Article category: NZNO mahi

“Overwhelming solidarity” has seen a proposed collective agreement (CA) between St George’s Hospital in Christchurch and NZNO ratified by 88 per cent of voting members.

Members working in aged care are under increasing pressure to do more with less, NZNO industrial adviser for aged care Lesley Harry says.

Work to benchmark salaries for Family Planning (FP) nurses and other staff has been completed, primary health care industrial adviser Chris Wilson said.

NZNO is going into mediation with Hospice New Zealand, after members rejected its proposed multi-employer collective agreement (MECA) in April.

Collective agreement (CA) negotiations between NZNO and Plunket were to take place on May 4 and 5, after members around the country endorsed a range of claims including a focus on Family Start and administration staff.

Health workers must feel safe to speak up when things go wrong, and raise concerns without fear of retribution, a patient safety expert says.

Dr Seuss Enterprises has given the NZNO College of Child and Youth Nurses permission to use imagery from the famous book Oh The Places You’ll Go! and its te reo Māori translation Nōu te Ao, e Hika! to promote their symposium, after a nurse went straight to the top.

A nurse-led symposium to help Northland nurses working in primary care develop their skills working with long-term conditions such as diabetes and poor heart health last month had an “overwhelming” response.