May 2025
Ann’s story: How a medical alarm has helped preserve her independence
April 30, 2025
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December 2024
Assisting seniors who live alone to preserve their independence
December 2, 2024
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November 2024
Helping older adults to live independently at home
October 8, 2023
Nurses, in common with other health-care professionals, are aware of the benefits of older patients maintaining their independence by continuing to age at home.
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Supporting the independence of your older patients who live alone
August 21, 2024
Many older adults want to live independently for as long as possible, preferably in their own home.1 Increasingly, however, older adults are living alone, which can come with challenges. This includes accessing help should they experience an acute medical event.
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Helping to enhance senior independence with a medical alarm
June 17, 2024
It’s reassuring to know that according to Te Whatu Ora, a large majority of older New Zealanders live independently in their own homes.1 By the time they reach 85 years or older, around half still live at home, supported where necessary by home care services.
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Supporting independence at home after hospitalisation
April 29, 2024
Older adults place an enormous value on living independently at home.1 This fosters autonomy and helps maintain their precious connections with family and community. While social policy suggests ‘ageing in place’ to encourage independent living,2 it’s your patients’ desires that are key.
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May 2025
BUDGET 2025: Funding primary care nurses the answer to the health crisis
May 21, 2025
To fix chronic staff shortages stopping New Zealanders seeing their GPs when they’re sick, the coalition Government must use Budget 2025 to keep nurses in the sector by paying them the same as hospital nurses, the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) says.
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May 2025
Regulatory Standards Bill: ‘Nurses need to be worried’
May 21, 2025
Nurses need to be very worried about the Regulatory Standards Bill – the latest law the Government is proposing, according to a registered nurse who has been monitoring the development of bill.
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May 2025
‘It’s up to you now’ — proposed new NZNO constitution goes to all-member vote
May 21, 2025
‘It’s up to you now’ – that’s the message from NZNO constitutional review panel co-chair Grant Brookes, as all-member voting opens on a proposed new NZNO constitution.
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May 2025
Bonding scheme is ‘plaster on a gunshot wound’, says nursing leader
May 16, 2025
The Government’s move on pay equity has swamped any benefit of the new bonding scheme for health-care workers, says a primary health care nursing leader.
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May 2025
Struggling hospice nurses ‘shattered’ by pay equity changes
May 16, 2025
On hospice awareness week, hospice nurses say they are demoralised and angry after the Government ditched their pay equity claim last week.
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May 2025
‘It’s about respect’: Nurses protest at Parliament over pay equity claims
May 15, 2025
Nurses were among many angry women workers who brought their mothers, children and wider whānau to Parliament today to protest the Government’s mass dumping of pay equity claims.
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May 2025
Outrage, shock and fury as Government halts pay equity claims
May 8, 2025
Low-paid women across health-care, education and many other sectors were devastated today, after Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety Brooke Van Velden announced the Government was halting all current pay equity claims — and making it harder to lodge new ones.
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May 2025
2025 survey will capture students’ lived experience
May 8, 2025
NZNO student leaders say the 2025 survey launched this week will capture the lived experiences of nursing students — including the financial challenges they are facing.
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May 2025
‘It’s chaos’ — nurses, doctors brave weather bomb to strike, rally over ‘dangerous’ health system
May 2, 2025
Despite an epic weather bomb dropping on ‘May Day’, May 1 saw large strikes and rallies throughout the country as nurses, doctors and other health workers joined in a desperate call for a safer health system.
April 2025
Nurse practitioners ‘safer’ than physician associates — NZNO president
May 2, 2025
Allowing overseas-trained physician associates to become regulated here is a risky “quick fix” to doctor shortages, NZNO-Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa president Anne Daniels is warning.
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May 2025
May Day: Striking nurses (and mokopuna) among thousands set to fight back tomorrow
April 30, 2025
Perioperative nurses at Auckland City Hospital, Starship Hospital and Greenlane Hospital will strike tomorrow while thousands of other nurses throughout the country use their break times to march and rally as part of the nationwide May Day events.
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April 2025
Māori women and girl survivors of sexual violence face double trauma
April 23, 2025
Two Māori nursing leaders are at the United Nations highlighting the plight facing Māori health. In this interview with a UN reporter, they highlight the issue of violence, including sexual violence, toward Māori women who are three times more likely to be abused than non-Maori women.
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April 2025
Taupō could become health system’s next ‘Buller casualty’
April 11, 2025
Something serious is brewing in the central North Island like a “ticking time bomb” ready to go off any moment now, according to Malcolm Mulholland, head of Patient Voice Aotearoa.
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