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 nursing
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.
Just call me Poly Filler
May 19
Sometimes the tug of war (almost literally it seems at times!) between NPs and MDs just gets ridiculous, and I suspect this article will only add fuel to the tuggers. The point of difference here is that the author is an economist so approaches the evidence from the fiscal angle- which will make a whole [...]
what’s in a day?….
May 13
I always have an uncomfortable niggle at the thought of “Nurses Day”. I get the same feeling when I consider the “special” nurses conference day that the GPCME conference offers. Its a “pat on the head and be good/silent for the rest of the year” kind of niggle. And I see that I am not [...]
NP’s miss the cut-again?
May 4
I don’t know, maybe I am partisan, but I would kind of expect to see some explicit mention of NPs in any national health workforce plan- especially because they are a new animal in the NZ health landscape and there is so much international evidence to say how well they improve health outcomes. But no, [...]
Retreating under fire?
Apr 15
Well, it seems that the USA medical profession may be retreating under fire with the Obama health reforms. This article suggests that need and healthcare reform may be assisting the nurses to edge ahead on the age old doctor vs nurse practitioner power struggle.Going by the comments the public is divided re the benefits/risk analysis. [...]
Squatters
Feb 27
I have found a new name for those nurses who have decided they will go no further in their chosen profession than where they have been for the past 10(15)(20) years…they are squatters of the worst kind. According to The Muse, they clog up the system, do not let other nurses on their way up [...]
Much ado about iFHC n’ all
Feb 18
I admit to being rather bemused and bewildered at the conclusionof the recent RNZCGP Quality Symposium last week- mainly because there did not seem to be much about Quality and more about intergrated Family Health Centres. It seems that the meeting had been hijacked to pass the word down the line about the latest MOH [...]
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 [...]