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 [...]
Posts Tagged nursetalk
The whole shebang
Jul 20
Clear as Mud?
Jun 16
Nursing models have always made me shake my head in bewilderment.and this article has only made me feel better about my misgivings about the concept of a model espoused by one, to be followed blindly by many, with questionable value for patients.
Nurse Bloggers
Jan 27
Here is an example of a rather irreverant tongue- in-cheek blog-well I hope it is or my sense of what should be serious and professional is really out of whack!- that has some interesting news and views from a UK perspective- give it up for the Mental Nurse! Nothing wrong with a bit of subversive [...]
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 [...]
Nurses do not “pop”
Jan 18
Apparently health chiefs in an Auckland (NZ) hospital are reviewing their safety record as part of their continuing quality improvement plans. I wasn’t going to bring this to the blog but then I spied the last paragraph: The hospital has been running a pilot to reduce falls……“Nurses popping in every hour to have a chat [...]
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 [...]
NZ news on nursing….
Jan 16
Here’s a good nursing story on an interesting website I have never had the occasion to access before. It is always heartening to find a positive nursing story- check out the blogs whilst you are there. New research from the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) reveals a snapshot survey of caregivers working in residential aged [...]
NZ Hardest Working Nurse
Jan 14
It seems that Gareth Morgan, author of Health Cheque has put together an award and lots of pingers for NZ ‘s hardest working nurse. This award seems to me almost redundant in this day and age. Hard work is a given when it comes to nursing…with hospitals understaffed, a health workforce shortage, budgets tightened and [...]
Congratulations…..
Jan 11
Congratulations go to Marion Guy, a registered nurse from Tauranga, who has gained admission to the New Year’s Honours list of 2010. Marion, who is immediate past President of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation, has recently been elected to the new National Health Board (NHB- sounds like a UK thing!). Marion is also a nurse [...]
A Nursing View
Jan 11
Welcome to a blog that will provide news,views, discussion and debate from a NZ nursing perspective.