By Tina Makereti
February 16, 2023
‘Why, when my cancer care was so excellent, did it also seem to miss so much of what is essential to health?’ Tina Makereti shares an excerpt from her award-winning essay about surviving breast cancer.
Read more... Lumpectomy — an unflinching account of surviving breast cancer
By Pipi Barton
November 9, 2022
An increasingly ‘academic-oriented’ nursing profession has done nothing to support Māori into the workforce, says Māori nurse educator Pipi Barton, in a call to return to paid training.
Read more... Fund our training — it’s time for the Government to seriously invest in the domestic nursing workforce
By NZNO chief executive Paul Goulter
November 7, 2022
You may have noticed I’ve been talking a lot lately about the power of the collective and NZNO members — whether nurses, kaiāwhina or health-care assistants — turning up for each other, no matter where or what part of the health sector you work in.
Read more... ‘We have given until we’ve bled’ — the importance of a shared struggle
By Margaret Sandham, Rhona Winnington and Melissa Carey
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?
By Sue Adams and Josephine Davis
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
By Rachel Thorn
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
By Hannah Cook
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
By Liz Manning and Wendy Blair
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
By Ben Basevi
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
By Manu Reiri
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
By Pipi Barton
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
By Lucy McLaren
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’
By Emma Macfarlane
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
By NZNO College of Gerontology Nursing chair Natalie Seymour
July 6, 2022
Nurses in aged care are burning out and breaching their contracts working extended shifts to fill roster gaps, amid increasingly complex need of residents, says an aged care nurse leader.
Read more... Nurse leader pleads for funding as staffing shortage forces closure of 900 aged-care beds
By Helen Duyvestyn
June 30, 2022
Mental health nurse and life coach Helen Duyvestyn shares her insights into maintaining our chill in the midst of a global pandemic.
Read more... Looking after your health and wellbeing in a pandemic
By Robyn Hewlett
June 30, 2022
The struggles of the enrolled nurse (EN) profession are well-documented and it is time ENs are truly recognised for what they contribute.
Read more... It’s time to truly recognise the contribution of enrolled nurses
By Mikey Brenndorfer
June 29, 2022
Climate change remains the greatest threat to human health, according to the World Health Organization.1
Read more... Health reforms fail to deliver on climate change, say NZNO & other health professionals
By Monina Hernandez
May 26, 2022
Migrant nurse leader calls on MPs to better support IQNs, who are vital to the New Zealand health service.
Read more... Migrant nurses vital to NZ and need better support, MPs told
By Brian Easton
May 25, 2022
When the finance minister says the health system is inefficient, what he means is that it is underfunded, says economist and policy analyst Brian Easton.
Read more... What does the Budget mean for the health sector in the long term?
By Katherine Ravenswood
May 18, 2022
Ahead of the 2022 Budget, apprenticeships have been given a $230 million funding boost while negotiations between care workers and the Government have fallen apart. It’s hard not to see this as a gender equity issue.
Read more... Collapse of negotiations with care workers shows little has changed in how the Government views the work of women