November 2024
November 11, 2024
My final message to you, our nurses, is that patients have the utmost respect for the work that you do, and heartfelt sympathy for the system in which you find yourself in…
Read more... Buller is the canary in the coalmine for the New Zealand health system
November 2024
October 30, 2024
NZNO delegate Ben Basevi was one of the nurses at Waitākere Hospital who recently led action to refuse care for a patient who had asked for white-only staff and made racist and sexual remarks over a six-week period. In this opinion piece, he explores the health and safety issues at the worker/consumer/visitor interface, and promotes the development of a policy and guidelines specifically designed to manage racism in public hospitals.
Read more... Getting the boss to deal with racist patients in our hospitals
November 2024
September 13, 2024
New Zealand’s mental health service lacks the capacity to pick up the emergency call-out work that the police are pulling out of, warns NZNO’s mental health nursing leader.
Read more... Surely the safety of people in the community is ‘core policing work’
September 2024
August 28, 2024
Retired Wellington nurse Jiff Stewart spoke at Wednesday’s picket against staff cuts outside retirement village owners’ $2000-a-head conference. This is her kōrero.
September 2024
August 26, 2024
A Wellington nurse laments the way nurses are being treated lately after putting their lives on the line during the COVID-19 pandemic.
August 2024
August 26, 2024
After writing a concerned letter, NZNO’s emergency nurses met Minister of Health Shane Reti earlier this year, to discuss the realities of working on the frontline. As rallies over unsafe staffing in EDs continue, they share some of their kōrero here.
Read more... Emergency nurses share woes with health minister
August 2024
August 13, 2024
In an urgent call to better support New Zealand-trained nurses, senior Māori nursing lecturer at NorthTec, Pipi Barton (Ngāti Hikairo ki Kāwhia) recalls being an out-of-work nursing graduate in the 1990s.
Read more... Left out in the cold: Is it really about health budget constraints?
August 2024
July 29, 2024
Te Whatu Ora leaders say spending too much on nurses has pushed them into the red. Former chair Rob Campbell says nurses are part of the solution and must be supported with fair pay and safe staffing.
August 2024
July 16, 2024
Long-time gerontology nurse Sally Fleming reckons working in aged care is extremely undervalued.
Read more... ‘Wonderful’ aged-care nursing is undervalued, says long-time nurse
July 2024
June 26, 2024
Nurses should be more involved in antimicrobial stewardship, say members of an expert group working on new guidelines for antimicrobial practice.
Read more... Nurses ‘under-used in antimicrobial stewardship’
May 2024
May 16, 2024
A graduate course run by Ara Institute of Canterbury and Te Whatu Ora aims to equip nurses with the skills and knowledge to be better nurses for Māori patients.
Read more... Strengthening cultural capability and Māori health nursing practice in Aotearoa
May 2024
May 1, 2024
Nursing Council of New Zealand — Te Kaunihera Tapuhi o Aotearoa chief executive Catherine Byrne explains the new rules for overseas-trained nurses who want to practise in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Read more... Why a new assessment of IQN competence was developed
March 2024
March 21, 2024
All nurses know that our practice should be linked to evidence, but even the idea of reading and assessing a piece of research can be overwhelming.
Read more... What is a systematic review, and how is it useful for nurses?
March 2024
March 5, 2024
Proposed changes to a document that regulates midwifery practice in Aotearoa have caught the eye of some trans-exclusionary groups. A group of midwifery academics explains why the revisions should be celebrated.
Read more... Cutting through the noise: Why whānau-centred midwifery is not erasing women
February 2024
January 26, 2024
Two nursing educators encourage clinical RNs to welcome graduate-entry students, and share their ‘art of nursing’ with them.
Read more... ‘Please share your art of nursing with our graduate-entry students’
February 2024
January 17, 2024
Having survived addiction and the darkest depression during a lifelong quest to claim their identity, Manawatū transgender nurse Mel Meates believes nursing saved their life.
December 2023
November 30, 2023
A recently graduated registered nurse shares her reflections on the power of words — and how nurses can fall in the trap of talking down to patients.
November 2023
November 23, 2023
The profession of nursing is an ever-evolving one — and the key is to embrace a team-approach with other workers, argues aged care nurse Natalie Seymour in response to fears the role is being eroded.
December 2023
November 8, 2023
| 50 years after nurse education moved out of hospitals, Māori health professor and former nurse Denise Wilson reflects on the “ugly” backlash over cultural safety — and challenges the profession to make way for Māori leaders. |  |
November 2023
October 10, 2023
A family carer describes the effect of the psychological abuse she suffered from a relative with dementia and worries that carers do not receive the support they need.
