By Kai Tiaki editors
March 1, 2021
NZNO’s draft annual plan has been revised and updated to include the three pillars included in the organisation’s 2021-2025 strategic plan and to update the plan’s key priorities, chief executive Memo Musa told the board.
Read more... Annual plan updated
By Kai Tiaki editors
March 1, 2021
The board agreed to allow pharmacists and vision and hearing specialists employed by Tai Tokerau’s largest Māori health provider, Ngāti Hine Health Trust, and covered by its collective agreement (CA) with NZNO, to become members of NZNO.
Read more... Pharmacists, vision and hearing specialists to become members
By Kai Tiaki editors
March 1, 2021
The board approved a project brief on the development of an equity framework to guide NZNO in all its work.
Read more... Equity framework to be ‘socialised’ to staff, members
By Kai Tiaki editors
March 1, 2021
In his report to the board, corporate services manager David Woltman presented a budgeted deficit of $478,000 for 2021/22 and small surpluses in the following two years.
Read more... Board approves 2021/2022 budget deficit
By Kai Tiaki editors
March 1, 2021
NZNO is facing a pre-tax deficit of $673,000 for the nine months to December 31, 2020 – $448,000 better than the budgeted pre-tax deficit of $1.121 million.
Read more... NZNO finances better off due to COVID
By Kai Tiaki editors
February 1, 2021
A draft equity framework to guide NZNO in all its work was shared with the board by NZNO policy analyst Māori Leanne Manson and senior policy analyst Lucia Bercinskas.
Read more... Equity tool in pipeline
By Kai Tiaki editors
February 1, 2021
NZNO membership “stabilised” from mid-2020 after beginning the financial year with a decline, NZNO manager corporate services David Woltman said in his report to the board.
Read more... Membership ‘stabilised’
By Kai Tiaki editors
February 1, 2021
The board has appointed its members Diane McCulloch, Titihuia Pakeho and Andrew Cunningham to the NZNO constitutional review advisory group.
Read more... Constitutional review planning
By Kai Tiaki editors
February 1, 2021
The board has agreed to adopt the “John Snow memorandum”, a science-based response to COVID-19, as NZNO policy.
Read more... NZNO signs up to scientific approach
By Kai Tiaki editors
December 1, 2020
NZNO’s board has agreed to donate $5000 to the International Council of Nurses (ICN) disaster fund, to support the Order of Nurses in Lebanon, following the catastrophic explosion in August this year.
Read more... $5000 for Lebanon’s nurses
By Kai Tiaki editors
December 1, 2020
A draft Māori model of wellbeing and organising, He Tāngata Ara Poutama, has been presented to te poari after six months of work by NZNO Māori cultural adviser Manny Downs.
Read more... Māori model of organising and wellbeing in pipeline
By Kai Tiaki editors
December 1, 2020
NZNO will need to “punch way above its weight” to support nurses through a period of change, when the Government begins a health restructure, chief executive Memo Musa told the board.
Read more... NZNO braces for revamp
By Kai Tiaki editors
December 1, 2020
NZNO membership in the first four months of this financial year has seen a net decrease of 2.3 per cent, corporate services manager David Woltman told the board.
Read more... Membership rise predicted
By Kai Tiaki editors
December 1, 2020
Representatives from the mental health nursing section and cancer nurses college will be invited to be involved in the review of NZNO’s constitution, it was agreed at November’s NZNO board meeting.
Read more... Members to be part of constitutional review
By Kai Tiaki editors
October 1, 2020
Diane McCulloch has been a clinical nurse specialist in emergency care at Waitakere Hospital since 2009. She trained in South Africa in 1976 but did not nurse when her children were young.
Read more... ‘Being in the crow’s nest’
By Kai Tiaki editors
October 1, 2020
Geraldine Kirkwood has been working in New Zealand since she and her husband, also a registered nurse, arrived from the United Kingdom in 1997.
Read more... A sense of fairness
By Kai Tiaki editors
October 1, 2020
Waitakere Hospital enrolled nurse (EN) Noleen Dayal promises to bring “lots of passion, new energy and a fresh face to the board”.
Read more... EN promises to bring passion and energy
By Kai Tiaki editors
October 1, 2020
New vice-president Tracey Morgan (Ngāti Raukawa, Ahūriri) started her health journey in 1994 as a Plunket kaiāwhina in Putaruru.
Read more... Who are NZNO’s new board members?
By Kai Tiaki editors
October 1, 2020
Articles written from the minutes of the August board of directors meeting.
Read more... Board of directors August news