Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand articles from June 2004

Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand archives from June 2004

Nursing education--time for a re-think?(editorial)(Editorial)
June 1, 2004... IN APRIL a group of nursing leaders and educators, past and present, celebrated the 30th anniversary of the transfer of nursing education from hospitals to the tertiary sector. Undoubtedly it was an occasion to mark. It was a defining moment...

Petition breaks 100,000 barrier.(news and events)(New Zealand Nurses Organisation)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... MORE THAN 100,000 people have signed NZNO's petition calling on the Government to fund fair pay and safe starling. It is hoped to present the petition at Parliament later this month. The petition, launched on International Working Women's...

Long-serving educator among staff resignations.(news and events)
June 1, 2004... LONG-SERVING NZNO staff member Jo Duffy is among three staff who have resigned recently. The others are Auckland-based educator Chris McDonald and Wellington-based professional nursing adviser Faith Roberts. Duffy began her involvement...

Regional conventions end.(news and events)(New Zealand Nurses Organisation )(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... NZNO'S ANNUAL round of delegate conventions finished last month, with the last conventions, in Auckland. The eight conventions, with the theme "Striking the Balance", began in March with the Canterbury/West Coast convention in Christchurch....

Pay equity conference attracts international speakers.(news & events)(New Zealand Nurses Organisation )
June 1, 2004... A MAJOR conference on pay and employment equity for women, to be held in Wellington late this month, has attracted an impressive line-up of international and national experts. Organised by the National Advisory Council on the Employment...

NZNO well represented at government forum.(news & events)(New Zealand Nurses Organisation )(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... NZNO WAS the best represented union at a Government/Council of Trade Unions (CTU) forum in Christchurch last month, with 30 delegates (above). The forum was attended by Prime Minister Helen Clark, Ministers Trevor Mallard, Steve Maharey, Rick...

Staffing ratios included in consultation document.(news & events)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... RECOMMENDED MINIMUM staffing ratios for aged-care facilities have been included in a document now out for public consultation. The draft document, Staffing Effectiveness and Quality of Care Indicators, was developed by a Standards NZ...

Midwifery Council produces consultation questionnaire.(news & events)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... THE MIDWIFERY Council has produced a consultation questionnaire on midwifery scope of practice, qualifications and competencies, it wants responses by June 30. The questionnaire is acompanied by a consultation document outlining the draft...

Rural nurses get another chance for full-time study.(news & events)
June 1, 2004... SIX MORE rural health nurses (RHN) will be able to study full-time next year, thanks to an extension of the primary health care nurse practitioner (rural) scholarship scheme. In September last year, Health Minister Annette King announced...

Diabetes nurses win research funding.(news & events)
June 1, 2004... TWO SOUTH Island diabetes nurse specialists have each won $5000 in research funding from pharmaceutical group Eli Lilly. The money is part of the group's $40,000 contribution to support further study and research into diabetes in New Zealand....

Maori voice on health workforce issues.(news & events)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... A NEW group dealing with Maori health workforce issues says its first job will be to identify ways to boost recruitment of Maori into health courses. The Maori Health and Disability Workforce Sub-Committee, a new sub-committee of the Health...

Women take twice as long to repay student debt, says students' association.(news and events)(New Zealand University Students' Association)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... A COMPLAINT last year to the Human Rights Commission that the student loan scheme discriminates against women has already had an influence on the Government, the University Students' Association (NZUSA) believes. Last September, NZUSA...

Pacific nursing programme at Whitireia Community Polytechnic well underway.(news and events)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... THE 26 STUDENTS who began the country's first nursing programme specifically for Pacific students, at Whitireia Community Polytechnic, have all successfully completed the first term. Programe director Wendy Scott said highlights of the...

Honouring Plunket nursing staff.(news and events)(Eyebright Awards)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... PARENTS ARE getting another chance to honour the help given them by Plunket nurses, in the new Eyebright Awards. The awards follow the success of the "HugaPlunketNurse" initiative in 2003. Parents and caregivers are invited to write or go...

Whooping cough epidemic on the way.(news and events)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... A WHOOPING cough epidemic is building in New Zealand, expected to peak later this year, with more than double the number of notified cases so far this year. In February this year there were 127 notifications nationally, compared with 48 at...

Helping families cope with the death of a child.(news and events)
June 1, 2004... A NEW book on helping families deal with the death of a child warns against adhering too rigidly to the "stages of grief" model. A senior lecturer in nursing and midwifery at Otago Polytechnic, Alison Stewart, co-authored Sudden Death in...

Putting poverty on the agenda on International Nurses' Day.(news and events)
June 1, 2004... NURSES HAVE tended to treat poverty as something that happened to individuals, rather than a social is sue that needed a collective response. So said NZNO policy analyst Eileen Brown, who organised an International Nurses' Day (IND)...

Budget 2004--what's in it for NZNO members? Nurses, midwives and caregivers have keenly awaited this year's Budget. Money is needed for a fair pay settlement and for caregiver training. Has the Government delivered?(news focus)
June 1, 2004... JUST TWO months before the budget, the Pay and Employment Equity Taskforce released its report on the gender pay gap. The taskforce found that in the state sector, the gender gap was largest in the health sector. The difference between men's...

New nurses face endemic violence: New Zealand research on the incidence of violence faced by new graduate nurses reveals some disturbing findings. All nurses have an obligation to respond to this insidious behaviour.(research)
June 1, 2004... THE NATIONAL Business Review conducts an annual poll each year called the Respect List. A random sample of the public is asked to rate a number of professions according to the amount of respect they have for the work of each profession....

Why on earth would you want to go nursing? As a late starter in nursing, one student has been constantly asked why she chose nursing as a career. Here, she reflects on what motivated that decision.(viewpoint)(Column)
June 1, 2004... NEXT MONTH I sit state finals. As I approach that professional and personal milestone, I've been reflecting on two questions: "Why do I want to be a nurse?" and "Why, in this day and age, when there are so many different career opportunities,...

What's happening to our emergency departments? Emergency departments around the country have been in the spotlight recently, as more people seek care at them, patient waiting times mount, and staff feel the pressure. Here, an expert emergency nurse analyses what's going on.(viewpoint)
June 1, 2004... THERE HAS been considerable media interest in happenings at the Christchurch Hospital emergency department (ED), the Wellington Hospital ED, and before this, at the Tauranga and Hutt Hospitals' EDs. The issues identified affect more than any...

Prescribing practicums--getting the balance right: with the advent of nurse prescribing, it is essential that the way in which nurses gain prescribing rights--through prescribing practicums--is balanced, safe and consistent.(education)
June 1, 2004... I AM presently completing a prescribing practicum to gain prescribing rights through the Nursing Council. This article is concerned with how reliable guidelines can be established to ensure prescribing practicums meet the academic...

The practice of euthanasia: more than a debate; the conviction in March of a nurse, Lesley Martin, for the attempted murder of her terminally ill mother, has highlighted the need for nurses to face up to end-of-life policy and practice dilemmas.(viewpoint)
June 1, 2004... NURSES ARE experts on death. Or so many nurses would claim. While doctors legally certify that death has taken place, nurses are the ones who are there for the dying person and their family. Ethical nursing practice includes the...

'You speak such good Norwegian': a kiwi nursing lecturer, working in Norway for a year, shares some of his thoughts and experiences from the land of the midnight sun.(viewpoint)
June 1, 2004... UNITEC Institute of Technology's nursing programme has, over the past ten years, established relation ships with a number of university colleges in Norway. These are part of UNITEC's overall emphasis on "internationalisation"--of recognising...

"Even with twenty-two years on on-the-job experience, Lisa-May Gray is finding that she still has plenty to learn.".(Advertisement)
June 1, 2004... Lisa-May trained as a registered general obstetric nurse in the seventies and worked as a Plunket nurse for more than two decades before she started the Bachelor of Nursing degree at Unitec New Zealand. She says she was bitten by the study...

Emerging infectious diseases: Asian SARS experience useful for strengthening New Zealand's preparedness, says MOH nursing advisor.(Advertisement)
June 1, 2004... Ministry of Health Chief Nursing Advisor Dr Francis Hughes has recently been attending both the Asian/Pacific forum on SARS in Sydney and the Emerging Infectious Disease forum in Wellington. Here she describes the state of play with what is...

Events: courses, conferences & venues.(Illustration)(Advertisement)
June 1, 2004... 2004 June 24-25 Psycho Oncology Interest Group of NZ Ann. Meeting Debbie Skinner, ph: 03 474 7947 Debbie.Skinner@healmotago co.nz or Joan Carter:...

Revisiting cultural safety: as NZNO embraces the PAUA project, it is timely to look again at how the concepts of cultural safety can be made real in nursing.(education)
June 1, 2004... LAST MONTH'S issue of Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand provided a snapshot of the unveiling of Irihapeti Ramsden's headstone (p6) and an update of continued discussions for Paua--Progressively Act in Unity and Aroha, (p26). With Matariki (Maori...

Members overwhelmingly endorse a national agreement; the national ballot held last month emphatically proved that public sector members want a national collective agreement. What are the next steps on the journey to that final destination?(industrial focus)
June 1, 2004... THE RESULT of the national ballot last month--a 98 percent vote in favour of a national nurses' and midwives' collective agreement--was stunning. It sends a very clear message to the public and politicians about our national unity and our...

All nurses must value enrolled nurses; enrolled nurses play an immensely important role in our health system. Why are some nurse leaders intent on limiting that role?(professional focus)
June 1, 2004... THE INAUGURAL National Enrolled Nurse Day was launched at the 26th annual Enrolled Nurse Conference in Tauranga last month (see p27). In this professional focus we describe the nursing climate that led to the decision to choose 2004 for the...

Special day for enrolled nurses launched.(conference report)(National Enrolled Nurse Day)
June 1, 2004... THE LAUNCH of a National Enrolled Nurse Day, to be celebrated annually on June 30, was greeted with a standing ovation at this year's EN conference. The launch, by EN section chair Robyn Hewlett and NZNO professional nursing adviser...

Enrolled nurse courses meeting a demand; the re-introduction of enrolled nurse training was a hard-fought battle. Some in the profession were resolutely opposed to it, but nearly two years on, it is meeting a demand--from students and the health sector.(news focus)
June 1, 2004... PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT personal confidence, willingness to learn and commitment--these are some of the hallmarks of enrolled nursing students and graduates, according to the course co-ordinators at the two institutes offering EN training,...

The student experience.(news focus)
June 1, 2004... KATHYRN MONTGOMERIE always wanted to be a nurse. Being turned down for the nursing degree at Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT) didn't daunt her. Instead of doing a nursing foundation course, as MIT had suggested, she explored the...

Another step taken towards real partnership.( Te Runanga O Aotearo NZNO national komiti)
June 1, 2004... THE APRIL meeting of the Te Runanga O Aotearo NZNO national komiti, in Wellington, spent some time on the PAUA Progressively Act in Unity and Aroha (PAUA) project The project was again presented to the group by Maaori policy analyst Sharon...

Profiling Sandra Corbett.(Te Runanga)(Column)
June 1, 2004... Ko Kaituna te awe Ko Tapuaeharuru te marae Ko Ngati Pikiao te hapu Ko Te Arawa te iwi Ko Sandra toku ingoa Tena Koutou Katoa I started my nursing career in Palmerston North, aged 17, only to be sidetracked by...

An invitation to all NZNO Maori provider nurses and health workers ...(Te Runanga)(New Zealand Nurses Organization)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... NZNO TE Runanga o Aotearoa is establishing a Maori Provider Nurses/Health Workers Network. Its purpose is for the support, development and sharing of information, initially the Network will be an electronic and/or postal communication system...

Lack of GP support for practice nurse conference 'frustrating'.(college/section news)
June 1, 2004... NEARLY 200 practice nurses attended the conference of the College of Practice Nurses NZNO in New Plymouth last month. But speaking after the conference, convenor Debra Turner expressed frustration at many GPs' lack of support for their...

Positive theme for gerontology conference.(college/section news)(New Zealand Nurses Organization)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... "BEING POSITIVE" is the theme for this year's NZNO gerontology section conference, being held for the first time in Wellington, at the Michael Fowler Centre on August 27 and 28. The positive theme is aimed at both nurses and their patients,...

Work of Women's Refuge highlighted at conference.(college/section news)(Twenty Registered obstetric nurses )
June 1, 2004... Work of Women's Refuge highlighted at conference TWENTY REGISTERED obstetric nurses (RONs) attended their conference and reunion in Masterton last month, organised by the Wairarapa branch of the NZNO section. Delegates were treated to some...

Practice nurse negotiations to begin.(sector reports)(New Zealand Nurses Organization and New Zealand Medical Association)
June 1, 2004... NZNO AND the New Zealand Medical Association (NZMA) were in mediation last month on the association's decision to withdraw from the advocacy of the national practice nurse collective agreement. At the time of writing this report, NZNO had...

Hospice members need a national MECA.(sector reports)(Multi-Employer Collective Agreement)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... NZNO IS committed to working towards a national multi-employer collective agreement (MECA) to cover all hospice nurses in the country. The advantages of such an agreement are demonstrated in the situation facing NZNO in its negotiations with...

Delegates front up to bishop and board.(sector reports)(New Zealand Nurses Organisation)(Service and Food Workers' Union )(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... JOINT NZNO and Service and Food Workers' Union (SFWU) negotiations at Calvary, a private aged-care facility, including a rest-home and hospital, in Invercargill, have recently broken down. The employer was not prepared to offer any...

Petition presented to associate health minister.(sector reports)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... A PETITION with more than 3000 signatures, calling for adequate government funding for the new national caregivers' training programme, was presented to Associate Minister of Health Ruth Dyson last month. The petition, launched during...