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sally belly 
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 Posted: 11 September 2008 at 8:05pm |
I suspect the K nurse that I've seen covers the entire North Shore as friends who live miles away from me see the same lady... Man, she must be one busy lady  . So what with lack of funding etc etc I guess it's not surprising some people aren't allocated one.
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MummyFreckle
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Posted: 11 September 2008 at 8:59pm |
Thanks ladies... I now feel really ripped off that we havent seen one. I could use some advise on sleeping and solids, and am really confused as to why my friend who lives in the suburb next door to me gets to see one and I dont. Who do I ring or ask?
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AnnC
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Posted: 11 September 2008 at 9:03pm |
 Kels wrote:
Flissty wrote:
Peachy, that sounds right to me. My Plunket nurse referred to the K Nurse as a "community health worker" - maybe more like a nurse assistant with lots of practical experience, but not formal nursing training. |
Yep that is right Karitane workers arent nurses at all. They are community worker who work with plunket nurses. Plunket nurses have set time frames and appt to see families. These are caled core visits, then the Karitane workers can do "additional" visits that families are entitled too. The amount of visits you are entitled to depends on, what deprivation area you live in, If you are a first time parent. As a baby gets older the plunket nurse is contracted to see them less eg, 5mth, 9mth, 15mth. I book my Karitane to visit inbetween times. If I feel that the family need more input from me I will book the additional appt with me as a Karitane health worker has no clinical experience to deal with some things.
I have a karitane health worker and a Kaiawhina worker which is the same as a Karitane worker jsut a different title and she sees all the maori families in the ares. She does see other cultures too but she is predominately for maori.
Sorry I did try to simplify it for you all. I hope you arent all confused now lol |
I am pretty sure Kels has explained it here - I have only had plunket visits although with Rhylz at 13 months I had a visit from another nruse - think it was a kaitine - I actually texted kels if it was normal as I thought whose this? LOL
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MummyFreckle
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Posted: 11 September 2008 at 9:24pm |
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[QUOTE=Flissty]Yep that is right Karitane workers arent nurses at all. They are community worker who work with plunket nurses. Plunket nurses have set time frames and appt to see families. These are caled core visits, then the Karitane workers can do "additional" visits that families are entitled too. The amount of visits you are entitled to depends on, what deprivation area you live in, If you are a first time parent. As a baby gets older the plunket nurse is contracted to see them less eg, 5mth, 9mth, 15mth. I book my Karitane to visit inbetween times.
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I am pretty sure Kels has explained it here - I have only had plunket visits although with Rhylz at 13 months I had a visit from another nruse - think it was a kaitine - I actually texted kels if it was normal as I thought whose this? LOL |
I get what Kels is saying, I am just not sure what the difference is between my friend down the road and me is. Ie why does she get visits and I dont? Thats what is confusing me!
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gemsmum
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Posted: 12 September 2008 at 7:28am |
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Sim Sam, as a first time parent you should get some Karitane/additional input. Call your Plunket Nurse and ask her.
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susieq
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Posted: 12 September 2008 at 8:41am |
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And the lack of funding is why they closed the Karitane hospitals 30 years ago in October and then opened the Family Centres and there seems to be lack of funding for them even.
They so need those old Karitane hospitals now, if they had one Emma that would have been the sort of place the gremlins could have gone to in the toddlers ward to sort out sleeping issues and they could have sorted some of the younger bubbas out too with feeding sleeping
The Karitane hospitals were open 24/7 and the family centres unfortunatley during the day only,
I know pleanty of ex karitanes who would love to see the Karitane Hospitals again and who would love to work in that type of situation
There were Karitane hospitals in Dunedin, Invercargill,
Christchurch,
Wanganui, Wellington and Auckland
It really irks alot of Karitanes who trained as nurses in the hospitals that they were closed to funding lack
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MissAngel
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Posted: 12 September 2008 at 8:46am |
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We saw the plunket lady once and a Karitane nurse once.
I dont go to plunket anymore as they were horribly rude to me on the phone when I missed an appointment when Thomas was in hospital.. Sorry, but I really had other things to think about and too bad that I didnt ring up and cancel :o I'm just gonna do the GP visits instead.
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aussiegirl
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Posted: 12 September 2008 at 10:06am |
I've been really lucky that my Plunket nurse visited me 3 times (up to hayley was 8 weeks old) and the Karitane nurse has visited me twice. I think my Plunket nurse got the K nurse to come as I am a first time mum and was having a bad day when she visited me!
The K nurse has talked to me about sleeping, wrapping and routines etc. A really good service!
Thats a shame you havent had a good experience with plunket MissAngel. Mine so far has been very positive, so much in fact I am going to do some volunteering with them in the future.
SimSam, definitely ring Plunket and see what the story is. Good luck! 
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