Death is such an important time in life’s journey and is shared by so many. Yet the funding to support this often difficult time is abysmal! Just as a comparison: There is funding available before we even enter this world with free maternity care for mums, free post natal care,…
It’s not easy to stand up in front of your peers and share with them something that you are doing and maybe even doing well. The reason that it is not easy is that you risk the chance of being challenged or worse being told you are trying to be…
Student Nurses This year we have had the pleasure of supporting students in choosing nursing as a career, or nurses furthering their careers. In the first semester we had a registered nurse at the practice doing a Advanced Health Assessment paper through the Christchurch Post graduate…
The building of the new consult room is completed and is very nice to work out of! The waiting room is now sporting new seating with wipe down cushions. Easier to keep clean and certainly more hygienic. The fresh paint and modern colours have made a vast improvement to a…
This figure illustrates my philosophy of nursing – Developed 2004 The koru, ‘tail’ represents the spiral of a of an unwinding moment in time (unfurling of the fern frond) shared by the patient, whanau, community and myself- we are in this together… working through the health related event that caused…
10-12 hour days, five days a week and a few hours on a weekend were not part of this plan… It was going to remain a balance between practice time and my time… But admittedly it’s got away on me this year! Some would say but practice time IS “my”…
This is how it goes….. Home visit to a rest home resident on the way to work. Saw the patient and then spoke to the RN and charted some medication, back to the resident to inform her of what I have changed. Discussed next follow up. Off to work. The…
Professional Supervision (PS): For me professional supervision is about sharing experiences and thoughts about difficulties or complex situations with someone who is trained to provide qualified advice on the “how to” work things through, see things differently and aid me in working out the solutions. It is not a winge session,…
We have had undergraduates at the practice over the past four years. These have been 2nd year students from Otago Polytech doing a Health Promotion project based on the Pleasant Point Health Center community. They have produced some amazing work with the product being a tool that we as clinicians…
Keeping up-to-date I regularly spend time with the GP while he/she is in the clinic. We will go over cases I want advice on, blood test results, plans I have for patients and want reassurance that I am not missing anything or need to include. I have recently spent a…