
Are you a late-career nurse or caregiver? Fill out this survey about your career
If you're a late-career nurse or caregiver -- aged 50 and above -- an important new workforce survey is seeking your opinions about your career.

NZNO Pacific nurse leader recognised after 40 years of nursing
NZNO Pacific nurse leader Abel Smith has been awarded life membership by the Pasifika Medical Association (PMA), for his work in Pacific nursing over 40 years.

Māori health professor with terminal bowel cancer on what screening changes really mean
Is it robbing Pita to save Paul? Redirecting bowel cancer screening cash will save more Pākehā lives, not more Māori lives, explains nurse and health professor Jacquie Kidd who got her terminal bowel cancer diagnosis before her own test kit arrived in the mail.
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Are you a late-career nurse or caregiver? Fill out this survey about your career
If you're a late-career nurse or caregiver -- aged 50 and above -- an important new workforce survey is seeking your opinions about your career. |
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Bupa aged-care workers prepare to hīkoi in protest over proposed cuts
Aged-care workers are preparing to hīkoi from the Auckland Domain to Bupa's head office in Newmarket next Tuesday, a day before the profit-making global company reveals whether it's going ahead with cuts to worker hours at 17 care homes around the country. |
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Mental health nurse leader slams ‘distracting’ assistant psychologist role
Mental health nurse leader Helen Garrick says a new associate psychologist role being introduced here is a "distraction from the shortage of psychiatrists and mental health nurses". |
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Primary health-care nurses take offer but pay parity still on their radar
Primary health-care nurses are one step closer to getting the same pay as their fellow nurses working in hospitals or at Te Whatu Ora. |
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NZNO Pacific nurse leader recognised after 40 years of nursing
NZNO Pacific nurse leader Abel Smith has been awarded life membership by the Pasifika Medical Association (PMA), for his work in Pacific nursing over 40 years. |
Opinion
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I love my country, but it doesn’t want me
A young New Zealand nurse explains why she left for Australia -- her childhood dream of nursing had rapidly turned to burnout. |
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Māori nursing leaders fight attack on Māori health – SOS to United Nations underway
In the last two remaining NZNO leadership profiles, Kaitiaki talks to Te Rūnanga o Aotearoa NZNO kaiwhakahaere Kerri Nuku and tumu whakarae Tracy Black. They share the mahi done so far and their focus for the rest of the year. |
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Māori health professor with terminal bowel cancer on what screening changes really mean
Is it robbing Pita to save Paul? Redirecting bowel cancer screening cash will save more Pākehā lives, not more Māori lives, explains nurse and health professor Jacquie Kidd who got her terminal bowel cancer diagnosis before her own test kit arrived in the mail. |
Features
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‘We can turn this around’: Nurses’ emotional plea for a safer health-care system
Nurses can be change agents for a better health system, say leaders at NZNO's 2025 college and section forum. |
Practice
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‘Recovery capital’ in addiction treatment: What is it, and why is it important?
Health professionals have a vital role in putting addicts in touch with the inner and outer resources that will support them on the road to recovery. |
Letters
Help write the last chapter on cervical cancer
It’s not often we can shout about a good news cancer story, but we have one shaping up and you can be a part of it. |
Letters
New website discusses health needs of New Zealand and Pacific nations
Nursing has much to be proud of over the past 120 years. We can learn from how nurse leaders have managed situations in the past that are not dissimilar to challenges that we face today. |