July 2024
July 24, 2024
Te Whatu Ora says it has employed 334 of the 535 mid-year nursing graduates who applied into supported entry roles — leaving 166 facing uncertain futures in the general talent pool.
Read more... Three out of five nursing students to get hospital jobs, Te Whatu Ora figures show
July 2024
July 18, 2024
There wasn’t a dry eye in the house recently as nursing tauira (students) spoke of their struggles, exhaustion and despair.
Read more... Nursing students share pain, tears and laughter with heads of school
July 2024
June 21, 2024
Confused, demoralised and “absolutely gutwrenched” — these are the feelings of nursing tauira (students) after hearing Te Whatu Ora may be freezing mid-year graduate recruitment a week out from hiring decisions.
February 2024
January 17, 2024
A new scholarship for rainbow nursing students is an “immense” step towards a safe and inclusive nursing workforce that celebrates diversity, say NZNO — Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa student leaders.
Read more... New scholarship for rainbow nursing students embraces diversity
September 2023
August 23, 2023
A third of nursing students are reconsidering their career choice, because the job seems too stressful, an NZNO student survey has found.
June 2023
May 18, 2023
Nursing students were left bitterly disappointed by Budget 2023, which contained scant specific new initiatives to support them, and grow the nursing workforce.
Read more... ‘Where’s the plan?’ Student nurses left disappointed by Budget 2023
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
May 2023
May 2, 2023
Would-be-nurses need financial support during their studies — not afterwards, say NZNO nursing students.
Read more... Students and nurses douse National’s ‘brainless’ bonding scheme
March 2023
February 27, 2023
Hawke’s Bay nursing school staff are juggling clean up operations at home and at work in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle’s devastation, with their Napier campus likely to be closed for three months.
Read more... Napier campus likely to be closed for three months
March 2023
February 24, 2023
Nursing students at Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT) say their programme is in limbo after the flood-damaged Hawke’s Bay campus in Napier closed last week.
Read more... Nursing studies on hold as 90 per cent of Napier campus damaged in cyclone
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 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
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 15, 2022
Read more... NZNO members silently protest to Andrew Little over ‘reneging’ on promised back pay
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.
September 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
