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An international Torum on tne nursing worKTorce wans sitronger action to ensure safe staffing.
Due to the autonomous nature o the work, an RN in aged residential care can develop and use her skills to a high degree, a dedicated aged-care nurse believes.
Delirium is an acute confusional state common in older adults in hospital. Nurses must be alert to risk factors and act to prevent or manage this distressing but reversible condition.
More than 100 nurses and caregivers attended NZNO's 10th national gerontology section conference, held in Christchurch for the first time earlier this month. The two-day programme explored the theme 'Back to our future' - getting back to aged care's roots of caring and person-centredness - during 11 plenary presentations and 15 abstracts. These pages Look at a few of the highlights.
First-year students from Whitireia New Zealand are gaining rich Learning opportunities during clinical placements at local aged- care facilities.
As residents in aged-care facilities become increasingly frail, the need for mandated staffing levels becomes even more urgent.
Nurses have a key role to play in caring for those with long-term conditions. But a model of care used throughout the country and funded from the national health budget is needed.
New Zealand is the first country to have imple- mented interRAI nationally. Nurses describe some of the benefits and challenges involved.
Supporting the elderly to live safely at home is the aim of one of the country's newest nurse practitioners, older adults, Sheryl Haywood.
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