Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand

Nursing Council chief executive quits amid leadership exodus

Chief executive Catherine Byrne and several senior executives have quit the Nursing Council two months after a major board reshuffle by Minister of Health Simeon Brown saw several nurses and Māori ousted.

Government ‘fudging’ hiring figures as nurses face intense pressure

The hospital nursing workforce has grown by a measly 54 roles since the Coalition Government took power, it has been revealed -- despite its claims of 2100 extra nurses.

Patients admitted to lazy boy chairs as city outgrows hospital, nurses tell mayor

A group of Hutt Hospital nurses have called on Hutt city mayor Ken Laban’s help getting a hospital upgrade after struggling with “constant” overcrowding and, now, leaks.

High Court becomes new frontline in battle to win back pay equity rights

It was a bleak and freezing Wellington morning but a trio of primary school kids were about to grab the bullhorn and preach about pay equity.

‘It was so cold’: Student nurse moves into caravan for two-month placement

New nursing graduate Ella Hofman got so cold and sick living in a caravan for two months on placement, she was still unwell weeks later while sitting her nursing exams.

Antacid didn’t cut it — then five-hour wait to find he was having a heart attack

A man waited five hours in Wellington's emergency department (ED) gripped by a heart attack -- three years later the full staffing fix has yet to arrive.

‘We’re willing and ready to go’ say grads, but less than half score Te Whatu Ora jobs — again

Nurse graduates say they are "ready and willing to go" -- but fewer than half graduating this month have been offered supported-entry jobs at Te Whatu Ora-Health NZ (HNZ).

Auckland University’s first Māori head of nursing ‘awesome’, say tauira

Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa-NZNO students say the appointment of Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland (UOA)'s first Māori head of nursing, Josephine Davis, is important for rangatahi.

Plunket nurses told to double appointments as funding, staffing crunch hits

NZNO Plunket nurses have raised the alarm over Government funding after being told they have to double their appointment workload.

Understaffed, under pressure and now on strike — Muriwai ward walks out

Nurses and health-care assistants (HCAs) from Muriwai ward marched side-by-side out the main entrance of Waitākere Hospital on Friday -- striking for safe staffing.

‘It’s really disheartening’ — Te Whatu Ora graduate job offers fall short

Te Whatu Ora-Health NZ (HNZ) is promising 1800 jobs for new nurse graduates over the next 12 months -- but it's still only 60 per cent of what's needed.

Staff tried to raise alarm over cervical screening failings, say nurses

Staff tried to warn of cervical screening failings but were not listened to, say women's health nurses after revelations that nearly a million notifications had not been sent to eligible women.

My first political forum after 16 years as a registered nurse – here’s what I learned

A high-profile election health forum in Auckland drew 1400 people and media attention for its political attendance (or lack of) -- but for NZNO private hospital delegate Olivia Vodanovich it was a first-time eye opener.

‘We need to take up space’: Rōpū means handful of Māori nurse PhD students not alone

A small but passionate rōpū of Māori nurses undertaking doctoral study through Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland, has formed a supportive whānau that stretches across Aotearoa.

Hitting the self-belief switch: NP intern Turuhira Marino on ditching doubts

Turuhira Marino is completing an internship to become a nurse practitioner, but has already become fully-qualified in believing in herself.

Child and youth nurses speak up for rangatahi in the face of ‘horrendous’ political onslaught

With an election approaching, NZNO's college of child and youth nurses, tapuhitia ngā mokopuna mō apōpō, is speaking up wherever it can for at-risk young people in the face of political oppression, says co-chair Donna Burkett.

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Nursing Council election candidate profiles

Voting has opened for three seats on the Nursing Council of New Zealand. Kaitiaki has published all candidate profiles as supplied. Nurses will receive an email or letter with voting details from August 3. Voting closes 5pm, September 11.

Poem for — and from — a hopeful new grad

A Waikato nurse expresses her frustration, poetically, at being unable to care for patients how she would like.

‘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.