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NPs are the bomb!
Apr 2
A year since the last blog was posted on this blog site. Ahh me, how time flies- so much to do, so little time, etc,etc. Doing a scan of the nursing landscape shows some changes but much still as it has been for the past decade for nurses: The Health Promotion Forum of NZ put [...]
The whole shebang
Jul 20
I have just attended an excellent conference including a presentation on performing pelvic exams on challenging patients. Which begs the question- why do “non-medical smear-takers” aka nurses NOT get taught to do bi-manual pelvic exams with their smeartaking? It is like teaching phlebotomy without teaching how to actually draw the blood. Can anyone tell me [...]
Reform across the ditch…
Apr 5
Looks like the Aussies are in for some changes to the primary health care landscape, although it can’t be as radical as what our Labour Govt tried during their tenure (2001..)i.e., mucking around with the GPs’ incomes, because I didn’t hear any screams last month when the news hit the airwaves. Apparently Rudd’s crowd is [...]
Nothing like an abrupt departure to get tongues wagging. It seems Mark Jones’ sudden resignation from his position of NZ’s Chief Nurse is no exception. Unfortunately for him, the health journalists are beating up a wee storm about it. I know for sure he was in the Koru Lounge last week so a bit of [...]
UK nursing crisis
Jan 16
Read here about nursing in the NHS and be glad that we are not yet in this state in NZ. Or are we? Maybe some hospital nurses in NZ would like to comment on this? It seems that number crunching by the Govt is crippling the system over in the Old Country. Let’s hope that [...]
A Nursing View
Jan 11
Welcome to a blog that will provide news,views, discussion and debate from a NZ nursing perspective.