25 July 2018
By Lois Boyd
Lois Boyd, National SPEC co-ordinator, Te Pou o te Whakaaro Nui gives an update on Safe Practice Effective Communication (SPEC).
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29 March 2018
By Te Pou
Trauma-informed care, or the idea that what has happened to people in the past can affect their health and how they respond to care in adulthood, has taken a firm place in the thinking behind mental health and addiction treatment in recent years. This is certainly the case at Whitireia New Zealand in Porirua where both post- and under-graduate nurses are taught that being trauma-informed is essential to good practice.
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30 November 2017
By Te Pou
Our collaboration with the Mental Health Commission of Canada was reinforced when two of their health promotion managers visited Te Pou.
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24 August 2017
By Te Pou
Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Senior Lecturer Dr Daniel Sutton has recently received a Health Research Council grant for research into sensory modulation as an approach for people experiencing anxiety.
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8 March 2017
By Te Pou
Te Pou congratulates Counties Manukau Health on winning the 2017 New Zealand Human Resource Award for Learning and Development Capability in the Public Sector for their Safe Practice and Effective Communication (SPEC) training package.
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1 December 2016
By Angela Gruar
Safe Practice and Effective Communication (SPEC) was launched successfully in Christchurch in November. The launch was a credit to many people who have worked hard to get to this point with the aim of achieving a national consistency of training that is pain free and prone free wherever possible.
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