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Issue 05 - 31 August 2023

Books

  1. Communication for nurses: How to prevent harmful events and promote patient safety
  2. Contexts of nursing [4th edition]
  3. Professional practice models in nursing: Successful health system integration
  4. Whole person caring: An interprofessional model for healing and wellness
  5. Spirituality in nursing: Standing on holy ground [6th edition]

Articles – Active Listening / Communication Skills

  1. What is active listening and how can I use it?
  2. Active Listening and Patient Centered Care on Tinnitus Management Success: A Case Study
  3. Therapist response to a distressed client: Differences in active listening and changes in negative affect
  4. The Importance of Listening
  5. Keeping the person at the centre of digital communication in health care
  6. Developing good communication skills: The key to working in intensive care.
  7. Improving family communication in critical care
  8. "Don t let me be misunderstood": communication with patients from a different cultural background

Articles – Missed Nursing Care (MNC)

  1. Nurses' perception of missed nursing care in a Western Australian teaching hospital: A cross-sectional study
  2. The association between 12-hour shifts and nurses-in-charge's perceptions of missed care and staffing adequacy: a retrospective cross-sectional observational study
  3. Missed care phenomenon on neonatal intensive CARE unit (NICU)
  4. The factors contributing to missed care and non-compliance in infection prevention and control practices of nurses: A scoping review
  5. Toward understanding nurses decisions whether to miss care: A discrete choice experiment
  6. Missed nursing care in Australia: Exploring the contributing factors

Open Access Articles – Medical Journal of Australia

  1. Rapid access chest pain clinics in Australia and New Zealand
  2. Mental health of young Australians: dealing with a public health crisis

Table of Contents

  1. The Outlet: New Zealand Stomal Therapy Nurses, July 2023

Events

  1. Annual Women's Debate 2023: A Gender Lens on the General Election
  2. Political Panel: Feminist Foreign Policy
  3. New Zealand College of Stomal Therapy Nurses Conference 2024 - Innovation
  4. New Zealand Respiratory Conference

National news

  1. When certain poop colours are red flags according to experts
  2. Australian trial to examine driving with medicinal cannabis risks
  3. Are we ready to eliminate invasive meningococcal disease in Aotearoa New Zealand?
  4. Tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food - where the parties stand: Election 2023
  5. Integrated Prevention and Control of Seasonal Respiratory Infections in Aotearoa New Zealand: Next steps for transformative change

International news

  1. Should I worry about snacking?

Books available for borrowing

NZNO members and staff can borrow these books for a period of 4 weeks.  Please provide a street address so that the books can be couriered out to you.

1.Communication for nurses: How to prevent harmful events and promote patient safety

Schuster, P. M. & Nykolyn, L.
F. A. Davis, 2010

The first part of this book is about interpersonal communication and building the foundations for patient-safe communication. The second part is about patient-safe communication in professional nurse-patient relationships.

2. Contexts of nursing [4th edition]

Daly, J., Speedy, S. & Jackson, D.
Elsevier Australia, 2015

Nursing knowledge and its foundational elements are explored and considered in relational to professional nursing practice and the context of healthcare.  It includes chapters on becoming a critical thinker, reflective practice and ethics in nursing.

3. Professional practice models in nursing: Successful health system integration

Duffy, J. R.
Springer, 2016

This book guides nurse leaders and educators in the process of integrating professional practice models into clinical workflow, advancing nursing practice, improving the quality of patient care, and facilitating Magnet designation.

4. Whole person caring: An interprofessional model for healing and wellness

Thornton, L.
Sigma Theta Tau International, 2013

The model of WPC creates a framework that invites the integration of whole systems of medicine and healing practices into health care. The six key concepts of the WPC model are as follows: therapeutic partnering; self-compassion, self-care, and self-healing; optimal health and wellness; transformational health care leadership; caring as sacred practice; and infinite and sacred nature of being.

5. Spirituality in nursing: Standing on holy ground [6th edition]

O’Brien, M. E.
Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2018

This book explores the relationship between spirituality and the practice of nursing. The text focuses on relevant topics in contemporary nursing such as the spiritual history of nursing, assessment of patient's spiritual needs as well as the nurse's role in spiritual care.

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Articles – Active Listening / Communication Skills

6. What is active listening and how can I use it?

Miller, N.
Nursing Older People. (2023, Jul). 35(4), 15-16. doi: 10.7748/nop.35.4.15.s5

Good communication is essential for effective care and active listening can improve patient outcomes. When speaking to patients and colleagues, it is vital that nurses can communicate information clearly – but taking in other people’s responses is just as important. NHS England has published guidance on a key technique known as active listening, which can improve communication and outcomes in healthcare.

7. Active Listening and Patient Centered Care on Tinnitus Management Success: A Case Study.

International Tinnitus Journal (2022, Dec). 26(2), 107-109.

As we run routine hearing tests, it is easy to treat patients like another item on our assembly line. We can empower our patients by actively listening, thoroughly explaining results, and letting them lead their own explorations into treatment options.

8. Therapist response to a distressed client: Differences in active listening and changes in negative affect

Altabef, D., Meier, S., Reynolds, Amy., Delucia, Janice & Friedling, L.
Counselling & Psychotherapy Research (2017, Sep). 17(3), 234-239

While talking through distress can help ease client distress, listening to distressed individuals can be a challenging task for psychotherapists who do so routinely. We explore factors that account for variance in emotional reactions to distress among therapists. These included beliefs about responsibility for helping, professional training, and demographic variables.

9. The Importance of Listening

Chambers, D. (Clinical Services Manager, Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care)
ASBN Update. (2023, Jul). 28(4), 14-14.

As nurses, we are in the act of communicating all day long. Communication involves peers, physicians, patients, staff, and family members. It is safe to say that we all know how to communicate, but are we good at communicating? Are we good listeners?

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10. Keeping the person at the centre of digital communication in health care

Lindsay, E.
Journal of Community Nursing. (2023, Jun). 37(3), 64-65.

Increasing reliance on evolving electronic devices and digital communication to cope with rising demands on the healthcare system may lead to inadvertent oversights, misunderstandings, and important messages being lost in translation, thereby posing a challenge to keeping the communication patient- or person-centred.

11. Developing good communication skills: The key to working in intensive care.

George, H.
British Journal of Nursing (2023). 32(8), 396-396.

It’s so important to feel confident enough to speak up and be an advocate for your patient, especially in work areas such as intensive care, where my patients are often sedated and unable to communicate for themselves.

12. Improving family communication in critical care

Jones, M.
Canadian Journal of Critical Care Nursing. (2023). 34(1), 15-24

Communication with family members in critical care is challenged by socioeconomic, environmental, and organizational factors. Ineffective communication between healthcare providers and family members results in psychological distress and anxiety among family members and can lead to misunderstanding of the patient’s condition and ineffective decision-making.

13. "Don't let me be misunderstood": communication with patients from a different cultural background

Taylan, C. & Weber, L. T.
Pediatric Nephrology. (2023, Mar). 38(3), 643-649

The diversity of cultures in hospitals poses a major challenge. Medical teams are often confronted with language barriers and different concepts of illness, health, and healing. The field is wide, and in addition to foreign language skills, primarily human skills such as self-awareness, communication, and empathy are demanded.

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Articles – Missed Nursing Care (MNC)

14. Nurses’ perception of missed nursing care in a Western Australian teaching hospital: A cross-sectional study

Afia Achiaa Sarpong., Diana Arabiat., Lucy Gent., Ebenezer Afrifa-Yamoah & Amanda Towell-Barnard
Collegian. (2023, Aug). 30(4), 602-611.

Missed nursing care (MNC) has gained increasing emphasis in nursing literature because of its association with nurse and patient outcomes in healthcare settings.. This article aims to determine nurses’ perceptions of the types of MNC, reasons for missed care and to identify factors predicting missed care occurrence in Western Australian acute care settings.

15. The association between 12-hour shifts and nurses-in-charge's perceptions of missed care and staffing adequacy: a retrospective cross-sectional observational study

Christina Saville., Chiara Dall'Ora & Peter Griffiths
International Journal of Nursing Studies (2020). Vol. 112, Article 103721.

Due to worldwide nursing shortages and difficulty retaining staff, long shifts for nursing staff (both registered nurses and nursing assistants) working in hospitals have been adopted widely. To investigate the association between the proportion of long (?12?hour) shifts worked on a ward and nurses-in-charge's perceptions that the staffing level was sufficient to meet patient need.

16. Missed care phenomenon on neonatal intensive CARE unit (NICU)

Anna Rozensztrauch., Robert Smigiel., Izabella Uchmanowicz
Journal of Neonatal Nursing (2021). 27(5), 341-346.

Most studies on the subject refer to care for adult patients, and reports on rationing care for children are scarce. However, when discussing the phenomenon of rationing care in the neonatal area, attention should be focused not only on its clinical aspect, but also on its moral one. Is it ethical to omit any activities while caring of a newborn?

17. The factors contributing to missed care and non-compliance in infection prevention and control practices of nurses: A scoping review

Lauren McCauley., Marcia Kirwan & Anne Matthews
International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances. (2021). Vol. 3, Article 100039.

The aim of this study is to identify the shared factors related to both nurse non-compliance with infection prevention and control practices and the recognised research field of missed nursing care, here in relation to infection prevention and control.

18. Toward understanding nurses' decisions whether to miss care: A discrete choice experiment

Nasra Abdelhadi., Anat Drach-Zahavy & Einav Srulovici
International Journal of Nursing Studies. (2023). Vol. 139, Article 104448.

Studies of missed nursing care suggest that it results from ward-level, patient-related, and task-type factors, while nurses' decision-making style was scarcely studied. Studying the effect of nurses' decision-preference structures, namely a pattern of joint ward and patient factors, on missed care may also contribute to understanding the phenomenon.

19. Missed nursing care in Australia: Exploring the contributing factors

Sarah L Mills & Maree Duddle
Collegian (2022). 29(1), 125-135.

Nurses are increasingly ending their shifts with outstanding tasks and missing vital aspects of patient care. Research has indicated that this could have a detrimental effect on both nurse and patient outcomes. This scoping review seeks to identify the contributing factors to missed nursing care in an Australian context.

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Open Access Articles – Medical Journal of Australia

20. Rapid access chest pain clinics in Australia and New Zealand

Kenneth K Cho, John K French, Gemma A Figtree, Clara K Chow and Rebecca Kozor
Medical Journal of Australia (2023, Aug). doi: 10.5694/mja2.52043

In this article we review the models and experiences of these RACCs in Australia and New Zealand, considering the opportunities, challenges and benefits of developing a national framework.

21. Mental health of young Australians: dealing with a public health crisis

Patrick D McGorry, David Coghill and Michael Berk
Medical Journal of Australia (2023, July). doi: 10.5694/mja2.52047

The mental health of young Australians is rapidly declining. Health and social care systems remain asymmetrically focused on physical illness and disability. Despite the erosive effect of mental illness, public pressure and, consequently, the political will for a response, in proportion to the scale and urgency of the crisis, are yet to materialise.

Table of Contents

22. The Outlet: New Zealand Stomal Therapy Nurses, July 2023

Copies of these articles are available from the NZNO library.

22A. Your Executive Committee Members

22B. Chairperson’s Report [Emma Ludlow]

22C. Editor’s Report [Preeti Charan and Marie Buchanan]

22D. Reporting back on Perth conference [Stoma therapy nurse, Te Whatu Ora Waitemata]

22E. Bowel function after colorectal surgery [Sze-Lin Peng, Suzanne Marshall and Nicole Falkner]

22F. My bowel cancer journey [Jocelyn Raynes]

22G. Pyoderma gangrenosum: When nothing else fits! [Glenda Gagger, Nurse Educator, District Nursing Service, Te Whatu Ora Waitemata

22H. Writing in The Outlet

22I. Awards & Grants [Available to all members of NZNOCSTN]

22J. Policy for Bernadette Hart Award

22K. Application for Bernadette Hart Award

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Events

23. Annual Women's Debate 2023: A Gender Lens on the General Election

Date: Tuesday 5 September, 5:30pm to 8pm
Venue: Rutherford House, Victoria University of Wellington,  Pipitea Campus

Presented by the Wellington Branch of the National Council of Women New Zealand, Graduate Women Wellington, and Zonta Club of Wellington, the panel will consist of:

  • Tamatha Paul (Green Party)
  • Frances Hughes (National Party)
  • Natalia Albert (Opportunities Party).
  • We expect to have candidates from Labour Party and Māori Party confirmed soon.

Registrations are free for this event but donations are welcomed.

24. Political Panel: Feminist Foreign Policy

Date: Wednesday 13 September, 5.30pm-7pm
Venue: Rutherford House, Victoria University of Wellington, Pipitea Campus

Presented by the National Council of Women New Zealand, Business & Professional Women NZ (BPW NZ), and Graduate Women NZ, topics will cover climate change, sexual and reproductive health rights, the fulfilment of the SDGs and international treaties, technology-facilitated gender-based abuse and harassment. The panel is chaired by Susie Ferguson and includes:

  • Nanaia Mahuta, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Labour Party
  • Gerry Brownlee, Foreign Affairs Spokesperson, National Party
  • Golriz Ghahraman, Foreign Affairs Spokesperson, Green Party

25. New Zealand College of Stomal Therapy Nurses Conference 2024 - Innovation

Date: Feb 29 - Mar 1, 2024
Venue: Ellerslie Racecourse, Auckland

26. New Zealand Respiratory Conference

Date: 16 - 17 November 2023
Venue: Te Papa Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, New Zealand

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National news

27. When certain poop colours are red flags according to experts

Newshub, 28 August 2023

There isn't a one-size-fits-all answer for how often you should poop, but when it comes to what colour your stool should be, expert consensus is much narrower. And deviations from it can be a cause for concern.

28. Australian trial to examine driving with medicinal cannabis risks

One News, 28 August 2023

Victorian medicinal cannabis users will be put through a closed-track trial to see when it's safe for them to get behind the wheel. The 18-month trial will look at the level of impairment medicinal cannabis can cause.

29. Are we ready to eliminate invasive meningococcal disease in Aotearoa New Zealand?

7 August 2023
Amanda Kvalsvig., Nick Wilson., Constanza Jackson., Carmen Timu-Parata., Neilenuo (Nelly) Rentta & Michael Baker

Aotearoa New Zealand has experienced high rates of Invasive meningococcal disease for the last 30 years, but recent international and local experience shows that we may finally have an opportunity to be permanently free of this disease.

30. Tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food - where the parties stand: Election 2023

8 August 2023
Boyd Swinburn & Caitlin Haliburton

The results of a Health Coalition Aotearoa survey of political parties on the priority prevention for tobacco, alcohol, unhealthy food and public health infrastructure has found generally the parties are deeply split along ideological grounds. This is despite the evidence pointing to the savings in lives and health dollars from prevention measures.

31. Integrated Prevention and Control of Seasonal Respiratory Infections in Aotearoa New Zealand: Next steps for transformative change

Policy Quarterly (2022, Feb). 18(1)
Amanda Kvalsvig, Lucy Telfar Barnard, Jennifer Summers & Michael G Baker

Transformative change will require an integrated approach to infectious disease policy that builds on the knowledge and infrastructure developed during the first two years of the pandemic response. An effective strategy will include generic elements – notably, science-informed strategic leadership, a Tiriti and equity focus, and an upgraded alert level system.


International news

32. Should I worry about snacking?

The Guardian – 6 August 2023

Will eating between meals encourage you to put on weight, or keep you lean? Is there such a thing as a healthy snack? Here’s what the science says.

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