Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand articles from October 2003

Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand archives from October 2003

Developing a model of professional maturity.(editorial)
October 1, 2003... FOR AT least 20 years, nursing has worked hard to gain public recognition as a profession. We have claimed this status based on our unique body of knowledge, the autonomy of our practice and the self regulation of nursing. When I was a new...

Encouraging a team approach in health care.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2003... THE SIMPLE answer is "yes" to the question posed by your editorial in the September issue of Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand "Is nursing's voice heard or heeded?" The editorial celebrates the energy and commitment of nurses, most recently...

Reflecting on negative, bullying student experiences.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2003... HAVING READ the letters in recent issues of Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand relating to "curing the cancer of horizontal violence", I would like to comment on the notion of horizontal violence and disempowerment within our educational settings....

Registered nurse decries loss of enrolled nurses.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2003... WHY ARE the Nursing Council and its executive trying to remove enrolled nurses (ENs) from the hospital workforce? Many have very diverse skills and much expertise in the areas in which they work. Why is there an emphasis on bringing unskilled...

NZNO campaigns must include the private sector.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2003... I APPLAUD NZNO's Fair Pay campaign and was inspired listening to organising services manager Laila Harre's speech at the NZNO conference in Rotorua last month. However I am also very uneasy at the language used during the address and the way...

Helping children with nocturnal enuresis.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2003... WITH REFERENCE to the article published in the August issue of Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand (p21) about Shirley Reid's work in helping children with enuresis and encopresis, I believe it is worth adding one point. There is a difference between...

Older nurses make motivated students.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2003... IT WAS interesting to read about the experiences of former registered general and obstetric nurses Marilynn Bruton, Lynette Harrison and Julie Pleasants in last month's issue of Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand ("Older nurses face the challenges...

Prime cause of sore nipples not addressed.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2003... THANK YOU for the Best Practice information sheet on the management of nipple pain and trauma included in last month's issue of Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand. Nipple pain is a common problem experienced by many new mothers and guidelines...

In support of university education for nurses.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2003... HAVING RECENTLY returned to nursing, I feel excited about the opportunities the changing environment now provides for registered nurses. I have recently taken up a clinical leadership position within the MidCentral Health District Health...

Maori policy analyst appointed.(news and events)
October 1, 2003... A LONG-awaited policy analyst Maori has been appointed to NZNO. Sharon Clair (right) of Ngati Raukawa has been appointed and began this month. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] She trained as a psychopaedic nurse at Kimberly in Levin in the...

Two major settlements ratified.(news and events)
October 1, 2003... TWO MAJOR public sector collective agreements have been ratified in the last month. Canterbury District Health Board (DHB) nurses and midwives voted over whelmingly in favour of a settlement which gives Auckland rates up and down the pay scale...

London Hospital orders public health nurse's booklet.(news and events)
October 1, 2003... GUYS AND St Thomas Hospital in London has purchased 24 copies of a booklet on encopresis, written and illustrated by Nelson public health nurse Shirley Reid. Reid wrote the book Tim's Problem in 1998 when she realised there were no resources...

NZNO writes to DHBs in support of enrolled nurses.(news and events)
October 1, 2003... NZNO CHIEF executive Geoff Annals has written to all district health board (DHB) chief executives outlining a process to ensure enrolled nurses (ENs) practise safely within their scope of practice. His letter is in response to the letter to...

Nurse adviser looks at primary care in England and Holland.(news and events)
October 1, 2003... NURSE ADVISER to the Independent Practice Association Council (IPAC) Linda Dubbeldam travels to England and Holland this month as part of an IPAC group looking at primary health care and general practice. Dubbeldam, who works as a practice...

More ministry money available.(news and events)
October 1, 2003... PRIMARY HEALTH CARE nurses wanting to do postgraduate study next year can now apply for scholarship money from the $470,000 pool available through the Ministry of Health. The money is the remains of the $850,000 made available last year to...

NZNO's fair pay campaign goes public.(news and events)
October 1, 2003... NZNO'S FAIR Pay Campaign went public on Suffrage Day, September 19th. The public launch took the campaign up a notch and NZNO members were visible in many parts of the country. The campaign was reported in local and national papers (see...

Photographic essay to explore aging and caregiving.(news and events)
October 1, 2003... FUNDING IS being sought for a photographic essay with accompanying text that explores the lives of the elderly and their caregivers in residential aged-care facilities throughout the country. The photography project is the joint initiative...

International Day for older persons.(news and events)
October 1, 2003... NZNO MARKED United Nations International Day of the Older Person, October 1, with activities aimed to raise awareness of issues in aged care. These include low pay, inadequate training of aged care staff and undervaluing the contribution...

Patients move into Auckland City Hospital.(news and events)
October 1, 2003... Minister of Health Annette King welcomes Ivy Molloy to Auckland City Hospital, while staff nurse Carolyn Nichols looks on. THE MAMMOTH task of relocating patients to the new Auckland City Hospital began this month, when 35 patients moved...

Wintec celebrates 25 years of nursing education.(news and events)
October 1, 2003... WAIKATO INSTITUTE of Technology's department of nursing and health studies celebrated its silver jubilee last month. The Minister of Health Annette King attended a civic reception to mark 25 years of nursing training at the institute on...

Health innovation awards to become an annual event.(news and events)
October 1, 2003... THE HEALTH Innovation Awards are to become an annual event due to the strong support for this year's awards. The inaugural awards attracted nearly 200 applications from health care and rehabilitation providers around the country. Because of...

More Pacific staff needed.(news and events)
October 1, 2003... ENCOURAGING PACIFIC people to train and work in mental health services is the aim of the Mental Health Commission's most recent Pacific project and advertising campaign. Along with mental health support workers, more Pacific mental health...

Mediation for PSC workers.(news and events)
October 1, 2003... FURTHER STOP work meetings at Presbyterian Support Central homes and hospitals were held earlier this month, as workers continued to seek a 3.5 percent pay increase and back pay from February this year. Mediation was due to be held on October...

Mihi opens conference.(NZNO conference 2003)
October 1, 2003... POU HERENGA for Lakes District Health Board (DHB) Eru George of Te Arawa gave the mihi at NZNO's annual conference last month, held for the second time in Rotorua. His role at the DHB is iwi relationships, providing advice to the board and...

Three strands to safe staffing campaign.(NZNO conference 2003)
October 1, 2003... FROM PILOT project to campaign approach--that's the new direction of NZNO's safe staffing campaign, announced by president Jane O'Malley in her address to conference. O'Malley outlined the development of the safe staffing pilot project...

How nurses will win fair pay explained.(NZNO conference 2003)
October 1, 2003... NURSES AND midwives need to be "shameless" in their campaign for pay rates based on the value of their work, NZNO's organising services manager Laila Harre told conference delegates. In a speech entitled "How and why NZNO will win pay equity...

Pay equity to take five years, says Chadwick.(NZNO conference 2003)
October 1, 2003... CHAIR OF the Health Select Committee and MP for Rotorua Steve Chadwick began conference's second day with a speech giving the Government's perspective on the conference theme "Developing professional activism". Chadwick is a nurse and...

How to be a successful activist.(NZNO conference 2003)
October 1, 2003... PROFESSIONAL ACTIVIST, researcher and academic Hine Martin stepped in at one day's notice to give a keynote address to conference, using her own activist journey as her theme. She began her address by saying she was delighted "to close the gaps...

Conference honours Te Runanga delegate Nola Tanner.(NZNO conference 2003)
October 1, 2003... FORMER TE Runanga O Aotearoa NZNO delegate and recently retired enrolled nurse from Christchurch Women's Hospital, Nola Tanner, was awarded NZNO life membership at the conference dinner. Tanner began her nursing career 35 years ago as a...

'Extraordinary ordinary nurse' receives Award of Honour.(NZNO conference 2003)
October 1, 2003... A LONG-standing Auckland nurse and NZNA/ NZNO activist, Carrol Mitchell, received NZNO's highest accolade, the Award of Honour, at the conference dinner. Introducing her, Auckland board of directors' representative, Catherine Logan, described...

NZNO gets new mission statement.(NZNO conference 2003)
October 1, 2003... NZNO HAS an amended mission statement. But reaching consensus on the new mission statement was not straightforward. The amended mission statement reads: "NZNO is committed to the representation of its members and the promotion of nursing and...

New Te Runanga chair installed at conference.(NZNO conference 2003)
October 1, 2003... OUTGOING TE Runanga O Aotearoa NZNO chair Sharon Morunga, in her farewell address, said she had had "eight wonderful years with this organisation and I hope I've 30 or 40 more to come". The taonga of office, which she had passed over to new...

More consultation sought on structural review proposal.(NZNO conference 2003)
October 1, 2003... A PRESENTATION on the report of the structural review committee and its nine recommendations did not receive conference endorsement. An amendment to recommendation one (that conference accepts the new draft rules) was put forward by the Bay...

NZNO's new website launched.(NZNO conference 2003)
October 1, 2003... THE CONFERENCE dinner was the occasion for the launch of NZNO's new website, which went live late last month. Information technology systems administrator Nick Maitland presented a montage of historical, industrial and professional nursing...

NZNO experiences phenomenal membership growth.(NZNO conference 2003)
October 1, 2003... BUSINESS SERVICES manager Dragan Radic invited delegates to celebrate NZNO's l0th birthday that evening, as he delivered his report to conference. Other reasons to celebrate were the growth in membership and NZNO's financial position....

Aged-care staff address workshop.(NZNO conference 2003)
October 1, 2003... HEARING HOW one aged-care home and hospital gradually became unionised and gained the power to bargain for improved wages and conditions was a feature of the workshop "Building union activism in aged care". Facilitated by Hamilton...

Foundations for Partnership.(NZNO conference 2003)
October 1, 2003... A JOINT presentation on NZNO's new Foundations for Partnership document was given by members of Te Runanga O Aotearoa NZNO, the nursing and midwifery advisory committee (NMAC) and nursing researchers Dianna Mc Gregor and Louise Rummel. All NZNO...

National Student Unit seeks to 'close the gaps'.(NZNO conference 2003)
October 1, 2003... NINE NATIONAL Student Unit (NSU) delegates met for a day prior to the conference to hear individual reports and discuss concerns with NZNO staff. The NSU, with assistance from NZNO, nursing schools and advisory committees, needs to work toward...

College and section representatives share concerns.(NZNO conference 2003)
October 1, 2003... REAL ENERGY and enthusiasm marked the colleges' and sections' delegates' day, according to professional nursing adviser (PNA) and day organiser Faith Roberts. Held one day prior to conference, the day included reports from each college and...

Travelling the enrolled nurse pathway.(profiles)
October 1, 2003... Advocating for smoking cessation LONG-TIME ENROLLED nurse (EN) Fay Selby-Law believes there is no limit to what ENs can do. It all depends oil how much passion an EN has and the directions s/he is prepared to take. Selby-Law, who is of...

Developing effective interdisciplinary teams: the need for clinicians to work together in a health environment that is constantly restructured and where patients are presenting with multiple conditions has never been greater.(research)
October 1, 2003... EFFECTIVE INFERDISCIPLINARY teamwork is client-centred. Teamwork is possible when clinicians from many disciplines are willing to blend specialist disciplinary knowledge, skill and expertise because they are committed to a common purpose, ie...

How to say no to the bully at work: the letters-to-the-editor pages in Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand reveal the prevalence of horizontal violence in our profession. But there is a solution. A nurse offers some practical steps to putting a stop to intimidating behaviour at work.(viewpoint)
October 1, 2003... HORIZONTAL VIOLENCE is the term used in the health sector for bullying and/or intimidating behaviour in the workplace. The fact it happens at all is a sad indictment on a caring profession--a profession where the goal is to help people get...

Challenging doctors' orders: in order to provide good care to children and their families, nurses sometimes need to challenge doctors' decisions.(viewpoint)
October 1, 2003... THE RELATIONSHIP between nurses and doctors has often been seen in terms of a power struggle. It has been described as "the doctor-nurse game", with the playing field often dominated by doctors who organise and referee the "players", ie nurses....

Witnessing resuscitation: despite obvious benefits, nurses are reluctant to allow family members to witness resuscitation procedures.(professional focus)
October 1, 2003... THE ISSUE of whether relatives should or should not be present during resuscitation of a family member has been raised at a number of recent professional forums. Some nurses feel this highly contentious issue should be determined on a...

MECA vote shows nurses' anger is rising: closing the national pay gap for public sector nurses came closer last month with the ratification of the South Island and Canterbury District Health Boards' pay deals.(industrial focus)
October 1, 2003... THE RESULTS of last month's public sector pay deals for nurses and midwives are results the Government would do well to ponder. NZNO members at Canterbury District Health Board (DHB) overwhelmingly endorsed a settlement delivering Auckland...

Te Runanga chair farewelled.(board of directors)
October 1, 2003... NZNO'S BOARD of directors paid tribute at their August meeting to outgoing Te Runanga O Aotearoa NZNO chair Sharon Morunga. NZNO president lane O'Malley thanked Morunga for the knowledge she had shared with the board and for the support she had...

National Student Unit facing a crisis.(board of directors)
October 1, 2003... A REPORT to the board prepared by National Student Unit (NSU) chair Danny Morrison said there had been a number of resignations from NSU, some for personal reasons and other because of study and work commitments. The report, presented by...

NZNO wants more nursing advice in Ministry of Health.(board of directors)
October 1, 2003... IN HIS report to the board, chief executive Geoff Annals said he, along with the executive director of the College of Nurses Aotearoa, Jenny Carryer, had raised the fact there was only one nursing advisory position in the Ministry of Health...

Pay equity taskforce develops work plan.(board of directors)
October 1, 2003... BOARD MEMBERS received an update on the pay equity taskforce from organising services manager Laila Harre. She outlined the proposed work programme. It includes: * NZNO, the Government and district health boards investigating the gender...

New board member elected.(board of directors)
October 1, 2003... THE NEWLY-elected college/ section representative on the board of directors is Gore Hospital enrolled nurse Lorraine Borthwick (right). She replaces outgoing representative Carrol Mitchel and joins the other college/section representative,...

Getting back to basics in infection control.(section news)
October 1, 2003... DUNEDIN MAYOR Suki Turner opened the NZNO National Division of Infection Control Nurses' 22nd national infection control conference in Dunedin by acknowledging the heightened focus on infection control. With the recent global severe acute...

New members elected to NMAC committee.(NZNO committees)
October 1, 2003... THE NURSING Education Policy and Standard has now been finalised, following consultation, and is the first document to incorporate the new Foundations for Partnership guidelines. I would like to thank those regional councils, colleges, sections...

College of Emergency Nurses.(NZNO committees)
October 1, 2003... THE RE-ELECTED and/or new members of NMAC are Chris Baker, Anne Daniels, Anne Russell, Jan Featherson, Kerri Nuku, Sharyn McGarry, Mary McManaway and Joanne Agnew. McManaway, who was nominated by the College of Emergency Nurses, works as a...

Fair pay campaign gears up in Auckland: Auckland.(regional reports)
October 1, 2003... AUCKLAND COUNTIES MANUKAU District Health Board (CMDHB): It was great to be alongside members participating in our National Day of Action on September 19, Women's Suffrage Day. We spent the day talking to the public about our pay equity...

Palmerston North.(regional reports)
October 1, 2003... THE LAST two months have continued an extraordinarily busy year. The lower North Island Senior Nurses' Multi-Employer Collective Agreement (MECA) has absorbed a lot of time and energy for staff and a great team of assessors from each of the...

Fair pay relay hits the wards at Capital and Coast DHB.(regional reports)
October 1, 2003... A FAIR pay relay throughout the seven lower North Island District Health Boards (DHBs) got underway on Suffrage Day last month. A petition calling on the Government to ensure the DHBs are funded sufficiently to deliver fair pay is being...

Dunedin.(regional reports)
October 1, 2003... IT IS with mixed feelings we write our last regional organisers' report. There is huge excitement about being able to get on with the work of the industrial advisers, which has had to be juggled this year with our half-time organising...

Nelson.(regional reports)
October 1, 2003... WHAREAMA: STAFF at this Nelson aged-care hospital and rest-home, owned by New Zealand Life Care, were to strike for 48 hours earlier this month in protest at a 1.5 percent pay increase on base rates. This facility has received a 7.5 percent...

Snapshots of the pay campaign launch.(regional reports)
October 1, 2003... NZNO activists and members were out in force around the country on Suffrage Day (September 19) for the launch of the Fair Pay campaign. Left: Hawke's Bay members give the "thumbs down" to current pay rates. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Events.(Calendar)
October 1, 2003... Conferences & Venues 2003/2004 2003 Oct 17-19 The Renal Society of Australasia New Zealand Annual Conference. c/o Dialysis Services, Christchurch Hospital, Private Bag 4710,...