April 2024
March 8, 2024
Rising confidence amid more supportive pathways are behind a leap in nurses training to become mātanga tapuhi (nurse practitioners) this year, leaders say.
Read more... Nurse practitioner trainee numbers soar with 50 per cent funding boost
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. |  |
September 2023
August 23, 2023
Academics from across Aotearoa’s 20 nursing schools are speaking up in an unprecedented and “urgent” call to protect what they say is an at-risk but crucial part of the nursing workforce.
Read more... Schools of nursing unite in urgent call to protect ‘at risk’ nurse educators
July 2023
June 20, 2023
Perioperative nurses must provide safe patient care. An important aspect of safe care is culturally safe practice. This article discusses nurses’ responsibilities for reducing inequities and providing culturally safe care in operating rooms in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Read more... How to provide culturally safe care in the Aotearoa perioperative environment
July 2023
June 20, 2023
Rangi Blackmoore-Tufi reflects on some of the challenges she has faced being the sole Māori nurse in her perioperative department. Changes made following a frustrating and stressful day have made the department a safer place for Māori staff and patients.
Read more... A safe environment for Māori patients starts with a safe environment for Māori nurses
July 2023
May 30, 2023
A Māori-led nursing earn-as-you-learn workforce initiative is giving some kaiāwhina (unregulated health workers) the chance to realise a life-long dream to be a nurse.
June 2023
May 17, 2023
Registered nurse (RN) Jo Fortune, 47, is a passionate advocate for community nursing, and even says she’d encourage her kids to follow in her footsteps – but she hopes Budget 2023 will provide more support for those pursuing the profession.
Read more... Budget 2023: Bigger investment needed to boost Māori, Pacific nursing
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
December 2022
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.
December 2022
November 6, 2022
Paid clinical placements ‘a nod in the right direction’, but free nursing study for all is the goal, say student nursing leaders.
Read more... Minister looking at paid third-year placements, but no sign of more fees-free
November 2022
October 21, 2022
In the third part of a series on NZNO’s board members, Tauranga nurse Anamaria Watene says she finds solace in her marae, Tahuwhakatiki, and sacred local mountain, Mauao, when challenges such as racial prejudice become too much.
Read more... ‘The key performance indicator I have to meet is with my people’
October 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
September 2022
August 5, 2022
NZNO nurses from military to burns and plastic surgery feature in a new NZNO-Ministry of Health (MoH) recruitment drive to encourage more people into nursing — particularly Māori, Pasifika and men.
Read more... Real nurses star in campaign to draw more Māori, Pasifika & men into nursing
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
