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Issue 37 - 8 July 2022

Books available for borrowing

  1. Still Counting: Wellbeing, women's work and policy-making
  2. The Right Girls: A history of the training of Registered Nurses at Palmerston North Hospital School of Nursing 1895-1986
  3. New Zealand Nurses: caring for our people 1880-1950

Articles – The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, June 2022

  1. The Future of Workforce Development in Professional Nursing Practice
  2. Bringing Back the Love of Practice
  3. Types of Stories to Influence Clinical Nurses
  4. A Longitudinal View of Perceptions of Entering Nursing Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  5. Impact of an Evidence-Based Pediatric Palliative Care Program on Nurses' Self-Efficacy

Articles – Retirement Planning

  1. How can I prepare for retirement?
  2. The meaning of nursing practice for nurses who are retired yet continue to work in a rural or remote community.
  3. Life after retirement.
  4. Social network ties before and after retirement: a cohort study.
  5. Employees' Emotional, Cognitive, and Behavioral Responses to Increasing Statutory Retirement Ages.
  6. Getting ready for retirement.
  7. Towards an active and happy retirement? Changes in leisure activity and depressive symptoms during the retirement transition.
  8. Retirees' perceptions of goal setting: A qualitative study.

Events

  1. 4TH National NDIS & Mental Health Conference 2023
  2. ANZMOSS 2022 Conference

National news

  1. New Zealanders' mental wellbeing declines
  2. New measures show happiness of New Zealanders
  3. "Breakthrough" Otago research confirms skin infections as a cause of rheumatic fever

International news

  1. Where's the herd immunity? Our research shows why Covid is still wreaking havoc
  2. Street sales, online dealers and convenience stores: Inside the thriving black market for nicotine vapes
  3. Don't want to get sick this winter? The pandemic health habits to keep long term
  4. Out of office? How working from home has divided Britain

 

Books available for borrowing

The following books can be borrowed by NZNO members for a period of 4 weeks. Please provide a physical address as the books will be couriered out to you.

1.Still Counting: Wellbeing, women’s work and policy-making

Waring, Marilyn
Published 2018; Reprinted 2020

Thirty years ago Marilyn Waring’s groundbreaking book Counting for Nothing was released. Waring explained, through meticulous economic analysis, how the success of the global economy rests on women’s unpaid work. Today, many people hope that the shift to a wellbeing approach - moving beyond narrow economic indicators when assessing New Zealand’s progress - will mean women’s work is finally valued fairly.

2. The Right Girls: A history of the training of Registered Nurses at Palmerston North Hospital School of Nursing 1895-1986

Dr Wendy Maddocks & Nyle Maddocks-Hubbard
Published 2022 

Senior Lecturer, Dr Wendy Maddocks from UC’s Faculty of Health, was in the very last hospital based trained nursing class at Palmerston North Hospital, graduating in 1986. As a lockdown project, Wendy started researching the history of the hospital-based training of registered nurses at Palmerston North Hospital.

3. New Zealand Nurses: caring for our people 1880-1950

Wood, Pamela
Published 2022

Author Pamela Wood’s New Zealand Nurses draws on a wealth of nurses’ personal stories to identify the values, traditions, community and folklore of the nursing culture from 1880 – when hospital reforms began to formally introduce ‘modern nursing’ into New Zealand – to 1950, three years after New Zealand severed its final tie as part of the British Empire.

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Articles – The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, June 2022

4. The Future of Workforce Development in Professional Nursing Practice

The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing (2022, June). 53(6), 246-250

The nursing shortage has caused health care systems—as employers—to re-evaluate how to support their nurses better, provide opportunities for nurses to achieve their goals, and address workforce shortages. In the white paper Pathways to Lessen the Nursing Shortage and Increase Equity in the Field for Working Adult Learners, a strategic plan is laid out to address workforce development via partnerships and innovative models.

5. Bringing Back the Love of Practice

The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing (2022, June). 53(6), 251-252

What will stop nurses from leaving the profession and their current positions and cause new graduate nurses to consider practicing in the hospital setting? All health care leaders are struggling with this question. Unfortunately, there is no simple answer. At the heart of the answer is bringing back the love of practice, the love of what we do.

6. Types of Stories to Influence Clinical Nurses

Karren Kowalski
The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing (2022, June). 53(6), 253-255.

Karia (2015) believes storytelling is hard-wired into our brains and is how our brains learn and process information. Memory occurs in pictures rather than words. It is the goal or job of professional development specialists to influence clinical nurses to change their practice based on evidence. 

7. A Longitudinal View of Perceptions of Entering Nursing Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Margaret W. Bultas, & Kristine M. L'Ecuyer.
The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing (2022, June). 53(6), 256-263

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly changed the landscape of health care and transition to practice for new graduates. The purpose of this pilot study was to explore the effects of the pandemic on the first-year experience of new nurses.

8. Impact of an Evidence-Based Pediatric Palliative Care Program on Nurses' Self-Efficacy

Taryn J. Hamre., Eileen R. O'Shea., Katherine A. Hinderer., Maua H. Mosha & Beth A. Wentland,
The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing (2022, June). 53(6), 264-272

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of a 1-day evidence-based pediatric palliative care continuing professional development program on nurses' and advanced practice registered nurses' perceived self-efficacy regarding palliative care.

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Articles – Retirement Planning

9. How can I prepare for retirement?

BMJ 2022; 377 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o1528

Doctors are given plenty of advice at the beginning of their careers, but less at the end. Adele Waters gets some helpful tips.

10. The meaning of nursing practice for nurses who are retired yet continue to work in a rural or remote community.

MacLeod, Martha L. P., Zimmer, Lela V., Kosteniuk, Julie G., Penz, Kelly L., Stewart, Norma J. BMC Nursing (2021). 20(1), 1-13.

Although much research has focused on nurses' retirement intentions, little is known about nurses who formally retire yet continue to practice, particularly in rural and remote settings where mobilization of all nurses is needed to assure essential health service. This study explored what nursing practice means for RNs and LPNs who have formally retired but continue to practice in rural and remote communities.

11. Life after retirement.

Tabloski, Patricia A.
American Nurse Today. (2022, Mar). 17(3), 40-43.

If you're one of these nurses considering retirement, you may experience some conflicting emotions. Focusing on financial planning is important, but preparing psychologically and emotionally is just as crucial and ultimately can guide how you use your retirement assets.

12. Social network ties before and after retirement: a cohort study.

Kauppi, M., Virtanen, M., Pentti, J., Aalto, V., Kivimäki, M., Vahtera, J. & Stenholm, S.
European Journal of Ageing. (2021, Dec). 18(4), 503-512.

This study examined how the number of ties in social network changes across the retirement transition. The study population consisted of 2319 participants (84% women, mean age 63.2 years) from the Finnish Retirement and Aging study. Information about social network ties, including the number of ties in the inner, middle and outer circles of the social convoy model, was gathered using annual postal surveys before and after retirement.

13. Employees' Emotional, Cognitive, and Behavioral Responses to Increasing Statutory Retirement Ages.

Oude Mulders, Jaap., Henkens, Kène., & van Dalen, Hendrik P.
BioMed Research International. (2021). 1-10.

Increasing statutory retirement ages around the world are forcing employees to prolong their working lives. We study the different ways in which mid- and late-career workers respond to such changes. We distinguish between negative emotions about working longer, cognitive engagement with prolonged employment, and proactive behavior to facilitate longer working lives.

14. Getting ready for retirement.

Hennessey, Denise
World of Irish Nursing & Midwifery. (2021, Jul/Aug). 29(6), 46-46.

Coaching prior to retirement empowers nurses and midwives to play a more active role in their retirement planning and make and sustain positive lifestyle choices. While coaching is an intervention that is more commonly associated with corporate life, a coaching approach can be applied to retirement planning.

15. Towards an active and happy retirement? Changes in leisure activity and depressive symptoms during the retirement transition.

Henning, Georg., Stenling, Andreas., Bielak, Allison A.M., Bjälkebring, Pär., Gow, Alan J., Kivi, Marie., Muniz-Terrera, Graciela., Johansson, Boo., & Lindwall, Magnus
Aging & Mental Health. (2021, Apr). 25(4), 621-631.

Retirement is a major life transition in the second half of life, and it can be associated with changes in leisure activity engagement. Although theories of retirement adjustment have emphasized the need to find meaningful activities in retirement, little is known about the nature of changes in leisure activity during the retirement transition and their association with mental health.

16. Retirees' perceptions of goal setting: A qualitative study.

Dudley, Dorothy; O'Loughlin, Kate; Lewis, Sophie; Loh, Vanessa
Australasian Journal on Ageing. (2020, Sep). 39(3), e360-e367.

Objective: To investigate the language and meanings that retirees give to goals, including their perceptions of the benefits and limitations of pursuing goals in retirement. Methods: In?depth interviews and mini?group discussions were conducted with 60 community?dwelling Australian retirees aged 57 to 88 years.

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Events

17. 4TH National NDIS & Mental Health Conference 2023

Improving Recovery, Capacity Building and Wellbeing

Date: 20 - 21 February 2023
Venue: International Convention Centre, Sydney

18. ANZMOSS 2022 Conference

Australian and New Zealand Metabolic and Obesity Surgical Society (ANZMOSS)

The Conference brings together many professionals who deal with Metabolic and Obesity surgery, including pre operative and post operative care as well as long-term care. 

Date: 5-7 October 2022
Venue: Cairns Convention Centre, Australia

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National news

19. New Zealanders’ mental wellbeing declines

Stats NZ - 05 July 2022

Data from the 2021 General Social Survey showed that New Zealanders’ overall mental wellbeing has declined since 2018, Stats NZ said today. Most New Zealanders remained satisfied with their lives as a whole in 2021, with a mean overall life satisfaction rating of 7.7 out of 10, the same as in 2018.

20. New measures show happiness of New Zealanders

Stats NZ - 05 July 2022

New data from the 2021 General Social Survey (GSS) found that over three-quarters (78 percent) of New Zealanders rated their happiness the previous day as at least 7 out of 10, Stats NZ said today.

21. ‘Breakthrough’ Otago research confirms skin infections as a cause of rheumatic fever

University of Otago - Monday 20 December 2021

University of Otago researchers have made a major breakthrough in further understanding acute rheumatic fever, showing that skin infections are likely to be a significant cause of the disease. Acute rheumatic fever is an important cause of serious heart disease, particularly for M?ori and Pacific children and young people in Aotearoa, New Zealand and for many children and young people in low and middle-income countries.

Research paper, “Preceding group A streptococcus skin and throat infections are individually associated with acute rheumatic fever: evidence from New Zealand” (https://gh.bmj.com/content/6/12/e007038)  is published in scientific journal, BMJ Global Health.

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International news

22. Where’s the herd immunity? Our research shows why Covid is still wreaking havoc

Danny Altmann, a professor of immunology at Imperial College London

The Guardian – 1 July 2022

‘Living with the virus’ is proving much harder than the early vaccine success suggested: this fight is far from over.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/01/herd-immunity-covid-virus-vaccine?

23. Street sales, online dealers and convenience stores: Inside the thriving black market for nicotine vapes

ABC News – 27 June 2022

Vaping is a multi-billion-dollar global industry. It's estimated about 400,000 people now vape in Australia. In New South Wales alone, one-tenth of the 16-24-year-old population now vape – that number has more than doubled in the space of a year.

24. Don’t want to get sick this winter? The pandemic health habits to keep long term

The Guardian – 15 June 2022

With soaring flu cases and other illnesses lurking, experts weigh in on which Covid prevention measures are worth keeping up, and which to ditch.

25. Out of office? How working from home has divided Britain

More than a third of the UK’s office-based workforce is still working from home to the anger of some bosses – and politicians. Is hybrid working the new normal, or can firms tempt employees back full-time?

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