Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand articles from November 2003

Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand archives from November 2003

Better ways to cook bacon--reflecting on nursing.(editorial)
November 1, 2003... WHEN I started nursing in 1978, a nurse told me a joke. A couple recently married. The young man noticed that his wife always cut the bacon in half before cooking it. When he inquired as to why she did this, he was told that was the way bacon...

Australia honours New Zealand nurse in Bali.(news & events)
November 1, 2003... FIRST NZNU national secretary and former NZNO co-director, Steph Breen (right), received an honorary Order of Australia award last month for her work with victims of the Bali bombing one year ago. Breen, the only New Zealander to be...

Presbyterian support members strike for 24 hours.(news & events)
November 1, 2003... AS KAI Tiaki Nursing New Zealand went to press, around 200 NZNO members throughout the central North Island were on a 24-hour strike for a better pay deal. Members at 15 Presbyterian Support Central (PSC) rest-homes and hospitals, along with...

Delegate convenors plan more Fair Pay Campaign action.(news & events)
November 1, 2003... DISTRICT HEALTH board (DHB) NZNO delegate convenors and NZNO staff met in Wellington last month for an all-day Fair Pay Campaign planning meeting. The meeting, the first of all convenors, was timed to precede the Council of Trade Unions'...

Staff arrivals and departures.(news & events)
November 1, 2003... WHANGAREI BASE Hospital renal nurse Julie Governor joins NZNO on November 24 as the new Northland organiser. She replaces Carol Gilmour, who has moved to an organising position in Auckland. Governor graduated from Northland Polytechnic in...

Frontline nurses face increasing violence from patients on 'P'.(news & events)
November 1, 2003... ANECDOTALLY, THE use of pure methamphetamine--or P--is an increasing problem for hospital emergency departments (EDs) because of associated violence towards frontline staff. College of Emergency Nurses New Zealand chairperson, Jane Lawless,...

Wintec introduces undergraduate mental health stream.(news & events)
November 1, 2003... FROM FEBRUARY next year, Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec) undergraduate students will be able to follow a mental health pathway as part of their nursing degree--a New Zealand first. "There isn't another institution in the country...

Irihapeti Ramsden features in prestigious journal.(news & events)
November 1, 2003... THE PRESTIGIOUS BMJ (British Medical Journal) has published an obituary on cultural safety architect Irihapeti Ramsden in its August 23, 2003 edition. The obituary was written by New Zealand nursing researcher Lis Ellison-Loschmann. The...

Rural health nursing scholarship winners announced.(news & events)
November 1, 2003... SIX RURAL health nurses have been awarded primary health care nurse practitioner (NP) scholarships totalling $240,000. They each receive $40,000 towards living expenses, which enables them to take a year off in 2004 to complete a year's study...

Survey highlights difficulties with standing orders.(news & events)
November 1, 2003... AN NZNO survey on the use of the new regulations governing standing orders, which were introduced in December last year, shows standing orders are widely used but there difficulties with their full implementation and use in some areas. NZNO...

Cervical screening advisory group meets.(news & events)
November 1, 2003... A COLLEGE of Practice Nurses NZNO member, Diane Newland, is one of eight members of the new National Cervical Screening Programme (NCSP) Advisory Group. The group, which met for the first time earlier this month, replaces a former external...

Who was that unnamed nurse from 1944?(news & events)
November 1, 2003... WHEN NZNO'S Fair Pay Campaign received national television coverage on the Sunday programme in September, a retired nurse from Waikanae found herself once again in the spotlight. The programme featured interviews with three nurses who...

Raising awareness of refugee health issues.(news & events)
November 1, 2003... AUCKLAND REGION'S refugee health coordinator Annette Mortenson has received $300 in funding from the Nursing Education and Research Foundation (NERF) and Gretta and Harry Hamblin Trust, towards her doctoral study of refugee health in New...

Samoan nurses launch national workforce survey.(news & events)
November 1, 2003... THE OFFICIAL launch of the National Survey of Pacific Nurses and Nursing Students was the highlight of the Samoan Nurses' Association three-day national conference last month. Funded by the Ministry of Health, the survey was an initiative...

Recording the 'forgotten' nurses' stories.(news & events)
November 1, 2003... THE OCTOBER 23 launch of While You're Away: New Zealand Nurses at War 1899-1948 in the Christchurch Hospital Memorial Chapel could not have been more appropriate. On that day in 1915, the WW1 troop carrier Marquette, carrying 36 nurses...

New law brings major changes: the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act will mean major change for the profession. Those changes will be introduced over the next year.(news focus)
November 1, 2003... THE HEALTH Practitioners Competence Assurance Act, 2005 (HPCA), was passed by Parliament on September 11, 2003 and received the Royal Assent on September 18. It is a wide-ranging piece of legislation, which will repeal 11 occupational...

Nursing Council forum attracts growing members: maintaining safety in a changing and diverse environment is just one of the many challenges facing the Nursing Council.(news focus)
November 1, 2003... AROUND 260 nurses from throughout the country attended the two-day Nursing Council forum last month, the largest number yet to attend this annual gathering. Numbers have been increasing steadily each year. Health Minister Annette King...

Addressing the health gaps between Maori and non-Maori: nurses--along with the rest of the community--have a responsibility to challenge the policies and practices that underpin health disparities.(news focus)
November 1, 2003... FORUM GUEST speaker Bridget Robson, a researcher from the Eru Pomare Maori Health Research Centre at the Wellington School of Medicine, was invited to give a presentation on the context within which nurses and the Nursing Council did their...

Nursing people with disabilities: who cares? Following some curriculum changes at Palmerston North's Universal College of Learning (UCOL), students are finding working with people with disabilities a positive experience.(education)
November 1, 2003... * BEN LIES in his bed in the hospital side room, staring fixedly at the door. Many nurses walk past the door but no-one comes in. He needs help--he is in a strange environment but no-one seems to care. Admitted acutely the previous...

Nursing education--the solution or the problem? All is not well in undergraduate nursing education. But there is a reluctance among educators to honestly examine why, according to a nurse educator who has returned to practice.(viewpoint)
November 1, 2003... WE ALL know that since the "Great Restructuring" of the 1970 80s, student nurses now prepare for practice in polytechnics and universities, rather than hospitals. The question is, is this system any better? More specifically, if...

Embracing the art and the science of nursing: nursing must pay equal attention to the art and the science of practice to achieve its full professional potential and assume a leadership role in health.(viewpoint)
November 1, 2003... DISCOVERING WHAT is unique about nursing is a necessary evolutionary process. The history of our profession, compared to some others, is relatively short, and this may contribute to the view that nursing has yet to arrive at a consensus of...

The rewards of being an educator.(profiles)
November 1, 2003... Negotiating the health and education minefields THERE'S A refreshing candour and humour about Cathy Andrew, head of the nursing school at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology. There was no life-long ambition, personal...

NZNO makes an impact at CTU conference: NZNO delegates attended this year's CTU conference in record numbers--and their message was unmistakable.(news focus)
November 1, 2003... NZNO RECEIVED overwhelming support for its Fair Pay campaign at this year's biennial Council of Trade Unions' (CTU) conference in Wellington last month. More importantly, Prime Minister Helen Clark and Minister of Labour Margaret Wilson...

Skills and simulation education: a key part of the nursing curriculum and on-going skill maintenance??(Education)
November 1, 2003... * Skill acquisition is an integral part of the development of any practitioner, and both student and postgraduate nurses need every opportunity to master and gain confidence with key practical skills in a safe learning environment before...

Primary colours: new postgraduate papers target primary health care.
November 1, 2003... * Rural nurses and those at the community interface of primary health care are among those who will have the opportunity to enhance their skills through postgraduate study, as Otago Polytechnic launches several new options within its...

Flexible learning: postgraduate nursing options emphasise flexibility.
November 1, 2003... * In designing postgraduate programmes, flexibility is key, according to Rachel Stevenson, the acting postgraduate programme manager for the School of Nursing at Otago Polytechnic. "Postgraduate study offers nurses so much," Rachel...

Events.(Calendar)
November 1, 2003... Conferences & Venues 2003/2004 2003 Nov 20-22 New Zealand Wound Care Society Conference 2003. Conference Innovators Ltd, PO Box 13494, Christchurch, New Zealand. Ph: (03)...

Researching stroke incidence: working as a research nurse can be challenging, leading to new ways of working in a variety of hospital and community settings.(news focus)
November 1, 2003... WHEN MIDDLEMORE Hospital staff nurse Helen Walters began nursing six years ago, she assumed she would always be working rostered and rotating shifts in the acute hospital setting. These days, however, she's working four days a week as a...

Developing workplace writing skills for nurses: writing for different audiences in the health care system requires different skills. Here one nurse outlines some tips.(education)
November 1, 2003... GOOD WRITING means good communication and nurses who are successful professionals are constantly involved in written communication. Documentation is one of the most important forms of written communication for nurses. But nurses are also...

Taking responsibility for children's rights: nurses are very knowledgeable about children's needs and should use this knowledge to promote children's rights.(professional focus)
November 1, 2003... THE RECENT recommendations from the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child challenge nurses to use them as a tool for change. Nurses have long advocated for improved conditions for children and youth in New Zealand. Our...

Balancing work and family lives: fulfilling work and family responsibilities can be an exhausting juggling act. The Council of Trade Unions wants to help workers get the balance right.(Industrial Focus)
November 1, 2003... THE COUNCIL of Trade Unions' (CTU) campaign for a better balance between work and life for the country's workers is gaining momentum. A paper presented at the CTU's biennial conference in Wellington last month outlined the next steps in the...

Nursing research section ponders future.(section news)
November 1, 2003... MUCH DISCUSSION at the Nursing Research Section's AGM in Wellington last month centred on how best to support nursing and midwifery research in the future and the role of the section. This year's section conference was cancelled due to lack...

Enrolled nurses respond to card appeal.(section news)
November 1, 2003... HUNDREDS OF enrolled nurses (ENs) have returned a card which asked them to tick a number of issues which NZNO intends raising with the Nursing Council. The card accompanied a letter from EN national section chair Robyn Hewlett and NZNO's...

District nursing in Wellington reaches its centenary.(section news)
November 1, 2003... DISTRICT NURSING has been established in Wellington for 100 years. On October 1, 1903, the St. John Ambulance Association appointed Annie Holgate, a "fully qualified and State Registered nurse", to attend the sick poor of Wellington. This...

'Heart to heart' symposium held in Christchurch.(section news)
November 1, 2003... A WIDE range of speakers marked the successful heart to heart symposium organised by NZNO's cardiac nurses' section and held in Christchurch recently. The symposium, the first to be held in the South Island, was organised to promote sharing...

Interest in establishing national educators' section growing.(section news)
November 1, 2003... INTEREST IN establishing a national nurse educators' section is building. An invitation to express interest in such a section was included in the conference pack of the more than 200 delegates to the Australasian Educators Conference in...

Faith community nurses meet.(section news)
November 1, 2003... FAITH COMMUNITY nurses in New Zealand are in the process of developing competencies and standards of practice to meet Nursing Council requirements. A small working party met with NZNO's professional nursing adviser Faith Roberts last month to...

Wanganui hosts successful neonatal workshop.(section news)
November 1, 2003... FIFTY DELEGATES from around the Whanganui region attended a multi-disciplinary neonatal workshop in Wanganui late last month. Organised by neonatal nurses Barbara Hammond and Judy Hitchcock, the workshop focused on new developments that...

Senior nurses reach a collective settlement: Palmerston North.(regional reports)
November 1, 2003... IT IS great to be able to report two more settlements. The senior nurses' settlement in the seven Lower North Island district health boards (DHBs) means consolidation of two collectives, more than 100 individual agreements and the...

Whangarei.(regional reports)
November 1, 2003... THE COLLECTIVE employment agreement at Healthcare Management Ltd has been settled, with an extra sick leave day and two lump sum payments. The term is for seven months. Management is now working through funding issues. Pururi Court,...

Nelson.(regional reports)
November 1, 2003... WHAREAMA (NEW Zealand Life Care): An agreement has been ratified, which gives pay increases of between 2.5 percent and eight percent on base rates, depending on placement on the pay scale. Members had voted to strike for 24 hours and the...

Striking Oamaru nurses agree to urgent mediation.(regional reports)
November 1, 2003... AFTER TWO weeks of escalating industrial action, nurses at Oamaru Hospital agreed to return to urgent mediation last month in an effort to resolve their collective agreement negotiations. Mediation was due to he held on November 14. ...

NZNO delegates get their message across.(regional reports)
November 1, 2003... NZNO delegates attending last month's Council of Trade Unions' biennial conference in Wellington made their presence felt and received strong support for NZNO's Fair Pay Campaign. Sporting an NZNO fair pay t-shirt is president of the...