July 2013

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

June issue 2013

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

May 2013 issue

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

April 2013 issue

Theme: Closing the Gap:Millennium Develpoment Goals (Reducing child mortlity,Inproving maternal health, combatting HIV/Aids, Malaria and other illnesses
CPD4 Nurses: Raised Intracranial Pressure
Feature Articles
Practice: Diabetes Type 1 cases study by Sue Bennett (about overcoming barriers to health care in rural areas.)
Practice: Introducing intravenous therapies as a nursing innovation in primary health by Cathy Lindsay.
Practice: Nurse insertion of Jadelle contraceptive implant immediately post abortion by Helen Roberts
News Focus: The effects of health cuts on health equality – analysis by Don Matheson at the CCDHB and an interview with Angela Baldwin, How Plunket is addressing health equality
News Focus: IND theme, and CCDM round up by Jane Lawless
Viewpoint:Recommendation for changes to child health after undertaking a Margaret May Blackwell travel study fellowship in 2012 by Judy McHardy
In depth article : Issues facing regulatory bodies by Teresa O’Connor

March issue of Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand

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

February 2013

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.

December 2012 Issue

Themes: Nursing overseas,
South Pacific Nurses’ Forum and End of life debate
CPD4 Nurses – Nausea and vomiting
Editorial: Teresa O’Connnor – Looking back at the year/ parallels between the consequences of deregulation in the mining industry and proposed deregulation in nursing
Feature Articles
Profile: A flight nurse
Nursing Overseas: Letter from Cindy Gibb working in Tajikistan
Nursing Overseas: All in a day’s work by Maria Foxley-Kuo
Nursing Overseas: Volunteering, nursing in Cambodia by Tessa Johnson
News Focus: Coverage of the South Pacific Nurses’ Forum
News Focus: Bringing compassion back into nursing an interview with Robin Youngson
Viewpoint: Where to for NP’s by Rosemary Minto
Viewpoint: End-of-life-choice Bill debate by Glyn Havill
Viewpoint: End-of-life-choice Bill debate by Jenny Nichols

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