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Three Minute Idol

A new initiative was launched at this year’s Colleges and Sections Day. Three minute idol, based on the successful universities model of ‘Three minute thesis’, meant Colleges and Sections representatives had three minutes in which to present an issue or aspect which they felt to be of importance to their College or Section. This was made more challenging by giving each group the task of using only one power-point slide.

Gerontology Nurses Section (NZNO)

The Gerontology section presented the following slide and speech and won the competition. More importantly NZNO colleagues reported that we make our speciality sound exciting…judge for yourself.

Ageing is a modern day miracle. With life expectancy reaching 83 by 2025; gerontology nurses see an opportunity to lead service and professional development. Engaging in the political context to influence pay, safe staffing and the contractual environment is as important as developing ourselves. We strive for and achieve excellence in practice; Gerontology Nurse Practitioners, Academic chairs, advanced roles while remaining endlessly enthusiastic for our specialty

National Division of Infection Control Nurses

One of the challenges for our members is to enable all healthcare workers to take responsibility for infection prevention & control. What does infection prevention & control mean? Give me an ‘I’ - Infection; Immunisation; isolation; infectious diseases; invasive devices; initiative, implementation, influenza. Give me a ‘P’ – Patients; Prevention; Policing, Personal protective equipment; policy, principles, planning, pertussis. Give me an ‘A’ - Antibiotics; antimicrobial resistance, antisepsis, asepsis; alcohol hand rub; airborne precautions; audits, action, anxiety! Give me a ‘C’ - Compliance; Contact precautions; cleaning; containing, consulting, clinical care, clostridium difficile; chickenpox. What does this mean? Yes this means you – infection prevention is everyone’s business!

College of Primary Health Care Nurses Aotearoa (NZNO)

Mt Cook symbolizes the strong foundation of the College of Primary Health Care Nurses.
The river represents flow of care to the community and the six nursing groups which merged together to form the College a year ago: Practice Nurses, District Nurses, Public Health Nurses, Rural nurses, Te Runanga and Iwi nurses and the journey towards strong professional leadership and collegial support for all nurses working within the primary health care sector.

Duty & Clinical Nurse Managers Section (NZNO)

The DCNM section is currently working with the Safe Staffing Healthy Workplace Unit in developing national principles/guidelines around capacity/demand management. The work is on developing a core data set to provide a complete picture needed to support effective decision making around capacity management.