February 2021 vol 27 no 1
February 9, 2021
Incoming chief nursing officer Lorraine Hetaraka (Tapuika, Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāiterangi, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Kahu) hopes to support more Māori leadership models in health and nursing organisations.
February 2021 vol 27 no 1
February 1, 2021
Te Rūnunga o Tāpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa/NZNO is mourning the passing of Rose Pere, as a “revered tōhuna tipua and leader for the revitalisation of indigenous knowledge and life throughout the world”.
February 2021 vol 27 no 1
February 1, 2021
NZNO’s new policy analyst Māori Belinda Tuari-Toma (Ngāti Porou) will bring another Māori lens to NZNO’s policy and research work.
February 2021 vol 27 no 1
February 1, 2021
Nurses working in Auckland’s managed isolation or quarantine facilities (MIQ/MIF) are getting paid higher rates than those in Canterbury, says an NZNO organiser.
February 2021 vol 27 no 1
February 1, 2021
Citing growing evidence on the risks of airborne COVID-19 infection, NZNO has joined a global call for better COVID-19 guidance and protection for nurses.
Read more... NZNO joins nurses’ global call for better COVID-19 protection and guidance
February 2021 vol 27 no 1
February 1, 2021
NZNO would be encouraging members to have a COVID-19 vaccination unless they had a medical reason not to, acting industrial services manager Glenda Alexander said.
February 2021 vol 27 no 1
February 1, 2021
There had been “a significant number” of applications for the NZNO chief executive (CE) role, board member Simon Auty told Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand.
February 2021 vol 27 no 1
February 1, 2021
The International Council of Nurses (ICN) congress this year will be a virtual affair. With the theme, Nursing Around the World, it will take place virtually on November 2-4.
February 2021 vol 27 no 1
February 1, 2021
A recently-released international policy brief lays out a 10-point plan to support older nurses – those aged over 55 – to stay at work.
Read more... Older nurses should have support to keep working to stay in the workforce
February 2021 vol 27 no 1
February 1, 2021
New Zealand’s nursing workforce reached close to 60,000 last year – 59,866 to be exact – according to the Nursing Council’s annual report for the year ending March 31, 2020.
December 2020 / January 2021 vol 26 no 11
December 1, 2020
Manawatu continence nurse Lucy Keedle hopes to bring a nurse’s “holistic” perspective to the Ministry of Health’s (MoH) surgical mesh round table.
December 2020 / January 2021 vol 26 no 11
December 1, 2020
Primary health care (PHC) nurses took to the streets again last month in their first-ever 24-hour strike.
December 2020 / January 2021 vol 26 no 11
December 1, 2020
NZNO leaders have requested a meeting with new Health Minister Andrew Little, to discuss health inequities, workforce issues, racism, safe staffing and the impacts of COVID-19.
December 2020 / January 2021 vol 26 no 11
December 1, 2020
One “silver lining” from COVID-19 was seeing nurses step up to lead the country’s response in areas such as personal protective equipment (PPE), contact-tracing and infection prevention and control (IPC), departing chief nurse Margareth Broodkoorn told Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand.
December 2020 / January 2021 vol 26 no 11
December 1, 2020
Te Aniwa Sullivan began using her birth name 15 years ago. Until then, and especially during her school and nurse training days, she was known as Doey (a family nickname), Daphne or Toni. Because school teachers couldn’t pronounce her name, they decided what name they would call her.
December 2020 / January 2021 vol 26 no 11
December 1, 2020
Departing NZNO chief executive Memo Musa is returning to his nursing practice specialty, with a new role in the mental health and addiction sector.
December 2020 / January 2021 vol 26 no 11
December 1, 2020
Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand will be available online in 2021, following a 2015 remit to offer members a choice of either a printed or electronic copy.
December 2020 / January 2021 vol 26 no 11
December 1, 2020
There will be fewer NZNO professional forums in 2021 due to the uncertainties of COVID-19, but members will have the option of joining via Zoom, professional nursing adviser (PNA) Catherine Lambe says.
December 2020 / January 2021 vol 26 no 11
December 1, 2020
NZNO member Erin Kennedy, delegate Darren Swan and organiser Jo Coffey presented a petition with nearly 1000 signatures to the Capital & Coast District Health Board (CCDHB) in December protesting car-parking fee increases for staff.
December 2020 / January 2021 vol 26 no 11
December 1, 2020
As part of the celebrations to mark the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife at the Whanganui District Health Board, a display of nursing medals was mounted in the cabinet in the main hospital corridor.
