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Activity
Consortiums terms of reference and documents have been reviewed and endorsed.
They are accessible along with endorsed standards on the following website http://www.hiirc.org.nz/section/15221/national-nursing-standards/?tab=6850
National Youth Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills Framework was submitted in
June, endorsement is pending as they have been asked to submit more evidence.
National Pain Management Knowledge & Skills was submitted and endorsed in
September.
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NNO (National Nurse Leaders Meetings)
This remains an excellent forum for informally bringing together the Chief Nurse and the
leaders of NZNO, College of Nurses. College of Mental Health Nurses, Council of Maori
Nurses, Nursing Council, Council of Deans, Nurse Educators in the Tertiary Sector,
Directors of Nursing and Nurse Executives. The forum is used to discuss topical issues, to
move towards consensus positions or determine both agenda setting and responses to
groups such as Health Workforce NZ.
Conferences, Workshops & Seminars
Dr Michal Boyd, Bernadette Paus and Diane Williams have made an excellent contribution on
behalf of NPNZ and the College in conducting a number of workshops specifically designed to
support intending NP candidates towards portfolio completion.
Dr Patricia McClunie-Trust has made an enormous contribution to the College and the
profession in conducting 7 Professional Boundary workshops in the past year with more to
come. Alongside the release of the Nursing Council Code of Conduct these have been a timely
and vital contribution to nursing professional development. I cannot sufficiently express our
gratitude for the enormous contribution that Patricia has made and continues to make.
Feedback from the workshops is consistently superb and we are very grateful to Patricia for
this major contribution of her time and energy.
Primary Health Care Nurses (including school and youth health nurses)
This is another area of key engagement for the College. We remain committed to ensuring
that there are no funding, employment, post graduate education or infrastructural
impediments to ensuring that nurses in all primary health care settings can offer the full range
of possible services.
We continue to look forward to the day when we can work in true partnership with GP leaders
in order to overcome the barriers to full utilisation of primary health care nurses. As GP leader
Dr Tim Malloy has noted, primary health care and General Practice is a “burning platform”:
requiring rapid change in traditional ways of doing things if services are to be even maintained.
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