By Mary Longmore
June 25, 2025
More than a 100 perioperative nurses, health-care assistants (HCAs) and hospital colleagues and supporters turned out onto the streets outside Whangārei Hospital yesterday in a 12-hour rolling strike.
Read more... ‘They’re crushing us’ — perioperative nurses take to the picket line
By Steph Moule
June 23, 2025
Forced overtime, understaffing and patient pile ups — NZNO delegate Steph Moule shares her daily experiences as a perioperative nurse.
Read more... A striking perioperative nurse shares the challenges she faces every day
By Kaitiaki coeditors
June 23, 2025
About 100 NZNO perioperative nurses and health-care assistants (HCAs) at Whangārei Hospital are set to strike tomorrow over what they say are chronic and ongoing staff shortages.
Read more... Perioperative nurses in Whangārei to strike over unsafe staffing
By Mary Longmore
June 3, 2025
Auckland perioperative nurses say forced overtime and sneaky ditching of callback payments has driven them to take strike action.
Read more... Nearly 400 Auckland perioperative nurses strike over ‘forced overtime’
By Emma Ladley
May 27, 2025
NZNO’s perioperative nurses college (PNC) chair Emma Ladley wants to see more nursing students learn about perioperative nursing in their undergrad studies. |
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Read more... Travel, camaraderie and superb hand hygiene — welcome to the world of perioperative nursing!
By Michael Esdaile
April 8, 2025
Pamela Marley, a theatre nursing pioneer who helped found the country’s first professional perioperative nursing group, has died.
Read more... Theatre nurse pioneer and founder of The Dissector dies
By Mary Longmore
November 13, 2024
Nurses say more staff are needed if they are to meet the Government’s health targets.
Read more... More staff needed to meet health targets, say emergency and primary health nurses
By Mary Longmore
April 9, 2024
Emergency nurses fear tough new targets for emergency departments (EDs) will put already-stretched staff under more pressure, risking “gaming” of wait time data.
Read more... Tough new government health targets could backfire, warn nurses
By Matthew Lawrence
August 31, 2023
Read more... Anaesthetic technicians no threat to perioperative nurses, says their society
By Mary Longmore
August 2, 2023
Nurses fear a proposal to turn anaesthetic technicians (ATs) into ‘perioperative practitioners’ could spell the end of nurses in operating theatres.
Read more... Proposed perioperative practitioner role could push nurses out of theatres — college