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COVID-19 has provided a great opportunity to “reset” aged care and create a culture where older people can “flourish”, said person-centred care expert and nursing professor at Edinburgh’s Queen Margaret University, Brendon McCormack.
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A new Ministry of Health report has highlighted the incidence of COVID-19 among health-care workers and the need for a nationally consistent approach to managing pandemics in the aged residential care sector.
Read more... Aged residential care workers hit hard by COVID-19
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NZNO is working with the Public Service Association (PSA) over staff and patient safety concerns at Wellington Hospital’s mental health and addictions service, Te Whare o Matairangi (TWM).
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A nurse working in an Auckland COVID-19 isolation facility says she has “never felt so professionally compromised”.
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NZNO’s district health board multi-employer collective agreement (DHB MECA) bargaining team is now waiting on information from the DHBs themselves in order to progress their claims.
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NZNO leaders say they are looking forward to working with the new Minister of Health Andrew Little as soon as possible.
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NZNO issued a strike notice late last month covering some 3200 primary health care (PHC) nurses and receptionist/administration staff across more than 500 practices and accident/medical centres nationwide.
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NZNO WOMEN’S health college chair Denise Braid is welcoming the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) decision to review all declined injury claims related to surgical mesh since 2005.
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NZNO will start drawing up guidelines for nurses over the next 12 months on how to work within the new end-of-life law next year.
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The harm caused by racism and discrimination can never be justified and is hard to heal.
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NZNO on ARC pandemic plan; ARC nurses seek feedback on the “geriatric 5Ms”; and Otago gerontology nurse Margaret Stevenson is inducted onto the NZNO college of gerontology nursing’s honour roll.
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The neonatal nurses’ college Aotearoa (NNCA) ran a day of workshops in October for nurse practitioners and those on the pathway, nurse managers, leaders and those who collect the data for the Australia and New Zealand neonatal network (ANZNN).
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After a year of restrictions, more than 120 school and youth nurses, counsellors and other health professionals came together at the inaugural school and youth nurse symposium Where Nursing and Youth unite – connect, collaborate & coordinate, held in September at Hamilton’s Rototuna High School.
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It is possible to challenge our own biases and assumptions, and train ourselves to focus on the individual in front of us.
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The demography of older adults living in Aotearoa largely mirrors international trends and that includes a growing ageing population.1
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Walking “beside” Māori whānau and communities is critically important, Māori health leaders say. And nurses are well-placed to “get alongside” to support them.
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The story of Te Rūnanga O Aotearoa is part of the ongoing growth of the voice of wāhine Māori.
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The fifth and final of a series of professional education articles based on the Talking about Health study looks at the relationships between people with long-term conditions and general practice nurses and doctors.
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“My clients are your patients,” said public health nurse Lizzy Kepa-Henry in her address to the conference. “But I am only one person working across two Work and Income [WINZ] sites in Porirua and Naenae, and one of only three registered nurses working in WINZ sites nationally.”
Read more... Porirua public health nurse works at the ‘flax roots’ to cultivate wellbeing
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A transplant hui held earlier this year enabled Māori to hear stories of organ donation and to share open conversations about the process.
