Welcome to the digital summer edition of Nursing Review. We are ending the year with this special 44 page e-edition offering a smorgasbord of summer reading – a well-balanced ‘diet’ of articles new and old including a bonus RRR on work-life balance. Click to download or view pdf. We wish all our readers a safe, fun and restorative summer break. Nursing Review is back on deck from January 18.
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The edition opens with 11 nursing and health leaders looking back at the year that was and sharing their assessments of which areas in health and nursing have made ‘good progress’; which areas have ‘stagnated after showing initial promise’; and which areas ‘must do better’ in the new year.
We also feature a tasty smattering of articles drawn from research and presentations delivered at the biennial Australasian Nurse Educators Conference (ANEC) in Auckland and the National Nursing Informatics Conference in Christchurch.
In our ‘Best of the Rest’ section we are republishing some of the most well-received articles from Nursing Review’s print editions this year, including our extensive look at the issue of shiftwork. We provide some additional new material on research into the 12-hour shift and on one district health board that is beginning to revisit its own 12-hour shift rosters.
The first print edition for 2016 will be wending its way to your mailbox, ward or practice in February. It is our annual edition focusing on nurses walking the talk and looking after their own health and wellbeing.
Revisiting our first ever RRR
This edition we republish our first ever RRR professional development article and activity that looked at the juggling act we call ‘work-life balance’. The article, ‘In Balance: The Fit Between Work and Other Life Commitments’, was written and published in 2012, when the impact of the global financial crisis was still being felt strongly in the workplace and many nurses were taking on increased hours because of financial and job uncertainty impacting on their families; plus fewer nurses were retiring.
Three years on, that trend appears little changed, with district health board workforce statistics indicating that nurses in 2015 are working the same hours as they did three years ago and delaying retirement may still be a trend – the average age of a DHB nurse is up slightly from 44.7 years to 44.8 and the average length of nurse service has increased from 8.7 years to 9.2 years over the same time period.
Nursing Review thinks it is timely and relevant to offer an opportunity for nurses to revisit how they define work-life balance and to explore the fit between their personal and professional roles.
Remember, if you enjoy this RRR article, you can access an online back catalogue of 20 RRR articles and activities available exclusively to our print subscribers; there are five more fresh topics to come in 2016.
I hope you enjoy your digital summer read, have a lovely Christmas and find time for a restful and restorative break over the summer.
Fiona Cassie
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