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Issue 08 - 20 November 2024

Books

  1. Power to win: The living wage movement in Aotearoa New Zealand
  2. Challenges in professional supervision: Current themes and models for practice
  3. Decolonizing methodologies: Research and indigenous peoples
  4. Human: Solving the global workforce crisis in healthcare
  5. Managing mixed financing of privately owned providers in the public interest
  6. Nursing theorists and their work

Articles – Shiftwork

  1. A mixed method approach to how shiftworking emergency department (ED) nurses reduce the effects of fatigue and differences in strategies between those with varying levels of fatigue
  2. Fatigue and recovery in shiftworking nurses: A scoping literature review
  3. Chronic fatigue and recovery among nurses working two-shift and three-shift rotations
  4. Exploring Sleep and Fatigue of Clinical Nurses and Administrative Supervisors

Articles – Child Health

  1. Community child health nursing: Exploring the way forward
  2. Paediatric and child health nursing: The past, the present and the future
  3. Promoting confident body, confident child in community child health: A mixed-methods implementation study
  4. Eye health in children

Articles – Journal of Children and Young People's Health, August 2024

  1. Reflections on self-compassion: Building a more compassionate self.
  2. What clinical, professional or educational issues do expert non-government school nurses in Western Australia perceive as a priority for research investigation?
  3. Fostering the retention of a skilled paediatric clinical workforce through undergraduate and postgraduate nurse education
  4. A reflective case study examining the Family and Community Liaison Coordinator (FCLC) role in early childhood development

Articles – Long Covid

  1. Long COVID: Sufferers can take heart
  2. A qualitative study of the general practice experience of diagnosing and managing long COVID: Challenges and practical recommendations
  3. Acupuncture and Chinese medicine approaches to the management of Long COVID: A selection of case reports

Events

  1. ANZICS/ACCCN Intensive Care ASM

National and international news

  1. Poor outcomes for poverty
  2. The office lunch: You are what you eat, at least in the eyes of your coworkers
  3. Gender pay gap means women on average working for free from today until end of year
  4. NSW public hospital psychiatrists suffering 'moral injury and burnout' as half threaten to resign

 

Books

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1. Power to win: The living wage movement in Aotearoa New Zealand

Lyndy McIntyre [Autographed by the author]
Published 2024

This is the story of the movement’s efforts to lift the wages of the most disadvantaged people in our workforce – women, Māori, Pacific Peoples, migrants and refugees, and young workers. McIntyre provides a window into the lives of these workers and those committed to ending in-work poverty: the activists, faith groups, unions and community organisations who come together to tilt the axis of power from employers to low-wage workers.

2.Challenges in professional supervision: Current themes and models for practice

Liz Beddoe & Allyson Davys
Published in 2016

This book is divided into two sections: The first describes the contemporary themes in professional supervision and the second discusses the models and skills being employed to deliver it. Issues such as supervising ethically, supporting practitioner wellbeing and manging the process are all explored. There are also chapters on group and interprofessional supervision, supervision of managers and how to have difficult conversations.

3. Decolonizing methodologies: Research and indigenous peoples

Linda Tuhiwai Smith
3rd edition, 2021

This revised and expanded new edition demonstrates the continued importance of Tuhiwai Smith’s work, including the growing movement to decolonize education and the university curriculum. It also features contributions from both new and established indigenous scholars on what a decolonizing approach means for both the present and future of academic research, and provides practical examples of how decolonial and indigenous methodologies have been fruitfully applied to recent research projects. 

4. Human: Solving the global workforce crisis in healthcare

Mark Britnell
Published in 2019

The central argument of this book is that over the next decade we are heading towards a global workforce shortage in healthcare that will harm patients, citizens, and societies. He looks at specific countries such as Japan, Brazil, and the Netherlands to illustrate how health systems can improve worldwide if we learn from each other. He argues for gender equality for healthcare workers, increased support for them, and more sophisticated thinking on the relationship between humans and technology.

5. Managing mixed financing of privately owned providers in the public interest

Smith, J., Mays, N., Ovenden., Cumming, J., McDonald, J. & Boson, J.
Institute of Policy Studies, 2010

This book compares the financing of general practice (primary health care), long-term care of older people, legal aid, and early childhood education in New Zealand, Australia, and England. Each service is characterised by a different mix of public and private finance. The authors identify the criteria deemed important when assessing whether a particular mix of public and private finance produces a service that meets public goals.

6. Nursing theorists and their work

Martha Raile Alligood
10th edition, 2022

Find the thinking of 39 leading nursing theorists in one comprehensive text. Each chapter presents a key nursing theory or philosophy, showing how systematic theoretical evidence can enhance decision making, professionalism, and quality of care. 

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Articles – Shiftwork

7. A mixed method approach to how shiftworking emergency department (ED) nurses reduce the effects of fatigue and differences in strategies between those with varying levels of fatigue

Jane Gifkins., Ashlea Troth., Rebecca Loudoun., Amy Johnston
Collegian. (2024). 31(5), 277-283

Fatigue is commonly reported in shiftworking emergency department nurses. Fatigue can be both acute and chronic, with both types impacting organisational outcomes. However, chronic fatigue is reported to have a greater impact on nurses’ health and wellbeing.

8. Fatigue and recovery in shiftworking nurses: A scoping literature review

Jane Gifkins., Amy Johnston., Rebecca Loudoun & Ashlea Troth
International Journal of Nursing Studies. (2020). Vol. 112, Article 103710.

Objectives: To identify factors impeding or enhancing recovery from fatigue in shiftworking nurses.

Design: Scoping literature review methodology was implemented to identify key concepts around recovery from fatigue in shiftworking nurses to provide a narrative around these paradigms

9. Chronic fatigue and recovery among nurses working two-shift and three-shift rotations

Shinya Yamaguchi., Peter C. Winwood & Rika Yano
Collegian. (2023). 30(6), 786-794.

Shift patterns influence nurses’ work and rest conditions. This study explored the association between fatigue and recovery and factors associated with recovery and chronic fatigue among nurses working a three-shift (8 hour shifts) or two-shift (more than 12 hour shifts) rotations in Japan.

10. Exploring Sleep and Fatigue of Clinical Nurses and Administrative Supervisors

Susan H. Weaver., Kimberly Dimino., Kathryn Fleming., Joan Harvey., Maria Manzella., Paula O’Neill., Mani Paliwal., Maryjo Phillips. & Theresa A. Wurmser 
Nurse Leader. (2024). 22(2), 203-210.

This study investigated the difference in fatigue and sleep quality between day and night shift clinical nurses and administrative supervisors. Significant differences were found between day and night shift clinical nurses in quality and patterns of sleep, perceptions of the severity and effects of fatigue, and work-related fatigue, but not with administrative supervisors. Furthermore, more night shift nurses and supervisors recalled a fatigue-related error, falling asleep at a red light, missing their exit, and having a car accident when driving home compared to those working day shift.

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Articles – Child Health

11. Community child health nursing: Exploring the way forward

Australian Journal of Child and Family Health Nursing, 01 June 2023

Community child health nurses (CHNs) provide integral support for children and families in Australia during the early years across diverse physical, psychosocial and cultural environments. Working in partnership with parents facilitates provision of evidence-based nursing support during childhood which impacts on lifelong health trajectories.

12. Paediatric and child health nursing: The past, the present and the future

Journal of Children and Young People's Health (2022, Dec)
Linda Shields & Ailsa Munns

This paper discusses how healthcare for children evolved, and how paediatric and child health nursing evolved at the same time. The past is compared with the present, with examples of how paediatric and child health nursing has changed to be what it is today.

13. Promoting confident body, confident child in community child health: A mixed-methods implementation study

Lyza Norton., Laura M Hart., Francoise Butel., Susan Moloney., Narelle O’Connor., Vicki Attenborough & Shelley Roberts
Health Promotion Journal of Australia (2022, Jan), 297-305

Objective': To evaluate population-level implementation of Confident Body, Confident Child (CBCC); an evidence-based program providing parenting strategies to promote healthy eating, physical activity and body satisfaction in children aged 2-6 years; with community child health nurses (CHNs)

14. Eye health in children

Journal of the Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine, 01 December 2023

Children are living in an increasingly digitized world. The COVID-19 pandemic helped compound and accelerate children's exposure to computer technology and screen time. One cohort study demonstrated an increased screen time of 1.75 hours in children aged 4-12 years during the COVID-19 pandemic, which remained at an increase of over 1.11 hours after the pandemic.

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Articles – Journal of Children and Young People's Health, August 2024

15. "Reflections on self-compassion: Building a more compassionate self.

Journal of Children and Young People's Health (2024, Aug). 5(1), 3–4.

When working with children and families and, indeed, even for ourselves in our personal and professional lives, self-compassion is a way of relating to suffering that can enhance our own well-being and our capacity to be compassionate and caring toward others.

16. What clinical, professional or educational issues do expert non-government school nurses in Western Australia perceive as a priority for research investigation?

Anita Moyes., Elizabeth Rankin & Chelsey Williams
Journal of Children and Young People's Health (2024, Aug). 5(1), 5-11.

This study employed a four step Nominal Group Technique to explore school nursing priorities from the perspective of expert school nurses working in non-government schools in Western Australia. Five nurses with more than 60 years of school nursing experience collectively generated more than 60 research ideas using this approach, subsequently grouping these into key areas through facilitated discussion and group consensus.

17. Fostering the retention of a skilled paediatric clinical workforce through undergraduate and postgraduate nurse education

Mandy El Ali & Geraldine Rebeiro
Journal of Children and Young People's Health (2024, Aug). 5(1), 12-16.

This discussion paper presents the importance of partnerships between industry and tertiary education providers who are best placed to support undergraduate and postgraduate nurse education to bolster the recruitment and retention of a qualified and prepared paediatric nursing workforce.

18. A reflective case study examining the Family and Community Liaison Coordinator (FCLC) role in early childhood development

Jonathan Ramke., Susie Giugni., Antonia Kish., Catherine Hilly., Jacqui McKechnie., Jane Herbert & Rachel Davey
Journal of Children and Young People's Health (2024, Aug). 5(1), 17-23

This reflective study examines the role of a Family and Community Liaison Coordinator (FCLC) in the Good Start in Life research project in the Belconnen District of the ACT, aimed at supporting families with young children in vulnerable areas.

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Articles – Long Covid

19. Long COVID: Sufferers can take heart

Australian Journal of General Practice, 01 April 2024. 53(4), 238-240.

MILLIONS WORLDWIDE experience post-acutesequelae of COVID-19 (PASC or long COVID), according to the World HealthOrganization (WHO), European Union and the UK and US governments. The median duration of long COVID symptoms is five months, but 10% of patients still experience symptoms at 12 months.

20. A qualitative study of the general practice experience of diagnosing and managing long COVID: Challenges and practical recommendations

Judith Thomas., Mirela Prgomet., Stephen Weeding., Precious McGuire., Brendan Goodger., Nerida Joss., C Fiona Mackintosh., Adam McLeod &Andrew Georgiou
Australian Journal of General Practice. (2024, Oct). 53(10), 732-736.

21. Acupuncture and Chinese medicine approaches to the management of Long COVID: A selection of case reports

Stephen Clarke., Sandra Grace & Robert Tindle
Journal of the Australian Traditional-Medicine Society. (2022, Sept). 28(3), 134-137.

This article presents summaries of nine case reports of treatment approaches using acupuncture and Chinese medicine.

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Events

22. ANZICS/ACCCN Intensive Care ASM

Compassionate Care in the Digital Age: Merging Hearts and Minds

The 48th Australian and New Zealand Annual Scientific Meeting on Intensive Care and the 29th Annual Pediatric and Neonatal Care Conference brings together doctors, nurses and allied health practitioners in the fields of critical care and emergency medicine from both adult and paediatric disciplines.

Date: 9-11 April 2025
Venue: Te Pae Convention Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand

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National news

23. Poor outcomes for poverty

Radio New Zealand

21-23 November 2024 - In Wellington this week, the Pakukore: Poverty, by Design conference will tackle the systemic issues holding New Zealand back from eradicating poverty

24. The office lunch: You are what you eat, at least in the eyes of your coworkers

Radio New Zealand – 16 November 2024

The classic lunch break is no longer what it was with a change in office culture, cafe closures and price increases eating into the precious midday break.

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International news

25. Gender pay gap means women on average working for free from today until end of year

ABC News – 19 November 2024

New research suggests the gap, while still wide, is narrowing at a much more rapid pace than it was previously. Legislation that has boosted workers' rights, including more flexible work, an end to pay secrecy clauses, an expansion of workplace bargaining and the publication of gender pay gaps, is among the reasons why.

26. NSW public hospital psychiatrists suffering 'moral injury and burnout' as half threaten to resign

ABC News – 19 November 2024

One hundred and forty-five of 295 salaried psychiatrists in the NSW public hospital system are threatening to resign over workforce shortages and pay. The doctors' union said one-third of specialist psychiatry positions in hospitals across the state remained unfilled.

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