to New Zealand to participate in an international practicum.(VIEWPOINT)
February 1, 2009... Ko te mea tuatahi, ko te mihi ki a Io taketake. (The first acknowledgement is to God, m whom all things derive.) Ka whakahonoretia te Kingi Maori, a Tuheitia, me te Kahui Ariki nui tonu. (I pay homage to the Maori King and the Royal...

Do we need a second midwifery scope? Would a second-level scope of practice for midwifery help solve the midwifery shortage and what would the effect be on the profession as a whole? NZNO members have their say.(PROFESSIONAL FOCUS)(New Zealand Nurses Organisation)
February 1, 2009... Last September, NZNO sent out a questionnaire to midwifery members, seeking their response to the proposal by the Midwifery Council to investigate the possible introduction of a second-level scope of practice for a midwife assistant. This is...

A series of mistakes lead to patient's death: a Health and Disability Commissioner case highlights the importance of registered nurses reading all documentation accompanying a patient and of the need for dear communication.(LEGAL FOCUS)
February 1, 2009... Registered nurses' poor documentation and communication and their failure to follow up medication queries resulted in the death of a patient, in a case investigated by the Health and Disability Commissioner. (1) The patient, who had been...

Student delegates gear up to tackle a range of issues: National Student Unit and Te Runanga Tauira delegates, operating under a new partnership structure, have a hectic year ahead tackling a range of issues.(NATIONAL STUDENT UNIT)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A number of burning issues emerged at the inaugural three-day meeting of the National Student Unir (NSU) last month, under its new partnership structure. The new structure enables one NSU and Te Runanga Tauira (TRT)...

Building relationships among Maori students.(TE RUNANGA)
February 1, 2009... Te Runanga Tauira (TRT) hopes 2009 will be the year firm relationships among Maori undergraduate nursing students from across the country will be established. Connections will be forged through the students' shared cultural identity and their...

Nursing the anthroposophical way: Anthroposophical nursing aims to improve life quality and patients' capacity to self-heal.(PRACTICE)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Anthroposophical nursing takes an holistic, therapeutic approach to health and illness, taking into account not only the physical body, but also the patient's vital psychological and spiritual condition. Therapies...

Building the board team.(BOARD OF DIRECTORS)
February 1, 2009... The first day of the December 2008 NZNO board of directors' (BoD) meeting was dedicated to team building. This session was run by the director of communications company, The Effect, Annette Ryan. Most board members found this extremely...

Mental health research project.(SECTION/COLLEGE NEWS)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Members of NZNO's mental health nurses' section national committee are developing a research project to investigate the state of primary mental health care and the training of primary mental health nurses. ...

Practice nurse awards now open.(SECTION/COLLEGE NEWS)
February 1, 2009... Outside the square" is the theme of the College of Practice Nurses NZNO annual conference in Palmerston North in early May. Hosted by the college's Manawatu division, the conference, from May 1-3, will feature keynote speaker and World...

Diabetes skills framework launched.(SECTION/COLLEGE NEWS)
February 1, 2009... A National Diabetes Nursing Knowledge and Skills Framework is to have its national launch in Hastings on February 23. The launch is being hosted by the Hawke's Bay District Health Board (DHB), the Ministry of Health and NZNO's diabetes nurse...

Nurses' roles in secondary schools.(SECTION/COLLEGE NEWS)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The state of health services in schools was the subject of a meeting in Wellington between members of the public health nurses' section and Ministry of Health senior policy analyst, nursing, Christine Andrews, at the...

En study day.(SECTION/COLLEGE NEWS)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Pathway to Liverpool: Care of the relatives of the dying patient was the title of a one-day study day for enrolled nurses (EN) in the central region last November. Chair of the central EN section, Elsa Morgan, said the day was a great...

Second PHC MECA endorsed overwhelmingly.(SECTOR REPORTS)(primary health care, multi-employer collective agreement)
February 1, 2009... The second national primary health care (PHC) multi-employer collective agreement (MECA), which delivers pay increases of between 8.7 and 9.7 percent over a 26-month term, has been overwhelmingly ratified by members. The vote was held by...

Still no pay rise for Rosebank workers.(SECTOR REPORTS)
February 1, 2009... Members at Rosebank are still trying to achieve a fair settlement in collective agreement (CA) negotiations initiated almost a year ago. Rosebank is an aged-care residentiaL home and hospital in Ashburton, owned by Stuart Leck through Lexson...

Campaign to secure more money for Maori health workers intensifies.(SECTOR REPORTS)
February 1, 2009... NZNO and Maori and iwi providers are to intensify their campaign for additional funding--estimated at around $11 million--to achieve pay parity for those working in the sector. A hui in December between the NZNO and employer teams...

Continuing staff shortages in the Wairarapa.(SECTOR REPORTS)
February 1, 2009... In the last year, members working at Wairarapa District Health Board (DHB) have regularly reported shortages of nurses to cover I the basic roster in most areas of the hospital I The particular current "hotspots" are the medical/surgical ward,...

What a difference a year makes.(SECTOR REPORTS)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... NZNO and National Union of Public Employees (NUPE) members at Brackenridge, a Christchurch residential facility for those with intellectual disabilities, have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a new collective agreement (CA).The CA delivers pay...

Events 2009.(Calendar)
February 1, 2009... EVENTS 2009 2009 19-21 Feb NZNO Women Health Section Conference Wanaka www.nzno.org.nz/site/sections/sections/ women_health/conference.aspx 2009 19-20 Feb NZNO Respiratory Nurses Christchurch...