Monday, 15 March 2021, 2:03 pm
Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall today
released a report finding a rest home provider and two
registered nurses in breach of the Code of Health and
Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for
failures in the care of an elderly resident.
The man,
aged in his eighties at the time of events, had multiple
existing health conditions and was prescribed morphine for
worsening pain. One morning, a registered nurse and two
caregivers were on duty. None of these staff members had met
the medication competency requirements set out in the rest
home’s Medication Management policy. Medication competency
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Registered nurse Ana Carino is part of a wave of Covid-weary doctors and nurses moving to New Zealand. Hernandez said the projected number is likely to increase as the Nursing Council did not predict the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent border closures. The closure of the Manila immigration office will also “prevent nurses from coming into the country”, she said. Mikee Santos, the chairman of the non-profit organisation Migrante Aotearoa, said closing the Manila office would lead to a “longer delay” in processing visas. “There is a queue, there is a long line, there is actually a backlog.”
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Media release from Ara Institute of Canterbury
Thursday 11 March 2021, 10:32 AM
Despite the challenges of COVID, Ara nursing graduates achieved extremely high rates of employment, with 98.5% of registered nursing graduates who sought work as an RN achieving success. Ara nursing employment rates are consistently amongst the top in the sector, and the 2020 results bear this out.
The Nurse Education in the Tertiary Sector report also showed that the national average was 97.1% - a figure that also bears testament to Ara’s contribution, with the Institute producing the single largest graduating group in the country with 228 graduates passing the state exams; more than twice the number of the next-largest class.
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