March 2022
March 7, 2022
Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) is temporarily closing four of its smaller regional hospitals to prepare for COVID-related staff absences, NZNO organiser Lynley Mulrine confirmed.
Read more... Canterbury regional hospitals closing as COVID-19 hits nurses
March 2022
March 7, 2022
Nurses and their families around the country are falling prey to COVID-19 as hospitalisations near 700.
Read more... Numbers of nurses on sick/isolation leave ‘unreal’ as hospitalisations grow
March 2022
March 4, 2022
Planned strike action by 10,000 allied health workers was halted by an Employment Court decision that included concerns about the impact of the Omicron surge.
Read more... Omicron ‘significant factor’ as Employment Court halts allied health workers’ strikes
March 2022
March 2, 2022
A High Court judgement overturning the COVID-19 vaccination mandate for New Zealand Police/Defence Force is ‘not relevant’ for nurses, say NZNO lawyers.
Read more... Court ruling on vaccine mandate ‘not relevant’ for nurses
March 2023
February 28, 2022
Post-cyclone with more climate-change related extreme weather events predicted, plans for a carbon-neutral health system are being welcomed by health professionals — and the role of nurses is crucial.
March 2022
February 28, 2022
Nurses and teachers could be working more closely together as the incoming NZNO chief executive Paul Goulter is welcomed to NZNO.
Read more... From teachers to nurses: New chief executive Paul Goulter starts at NZNO
April 2022
February 25, 2022
Ahakoa he iti, he pounamu (Although it is small, it is a treasure).
After 114 years, an incorrectly-named nursing magazine has – in a small physical correction, but big bicultural statement – gained its proper title.
Kai Tiaki magazine has now become Kaitiaki.
Read more... Nursing magazine ditches century-old healthy-food title, finally becomes ‘guardian’
March 2022
February 24, 2022
Omicron got in the way – but now the brakes are off for setting a date on a vote for pay equity.
Read more... Delayed by COVID-19 surge – proposed pay equity document now set for release
March 2022
February 23, 2022
Emergency nurses are in “moral distress”, unable to provide “fundamental care” to patients, says a nurse leader.
March 2022
February 17, 2022
Nurses are overworked, understaffed, face mental health pressure – and the safe staffing programme meant to fix this is not “fit-for-purpose” a review has found.
February 2022
February 15, 2022
NZNO and other unions have convinced the Government to push back the deadline for nurses and health workers to get boosted by 10 days, amid fears of losing “thousands” of nurses amid an Omicron surge.
February 2022
February 8, 2022
NZNO warns health sector will be hard hit by ‘perfect storm’ of Omicron and burnout.
Read more... ‘Perfect storm’ coming as Omicron collides with nurse burnout
February 2022
February 8, 2022
A four-hour online course is not enough to train nurses to work in intensive care during a COVID-19 surge, says NZNO’s College of Critical Care Nurses chair Tania Mitchell.
Read more... ‘It’s going to be ugly’ — critical care nurse leader
February 2022
February 8, 2022
Exhausted, overworked, but still going: nurses set for international recognition.
Read more... Plight of nurses behind theme for International Nurses Day
February 2022
February 8, 2022
The milder Omicron variant of COVID-19 could come with pitfalls for primary health care nurses, it has been revealed.
Read more... Omicron might be milder, but comes with pitfalls for nurses
February 2022
February 8, 2022
A mega-MECA, and a call for tino rangatiratanga in the health system were part of NZNO’s submissions to Parliament on sweeping health reform laws.
Read more... NZNO submissions on health reforms call for tino rangatiratanga, universal MECA
February 2022
February 8, 2022
Waves of Omicron could leave district health boards with a nursing workforce headache.
Read more... ‘No easy answers’ to maintaining nursing workforce as Omicron hits
December 2021 vol 27 no 11
December 1, 2021
After two years of pressure from the Enrolled Nurse Section (ENS), enrolled nurse (EN) graduates can from 2022 apply for the ACE graduate programme while undertaking or awaiting results of state exams.
December 2021 vol 27 no 11
December 1, 2021
The government announcement of a $600 million-plus boost for intensive care services has come with an NZNO warning about the state of the system in the face of a COVID-19 surge.
December 2021 vol 27 no 11
December 1, 2021
After nearly 114 years, this is the last printed edition of Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand.
Read more... Farewell to Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand in print
