November 2012 issue

Themes: Infection control,
Education supplement
CPD4 Nurses – Antibiotics and resistance
Editorial: Jane Barnett – The big picture of infection control :and hand washing as an ongoing issue
Feature Articles
Profile: Terry Rings – infection control nurse consultant CMDHB
Profile: presidential candidates
Practice: Infection control issues in aged care , in particular managing outbreaks of scabies by Julie Daltry
Burkholderia ceoacia outbreak NICU Waikato DHB by Jude Young
Preventing sharps injuries by Susie Rich
Professional focus: Implications of unregistered staff administering medications by Lorraine Richie
News Focus: Norovirus outbreaks- Middlemore and Tauranga Hospitals,
The Health and Safety and Quality Commission’s IC projects by Debbie Jowitt

October 2012 issue

Themes: Respiratory nursing,
NZNO conference
CPD4 Nurses – Asthma
Feature Articles
Profile: Nicola Corna – respiratory nursing specialist and section chair
Practice
Nurses’ perception of caring for the sickest patients during the H1N1 2009 flu pandemic by Michelle Honey and Wendy Yan Qing Wang
Caring for people with obstructive sleep apnoea by Joanna McLellan and Julie Beck
News Focus Presidential candidates turned down: Candidates and appeals committee responses
Coverage of the NZNO conference

September Issue

Theme: Mental Health
CPD4 Nurses – Antipsychotic Drugs
Feature Articles
Profile: Tanya Ewart, CNS, Hillmorton hospital – chair of the Mental Health Section,
Practice
Mindfulness matters by Jillian Simpson and Tim Mapel
Professional Focus Mental health and recovery framework by Anne Brinkman
Viewpoint Survival of the funniest – using therapeutic humour in nursing by Natasha Old
News Focus NZNO’s action plan for integration of internationally qualified nurses
Issues for Muslim nurses and Muslim patients
Inaugural conference of the primary health care college
Education
Revisiting a community DEU

August 2012

Theme: Women’s Health
CPD4 Nurses – Drug metabolism and elimination
Feature Articles
Profile: Dianna Morrison – chair of women’s health section,
Jackie McGrath reflects on 25 years working for NZNO
Practice
Paracetamol use in children – highlighting the risks
Industrial Focus The impact of a predominantly female workforce on wages and workplace activism by Rob Haultain
Viewpoint
My PhD in nursing studying experience by Elsa Lally
Midwifery – whole of life by Jeni Bryant
Education
Revisiting a community DEU
News Focus
NZNO’s new mebmber support centre going live September
Top

July 2012

Theme: Gastroenterology Nursing and Index 2011
CPD4 Nurses – dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease
Feature Articles
Profile: Sandra Burton – chair of the Gastroenterology section
Practice
Advances in irritable bowel syndrome via a nurse-led clinic by Judy Moore
Case Stury – DNA to diagnosis by Anne Cleland
Increasing the uptake of influenza vaccination among healthcare workers at the Canterbury District Health Board by Stella Howard
Professional Focus
The Bystander Role by Anne Brinkman
Viewpoint
My PhD in nursing studying experience by Elsa Lally
An Auckland midwife Elizabeth Davies writes about her mother’s care at the ADHB and an interview with Rena Mand
Education
Health Literacy by Jill Clendon
Industrial Focus
What makes a workplace nursing leader
Top

June 2012 issue

Theme: Nurses as leaders & Education supplement
CPD4 Nurses – wound dressings
Feature Articles
Editorial – What does Nursing Leadership Mean
Profiles: a number of nursing leaders, a caregiver leader,an active workplace leader
and the chair of the duty and clinical nurse managers’section of NZNO
Practice
Advocating for babies and improving practice by Lynley Rhodes
Clinical nurse specialist survey by Glynis Cummings
Professional Focus
Compassion Fatigue – by Cathy Gilmore
Viewpoint
My PhD in nursing studying experience by Elsa Lally
Education
Health Literacy by Jill Clendon
Industrial Focus
What makes a workplace nursing leader
Top

May 2012 issue

Themes: Cultural Safety – 25 years on
CPD4 Nurses – Renal Failure
Feature Articles
Editorial by Fran Richardson
Exemplar
An Englishman’s experience nursing in Hawke’s Bay by Jason Coggins
Professional Focus
Medications administration – by Kate Weston
Viewpoint
Eyes wide shut – a personal journey of discovery and understanding of cultural safety in Aotearoa/New Zealand by Liz Day of Whitireia Polytechnic,
From consumer to provider: my journey by Paul Stanaway,
Seasonal staffing collapse syndrome by David Monk
Education
Cultural safety in Enrolled Nurse education by Margaret Hughes and Lisa McKay,
Health Literacy by Jill Clendon

April2012 issue

Themes-Maori health/Maori nursing and International Nurses’ Day

Feature Articles

Editorial

Why having a Maori health issue is important, Maori determinants of health and the role of nurses in changing these

Practice

Men’s night in Rawene by Lyn Foster

Profile

Charlene Williams and the service, Ora Toa Health she began in Porirua

Professional Focus

Leanne Manson on structural discrimination and human rights

News Focus
One heart,many lives – a programme targeting Maori and Pacific men, plus work of Marama Parore in Pharmac’s Maori Health Team

Traditional Birthing Practices ast Lakes DHB

Viewpoint

Sha Panapa student piece on whanau ora and Maori and tauiwi leadership styles

CPD4 Nurses

Type 1 diabetes and insulin by Georgina Casey

March 2012 issue

Theme-child health

Feature Articles

Editorial

Child advocate Hone Kaa on what nurses can do to protect/promote children’s health and wellbeing

Practice

Attachment theory and how it relates to pregnancy,birth and early parenting by Mary Hammonds

Profiles

Rachel Geddes, chair of the children’s and young persons’ section and CNS Christchurch.

The development of a bowel management service in Hawkes Bay for children and young persons(Lisa Smith)

Respite care for children and families with long-term disability in Auckland (Starship Children’s Programme – Jacqui Finnigan)

News Focus

Rheumatic fever prevention programme – a child health alliance forming in Counties Manukau

NZNO response to Green Paper on vulnerable children and submission from Children’s and Young Persons’ section of NZNO on this paper

Viewpoint

Breastfeeding in the community by Kate Anderson

CPD4 Nurses

Medication and breastfeeding by Georgina Casey