Nursing in New Zealand

Primary Health Care Nursing

Primary Health Care Strategy

The Primary Health Care Strategy released in February 2001 identified primary health care nurses as crucial to its successful implementation and required the Ministry of Health to:

“facilitate a national approach to primary health care nursing which addresses capabilities, responsibilities and areas of professional practice, as well as set educational and career frameworks and explore suitable employment arrangements”.

View the Primary Health Care Strategy.

Innovative Models of Primary Health Care Nursing Practice

Eleven nursing innovations supporting the development of new models of primary care nursing practice and fostering nurse leadership were funded by the Ministry of Health from January 2004 to mid-2006.

There were two main kinds of innovation and the evaluation reports on the varying levels of success across the 11 innovations.

Innovations that fostered the role of the nurse practitioner and services that focus on chronic care management and services for familes, whanau and young people are of particular interest for those planning services for the future.

View the report to the Ministry of Health by the Primary Health Care Nurse Innovation Evaluation Team:

The Evaluation of the Eleven Primary Health Care Nursing Innovation Projects

An Approach to Risk Reduction and Risk Management for Cardiovascular Disease and Type 2 Diabetes with Nurse Leadership in Primary Health Care

This report describes the project and findings from a pilot project which has aimed to link health promotion, support of early detection and early intervention for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and type 2 diabetes (diabetes) and CVD risk management according to best practice guidelines with nurse leadership. The project commenced 1 November 2005 and completed 30 September 2007 and was led by the School of Nursing with linkages across the School of Population Health, The University of Auckland.

View the report in PDF format below:

An Approach to Risk Reduction and Risk Management for Cardiovascular Disease and Type 2 Diabetes with Nurse Leadership in Primary Health Care (Warning, large file size - PDF, 4 MB)

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