Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand articles from March 2003

Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand archives from March 2003

Realising nurses' full potential.(editorial)
March 1, 2003... THIS ISSUE of Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand is timely, with articles focusing on primary health care and primary health organisations (PHOs). These articles illustrate the breadth and depth of primary health care nursing in a wide variety of...

Nurses' communication must be considered in context.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2003... RESEARCHERS ARE always encouraged when someone takes the trouble to respond to published accounts of their research. As a sociolinguist I particularly appreciated the positive and constructive response by an experienced teacher of nurses,...

Nurses must maintain standards despite systems' problems.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2003... CHRIS PARSONS in his article "Advocating for mental health patients in a system under stress" (Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand, December/January 2002/2003 p24-25), identifies problematic structural issues that affect mental health clinicians and...

The president comments ...
March 1, 2003... THE RECENT portrayal of nurses and nursing in the media and in advertising has created discussion and debate. In November 2002, a billboard portraying a "doctor" and "nurse" from television's Shortland Street in a close encounter and the...

NZNO outlines position on nurse practitioners.(news and events)
March 1, 2003... NZNO believes nurse practitioners (NPs) should be paid between $70,000 to $100,000 to reflect their advanced level of practice. The organisation also believes that if NPs work with other less senior or specialised nurses for a fair rate of pay,...

Northern MECA negotiations reach crunch point.(news and events)
March 1, 2003... NEGOTIATIONS FOR the Northern Regions' multi-employer collective agreement (MECA) have reached crunch point, with salaries, penal rate structures, clinical career path (CCP) payments and sick leave now being worked through. NZNO advocate Shane...

Second enrolled nurse course starts this month.(news and events)
March 1, 2003... FIFTY STUDENTS will start Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology's yearlong enrolled nurse (EN) training course at the end of this month. Head of CPIT's School of Nursing Cathy Andrew said the vast majority were mature women, already...

Select committee hearings on HPCA underway.(news & events)
March 1, 2003... NZNO STAFF and members took part in two oral submissions during Health Select Committee hearings on the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Bill in Wellington last month. Pictured above, left to right, are NZNO legal adviser Sue Johnson,...

Call for aged-care funding review.(news & events)
March 1, 2003... THE HEALTH Select Committee's call last month for a review of funding for the aged-care sector has been welcomed by NZNO, other unions and aged-care providers. NZNO, with the Service and Food Workers' Union, has been running a campaign for...

New Holidays Bill.(news and events)
March 1, 2003... THE NEW Holidays Bill, tabled in Parlimanet last month, is a "huge step forward from the existing Act", according to Council of Trade Unions president Ross Wilson. The Bill, expected to pass into law early next year, seeks to better...

Plunket aims to improve service quality.(news and events)
March 1, 2003... THE ROYAL New Zealand Plunket Society has begun implementing the Te Wana Quality Improvement Programme in each of its 18 geographical areas. The Te Wana programme was developed in New Zealand in 1999. It is organised as a set of 50...

Grant's nursing achievements remembered.(news and events)
March 1, 2003... FRIENDS AND colleagues from the Ministries of Education and Health, the Defence Force and nursing institutions from throughout the country gathered last month in Wellington to pay tribute to Lieutenant Colonel Jan Grant, who died suddenly on...

Investigating the management of gluteraldehyde.(news and events)
March 1, 2003... NZNO ESTIMATES it has represented and advocated on behalf of more than 80 health professionals with symptoms of gluteraldehyde toxicity since 1990. Symptoms have ranged from mild to extreme. Last month, NZNO presented its written submission...

Promoting health through gardening.(news and events)
March 1, 2003... A GARDENS for Health Project at the Porirua Union and Community Health Service is promoting health through organic gardening on a vacant section adjacent to the health centre. Launched last November, the garden is the brain child of service...

NZNO has presence at peace rally.(news and events)
March 1, 2003... NZNO MEMBERS and staff were among thousands who took part in a peace rally in Wellington last month. The Wellington rally was one of many around the country and the world opposing unilateral United States' military action in Iraq. NZNO has...

Extensive knowledge of wound healing wins award.(news and events)
March 1, 2003... WAITEMATA DISTRICT Health Board's clinical coach for medicine Amanda Palmer (right) has won the 3M Tegaderm Challenge. Palmer's entry studied the management of an elderly man who developed a pressure sore and ran the risk of foot amputation....

Fourth nurse practitioner specialises in wound care.(news and events)
March 1, 2003... New Zealand's fourth nurse practitioner (NP), Jenny Philips, has been working for the last two years as clinical nurse specialist (CNS), wound care, for MidCentral Health, covering both the community and hospital. Philips emigrated from...

Concern over GATS outlined in submission.(news and events)
March 1, 2003... NZNO HAS presented a submisison to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade on the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). The submission calls for any governmental response to GATs to uphold the status of the Treaty of Waitangi. Its...

Primary health changes offer new opportunities for nurses: new models of primary health care nursing promise to increase access to services, improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities.(news focus)
March 1, 2003... LIKE MOST Ministry of Health officials, chief nursing adviser Frances Hughes is convinced recent primary health care changes offer new and exciting opportunites for nurses. "The potential for primary health care nurses to develop integrated and...

Primary health organisations on track to integrate services: although high-need, poorer communities stand to gain the most immediate benefits from the new primary health organisations, there is potential for all communities to benefit.(news focus)
March 1, 2003... THE DEVELOPMENT of primary health organisations (PHOs), particularly in terms of the numbers of people enrolled, is ahead of expectations, according to the manager of the Ministry of Health's primary health care strategy Kathy Spencer. ...

Call for aged-care funding review welcomed: after a concerted campaign by NZNO and others, the Health Select Committee has called for a funding review of the aged-care sector. Here one provider outlines why it is sorely needed and overdue.(viewpoint)
March 1, 2003... FINALLY, THE message has hit home. It has taken a 10,000-signature petition and sustained lobbying on several fronts, but at last the Government has clear evidence of the perilous situation faced by rest-homes, private hospitals and dementia...

'Just an ordinary nurse': practice nursing has undergone dramatic changes over the last 22 years. A Lyttleton nurse describes some of them and looks back over a long and satisfying career.(profile)
March 1, 2003... IN THE late 1980s, Lyttleton practice nurse Joan Porteous attended an education session where Christchurch Medical School tutor John O'Hagan remarked: "Practice nursing is seen by other health professionals as a resting place for middle-aged...

Relishing the challenges of rural nursing: an experienced rural health nurse reflects on her work and the shattering experience of having her application to become a nurse practitioner turned down.(profile)
March 1, 2003... MARG ECKHOFF, leader of an on-call team of rural health nurses in a Central Otago valley, is no quitter. But she's had enough. Enough of what she sees as nursing academics ruling the professional roost. Enough of many of those nurses having no...

Nursing in partnership with the community: forming strong links with the community and advocating for families are the keys to effective public health nursing.(profile)(Cover Story)
March 1, 2003... HAMILTON PUBLIC health nurse Anne McNicol was a reluctant starter into nursing. In fact, she says, she did everything she could to avoid it for as long as possible, dreaming instead of becoming a social worker. Born and raised in...

Caring in an isolated community: there are particular challenges and particular rewards associated with nursing in an isolated rural community.(practice)
March 1, 2003... KARAMEA, IN the north western corner of the South Island, is reached by a road that snakes over steep, bush-clad bluffs. There are few signs of human habitation on the winding journey. The weather is dominated by Karamea's proximity to the...

What makes rural nursing different? Rural health nursing doesn't just mean nursing in the country. It demands a range of professional and personal skills to ensure the nurse and the community feel safe.(practice)
March 1, 2003... WHAT MAKES rural health nursing so special, so distinct? Former director of the recently-closed Centre for Rural Health in Christchurch and rural health nursing lecturer Jean Ross, is well placed to know. From her childhood in rural Wales,...

Reducing children's hearing loss: the expertise of New Zealand ear nurse specialists--in particular their mobile community service--is arousing interest among consultants and nurses around the world.(practice)
March 1, 2003... A WARD WINNING ear nurse specialists (ENS) Barbara Middleton of Auckland and Christine Lloyd of Gisborne believe New Zealand nurses lead the world in the treatment and management of chronic ear disease. This belief was reinforced at a...

Practice nurses feel undervalued: many practice nurses are pinning their hopes on primary health organisations to deliver a more collaborative approach in the sector.(news focus)
March 1, 2003... MANY PRACTICE nurses are feeling undervalued and are pinning their hopes for the future on the new primary health organisations (PHOs), according to the chair of the Independent Practice Associations' (IPA) Nurse Development Group Linda...

Embracing changes in primary health care: NZNO is hosting a major conference on developments in primary health care nursing.(professional focus)
March 1, 2003... NEW ZEALAND'S primary health care sector is changing. For a decade or more, health policy has signaled a change in locus from public hospital services to primary and public health care. The document The Next Five Years in General Practice (1)...

Balancing work and life: a healthy working practice includes avoiding excessive hours and ensuring you have a life outside work.(industrial focus)
March 1, 2003... SINCE STARTING work as an NZNO part-time educator for the central region and relief legal adviser, I have had several opportunities to promote some ideas around healthy working practices with other NZNO employees and members. I am aware...

Section assists primary health nursing conference.(section news)
March 1, 2003... THE PUBLIC Health Nurses' Section committee had its first meeting of the year in Wellington last month. We returned with renewed energy and determination to continue raising the profile of our workforce within the public health and primary...

Section treasurers meet in Wellington.(section news)
March 1, 2003... TREASURERS FROM 18 of NZNO's 21 sections and colleges met in Wellington last month. Items discussed during the day included treasurers' responsibilities, auditing requirements, tax issues, budgeting processes and the limitations on their...

Nurse guilty of physical and verbal abuse of elderly patients.(nursing council)
March 1, 2003... A REGISTERED general and obstetric nurse, who treated vulnerable, elderly patients roughly, has been found guilty of professional misconduct by Nursing Council The nurse's name has been removed from the register of nurses for 12 months. ...

Members encouraged to keep abreast of MECA negotiations.(regional reports)
March 1, 2003... HAMILTON Jenny Roy ONE OF the issues that has come up several times in recent weeks is members finding they have become non financial. This has not been intentional on their part; it has occurred when they have changed employer or...

Pacific visitors form valuable links.
March 1, 2003... THREE NURSES from Papua New Guinea, who visited New Zealand for six weeks late last year, said they found the experience worthwhile, despite the fact nursing in their country faced very different challenges from those faced by the profession...

Sharing professional concerns at cafe forums.
March 1, 2003... THE POSSIBILITY of a war in Iraq was one of the topics discussed at the first nursing "cafe forum" of the year in Wellington. Originally organised by nursing researcher Merian Litchfield, the forums are a chance for nurses to get together and...

National sections contacts.
March 1, 2003... Cancer Nurses' Section of NZNO Cindy Holmes--Chairperson 59 Holland Road Northcote, AUCKLAND. Ph. (09) 307 4949 x 7934 (w), (09) 443 4663 (h). Email: benholmes@clear.net.nz Cardiac Nurses' Section NZNO Christine...

Events.(Calendar)
March 1, 2003... Events Conferences & Venues 2003 2003 March 19-20 Caregivers National Confe- rence--"Valuing Your Contribu- tion". Haylee McLennan, Ph: 0800 28 38 48 ext. 702 ...