May 2023
May 24, 2023
Nominations are now being called for three nurse members to be elected by the nursing profession to the Nursing Council board. Elected members will serve for a period of three years.
Read more... 2023 nominations for the election of Nursing Council members are now open
May 2023
May 17, 2023
A United States law firm which acts for people exposed to asbestos has produced a thorough guide to mesothelioma.
May 2023
May 8, 2023
An Auckland clinical nurse educator explains, in poetry, why you should not say ‘I’m just a nurse’.
March 2023
March 29, 2023
Learn the skills needed to safely and competently perform conservative sharp debridement.
April 2023
March 29, 2023
A national database of advance care plans is needed, to provide certainty for patients, families and hospital staff.
Read more... Why ‘Barbie’s Bill’ and advance care plans matter to nurses
February 2023
March 2, 2023
Does inter nurse bullying exist among perioperative nurses in Australia and New Zealand?
Read more... NZ nurses wanted for research into perioperative nurse bullying
November 2022
November 25, 2022
Let’s get together!
December 2022
November 24, 2022
Just a heads up that 2023 will mark 50 years since New Zealand started comprehensive nursing training. In 1973, Christchurch and Wellington were the first two polytechnics to start this new method of nurse training, following the publication of the Carpenter report.
November 2022
November 11, 2022
A new scholarship for nursing students in South Canterbury is now available through the Bidwill Trust Hospital in Timaru.
Read more... Applications open for new $3000 nursing scholarship in South Canterbury
August 2022
August 31, 2022
Regarding the letter written by Sam Mojel (May 11, 2022), it was EXACTLY what I was thinking and questioning.
August 2022
August 29, 2022
Thank you for the article by Kathy Stodart in July, highlighting the positive impact of nurse prescribing, and the registered nurse prescriber in community health role (RNPCH).
Read more... Community prescribing takes off in Midland programme
August 2022
August 24, 2022
I enjoyed your articles in the latest journal. I would like to comment on Mary Longmore’s article regarding fast tracking residency for nurses.
Read more... Fast-tracking overseas nurses will only ‘steal’ them from other countries
August 2022
August 18, 2022
I wrote this poem in honour of the Government’s latest recruitment plan for nursing, and read it out at a recent delegates’ meeting. I thought the wider membership might like to read it too:
June 2022
June 15, 2022
In these ongoing challenging times of COVID-19, many people are experiencing financial hardship and we write to highlight the help available from the New Zealand Nurses Memorial Fund (NZNMF).
Read more... Financial help available from Nurses Memorial Fund
June 2022
May 20, 2022
IT IS now more than six months since the End of Life Choice Act 2019 was implemented in New Zealand, with the latest government statistics indicating that 206 individuals have applied for an assisted death.
May 2022
May 18, 2022
I am writing to you about the Kaitiaki news piece “Nursing magazine ditches century-old healthy-food title, finally becomes ‘guardian’” by co-editor Joel Maxwell [Feb 25, 2022]
Read more... Te reo Māori support not readily available in past times
May 2022
May 11, 2022
The NZ Faith Community Nurses Association has been active for over 20 years, but strangely it is not well known in the New Zealand nursing scene.
May 2022
May 11, 2022
I am a long-standing workplace delegate. In spite of this, I am unable to answer my own questions, let alone the questions from NZNO members, about “what is going on with NZNO?”
May 2022
May 4, 2022
HIS/HERSTORY, which is having a season at Circa Theatre in Wellington at the moment (April 22- May 14), is two solo shows — one of which is about a nurse during WWII.
Read more... ‘Extraordinary story’ of World War II nurse is performed by her daughter
April 2022
April 14, 2022
Over the last 25-plus years, nursing has been intellectualised.
Read more... Medical exemption process for mandates ‘not fair’
