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Issue 40 - 7 November 2022

Books available for borrowing

  1. Born to a changing world: Childbirth in nineteenth-century New Zealand
  2. Care of the person with dementia: Interprofessional practice and education
  3. From green to gold: Nurses and comrades: Memories from green days to golden times
  4. Healthy kids, happy lives: Healthy eating for vibrant and healthy kids
  5. 100 years of purpose: Hospital for infectious diseases
  6. Out of time: The pleasures and perils of ageing
  7. Supporting newly qualified nurses to develop their leadership skills
  8. Exploring how reflective practice training affects nurse interns' critical thinking disposition and communication skills
  9. Supporting the well-being of nursing students and student midwives during the COVID-19 pandemic
  10. Writing for publication: Why creating a framework is worth the effort
  11. Practical support for your mental health and well-being
  12. A new career framework for general practice nursing
  13. How to make compassionate leadership in nursing a reality

Articles – Health Promotion Journal of Australia, July 2022

  1. Removal of sugar sweetened beverages from sale in a hospital setting-consumer opinion and influence on purchasing behavior
  2. The barriers and enablers to implementing the New South Wales healthy school canteen strategy in secondary schools in the Illawarra and Shoalhaven regions -a qualitative study
  3. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients' cancer care pathways in Queensland: Insights from health professionals
  4. Role of organisational factors on uptake and implementation of the B.strong brief intervention training program in Queensland Indigenous primary health care services
  5. Tuberculosis care designed with barramarrany (family): Participatory action research that prioritised partnership, healthy housing and nutrition
  6. Generating political priority for skin cancer primary prevention: A case study from Aotearoa New Zealand

Events

  1. eResearch New Zealand Conference 2023
  2. Australasian Melanoma Conference (AMC) 2023

National news

  1. 'Variant soup' makes Covid-19 harder to predict - expert
  2. Health system 'completely unworkable' for ADHD sufferers, expert says
  3. Petting dogs could be good for your health - study
  4. Not drying hands properly 'less hygienic' than not washing them at all - study

International news

  1. Fast food fever: how ultra-processed meals are unhealthier than you think

 

Books available for borrowing

The following books can be borrowed by NZNO members and staff for a period of 4 weeks. The books will be couriered out to members so please provide a physical address when you are requesting items.

1. Born to a changing world: Childbirth in nineteenth-century New Zealand

Alison Clarke
Published 2012

Women in the nineteenth century gave birth in widely varying circumstances: Māori women of noble families might be lovingly cared for within the whare kōhanga; wealthy colonial wives employed doctors and monthly nurses; rural women relied on local midwives and neighbours to deliver their babies. The poor or unmarried might need to turn to charitable institutions for support. These very different histories from the years before the Plunket Society, ‘safe’ Caesarean sections, and registered midwives are brought together for the first time.

2. Care of the person with dementia: Interprofessional practice and education

Edited by Dawn Forman and Dimity Pond; Foreword by Elizabeth Beattie
Published 2015

The first Australian text of its kind, it combines evidence-based resources with interprofessional education and practice, exploring the ethical, social and environmental repercussions of dementia to provide a comprehensive overview of dementia care in an Australian context.

3. From green to gold: Nurses and comrades: Memories from green days to golden times

Dunedin Hospital 1958 – 1961

A collection of nursing memories, career pathways, life stories, and other topics of interest. celebrating 55 years of Green Group comradeship. Dunedin Hospital 1958 – 1961.

4. Healthy kids, happy lives: Healthy eating for vibrant and healthy kids

Lea Stening
Published 2017

Whether your children are young, older or teens, this book you how to keep your family’s nutritional needs on track, even as they change over time, and ensure their best mental and physical well-being.

5. 100 years of purpose: Hospital for infectious diseases

Milne, Kathy. Introduction by Ros Alsford, SPCA Central Region General Manager
Published 2019

Designed in 1917 and completed by 1920, the Wellington Hospital for Infectious Diseases, as it was initially known, is a reminder of when the developments of immunisation and antibiotics were in their infancy, and the fear of contracting an infectious disease loomed over the community, diseases such as the 1918 spanish flu.

6. Out of time: The pleasures & perils of ageing

Lynne Segal. Introduction by Elaine Showwalter
Published 2013

Leading thinker Lynne Segal examines her life and surveys the work and experience of other writers and artists to explore the pleasures and perils of growing old. Mixing memoir, literature and polemic, Segal explores the trials and vicissitudes of ageing.

Articles – Nursing Management, October 2022 [RCN Journal]

7. Supporting newly qualified nurses to develop their leadership skills

Rainey D & Monaghan C
Nursing Management. (2022, October 6). 29(5). doi: 10.7748/nm.2022.e2031

Nurse managers can support junior nurses to develop their leadership skills, notably through training, mentoring, reflection and action learning. By guiding newly qualified nurses in the use of different leadership approaches, experienced nurses can contribute to enhancing the quality of patient care. 

8. Exploring how reflective practice training affects nurse interns’ critical thinking disposition and communication skills

Khalil A I & Abou Hashish E
Nursing Management. (2022, October 6). 29(5). doi: 10.7748/nm.2022.e2045

Aim To explore how reflective practice training during an internship programme in Saudi Arabia affected nurse interns’ critical thinking disposition and interpersonal communication competency.

9. Supporting the well-being of nursing students and student midwives during the COVID-19 pandemic

Donovan M., Quinn B G., Hughes C et al
Nursing Management. (2022, October 6). 29(5). doi: 10.7748/nm.2022.e2033

Throughout the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic the Queen’s University Belfast Connections (QUB Connections) project has provided online well-being support to nursing students and student midwives. Insights gained from responses to an evaluation of the support sessions suggested that some students felt stigmatised, frightened, lost, isolated and abandoned during this period, but that QUB Connections gave them a sense of ‘being held’ and ‘attended to’ in a time of uncertainty.

10. Writing for publication: Why creating a framework is worth the effort

Nursing Management. (2022, October 6). 29(5), 19. doi: 10.7748/nm.29.5.19.s7

You have an idea and know roughly what you want to say, but you need a plan. The simplest plan is a beginning, a middle and an end. Start with an indication of its purpose, then build it with supporting evidence or argument and conclude in a way that encourages readers to pause and reflect.

11. Practical support for your mental health and well-being

Briggs, V.
Nursing Management. (2022, October 6) 29(5), 15-17. doi: 10.7748/nm.29.5.15.s6

With short-staffing, ongoing COVID-19 pressures and the cost-of-living crisis hitting home, here are ways that nursing staff and managers can help colleagues and themselves. Mental health support for nurses and other healthcare workers will need to be extended for ‘much, much longer’ and beyond this pandemic, according to England’s chief nurse Ruth May.

12. A new career framework for general practice nursing

Evans, N.
Nursing Management. (2022, October 6) 29(5), 12-13. doi: 10.7748/nm.29.5.12.s5

Nurses should benefit from a structure for role and career development in primary care and general practice. An education and career framework for general practice nursing has been launched by NHS England and Improvement, Health Education England (HEE) and Skills for Health. The framework has been heralded as a turning point for the sector – but what does it cover and aim to achieve?

13. How to make compassionate leadership in nursing a reality

Trueland, J.
Nursing Management. (2022, October 6) 29(5), 6-8. doi: 10.7748/nm.29.5.6.s2

Empathetic and inclusive leaders enable teams to achieve better outcomes for patients, but can be difficult to find in the hierarchical organisations of the NHS. Compassionate leadership is good for staff and good for patients, with a growing evidence base showing that it results in staff being more motivated and delivering high-quality care.

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Articles – Health Promotion Journal of Australia, July 2022

14. Removal of sugar sweetened beverages from sale in a hospital setting-consumer opinion and influence on purchasing behavior

Melissa Tinney., Rowena Rittinger., Kate Tomlinson., Dan Borg., Aleksandra Warzel., Mairead O'Sullivan., & Tafadzwa Nyanhanda
Health Promotion Journal of Australia. (2022, July). 33(3), 677-685.

This study investigated the impact of removing sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) from sale in a regional health service. Drink purchasing patterns were measured by product ordering data. Consumer opinion regarding the intervention, self-reported packaged drink purchase and consumption were also explored.

15. The barriers and enablers to implementing the New South Wales healthy school canteen strategy in secondary schools in the Illawarra and Shoalhaven regions -a qualitative study

Rosi Johnston., Jennifer Norman., Susan Furber., Julie Parkinson
Health Promotion Journal of Australia. (2022, July). 33(3), 686-695

In 2017, the New South Wales Healthy School Canteen Strategy (Strategy) was introduced into primary and secondary schools. This study aims to identify and describe the barriers and enablers to implementing the Strategy in Department of Education (DoE) secondary schools in the Illawarra and Shoalhaven regions.

16. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients' cancer care pathways in Queensland: Insights from health professionals

Audra de Witt., Veronica Matthews., Ross Bailie., Patricia C Valery., Jon Adams., Gail Garvey., Jennifer H Martin., & Frances C Cunningham
Health Promotion Journal of Australia. (2022, July). 33(3), 701-710

Objective: To identify points for improvements within the health system where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cancer patients may experience a lack of continuity in their cancer care. The optimal care pathway for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with cancer (OCP) framework was utilised as a tool in this work

17. Role of organisational factors on uptake and implementation of the B.strong brief intervention training program in Queensland Indigenous primary health care services

Saji Sebastian., David P Thomas., Julie Brimblecombe., Brian Arley., & Frances C Cunningham
Health Promotion Journal of Australia. (2022, July). 33(3), 711-723.

The B.strong Program was an Indigenous health worker brief intervention (BI) training program delivered in Queensland from 2017-2020. This study examines the organisational factors of participating Indigenous primary health care (PHC) services that impacted on B.strong's uptake and implementation in those services.

18. Tuberculosis care designed with barramarrany (family): Participatory action research that prioritised partnership, healthy housing and nutrition

Sue Devlin., Wayne Ross., Richard Widders., Gregory McAvoy., Kirsty Browne., Kerryn Lawrence., David MacLaren., Peter D Massey., Jenni A Judd
Health Promotion Journal of Australia. (2022, July). 33(3), 724-735

Ongoing tuberculosis (TB) transmission in Aboriginal communities in Australia is unfair and unacceptable. Redressing the inequity in TB affecting Aboriginal peoples is a priority in Australia's Strategic Plan for Tuberculosis Control. Improving TB care needs not to just identify barriers but do something about them.

19. Generating political priority for skin cancer primary prevention: A case study from Aotearoa New Zealand

Ryan Gage., William Leung., Marcus Gurtner., Anthony I Reeder., Bronwen M McNoe., & Louise Signal
Health Promotion Journal of Australia. (2022, July). 33(3), 740-750

Skin cancer is highly prevalent but preventable, yet little research has been done on the challenges in generating political priority for skin cancer prevention. This qualitative study aimed to identify the political challenges to, facilitators of, and strategies to strengthen skin cancer prevention. The focus was on the case of Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ): a country with high skin cancer rates, but limited investment in primary prevention.

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Events

20. eResearch New Zealand Conference 2023

Co-hosted by Genomics Aotearoa, Research and Education Network New Zealand (REANNZ) and the New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI).

Date: Wednesday 15th February to Friday 17th February, 2023
Venue: University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand.

Theme: Capability, Connectivity and Equity. Showcasing work from across the whole spectrum of eResearch, with a strong focus on research and capability-building initiatives that involve partnerships with tangata whenua.

21. Australasian Melanoma Conference (AMC) 2023

Hosted by the Australian Skin and Skin Cancer Research Centre (ASSC) – a partnership of the University of Queensland and the QIMR Berghofer Research Institute

Date: 24 and 25 March, 2023
Venue: Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre (BCEC)

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National news

22. Variant soup' makes Covid-19 harder to predict – expert

Radio New Zealand – 3 November 2022

Wastewater testing has indicated there were far more Covid-19 cases out there than showing in the official numbers, the Ministry of Health reports. Institute of Environmental Science and Research molecular biologist Dr Brent Gilpin told Morning Report only people with symptoms were likely to test and of those that tested positive, only some would report their results.

23. Health system 'completely unworkable' for ADHD sufferers, expert says

Stuff – 17 October 2022

The health system is “completely unworkable” for those suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a tribunal has heard. Auckland GP Dr Tony Hanne is appearing before the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal for prescribing thousands of doses of Ritalin and other medication without required permission.

24. Petting dogs could be good for your health – study

1 News - 14 October 2022

If you need another excuse to pet a friendly dog, science suggests doing it is good for your brain.

25. Not drying hands properly 'less hygienic' than not washing them at all – study

Newshub – 30 August 2022

During the COVID-19 pandemic, regular hand-washing was a key public health measure to help control the spread of the virus. But even though many of us are still cautious when it comes to using soap and sanitiser to keep our hands clean, it's probably fair to assume the majority of people don't think too much about how thoroughly they dry their hands

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International news

26. Fast food fever: how ultra-processed meals are unhealthier than you think

The Guardian – 16 October 2022

For a long time it has been known that diets dominated by ultra-processed food (UPF) are more likely to lead to obesity. But recent research suggests that high UPF consumption also increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, dementia and, according to a recent American study involving 50,000 health professionals, of developing colon cancer.

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