Aim: To explore primary healthcare professionals' (PHPs') knowledge and educational needs regarding identification and referral of adolescents and young adults (AYA) with suspected cancer in New Zealand.
Method: An anonymous online survey targeting PHPs was distributed through health networks during March-August 2019. The survey covered demographics, knowledge of AYA cancer and related topics and preferred sources of AYA cancer information, which includes professional development.
Background: During a child's prolonged treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), there is a need to balance their increased risk of developing infection-related complications with meeting their educational and social needs.
Aims: To determine the safe timing of return to social activities for children undergoing treatment for ALL and to determine how parents perceive and act on advice related to infection risk while navigating their child's "return to normal."
Methods And Results: Medical and educational attendance records were reviewed for 47 children who were diagnosed with ALL and 24 semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with a representative sample of their parents.
The Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992 (NZ) legislates for District Inspectors who ensure that mental health consumers held under the Act are aware of their legal rights. The New Zealand District Inspector role first appeared in 19th century legislation. Its historical longevity does not, however, denote that this role has been consistent since its inception.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Healthy living programs (HLPs) within the context of mental health units are an applied response to the concerns of metabolic syndrome and the associated physical illnesses to which people with serious mental illness are susceptible.
Objective: To illustrate how nurses, with other health professionals and service users, have established and maintained HLPs in two locked forensic mental health units in New Zealand.
Design: This illustrative case study adopts a multimodal approach to data collection and analysis.
Sex education in wartime New Zealand focused primarily on adults and was concerned with community stability in aberrant times. In 1943 Dr. Clara Lee's bold move to ask a group of New Zealand women candidly about their sexual experiences caused her dismissal as lecturer in sex hygiene to military women.
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