Pharmacist prescribers Linda Bryant and Leanne Te Karu discuss positive polypharmacy for heart failure. Current evidence shows the intensive implementation of four medications offers the greatest benefit to most patients with heart failure, with significant reductions in cardiovascular mortality, heart failure hospitalisations and all-cause mortality
Research makes clear nurses need support and experience to enter rural specialty
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Research makes clear nurses need support and experience to enter rural specialty
Wednesday 26 May 2021, 04:40 AM

Rural Nurses New Zealand chair Emma Dillon and rural nurse specialist Deb Bailey Lawson presented at the National Rural Health Conference
NATIONAL RURAL HEALTH CONFERENCE
Around 400 people – GPs, practice nurses, nurse practitioners, PHO and DHB officials and managers, politicians and NGO representatives attended the National Rural Health Conference, hosted by the New Zealand Rural General Practice Network, at the Wairakei Resort near Taupō early this month.
Rural nursing needs to be recognised as a career in its own right with the support of training and supervision, according to research highlighted at t