May 2023
May 2, 2023
Student nurses can feel intimidated by hospital hierarchy while on clinical placements, so don’t always give their views or ask questions. In this article, five students reflect on their experience of hospital hierarchy.
Read more... Managing hospital hierarchy — not ‘just a student nurse’
December 2022
November 24, 2022
Just a heads up that 2023 will mark 50 years since New Zealand started comprehensive nursing training. In 1973, Christchurch and Wellington were the first two polytechnics to start this new method of nurse training, following the publication of the Carpenter report.
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 11, 2022
A new scholarship for nursing students in South Canterbury is now available through the Bidwill Trust Hospital in Timaru.
Read more... Applications open for new $3000 nursing scholarship in South Canterbury
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.
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
September 1, 2022
Nursing students say they would welcome free training in New Zealand, after the Australian state of Victoria this week announced a $270 million investment to train 10,000 nurses and midwives over the next two years.
Read more... The Aussies are doing it — can we train nurses for free here?
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.
