October 2022
September 29, 2022
Nurses need clear policies and guidelines to give them confidence when dealing with assisted dying requests.
Read more... With assisted dying now a reality, what do nurses need?
August 2022
August 31, 2022
The COVID-19 surge workforce — of unregulated health workers — could be an important source of new nurses.
Read more... Te wero, our challenge, to grow our own workforce
August 2022
August 24, 2022
Exhaustion, frustration and anger have led emergency nurses at Whangārei Hospital to hand over responsibility for staffing gaps to those in charge.
Read more... Why Whangārei’s ED nurses said ‘No’ to extra shifts
August 2022
August 16, 2022
Whānau Āwhina Plunket nurses seeking pay parity with Te Whatu Ora nurses say a zero per cent pay offer is “demoralising”.
Read more... Plunket nurses ‘stunned’ at zero per cent pay rise offer
August 2022
August 10, 2022
“Oppressed group behaviour” may explain why some nurses promoted to leadership positions find themselves undermined by former colleagues.
Read more... Witch hunts and perfect storms — why nurses attack their own leaders
August 2022
August 10, 2022
NZNO members went on strike last year and won — alongside pay increases — an agreement that employers return to safe staffing levels.
Read more... What you can do about unsafe staffing on your ward
August 2022
July 26, 2022
Resilience is key as inflation heaps pressure on ‘beautiful’ but stretched nursing students
Read more... The struggles facing student nurses in today’s world
August 2022
July 20, 2022
Māori nurse, lecturer and researcher puts out a call for more Māori nurses to join roopu on growing the Māori nursing workforce.
Read more... Sitting at the top table — he karanga ki ngā tapuhi Māori
July 2022
July 12, 2022
A nurse practitioner spells out the reality of working in an overcrowded, noisy, and ill-equipped ED, where tired nurses are rationing care while dealing with abusive, distressed patients.
Read more... The reality of ED — ‘noisy, overcrowded, unsafe and broken down’
August 2022
July 7, 2022
New Zealand’s gains in abortion rights could ‘easily’ be lost as in the United States, warns a senior women’s health nurse.
Read more... Vigilance needed over New Zealand’s hard-won abortion rights
