July 2025
‘We no longer had to stress about kai’
July 4, 2025
Sophie Beca was doing it tough in her final year of a nursing degree until she won an award that helped her get through.
July 2025
July 4, 2025
Sophie Beca was doing it tough in her final year of a nursing degree until she won an award that helped her get through.
June 2025
June 23, 2025
Since it launched 25 years ago, an estimated 3.45 million people have contacted Healthline — which is playing a critical role in improving access to care.
Read more... ‘The virtual first responder’ — Healthline celebrates 25 years
June 2025
June 10, 2025
Hariata Vercoe is not a nurse but she has their backs. After 40 years of service to Māori, health and the community, the chief executive officer at Rotorua’s Korowai Aroha Health Centre, and member of the NZ Nursing Council, has joined the New Zealand Order of Merit.
Read more... Hariata Vercoe: Not a nurse but she’s got their backs
May 2025
June 4, 2025
The Witton sisters have weathered a pandemic, cyclone, poverty, two jobs each and multiple other challenges during their three-year journey to becoming qualified nurses.
May 2025
May 8, 2025
The 110th anniversary of the formation of the New Zealand Defence Force’s Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps (RNZNC) was celebrated at the annual Hawke’s Bay Fallen Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital Anzac Day service.
Read more... Military nurses mark 110th anniversary at Hawke’s Bay Hospital Anzac Day service
May 2025
May 7, 2025
A health clinic at the Māori performing arts festival, Te Matatini, provided an unconventional but inspirational venue for nursing students’ clinical placements.
Read more... Māori health comes alive for nursing students at Te Matatini
May 2025
May 6, 2025
Dhyanne Hohepa is a leader among Māori nurses driven by aroha and passionate about clinical excellence.
Read more... Dhyanne Hohepa: ‘A light in the dark for Māori nurses’
April 2025
April 17, 2025
Auē! Kua wareware i a au taku kupuhipa. — Oh no! I’ve forgotten my password.
Read more... ‘Tech is good for Māori and Māori is good for tech’: It’s cool to kōrero — April 2025
April 2025
April 8, 2025
Pamela Marley, a theatre nursing pioneer who helped found the country’s first professional perioperative nursing group, has died.
Read more... Theatre nurse pioneer and founder of The Dissector dies
March 2025
March 28, 2025
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.
Read more... Māori nursing leaders fight attack on Māori health – SOS to United Nations underway
March 2025
March 24, 2025
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.
Read more... Māori health professor with terminal bowel cancer on what screening changes really mean
March 2025
March 11, 2025
The Government spent more than $50 million on the recruitment and education of migrant nurses in the two years after COVID-19 pandemic restrictions ended, which has led to a serious imbalance in the nursing workforce.
February 2025
February 27, 2025
Despite grief at the “once in a generational opportunity” lost with the dissolution of Te Aka Whai Ora/Māori Health Authority, chief nurse Nadine Gray tells Kaitiaki she will not stop raising its Māori health kaupapa.
Read more... Chief nurse opens up on the challenges of working at Te Whatu Ora
February 2025
February 14, 2025
A Christchurch family say they have been unable to get the specialist inpatient care they desperately need after their adult anorexic daughter Emma Gallagher severely relapsed last year.
February 2025
February 13, 2025
Former mental health nurse Annelie Gannaway explains why the hospice she works in is not a sad place.
Read more... Former NZ mental health nurse finds peace working at holistic Swedish hospice
February 2025
February 7, 2025
Helping establish graduate-entry and advanced nursing practice courses have been highlights of Cathy Andrew’s role as executive dean of the University of Canterbury’s faculty of health.
Read more... Cathy Andrew — a passionate advocate for regional education
January 2025
January 14, 2025
A nursing leader is concerned Māori will not get the chance to live longer and the same as non-Māori in New Zealand, if the coalition Government continues to attack the Treaty of Waitangi.
Read more... Treaty Principles Bill will further harm Māori health
December 2024
December 11, 2024
Te Whatu Ora says it’s fully staffed with nurses and kaiāwhina — yet it won’t reveal how many shifts were below safe staffing targets in 2024.
Read more... ‘It is gaslighting’ — nurses refute Levy’s claims hospitals are fully staffed
January 2025
December 9, 2024
In the first of two leadership profiles, Kaitiaki talks to returning NZNO president Anne Daniels and vice-president Nano Tunnicliff about their priorities.
December 2024
December 2, 2024
Nursing has taken Andrew Cameron all over the world on humanitarian missions. He reports here on his latest work in Rwanda and Ukraine.
Read more... A report from the nursing frontline in Rwanda and Ukraine