Report of the NZ IBD Nurses Committee as sub-committee to NZgNC

Inflammatory Bowel Disease Special Interest Group

Report of the NZ IBD Nurses Committee as sub-committee to NZgNC

Committee: Jacqui Stone (chair), Marian O’Connor (co-chair), Karen Murdoch (secretary), Carly Bramley (Education lead) Report Date: August 2021, Prepared By: Marian O’Connor, Reporting Period: Apr 2021 – Aug 2021

EDUCATION NZ IBD Nurses Meeting 2022 – Planned for 18th March 2022, Copthorne Hotel, Wellington

The committee have been working hard on the 2nd NZIBDNG annual meeting which has been booked for 18th March 2022, in the Copthorne hotel in Wellington. This meeting will be limited to the membership of the group, which is specialist of clinical nurse specialists working within inflammatory bowel disease from across the country, which includes 25 nurses. The agenda has been generated with local nursing colleagues, Lisa Griffiths and Megan Mackay, and the committee is grateful to their support and acquisition of local speakers. The committee has been focused also on ensuring that this meeting is fully funded to its membership. To this end, our application for an education grant to NZgNC has been approved which provides funds of $5,000 (July 2021). In addition, we have submitted separate educational grants applications to three pharmaceutical companies which are in process at present. If some of these grant applications are not successful, then the committee may look at a small registration fee per nurse attending to support some of our costs. Membership will be advised of this in due course.

NATIONAL NZ & Australian IBD NURSING AUDIT

The full results which included data from Australia is currently being collated for publication in the GENCA Journal (late 2021). Marian is working with Lydia White, (ex-committee NZIBDNG member) in completing this paper for publication at this present time.

NZ IBD NURSE KSF

We are also grateful to Christine Ho, Sarah Cook and Lucy Mills whom have agreed to review the KSF document which is due for its 2-yearly review. The committee has approached NZgNC and put forward for a proposal to support costs for this small group to meet face-to-face once in order to complete this work. Karen Murdoch is currently linking with this group also.

GENCA IBD Foundation Report

Carly Bramley is an active member of the IBDNA education committee and has completed a TUBE article on the success of the GENCA IBD Foundation School which was attending by 15 nurses from NZ.

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