Books
- Alzheimer's disease, media representations and the politics of euthanasia
- The final choice: End of life suffering: Is assisted dying the answer?
- On emotional intelligence [HBR's 10 must reads]
- Statistics for people who (think they) hate statistics
Open access articles
- Psychological predictors of vaping uptake among non-smokers: A longitudinal investigation of New Zealand adults
- No Time to Gamble: Leaders Must Unite to Prevent Pandemics
Selected articles – Primary Health Care [RCN journal]
- Promoting cardiovascular health in people with learning disabilities
- Exploring fathers' experiences of seeking support for postnatal depression
- What skills do I need to become a nurse specialist?
- New Trend Diabetes guidance helps nurses support patients to manage diabetes and dementia safely
- Exploring the views and experiences of nurses who switched to general practice nursing from other roles
Selected Articles – Nursing Standard [RCN journal]
- What sepsis guidance update means for you
- Team based rostering: Here's how to get control over your shifts
- Leaving hospital: steps that can help prevent delayed discharge
Articles – Long Covid
- The long COVID conundrum from a New Zealand perspective
- Accessing care for Long Covid from the perspectives of patients and healthcare practitioners: A qualitative study.
- Long covid, four years on.
- Long covid and its impact on mitochondria: Four years after the pandemic's start, few people with long COVID are fully recovered.
Events
- He Tipua Conference 2024
- NZ Private Surgical Hospitals Association Conference 2024
News – National and International
- Why your daily multivitamin won't help you live longer
- Too many children with long COVID are suffering in silence. Their greatest challenge? The myth that the virus is 'harmless' for kids
- Nicotine pouch use by young people on the rise amid massive surge in imports to Australia following vaping crackdown
- Why the best diet for you is also good for the planet
- Cheese, please! Eight everyday foods that are great for gut health - and aren't kimchi, kombucha, 'kraut or kefir
Books
These books can be borrowed from the NZNO Library for a period of 4 weeks. We usually courier the books out to you so please provide a physical address.
1. Alzheimer’s disease, media representations and the politics of euthanasia
By Megan-Jane Johnstone
Published 2013
This book explores the 'Alzheimerisation' of the euthanasia debate, examining the shift in recent years in public attitudes towards the desirability and moral permissibility of euthanasia as an end-of-life 'solution' for people living with the disease - not just at its end stage, but also at earlier stages.
2. The final choice: End of life suffering: Is assisted dying the answer?
Caralise Trayes
Published 2020
Includes interviews from David Seymour MP, Shirley Seales (mother of the late Lecretia Seales), and Mary Panko of the End-of-Life Choice Society, as well as influencer and disabilities advocate Claire Freeman, palliative care expert Professor Roderick MacLeod MNZM and Disability Rights Commissioner Paula Tesoreiro MNZM among many others.
3. On emotional intelligence [HBR’s 10 must reads]
Published 2015
In his defining work on emotional intelligence, bestselling author Daniel Goleman found that it is twice as important as other competencies in determining outstanding leadership. This book will inspire you to: Monitor and channel your moods and emotions; Make smart, empathetic people decisions; Manage conflict and regulate emotions within your team; React to tough situations with resilience; Better understand your strengths, weaknesses, needs, values, and goals; Develop emotional agility.
4. Statistics for people who (think they) hate statistics
Neil J. Salkind
Published 2004 – 2nd edition
The aim is to give the reader both the knowledge and the confidence to think about statistics and how it's used in the real world'. This book takes you through takes students through various statistical procedures beginning with simple descriptions of data including correlations and graphical representation of data and ending with inferential techniques up through analysis of variance.
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Open access articles
5. Psychological predictors of vaping uptake among non-smokers: A longitudinal investigation of New Zealand adults
Tamlin S. Conner, Grace E. Teah, Chris G. Sibley, Robin M. Turner, Damian Scarf, Andre Mason
Drug and Alcohol Review, First published: 04 March 2024. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.13822
Demographic and health factors are known to predict vaping. Less is known about psychological predictors of vaping uptake, particularly among non-smoking adults using longitudinal designs. We aimed to model how psychological factors related to personality and mental health predicted the likelihood of vaping uptake over time in non-smoking adults ages 18+ using longitudinal data.
6. No Time to Gamble: Leaders Must Unite to Prevent Pandemics
The Right Honourable Helen Clark Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
June 2024
In May 2021, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response presented a package of evidence-based recommendations to the World Health Assembly that was urgent, ambitious, and practical. Our goal was to make COVID-19 the last pandemic of such devastation. At the current rate of change, it will not be.
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Selected articles – Primary Health Care [RCN journal]
7. Promoting cardiovascular health in people with learning disabilities
Nick Evans
Primary Health Care. 34, 3, 6-7.
Published: 04 June 2024. doi: 10.7748/phc.34.3.6.s2
Cardiovascular conditions are a major cause of avoidable deaths in people with learning disabilities, but nurses can help manage the risks. Cardiovascular conditions are the top cause of avoidable deaths in people with a learning disability. Why are people with a learning disability and/or autism at higher risk?
8. Exploring fathers’ experiences of seeking support for postnatal depression
Caroline Davenport & Viren Swami
Published online: 16 November 2023. doi: 10.7748/phc.2023.e1810
Many men tend to avoid seeking support for mental health issues and little is known about help-seeking among fathers who experience postnatal depression.
9. What skills do I need to become a nurse specialist?
Erin Dean
Primary Health Care. 34 (3), 16-17.
Published: 04 June 2024. doi: 10.7748/phc.34.3.16.s7
Specialist nursing roles are perfect for those with an interest in a particular type or area of nursing that they want to know more about. Nurses working in specialist roles will have specialist skills, competencies and experience, and be practising at an advanced level, says the RCN. This is a broad category of roles, which tend to be in a clinical remit or area, such as school nursing, occupational health and sexual health, or relate to a clinical condition, such as dementia, cancer or diabetes.
10. New Trend Diabetes guidance helps nurses support patients to manage diabetes and dementia safely
Primary Health Care. 34, 3, 8-9.
Published: 04 June 2024. doi: 10.7748/phc.34.3.8.s3
Diabetes and dementia are progressive, complex and long-term conditions. When a patient has both conditions, care can be difficult to manage. People who have diabetes are often experienced at managing their condition, but this can become more challenging with the onset of dementia. Those people living with dementia who develop diabetes may find that diabetes symptoms make their dementia appear worse.
11. Exploring the views and experiences of nurses who switched to general practice nursing from other roles
Kim Louise Grimmer
Primary Health Care. Published online: 20 September 2023. doi: 10.7748/phc.2023.e1805
General practice nursing is experiencing significant recruitment and retention challenges. Efforts have been made to attract newly registered nurses to general practice but there is still a workforce deficit. There is also a lack of research and initiatives around the recruitment of nurses new to general practice but who have experience in other areas of nursing.
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Selected Articles – Nursing Standard [RCN journal]
12. What sepsis guidance update means for you
Shruti Sheth Trivedi
Nursing Standard. (2024, May). 39(5), 11-12. doi: 10.7748/ns.39.5.11.s7
A nurse specialist explains how more targeted antibiotic use based on risk according to NEWS2 can support antimicrobial stewardship. National guidance on sepsis treatment has been updated to ensure antibiotics are being used in a more targeted way for people at higher risk of severe illness or death.
13. Team based rostering: Here’s how to get control over your shifts
Allie Anderson
Nursing Standard. (2024, May). 39(5), 15-17. doi: 10.7748/ns.39.5.15.s10
A consensus approach to rosters promotes fairness, work-life balance and retention by giving staff a high degree of autonomy over when they work. Everyone has the right to a healthy balance between their work and home life, and having autonomy over when and how you work can help strike that balance.
14. Leaving hospital: steps that can help prevent delayed discharge
Nick Evans
Nursing Standard. (2024, May). 39(5), 35-37. doi: 10.7748/ns.39.5.35.s15
Thousands of patients are stuck on UK hospital wards and at risk of deconditioning. Find out how ‘discharge to assess’ and early discharge planning can help. Delayed discharges are a persistent problem in UK hospitals. One in eight hospital beds in England is occupied by patients who are medically fit to leave, but cannot be discharged, data from NHS England show.
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Articles – Long Covid
15. The long COVID conundrum from a New Zealand perspective
New Zealand Medical Journal. (2024, June 21). 137(1597)
An important consequence of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic is that a significant proportion of patients infected by severe acute respiratory COVID-19 have ongoing long-term effects, termed long COVID. This condition may affect between 10 and 20% of those infected by COVID-19.
16. Accessing care for Long Covid from the perspectives of patients and healthcare practitioners: A qualitative study.
Turk, Fidan; Sweetman, Jennifer; Chew‐Graham, Carolyn A.; Gabbay, Mark; Shepherd, Jessie & van der Feltz‐Cornelis, Christina
Health Expectations (2024, Apr). 27(2), 1-15.
Long Covid is an emerging long‐term condition, with those affected raising concerns about lack of healthcare support.. We conducted a qualitative study to identify facilitators and barriers to healthcare access for people with Long Covid, aiming to enhance our understanding of the specific nature of these barriers and how patient experiences may vary.
17. Long covid, four years on.
New Scientist (2023). 260(3467), 36-39.
The article discusses the phenomenon of long covid, which refers to lingering symptoms experienced by some individuals after recovering from a covid-19 infection. While the exact prevalence of long covid is uncertain, it is estimated that around 10% of people who have been infected with the virus may experience these prolonged symptoms.
18. Long covid and its impact on mitochondria: Four years after the pandemic's start, few people with long COVID are fully recovered.
Chiropractic Economics (2023). 69(18), 20-26.
Am estimated 16-34 million Americans continue to experience symptoms of long covid. One in four people with long COVID continues to experience significant limitations in their daily activity. The debilitating fatigue of long COVID may be related to virus-triggered damage to the mitochondria, the tiny power plants within every cell.
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Events
19. He Tipua Conference 2024
Date: 2-3 July 2024
Venue: Takina Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre
Theme: Nurse-to-patient ratios, a new direction for Aotearoa New Zealand
The conference will explore why ratios are needed and why they are the next necessary and logical step towards solving the nursing and safe staffing crises.
20. NZ Private Surgical Hospitals Association Conference 2024
Date: Wednesday, 11 Sep 2024 8:00am to Friday, 13 Sep 2024 5:00pm
Venue: Hilton Hotel, 147 Quay Street, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
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News – National
21. Why your daily multivitamin won’t help you live longer
Stuff - 30 June 2024
More than 8.2 million Australians buy some form of vitamin, supplement or mineral every six months, in what is estimated to be a $5-billion industry. But how much are they doing for our health? A new study, released on Thursday in the US, found that multivitamins do not increase longevity.
News – International
22. Too many children with long COVID are suffering in silence. Their greatest challenge? The myth that the virus is 'harmless' for kids
Hayley Gleeson
ABC News – 16 June 2024
23. Nicotine pouch use by young people on the rise amid massive surge in imports to Australia following vaping crackdown
Nicolas Perpitch
ABC News Posted Fri 14 Jun 2024
Australia is being flooded with nicotine pouches, as organised crime and other illegal importers fuel a massive increase in the seizure of the small contraband sachets at the border since the start of the year. More than 1.3 million of the pouches, which are placed between gum and lip, were confiscated since January, compared to just 136,694 for the entire previous two years, a staggering 950 per cent increase.
24. Why the best diet for you is also good for the planet
Waikato Times – 11 June 2024
Can you eat a diet that’s good for your health and good for the planet? A new study suggests that it’s possible. It found that people who ate mostly minimally processed plant foods such as nuts, beans, fruits, vegetables, whole grains and olive oil, along with modest amounts of meat, fish, eggs and dairy, had lower rates of premature death from heart disease, cancer and other chronic diseases.
25. Cheese, please! Eight everyday foods that are great for gut health – and aren’t kimchi, kombucha, ’kraut or kefir
The Guardian – 12 May 2024
There’s more to looking after your internal microbiome than stuffing down the four Ks. Here are some cheap, readily available alternatives
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