July 2024
July 24, 2024
Te Whatu Ora says it has employed 334 of the 535 mid-year nursing graduates who applied into supported entry roles — leaving 166 facing uncertain futures in the general talent pool.
Read more... Three out of five nursing students to get hospital jobs, Te Whatu Ora figures show
July 2024
July 19, 2024
Upset residents and their families and friends turned out to support staff striking over a proposal to cut 400 care hours a week at a Wellington aged care facility.
July 2024
July 18, 2024
There wasn’t a dry eye in the house recently as nursing tauira (students) spoke of their struggles, exhaustion and despair.
Read more... Nursing students share pain, tears and laughter with heads of school
July 2024
July 16, 2024
About 150 Access Community Health nursing staff went on strike around the country on this week, demanding the same pay and conditions as their Te Whatu Ora colleagues.
Read more... ‘We work just as hard’ — community nurses strike for the same pay as hospitals
July 2024
July 9, 2024
The real-life stories of nurses, combined with hard evidence on the harm caused by poorly staffed hospitals, are crucial to getting safe nurse-to-patient ratios legalised here in Aotearoa, nurse leaders heard.
July 2024
July 4, 2024
Māori nursing leaders want Aotearoa, New Zealand, to be the first in the world to introduce culturally safe nurse-to-patient ratios, alongside clinical.
Read more... New Zealand can lead the world in culturally safe nurse-to-patient ratios
July 2024
July 2, 2024
Te Whatu Ora says its job-matching process for 535 mid-year nursing graduates is “still underway” and it cannot provide figures for another couple of weeks on where new nurses are going to be working.
Read more... Mid-year nurse graduate job matching ‘still underway’ — Te Whatu Ora
June 2024
June 26, 2024
Cancer nurses say the Government’s decision to fund 26 cancer treatments is great news — but it must also resource oncology teams to care for higher number of patients.
Read more... Cancer nurses welcome multi-million medicine deal — but warn of flow-on workload
June 2024
June 25, 2024
Nurses and kaiāwhina who jumped aboard the country-wide safe staffing bus tour say public support has been “amazing” — and want the Government to invest in safely staffed hospitals.
Read more... From far north to deep south, nurses and kaiāwhina call for change
June 2024
June 21, 2024
Confused, demoralised and “absolutely gutwrenched” — these are the feelings of nursing tauira (students) after hearing Te Whatu Ora may be freezing mid-year graduate recruitment a week out from hiring decisions.
June 2024
June 19, 2024
After four months and more than 740 expressions of interest, just two new mental health nurses have so far been employed from overseas this year through a new Te Whatu Ora international recruitment campaign.
Read more... Two mental health nurses employed after four months’ international recruitment
June 2024
June 14, 2024
After two years of limbo, thousands of care and support workers this week lodged a claim for equal pay with the Employment Relations Authority (ERA).
June 2024
June 14, 2024
A specialist cancer nurse, a nurse educator and a Māori health advocate are among those honoured in the King’s Birthday list this month.
Read more... Nurses and health advocates honoured in King’s Birthday list
May 2024
June 14, 2024
Minister for Mental Health Matt Doocey says he will consider mental health nurses’ proposals to increase and support their workforce after meeting with NZNO leaders.
Read more... Minister considering mental health nurses’ views after damning NZNO survey
June 2024
June 10, 2024
Nurses in Northland, Nelson and Palmerston North kicked off an 11-day safe staffing bus tour of Aotearoa on Monday with a sizzle in the sunny north — and some drizzle further south.
May 2024
May 30, 2024
Nurses, kaiāwhina and members of Te Rūnanga o Aotearoa NZNO joined tens of thousands who turned across the motu in support of Toitū Te Tiriti (honour the Treaty) protests aimed to disrupt the Government’s Budget 2024.
May 2024
May 30, 2024
A nurse who has quit and another who “literally ran” her entire shift were among those who spoke to Te Whatu Ora leaders face-to-face about latest cost-cutting — one breaking down in tears as she spoke.
May 2024
May 24, 2024
Lack of financial support is stopping many students realising their dream of becoming a nurse, says the new head of Nelson nursing school.
May 2024
May 16, 2024
An Auckland nurse says she is reluctantly giving up on nursing in Aotearoa after burning out just six weeks after coming back to work here.
Read more... ‘It’s bittersweet, but I don’t think I want to nurse here anymore’
May 2024
May 9, 2024
Nurses and kaiāwhina braving brutal near-zero temperatures in some places to speak up for safer staffing received warm support from the public as they rallied across the country today.
Read more... Nurses and kaiāwhina across Aotearoa brave chill winds to call for safer staffing
