March 2024
April 9, 2024
Emergency nurses fear tough new targets for emergency departments (EDs) will put already-stretched staff under more pressure, risking “gaming” of wait time data.
Read more... Tough new government health targets could backfire, warn nurses
April 2024
April 5, 2024
A new group of NZNO health-care assistants/kaiāwhina has big plans for their future — but is reassuring nurses there is no wish to encroach on their role.
Read more... Health-care assistant ambitions ‘no threat’ to nurses, says new NZNO group
March 2024
March 28, 2024
Concerns have been raised that newly streamlined pathways for internationally-qualified nurses (IQNs) into Aotearoa, New Zealand skip too lightly over cultural and clinical preparedness.
Read more... Faster, fairer pathways for overseas nurses into New Zealand, says Nursing Council
March 2024
March 27, 2024
Collective union action is the only way nurses will achieve safe staffing after years of being ignored, former director of the Safe Staffing Health Workplaces unit (SSHWU) Jane Lawless says.
Read more... When words fail: Why hasn’t anyone listened to nurses?
March 2024
March 22, 2024
Members of NZNO’s professional colleges and sections were called on to “shape the issues” facing health, at an energetic college and section day in Te Whanganui-a-tara, Wellington, this week.
March 2024
March 14, 2024
Amid the ashes of Te Aka Whai Ora, Māori nurses will still be chasing better pay, safer staffing and culturally safe workplaces.
Read more... Te Aka Whai Ora is gone — but the aims of Māori nurses stay true
March 2024
March 8, 2024
Rising confidence amid more supportive pathways are behind a leap in nurses training to become mātanga tapuhi (nurse practitioners) this year, leaders say.
Read more... Nurse practitioner trainee numbers soar with 50 per cent funding boost
March 2024
March 6, 2024
Te Waipounamu (South Island)’s first community nurse prescriber programme is celebrating two years and 52 graduates — and there are no signs of it slowing down, its clinical education lead Nicky Burwood says.
Read more... South Island nurse prescriber programme going strong as it nears 100 graduates
February 2024
February 29, 2024
As consultation on new nursing competencies closes, nurses are embracing moves towards a culturally safer workforce — but say they should be measured against a handful of pou (domains) instead of dozens of new competencies:
Read more... Measure RNs against six pou — not 41 competencies, say nurses
February 2024
February 22, 2024
A Te Tiriti o Waitangi-focused event in March will help nurses and kaiāwhina become more culturally and politically competent at an ‘alarming’ time, say organisers and NZNO’s kaiwhakahaere.
Read more... What can Pākeha do? Anti-racism event offers chance to ‘stand up, fight back’
February 2024
February 22, 2024
More cash support for nursing students struggling with high dropout rates is “not off the table”, says Minister of Health Shane Reti.
Read more... Shane Reti says end goal is a NZ-trained culturally competent nursing workforce
February 2024
February 15, 2024
Hundreds of Waikato and Auckland nurses have been treated with free coffee and groceries in recent years, courtesy of community-minded publisher Chris Biddulph.
Read more... A bit of aroha — and coffee — goes a long way for Waikato and Auckland nurses
February 2024
February 9, 2024
The Nursing Council of New Zealand says it is listening, after a “strong” response from nearly 2300 nurses to its proposed new competencies for both enrolled nurses (ENs) and registered nurses (RNs).
Read more... Nurses concerned over leap in competencies proposed by Nursing Council
February 2024
February 8, 2024
Rhetoric from leaders of a three-headed coalition Government “taniwha” at Waitangi this year reflected ignorance and “diminished” Māori, says Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa kaiwhakahere Kerri Nuku.
Read more... Nurses and kaiāwhina show up to a Waitangi event ‘like no other’
February 2024
January 19, 2024
NZNO’s Te Rūnanga members are mourning Richard Rangi Wallace, NZNO’s former kaumātua and Māori Anglican pīhopa (bishop) o Te Waipounamu who died on January 6.
Read more... ‘Just a really good guy’ — NZNO leaders mourn former kaumātua Richard Rangi Wallace
February 2024
January 17, 2024
A new scholarship for rainbow nursing students is an “immense” step towards a safe and inclusive nursing workforce that celebrates diversity, say NZNO — Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa student leaders.
Read more... New scholarship for rainbow nursing students embraces diversity
January 2024
December 21, 2023
Ashburton Te Whatu Ora members took a moment this month to celebrate 2023 as the year they won a “significant” pay equity settlement after a seven-year uphill battle — a win they hope paves the way for other nurses and health workers.
February 2024
December 18, 2023
About 200 nurses, health workers and other opponents of the Government’s decision to roll back the SmokeFree Aotearoa legislation turned out in Christchurch today for a third protest against the move.
Read more... Smokefree rollback ‘deeply, widely felt’ by nurses, say Christchurch protestors
January 2024
December 14, 2023
Nurses and kaiāwhina joined Māori health providers, doctors and public health advocates at rallies in Auckland and Wellington this week to protest against the new Government’s shock decision to repeal Smokefree Aotearoa laws.
January 2024
December 12, 2023
After a recent late night kōrero with new Minister of Health Shane Reti, NZNO — Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa leaders have described him as “warm” and committed to Māori and rebuilding a homegrown nursing workforce.
