Respect, trust, partnership and integrity: these four values underpin nursing’s new Code of Conduct, which we profile in our Learning & Leading edition.
They are also values embedded in the work of nurse practitioner Lou Roebuck, who for five years has worked with thousands of high needs young people seeking out free health care at
New Plymouth’s youth one-stop shop, WAVES. Her integrity was such that she worked for half of those years for free.
But in late October, WAVES’ health service came to a crashing halt when funding ran out once again and the trust decided it couldn’t allow Lou and a volunteer GP to prop up the service with free labour anymore.
Roebuck and fellow NPs wonder why NP services like hers – serving unmet needs – struggle to get funding in the same health system that can trump up money to fly in US-trained physician assistants (see online stories at www.nursingreview.co.nz for more detail).
Meanwhile, the Q & A profile in our Learning & Leading edition is Dame Margaret Bazley – the nurse leader turned top public servant – who shares some of her insights on leadership. We also look at the new regional hubs for postgraduate education and an upcoming review of postgraduate study funding priorities. Nurse educators share trends in international nursing education and a local innovation using iPads for teaching at the bedside. Plus, we look at research into learning clinical leadership the hard way and what constitutes a true measure of nursing productivity.
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