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Personal protective equipment guidance for healthcare settings

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Introduction Use of personal protective equipment (PPE), including masks, is considered part of Standard Precautions (external link) which are a set of infection prevention and control (IPC) measures required by healthcare workers for all healthcare interactions. Respiratory virus infections, including COVID-19, influenza, RSV and other respiratory viruses cause preventable morbidity and mortality in New Zealand each year. Mask wearing remains an important measure in preventing transmission of all respiratory virus infections in health and disability care settings. To support ...

School public health nursing

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Service and referral information for your district Expand all Bay of Plenty Bay of Plenty You can refer tamariki to health services in the Bay of Plenty using the Community Health 4 Kids referral form. Community Health for Kids referral form [PDF, 1.1 MB] Use the CH4K referral form to refer a child to a: public health nurse for children aged 0 to 18 community ear nurse vision and hearing technician. The form can also be used to refer children to: the rheumatic fever programme to swab for Group A streptococcal bacterial throat infection the Kiri Ora Skin Programme the B4 school programme the sc ...

COVID-19: Advice for community allied health, scientific and technical providers

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Risk assessment Clinical reasoning and risk assessment remain the fundamental principles for considering how to provide care for patients. To enable clinicians to continue to provide face to face appointments safely the following processes and consideration can be used: Risk assess for COVID-19 symptoms prior to face-to-face appointment if possible. Advise people not to attend their appointment if they are unwell. Adhere to infection prevention control measures including appropriate use of PPE where required. Consider measures to improve ventilation. You shoul ...

Educational material

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Learn on Line LearnOnline.Health.nz (external link) is a vocational training resource hub for New Zealand’s community of health practitioners. There is a growing number of courses available, provided by different organisations, for health workers either studying or working in different fields of practice. The NSU offers five eLearning Modules: Screening Principles and Practice Quality Improvements in Antenatal Screening for Down syndrome and other conditions (QIASD) Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and Early Intervention Programme (UNHSEIP) Newborn Metabolic Screening Programme (NMS ...

Third-trimester reporting pro forma

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... Report conclusions Normal initial growth scan EFW lies on the [ ] centile. Normal amniotic fluid. Normal serial growth scan Satisfactory interval growth. EFW lies on the [ ] centile. Normal amniotic fluid. Normal serial growth scan with clinical indication for Doppler Satisfactory interval growth. EFW lies on the [ ] centile. Normal amniotic fluid and [umbilical artery, etc] Doppler. Increased interval growth There has been an increase in interval growth from the previous scan at [ ] weeks, [ ] days, predominantly based on [AC, etc ...

Referring a death to the coroner

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... Act 2006, section 14 (external link) . Use Death Documents (external link) to report a death to the coroner if the deceased was 28 days of age or older at the time of death. To report the death of a baby less than 28 days of age, in hospital, complete a Hospital Record of Death (HROD) form and phone the Duty Coroner on 0800 266 800. Criteria for referring Refer to the coroner when the death: appears to be without known cause, self-inflicted, unnatural, or violent occurred during, or appears to have been the result of, a medical procedure and was medically unexpected ...

Study days and education — Waikato

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All education initiatives delivered by the professional development unit are open to external applicants from the nursing community in the Waikato region (such as aged care and practice nurses), unless flyers or calendar specifies they are for Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Waikato staff only. Some of our education initiatives are also offered through Telehealth for people who may not be able to make it in person. Clinical education calendar We offer an online calendar to promote clinical education initiatives offered throughout the year. You can find out more detail about an education sess ...

SNOMED CT terminology service

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... New Zealand Health Terminology Service we are building. We provide the terminology service as a free public good to New Zealand health software developers to demonstrate this technology. Under our interoperability roadmap, we will also be introducing terminology services for the New Zealand Pathology Observation Code Sets (NZPOCS) and our other standard code sets. The service is available on the internet via a standard FHIR (R) application programming interface (API) at https://snomednz.digital.health.nz/fhir (external link) . T ...

Partner expectations

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Security statement In order to engage with the CTIP APIs, third-party vendors will need to show they have robust security controls in place for sensitive data and have taken all appropriate risk assessment measures for their solution. In particular, vendors must confirm that: sensitive data will be encrypted both at rest and in transit to the CTIP. This is to ensure that there will be no unauthorised access to personally identifiable information at any stage of the process. (It will remain encrypted in the NCTS environment.) appropriate protection has been placed around API access. (All access ...

Questions and answers - Immunisation coverage

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... immunisations by the time they turned the milestone age. Table One below indicates the immunisations on the National Childhood Immunisation Schedule included at each milestone age. Table One: Immunisations included at each milestone age Milestone Age National Childhood Immunisation Schedule Visits 6 months 6 weeks, 3 months, 5 months 8 months 6 weeks, 3 months, 5 months 12 months (1 year) 6 weeks, 3 months, 5 months, 12 months 18 months 6 weeks, 3 months, 5 months, 12 months, 15 months 24 months (2 years) 6 weeks, 3 months, 5 months, 12 months, 15 months 5 years 6 weeks, 3 months, 5 mont ...

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