July 2024
 | Medicines and older Māori — ‘It is through shared conversations that I understand’ |
July 10, 2024
How do kaumātua view the medicines service they receive and how could it be improved? What ethnic variations are there in this service? This educational course focuses on medicines and older Māori and is relevant to nurses in primary care, alongside pharmacists and GPs.
Read more... Medicines and older Māori — ‘It is through shared conversations that I understand’
April 2024
March 14, 2024
Amid the ashes of Te Aka Whai Ora, Māori nurses will still be chasing better pay, safer staffing and culturally safe workplaces.
Read more... Te Aka Whai Ora is gone — but the aims of Māori nurses stay true
March 2024
February 22, 2024
A Te Tiriti o Waitangi-focused event in March will help nurses and kaiāwhina become more culturally and politically competent at an ‘alarming’ time, say organisers and NZNO’s kaiwhakahaere.
Read more... What can Pākeha do? Anti-racism event offers chance to ‘stand up, fight back’
March 2024
February 8, 2024
Rhetoric from leaders of a three-headed coalition Government “taniwha” at Waitangi this year reflected ignorance and “diminished” Māori, says Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa kaiwhakahere Kerri Nuku.
Read more... Nurses and kaiāwhina show up to a Waitangi event ‘like no other’
February 2024
January 19, 2024
NZNO’s Te Rūnanga members are mourning Richard Rangi Wallace, NZNO’s former kaumātua and Māori Anglican pīhopa (bishop) o Te Waipounamu who died on January 6.
Read more... ‘Just a really good guy’ — NZNO leaders mourn former kaumātua Richard Rangi Wallace
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. |  |
October 2023
October 11, 2023
What do Māori people think about the key election issue of health? Reporter Joel Maxwell discovers cultural clashes, a need for financial support – and hope for the future.
Read more... Election 2023: As the timer resets, what do Māori think about health?
August 2023
July 13, 2023
Māori nurse, researcher and long-time advocate for equitable cancer outcomes in a Eurocentric and racist health system, Jacquie Kidd faces her own cancer diagnosis, that came too late.
Read more... ‘I feel it was inevitable — why should I be any different to anybody else?’
July 2023
June 26, 2023
Many nurses and kaiāwhina who work for Māori, iwi and Pacific providers haven’t had a pay increase, despite an injection of $200 million towards closing the gap in rates with Te Whatu Ora.
Read more... Celebration over pay disparity ‘fix’ for Māori, iwi, Pacific providers on hold for many
June 2023
May 17, 2023
The journey to complete a master of nursing has served to further ignite Tania Bailey’s passion for reducing health inequities for Māori.
Read more... Turning perception into practice: Advocating for cultural safety in health care
June 2023
May 9, 2023
Māori nurses joined over 1000 indigenous peoples calling for their rights to be upheld, and an end to discrimination at a United Nations forum.
Read more... ‘Humbled’ in the presence of global indigenous leaders
March 2023
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
September 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
February 2022
| Beyond medicines for gout |
December 1, 2021
Gout is a chronic and debilitating long-term condition that disproportionately affects Māori and Pacific people. It needs to be addressed with holistic care, and patient, ongoing relationships with whānau.
June 12, 2020
Te Tai Tokerau Māori health advocate Moe Milne, Ngāti Hine and Ngāpuhi, says Māori have proven they can take care of their own whānau, after a nurse-Led response to COVID-19 reached hundreds in vulnerable Northland communities.
Read more... Iwi response to COVID-19 shows power of Māori-led health care
