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Recent issues of Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand
The cover, table of contents and a content summary of recent issues are available below to provide a taste of what Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand has to offer. Click on a cover below to view a PDF of the table of contents.
Click on the cover image to view the contents page
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March 2013 Volume 19(02)
This issue has a focus on long-term conditions,
with articles on a whânau ora chronic
care nurse, a nurse-led clinic for those with
irritable bowel syndrome and a project
which led to better identifi cation of those
with chronic kidney disease. CPD4Nurses
examines heart failure.
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February 2013 Volume 19(01)
The fi rst issue of 2013 has a focus on education,
with articles on dedicated education
units and a preceptorship course. It also
features interviews with outgoing NZNO
chief executive Geoff Annals and incoming
NZNO president Marion Guy, and a profi le of
a fl ight nurse.
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December/January 2012/13 Volume 18 (11)
This last issue of the year has a number of features on nurses working with some disadvantaged communities overseas. It also has coverage of the South Pacific Nurses Forum in Melbourne, an update on the enrolled nursing workforce and two viewpoints on choices at the end of life.
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November 2012 Volume 18 (10)
This issue has a focus on infection control with a look at how two infection control clinical nurse specialists coped during a norovirus outbreak, an article on how to best manage scabies outbreaks, an infection control whodunnit and an article on sharps injuries. And remember to vote for the president – ballot papers in this issue.
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October 2012 Volume 18 (9)
This issue covers NZNO’s first conference under the new constitution. There is also a focus on respiratory nursing with an article on obstructive sleep apnoea, coverage of a respiratory conference and an article on how nurses coped caring for the sickest patients durng the 2009 H1N1 influenza epidemic.
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September 2012 Volume 18 (8)
This issue has a focus on gastroenterology nurses, with a number of practice articles on different aspects of the specialty. Matariki celebrations are covered, and a midwife at Auckland DHB tells of the impact of staffing shortages on her mother’s care.
CPD4nurses explores antipsychotic drug therapy in the treatment of schizophrenia (link).
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August 2012 Volume 18(7)
This issue focuses on women’s health. Articles cover such issues as domestic violence, being a lesbian family in a straight world, setting up a nurse-led pessary clinic, the challenges of writing up PhD research findings and a profile of the women’s health section chair.
CPD4nurses explores processes for eliminating drugs (link).
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July 2012 Volume 18(6)
This issue has a focus on gastroenterology nurses, with a number of practice articles on different aspects of the specialty. Matariki celebrations are covered, and a midwife at Auckland DHB tells of the impact of staffing shortages on her mother’s care.
CPD4nurses explores dementia and Alzheimer’s disease (link).
References for 'Working to improve health literacy' by Jill Clendon (1 page)
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June 2012 Volume 18(5)
This issue looks at nurses as leaders, with a series of brief profiles on a range of nurse leaders and their views on what makes a good nurse leader.
CPD4nurses explores wound healing and wound products (link)
Correction: Senior Advisor Nursing, Ministry of Health application close off date
Please note there is a correction to the printed application close off date for the Senior Advisor - Nursing with the Ministry of Health vacancy, advertised in the June edition of Kai Tiaki; the correct date is 28 June 2012.
For further information, contact HR Recruit on: recruitment@moh.govt.nz or
Dr Jane O’Malley on (04) 816-3324 and
see http://www.health.govt.nz/about-ministry/careers/current-vacancies
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May 2012 Volume 18(4)
This issue marks 20 years since cultural safety was formally introduced into nursing and midwifery education curricula. It features an interview with a cultural safety pioneer, a reflection on how far nursing has really come after 20 years of cultural safety, and a feature on an English nurse’s experience of the gap between the cultural safety rhetoric and reality.
CPD4nurses explores kidney care and renal disease (link).
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April 2012 Volume 18(3)
This issue focuses on Mâori health with articles on successful Mâori health services, and interviews with long-standing Mâori nursing leader Puti Puti O’Brien and outgoing executive director of nursing at Auckland District Health Board, Taima Campbell.
CPD4nurses explores Type 1 diabetes and insulin therapy (link)
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March 2012 Volume 18(2)
This issue has a focus on child health with articles on attachment theory, profiles of two innovative paediatric services, and a profile on a paediatric clinical nurse specialist.
CPD4nurses explores the risks and benefits of medication and other drugs during breastfeeding (link)
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February 2012 Volume 18(1)
This issue has a focus on cancer, with articles on lymphoedema management, research on support for hospice nurses and journeys of cancer survivorship.
We also mark the first anniversary of Christchurch’s devastating earthquake.
CPD4nurses explores the biology of cancer (link)
Changes to the Crimes Act (PDF)
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December/January 2011/2012 Volume 17(11)
Our last issue for the year includes articles on nurses bringing health care to povertystricken countries, on medicines reconciliation, nursing language and research on whether there’s a role for nurse endoscopists in New Zealand.
And there’s more to interest, inform and intrigue you over the festive season.
Happy reading!
CPD4nurses: Chronic Wound Healing (link)
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November 2011, Volume 17(10)
This issue focuses on critical care nursing, with articles on caring for the carers, a bereavement service and an historial overview of the specialty.
There is also an article on Indian nurses’ experiences of coming to New Zealand to work.
This month’s continuing professional development article iscusses cholesterol – the good, the bad and the ugly.
CPD4nurses: Cholesterol (link)
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September 2011, Volume 17(8)
This issue has a focus on mental health nursing with articles on primary mental health care, cognitive behavioural therapy in the treatment of adolescent depression, and cannabis addiction and mental health.
It also features conference coverage.
This month’s continuing professional development article discusses hypertension.
CPD4nurses: hypertension (link)
Supporting nurses to provide primary mental health care
These documents relate to the article “Supporting nurses to provide primary mental health care” (pages 18 to 20):
References (PDF)
Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (PDF)
Useful websites (PDF)
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April 2011, Volume 17(3)
This issue has a focus on the theme for International Nurses' Day of increasing health access and equity.
It profiles a nurse practitioner's work with high needs clients and has an article on an free home insulation programme for disadvantaged familes.
It also honours the continuing work of nurses following the February earthquake.
References for ‘What will future models of care look like?’ by Jill Clendon (PDF)
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March 2011, Volume 17(2)
This issue honours the work of nurses in Christchurch who provided immediate care and who continue to care compassionately for all those affected by the devastating earthquake on February 22.
It also focuses on nurses’ role in diabetes care.
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February 2011, Volume 17(1)
Our first issue for 2011 introduces an exciting development for Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand – a continuing professional
development series that will run monthly.
This month the focus is on blood clots.
This issue also carries a number of practice articles on wound care.
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December 2010, Volume 16 (11)
Our last issue for 2010 carries comprehensive coverage of the South Pacific Nurses' Forum, stories of nurses' challenging overseas assignments, a practice feature on complex disabilty care, an evolving vision for nursing, a review of Freed to Care Proud to Nurse, as well as a plethora of other articles to amuse, entertain and enlighten you over the festive season.
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November 2010, Volume 16 (10)
This issue had a focus on education, with articles on how one nurse's research is changing practice in rural Northland, nurses' blood tranfusion practice and nursing informatics.
It includes information from the Nursing Council's annual report, a paper outlining the increased privatisation of health, and a news focus on a major report into aged care.
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October 2010, Volume 16 (9)
This issue includes a six-page special on how nurses responded to the earthquake which struck Canterbury in the early hours of September 4.
It also has extensive coverage of NZNO's conference and includes an article looking at the impact of the introduction of target times for emergency department stays in England and a news focus on a major review of residential care.
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September 2010, Volume 16 (8)
This issue has a focus on mental health and well-being, with features on the role of cognitive behaviour therapy in working with anxious children, new roles for nurses in primary mental health and one woman’s recovery journey.
It also carries stories on who should provide health care for prisoners and profiles some nurse members and aspiring nurse members of district health boards.
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August 2010, Volume 16 (7)
This issue has a focus on Pacific health, with a feature on Auckland District Health Board’s Pacific health initiative Healthy Village Action Zones.
It also profiles a Samoan nursing leader, a public health nurse’s work in the Solomon Islands, reveals the findings of a significant research study into nurses’ workloads at three district health boards and the findings of the annual student nurse survey.
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July 2010, Volume 16 (6)
This issue celebrates primary health care (PHC) nursing, with coverage of the PHC conference in Auckland which saw the launch of NZNO’s new PHC college. It also features NZNO’s Matariki celebrations and the launch of its centennial history. Features include an early intervention project in Christchurch, enhancing PHC for men who sleep with men and church-based PHC initiatives in South Auckland.
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June 2010, Volume 16 (5)
This issue has a focus on education and includes a profile of a long-term head of a nursing school, an analysis of post-registration education funding, three different perpectives on a nurse-entry-to-practice programme and an article on setting up a dedicated education unit involving a community health provider.
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May 2010, Volume 16 (4)
This issue has a focus on critical care and end-of-life issues. It includes a report of a small study into nurses’ views on end-of-life issues, profiles some nurses working at Christchurch Hospital’s intensive care unit and carries a viewpoint from a palliative care nurse. It also includes articles on influenza vaccination.
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April 2010, Volume 16 (3)
This issue looks at the theme for International Nurses’ Day, profiles a Pacific nurse working in chronic care, explores the needs of the Deaf community, highlights the changes set for primary health care, examines NZNO’s draft constitution and follows the path of the National Terms of Settlement in DHBs.
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March 2010, Volume 16 (2)
This issue has a focus on the management and treatment of
long-term conditions, the theme for International Nurses’ Day
this year. A nurse practitioner with an iwi provider in Northland sets the scene with a challenging editorial; we look at cardiac rehabilitation; depression and diabetes; and profile a respiratory nurse practitioner.
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February 2010, Volume 16 (1)
As hundreds of nursing students begin or continue their studies, this issue focuses on students, with a feature on facilitating student learning in clinical practice, an article on whether student nurses should take blood; a profile of the new chair of the National Student Unit, and two students reflect on an NZNO forum they attended.
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December 2009/January 2010, Volume 15 (11)
This issue features the very best from NZNO’s photo competition and highlights the art and science of nursing. It also carries articles about two nurses volunteering abroad, new NZNO library resources, the mystery of the Christmas star and a nurse’s reflection on the experience of being a patient.
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November 2009, Volume 15 (10)
This issue has a focus on education, with articles on diabetes prevention education for South Asians, the rewards of postgraduate study and clinical conversation as an assessment tool. It also carries articles on images of nurses, bullying and the harm abuse of alcohol causes in New Zealand.
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October 2009, Volume 15 (9)
This issue marks NZNO’s centenary, with extensive coverage of the centennial conference, including the keynote address of and an interview with United States journalist and author Suzanne Gordon. It also carries a feature on the care of children with life-threatening illnesses, developed from an award-winning essay.
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September 2009, Volume 15 (8)
This issue marks 50 years of nursing in prison with profiles of two present-day prison nurses. It also has a focus on mental health with a research article on cognitive behavioural therapy, a profile of a mental health nurse working in a police watch house and an insight into the chaos of an alcoholic home.
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August 2009, Volume 15 (7)
This issue focuses on migrant nurses – their contribution to New Zealand health care, the personal and practice issues they confront, and it includes two profiles of overseas nurses and their New Zealand experiences. It also includes a practice article on the care of those who have had a stroke, notably the management of post-stroke fatigue.
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July 2009, Volume 15 (6)
This issue has a focus on child health with articles on risk factors associated with sudden unexpected death in infancy, managing children’s pain and the impact of the genetic skin disorder epidermolysis bullosa. It also profiles NZNO’s three presidential candidates and those wanting to be college and section representatives on the board.
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June 2009, Volume 15 (5)
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May 2009, Volume 15 (4)
This issue focuses on the health and safety of nurses at work. It includes a profile of an occupational health nurse, a viewpoint exploring nurses’ low influenza vaccination rates and what could be done to boost them, and a feature on the impact of toxic mould. It also has a practice article on the prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers.
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April 2009, Volume 15 (3)
This issue focuses on the challenges and rewards of rural health nursing, with a profile of a rural nurse specialist and a look at the practice nurse role in two rural general practices.
It also marks the theme of International Nurses’ Day – practice innovations – with a profile of three Taranaki sisters’ nursing service.
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March 2009, Volume 15 (2)
This issue has a focus on oncology and includes a profile of an oncology nurse, passionate about her work, a patient’s reflection on her cancer journey, a viewpoint on the issues surrounding Gardasil and a practice article on a patient’s transition from general practice care to palliative care.
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February 2009, Volume 15 (1)
This issue focuses on students, as hundreds of nursing students begin their academic year.
It contains profiles of NZNO’s two student leaders, an ethical dilemma a student worked through and which serves as the first Kai Tiaki Journal Club article, and a range of other student contributions.
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January 2009, Volume 14 (12)
This issue includes a photo essay on a Wellington nurse’s work with homeless people.
It also contains features on initiatives to boost the Mâori and Pacific workforce in the Counties Manukau District Health Board and a profile of an indomitable Aboriginal nursing leader.
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