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Rising ambulance callouts highlight the importance of timely support for older adults living alone

When an older patient lives alone, it's natural to wonder whether they'd get the help they need if something happened at home. The latest Hato Hone St John (HHStJ) emergency response data offers some useful context.

Show us the money! New Te Whatu Ora pay rates on the way

After a six week wait, Te Whatu Ora-Health NZ (HNZ) said new pay rates would start to roll out this month for more than 35,000 of their nurses, health-care assistants and midwives.

NZNO calls for independent inquiry into man’s death in Waikato ED waiting room

A man's death in the waiting room toilets at Waikato Hospital's emergency department (ED) after a nine-hour wait has sparked calls from NZNO for an independent inquiry.

Wheelie bad: Hutt’s leaky hospital with water-catching bins, sizzling sockets

Nurses have raised the alarm as staff and patients at Hutt Hospital face fire-risk "fizzing" walls, and water-catching wheelie bins in a case of leaky-health syndrome.

She knows where her son’s body lays — now she wants safety for workers like nurses

A multi-union event including NZNO on the steps of Parliament has ramped up pressure on NZ First leader Winston Peters to back up his pro-worker words with action.

BUDGET26: Jobs for boys but student nurses can pay $10,000 more thank you very much

The Government says fees-free was a fizzer but nurses and students have slammed its axing as a $69 million snub against female-dominated mahi.

Mentoring new graduates into primary health ‘huge’ pressure, say senior nurses

Getting nursing graduates up to speed in primary health care (PHC) adds huge pressure to nurses' workload, a Te Tai Rāwhiti preceptor and nurse says.

‘Grassroots’ Coromandel nurse practitioner awarded NP of the year

A "grassroots" Coromandel nurse mātanga tapuhi/nurse practitioner (NP) who hiked through hills so she could open the local health clinic during Cyclone Gabrielle has been named NP of the year.

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Whitewash’ at Nursing Council board as Māori chair, members slashed

A Māori advisory group says the Nursing Council of New Zealand has been "whitewashed" after a swathe of ministerial appointments torpedoed its board's Māori representatives from six to one -- the absolute minimum.

$19 million underspend revealed as general practices slow to sign up nurse graduates

Just 62 per cent of places in a $30.4 million scheme to drive more nursing graduates into primary health care (PHC) were taken up in its first year, Budget figures have revealed.

Winter ‘onslaught’ — nurses ponder how they’ll deal with ED overloads

As the winter wave hits emergency departments (EDs), NZNO emergency nurse leaders are hearing of widespread understaffing, dangerously long waits and inpatient gridlock.

Nurses could be pushed beyond scope: Warning as Palmerston North loses only gastro specialist

Palmerston North's last gastro doctor left in June. This week, Karen Kempin, gastroenterology nurses' college secretary, spoke at a community meeting about the risks to nurses and patients.

When evidence becomes politically inconvenient

An experienced Māori nursing educator fears for cultural safety and Māori health outcomes in the wake of recent ministerial appointments to the medical and nursing councils.

Government takeover of health and education regulators ‘abuse of power’ — unions

Union leaders representing nearly 250,000 workers are joining forces to protest against the recent 'unprecedented political interference' in professional regulation across health, education and public services.

‘Affirmation’ from health-care providers tells different story to bill’s anti-trans angst

Trans health initiatives are not a “woke contagion”, as some politicians would have us believe, says a group of health-care experts -- they are simply honouring cultural safety.

Nurse grant body NERF pauses grants for administrative changes

The Nursing Education and Research Foundation (NERF) has paused grant and scholarship applications until July as it restructures its administration systems.

Young, white and female: An ideal nurse in the 1980s

In an exclusive extract from her new book, Ngākaurua, Māori health professor Jacquie Kidd describes her rage as she tries again to become a nurse in the 1980s -- only to be confronted with an educational system steeped in racial prejudice.

Why stop at 65? Nurse extraordinaire Ros Corban on working into her 80s

Back then new nurses wore starched dresses, starched hats, belts, thick white stockings, white shoes and the lingering fear of doctors and fierce ward sisters.

Emotional fatigue or emotional growth — clinical placement key to nursing identity

Keeping nurses in nursing doesn't begin after graduation -- it begins during training, explains a nursing clinical coach working at Middlemore Hospital.

How one supportive team changed my dread of hospital nursing

A Wellington nursing student explains how a positive clinical placement helped her get over a 'dread' of hospitals -- and appreciate true teamwork.

A space for infection prevention and control nurses everywhere

Chair of NZNO's infection, prevention & control nurses college Lisa Gilbert has a vision to bring IPC nurses across every part of the sector together.

Primary health nurses’ college a rock of stability in an ‘atomised’ sector

Primary health nurses are bouncing around an 'atomised' and profit-making sector -- yet could play a crucial role in transforming communities' health given the chance, says nurse practitioner Michael Brenndorfer.

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‘Spread the word’ on the fund helping nurses who are doing it tough

For more than a century a fund has been helping nurses in times of need -- find out how you can seek help, or help the fund.

Colorectal surgical society nurses’ awards 2026 – applications now open

Help us recognise and celebrate excellence in colorectal nursing before August 1, across colorectal nursing, gastroenterology, stoma therapy, cancer care, endoscopy, surgical nursing and related specialties.

Southern Cross Health Trust boosts investment in nursing students to $1million

Nursing scholarships applications are still open at Auckland University of Technology till May 30-- and will open in July at Christchurch's ARA institute of nursing.