Recent and Relevant

This link will contain various comments on recent training that TDH nurses have attended as well as relevant links of interest

The Critical skills for critically ill patients workshop.

Click here to read document about the skills for critically ill patients workshop.

Summer Newsletter 2011-12

Issue 10 Newsletter - December 2011

Click to read the Summer Newsletter.

Medication safety

This is the first of a series of regular factsheets from the Health Quality & Safety Commission.

New Zealand already has an excellent health care system, but unfortunately things occasionally go wrong – with high human and financial costs.
People in the health sector are working hard to ensure we continue to deliver high-quality health services, that are as safe as possible for patients. This factsheet showcases recent innovations and initiatives in the area of medication safety.

Osteoporosis

Read full factsheet here

NETS

NETS, New Zealand's most comprehensive group representing undergraduate and postgraduate nursing education, launched a brand new research-focussed, interactive website this month. The site, http://nurseducation.org.nz has been designed in direct response to NETS mission to provide a proactive voice for nursing education. We provide leadership and direction on significant national issues relating to nursing education as evident through our submissions.

The site offers links to current research both nationally and internationally in nursing education. Answers to FAQ's in relation to nursing education are provided. The site additionally provides access to all providers within New Zealand grouped by qualifications or by region for ease of identification.

On behalf of NETS and in partnership with the Wharangi Ruamano, I invite you to visit our new site and welcome your feedback. Please feel free to circulate to your networks.

Regards
Kathy

Medscape

Medscape provides regular updates and discussion documents and articles - it is a free subscription.. Here’s the link for registering and signing up:
Click here.

Second National Clinical Nurse Specialist Conference

A group of clinical nurse specialists at Waikato District Health Board have taken up the mantle to host the second national clinical nurse specialist conference. We had great responses from our call for abstracts that you helped distribute. The conference programme and registration process are now complete and I was hoping that you would be kind enough to distribute this information through you organisations once again. If this could go onto internal webpages that would be even better (pushing my luck I know!).

Anyway ALL the details are on the Waikato DHB wed site

www.waikatodhb.govt.nz/cns

For those that want to say "Been there, Done that, Got the T-Shirt" we are having a special run of Clinical Nurse Specialist T-shirts commissioned for the occasion these can be purchased for $35 and collected on the day (see conference registration form)

Registration fee is $100 BEFORE Friday 11th March 2011

Location is Novotel Tainui 7 Alma Street, Hamilton City

Date Friday 13^th May 2011

Thank you for your interest and support

Julie
Julie Daltrey I Clinical Nurse Specialist Gerontology I Waikato Hospital Campus I 9 Ohaupo Road I PO Box 3200 I Hamilton I p +64 21 2235917 I f +64 7 839 8790

Health Ed

NZ health information and resources – some resources in multiple languages

http://www.healthed.govt.nz/

Medline Plus

Excellent website for consumers and health providers developed by the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. Resources in over 40 languages http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/languages/languages.html

NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service (Australian)

Over 450 publications on health in a wide range of languages including some in Samoan and Tongan

http://www.mhcs.health.nsw.gov.au/index.html

Health Translations Directory

Health information from the Government of Australia, Victoria; translated into many different languages. http://www.healthtranslations.vic.gov.au/

Equip

NHS gateway to quality health and social care information for the West Midlands public http://www.equip.nhs.uk/language.html

California Health Literacy Initiative

Multicultural and Multilingual Health Information plus information on health literacy.

Retrieved 5 June 2009, from http://cahealthliteracy.org/

CulturedMed

“The mission of CulturedMed is to facilitate the provision of culturally competent healthcare to refugees and immigrants worldwide” https://culturedmed.sunyit.edu/index.php/home

Cancer

American Cancer Society - ACS. (2008)

Asian Pacific Islander cancer education materials tool. http://www.cancer.org/acmmain/(0galt045sur5hq451vokhd45)/DefaultACS.aspx

Diabetes

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

(2005). National Diabetes Education Program. Resources about diabetes in a number of languages. Retrieved September 6, 2007, from http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/ndep/lang.htm