October 2023
September 26, 2023
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In recovery — but facing relapse with any reversal of funding, was Minister of Health Ayesha Verrall’s “diagnosis” of the health system, at the recent Tōpūtanga Tapuhi o Kaitiaki Aotearoa — NZNO annual general meeting (AGM). |
August 2023
July 27, 2023
Te Whatu Ora nurses, midwives, kaiāwhina and health-care assistants are preparing to strike next month, as NZNO calls for thousands more nurses to fill workforce gaps.
Read more... Te Whatu Ora members prepare to strike as call goes out for 4000 more nurses
August 2023
July 25, 2023
Safe staffing, funding and mentoring for all nurses are key to a flourishing, representative and skilled workforce with enough Māori and Pacific to safely care for all Aotearoa communities — a key focus of NZNO’s Maranga Mai! strategy.
July 2023
June 7, 2023
A general election is a golden opportunity for NZNO members to take political action and achieve policy changes. But what does it mean to be politically engaged, aware and active? Kaitiaki spoke to some members who are leading the way.
Read more... Maranga Mai! – Nurses find their political voice
May 2023
May 12, 2023
Collective action, determination and courage — that’s all it takes for change. Nurses and caregivers are using health and safety laws to make their workplaces safer, a key part of NZNO’s Maranga Mai! strategy.
Read more... Maranga Mai! Health and safety — nurses use power of the law for a safer workplace
May 2023
April 18, 2023
On Saturday, over 2000 nurses and health care assistants around the country hit the streets to demand action on the health staffing crisis. For many, it was also a chance to seek solace with their fellow exhausted colleagues while facing another winter of chronic short-staffing.
Read more... Aged-care nurse makes heartfelt plea at Day of Action
May 2023
April 17, 2023
Over 2000 nurses and supporters turned out at rallies around the country in a national day of action on Saturday.
Read more... ‘We’ve gone past the word tired, we are now drained’
May 2023
April 12, 2023
‘Exhausted’ health-care assistants (HCAs) are rallying alongside nurses for safer staffing and better pay and conditions at this Saturday’s NZNO day of action around Aotearoa.
April 2023
March 21, 2023
Since the dawn of unionism, bargaining has been at the heart of getting a better deal for workers. But the traditional negotiation process, for Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa NZNO members, is in transition as it fits within the larger, cross-sector strategy of Maranga Mai!
Read more... Bargaining is getting a re-set under Maranga Mai!
January 2023
December 8, 2022
At the heart of Maranga Mai! – NZNO’s campaign to fix the nursing crisis – are individual members who are empowered to act collectively for change. The goal is “building member power” by growing the membership, and increasing member support for each other, to gain permanent solutions to the health care crisis.
Read more... Maranga Mai! Rowing towards change on the same waka
December 2022
November 17, 2022
Maranga Mai! — NZNO’s campaign to fix the nursing crisis –calls for immigration rules that will increase the recruitment and retention of migrant nurses. But after being left off the fast-track to residency here amid a global nursing shortage, migrant nurses are eyeing other countries with fewer barriers. What needs to change?
Read more... Maranga Mai! Immigration — what needs to change?
December 2022
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
November 2022
October 27, 2022
Maranga Mai! – NZNO’s campaign to fix the nursing crisis – calls for a renewed commitment to equity and tino rangatiratanga for Māori nurses and patients, amidst reports of “endemic racism within the profession”.
Read more... Maranga Mai! Tino rangatiratanga – what needs to change?
November 2022
October 13, 2022
Nurses providing vital care to patients in the community want movement on stalled pay talks. Over 4000 of them will walk off the job for four hours on October 27.
Read more... Primary health care nurses to strike on October 27
November 2022
September 23, 2022
As Aotearoa New Zealand faces down a nursing shortfall of thousands, changes are afoot to how overseas nurses are registered here. In the second part of a series exploring Maranga Mai!, NZNO’s campaign to fix the nursing crisis, Kaitiaki looks at what needs to change in the registration process.
Read more... Maranga Mai! Registration — what needs to change?
October 2022
September 16, 2022
Maranga Mai! – rise up – is a plan to save New Zealand’s health system, NZNO chief executive Paul Goulter tells conference delegates.
Read more... Maranga Mai! — rise up — is our plan to save the health system
October 2022
September 13, 2022
Student members say NZNO is “leading by example” by granting free membership to nursing students.
Read more... Free NZNO membership for nursing students ‘an example for Government’
September 2022
August 26, 2022
NZNO members are being encouraged to turn up for a ‘day of action’ being held around the country on Monday in support of pay parity for primary health care nurses.
Read more... Members urged to turn out for primary health care nurses
September 2022
August 24, 2022
About a third of Aotearoa’s nursing workforce is comprised of overseas-trained nurses, nurse vacancies are into the thousands and an estimated one in three nursing students are dropping out — with even higher rates for Māori and Pacific1. In the first of a series exploring Maranga Mai!, NZNO’s campaign to fix the nursing crisis, Kaitiaki looks at what needs to change in nursing education.
