December 2022
November 23, 2022
Nursing students are battling against the odds to “just survive” in the face of huge financial pressures, with some trying to hold down full-time jobs while meeting academic and clinical training expectations.
Read more... First-year nursing student juggles 60-hr week factory job and full-time study
December 2022
November 6, 2022
Paid clinical placements ‘a nod in the right direction’, but free nursing study for all is the goal, say student nursing leaders.
Read more... Minister looking at paid third-year placements, but no sign of more fees-free
December 2022
November 2, 2022
Negotiations over a pay deal for primary health care and Whānau Awhina Plunket nurses have stalled since the group went on strike last week, but Health Minister Andrew Little says he’s confident a solution will be found by Christmas.
Read more... Pay parity solution ‘well before’ end of year: Minister
December 2022
November 2, 2022
The best of times, the worst of times: After 15 years at NZNO, former professional services associate manager Kate Weston has moved on to become the executive director of the College of Nurses Aotearoa – thanks to leadership skills honed at NZNO during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read more... Leadership skills honed during pandemic, says outgoing Kate Weston
December 2022
November 1, 2022
Exhausted and demoralised Te Whatu Ora nurses took action to highlight extreme staffing shortages and a lack of negotiation for extra-shift payments over one week early last month. An NZNO survey about the action showed there were mixed feelings about the boycott, but most took part, and would support doing it again.
Read more... Extra-shift boycott effective, but stressful: survey
November 2022
October 26, 2022
Rotorua practice nurse manager Tracey Morgan shares her story, and goals for the NZNO Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa board, as part of a series on the newly elected directors who met for the first time this week.
Read more... ‘I always thought you had to be rich . . . and Māori couldn’t be nurses’
November 2022
October 21, 2022
In the third part of a series on NZNO’s board members, Tauranga nurse Anamaria Watene says she finds solace in her marae, Tahuwhakatiki, and sacred local mountain, Mauao, when challenges such as racial prejudice become too much.
Read more... ‘The key performance indicator I have to meet is with my people’
November 2022
October 20, 2022
More than 200 nurses across three private hospitals run by Australian company Evolution Healthcare Ltd went on strike for 24 hours from 7am today, after urgent mediation failed.
Read more... Aussie-run private hospital nurses go on 24-hour strike
November 2022
October 13, 2022
Nurses providing vital care to patients in the community want movement on stalled pay talks. Over 4000 of them will walk off the job for four hours on October 27.
Read more... Primary health care nurses to strike on October 27
November 2022
October 10, 2022
In the second of a series of profiles of the incoming NZNO board, Kaitiaki speaks to Wairarapa nurse practitioner Lucy McLaren.
Read more... ‘ED has become so dangerous and unsafe that I personally needed to move out’
November 2022
October 7, 2022
Primary health and Plunket members walked off the job, and onto the streets, to escalate their demand for pay parity with hospital colleagues.
November 2022
October 5, 2022
The sudden death of mental health nurse and NZNO delegate Susan Cade has left colleagues shocked and grieving. Kaitiaki spoke to colleagues and family about the much-loved nurse.
Read more... ‘This was Sue’s magic, this is how she touched people’
November 2022
September 30, 2022
In a new series, Kaitiaki gets to know our board. Kicking it off, we spoke to novice board member Saju Cherian who was inspired to become a nurse by his late wife Shanty.
Read more... Saju was six months into his nursing degree when tragedy struck
October 2022
September 30, 2022
Tired of waiting for official unsafe staffing warning signs, Dunedin critical care nurse Debbie Robinson created her own very public display of just how dire short-staffing was in the hospital.
Read more... Dunedin nurse takes short-staffing into her own hands with home-made poster
October 2022
September 30, 2022
Nurses across the country are preparing to take a stand against dangerous short-staffing on hospital wards.
Read more... Members nationwide gear up for week-long boycott of extra shifts
October 2022
September 22, 2022
A battle is looming over incentive payments for additional shifts to fill desperately under-staffed hospital wards. NZNO members are vowing to stop doing them completely for the week of October 3-9 in a national protest while Te Whatu Ora says there won’t be any need for them after September 30 anyway.
October 2022
September 16, 2022
Maranga Mai! – rise up – is a plan to save New Zealand’s health system, NZNO chief executive Paul Goulter tells conference delegates.
Read more... Maranga Mai! — rise up — is our plan to save the health system
October 2022
September 15, 2022
Read more... NZNO members silently protest to Andrew Little over ‘reneging’ on promised back pay
October 2022
September 14, 2022
NZNO’s constitution will make it a disciplinary offence for members to “incite racism or hate”, following a vote announced at NZNO’s annual general meeting (AGM) on Tuesday.
October 2022
September 13, 2022
Student members say NZNO is “leading by example” by granting free membership to nursing students.
Read more... Free NZNO membership for nursing students ‘an example for Government’
