Recent Issues of Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand

June 2008, v14 (6)

This issue has a focus on education and safe staffing. It features coverage of NZNO's safe staffing symposium to mark International Nurses' Day, a feature on barriers facing overseas nurses seeking registration here, and reflections of a pioneering nursing educator.

May 2008, v14 (5)

This issue focuses on Maori nurses' contribution to Maori health. Long-serving Maori nurse Janice Wenn reflects on her career; researcher Hemaima Hughes shares findings from her masters thesis, and long-time NZNO loyalist Noeline Warmington looks back on a life devoted to improving Maori health.

April 2008, v14 (4)

This issue focuses on NZNO's theme for International Nurses Day (May 12), which concentrates on safe staffing, and on the official theme, Delivering quality, serving communities: Nurses leading primary health care.  It also looks at the difficulty of accessing robust workforce data.

March 2008, v14 (3)

This issue has a focus on nurse practitioners, including an in depth feature on why progress has been so slow to date and a viewpoint from an aspiring NP suggesting some changes to the registration process. It also features the moving story of a nurse who donated a kidney to a colleague.

February 2008, v14 (2)

This issue focuses on student concerns, with  viewpoints on preceptorships and the transition from student to registered nurse and profiles of NZNO's student leaders. It carries results from NZNO's education survey and an article on changing roles from an academic to a clinical charge nurse.

January 2008, v 14 (1) Centennial Issue

This special issue of Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand celebrates 100 years of nursing and publishing history. It includes journal founders Hester McClean's first editorial, tributes from a range of nursing leaders and former editors, an award-winning research report and essay, a meander down the decades and a feature on the journal's importance as a social history.

December 2007, v 13 (11)

This, our Christmas issue, includes articles on nurses working in Africa and a mental health nurse's experience of working in outback Australia. It also features a research article on the importance of politics in advanced nursing practice and a report of a population health symposium.

November 2007, v13 (10)

This issue has a focus on education with articles on interprofessional education, research into rural nurses, therapeutic alliances in an eating disorder unit, deconstructing the obesity epidemic and pandemic obligations.

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October 2007, v13 (9)

This issue focuses on NZNO’s annual conference held in Auckland and has coverage of keynote speakers, remit debate and clinical presentations. It includes a practice article on distinguishing between delirium and dementia and a viewpoint by a leading American nursing journalist on nurses’ struggle with reasoned debate.

September 2007, v13 (8)

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August  2007, v13 (7)

This issue focuses on health promotion and health education. It features the development of Otara Health Inc, a health service deeply rooted in its community, and profiles a health service developed by a Pacific nurse on Auckland’s North Shore.

It also carries two articles looking at the process of changing behaviour for better health.

July 2007, v13 (6)

This issue has a focus on Maori nurses, working in and with their communities.  It also includes articles on intramuscular injection techniques, the road to Magnet status for Hutt Hospital and the Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand 2006 index.

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June 2007, v13 (5)

Child health is the focus of this issue, which includes extensive coverage of the Plunket Society’s centennial conference in Dunedin.

There are also articles on the transition to parenthood and the importance of play for
children in hospital. Two important awards to mark Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand’s centenary in January 2008 are also announced in this issue.

May 2007, v13 (4)

Celebrating diversity among nurses and those we care for is a focus of this issue.

It includes profiles of a South African nurse working with refugees in Wellington and of a German specialist intensive care nurse working in Christchurch. There is also an article on the support migrant nurses need.

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April 2007, v13 (3)

Positive practice environments is the focus of International Nurses’ Day on May 12.

This issue reflects that theme, with features on the nursing vision at Christchurch Hospital and how an aged-care facility took steps to change its workplace culture. It also includes articles on caring for prisoners, corporate bullying and the need for nurses to care for themselves.

March 2007, v13 (2)

This month we focus on palliative care, including its provision in aged-care facilities.

We also look at the grief associated with placing a loved one with dementia in care and the issues around funding for the agedcare sector.

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February 2007, v13 (1)

This issue has a focus on advanced nursing practice and features a profile of a diabetes nurse pregnancy specialist and looks at the advantages of working as a nursing contractor. There’s an article on writing for publication
and on nurses as expert witnesses.

December 2006 - January 2007, v12 (11)

Our Christmas issue features a number of nurses who have chosen to work voluntarily in poor and devastated regions of the world; has a research article on mental health nursing; and a feature on caring for a person with dementia, who is also a wanderer.

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November 2006, v12 (10)

This month’s Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand has a focus on education, with articles on the value of online training, the need for a range of education options for registered nurses and NZNO’s delegate training.

October 2006, v12 (9)

This month’s Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand povides coverage of NZNO’s annual conference in Auckland last month and covers some women’s health issues.

September 2006, v12 (8)

This month’s Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand has a focus on mental health, with features on ensuring the best possible care for those with mental health problems presenting to emergency departments, on the importance of preceptors in mental health nursing, and on innovative projects for vulnerable children.

August 2006, v12 (7)

This month’s Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand has a focus on public health nursing, with features on caring for a tuberculosis patient with complex needs; on meeting the health needs of refugee families; and a longtime public health nurse who has just retired. This issue also carries a feature on an occupational health nurse.

July 2006, v12 (6)

This month has a focus on child health, with features on well child health needs assessment, a Chinese Plunket service in Auckland and building trust in neonatal units. It also looks at the tensions inherent in the duty manager role and contains the Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand index for 2005.

June 2006, v12 (5)

This month's issue is the biggest ever and contains reaction to the publication ofthe photo essay in last month's issue.

It also focuses on education, profiles a diabetes nurse clinician who works with Maori clients, and features outgoing head of the Ministry of Health's Maori Health Directions, Rita Earp.

UPDATE: Privacy Commission report on the publication of photographs of elderly people and their carers

An investigation by the Privacy Commissioner, completed in March 2007, has found that NZNO’s journal Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand had fully informed consent to publish photographs in an essay on rest-home carers looking after elderly people. Her background report is below.

Privacy Commissioner's Report (PDF, 373 KB)

A summary and comment will be published in the April 2007 issue of Kai Tiaki.

May 2006 v12 (4)

This month Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand focuses on palliative care and aged care. A special feature is a photo essay on the work of caregivers in the aged-care sector, which bears testimony to the intimacy and value of their work. The issue also features a profile of a hospice nurse and looks at providing palliative care in rest-homes.

April 2006 v12 (3)

This month focuses on the theme for International Nurses' Day, Safe Staffing Saves Lives.

It carries articles on a range of workforce issues including nurse/patient ratios and speaking to the media. There areprofiles of a caregiver and and a nurse manager in aged care.

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March 2006 v12 (2)

This month Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand focuses on wound care and surgical nursing. It features an editorial by a leading wound management consultant; a profile of a nurse practitioner specialising in wound care; a profile of a surgical nurse and updates on mobile surgical services.

February 2006 v12 (1)

The February issue focused on students – the issues they face, their experience in practice and how to enter the nursing profession safely and successfully. There are also articles on cultural safety and the Treaty of Waitangi

December 2005/January 2006

The December/January Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand includes a diverse range of articles - from a viewpoint on the care of a sick baby to a delegate’s perspective on an Employment Authority hearing; from a nurse’s experience of a heart attack to a research report on the impact of party pills.

November 2005

November focuses on education, with a profile of a leading educator and articles looking at spirituality and nursing, nurses' physical assessment skills and communicating effectively with people who have intellectual disabilities.

October 2005

October 2005 focuses on mental health, with articles looking at electroconvulsive therapy, research into nurses' experience of mental illness, and the struggles at Wellington Hospital's acute impatient unit. The magazine also features coverage of NZNO's annual conference in Auckland.

September 2005

This month focuses on primary health care, with extensive coverage of NZNO's third primary health care nursing conference last month.

Two public health nurses share their experiences of nursing in Vanuatu; a practice nurse shares her passion for her job; and the likely impact of an avian' flu pandemic is discussed.

August 2005

August 2005 focuses on the challenges and rewards of working in the aged-care sector.

A research article explores caregivers’ responses to aggressive behaviour from residents; a practice article looks at the impact of the norovirus; and an assistant nursing director challenges perceptions about nursing older people.

July 2005

The July 2005 issue focuses on elections - the General Election and NZNO elections.

The magazine has a number of election articles comparing the different political parties' policies and how they stack up against NZNO's ten policy objectives; and analysing how the parties' health and industrial relations policies will affect NZNO members.

June 2005

The June issue has a focus on education.

The editorial looks at how to make nursing an attractive profession again, and an experienced nurse educator lays down some challenges for the profession.

A nurse shares how her cultural safety education changed her practice and a nursing leader provides some advice on giving public presentations.

May 2005

This issue has a focus on ethics.

The editorial looks at nursing's moral purpose; a viewpoint examines the ethical and moral dilemmas nurses face in truth telling; and the professional focus looks at the conflict of interest inherent in sexual relationships between nurses and clients.

This issue also exposes the exploitation of Filipino nurses in this country.

April 2005

The April issue marks International Nurses' Day (IND) on May 12 and International Day of the Midwife on May 5.

There is afocus on the links in the patient safety chain; a profile of the establishment of a nurse-led pre-assessment clinic in a cardiology unit and a practice piece looking at the efficacy of blood glucose monitoring in type 2 diabetes.