Theme: NZNO conference/Q and A on different nursing bodies
CPD4 Nurses: Anaphylactic shock
Feature Articles
News Focus: Coverage of NZNO conference
News Focus: Interview with Gary Lees as he stands down as chair of NENZ
News Focus: Implications for nurses of the Vulnerable Children’s Bill
News Focus: Q and A on different nursing bodies
Professional Focus: Health implications behind e-cigarettes by Leonie Walker
In-depth Article: The BERL report on the future of the nursing workforce
Plus sector reports and news and events

Theme: Mental Health
CPD4 Nurses: Antidepressants
Feature Articles
News Focus: Watch house nursing team at Christchurch Central Police Station – what is happening since the pilot by Bernie Burns
News Focus: Reaching the six-hour targets in ED by Michael Geraghty
Practice: Eating disorders by Kim Vanderhaven and Belinda Dennehy
Practice:Use of music therapy at the Hawkes Bay inpatient unit by Laura Halligan
Practice: An introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Jenny nichols

Theme: Migrant nurses
CPD4 Nurses: Parkinson’s disease and related movement disorders
Feature Articles
News Focus: ICN presentation on nurse migration
News Focus: Megan-Jane Johnstone presentation on ethics at ICN conference
News Focus: Nurses buy into Amberley Medical Centre
Professional Focus: Women’s health report; Two new level 7 quals at Waiariki: Competence assessment programmes; Changes to competence review process
Profiles: Interviews with a number of migrant nurses

Theme: E-health + men’s health
CPD4 Nurses: Arterial blood gases
Feature Articles
News Focus: Technological innovations around the country;
Public health issue – floridation of water supplies
ICN Congress: use of technology: humanities in nursing
Professional Focus:Patient safety campaign by Kate Watson
Profiles Men in nursing

Theme: Education supplement/coverage of the ICI congress
CPD4 Nurses: Acute rheumatic fever
Feature Articles
Practice: Pain assment and management by Michelle Sampson
News Focus: Decisions around the regulatory authorities shared services organisation
ICN: 8 pages of coverage of the congress
Professional Focus:Privacy Act by Suzanne Rolls
Profiles Board elections: profiles of the candidates

Theme: NZNO Employment Survey/ Aging Nurses Issues
CPD4 Nurses: Viruses and pandemics
Feature Articles
Practice: Learnings from the recent Pertusssis epidemic by Kim Hunter
News Focus: Rationale for extending nurse prescribing
News Focus: Biennial workforce survey: analysis of emerging themes
Viewpoint:Retaining commitment to nursing by Robyn Price
Profiles Late career nurses: what are the push and pull factors in remaining in nursing

Theme: Long term conditions
CPD4 Nurses: Congestive heart failure
Feature Articles
Profile: Te Honohga o Tamiki Me Hoturoa, a whanau ora long-term conditions service in Auckland.
Profile: Changes to psychiatric district nursing in Christchurch’s east sector by Bernadette Burns (two years from Feb. 2011 earthquake).
Workplace Profile: Shared care pilot project to better manage the care of people with long term conditions in the Auckland region(using CCMS software to manage care plans) – interview with Helen Gryder NP,Heart Failure Nurse working for ADHB
Practice: Advances in irritable bowel syndrome via a nurse-led clinic by Judy Moore
Practice: Kidney Health in Horowhenua – streamlining the patient journey by Lois Nikolajenko and Katherine Gibbs.
Professional Focus: We’re not all created equal by Anne Brinkman

Theme: Education
CPD4 Nurses – Jaundice and kernicterus(adult and infant jaundice, consequences and therapies
Feature Articles
Profile: A flight nurse
Education: Revisiting a community DEU by Jule Bentin et al, DEU development in Canterbury by Debie Cook and Deborah Sims, Recognising and valuing preceptors by Ros Sanders
News Focus:Farewell to Geoff Annals
Viewpoint: Perioperative Mortality Review by Tenna Robiunson
Viewpoint: Palliative Care Nurses New Zealand speak out on End-of-Life-Choice Bill.