{"title":"NPs enhance care at private hospital.","authors":"Janet Keys, Keely Rackham","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A nurse practitioner intern programme at Tauranga's Grace Hospita - the first such programme in any private hospital in New Zealand - has resulted in two nurse practitioners gaining endorsement.</p>","PeriodicalId":35669,"journal":{"name":"Nursing New Zealand (Wellington, N.Z. : 1995)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36832185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nurses' role in protecting vulnerable people.","authors":"Teresa O'Connor","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nurses play a vital role in protecting children and adults who are vulnerable to abuse and negLect.</p>","PeriodicalId":35669,"journal":{"name":"Nursing New Zealand (Wellington, N.Z. : 1995)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36832183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making a practical difference.","authors":"Sharon Walls, Teresa O'Connor","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An Auckland paediatric nurse finds caring for children on a hospital ship in Madagascar to be satisfying on many levels.</p>","PeriodicalId":35669,"journal":{"name":"Nursing New Zealand (Wellington, N.Z. : 1995)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36832184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are nurses focusing on the right things?","authors":"Lorna Bingham","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A nurse practitioner believes it is her job as a clinical leader to put forward the perspectives of her colleagues in the workforce, even if these views are challenging.</p>","PeriodicalId":35669,"journal":{"name":"Nursing New Zealand (Wellington, N.Z. : 1995)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36790263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How do 12-hour shifts affect ICU nurses?.","authors":"David Aveyard","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A review of the literature shows mixed results from nurses work- ing 12-hour shifts. However, many nurses report improved patient care, greater job satisfaction and better safety from working these extended shifts.</p>","PeriodicalId":35669,"journal":{"name":"Nursing New Zealand (Wellington, N.Z. : 1995)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36790264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diseases of the Liver.","authors":"Georgina Casey","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>IMPAIRED LIVER function affects every aspect of the body's physiology. Diseases of the liver have more widespread and life-threatening impacts than malfunctioning of any of the body's other conditions. accessory organs. Non-alcoholic fatty Liver disease rates are soaring, concurrent with the obesity epidemic and increasing rates of type 2 diabetes. Alcoholic liver disease and viral hepatitis also contribute to high rates of liver damage in the population, making liver disease one of the commonest causes premature death. Liver transplants, hepatocellular carcinomas, and deaths from Liver disease are increasingly due to preventable or treatable liver conditions. Understanding normal liver function allows nurses to predict the impact of Liver disease on their patients' health and well-being. Knowledge of underlying causes of impaired liver function enhances our ability to support and counsel those who are at risk of, or have been diagnosed with liver disease.</p>","PeriodicalId":35669,"journal":{"name":"Nursing New Zealand (Wellington, N.Z. : 1995)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36790265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Loving the new normal.","authors":"Jane Loader","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A young nurse reflects on her first year of practice, with its challenges and rollercoaster of emotions.chaLLenges and roLercoaster of emotions.</p>","PeriodicalId":35669,"journal":{"name":"Nursing New Zealand (Wellington, N.Z. : 1995)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36832187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Continuing a tradition of caring.","authors":"Teresa O'Connor","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A Dunedin caregiver continues a whãnau tradition of caring and advocacy.</p>","PeriodicalId":35669,"journal":{"name":"Nursing New Zealand (Wellington, N.Z. : 1995)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36757860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coping with the outbreak of campylobacter.","authors":"Yvonne Little","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Coping with the recent campylobacter outbreak which devastated Havelock North was a professional and personal challenge for a Hawke's Bay nurse practitioner.</p>","PeriodicalId":35669,"journal":{"name":"Nursing New Zealand (Wellington, N.Z. : 1995)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36757856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building healthy bones.","authors":"Usteoporosis New Zealand","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With worLdwide figures of one in three women and one in five men aged 50 years and over LikeLy to suffer an osteoporotic fracture, action must be taken early to buiLd strong bones throughout Life.</p>","PeriodicalId":35669,"journal":{"name":"Nursing New Zealand (Wellington, N.Z. : 1995)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36757857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}