Nurses and DHB failed in care of 80-year-old’s foot injury
Whanganui District Health Board and district nurses were told to apologise to the family of an 80-year-old woman who died following failures in their treatment of her foot ulcer.
A report released by the Health...
Healthy culture: nurturing a culturally diverse nursing team
Nursing is a global profession, with New Zealand’s nurses trained in 89 countries. How well are we doing at nurturing culturally diverse nursing teams?
‘Prescribing’ apps: helping patients to select a health app
Nursing Review talks to Sandra Ponen, a clinical pharmacist and medical writer who has been working on the App Library project for Health Navigator, about how health professionals can guide patients on whether an...
Using interpreters: the patient’s right to understand and be understood
A situation where a nursing student found themselves a reluctant, untrained interpreter for a patient raised questions for a group of five second-year nursing students prompting this literature review.
Failures in oxygen therapy highlighted by HDC report
Poor use of oxygen therapy for a patient with severe respiratory failure highlighted weaknesses in respiratory protocols, doctor communication and nursing care, a Health and Disability investigation has found.
Health and Disability Commissioner Anthony Hill...
Blow for NPs at finding one major barrier remains
Nurse practitioners are expressing frustration at discovering that a long-awaited law change still doesn’t allow them to complete all the paperwork at a patient’s death.
New roles for NPs & RNs come into effect today
Nurse practitioner leaders see amended laws coming into effect today – removing barriers to NP practice – as part of building momentum for the now fast growing role.
From today for the first time nurse...
Minister excited about opportunities for nurses through new laws
Health Minister David Clark says he’s keen to see nurses working at the top of their scope and is excited about the new Acts coming into force on January 31 that will help this happen.
Listen more and talk less to patients with diabetes, study finds
Nurses and GPs could improve their delivery of care to newly diagnosed diabetes patients by listening more, repeating less and co-ordinating better, a New Zealand research study has found.
The study by Otago, Auckland and...
Nurses encouraged to get whooping cough boosters
Nurses who work with babies and pregnant women are being encouraged to get the whooping cough vaccine – and in high risk settings – to consider a booster if vaccinated more than five years ago.
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